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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:43:58 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre2aa1
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:20:29PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> said:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > AFIK my current hashfn is never been tested in precendence on this kind
> > of random input of the wait_table pages.
> 
> If the input is really random, anything will do. I.e., just chopping off a
> few not guaranteed-zero bits (probably better low-end) and using that would
> be enough.

indeed, that's basically what I'm doing there (plus a "+ >>" just to use
more of the random bits).

Andrea
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