click on linux 2.4 and other questions

[Dirk Steinberg]

Hello,

after reading the click thesis document I got
really curious to have a look at click.

Downloading the 1.2 source showed only support
for the Linux kernel 2.2.

For other reasons I am currently in the process
of moving all my machines to kernel 2.4.

Therefore my question: Are there any plans to port
click to kernel 2.4? Is click still in active development
or has it stalled?

The thesis benchmarks also quote numbers for Linux/Polling
saying that this is the Linux IP stack with click polling 
drivers. Is this code contained in the distribution or can 
I get it somewhere?

BTW: On an SMP system, is it possible to dedicate one CPU
to just doing forwarding in polling mode, while the other
CPU(s) handle regular interrupts and user-level stuff?
This would give a clean separation between forwarding plane
and control plane, and the forwarding CPU caches would not
be polluted with other data. Do you think that such a setup
would make sense?

Is it possible to use zebra with click?

Any plans for MPLS support?

TIA for any answers.

Cheers
	Dirk Steinberg

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