Re: IPVS: conn_tab_bits param for ip_vs > 20 leads to default being set

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Hi everyone,

I'll really appreciate some help, I felt this is the best forum to
discuss this topic. If not, please suggest.

I understand that the Kconfig file also has 8-20 range, but why isn't
that range set higher, let's say 31?

Thank you,
Abhijeet

On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 2:48 PM Abhijeet Rastogi <abhijeet.1989@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi IPVS users,
>
> This behavior is on the 5.4 CentOS kernel and should be because of
> this check. As per the commit message[1], the problematic value is
> when conn_tab_bits>31. With that in mind, why do we limit the size to
> 7 < conn_tab_bits < 21?
>
> I stumbled upon this problem while upgrading our production hosts from
> old RHEL with kernel 3.10 to CentOS with kernel 5.4. On current RHEL
> systems, conn_tab_bits=24 works just fine.
>
> # RHEL output:-
> $ sudo ipvsadm -Ln|head -n1
> IP Virtual Server version 1.2.1 (size=16777216)
>
> Sidenote: lvs-users mailing list is dead since 2020, but it is still
> listed on the LVS website.
> http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/mailing.html
>
> [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/69e73dbfda14fbfe748d3812da1244cce2928dcb
>
> Cheers,
> Abhijeet (https://abhi.host)



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Cheers,
Abhijeet (https://abhi.host)



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