On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 08:05:24PM -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
>
> The problem I started trying to solve is readers (entropy extractors)
> monopolizing the pool lock and stalling writers (entropy mixers), which
> are supposed to be fast and low overhead.
Which writer are you worried about, specifically? A userspace write
to /dev/random from rgnd?
And have you measured this to be something significant, or is this a
theoretical concern. If you've measured it, what's the conditions
where this is stalling an entropy mixer a significant amount of time?
- Ted
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