[Click] Two questions on multithreaded Click!

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Eleanor,

The user level version of Click is not multithreaded, although as Beyers 
says we have some experience with running a multithreaded Click process. 
  In which case all packets are handled by one thread, and secondary 
threads do extra processing.  These secondary threads are controlled 
from elements inside the Click router.  For example, you might have an 
element that farms out packets for encryption to secondary threads.

Don't have anything to add to Beyers's notes on 2.6.20: we have no 
2.6.20 patch at the moment.

Eddie


Coy Eleanor-B10245 wrote:
> Is the user level version of Click! multithreaded? I remember reading
> somewhere that it is not, but I cannot find that reference. 
>  
> Are there kernel patches later than 2.6.19 for running the kernel
> driver? We are running Click! on Debian 2.6.20 and the patches do not
> apply cleanly to that kernel. 
>  
> Thanks for your time.
>  
> Eleanor Coy
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