Re: 2.4.19pre2aa1

Andrea Arcangeli
2002-03-15T16:43:07Z

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:20:29PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > AFIK my current hashfn is never been tested in precendence on this kind
> > of random input of the wait_table pages.
>
> If the input is really random, anything will do. I.e., just chopping off a
> few not guaranteed-zero bits (probably better low-end) and using that would
> be enough.

indeed, that's basically what I'm doing there (plus a "+ >>" just to use
more of the random bits).

Andrea