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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] VirtIO RNG
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:17:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004011317.45269.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB206EF.3030100@collabora.co.uk>

>        This patch adds support for virtio-rng. Data is read from a chardev
> and can be either raw entropy or received via the EGD protocol.

I still don't get why you need this at all. It seems like virtio-serial would 
already provides everything you need.

> +        qemu_gettimeofday(&now);

Using qemu_gettimeofday is almost certainly wrong, and you want to be using 
virtual time.  Plus I'm not convinced this is the right place to enforce rate 
limiting.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-01 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30 14:05 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] VirtIO RNG Ian Molton
2010-03-30 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] " Ian Molton
2010-03-30 14:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] " Ian Molton
2010-04-01 12:17   ` Paul Brook [this message]
2010-04-01 12:30     ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-01 14:03       ` Paul Brook
2010-04-02 10:13         ` Ian Molton
2010-04-03 15:06           ` Paul Brook
2010-04-13 14:41             ` Ian Molton
2010-04-13 15:01               ` Paul Brook
2010-04-13 15:32               ` Paul Brook
2010-04-20 15:15                 ` Ian Molton
2010-04-20 16:13                   ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-20 19:52                     ` Ian Molton
2010-04-20 20:11                       ` Blue Swirl
2010-04-20 20:56                       ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-20 21:31                         ` Ian Molton
2010-04-20 21:55                           ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21  7:43                           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-04-21  9:40                             ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-21 12:34                               ` Ian Molton
2010-04-21 13:55                                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-04-22 19:06                                   ` Ian Molton
2010-04-22 21:05                                     ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-23 10:17                                       ` Ian Molton
2010-04-24  1:37                                         ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-24  8:58                                           ` Ian Molton
2010-04-23  8:27                                     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-04-23  9:28                                       ` Ian Molton
2010-04-23 14:07                                         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-04-23 15:49                                           ` Ian Molton
2010-04-23 17:32                                             ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-24  9:16                                               ` Ian Molton
2010-04-02 10:15       ` Ian Molton
2010-04-02 10:07     ` Ian Molton
2010-05-03 17:56   ` Anthony Liguori

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