cvs commit: src/sys/dev/random harvest.c
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.ORG
Mon Oct 18 14:05:57 PDT 2004
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Mark Murray wrote:
> > Log:
> > Annotate that get_cyclecount() can be expensive on some platforms,
> > which juxtaposes nicely with the comment just above on how the
> > harvest function must be cheap.
>
> Cool.
>
> And I have a PHK-inspired improvement to the get_cyclecount() function
> that should improve the !TSC case quite a bit.
>
> Commit in a day or three.
Wonderful. I figured, since I wasn't making any progress currently on
entropy-related stuff, that I should document the issue. If you have
fixes in the pipeline, that sounds good to me. BTW, maybe we should make
this dinner and conversation at the Thai Pub (a good concept) a bi-weekly
thing for FreeBSD developers? :-)
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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