> I don't think this would be easy 
> to do, as I don't think the executing threads (RouterThread) are 
> designed to be interrupted.

Exactly right, thanks Roman.
E

> 
> Hopefully Eddie will shine more light on this.
> 
> Roman
> 
> Egi, Norbert wrote:
>> Hi,
>>  
>> We are using Click for desinging a shared forwarding engine with separate 
>> forwarding paths (chain of elements) per customer. The customers share all 
>> the NICs, so after the packets are polled out from the NIC's queue a 
>> Classifier demultiplexes them by emitting them to the proper forwarding 
>> path. Our intention is to provide a fair CPU scheduling for each of the 
>> forwarding paths. The stride scheduling algorithm, implemented in Click, 
>> would be a perfect solution for our problem, but after checking the source 
>> code and the available documents I found out that the algorithm hasn't been 
>> implemented completely as it was proposed. If I understand it correctly from 
>> the source and its comments, there is no such thing like "quantums" (i.e. a 
>> discrete time slice when the scheduled task is entitled to use the CPU) and 
>> I guess that's the main reason while the operation of the elements can not 
>> be interrupted.
>>  
>> In the first comment of lib/task.cc it's mentioned that this may be 
>> addressed in the future, so I was wondering whether anyone is working on it 
>> and I may jump in and help or just could someone provide information on how 
>> to make elements interruptable the fastest way extending the current version 
>> of the code.
>>  
>> Regards,
>> Norbert
>>
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