[PATCH 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add support for hwrng found on some powernv systems
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Oct 3 17:22:59 EST 2013
On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 08:43 +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Why it can be a bad idea? User can drain hwrng continuously making other
> users of it much slower, or even worse, making them fall back to another
> much less reliable, source of entropy.
Not in a very significant way, we generate entropy at 1Mhz after all, which
is pretty good.
Cheers,
Ben.
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