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[PATCH v2 0/3] hw_random: timeriomem_rng: Migrate to new API and improve performance

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Subject [PATCH v2 0/3] hw_random: timeriomem_rng: Migrate to new API and improve performance
Date Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:30:02 +0200
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AST2400 can generate 32-bits of random data every 1us.  Original driver
was limited to one 32-bit read every jiffie due to deprecated API and use
of timers.  Migrating to new hwrng API and switching to hrtimers
improves read performance of /dev/hwrng to 13Mb/s.

Changes in v2:
- Split API migration into separate patch
- Split type and variable renames into separate patch
- Split performance improvements into separate patch

Rick Altherr (3):
  hw_random: Migrate timeriomem_rng to new API
  hw_random: timeriomem_rng: Shorten verbose type and variable names
  hw_random: timeriomem_rng: Improve performance for sub-jiffie update
    periods

 drivers/char/hw_random/timeriomem-rng.c | 157 ++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 80 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)

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[PATCH v2 0/3] hw_random: timeriomem_rng: Migrate to new API and improve performance Rick Altherr <raltherr@google.com> - 2017-04-06 01:30 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/3] hw_random: Migrate timeriomem_rng to new API Rick Altherr <raltherr@google.com> - 2017-04-06 01:30 +0200
  [PATCH v2 2/3] hw_random: timeriomem_rng: Shorten verbose type and variable names Rick Altherr <raltherr@google.com> - 2017-04-06 01:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] hw_random: timeriomem_rng: Migrate to new API and  improve performance Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-04-10 13:30 +0200

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