From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PING^3] [PATCH] srandom32 fixes for networking v2
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:07:23 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080403.140723.249778614.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080403203611.GA25305@basil.nowhere.org>
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 22:36:11 +0200
> srandom32 fixes for networking v2
>
> - Let it update the state of all CPUs. The network stack goes
> into pains to feed the current IP addresses in, but it is not very
> effective if that is only done for some random CPU instead of all.
> So change it to feed bits into all CPUs. I decided to do that lockless
> because well somewhat random results are ok.
>
> v2: Drop rename so that this patch doesn't depend on x86 maintainers
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Applied, thanks.
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2008-04-03 20:36 [PING^3] [PATCH] srandom32 fixes for networking v2 Andi Kleen
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