[PATCH] hash: Improve double hashing

[Andrea Canciani]

Instead of artificially introducing collisions in the step value by
replacing 0 with 1 (which causes the value 1 to have twice the
frequency of any other value), the step value can simply be computed
as an uniformly distributed value in the range [1, rehash], extremes
included.

This is safe because any step value smaller than the hash modulus is
co-prime with it, hence induces an orbit which includes every integer
in [0, size - 1].
---
 src/wayland-hash.c |    8 ++------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/wayland-hash.c b/src/wayland-hash.c
index 1ec6be4..01ccd7c 100644
--- a/src/wayland-hash.c
+++ b/src/wayland-hash.c
@@ -176,9 +176,7 @@ hash_table_search(struct wl_hash_table *ht, uint32_t hash)
 			return entry;
 		}
 
-		double_hash = hash % ht->rehash;
-		if (double_hash == 0)
-			double_hash = 1;
+		double_hash = 1 + hash % ht->rehash;
 
 		hash_address = (hash_address + double_hash) % ht->size;
 	} while (hash_address != hash % ht->size);
@@ -277,9 +275,7 @@ wl_hash_table_insert(struct wl_hash_table *ht, uint32_t hash, void *data)
 			return 0;
 		}
 
-		double_hash = hash % ht->rehash;
-		if (double_hash == 0)
-			double_hash = 1;
+		double_hash = 1 + hash % ht->rehash;
 
 		hash_address = (hash_address + double_hash) % ht->size;
 	} while (hash_address != hash % ht->size);
-- 
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