[Click] click on 2.6 kernel stability

Beyers Cronje bcronje at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 22:20:53 EST 2006


Confirmed, FromDevice works fine.

On 3/22/06, Beyers Cronje <bcronje at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Roman,
>
> Hints towards the polling side of things then.
>
> Beyers
>
>
> On 3/22/06, Roman Chertov <rchertov at purdue.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Beyers Cronje wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Is anyone running a stable click kernel implementation on a 2.6kernel?
> >
> > 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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> > >
> >
>
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