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'make randconfig' uses glibc's rand function, and the seed of that PRNG is set via: srand(time(NULL)); But 'time()' only increases once every second - freezing the randconfig result within a single second. My Nehalem testbox does randconfig much faster than 1 second and i have a few scripts that do 'randconfig until condition X' loops. Those scripts currently waste a lot of CPU time due to randconfig changing its seed only once per second currently. Change the seed to be micrseconds based. (I checked the statistical spread of the seed - the now.tv_sec*now.tv_usec multiplication there further improves it.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> [sam: fix for systems where usec is zero - noticed by Geert Uytterhoeven] Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> |
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| genksyms | ||
| kconfig | ||
| ksymoops | ||
| mod | ||
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| rt-tester | ||
| selinux | ||
| trace | ||
| tracing | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| bin2c.c | ||
| binoffset.c | ||
| bloat-o-meter | ||
| bootgraph.pl | ||
| checkincludes.pl | ||
| checkkconfigsymbols.sh | ||
| checkpatch.pl | ||
| checkstack.pl | ||
| checksyscalls.sh | ||
| checkversion.pl | ||
| cleanfile | ||
| cleanpatch | ||
| config | ||
| conmakehash.c | ||
| decodecode | ||
| diffconfig | ||
| export_report.pl | ||
| extract-ikconfig | ||
| gcc-version.sh | ||
| gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh | ||
| gen_initramfs_list.sh | ||
| headerdep.pl | ||
| headers.sh | ||
| headers_check.pl | ||
| headers_install.pl | ||
| ihex2fw.c | ||
| kallsyms.c | ||
| Kbuild.include | ||
| kernel-doc | ||
| Lindent | ||
| Makefile | ||
| Makefile.build | ||
| Makefile.clean | ||
| Makefile.fwinst | ||
| Makefile.headersinst | ||
| Makefile.host | ||
| Makefile.lib | ||
| Makefile.modinst | ||
| Makefile.modpost | ||
| makelst | ||
| markup_oops.pl | ||
| mkcompile_h | ||
| mkmakefile | ||
| mksysmap | ||
| mkuboot.sh | ||
| mkversion | ||
| namespace.pl | ||
| patch-kernel | ||
| pnmtologo.c | ||
| profile2linkerlist.pl | ||
| recordmcount.pl | ||
| setlocalversion | ||
| show_delta | ||
| tags.sh | ||
| unifdef.c | ||
| ver_linux | ||