Hello,
Please take a look at this patch. I have tested it multiple times and
it seems to work.
Is it the right way to gather randomness from aoe ?
I need it because our whole server is running on aoe, and it is short
on entropy.
diff -ru aoe6-59/linux/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
aoe6-59/linux/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
--- aoe6-59/linux/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c 2008-02-01
23:01:19.000000000 +0100
+++ aoe6-59_entro/linux/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c 2008-04-10
13:24:01.670391368 +0200
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
#include "aoe.h"
#include "disk_attr.h"
+#define AOE_ADD_RANDOMNESS
+
static struct kmem_cache *buf_pool_cache;
/* GPFS needs a larger value than the default. */
@@ -247,6 +249,11 @@
}
return;
}
+
+#ifdef AOE_ADD_RANDOMNESS
+ add_disk_randomness( d->gd );
+#endif
+
aoecmd_work(d);
}
--
Michal Grzedzicki
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