1. A method, comprising: receiving packets comprising an ingress traffic flow at an ingress traffic processor of a network element; performing a first level of classification on the ingress traffic flow at the ingress traffic processor to identify an egress traffic processor and a computation processor for the packets; bifurcating processing of the packets to the egress traffic processor and the computation processor; performing egress traffic flow operations at the egress traffic processor, the egress traffic flow operations assigning the packets to an egress traffic flow; performing a second level of classification on the packets at the computation processor; and performing traffic analysis operations at the computation processor to generate traffic analysis data corresponding to the ingress traffic flow.