[LARTC] [ANNOUNCE] ESFQ for Linux 2.6.13

[Andy Furniss]

Corey Hickey wrote:
> In a recent thread on this list, Robert Kurjata provided me a patch to add
> hashing by iptables mark to the Linux 2.4 version of ESFQ. Thanks to that
> contribution, I was able to easily add support to the 2.6 port I maintain.
> 
> I found out, however, that the existing hash algorithm results in a lot of
> colllisions when the range of hashed values is small. The purturbation
> spreads the collisions out a little, but the result still wasn't very
> fair, especially when hashing only three fwmark values: 0, 1 and 2.
> 
> So, I wrote an alternative hash function. It's quite simple, and as long
> as the range of input values is smaller than the hash table (default 1024,
> up to 16384), collisions will not happen at all. See the updated README
> file for more details.
> 
> Home page:
> http://fatooh.org/esfq-2.6/
> 
> Direct URL:
> http://fatooh.org/esfq-2.6/esfq-2.6.13.tar.gz
> 
> README (also available in the tar.gz):
> http://fatooh.org/esfq-2.6/current/README
> 
> Try it out, have fun, and if you find a bug or have a suggestion please
> send me an email.

Loosing perturb for non classic is really good thanks Corey.

Andy.