From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PING^3] [PATCH] srandom32 fixes for networking v2 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080403.140723.249778614.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080403203611.GA25305@basil.nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: andi@firstfloor.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60156 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755248AbYDCVHX (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:07:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080403203611.GA25305@basil.nowhere.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Andi Kleen 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 Applied, thanks.