[PATCH v2 2/2] HWRNG: thunderx: Add Cavium HWRNG driver for ThunderX SoC.

Corentin LABBE clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 22:46:19 PDT 2016


Hello

> +/* Read data from the RNG unit */
> +static int cavium_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *dat, size_t max, bool wait)
> +{
> +	struct cavium_rng *p = container_of(rng, struct cavium_rng, ops);
> +	unsigned int size = max;
> +
> +	while (size >= 8) {
> +		*((u64 *)dat) = readq(p->result);
> +		size -= 8;
> +		dat += 8;
> +	}

I think you could use readsq()
This will increase throughput

Regards

LABBE Corentin




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