From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: openib-general@openib.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/13] Core Resource Allocation
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:37:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada4psxn72o.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163784311.8457.44.camel@stevo-desktop> (Steve Wise's message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:25:11 -0600")
> I think we can use random32() or get_random_bytes(). I need to
> re-review how this algorithm works. Its randomizing the stag IDs so
> they are not predictable.
I assume based on the algorithm you have now that they don't need to
be cryptographically unpredictable. So random32() would probably be
the best thing to do (get_random_bytes() should be used sparingly,
since it depletes the kernel entropy pool).
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-17 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-16 3:58 [PATCH 00/13] Chelsio T3 RDMA Driver Steve Wise
2006-11-16 3:58 ` [PATCH 01/13] Linux RDMA Core Changes Steve Wise
2006-11-16 19:41 ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-16 3:58 ` [PATCH 02/13] Device Discovery and ULLD Linkage Steve Wise
2006-11-17 17:53 ` [openib-general] " Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-11-17 17:59 ` Steve Wise
2006-11-16 3:58 ` [PATCH 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures Steve Wise
2006-11-16 3:58 ` [PATCH 04/13] Connection Manager Steve Wise
2006-11-17 18:07 ` [openib-general] " Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-11-17 18:26 ` Steve Wise
2006-11-16 3:58 ` [PATCH 05/13] Queue Pairs Steve Wise
2006-11-16 3:58 ` [PATCH 06/13] Completion Queues Steve Wise
2006-11-16 3:59 ` [PATCH 07/13] Async Event Handler Steve Wise
2006-11-16 3:59 ` [PATCH 08/13] Memory Registration Steve Wise
2006-11-16 3:59 ` [PATCH 09/13] Core WQE/CQE Types Steve Wise
2006-11-17 4:45 ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-17 17:02 ` Steve Wise
2006-11-17 18:19 ` [openib-general] " Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-11-17 18:32 ` Steve Wise
2006-11-17 18:45 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-11-16 3:59 ` [PATCH 10/13] Core HAL Steve Wise
2006-11-16 3:59 ` [PATCH 11/13] Core Resource Allocation Steve Wise
2006-11-17 16:54 ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-17 17:25 ` Steve Wise
2006-11-17 20:37 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-11-16 3:59 ` [PATCH 12/13] Core Debug functions Steve Wise
2006-11-16 3:59 ` [PATCH 13/13] Kconfig/Makefile Steve Wise
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