RFC: Addition of Murmur3 hash to FreeBSD for use by PF

George Neville-Neil gnn at neville-neil.com
Tue Jul 15 01:40:31 UTC 2014


Howdy,

Turns out that the Jenkins hash we have has been surpassed by the 
Murmur3 hash.
Switching to Murmur3 has increases PF's speed by 12% on a null 
forwarding test,
i.e. a test in which PF looks at every packet but doesn't taken an 
action.

Review here: https://phabric.freebsd.org/D406

Best,
George


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