On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 05:03:02PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I would argue remove rte_rand from DPDK.
+1 To paraphrase Donald Knuth, "Random numbers should not be generated [using a function coded] at random." It'd be better to fix libc, or considering that has a slow dev cycle and platform compatibility limits, use some simple, semi-random, high-performance BSD licensed routine from a known-good library. Matthew.
