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#ifndef _LINUX_HASH_H
#define _LINUX_HASH_H
/* Fast hashing routine for ints,  longs and pointers.
   (C) 2002 William Lee Irwin III, IBM */

/*
 * 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.
 */

#include <stdint.h>

static inline uint64_t hash_64(const uint64_t val, const unsigned int bits)
{
	return (val * 11400714819323198485LLU) >> (64 - bits);
}

#endif /* _LINUX_HASH_H */