Subject: Re: [PATCH next-next-2.6] netdev: better dev_name_hash

From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:41:54 +0100

* Octavian Purdila | 2009-10-25 23:55:32 [+0200]:

>My results shows that new17 is better or very close to jhash2. And I think its 
>lighter then jhash too.

If new17 is very close to jhash/jhash2 then the cycles comes into play.
Anyway, there is already a very potent hash interface in form of jhash{,2}.

+1 for jhash2

HGN

PS: great work! ;)

PPS: http://libhashish.sourceforge.net/ have some real hash benchmarks in form
of avalanche test and some others too. It does not really matter here because
Jenkins performs _nearly_ perfect in all cases. ;)

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