Re: [RFC, PATCH, RESEND] fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems

Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08T22:27:58Z

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Note that module unload is *not* a hot path - not on any even remotely sane
> use.

Actually, I think we've had distributions that basically did a "load
pretty much everything, and let God sort it out" approach to modules.
I know some people *have* actually worried about module load/unload
performance.

Whether it is "remotely sane" I'm not going to argue for, but ..

Linus