From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933166Ab2GEWgG (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2012 18:36:06 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:55427 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933116Ab2GEWgE (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2012 18:36:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1341527482.4020.1355.camel@calx> References: <1341511933-11169-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1341511933-11169-2-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1341514078.4020.1213.camel@calx> <1341524367.4020.1324.camel@calx> <20120705220040.GA15685@thunk.org> <1341527482.4020.1355.camel@calx> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:35:42 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: g7iCXJx3JqpNINCt1si3DBMyvHA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] random: make 'add_interrupt_randomness()' do something sane To: Matt Mackall Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Linux Kernel Developers List , w@1wt.eu, ewust@umich.edu, zakir@umich.edu, greg@kroah.com, nadiah@cs.ucsd.edu, jhalderm@umich.edu, tglx@linutronix.de, davem@davemloft.net, stable@kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Matt Mackall wrote: > > It's better to mix and not credit than to not mix at all. Instead just > check the fast count against HZ before the credit. That sounds like a good idea. Linus