From: "Cristian Rodríguez" <cristian@rodriguez.im>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add single-threaded fast path to rand()
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:33:23 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPBLoAeM4gv2cdh33fVccW7CJUWwPvAj1-4jmg8KXzR7vjMK0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878r2c11au.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>
On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 4:39 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * Adhemerval Zanella Netto:
>
> > On 20/03/24 11:18, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 9:31 AM Adhemerval Zanella Netto
> >> <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> I don't have a strong opinion on this rand patch, if this idea is to
> >>> have it as an workbench for a possible single-thread lock optimization
> >>> it should be fine. It is just that I don't see much gain in optimizing
> >>> such a bad interface (although we still lack a proper userland PRNG).
> >>
> >> Yeah, it should be no surprise this interfaces are bad,
> >> I thought this was common knowledge.
> >>
> >> we need something like https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/blob/main/chacha8rand.md
> >> which prety much outperforms even non-CS algorithms in at least 64 bit x86.
> >> but the question of the state remains.global? TLS? how to discard it
> >> in all the appropriate occasions?
> >
> > And this is the arc4random in userspace discussion all over again.
>
> Agreed. But what has changed that we know now that Linux won't provide
> us with vDSO acceleration for arc4random. So I think it wouldn't be
> unreasonable to roll our own. Right now, the switch to arc4random
> provided by glibc is a massive performance regression compared to other
> implementations.
Afaik the other path that hasn't been tried is rseq no ? could the
kernel provide a random state this way that it is cleared on the right
conditions..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-21 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-18 15:20 Wilco Dijkstra
2024-03-18 19:24 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2024-03-19 15:44 ` Wilco Dijkstra
2024-03-20 12:31 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-03-20 14:18 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2024-03-20 14:27 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-03-21 7:39 ` Florian Weimer
2024-03-21 13:33 ` Cristian Rodríguez [this message]
2024-03-21 14:35 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-03-21 15:07 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2024-03-21 15:18 ` Wilco Dijkstra
2024-03-21 15:53 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-03-22 14:27 ` Zack Weinberg
2024-03-22 14:46 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-03-22 15:30 ` Zack Weinberg
2024-03-22 18:05 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-03-22 19:47 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-03-22 22:54 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2024-03-23 14:01 ` Zack Weinberg
2024-03-23 15:23 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-03-25 14:09 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-03-25 17:52 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-03-24 0:59 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2024-03-25 6:44 ` Florian Weimer
2024-03-20 14:28 ` Wilco Dijkstra
2024-03-20 14:40 ` Xi Ruoyao
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2023-11-28 17:37 Wilco Dijkstra
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