On 10/05/2019 17:32, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 02:37:41PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
On 10/05/2019 14:27, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com> writes:
The new rng-builtin is considerably simpler than both rng-random and
rng-egd. Moreover, it just works, whereas rng-random is limited to
CONFIG_POSIX, and rng-egd needs egd running (which I suspect basically
nobody does). Have we considered deprecating these two backends in
favor of rng-builtin?
I have several bugzilla involving these backends: as there are blocking, the
virtio-rng device in the guest can hang, or crash during hot-unplug. From my
point of view, life would be easier without them...
Are you sure about that ?
The EGD impl looks like it is requesting entropy in an async manner.
The virtio-rng driver waits until it receives enough entropy from the
RNG backend while a mutex is taken.
If the EGD daemon doesn't provide enough data to the RNG backend,
virtio-rng driver can hang.
It's easy to have if we start EGD backend with a socket in server,nowait
mode and no EGD daemon connects to the port.
Thanks,
Laurent
