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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update jhash.h with the new version of Jenkins' hash
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:28:42 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902121328.43749.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0902111107480.15665@blackhole.kfki.hu>

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 20:49:20 Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The current jhash.h implements the lookup2() hash function by Bob Jenkins. 
> However, lookup2() is outdated as Bob wrote a new hash function called 
> lookup3(). The new hash function
> 
> - mixes better than lookup2(): it passes the check that every input bit 
>   changes every output bit 50% of the time, while lookup2() failed it.
> - performs better: compiled with -O2 on Core2 Duo, lookup3() is 20-40% 
>   faster than lookup2() depending on the key length.

Hi Joszef,

My concern was that it's also bigger (and we inline it).  Performance is
pretty much a wash since we so rarely hash more than a few words.

Any stats on code size changes?
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-12 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-11 10:19 [PATCH] Update jhash.h with the new version of Jenkins' hash Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-11 20:19 ` Michał Mirosław
2009-02-11 22:50   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-11 23:23     ` Michał Mirosław
2009-02-12  0:12 ` wli
2009-02-12  0:29   ` David Miller
2009-02-12  0:41     ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-12  9:05       ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-02-12  9:55         ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-02-12  9:11   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-12  9:16     ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-12  9:41       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-12 13:46     ` Kyle Moffett
2009-02-17 17:13       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-18  5:11         ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-18 11:50         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-02-12 19:58     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-12  2:58 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-10 19:40 Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-10 21:19 ` Scott Feldman
2009-02-10 22:03   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-11  1:17 ` David Miller

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