drivers/char/random.c:write_pool() -- cond_resched needed?

In write_pool(), isn't cond_resched() needed after call to
add_entropy_words() because otherwise there can be large latencies
(think of command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/random bs=100000000" ) ?

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