From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Holger Eitzenberger Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] netfilter: ctnetlink allocation improvement Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:39:26 +0100 Message-ID: <20090317073926.GA1030@mail.eitzenberger.org> References: <20090316220659.756862181@jonathan.eitzenberger.org> <49BF28A3.3010606@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:61528 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756972AbZCQKpL (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:45:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49BF28A3.3010606@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.