Re: [PATCH-v3 0/5] random: replace urandom pool with a CRNG

From	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH-v3 0/5] random: replace urandom pool with a CRNG
Date	2016-05-30 23:00 +0200
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On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 10:53:22AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> It should work the same on larger systems, the solution scales
> naturally to lots of sockets. It's not clear it'll help enough on systems
> with a lot more cores per socket, like a Xeon Phi. But for now it should
> be good enough.

One change which I'm currently making is to use kmalloc_node() instead
of kmalloc() for the per-NUMA node, and I suspect *that* is going
to make a quite a lot of different on those systems where the ratio of
remote to local memory access times is larger (as I assume it probably
would be on really big systems).

						- Ted

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[PATCH-v3 0/5] random: replace urandom pool with a CRNG Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-05-30 07:50 +0200
  [PATCH 2/5] random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace programs Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-05-30 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/5] random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace programs Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2016-05-30 08:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/5] random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly  userspace programs Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-05-30 19:30 +0200
  [PATCH 1/5] random: replace non-blocking pool with a Chacha20-based CRNG Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-05-30 07:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH-v3 0/5] random: replace urandom pool with a CRNG Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-05-30 20:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH-v3 0/5] random: replace urandom pool with a CRNG Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-05-30 23:00 +0200

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