Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:27:28 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH, RESEND] fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems |
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On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > Note that module unload is *not* a hot path - not on any even remotely sane > use.
Actually, I think we've had distributions that basically did a "load pretty much everything, and let God sort it out" approach to modules. I know some people *have* actually worried about module load/unload performance.
Whether it is "remotely sane" I'm not going to argue for, but ..
Linus
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