Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:00:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:48:20 -0500 Theodore Tso <tytso@thunk.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting
> > > 
> > > Second, this patch spreads the mixing across the pool more rapidly by
> > > using a larger step. For our secondary pools, we'll be sure to touch
> > > both blocks with each mix, and for our primary pool, we'll change 5 of
> > > 8 blocks.
> > 
> > Yeah, that's a good idea.
> > 
> > Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> > 
> 
> I cannot find the emails to which you are replying.  Not in inbox, not on
> lkml, not in spam folders.  And lkml.org records your emails and not the
> emails to which you are replying.
> 
> I think something went wrong with Matt's outgoing.

It did. My laptop didn't relay them through my smarthost and my domain
has an SPF record.

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