Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:26:14 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Raceless module interface |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > Really, that's not so, there are limits. 30 seconds? Whatever. > Remember, during this time the service provided by the module is > unavailable, so this is denial-of-service land. You could of > course put in extra code to abort the unload process on demand, > but, hmm, it probably wouldn't work ;-)
If you're going to do it right, you should fix that denial-of-service by waiting until the module has finished unloading and then demand-loading the module again.
Ideally, those periodic "rmmod -a" calls should _never_ cause a denial-of-service.
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