Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 5 authors, 2014-10-13

Re: IPv6 FIB related crash with MACVLANs in 3.9.11+ kernel.

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
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help