Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 21 Oct 2000 08:50:54 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Anything in Linux similar to FreeBSD accept filter |
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On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 02:10:02PM +0800, ym g wrote: > The release notes for Apache 1.3.14 mention that it has support for FreeBSD's accept filters [which are in FreeBSD 4.0 onwards]. Reading the man page. I find that this allows the application to request the kernel to pre-process incoming connections and it was pioneered by engineers at Yahoo.com. > > According to this URL at the Apache site, > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-bsd44.html#accf > > shows how accept filters improve performance > > Is there anything similar in Linux 2.4 (possibly back-ported to 2.2)
Linux 2.4 has the "dataready" filter in form of the (currently undocumented) TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT option.
Another option would be to use one of the in kernel http accelerators, e.g. khttpd or tux.
-Andi
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