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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.

  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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