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namei: Improve hash mixing if CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

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The hash mixing between adding the next 64 bits of name
was just a bit weak.

Replaced with a still very fast but slightly more effective
mixing function.

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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George Spelvin 2016-05-02 06:31:01 -04:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2dcd0af568
commit 0fed3ac866
1 changed files with 26 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -1794,30 +1794,49 @@ static inline unsigned int fold_hash(unsigned long hash)
return hash_64(hash, 32);
}
/*
* This is George Marsaglia's XORSHIFT generator.
* It implements a maximum-period LFSR in only a few
* instructions. It also has the property (required
* by hash_name()) that mix_hash(0) = 0.
*/
static inline unsigned long mix_hash(unsigned long hash)
{
hash ^= hash << 13;
hash ^= hash >> 7;
hash ^= hash << 17;
return hash;
}
#else /* 32-bit case */
#define fold_hash(x) (x)
static inline unsigned long mix_hash(unsigned long hash)
{
hash ^= hash << 13;
hash ^= hash >> 17;
hash ^= hash << 5;
return hash;
}
#endif
unsigned int full_name_hash(const unsigned char *name, unsigned int len)
{
unsigned long a, mask;
unsigned long hash = 0;
unsigned long a, hash = 0;
for (;;) {
a = load_unaligned_zeropad(name);
if (len < sizeof(unsigned long))
break;
hash += a;
hash *= 9;
hash = mix_hash(hash + a);
name += sizeof(unsigned long);
len -= sizeof(unsigned long);
if (!len)
goto done;
}
mask = bytemask_from_count(len);
hash += mask & a;
hash += a & bytemask_from_count(len);
done:
return fold_hash(hash);
}
@ -1835,7 +1854,7 @@ static inline u64 hash_name(const char *name)
hash = a = 0;
len = -sizeof(unsigned long);
do {
hash = (hash + a) * 9;
hash = mix_hash(hash + a);
len += sizeof(unsigned long);
a = load_unaligned_zeropad(name+len);
b = a ^ REPEAT_BYTE('/');