From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: schedule mix_interrupt_randomness() less often
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:28:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YqydpeU8sGgRafnK@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220616105052.322610-1-Jason@zx2c4.com>
On 2022-06-16 12:50:52 [+0200], Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> This commit changes that 64 in rule (c) to be 1024, which means we
> schedule mix() 16 times less often. And it does *not* need to change the
> 64 in rule (a).
So the worker gets invoked less often and credits more bits in one go.
Looks like a win-win situation.
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Sebastian
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