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random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace programs
On a system with a 4 socket (NUMA) system where a large number of application threads were all trying to read from /dev/urandom, this can result in the system spending 80% of its time contending on the global urandom spinlock. The application should have used its own PRNG, but let's try to help it from running, lemming-like, straight over the locking cliff. Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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