Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] lib: Add zstd modules

On 2017-08-10 15:25, Hugo Mills wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 01:41:21PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: On 08/10/2017 04:30 AM, Eric Biggers wrote: Theses benchmarks are misleading because they compress the whole file as a single stream without resetting the dictionary, which isn't how data will

Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] lib: Add zstd modules

On 2017-08-10 13:24, Eric Biggers wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 07:32:18AM -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-08-10 04:30, Eric Biggers wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:35:53PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote: It can compress at speeds approaching lz4, and quality approaching lzma

Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] lib: Add zstd modules

On 2017-08-10 07:32, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2017-08-10 04:30, Eric Biggers wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:35:53PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote: It can compress at speeds approaching lz4, and quality approaching lzma. Well, for a very loose definition of "approaching", and

Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] lib: Add zstd modules

On 2017-08-10 04:30, Eric Biggers wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:35:53PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote: It can compress at speeds approaching lz4, and quality approaching lzma. Well, for a very loose definition of "approaching", and certainly not at the same time. I doubt there's a use case

Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

On 2016-06-22 01:16, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 15:31:07 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: Hi Austin, Little data, interesting statement for results on 200+ systems including all major CPU arches all showing information leading in the same directions. Let me try

Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

On 2016-06-21 14:04, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 13:51:15 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: 6. You have a significant lack of data regarding embedded systems, which is one of the two biggest segments of Linux's market share. You list no results for any pre-ARMv6 systems

Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] /dev/random - a new approach

On 2016-06-21 12:28, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 12:03:56 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: Hi Austin, On 2016-06-21 03:32, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 09:12:07 schrieb Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos: Hi Nikos, On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Stephan

Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

On 2016-06-21 13:23, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 13:18:33 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: Hi Austin, You have to trust the host for anything, not just for the entropy in timings. This is completely invalid argument unless you can present a method that one guest can

Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

On 2016-06-21 09:20, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 09:05:55 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: Hi Austin, On 2016-06-20 14:32, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Montag, 20. Juni 2016, 13:07:32 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: Hi Austin, On 2016-06-18 12:31, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am

Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

On 2016-06-21 09:42, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! 6. You have a significant lack of data regarding embedded systems, which is one of the two biggest segments of Linux's market share. You list no results for any pre-ARMv6 systems (Linux still runs on and is regularly used on ARMv4 CPU's, and it's

Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] /dev/random - a new approach

On 2016-06-21 03:32, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2016, 09:12:07 schrieb Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos: Hi Nikos, On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote: Personally, I don't really use /dev/random, nor would I recommend it for most application

Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

On 2016-06-20 14:32, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Montag, 20. Juni 2016, 13:07:32 schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: Hi Austin, On 2016-06-18 12:31, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Juni 2016, 10:44:08 schrieb Theodore Ts'o: Hi Theodore, At the end of the day, with these devices you really

Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

On 2016-06-18 12:31, Stephan Mueller wrote: Am Samstag, 18. Juni 2016, 10:44:08 schrieb Theodore Ts'o: Hi Theodore, At the end of the day, with these devices you really badly need a hardware RNG. We can't generate randomness out of thin air. The only thing you really can do requires user

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] /dev/random - a new approach

On 2016-05-03 09:57, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:23:51AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: That's far from a solution and I wouldn't recommend to anyone doing that. We cannot expect each and

Re: [PATCH][RESEND 3] hwrng: add randomness to system from rng sources

On 2014-03-16 18:56, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 03/03/2014 03:51 PM, Kees Cook wrote: When bringing a new RNG source online, it seems like it would make sense to use some of its bytes to make the system entropy pool more random, as done with all sorts of other devices that contain per-device or