Re: [PATCH] dcache: better name hash function

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:19:13 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger a Ãcrit :
> 
> > So Eric's string10 is fastest for special case of fooNNN style names.
> > But probably isn't best for general strings. Orignal function
> > is >20% slower, which is surprising probably because of overhead
> > of 2 shifts and multipy. jenkins and fnv are both 10% slower.
> > 
> 
> 
> jhash() is faster when strings are longer, being able to process 12 bytes per loop.
> 

But jhash is not amenable to usage in namei (with partial_name_hash).

name_hash is rarely done on long strings, the average length of a filename
is fairly short (probably leftover Unix legacy). On my system, average
path component length in /usr is 13 characters; therefore jhash has
no big benefit here.
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