[Click] Multithreaded Click Element?

[Beyers Cronje]

Hi Swati,

Have a look at http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/click:usenix01/usenix01.pdfthat
describes Click's multi-processor support.

Beyers



On 5/21/06, Swati Sinha Deb <Swati.Deb at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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