Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0

[Ingo Molnar]

* Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I will try next with /dev/random disabled.  Don't most/many new
> machines have a hardware RNG that would eliminate the need for this
> code?

The C3 does have one IIRC, but do Intel CPUs have it too? Also, there's
the question of trust - how random it truly is. Is it a partly
pseudo-RNG masked via encryption? /dev/random i know is random, driven
by random timings of real disks and real network packets. The CPU's HRNG
is much more encapsulated and can only be blackbox-tested.

	Ingo
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