Commit f92d45ee authored by Dave Jones's avatar Dave Jones

[PATCH] remove dead comment

Original from William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
parent 57b2d774
...@@ -741,26 +741,6 @@ static int read_cluster_nonblocking(struct file * file, unsigned long offset, ...@@ -741,26 +741,6 @@ static int read_cluster_nonblocking(struct file * file, unsigned long offset,
return 0; return 0;
} }
/*
* Knuth recommends primes in approximately golden ratio to the maximum
* integer representable by a machine word for multiplicative hashing.
* Chuck Lever verified the effectiveness of this technique:
* http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-00-1.pdf
*
* These primes are chosen to be bit-sparse, that is operations on
* them can use shifts and additions instead of multiplications for
* machines where multiplications are slow.
*/
#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
/* 2^31 + 2^29 - 2^25 + 2^22 - 2^19 - 2^16 + 1 */
#define GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME 0x9e370001UL
#elif BITS_PER_LONG == 64
/* 2^63 + 2^61 - 2^57 + 2^54 - 2^51 - 2^18 + 1 */
#define GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME 0x9e37fffffffc0001UL
#else
#error Define GOLDEN_RATIO_PRIME for your wordsize.
#endif
/* /*
* In order to wait for pages to become available there must be * In order to wait for pages to become available there must be
* waitqueues associated with pages. By using a hash table of * waitqueues associated with pages. By using a hash table of
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