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RISC-V getrandom vDSO Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.16 With Exciting Performance


Merged last year in Linux 6.11 was getrandom() support in the vDSO for x86/x86_64 and then in Linux 6.12 was extended to LoongArch and ARM64

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