[OpenAFS-devel] rx peer hashing sucks.

[Derrick J Brashear]

I was debugging an error we had in 2 fileservers over 5 days (having never 
seen the error before) and started delving into the rx_peerHashTable. 
There are a lot of unused buckets. One bucket (155) has a huge number of 
entries. It's a little-endian host. Most of the clients are in the same 
class B network block. The hash is:

#define PEER_HASH(host, port)  ((host ^ port) & rx_hashTableMask)

Can you see where I'm going with this?

So in theory we want to hash quickly, so is using a bitshift in the peer 
hash for little-endian only reasonable?