Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12562] New: High overhead while switching orsynchronizing threads on different cores

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Feb 02 2009 - 07:16:20 EST


On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 09:55 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Ah, that was a good clue, apparently all you need to so it use
> random_r() and provide your own state and all should be well.

Michael, would it make sense to add the random_r() family to the "SEE
ALSO" section of the random() man page?

(Admittedly, my random() manpage is ancient: 2008-03-07, so it might be
this is already the case, in which case, ignore me :)

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