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Re: [Xen-devel] generate random numbers
- To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- From: "michele.paolino" <michele.paolino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:32:01 +0100
- Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I need less than 10 bits at rate of 10 milliseconds. With a random number I will select the next VCPU to schedule.
Michele
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:51 AM, James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I am interested in writing a scheduler for Xen for academic purposes.
I need
> to generate random numbers.
> Is it possible to generate random numbers in xen hypervisor
developement?If
> this is possible, how can I do it?
>
At what rate do you need them? (10/second?, 1000000/second?)
Would pseudo-random numbers do? If so, what repeat interval is
sufficient?
James
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