diff --git a/src/libckpool.c b/src/libckpool.c
index 3fc28643..77f682b9 100644
--- a/src/libckpool.c
+++ b/src/libckpool.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include "ckpool.h"
 #include "libckpool.h"
 #include "sha2.h"
+#include "utlist.h"
 
 #ifndef UNIX_PATH_MAX
 #define UNIX_PATH_MAX 108
@@ -75,6 +76,57 @@ void join_pthread(pthread_t thread)
 		pthread_join(thread, NULL);
 }
 
+/* Generic function for creating a message queue receiving and parsing thread */
+void *ckmsg_queue(void *arg)
+{
+	ckmsgq_t *ckmsgq = (ckmsgq_t *)arg;
+
+	pthread_detach(pthread_self());
+	rename_proc(ckmsgq->name);
+
+	while (42) {
+		ckmsg_t *msg;
+
+		mutex_lock(&ckmsgq->lock);
+		if (!ckmsgq->msgs)
+			pthread_cond_wait(&ckmsgq->cond, &ckmsgq->lock);
+		msg = ckmsgq->msgs;
+		if (likely(msg))
+			DL_DELETE(ckmsgq->msgs, msg);
+		mutex_unlock(&ckmsgq->lock);
+
+		if (unlikely(!msg))
+			continue;
+		ckmsgq->func(msg);
+		free(msg);
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+void create_ckmsgq(const char *name, const void *func)
+{
+	ckmsgq_t *ckmsgq = ckzalloc(sizeof(ckmsgq_t));
+
+	strncpy(ckmsgq->name, name, 15);
+	ckmsgq->func = func;
+	mutex_init(&ckmsgq->lock);
+	cond_init(&ckmsgq->cond);
+	create_pthread(&ckmsgq->pth, ckmsg_queue, ckmsgq);
+}
+
+/* Generic function for adding messages to a ckmsgq linked list and signal the ckmsgq
+ * parsing thread to wake up and process it. */
+void ckmsgq_add(ckmsgq_t *ckmsgq, void *data)
+{
+	ckmsg_t *msg = ckalloc(sizeof(ckmsg_t));
+
+	msg->data = data;
+
+	mutex_lock(&ckmsgq->lock);
+	DL_APPEND(ckmsgq->msgs, msg);
+	pthread_cond_signal(&ckmsgq->cond);
+	mutex_unlock(&ckmsgq->lock);
+}
 
 /* Place holders for when we add lock debugging */
 #define GETLOCK(_lock, _file, _func, _line)
diff --git a/src/libckpool.h b/src/libckpool.h
index 8672d943..5b709d23 100644
--- a/src/libckpool.h
+++ b/src/libckpool.h
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
 # include <sys/endian.h>
 #endif
 
+#include "utlist.h"
+
 #ifndef bswap_16
  #define bswap_16 __builtin_bswap16
  #define bswap_32 __builtin_bswap32
@@ -260,6 +262,25 @@ typedef struct unixsock unixsock_t;
 
 typedef struct proc_instance proc_instance_t;
 
+struct ckmsg {
+	struct ckmsg *next;
+	struct ckmsg *prev;
+	void *data;
+};
+
+typedef struct ckmsg ckmsg_t;
+
+struct ckmsgq {
+	char name[16];
+	pthread_t pth;
+	pthread_mutex_t lock;
+	pthread_cond_t cond;
+	ckmsg_t *msgs;
+	void (*func)(void *);
+};
+
+typedef struct ckmsgq ckmsgq_t;
+
 /* No error checking with these, make sure we know they're valid already! */
 static inline void json_strcpy(char *buf, json_t *val, const char *key)
 {