[Click] Multithreaded Click Element?

[Swati Sinha Deb]

Hi Click Community,

I am trying to implement a Click element which needs to have multithreaded 
capability. The idea is to accept upstream packets and dispatch them to the 
downstream depending on certain criteria. Ideally I would like to store the 
incoming packets in a queue and process the packets on a separate thread. 
Pthread tends to make the Click element very slow such that the element is 
unusable.

I have tried replacing threads with Click Tasks but this did not give any 
massive improvements over using Threads. router.nthreads() return 1 
indicating my Click is single-threaded. Have tried hacking the 
/lib/driver.cc code to set the initial threads to 10 and running the task 
on a separate thread, something is obviously not correct as the Task is not 
being scheduled.

I am using userlevel click 1.4.3 release. Have configured Click with 
"-enable-multithread=10".

Can you please suggest the correct Click classes I should be using in order 
to implement the above?

Regards,
Swati