Mark Fasheh <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 08:59:50PM -0800, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > So that hack apparently improves the bucket distribution quite a bit, but
> > look, the bad old linear systime creep is still very obvious. For that
> > there is no substitute for lots of buckets.
> Yes, I think the way to go right now is to allocate an array of pages and
> index into that. We can make the array size a mount option so that the
> default can be something reasonable ;)
Did you actually do some statistics how long the hash chains are?
Just increasing hash tables blindly has other bad side effects, like
increasing cache misses.
-Andi
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