Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 23:08, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > just to check this theory, could you make __check_and_rekey() an empty
> > function? This should still produce a working random driver, albeit at
> > much reduced entropy. If these latencies have a relationship to the
> > mlockall() issue then this change should have an effect.
> 
> hm, could you disable the random driver in the .config rather? It seems
> that adding to the entropy pool (from hardirq context) alone is quite
> expensive too.
> 

Can this be disabled in the .config?  I can't find an option for it.

Lee

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