Hi All, I have been experiencing kernel panic in netfilters when sends traffic to it . I had enabled RPS, RFS and XPS too and box has 24 core. [11583.703375] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP [11583.708347] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/net/tunl0/uevent [11583.714509] CPU 0 [11583.716338] Modules linked in: xt_u32 xt_NFQUEUE nfnetlink_queue nfnetlink ipip tunnel4 boardctrl ipv6 iTCO_wdt ixgbe igb iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] [11583.732708] [11583.734193] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.39.4 [11583.749480] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff814ba52e>] [<ffffffff814ba52e>] nf_ct_helper_destroy+0x3e/0x42 [11583.758168] RSP: 0018:ffff88063fc03df0 EFLAGS: 00010206 [11583.763463] RAX: 000179840fc084c0 RBX: ffff880617c229e8 RCX: 0000000000002b80 [11583.770579] RDX: 00000000000000c8 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff880617c229e8 [11583.777695] RBP: ffff88063fc03df0 R08: ffffffff81ced010 R09: ffff88063fc03e08 [11583.784810] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff81604ca5 R12: ffffffff81dffc00 [11583.791925] R13: 0000000000000100 R14: ffff88063fc03e90 R15: ffffffff81a01fd8 [11583.799040] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88063fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [11583.807108] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [11583.812836] CR2: 00007f95b195b000 CR3: 0000000001a03000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [11583.819950] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [11583.827065] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [11583.834181] Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81a00000, task ffffffff81a0b020) [11583.842247] Stack: [11583.844250] ffff88063fc03e10 ffffffff814b7d0b ffff880617c229e8 ffff880617c22a60 [11583.851662] ffff88063fc03e30 ffffffff814b7ef8 ffff880617c22a70 ffffffff81cebd40 [11583.859076] ffff88063fc03ed0 ffffffff81057d94 ffff88063fc0fff0 ffffffff81cc8a08 [11583.866490] Call Trace: [11583.868925] <IRQ> [11583.871026] [<ffffffff814b7d0b>] nf_ct_delete_from_lists+0x1b/0xaf [11583.877277] [<ffffffff814b7ef8>] death_by_timeout+0x4a/0x57 [11583.882922] [<ffffffff81057d94>] run_timer_softirq+0x1cb/0x29a [11583.888827] [<ffffffff814b7eae>] ? T.925+0x10f/0x10f [11583.893866] [<ffffffff81051710>] __do_softirq+0xda/0x1ad [11583.899252] [<ffffffff81073268>] ? tick_program_event+0x1f/0x21 [11583.905242] [<ffffffff8156181c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 [11583.910540] [<ffffffff8100bbca>] do_softirq+0x46/0x83 [11583.915665] [<ffffffff810514c6>] irq_exit+0x52/0x9b [11583.920616] [<ffffffff81562149>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x85/0x93 [11583.926955] [<ffffffff81560fd3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20 [11583.932944] <EOI> [11583.935046] [<ffffffff812c84ae>] ? intel_idle+0xce/0xfa [11583.940343] [<ffffffff812c8491>] ? intel_idle+0xb1/0xfa [11583.945642] [<ffffffff8145fa8d>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xf4/0x173 [11583.951462] [<ffffffff81009e18>] cpu_idle+0xb2/0xe8 [11583.956413] [<ffffffff8153997e>] rest_init+0x72/0x74 [11583.961452] [<ffffffff81b66cb2>] start_kernel+0x3e9/0x3f4 [11583.966922] [<ffffffff81b662cd>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb8/0xbc [11583.973347] [<ffffffff81b663d2>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x101/0x110 [11583.979421] Code: 85 c0 74 09 31 d2 80 78 10 00 0f 95 c2 85 d2 74 1c 0f b6 50 10 48 01 d0 74 13 48 8b 00 48 85 c0 74 0b 48 8b 40 58 48 85 c0 74 02 <ff> d0 c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 c7 c7 d0 d4 b4 81 e8 [11583.998840] RIP [<ffffffff814ba52e>] nf_ct_helper_destroy+0x3e/0x42 [11584.005185] RSP <ffff88063fc03df0> [11584.008681] ---[ end trace 12d25ef5ad62c0bb ]--- [11584.013289] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt [11584.019629] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G D W 2.6.39.4 [11584.027094] Call Trace: [11584.029534] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8155794b>] panic+0x91/0x1a4 [11584.034941] [<ffffffff8155ad70>] oops_end+0xb7/0xc7 [11584.039896] [<ffffffff8100cc91>] die+0x5a/0x63 [11584.044418] [<ffffffff8155a9b6>] do_general_protection+0x135/0x13d [11584.050672] [<ffffffff8155a1a5>] general_protection+0x25/0x30 [11584.056494] [<ffffffff814ba52e>] ? nf_ct_helper_destroy+0x3e/0x42 [11584.062663] [<ffffffff814b7d0b>] nf_ct_delete_from_lists+0x1b/0xaf [11584.068917] [<ffffffff814b7ef8>] death_by_timeout+0x4a/0x57 [11584.074565] [<ffffffff81057d94>] run_timer_softirq+0x1cb/0x29a [11584.080473] [<ffffffff814b7eae>] ? T.925+0x10f/0x10f [11584.085516] [<ffffffff81051710>] __do_softirq+0xda/0x1ad [11584.090904] [<ffffffff81073268>] ? tick_program_event+0x1f/0x21 [11584.096900] [<ffffffff8156181c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 [11584.102200] [<ffffffff8100bbca>] do_softirq+0x46/0x83 [11584.107329] [<ffffffff810514c6>] irq_exit+0x52/0x9b [11584.112284] [<ffffffff81562149>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x85/0x93 [11584.118624] [<ffffffff81560fd3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20 [11584.124617] <EOI> [<ffffffff812c84ae>] ? intel_idle+0xce/0xfa [11584.130545] [<ffffffff812c8491>] ? intel_idle+0xb1/0xfa [11584.135847] [<ffffffff8145fa8d>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xf4/0x173 [11584.141669] [<ffffffff81009e18>] cpu_idle+0xb2/0xe8 [11584.146624] [<ffffffff8153997e>] rest_init+0x72/0x74 [11584.151666] [<ffffffff81b66cb2>] start_kernel+0x3e9/0x3f4 [11584.157141] [<ffffffff81b662cd>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb8/0xbc [11584.163567] [<ffffffff81b663d2>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x101/0x110 thanks in advance Sasi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html