Hey Sebastian,
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 6:26 PM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sure. I can do the CPU-HP notifier later one once we are done with
> everything. I acked the v7, don't see a road block.
I've been running this over the weekend and performance is generally okay.
# perf top --symbols $(objdump -t
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/random.o|fgrep 'F .text'|awk '{print
$6}'|tr '\n' ,) -F max -g
One thing I noticed though was that add_interrupt_randomness spends
most of its time on:
lock xadd %eax,0x38(%rbp)
So, as expected, those atomics really need to go. Indeed we might be
best off with the CPU hotplug notifier for setting the count back to
zero.
Do you want to prepare a patch for this? Or should I take a stab at it?
Jason
