Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

From	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach
Date	2016-08-19 08:00 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:49:47PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
> That really depends on the system.  We can't assume that people are
> using systems with a 100Hz clock interrupt.  More often than not
> people are using tickless kernels these days.  That's actually the
> problem with changing /dev/urandom to block until things are
> initialized.

Couldn't we disable tickless until urandom has been seeded? In fact
perhaps we should accelerate the timer interrupt rate until it has
been seeded?

Cheers,
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[PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2016-08-11 14:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-08-11 23:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2016-08-12 11:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-08-12 21:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2016-08-15 08:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-08-15 17:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-17 23:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-08-19 03:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-19 03:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-08-19 05:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-08-19 08:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> - 2016-08-19 19:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-08-21 05:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-19 09:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> - 2016-08-15 22:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2016-08-16 07:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> - 2016-08-17 00:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> - 2016-08-17 00:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2016-08-17 07:30 +0200

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