Ulrich Kunitz writes:
> patch-uk6 In 2.4.x _page_hashfn divides struct address_space pointer
> with a parameter derived from the size of struct
> inode. Deriving this parameter from the size of struct
> address_space makes more sense -- at least for me.
The address_space is %99 of the time (unless swapping, and in that
case the address is constant :-)) inside of an inode struct so this
change actually makes the hash worse. I looked at this one time
myself...
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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