[openib-general] opensm fails to bring up subnet..

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Fri Jun 3 13:40:24 PDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 16:33, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> > > Also, I have two machines in a state right now where they are printing
> > > out:
> > > 
> > > kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ib0 to become free. Usage
> > > count = 1
> > 
> > That's an IPoIB issue... What was the sequence of events which caused
> > this ?
> 
> IPoIB quit working, so I wrote a script to ifconfig down ib0, unload all the
> modules, then reload them. The 'waiting for ib0 to become free' happened
> when the script tried to unload the modules.

So perhaps in the midst of some error, IPoIB cannot unregister_netdev.
Wonder what it is... This seems like a good test case.

-- Hal




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