Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 06/10] hash: update jhash function with the latest available

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

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