Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:48:35 +0000 | | From | wli@holomorp ... | | Subject | Re: 2.4.19pre2aa1 |
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:47:28PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Bill said that "randomness" is not the right word to use, I instead > think it's the key. If it's pure random mul will make no difference to > the distribution. And the closer we're to pure random like in the > wait_table hash, the less mul will help and the more important will be > to just get right the two contigous pages in the same cacheline and > nothing else.
Aha! It's random! Is the distribution:
(1) Poisson (2) singular (3) binomial (4) hypergeometric
or what?
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