Re: [PATCH] net: fold network name hash

[Octavian Purdila]

On Tuesday 27 October 2009 19:22:51 you wrote:

> The full_name_hash does not produce a value that is evenly distributed
> over the lower 8 bits. This causes name hash to be unbalanced with large
> number of names.  A simple fix is to just fold in the higher bits
> with XOR.
> 
> This is independent of possible improvements to full_name_hash()
> in future.
> 

I can confirm that the distribution looks good now for our most common cases. 

Thanks,
tavi
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