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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: Fuzzy hash stuff.. (was Re: 2.1.xxx makes Electric Fence 22x slower)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 22:47:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980825124627.12622.qmail@mail.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:33:14 MST." <199808250833.BAA32289@dm.cobaltmicro.com>

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:33:14 -0700, 
"David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> wrote:
>As promised here is my work in progress fuzzy hash VMA lookup stuff.
>
>The fuzzy hashing scheme used here was first formulated by Thomas
>Schoebel, I fixed all the minor quirks and bugs in his initial
>formulation and together we converged on the algorithm as used here.

Lots of code with very few comments snipped.  Come on Davem, make it
understandable for us mere mortals.  If it took two people to fix
quirks and bugs and converge the algorithm, surely a few notes on how
it works would not go astray.


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  reply	other threads:[~1998-08-25 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <199808202227.QAA32085@bamboo.verinet.com>
     [not found] ` <199808241008.LAA18963@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
1998-08-25  8:33   ` Fuzzy hash stuff.. (was Re: 2.1.xxx makes Electric Fence 22x slower) David S. Miller
1998-08-25 12:47     ` Keith Owens [this message]
1998-08-30 11:14     ` Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich
     [not found] <no.id>
1998-08-26  0:03 ` Jamie Lokier
1998-08-30 17:47 Richard McRoberts

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