if some one needs PRNG, th GNU scientific library has lots of them https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Random-number-generator-algorithms.html
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Matthew Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote: > 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. >
