Re: [RFC PATCH v1 29/50] fs/ocfs2/journal: Use prandom_u32() and not /dev/random for timeout

From: Joseph Qi
Date: Mon Mar 30 2020 - 08:09:44 EST


Sorry for the late reply since I might miss this mail.

On 2019/3/21 11:07, George Spelvin wrote:
> get_random_bytes() is expensive crypto-quality random numbers.
> If we're just doing random backoff, prandom_u32() is plenty.
>
> (Not to mention fetching 8 bytes of seed material only to
> reduce it modulo 5000 is a huge waste.)
>
> Also, convert timeouts to jiffies at compile time; convert
> milliseconds to jiffies before picking a random number in the
> range to take advantage of compile-time constant folding.
>
> Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <lkml@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: ocfs2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/journal.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
> index 68ba354cf3610..939a12e57fa8b 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
> @@ -1884,11 +1884,8 @@ int ocfs2_mark_dead_nodes(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
> */
> static inline unsigned long ocfs2_orphan_scan_timeout(void)
> {
> - unsigned long time;
> -
> - get_random_bytes(&time, sizeof(time));
> - time = ORPHAN_SCAN_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT + (time % 5000);
> - return msecs_to_jiffies(time);
> + return msecs_to_jiffies(ORPHAN_SCAN_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT) +
> + prandom_u32_max(5 * HZ);

Seems better include the prandom_u32_max() into msecs_to_jiffies()?

Thanks,
Joseph
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