random_range, random_uint8 and random_uint16 are basically just wrappers
around random_uint32. Hence, don't export these functions so the compiler
can be smarter when it comes to optimizations.
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
DEFINE_PER_THREAD_DATA always declared its data item as "static", meaning
that it was only directly visible within a single translation unit.
This commit adds additional forms of per-thread data that allow the data
to be accessible from multiple translation units.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This is a straight search-and-replace, except that I also removed #include
<assert.h> from each file where there were no assert calls left.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc.
Feature #10593
Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
bitwise_copy() is generally useful so make it a general utility function.
Also add a comment.
Upcoming commits will introduce users for the new functions.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Even though this PRNG is not meant to be cryptographically secure, there is
no reason not to get a high-quality seed.
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Until now this library has based its random number upon those returned
by libc's rand() function. This has always bugged me--it is not a good
solution since rand() varies in quality so much. This commit changes
the random library to use a simple but high-quality PRNG.
