Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:38:08 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 00:26, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > > > > > just to check this theory, could you make __check_and_rekey() an empty > > > > function? This should still produce a working random driver, albeit at > > > > much reduced entropy. If these latencies have a relationship to the > > > > mlockall() issue then this change should have an effect. > > > > > > hm, could you disable the random driver in the .config rather? It seems > > > that adding to the entropy pool (from hardirq context) alone is quite > > > expensive too. > > > > > > > Can this be disabled in the .config? I can't find an option for it. > > oh well, indeed it cannot be disabled.
Hmm, what happens if CONFIG_HW_RANDOM is set then? I would call it a bug if having a hardware RNG didn't disable the software /dev/random driver. This implies that the software RNG can be easily disabled.
Lee
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