2007-12-09 01:48:37

by Ted Ts'o

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting

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" <[email protected]>

- Ted


2007-12-09 04:01:34

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:48:20 -0500 Theodore Tso <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]>
>

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.

2007-12-09 04:22:43

by Matt Mackall

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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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]>
> >
>
> 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.

2007-12-09 12:56:12

by Theodore Ts'o

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 10:22:04PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> It did. My laptop didn't relay them through my smarthost and my domain
> has an SPF record.

Ah, yes:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/smtp-spf-is-harmful.html

- Ted

2007-12-09 17:09:18

by Matt Mackall

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:55:41AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 10:22:04PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >
> > It did. My laptop didn't relay them through my smarthost and my domain
> > has an SPF record.
>
> Ah, yes:
>
> http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/smtp-spf-is-harmful.html

Yep, I temporarily set it up to mitigate a spate of From: forgeries
against my domain, then it bit me later.

--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.