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, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
