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SubjectRe: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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.

Ingo
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