Hello,
I accidentally saw that even having an ip address on an
ipoib interface doesn't increment the usage count of the
ib_ipoib.ko module:
ip a l dev ib0
14: ib0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65520 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP
qlen 256
link/infiniband 80:00:02:d4:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:e4:1d:2d:03:00:00:f8:31
brd 00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.16.0.150/24 brd 172.16.0.255 scope global ib0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
lsmod | grep ib_ipoib
ib_ipoib 79026 0
ib_cm 34144 3 ib_ipoib,ib_ucm,rdma_cm
ib_sa 26598 5 ib_ipoib,rdma_ucm,rdma_cm,ib_cm,mlx4_ib
ib_core 97620 10
ib_ipoib,ib_ucm,ib_uverbs,rdma_cm,iw_cm,ib_umad,ib_cm,mlx4_ib,ib_sa,ib_mad
ipv6 374806 259 ib_ipoib,rdma_cm,ib_addr,[permanent]
In this case I can rmmod ib_ipoib.ko which would remove,
but in practice I've observed that when an ip address is set
the underlying module providing the interface usually gets
its ref count incremented. Is this normal or is a
refcount increment is amiss?
Regards,
Nikolay
