Re: [RFC] non-resident page management

[Rik van Riel]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 4/23/05, Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Note that this code could use an actual hash function.
> 
> How about this? It computes hash for the two longs and combines them by
> addition and multiplication as suggested by [Bloch01].

I've thought about it, but ...

> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>  #error Define GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME for your wordsize.
>  #endif

... include/linux/hash.c appears to only work right for
32 bit words, not 64 bit ones ...

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