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authorDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2014-01-22 02:29:39 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-01-21 23:17:20 -0800
commitf337db64af059c9a94278a8b0ab97d87259ff62f (patch)
treeef7db2258d5929760f2a22b74779d374916634bd /drivers/net/team
parent6cd28f044b47aeeba91807d97d6f3ea5a048e88d (diff)
random32: add prandom_u32_max and convert open coded users
Many functions have open coded a function that returns a random number in range [0,N-1]. Under the assumption that we have a PRNG such as taus113 with being well distributed in [0, ~0U] space, we can implement such a function as uword t = (n*m')>>32, where m' is a random number obtained from PRNG, n the right open interval border and t our resulting random number, with n,m',t in u32 universe. Lets go with Joe and simply call it prandom_u32_max(), although technically we have an right open interval endpoint, but that we have documented. Other users can further be migrated to the new prandom_u32_max() function later on; for now, we need to make sure to migrate reciprocal_divide() users for the reciprocal_divide() follow-up fixup since their function signatures are going to change. Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa. Cc: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/team')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/team/team_mode_random.c8
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/team/team_mode_random.c b/drivers/net/team/team_mode_random.c
index 7f032e211343..cd2f692b8074 100644
--- a/drivers/net/team/team_mode_random.c
+++ b/drivers/net/team/team_mode_random.c
@@ -13,20 +13,14 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
-#include <linux/reciprocal_div.h>
#include <linux/if_team.h>
-static u32 random_N(unsigned int N)
-{
- return reciprocal_divide(prandom_u32(), N);
-}
-
static bool rnd_transmit(struct team *team, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct team_port *port;
int port_index;
- port_index = random_N(team->en_port_count);
+ port_index = prandom_u32_max(team->en_port_count);
port = team_get_port_by_index_rcu(team, port_index);
if (unlikely(!port))
goto drop;