Re: [PATCH 01/10] random: make 'add_interrupt_randomness()' dosomething sane

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Fri Jul 06 2012 - 18:00:25 EST


On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 03:01:12PM -0400, Eric Wustrow wrote:
> Will this do the long path in add_interrupt_randomness every 16 interrupts
> instead of 128?

Yes, but given that benchmarks didn't show any performance degradation
even under a worst case scenario (i.e., no interrupt mitigation, and a
crazy number of interrupts/second), I decided to leave things as they
are.

- Ted
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