yzhliu commented on a change in pull request #13574: Replaced rand_r with std:: 
random generation
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13574#discussion_r257130502
 
 

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 File path: src/operator/rnn_impl.h
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 @@ -176,13 +176,17 @@ void LstmForwardTraining(DType* ws,
       if (dropout > 0.0f) {
         #pragma omp parallel for num_threads(omp_threads)
         for (int j = 0; j < T * N * H * D; j++) {
-          int rand_data = rand_r(&seed_);
+          static thread_local std::random_device device;
 
 Review comment:
   suggest to refer to `RandGenerator<xpu>` as I mentioned below. It handles 
thread-safe problem without locking. The implement is somewhat tricky though.

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