Re: x86 CPU RNG support, take 2

2016-01-01 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 02:26:36AM +, Taylor R Campbell wrote: [...] > What does MSR_VIA_RNG_2NOISE actually do? Can you add a documentation > citation? As the comment just above noted: /* C7 stepping 8 and subsequent CPUs have dual RNG */ For some reason, you have to turn the second

Re: On softints, softnet_lock and sleeping (aka ipv6 vs USB network interfaces)

2016-01-01 Thread Nick Hudson
On 01/01/16 15:21, Frank Kardel wrote: Hi ! Is there any progress on this? I see also PR/49065 being still existent on an RPI2. Also running named with 4 threads on an RPI2 together with vtund doing "ifconfig tunX ..." is a sure killer. Runinng named with only one thread gets you over it (may

Re: On softints, softnet_lock and sleeping (aka ipv6 vs USB network interfaces)

2016-01-01 Thread Frank Kardel
Hi ! Is there any progress on this? I see also PR/49065 being still existent on an RPI2. Also running named with 4 threads on an RPI2 together with vtund doing "ifconfig tunX ..." is a sure killer. Runinng named with only one thread gets you over it (maybe just most of the time). Softnet-loc