Re: [PATCH] dentry and inode cache hash algorithm performancechanges.

[Andrew Morton]

"Jose R. Santos" <jrsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> [2004-04-30 15:02:56 -0700]:
> > Also, I'd be interested in understanding what the input to the hashing
> > functions looked like in this testing.  It could be that the new hash just
> > happens to work well with one particular test's dataset.  Please convince
> > us otherwise ;)
> 
> Andrew - Is there any workload you want me to run to show that this hash
> function is going to be equal or better that the one already provided
> in Linux?

Not really - it sounds like you've covered it pretty well.  Did you try SDET?

It could be that reducing the hash table size will turn pretty much any
workload into a test of the hash quality.

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