Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 10:20:42 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Niall Dalton <ndalton@lastminute.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: In-kernel http server Message-ID: <3EB270AA.9000904@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <1051797636.2209.142.camel@localhost> References: <1051793484.2200.112.camel@localhost> <3EB12490.4000500@newsguy.com> <1051797636.2209.142.camel@localhost>
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Niall Dalton wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 14:43, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>
>>Supposedly, most of the gain of a kernel-based httpd can be achieved
>>through accept filters (specifically, of course, the accept_http filter).
>
>
> You mean simply compiling the accept_http filter into the
> kernel and running a standard web server is it? Has this
> been benchmarked? A google search didn't throw up much for
> me on this.
AFAIK, the application has to select the accept filter:
An accept filter is requested via the setsockopt(2) system call, passing
in an optname of SO_ACCEPTFILTER. (that's from accept_filter(9))
It's based on something Yahoo uses in-house, if my memory doesn't fail me.
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