Subject: Re: Where exactly will arch_fast_hash be used

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 15:06:43 +0100

On So, 2014-12-07 at 08:23 -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> So there are plenty of hash tables in Linux that you don't dare use this
> with.  In fact, so many that, as you rightly point out, it's not clear
> if it's worth providing this special optimization for the few remaining.

In case of openvswitch it shows a performance improvment. The seed
parameter could be used as an initial biasing of the crc32 function, but
in case of openvswitch it is only set to 0.

Bye,
Hannes