On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting
>
> Second, this patch spreads the mixing across the pool more rapidly by
> using a larger step. For our secondary pools, we'll be sure to touch
> both blocks with each mix, and for our primary pool, we'll change 5 of
> 8 blocks.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
- Ted
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