On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:27:53 +0800 [email protected] wrote: > From: Tonghao Zhang <[email protected]> > > When rte_rand_init is invoked, and the kernel > (kernel version < 3.17) running dpdk does't support > *getentropy, at the same time, the cpu does't support > rdseed, the rte_rand_init will invoke rte_get_timer_cycles > which function will invoke rte_get_hpet_cycles > (RTE_LIBEAL_USE_HPET was enabled) while *eal_hpet is not > allocated. > > Fixes: faf8fd252785 ("eal: improve entropy for initial PRNG seed") > Fixes: 3f002f069612 ("eal: replace libc-based random generation with LFSR") > > Cc: [email protected] > > Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <[email protected]>
Are you sure this patch won't change current default to use HPET (which is slower)? Before this patch users would get TSC as default.
