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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 22:22:04 -0600 From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@...nk.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:00:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:48:20 -0500 Theodore Tso <tytso@...nk.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting > > > > > > Second, this patch spreads the mixing across the pool more rapidly by > > > using a larger step. For our secondary pools, we'll be sure to touch > > > both blocks with each mix, and for our primary pool, we'll change 5 of > > > 8 blocks. > > > > Yeah, that's a good idea. > > > > Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> > > > > I cannot find the emails to which you are replying. Not in inbox, not on > lkml, not in spam folders. And lkml.org records your emails and not the > emails to which you are replying. > > I think something went wrong with Matt's outgoing. It did. My laptop didn't relay them through my smarthost and my domain has an SPF record. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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