Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:49:47PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
> That really depends on the system.  We can't assume that people are
> using systems with a 100Hz clock interrupt.  More often than not
> people are using tickless kernels these days.  That's actually the
> problem with changing /dev/urandom to block until things are
> initialized.

Couldn't we disable tickless until urandom has been seeded? In fact
perhaps we should accelerate the timer interrupt rate until it has
been seeded?

Cheers,
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