From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pavel@suse.cz
Cc: mpm@selenic.com, tytso@mit.edu, mrmacman_g4@mac.com,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 00:07:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060508.000754.06312852.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060508062604.GD5765@ucw.cz>
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 06:26:05 +0000
> > Then I'll run my test on one of the various arches where HZ=~100 and
> > we don't have a TSC. Like Sparc?
> >
> > /* XXX Maybe do something better at some point... -DaveM */
> > typedef unsigned long cycles_t;
> > #define get_cycles() (0)
>
> Seems like sparc32 is broken :-(, and probably broken terminally...
> there are very little randomness sources that can handle 10msec
> sampling period :-(.
>
> Maybe we should disable /dev/random on sparc32?
What do other platforms without a TSC do?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-08 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-05 16:42 [PATCH 1/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from floppy driver Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 6/14] random: Remove redundant SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from touchscreen drivers Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 4/14] random: Change cpqarray to use add_disk_randomness Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 2/14] random: Remove redundant SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from NinjaSCSI Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 3/14] random: Make CCISS use add_disk_randomness Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 5/14] random: Remove bogus SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from at91 compact flash driver Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 8/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from USB gadget drivers Matt Mackall
2006-05-06 11:07 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-05-06 18:16 ` David Brownell
2006-05-06 18:31 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 17:13 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-05-05 17:24 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 19:11 ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-05 20:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-05 20:34 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-06 11:55 ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-06 16:48 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-06 17:29 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-05-06 18:05 ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-06 20:33 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-07 0:17 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-07 1:22 ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-07 5:07 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-08 21:58 ` Sami Farin
2006-05-24 22:47 ` Marcin Dalecki
2006-05-25 0:08 ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-31 19:29 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-07 0:08 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-07 4:59 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-07 5:46 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-07 16:31 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-07 13:13 ` Thiago Galesi
2006-05-07 16:00 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-07 17:00 ` Thiago Galesi
2006-05-08 0:13 ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-08 2:55 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-08 6:26 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-08 7:07 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-05-08 14:05 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-08 17:21 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-08 17:27 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-09 11:23 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-11 10:05 ` Ph. Marek
2006-05-24 22:35 ` Marcin Dalecki
2006-05-05 21:10 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-05 23:03 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 23:19 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-06 14:08 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-05-06 15:19 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-07 10:35 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-05-07 16:33 ` Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 9/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from i2c drivers Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 10/14] random: Remove bogus SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from mpc52xx serial driver Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 11/14] random: Remove UML usage of SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 13/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from IRQ fastpath Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 12/14] random: Remove not very useful SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from lubbock Matt Mackall
2006-05-05 16:42 ` [PATCH 14/14] random: Remove add_interrupt_randomness Matt Mackall
2006-05-08 7:38 [PATCH 7/14] random: Remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from network drivers linux
2006-05-12 6:09 ` linux
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