linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] /dev/random: Insufficient of entropy on many architectures

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Message-ID: <20131014211337.GD14373@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:13:37 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, dave.taht@...ferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] /dev/random: Insufficient of entropy on many
 architectures

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 08:50:17AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On the system with good power management and idle cpus (many of them), I'd
> expect most of the IPs to be pretty much equal -- arch specific version of
> "enter low power state" (mwait on recent intel machines, for example).
> 
> Would it make sense to mix the other registers, too?

Hmm....  Is there a useful way that we can do this in an
architecture-independent way?

						- Ted
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