From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754339AbXLIEWn (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:22:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751504AbXLIEWY (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:22:24 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:53882 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750972AbXLIEWX (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:22:23 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 22:22:04 -0600 From: Matt Mackall To: Andrew Morton Cc: Theodore Tso , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting Message-ID: <20071209042204.GR19691@waste.org> References: <2.753618428@selenic.com> <6.753618428@selenic.com> <20071209014820.GV17037@thunk.org> <20071208200055.00762c19.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071208200055.00762c19.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:00:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:48:20 -0500 Theodore Tso wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting > > > > > > Second, this patch spreads the mixing across the pool more rapidly by > > > using a larger step. For our secondary pools, we'll be sure to touch > > > both blocks with each mix, and for our primary pool, we'll change 5 of > > > 8 blocks. > > > > Yeah, that's a good idea. > > > > Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" > > > > I cannot find the emails to which you are replying. Not in inbox, not on > lkml, not in spam folders. And lkml.org records your emails and not the > emails to which you are replying. > > I think something went wrong with Matt's outgoing. It did. My laptop didn't relay them through my smarthost and my domain has an SPF record. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.