[Click] Question around RouterThread

[Eddie Kohler]

(Your code could help move the system in the right direction though!)

Eddie


On 5/17/11 2:14 PM, Beyers Cronje wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been toying with multithreading in click, specifically in userlevel
> click. My understanding is that all click threads participate in running
> timers and os (selected etc). I'm thinking about testing something where a
> user can specify that certain threads should not participate in any timers
> or selected processing and only process task(s) allocated to it. As a simple
> example consider the following userlevel config:
>
> fd::FromDevice(eth0) ->  Classifier(*some pattern*) ->  Queue ->
> td::ToDump(/dev/null);
> StaticThreadSched(fd 0, td 1);
>
>
> If FromDevice or whatever source element processes a constant high packet
> rate, and ToDump only a fraction of packets as filtered by Classifier it
> would make sense to have fd dedicate to processing RX packets and have the
> td thread handle all other non-task related processes. Throw in a
> ControlSocket and maybe a couple more dumps I'm pretty sure it will affect
> fd performance.
>
> So my question, do you guys feel this will make any difference? Is my
> understanding on how RouterThread handles timers etc wrong? I'm really
> curious to hear your thoughts on this.
>
> Beyers
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