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From: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] netfilter: ctnetlink allocation improvement
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:39:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090317073926.GA1030@mail.eitzenberger.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49BF28A3.3010606@trash.net>

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:35:47AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> Its preferrable not to use module reference counting during packet
> processing, the protocols can be accessed safely using RCU. I thought
> I had fixed all those areas, but I now notice that ctnetlink is full
> of similar spots and takes and drops module references quite
> excessively. So just leave it as it is I guess, this should be fully
> fixed anyways.

Thanks Patrick.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-16 22:06 [patch 0/6] netfilter: ctnetlink allocation improvement Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 1/6] ctnetlink: add callbacks to the per-proto nlattrs Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-25 17:25   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 2/6] netlink: add nla_policy_len() Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-25 17:27   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 3/6] netfilter: limit the length of the helper name Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-25 17:32   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-25 17:41     ` Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-25 17:44       ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 4/6] ctnetlink: allocate right-sized ctnetlink skb Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-25 17:46   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 5/6] netfilter: add generic function to get len of generic policy Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 6/6] netfilter: calculate per-protocol nlattr size Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-17  4:35 ` [patch 0/6] netfilter: ctnetlink allocation improvement Patrick McHardy
2009-03-17  7:39   ` Holger Eitzenberger [this message]
2009-03-17  9:07   ` Florian Westphal
2009-03-17 10:24   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-17  9:49 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-17 10:03   ` Holger Eitzenberger

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