Re: Anything in Linux similar to FreeBSD accept filter (fwd)

2000-10-23 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:26:55AM +, Tony Finch wrote: > If Linux always has the TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT code in the kernel then it > cannot be a run-time configuration option; it would have to be > compile-time only. running the setsockopt code to turn on TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT can be done on all Linux

Re: Anything in Linux similar to FreeBSD accept filter (fwd)

2000-10-23 Thread Tony Finch
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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. One thing that made it easy for me to add FreeBSD's accept

Re: Anything in Linux similar to FreeBSD accept filter

2000-10-20 Thread Andi Kleen
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 c

Anything in Linux similar to FreeBSD accept filter

2000-10-20 Thread ym g
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