1a9643ea8Slogwang# F-Stack Nginx APP Guide 2a9643ea8Slogwang 3a9643ea8SlogwangF-Stack is an open source network framework based on DPDK. F-Stack supports standard Nginx as HTTP framework which means all web application based on HTTP can easily use F-Stack. 4a9643ea8Slogwang 5a9643ea8Slogwang## How does Nginx use F-Stack? 6a9643ea8Slogwang 7a9643ea8Slogwang Nginx APP is in `app/nginx-1.11.10` directory. 8a9643ea8Slogwang 940600211Slogwang``` 10a9643ea8Slogwang 1140600211Slogwang +--------+ 1263fb3d1fSlogwang +------------------------+ | 1363fb3d1fSlogwang channel: socketpair | 1463fb3d1fSlogwang +------------------------+ | signal(reload, quit..) 1540600211Slogwang | 1640600211Slogwang | 1740600211Slogwang +---------v--------+ 1840600211Slogwang | | 1940600211Slogwang +----------------+ master process +---------------+ 2040600211Slogwang | | | | 2140600211Slogwang | channel +----------+-------+ | 2240600211Slogwang | | channel | 2340600211Slogwang | channel | | 2440600211Slogwang | | | 2540600211Slogwang +---------+----------+ +----------+--------+ +---------+--------+ 2663fb3d1fSlogwangfirst one to start | | | | | | 2763fb3d1fSlogwang last one to exit<-+ primary worker | | secondary worker | | secondary worker | 2840600211Slogwang | | | | | | 2940600211Slogwang +--------------------+ +-------------------+ +------------------+ 30*68458806S陈威 +--------------------+ +-------------------+ 31*68458806S陈威 | | | | 32*68458806S陈威 | fstack,kernel | | fstack,kernel | 33*68458806S陈威 | and channel | | and channel | 34*68458806S陈威 | loop thread | | loop thread | 35*68458806S陈威 | | | | 36*68458806S陈威 +--------------------+ +-------------------+ 37*68458806S陈威 woker process cycle woker process cycle 38a9643ea8Slogwang 3940600211Slogwang``` 40a9643ea8Slogwang 4163fb3d1fSlogwang- spawn primary worker firstly, and then wait for primary startup, continue to spawn secondary workers. 42b14f72a4Slogwang 43*68458806S陈威- a major addition to the worker process is fstack-handling：ff_init();ff_run(worker_process_cycle); worker_process_cycle(handle channel/host/fstack event). 44a9643ea8Slogwang 4540600211SlogwangNote that: 466d206da2Slogwang 4763fb3d1fSlogwang- the `reload` is not graceful, service will still be unavailable during the process of reloading. 48a9643ea8Slogwang 4940600211Slogwang- necessary modifies in nginx.conf: 50a9643ea8Slogwang 5140600211Slogwang``` 5240600211Slogwang user root; # root account is necessary. 5340600211Slogwang fstack_conf f-stack.conf; # path of f-stack configuration file, default: $NGX_PREFIX/conf/f-stack.conf. 5440600211Slogwang worker_processes 1; # should be equal to the lcore count of `dpdk.lcore_mask` in f-stack.conf. 55a9643ea8Slogwang 56a9643ea8Slogwang events { 5740600211Slogwang worker_connections 102400; # increase 58a9643ea8Slogwang use kqueue; # use kqueue 59a9643ea8Slogwang } 60a9643ea8Slogwang 61a9643ea8Slogwang sendfile off; # sendfile off 6240600211Slogwang``` 63a9643ea8Slogwang 6440600211Slogwang## Nginx compiling 6540600211Slogwang ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx_fstack --with-ff_module 6640600211Slogwang make 6740600211Slogwang make install 68a9643ea8Slogwang 69