Re: IPv6 FIB related crash with MACVLANs in 3.9.11+ kernel.
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hidden>
Date: 2014-02-03 22:03:24
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hidden>
Date: 2014-02-03 22:03:24
Hi Ben, On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 12:37:52PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
The kernel has some additional patches, but not much to IPv6. The bug is that when we have lots of mac-vlans on some ixgbe ports (500 per interface in this case), and boot up the system with the ports unplugged, we get this crash almost every time. Boot-up is going to do normal bootup stuff plus create and configure the 1000 mac-vlans, dump their routing tables, etc. We are using one routing table per network device, and some ip rules. If we plug in the ixgbe ports, we do not ever see a crash. We have not yet tried reproducing it on other drivers, but I suspect the issue is not related to ixgbe. Any ideas on this one?
Could you bring the machine to a panic again with enabling RT6_DEBUG at the top of ip6_fib.c and send a dump of the trace? Thanks, Hannes