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    Remove performance barrier in i810_rng char driver. · 81297f9d
    Jeff Garzik authored
      
    In order to conserve CPU, the read(2) syscall would schedule_timeout
    unconditionally.  This also crippled speed, and was a bad design
    decision.  This cset merges the updated read(2) logic of the sister
    driver amd768_rng from Alan, which schedules only when it needs to.
      
    On my test system, by one microbenmark, read(2) output jumped
    from 0.08 kbit/s to "what Intel expects" of 20 kbit/s.
      
    End users may notice a significant decrease in idle time after
    this change (and a correspondingly large increase in /dev/hwrng user
    speed), if /dev/hwrng is used to its maximum capacity.
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