Subject: Re: request_module while holding rtnl semaphore

From: Thomas Graf <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:56:45 +0100

* Herbert Xu <[email-masked]> 2004-11-10 22:42
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:32:36PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> 100MiB!? How did you manage to stuff that into one linear skb?

It's splitted over multiple netlink messages. My classifier
keeps appending the messages in a hash table referenced by the
sequence number until a flag is set marking the end and then
processes the whole message. It's ugly but it works and is atomic
without locking over multiple netlink messages.