netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net_sched: sch_fq: use hash

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:29:29 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, hughd@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net_sched: sch_fq: use hash_ptr()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:48:30 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> When I wrote sch_fq.c, hash_ptr() on 64bit arches was awful,
> and I chose hash_32().
> 
> Linus Torvalds and George Spelvin fixed this issue, so we can
> use hash_ptr() to get more entropy on 64bit arches with Terabytes
> of memory, and avoid the cast games.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.