Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161288AbWBVCK5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:10:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932544AbWBVCK5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:10:57 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:3721 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932542AbWBVCK4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:10:56 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:09:12 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Nick Piggin Cc: kiran@scalex86.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org Subject: Re: [patch] Cache align futex hash buckets Message-Id: <20060221180912.09a76013.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <43FBB441.1010209@yahoo.com.au> References: <20060220233242.GC3594@localhost.localdomain> <43FA8938.70006@yahoo.com.au> <20060221202024.GA3635@localhost.localdomain> <43FBB441.1010209@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 480 Lines: 12 Nick Piggin wrote: > > But my point still stands that it never makes sense to add empty space into > a hash table. Add hash slots instead and you (for free) get shorter hash > chains. OK, not an accident ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/