Re: [Xen-devel] vif tx drops

[Keir F. <Kei...@cl...>]

> > > 
> > > "  But the random-number generator is crap.
> > > 
> > > I'll say.  Out of 55 recently created VMs, 15 got dup mac addrs.
> > >     count addr
> 
> > You could try adding the following ahead of the above code in
> > tools/python/xen/xm/create.py:
> > 
> > random.seed(time.time())
> > 
> > (you may need to add an 'import time' at the top of the file).
> 
> Yes, this is worth a try. 
> 
> I've experimented with random.randint() but I am totally unable to
> make it perform so abysmally as to generate 15 dupes in 55 selections
> from a space of 8 million. I'm getting about 1 dupe every 2000
> selections. 
> 
>  -- Keir

Actually theg change is trivial ('random.seed()') so I checked it
in. Hopefully it will avoid embarrassingly bad 'random' choices.

 -- Keir