Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 05:06, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > i've uploaded -Q5 to:
> > 
> >   http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5
> 
> This fixes the PS/2 issue.  Entropy rekeying is still a big problem:
> 
> http://krustophenia.net/testresults.php?dataset=2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5#/var/www/2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5/trace3.txt

ok. It seems the random driver is _mostly_ in shape latency-wise, except
the IP rekeying visible in the above trace. To solve this problem, could
you try the patch below, ontop of -Q5? It moves the random seed
generation outside of the spinlock - AFAICS the spinlock is only needed
to protect the IP sequence counter itself.

	Ingo

--- linux/drivers/char/random.c.orig
+++ linux/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -2226,17 +2226,18 @@ static unsigned int ip_cnt;
 
 static void rekey_seq_generator(void *private_)
 {
-	struct keydata *keyptr;
+	struct keydata *keyptr, tmp;
 	struct timeval 	tv;
 
 	do_gettimeofday(&tv);
+	get_random_bytes(tmp.secret, sizeof(tmp.secret));
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&ip_lock);
 	keyptr = &ip_keydata[ip_cnt&1];
 
 	keyptr = &ip_keydata[1^(ip_cnt&1)];
 	keyptr->rekey_time = tv.tv_sec;
-	get_random_bytes(keyptr->secret, sizeof(keyptr->secret));
+	memcpy(keyptr->secret, tmp.secret, sizeof(keyptr->secret));
 	keyptr->count = (ip_cnt&COUNT_MASK)<<HASH_BITS;
 	mb();
 	ip_cnt++;