OPTIM: tools: improve hash distribution using a better prime seed
During tests it was noticed that the current hash is not that good
on 4- and 5- bit hashes. About 7.5% of all the 32-bit primes were tested
as candidates for the hash function, by submitting them 128 arrangements
of N pointers among 40k extracted from haproxy's pools, and the average
fill rates for 1- to 12- bit hashes were measured and compared. It was
clear that some values do not provide great hashes and other ones are
way more resistant.
The current value is not bad at all but delivers 42.6% unique 2-bit
outputs, 41.6% 3-bit, 38.0% 4-bit, 38.2% 5-bit and 37.1% 10-bit. Some
values did perform significantly better, among which 0xacd1be85 which
does 43.2% 2-bit, 42.5% 3-bit, 42.2% 4-bit, 39.2% 5-bit and 37.3% 10-bit.
The reverse value used in the ptr2_hash() was really underperforming and
was replaced with 0x9d28e4e9 which does 49.6%, 40.4%, 42.6%, 39.1%, and
37.2% respectvely.
This should slightly improve the accuracy of the task and memory
profiling, and will be useful for pools.