Re: + syscalls-x86-add-__nr_kcmp-syscall-v8.patch added to -mm tree

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/10/2012 03:37 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> + * bits even more (the oddity is important here, it allow
> + * us to have meaningful production even if multiplicants
> + * are big numbers).

I would be more clear:

"the odd multiplier guarantees that the product is unique ever after the
high bits are truncated, since any odd number is relative prime to 2^n".

	-hpa

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