On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 01:28:09PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > This patch is based on the code sent out by Peter Zijstra as part > of his queue spinlock patch to provide a hashing function with open > addressing. The lfsr() function can be used to return a sequence of > numbers that cycle through all the bit patterns (2^n -1) of a given > bit width n except the value 0 in a somewhat random fashion depending > on the LFSR tap that is being used. > > This code should be a standalone patch and not part of a larger > patch series.
Yeah, except we don't merge code without users, which is why such stuff typically gets a lift on the larger series you mention. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/