From owner-cvs-all Sun Sep 10 17: 5: 7 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D7A37B423; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:05:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8B04vn19165; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 09:34:57 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 09:34:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Murray Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/sys random.h src/sys/dev/randomdev hash.c hash.h harvest.c randomdev.c yarrow.c yarrow.h src/sys/modules/randomdev Makefile Message-ID: <20000911093457.H15703@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200009101352.GAA06290@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200009101352.GAA06290@freefall.freebsd.org>; from markm@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 06:52:19AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 10 September 2000 at 6:52:19 -0700, Mark Murray wrote: > markm 2000/09/10 06:52:19 PDT > > Log: > Large upgrade to the entropy device; mainly inspired by feedback > from many folk. > > o The reseed process is now a kthread. With SMPng, kthreads are > pre-emptive, so the annoying jerkiness of the mouse is gone. > > o The data structures are protected by mutexes now, not splfoo()/splx(). The last thing I heard was that we were getting worried about putting in too many mutexes. How was this resolved? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message