Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752501AbXLIEBe (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:01:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751109AbXLIEB0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:01:26 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:46446 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750985AbXLIEBZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Dec 2007 23:01:25 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:00:55 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Theodore Tso Cc: Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting Message-Id: <20071208200055.00762c19.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071209014820.GV17037@thunk.org> References: <2.753618428@selenic.com> <6.753618428@selenic.com> <20071209014820.GV17037@thunk.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1012 Lines: 25 On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:48:20 -0500 Theodore Tso 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" > 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/