From 831c28de300dd96c9999db63cd2c61d699ec1d7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Watson Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 03:59:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a "required" task for 5.3 to optimize entropy harvesting performance. --- en/releases/5.3R/todo.sgml | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/en/releases/5.3R/todo.sgml b/en/releases/5.3R/todo.sgml index 36c04157c3..0ffc3c21ab 100644 --- a/en/releases/5.3R/todo.sgml +++ b/en/releases/5.3R/todo.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ - + %includes; %developers; @@ -172,6 +172,18 @@ Synaptics updates to the psm(4) driver have resulted in poor interactivity for taps and button press events for some users. + + + Entropy harvesting optimizations + &status.wip; + &a.rwatson;, &a.markm; + 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. +

Desired features for 5.3-RELEASE