netdev - Re: [PATCH][CIPSO]: Relax too much careful cipso hash function.

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 23:24:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.moore@...com
Cc:	xemul@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][CIPSO]: Relax too much careful cipso hash function.

From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:34:44 -0400

> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 9:11:25 am Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > The cipso_v4_cache is allocated to contain CIPSO_V4_CACHE_BUCKETS
> > buckets. The CIPSO_V4_CACHE_BUCKETS = 1 << CIPSO_V4_CACHE_BUCKETBITS,
> > where CIPSO_V4_CACHE_BUCKETBITS = 7.
> >
> > The bucket-selection function for this hash is calculated like this:
> >
> >   bkt = hash & (CIPSO_V4_CACHE_BUCKETBITS - 1);
> >                                      ^^^
> >
> > i.e. picking only 4 buckets of possible 128 :)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
> 
> Thanks Pavel, braino on my part.
> 
> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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