[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] openvswitch: load and reference the NAT helper

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:25:09PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:46:13 -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 third patch 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.
> 
> Netfilter folks, besides a review, I was wondering if you'd like
> to take this series the netfilter tree since it's mostly changes
> in that area?

I'll place this in the nf-next tree, thanks.