* [patch] remove dead comment
@ 2002-03-27 2:12 William Lee Irwin III
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From: William Lee Irwin III @ 2002-03-27 2:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: trivial
I hate to remove a comment from the kernel, but...
Cheers,
Bill
# This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project:
# Project Name: Linux kernel tree
# This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher.
# This patch includes the following deltas:
# ChangeSet 1.537 -> 1.538
# mm/filemap.c 1.69 -> 1.70
#
# The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log
# --------------------------------------------
# 02/03/26 wli@tisifone.holomorphy.com 1.538
# filemap.c:
# Remove comments already present in hash.h and not corresponding to any code in filemap.c
# --------------------------------------------
#
diff --minimal -Nru a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
--- a/mm/filemap.c Tue Mar 26 18:08:13 2002
+++ b/mm/filemap.c Tue Mar 26 18:08:13 2002
@@ -742,26 +742,6 @@
}
/*
- * Knuth recommends primes in approximately golden ratio to the maximum
- * integer representable by a machine word for multiplicative hashing.
- * Chuck Lever verified the effectiveness of this technique:
- * http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-00-1.pdf
- *
- * These primes are chosen to be bit-sparse, that is operations on
- * them can use shifts and additions instead of multiplications for
- * machines where multiplications are slow.
- */
-#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
-/* 2^31 + 2^29 - 2^25 + 2^22 - 2^19 - 2^16 + 1 */
-#define GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME 0x9e370001UL
-#elif BITS_PER_LONG == 64
-/* 2^63 + 2^61 - 2^57 + 2^54 - 2^51 - 2^18 + 1 */
-#define GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME 0x9e37fffffffc0001UL
-#else
-#error Define GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME for your wordsize.
-#endif
-
-/*
* In order to wait for pages to become available there must be
* waitqueues associated with pages. By using a hash table of
* waitqueues where the bucket discipline is to maintain all
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