From:	 William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To:	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] hashed waitqueues, somewhat cleaner
Date:	 Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:34:17 -0800

Some new versions of the hashed waitqueues are now available:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wli/vm/struct_page/waitq-2.4.17-rmap10c-1

This includes:

(1) Manual common subexpression elimination of page_waitqueue() calls
(2) Use a 64-bit Fibonacci hashing prime conditional on BITS_PER_LONG
(3) Storing wait_table_shift instead of wait_table_bits to reduce
	arithmetic within the hash function
(4) Eliminating the masking operation within the hash function, as
	the shifting already zeroes the high-order bits.
(5) Eliminating explicit references to struct page ->wait outside
	of the VM.

Future directions:
(1) Using a non-linear function to size the waitqueue table given the
	size of a zone, as the demand for waitqueues does not appear to
	scale linearly with the size of memory.
(2) Finding bit-sparse Fibonacci hashing multipliers for machines with
	slow integer multiplies (so it can be optimized to shift/add
	sequences on those machines).

I'll followup shortly after rediffing against 2.4.17-mainline.


Cheers,
Bill
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