On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> Ulrich Kunitz writes:
> > patch-uk6 In 2.4.x _page_hashfn divides struct address_space pointer
> > with a parameter derived from the size of struct
> > inode. Deriving this parameter from the size of struct
> > address_space makes more sense -- at least for me.
>
> The address_space is %99 of the time (unless swapping, and in that
> case the address is constant :-)) inside of an inode struct so this
> change actually makes the hash worse. I looked at this one time
> myself...
The other patches look fine to me. Alan, Linus, could
you please include Ulrich's other patches in the next
pre-kernel ?
thanks,
Rik
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