[Click] Conversion of threads

[Philip Prindeville]

I was wondering... if I'm running multiple duplicate paths each on its own core and I eventually need to collect them up so I can resequence packets and pass them up into user-space... how feasible is it to go from threaded and lockless to converging into a single locked queue (fan-in)?

I figure it would be the best of both worlds because most of the operations could happen threaded and without locking, and the locking only needs to be enforced in the final stage...

Thanks.

-Philip