> I'm sorry, I'm not seeing get_cycles used in /dev/random (although they
> do make a direct call to rdtsc if its available - which is fine, since
Hmm, perhaps it was only a proposed patch that wasn't merged.
Anyways my point stands - get_cycles should be only used when no
wall time is needed, so I see no reason to complicate it and slow
it down with external timers.
-Andi
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