Re: [PATCH] /dev/random: Insufficient of entropy on manyarchitectures

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:46:21PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> 
> We do read the clocksource fairly frequently though, so rather then
> re-reading on each interrupt, could you instead re-use the points at
> interrupt time where we already read the clocksource, like in
> hrtimer_interrupt()?

How often is that time updated?  Is there some documentation whree I
can understand how this works?  I confess to be pretty ignorant about
the details of how our time keeping systems work inside Linux.

Same question for sched_clock(); what are its guarantees, both in
terms of granularity and cost of overhead.  Is there any comprehensive
documentation that I should be reading?

Thanks,

						- Ted
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