In-kernel http server

[Daniel C. Sobral]

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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