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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:55:08 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: fbl@...close.org Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, joe@....org, pshelar@....org, dev@...nvswitch.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] openvswitch: load and reference the NAT helper. From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@...close.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. These are mostly netfilter changes so I would like to see some reviews/ACKs from netfilter folks. Thanks.
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