Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0

Lee Revell
2004-08-16T04:18:27Z

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:08, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> > just to check this theory, could you make __check_and_rekey() an empty
> > function? This should still produce a working random driver, albeit at
> > much reduced entropy. If these latencies have a relationship to the
> > mlockall() issue then this change should have an effect.
>
> hm, could you disable the random driver in the .config rather? It seems
> that adding to the entropy pool (from hardirq context) alone is quite
> expensive too.
>

Can this be disabled in the .config? I can't find an option for it.

Lee