Re: [RFC] enhanced version of net_random()

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:51:40 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

-Andi

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