jamal wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:36 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>It would be interesting to find out what the problem is exactly. >>The configuration itself looks harmless, so I'm guessing its >>rather a deadlock than a loop. > > > We know it is a deadlock. > If you redirect the first time queue lock for eth0 will be held, before > it is released if you do another redirect, it will again be heading > towards eth0 and it will deadlock on grabbing the queue lock.
He only used a single redirect to eth0.5, but its probably due to the fact that the VLAN hard_start_xmit function transmits on eth0 again. How about adding something like ifb's ri_tasklet to act_mirred? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html