[Click] click on 2.6 kernel stability

[Roman Chertov]

Beyers Cronje wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Is anyone running a stable click kernel implementation on a 2.6 kernel?

I have been running click on 2.6.13.2 (non-polling) for two weeks now 
without issues, controlling some bit torrent traffic usage of my 
upstream bandwidth.

Roman

> Using current cvs code with e1000-5.x polling driver I managed to compile
> and run on 2.6.13.2 but the system is very unstable. I'm running a basic
> config for testing:
> 
> PollDevice(eth0) -> ToHost;
> Idle -> ToDevice(eth0);
> 
> Input and output seems to hang every now and again with the odd complete
> system hang. The only error messages I get are loads of the following:
> 
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_1: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_1: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
> 
> This only occurs when click module is installed, when I unload click module
> everything works fine. ethtool indicates the link is always up.
> Watchdog never actually reports that the link ever went down, so could this
> indicate an irq conflict or race condition of some sort? Any ideas on where
> to begin troubleshooting this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Beyers
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