Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Allow net devices to contribute to /dev/random | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 01 Oct 2001 17:33:43 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 10:43, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Obviously the timer interrupt would be the worst idea ever. Its the > > same value (HZ) on almost all versions of Linux (Alpha being on example > > where it is not the same). > > Actually, not quite. On 2.4.9 system, console kept interrupts disabled > for so long that timer interrupt was pretty good source of randomness.
That is pretty sad, to be honest :)
Besides, on some systems interrupts may rarely be disabled -- its too hard to tell. We don't want another config option, do we? :)
Also, 2.4.10 merged Andrew Morton's console-locking patch, so one can hope the console's latency is improved.
-- Robert M. Love rml at ufl.edu rml at tech9.net
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