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