On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:14:22 +0200
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> Hi.
>=20
> The patch is here:
>=20
> http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/harvest_device_attach.patch
>=20
> Comments?
>=20
+ attachtime =3D get_cyclecount() - attachtime;
the above line is redundant since random_harvest() already contains a
call to get_cyclecount().
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:28:46 +0200
Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> You can't rely on the existence of a TSC. I would suggest using the
> fractional part of binuptime instead.
get_cyclecount() is supposed to be platform independent and should
fall-back to nanotime(9) if TSC or equivalent is absent.=20
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