Re: Poor RNG performance on Ryzen

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On 21.07.2017 16:47, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 01:39:13PM +0200, Oliver Mangold wrote:
Better, but obviously there is still much room for improvement by reducing
the number of calls to RDRAND.
Hmm, is there some way we can easily tell we are running on Ryzen?  Or
do we believe this is going to be true for all AMD devices?
I would like to note that my first measurement on Broadwell suggest that the current frequency of RDRAND calls seems to slow things down on Intel also (but not as much as on Ryzen).



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