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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] Make /dev/urandom scalable
> 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.

-Andi


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