netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/9] ipv6: user better hash for addrconf

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Message-Id: <20100320.160546.68157320.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:05:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] ipv6: user better hash for addrconf

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:31:12 -0700

> The existing hash function has a couple of issues:
>   * it is hardwired to 16 for IN6_ADDR_HSIZE
>   * limited to 256 and callers using int
>   * use jhash2 rather than some old BSD algorithm
> 
> No need for random seed since this is local only (based on assigned
> addresses) table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied.
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