Re: request_module while holding rtnl semaphore

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>]

* Herbert Xu <20041110014125.GA7302@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2004-11-10 12:41
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:39:41AM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > that once this is true it would work perfectly fine, however I 
> > think it would be inefficient to parse the whole TLV tree multiple
> > times.
> 
> Well it's only going to happen once for each module so that's no
> big deal.

* Patrick McHardy <41917330.6090002@xxxxxxxxx> 2004-11-10 02:47
> It will only happen once for every module, so I don't think
> it's a big deal.

Agreed. I'm used to huge filter configurations up to 100 MiB per
netlink message and therefore I do care whether such as message is
parsed 1 times or 5 times since it's a matter of having the
network blocked for 3 or 15 seconds. However, if it helps to clean
up the error paths then I'll be very happy and do a workaround
for my special case if I ever need loadable modules.