From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: fbl@sysclose.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, joe@ovn.org, pshelar@ovn.org,
dev@openvswitch.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] openvswitch: load and reference the NAT helper.
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 13:56:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190331.135631.961910815139790916.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190326205715.22288-1-fbl@sysclose.org>
From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:57:07 -0300
> The request_module() is quite expensive and triggers the
> usermode helper in userspace. Instead, load only if the
> module is not present and keep module references to avoid
> problems.
>
> The first patch standardize the module alias which is already
> there, but not in a formal way.
>
> The second patch adds an API to point to the NAT helper.
>
> The following patches will register each NAT helper using
> the new API.
>
> The last patch fixes openvswitch to use the new API to
> load and reference the NAT helper and also report an error
> if the operation fails.
I haven't seen any netfilter reviews of this series, so I'm dropping
it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-31 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-26 20:57 [PATCH net-next 0/8] openvswitch: load and reference the NAT helper Flavio Leitner
2019-03-26 20:57 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] netfilter: use macros to create module aliases Flavio Leitner
2019-03-31 22:07 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-04-11 18:33 ` Flavio Leitner
2019-03-26 20:57 ` [PATCH net-next 2/8] netfilter: add API to manage NAT helpers Flavio Leitner
2019-03-31 22:10 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-04-11 18:35 ` Flavio Leitner
2019-03-31 22:12 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-03-26 20:57 ` [PATCH net-next 3/8] netfilter: nf_nat: register amanda NAT helper Flavio Leitner
2019-03-26 20:57 ` [PATCH net-next 4/8] netfilter: nf_nat: register ftp " Flavio Leitner
2019-03-26 20:57 ` [PATCH net-next 5/8] netfilter: nf_nat: register irc " Flavio Leitner
2019-03-26 20:57 ` [PATCH net-next 6/8] netfilter: nf_nat: register sip " Flavio Leitner
2019-03-26 20:57 ` [PATCH net-next 7/8] netfilter: nf_nat: register tftp " Flavio Leitner
2019-03-26 20:57 ` [PATCH net-next 8/8] openvswitch: load and reference the " Flavio Leitner
2019-03-28 23:55 ` [PATCH net-next 0/8] " David Miller
2019-03-31 20:56 ` David Miller [this message]
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