From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@xxxxxxxxxx> 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? Thanks.
