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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Subject: Re: random(4) changes
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:06:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twipn05w.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACXcFm=PmD1_MqH5j-oY=X=mXD20jLMTuaPe9_GVY7JxN99MpA@mail.gmail.com> (Sandy Harris's message of "Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:27:48 -0400")

Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com> writes:

There is also the third problem of horrible scalability of /dev/random
output on larger systems, for which patches are getting ignored.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/10/716

Ignoring problems does not make them go away.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-25 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-22 22:27 random(4) changes Sandy Harris
2016-04-23  7:52 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-24  2:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-04-24  8:03   ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-26  3:07     ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-04-26 11:04       ` Herbert Xu
2016-04-26 20:47         ` Andi Kleen
2016-04-27  4:23           ` Herbert Xu
2016-04-26 18:24       ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-26 18:44       ` Pavel Machek
2016-04-26 18:55         ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-26 19:41           ` Pavel Machek
2016-04-25 16:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2016-04-25 17:25   ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-25 17:38     ` Andi Kleen
2016-04-25 17:56       ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-25 19:35         ` Andi Kleen
2016-04-26 12:01           ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-27 17:47           ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-26  1:00   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-04-26 12:42   ` Sandy Harris
     [not found] <5279345.Lo7T948V4W@positron.chronox.de>
2016-04-26 20:43 ` George Spelvin
2016-04-26 21:01   ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-27  0:23     ` George Spelvin
2016-04-27 18:03       ` George Spelvin
2016-04-28 20:15       ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-29  7:29         ` George Spelvin
2016-04-29  8:02           ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-29  9:34             ` George Spelvin
2016-04-29  9:53               ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-29 11:04                 ` George Spelvin
2016-04-29 11:18                   ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-29 18:02                     ` George Spelvin
2016-04-29 18:41                       ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-29 20:08                         ` George Spelvin
2016-04-29 21:54                           ` Stephan Mueller
2016-04-29 22:32                             ` George Spelvin
2016-04-29  0:47       ` George Spelvin

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