On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 12:10:22PM +0100, Eric Dumazet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Please explain why you chose h = jhash_2words(faddr, laddr, ports);
> h ^= h >> 16;
> h ^= h >> 8;
>
> jhash is very good, no need to try to be smarter, shufling some bytes... and
> adding artifacts.
If distribution is fair its whift produces still fair distribution.
In the discussion linked at that test I also produced results without
shifts, which were exactly the same.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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