linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: Contribute to randomness when running rotational device

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Message-ID: <yq1zhwgr4on.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:58:16 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Xuewei Zhang <xueweiz@...gle.com>
Cc:     "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>, tytso@....edu,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>, maze@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: Contribute to randomness when running rotational device


Xuewei,

> Currently a scsi device won't contribute to kernel randomness when it
> uses blk-mq. Since we commonly use scsi on rotational device with
> blk-mq, it make sense to keep contributing to kernel randomness in these
> cases. This is especially important for virtual machines.

Applied to 4.19/scsi-fixes, thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering