Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Octavian Purdila <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: fold network name hash | | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:02:25 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 27 October 2009 19:22:51 you wrote:
> The full_name_hash does not produce a value that is evenly distributed > over the lower 8 bits. This causes name hash to be unbalanced with large > number of names. A simple fix is to just fold in the higher bits > with XOR. > > This is independent of possible improvements to full_name_hash() > in future. >
I can confirm that the distribution looks good now for our most common cases.
Thanks, tavi
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