Hash table implementation

Arif aftnix at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 16:06:45 EDT 2012


On Jul 23, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Hans Schillstrom wrote:

>> Subject: Hash table implementation
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This commit shows that jenkins hash
>> function(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_hash_function) is
>> implemented in kernel :
>>
>> commit 60d509c823cca21e77d537bd356785f7cfe8f0d1
>> Author: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec at blackhole.kfki.hu>
>> Date:   Fri Dec 3 02:39:01 2010 +0000
>>
>>   The new jhash implementation
>> <snip>
>>
>> I could not find any good documentation describing how to use it.  
>> Only
>> thing i could do is to read codes which uses it, like
>
> Have a look in the include file it self  linux-3.5.0/include/linux/ 
> jhash.h
> every function is well documented there.
>

Thanks for the reply. I have looked through it. I guess the file  
serves well. I should pay attentions to comments more. Its just the  
guys i develop with, they put horrible comments, and i developed a  
habit of overlooking them.




> /Hans
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