Re: 2.4.19pre2aa1

Rik van Riel
2002-03-14T14:00:04Z

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> [SNIPPED rest of diatribe...]
>
> Listen you incompetent amoeba.

Likewise. Lets go over this again:

1) the idea is to have a hashing function that
performs well for the page cache and/or the
hashed wait queues

2) input for these two hash functions is not at
all guaranteed to be random or uniformly spread

3) this means we need a hash function that performs
well on very much non-random inputs

Now, where does your random number generator fit in this
scenario ?

regards,

Rik
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