[PATCH] Always read from /dev/urandom

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 01:06:59PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> I just did the cachegrind tests. Wow. On bin/genrandperf 1000000
> there's a factor of *120* difference in instructions executed.

Well, that factor is not the whole story. The kernel has to do
*something*. But I could imagine that the kernel rng has seen more tuning
than ours. The other factor really is the complexity on our side.

Volker

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