From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] ipv6: use timer pending Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:04:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20080722120453.114615dc@extreme> References: <20080721192834.221648982@vyatta.com> <20080721192919.971385103@vyatta.com> <488518BF.1090207@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy To: Ben Greear Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([216.93.170.194]:42493 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751323AbYGVTEz (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:04:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <488518BF.1090207@candelatech.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:16:15 -0700 Ben Greear wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > This fixes the bridge reference count problem and cleanups ipv6 FIB timer management. > > Don't use expires field, because it is not a proper way to test, > > instead use timer_pending(). > > I patched this into my 2.6.25, and it does not seem to help > my refcount problem. I did not apply any of your other > patches as it seemed they were mostly cleanups. > > This is not to say that this patch is wrong...but > it seems we'll have to keep looking for other problems > as well. I agree this patch is not a direct fix for the the problem. What happened was that I was retesting on latest 2.6 net kernel and adding tracing and checking. In the process, the problem went away. Either a Heisenbug or some other part of the configuration changed.