From: "michele.paolino" <michele.paolino@studio.unibo.it>
To: James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>
Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: generate random numbers
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:32:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14f366f91002120032uc08b7d6sb2283e10c9444bbf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AEC6C66638C05B468B556EA548C1A77D01899202@trantor>
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I need less than 10 bits at rate of 10 milliseconds. With a random number I
will select the next VCPU to schedule.
Michele
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:51 AM, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> > I am interested in writing a scheduler for Xen for academic purposes.
> I need
> > to generate random numbers.
> > Is it possible to generate random numbers in xen hypervisor
> developement?If
> > this is possible, how can I do it?
> >
>
> How many bits do you random numbers need to be?
>
> At what rate do you need them? (10/second?, 1000000/second?)
>
> Would pseudo-random numbers do? If so, what repeat interval is
> sufficient?
>
> James
>
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-11 20:31 generate random numbers michele.paolino
2010-02-12 1:51 ` James Harper
2010-02-12 8:32 ` michele.paolino [this message]
2010-02-12 12:15 ` George Dunlap
2010-02-12 22:42 ` michele.paolino
2010-02-12 23:12 ` Daniel Stodden
2010-02-25 18:31 ` michele.paolino
2010-02-25 21:25 ` George Dunlap
2010-02-26 17:43 ` michele.paolino
2010-02-26 17:44 ` George Dunlap
2010-02-26 18:54 ` michele.paolino
2010-03-01 11:41 ` George Dunlap
2010-03-01 16:56 ` michele.paolino
2010-03-02 12:58 ` George Dunlap
2010-03-03 7:52 ` michele.paolino
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