netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/6] IPV4: route use jhash3

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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:54:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] IPV4: route use jhash3

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:47:13 -0700

> Since route hash is a triple, use jhash_3words rather doing the mixing
> directly. This should be as fast and give better distribution.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied to net-2.6.26, but:

> -static unsigned int rt_hash_code(u32 daddr, u32 saddr)
> +static inline unsigned int rt_hash(__be32 daddr, __be32 saddr, int idx)

Are you sure you want to inline that?  jhash expands
to a lot of instructions
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