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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:33:04 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] New dcache / inode hash tuning patch
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:23:09AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> It actually seems a fraction slower (see systimes for Kernbench-16,
> for instance).

Can you play a bit with the hash table sizes? Perhaps double the 
dcache hash and half the inode hash ?

I suspect it really just needs a better hash function. I'll cook
something up based on FNV hash.

-Andi
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