Re: [PATCH v2] x86/amd: Disable RDSEED on AMD Zen5 because of an error.

[Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>]

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On Friday, 7 November 2025 11:13:28 Pacific Standard Time Jason A. Donenfeld 
wrote:
> > But consider people who haven't upgraded Linux (yes, we get people asking
> > to keep everything intact in their system, but upgrade Qt only, then
> > complain when our dependency minimums change). How much of an impact
> > would they have?
> I suppose you could benchmark it and see if it matters. The syscall is
> obviously slower than the megafast vDSO code, so it will probably also
> be a bit slower than the MT code. But I suspect for most use cases maybe
> it doesn't matter that much? It's worth a try and seeing if anybody
> complains.

I'm not asking about the performance of generating new random numbers in this 
process.

I am asking about the system-wide impact that draining the entropy source 
would have. Is that a bad thing?

I suspect the answer is "no" because it's the same as /dev/urandom anyway.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCG - Platform & Sys. Eng.

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