Yes, applications have many choices for PRNGs. But, we still need one internally for the following libs: PMDs (e1000, fm10k, i40e, ixgbe, virtio, xenvirt), sched, and timer.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Stephen Hemminger < stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote: > I would argue remove rte_rand from DPDK. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Stephen Hemminger < stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote: > 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. > > >
