From: Theodore Tso <tytso@thunk.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:48:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071209014820.GV17037@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.753618428@selenic.com>
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting
>
> Second, this patch spreads the mixing across the pool more rapidly by
> using a larger step. For our secondary pools, we'll be sure to touch
> both blocks with each mix, and for our primary pool, we'll change 5 of
> 8 blocks.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-09 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <2.753618428@selenic.com>
[not found] ` <3.753618428@selenic.com>
2007-12-09 0:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] random: use xor for mixing Theodore Tso
2007-12-09 0:40 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-09 2:08 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-09 13:33 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-19 21:09 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] ` <4.753618428@selenic.com>
2007-12-09 0:35 ` [PATCH 3/6] random: do extraction before mixing Theodore Tso
2007-12-09 7:12 ` Matt Mackall
[not found] ` <5.753618428@selenic.com>
2007-12-09 1:45 ` [PATCH 4/6] random: make backtracking attacks harder Theodore Tso
2007-12-09 5:43 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-09 13:33 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-09 17:05 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-10 13:37 ` Theodore Tso
[not found] ` <6.753618428@selenic.com>
2007-12-09 1:48 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-12-09 4:00 ` [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting Andrew Morton
2007-12-09 4:22 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-09 12:55 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-09 17:08 ` Matt Mackall
[not found] ` <7.753618428@selenic.com>
2007-12-09 1:51 ` [PATCH 6/6] random: improve variable naming, clear extract buffer Theodore Tso
2007-12-09 5:08 ` Matt Mackall
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