From: "James Harper" <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>
To: "michele.paolino" <michele.paolino@studio.unibo.it>,
Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: RE: generate random numbers
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:51:00 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AEC6C66638C05B468B556EA548C1A77D01899202@trantor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14f366f91002111231reae2e41vc8f823b38e16a76b@mail.gmail.com>
>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-12 1:51 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2010-02-12 8:32 ` michele.paolino
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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