From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from funky.monkey.org (smtp@funky.monkey.org [152.160.231.196]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA17086 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:47:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:47:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Lever Subject: Re: [patch] arca-vm-2.2.5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >i guess i'm confused then. what good does this change do: > > Hmm I think I misunderstood you point, Chuck. I thought you was > complaining about the fact that some hash entry could be unused and other > overloaded yes, you understood correctly. > but I was just assuming that the offset is always page-aligned. > I could write a simulation to check the hash function... i didn't realize that the "offset" argument would always be page-aligned. but still, why does it help to add the unshifted "offset"? doesn't seem like there's any new information in that. - Chuck Lever -- corporate: personal: or The Linux Scalability project: http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/citi-netscape/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/