Hello Andrey, On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 10:41:25PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > May be you can simply use grub_get_time_ms()? After all, we are not > interested in exact time, just in some pseudo-random distribution. It > should have less overhead than grub_get_datetime().
I finally got around to trying out your suggestion concerning the TCP source port "randomization". The main problem I see with using the TSC's value instead of the current time of day (in seconds) is that it will have approximately the same value every time the machine is rebooted and reaches the point where the first file is loaded. This means that clashes are way more likely than with the RTC based solution, at least for the first file. Little or no network jitter could mean even more collisions. Do you think it's still worth the effort to change the previously proposed [1] patch? Thanks Valentin [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2014-07/msg00000.html _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
