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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@thunk.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:00:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071208200055.00762c19.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071209014820.GV17037@thunk.org>

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:48:20 -0500 Theodore Tso <tytso@thunk.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting
> > 
> > Second, this patch spreads the mixing across the pool more rapidly by
> > using a larger step. For our secondary pools, we'll be sure to touch
> > both blocks with each mix, and for our primary pool, we'll change 5 of
> > 8 blocks.
> 
> Yeah, that's a good idea.
> 
> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> 

I cannot find the emails to which you are replying.  Not in inbox, not on
lkml, not in spam folders.  And lkml.org records your emails and not the
emails to which you are replying.

I think something went wrong with Matt's outgoing.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-09  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2.753618428@selenic.com>
     [not found] ` <3.753618428@selenic.com>
2007-12-09  0:01   ` [PATCH 2/6] random: use xor for mixing Theodore Tso
2007-12-09  0:40     ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-09  2:08       ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-09 13:33         ` Alan Cox
2007-12-19 21:09         ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found] ` <4.753618428@selenic.com>
2007-12-09  0:35   ` [PATCH 3/6] random: do extraction before mixing Theodore Tso
2007-12-09  7:12     ` Matt Mackall
     [not found] ` <5.753618428@selenic.com>
2007-12-09  1:45   ` [PATCH 4/6] random: make backtracking attacks harder Theodore Tso
2007-12-09  5:43     ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-09 13:33       ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-09 17:05         ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-10 13:37           ` Theodore Tso
     [not found] ` <6.753618428@selenic.com>
2007-12-09  1:48   ` [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting Theodore Tso
2007-12-09  4:00     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-12-09  4:22       ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-09 12:55         ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-09 17:08           ` Matt Mackall
     [not found] ` <7.753618428@selenic.com>
2007-12-09  1:51   ` [PATCH 6/6] random: improve variable naming, clear extract buffer Theodore Tso
2007-12-09  5:08     ` Matt Mackall

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