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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Improve hash function used for full_name_hash()
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:47:11 -0800 (PST)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:29:12 -0800

> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:09:44 -0800
> Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> wrote:
> 
>> For example, when hashing "eth0" .. "eth9999" with a hash table size of 256,
>> the resulting minimum hash bucket depth is 0, the maximum depth is 563,
>> and the standard deviation is ~136.
> 
> The problem was a missing call to hash_32() on the result, and is
> already fixed in current kernel.

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