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

Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo at netfilter.org
Tue Apr 30 11:42:40 UTC 2019


On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:46:13AM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> 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.

Series applied. Thanks Flavio.


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