Re: 2.4.19pre2aa1

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:20:29 -0400


Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> said:

[...]

> AFIK my current hashfn is never been tested in precendence on this kind
> of random input of the wait_table pages.

If the input is really random, anything will do. I.e., just chopping off a
few not guaranteed-zero bits (probably better low-end) and using that would
be enough.

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