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Date:      Sun, 05 Aug 2018 16:06:30 +0200
From:      "Kristof Provost" <kp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "John-Mark Gurney" <jmg@funkthat.com>
Cc:        "Gleb Smirnoff" <glebius@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r336221 - head/sys/net
Message-ID:  <A9633492-FF32-461D-B8D7-F0686ECD339A@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180805020249.GL2884@funkthat.com>
References:  <201807121635.w6CGZZAN046919@repo.freebsd.org> <20180803230405.GI420@FreeBSD.org> <25795E0A-A362-44B2-AC5A-573442FC256D@FreeBSD.org> <20180805020249.GL2884@funkthat.com>

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On 5 Aug 2018, at 4:02, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Also, I don't know the hash used, but another option is to use a
> non-power of 2 hash...
>
I remember seeing patches someone experimented with a new hash 
algorithm, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere right now.
I believe the patch was abandoned, perhaps because of disappointing 
results.

> Increasing the memory required on smaller systems and not making sure
> it's documented how to save that memory is a bad idea...
>
The relevant tuneables are documented in the pf(4) man page.

Regards,
Kristof



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