linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] New jhash function

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Message-Id: <20101208.090954.115924303.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:09:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] New jhash function

From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>
Date: Fri,  3 Dec 2010 13:38:59 +0100

> The current jhash.h implements the lookup2() hash function by Bob Jenkins. 
> However, lookup2() is outdated as Bob wrote a new hash function called 
> lookup3(). There is a longer comparison of those two and other hash
> functions at http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html.
> 
> Please consider applying the following patches.

Patch #1 is already in the net-next-2.6 tree, and as long as there are
no major objections to the general crowd (including Rusty et al.) I am
happy to put patch #2 into my tree as well.

Rusty, does the current version of patch #2 look good to you?

Thanks!
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