On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 17:11 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 22:43 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:15:17PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:46 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Well if you can demonstrate that you're getting a higher rate of > > > > > > throughput from your RNG by doing this in kernel space vs. doing > > > > > > it in user space please let me know. > > > > > > > Well when you get 55mb/s from /dev/random please get back to me. > > > > > > I cant, noone writes 55mbit into it, but HW RNG drivers could. :) > > > > Are you intending to feed that into /dev/random at 55mb/s? > > > > If not then how is this an argument against doing it in userspace > > through rngd? > > Yes. > Untill pool is filled and then sleep there. > When someone wants to draw from the pool - awake and fill it again. > > I clearly see your point here and I agree that it must be
I mean userspace validating and load balancing must be
default method for entropy producing.
> default method for entropy producing, but if there are
> possibility to speed that up, such techniques should be
> allowed to be used.
>
> It is really faster to fill pool from the kernelspace
> without copying/validating it in userspace.
>
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Evgeniy Polyakov
Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski
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