netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] rhashtable: abstract out function to get hash

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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2016 20:17:43 -0700
From:   Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] rhashtable: abstract out function to get hash

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 07:58:03PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
>>
>> I understand this particular patch as an effort not to duplicate
>> hash function selection such as jhash vs jhash2 based on key_len.
>
> If the rhashtable params stay non-const as is then this is going
> to produce some monstrous code which will be worse than using
> jhash unconditionally.
>
I will look at keep params constant.

Tom

> If the rhashtable params are made const then you'll already know
> whether jhash or jhash2 is used.
>
> Cheers,
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