Re: [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

Keir Fraser
2006-05-09T20:30:45Z

On 9 May 2006, at 21:25, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

>> + memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, info->mac, ETH_ALEN);
>> + network_connect(netdev);
>> + info->irq = bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler(
>> + info->evtchn, netif_int, SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM,
>> netdev->name,
>>
>
> This doesn't look like a real random entropy source. packets
> arriving from another domain are easily timed.

Where should we get our entropy from in a VM environment? Leaving the
pool empty can cause processes to hang.

-- Keir