[Click] Is user-space Click more flexible and programmable than kernel-space Click???

Eddie Kohler kohler at cs.ucla.edu
Wed Aug 24 08:52:54 EDT 2011


Lars,

Good to hear it!  Now, I'd love to hear about the "strange behavior" with 
multiple RatedSources, so we could potentially fix it.  A small test case, for 
example?

Thanks,
Eddie


On 8/16/11 4:28 PM, Lars Bro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Click for testing our product, and make some quite large routers, up to
> 500.000 lines of click code. It performs very well in user mode, with very high
> accuracy.
>
> The only thing is that if I have a lot of RatedSource elements, things begin
> to act strangely. It is better to have as few as possible and then use Tee
> elements to duplicate the packets when many streams are needed.
>
> I dont know if this behavior is the same in kernel mode.
>
> Lars Bro
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:01 PM, shule ney<neyshule at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi all:
>> I have a question about the user and kernel space Click, no doubt kernel
>> Click performs much better cuz it resides in kernel and take place of the
>> original Linux network stack, so what's the meaning of user Click?? Is it
>> more flexible and programmable or is there some other advantage that user
>> Click have??? Thanks very much to reply.
>>
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