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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:27:20 -0700 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Hans Schillstrom <hans@...illstrom.com> Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>, Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 8 Hans Schillstrom <hans@...illstrom.com> writes: > Hello Julian > > I'm trying to fix the cleanup process when a namespace get "killed", > which is a new feature for ipvs. However an old problem appears again > > When there has been traffic trough ipvs where the destination is unreachable > the usage count on loopback dev increases one for every packet.... > I guess thats because of this rule : > > # ip route list table all > ... > unreachable default dev lo table 0 proto kernel metric 4294967295 error -101 hoplimit 25 > ... > > I made a test just forwarding packets through the same container (ipvs loaded) > to an unreachable destination and that test had a balanced count i.e. it was possible to reboot the container. > > Do you have an idea why this happens in the ipvs case ? Hans. I do know that most outstanding references when you clean up a container get moved to the loopback device. So it may not originally be the loopback device itself where the reference counting is wrong. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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