netdev - Re: [PING^3] [PATCH] srandom32 fixes for networking v2

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Date:	Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:07:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andi@...stfloor.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PING^3] [PATCH] srandom32 fixes for networking v2

From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 22:36:11 +0200

> srandom32 fixes for networking v2
> 
> - Let it update the state of all CPUs. The network stack goes
> into pains to feed the current IP addresses in, but it is not very
> effective if that is only done for some random CPU instead of all.
> So change it to feed bits into all CPUs.  I decided to do that lockless 
> because well somewhat random results are ok.
> 
> v2: Drop rename so that this patch doesn't depend on x86 maintainers
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>

Applied, thanks.
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