From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Xuewei Zhang <xueweiz@google.com>
Cc: "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>,
tytso@mit.edu, Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>,
maze@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: Contribute to randomness when running rotational device
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:58:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1zhwgr4on.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180906203719.209399-1-xueweiz@google.com> (Xuewei Zhang's message of "Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:37:19 -0700")
Xuewei,
> Currently a scsi device won't contribute to kernel randomness when it
> uses blk-mq. Since we commonly use scsi on rotational device with
> blk-mq, it make sense to keep contributing to kernel randomness in these
> cases. This is especially important for virtual machines.
Applied to 4.19/scsi-fixes, thank you!
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-17 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-06 20:37 [PATCH] scsi: sd: Contribute to randomness when running rotational device Xuewei Zhang
2018-09-06 22:27 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-09-06 22:42 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-06 23:03 ` Xuewei Zhang
2018-09-08 4:06 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-09-09 11:52 ` Ming Lei
2018-09-14 5:05 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2018-09-17 6:58 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
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