Re: 2.4.19pre2aa1

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:47:28PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Bill said that "randomness" is not the right word to use, I instead
> think it's the key. If it's pure random mul will make no difference to
> the distribution. And the closer we're to pure random like in the
> wait_table hash, the less mul will help and the more important will be
> to just get right the two contigous pages in the same cacheline and
> nothing else.

Aha! It's random! Is the distribution:

(1) Poisson
(2) singular
(3) binomial
(4) hypergeometric

or what?

Cheers,
Bill