Using tc to mirror outbound traffic from a given physical interface to a tunnel interface which traverses the original physical interface causes a deadlock and soft lockup warnings
Issue
- Using
tc
to mirror outbound traffic can cause a deadlock (soft lockup) if the traffic is mirrored onto a GRE tunnel whose traffic is routed over the same underlying interface as the original traffic. - Can presumably affect other types of tunnels.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- IP Tunnels
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