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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:

> Not really. drivers/char/random.c does:
> 
> __get_cpu_var(trickle_count)++ & 0xfff

That is incremented on each call to add_timer_randomness. Not a high 
enough resolution there. I guess I am stuck with get_cycles().