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Add a "required" task for 5.3 to optimize entropy harvesting

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Robert Watson 2004-09-03 03:59:35 +00:00
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<td>Synaptics updates to the psm(4) driver have resulted in poor
interactivity for taps and button press events for some users.</td>
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<td>Entropy harvesting optimizations</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.rwatson;, &a.markm;</td>
<td>Entropy harvesting in the interrupt and incoming packet paths
currently involves a large number of mutex operations. In order to
improve performance, it is desirable to reduce the number of mutex
operations substantially. Work is in progress to improve the
harvesting code along these lines, but has not yet been properly
measured, and therefore not yet merged to CVS.</td>
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<h3>Desired features for 5.3-RELEASE</h3>