From: "Maciej Żenczykowski" <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: remove modulo operations
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:49:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=t9x9viXUFM-wp_rEU5giAjZ-yqhcR3eTUz76V@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287947511.2658.1678.camel@edumazet-laptop>
> Absolutely not. total is a 32bit number, using full range.
Strictly speaking I think you mean 'hash' here, which as a hash
should indeed be a random value across a full 32-bit range.
Total might very well be pretty small.
Anyway, without having tested, the change looks fine to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-24 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-24 3:40 [PATCH] netfilter: remove modulo operations Changli Gao
2010-10-24 18:25 ` Florian Westphal
2010-10-24 19:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-24 20:44 ` Florian Westphal
2010-10-24 21:49 ` Maciej Żenczykowski [this message]
2010-10-25 3:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-25 3:19 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2010-10-25 9:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-25 9:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-10-25 9:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-25 15:39 ` Patrick McHardy
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