Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 22:15:20 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Marc Giannoni <marc@versa.eng.comsat.com> Cc: Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Subject: Re: IRQ entropy causes panics? Message-ID: <199901082015.WAA19670@greenpeace.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:57:26 EST." <XFMail.990108151224.marc@versa.eng.comsat.com> References: <XFMail.990108151224.marc@versa.eng.comsat.com>
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Marc Giannoni wrote:
> Hooking interrupts is a "real time" issue. There is no way an OS, however
> will written, can tolerate flagrant additions to it's interrupt latencies.
> ("j. random sysadmin run-amok")
>
> I'm suprised that the randomizer code can hook interrupts at all and still
> keep the OS stable. This stuff is some pretty clever code. You are actually
> modifying the kernel's core execution by enabling these hooks!
>
> Trust me when I say that there probably is no "Underlying Problem".
> It's pretty amazing that this thing even exists.
:-) :-) :-) Thank you for your vote of confidence in my code :-)
M
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