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From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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        Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: schedule mix_interrupt_randomness() less often
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On 2022-06-16 12:50:52 [+0200], Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> This commit changes that 64 in rule (c) to be 1024, which means we
> schedule mix() 16 times less often. And it does *not* need to change the
> 64 in rule (a).

So the worker gets invoked less often and credits more bits in one go.
Looks like a win-win situation.

Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

Sebastian