I'm working on a demon that collects timer randomness, distills it some, and pushes the results into /dev/random. My code produces the random material in 32-bit chunks. The current version sends it to /dev/random 32 bits at a time, doing a write() and an entropy-update ioctl() for each chunk. Obviously I could add some buffering and write fewer and larger chunks. My questions are whether that is worth doing and, if so, what the optimum write() size is likely to be. I am not overly concerned about overheads on my side of the interface, unless they are quite large. My concern is whether doing many small writes wastes kernel resources. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
