On 2015-09-23 19:28, Andi Kleen wrote:
Using /dev/urandom directly, yes that doesn't make sense because it consistent returns non-uniformly random numbers when used to generate larger amounts of entropy than the blocking pool can source, but most that use their own PRNG's seed them off of /dev/urandom, and there are cases I've seen of people doing very large numbers (on the order of millions) of short (15 or so minutes run time on decent hardware) simulations that do this.I'd almost say that making the partitioning level configurable at build time might be useful. I can see possible value to being able to at least partition down to physical cores (so, shared between HyperThreads on Intel processors, and between Compute Module cores on AMD processors), as that could potentially help people running large numbers of simulations in parallel.I don't like build time size configurations. It doesn't make sense for simulations to use urandom. It may make sense to have some run time tunable, but for now that's too much complexity. So I'll stay with the simpler per node pool for now.
As for a run-time tunable, I agree that that would be better than build-time, and I also agree that it should be done later. The only reason I suggested a build time tunable was that I figured it would be a lot easier to do than run-time.
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