Re: [PATCH v6] random: defer fast pool mixing to worker

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 5:59 PM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > What do we do here vs RT? I suggested this
> > >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git/commit/?id=a2d2d54409481aa23a3e11ab9559a843e36a79ec
> > >
> > > Is this doable?
> >
> > It might be, but last time I checked it seemed problematic. As I
> > mentioned in an earlier thread, I'll take a look again at that next
> > week after this patch here settles. Haven't forgotten.
>
> Ah, cheers.

I started looking at this and came up with this draft with questions:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random.git/commit/?h=jd/no-irq-trylocks

Some research remains...

Jason