From: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 9/9] manual: Add documentation for arc4random functions
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:58:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95604aa1-4640-b325-af58-2e669e12e2c7@opteya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFUsyfKjXPg5GtQjkwdLyth1025NMwLntzKC3w=eCuDCR5S+Dg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Le 30/06/2022 à 00:05, Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 2:53 PM Adhemerval Zanella
> <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 29 Jun 2022, at 18:45, Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 2:36 PM Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
>>> <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>>> ---
>>>> manual/math.texi | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/manual/math.texi b/manual/math.texi
>>>> index 477a18b6d1..ab96726e57 100644
>>>> --- a/manual/math.texi
>>>> +++ b/manual/math.texi
>>>> @@ -1447,6 +1447,7 @@ systems.
>>>> * ISO Random:: @code{rand} and friends.
>>>> * BSD Random:: @code{random} and friends.
>>>> * SVID Random:: @code{drand48} and friends.
>>>> +* High Quality Random:: @code{arc4random} and friends.
>>>> @end menu
>>>>
>>>> @node ISO Random
>>>> @@ -1985,6 +1986,50 @@ This function is a GNU extension and should not be used in portable
>>>> programs.
>>>> @end deftypefun
>>>>
>>>> +@node High Quality Random
>>>> +@subsection High Quality Random Number Functions
>>>> +
>>>> +This section describes the random number functions provided as a GNU
>>>> +extension, based on OpenBSD interfaces.
>>>> +
>>>> +@Theglibc{} uses kernel entropy obtained either through @code{getrandom}
>>>> +or by reading @file{/dev/urandom} to seed and periodically re-seed the
>>>> +internal state. A per-thread data pool is used, which allows fast output
>>>> +generation.
>>>> +
>>> Are we committing to per-thread data pools? I thought there were ideas to
>>> use rseq.
>> For this version yes, since it works on all supported kernels (even for the
>> ones without getentropy support) and on all architectures. I do not know how
>> feasible it would be to implement per-cpu caches along with rseq and it would
>> require a fallback for older kernel (most likely a per-thread cache as this
>> version), although it might be future improvement.
> I guess do we want to explicitly say per-thread buffer if we may want
> to experiment
> with something else?
>
> Just seems like the kind of thing that might make it impossible to re-implement
> another way.
>
> What about something like:
>
> "The data-pool is implemented to minimize cross-core contention
> allowing fast output generation"?
"Each thread has its own independant random stream"
--
Yann Droneaud
OPTEYA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-30 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-29 21:34 [PATCH v8 0/9] Add arc4random support Adhemerval Zanella
2022-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 1/9] stdlib: Add arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform (BZ #4417) Adhemerval Zanella
2022-07-12 8:57 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-12 16:57 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-12 17:15 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-12 17:21 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 2/9] stdlib: Add arc4random tests Adhemerval Zanella
2022-07-12 9:20 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-12 17:17 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 3/9] benchtests: Add arc4random benchtest Adhemerval Zanella
2022-07-12 9:29 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-12 17:26 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 4/9] aarch64: Add optimized chacha20 Adhemerval Zanella
2022-07-12 9:30 ` Florian Weimer
2022-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 5/9] x86: Add SSE2 " Adhemerval Zanella
2022-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 6/9] x86: Add AVX2 " Adhemerval Zanella
2022-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 7/9] powerpc64: Add " Adhemerval Zanella
2022-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 8/9] s390x: " Adhemerval Zanella
2022-06-29 21:34 ` [PATCH v8 9/9] manual: Add documentation for arc4random functions Adhemerval Zanella
2022-06-29 21:45 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-06-29 21:53 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-06-29 22:05 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-06-30 7:58 ` Yann Droneaud [this message]
2022-06-30 19:37 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-06-29 21:55 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-07-12 9:31 ` [PATCH v8 0/9] Add arc4random support Florian Weimer
2022-07-12 17:36 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
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