On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:16:07AM +0100, Pablo de Lara wrote: > Jenkins hash function was developed originally in 1996, > and was integrated in first versions of DPDK. > The function has been improved in 2006, > achieving up to 60% better performance, compared to the original one. > > This patch integrates that code into the rte_jhash library. > It also updates the precalculated hash values in the unit test, > as the code now returns different values (expected) > This should be clearly called out in the release notes for 2.1. I don't expect that too many people are relying on the specific return values from the hash function, but just in case, we need to call this out.
/Bruce