Re: [RFC] enhanced version of net_random()

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:28:57 +0200
Andi Kleen [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:51:40 -0700
Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref] wrote:

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Here is another alternative, using tansworthe generator.  It uses percpu
state. The one small semantic change is the net_srandom() only affects
the current cpu's seed.  The problem was that having it change all cpu's
seed would mean adding locking 

I would just update the other CPUs without locking. Taking
a random number from a partially updated state shouldn't be a big 
issue.

I personally don't think we need to touch the other cpus
at all, and that having a different current seed on each
cpu might actually be a good thing.

Stephen, I like this one a lot, especially compared to
what we had before.  I'm going to add this to my tree for
the time being.