From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] New jhash function Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:09:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20101208.090954.115924303.davem@davemloft.net> References: <201011271401.22773.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <1291379941-31565-1-git-send-email-kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au To: kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1291379941-31565-1-git-send-email-kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org From: Jozsef Kadlecsik Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:38:59 +0100 > 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 However, lookup2() is outdated as Bob wrote a new hash function called 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(). There is a longer comparison of those two and other hash > functions at http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html. > > Please consider applying the following patches. Patch #1 is already in the net-next-2.6 tree, and as long as there are no major objections to the general crowd (including Rusty et al.) I am happy to put patch #2 into my tree as well. Rusty, does the current version of patch #2 look good to you? Thanks!