I've managed to rmmov the "used" pfring.ko by removing first the ixgbe.ko
and igb.ko drivers. Not sure how its related (since no process really uses
pf_ring) but currently its good enough for me.

Thanks

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Amir
> you are "trying to replace the igb.ko" with?
> Please send us the output from dmesg.
>
> Alfredo
>
> 2017-07-10 13:22 GMT+02:00 Amir Kaduri <[email protected]>:
>
>> No, not using ZC. But if it could be a reason and maybe I'm doing
>> something wrong during load, how can I check about zc?
>> Anyway, the background for this issue is that I'm trying to replace the
>> igb.ko during machine installation and I'm trying to overcome the special
>> situation that its used by the management interface.
>> To debug the situation, I fiddle with the machine so I'm not sure what
>> exactly brought me to the situation described above, so I probably
>> interested in a tweak (just to remove the pf_ring module) rather than a
>> proper solution.
>>
>> Amir
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Amir
>>> did you load a ZC driver perhaps?
>>>
>>> Alfredo
>>>
>>> 2017-07-10 11:00 GMT+02:00 Amir Kaduri <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> OS CentOS 7
>>>> pf_ring version: 6.6.0
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Amir Kaduri <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm in a situation where I try to remove the pf_ring kernel module.
>>>>> "rmmod pf_ring" gives "rmmod: ERROR: Module pf_ring is in use"
>>>>> "lsmod | grep pf_ring" gives "pf_ring 1234009 20"
>>>>> In this case, I try to find which process uses pf_ring, in order to
>>>>> stop/kill it.
>>>>> I run "ls -l /proc/net/pf_ring/" to hopefully get the list of
>>>>> process-ids of the relevant processes. The problem is that the list gives
>>>>> only "dev" (subdir) "info" (file) and "stats" (subdir). There are no files
>>>>> like (for example) "/proc/net/pf_ring/12345-eth0.23" that can give me
>>>>> an indication who uses the pf_ring kernel module.
>>>>> Any advice on how can I force removing it or at least know who uses it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Amir
>>>>>
>>>>
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