1# F-Stack Nginx APP Guide 2 3F-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. 4 5## How does Nginx use F-Stack? 6 7 Nginx APP is in `app/nginx-1.11.10` directory. 8 9``` 10 11 +--------+ 12 +------------------------+ | 13 channel: socketpair | 14 +------------------------+ | signal(reload, quit..) 15 | 16 | 17 +---------v--------+ 18 | | 19 +----------------+ master process +---------------+ 20 | | | | 21 | channel +----------+-------+ | 22 | | channel | 23 | channel | | 24 | | | 25 +---------+----------+ +----------+--------+ +---------+--------+ 26first one to start | | | | | | 27 last one to exit<-+ primary worker | | secondary worker | | secondary worker | 28 | | | | | | 29 +--------------------+ +-------------------+ +------------------+ 30 +--------------------+ +-------------------+ 31 | | | | 32 | fstack,kernel | | fstack,kernel | 33 | and channel | | and channel | 34 | loop thread | | loop thread | 35 | | | | 36 +--------------------+ +-------------------+ 37 woker process cycle woker process cycle 38 39``` 40 41- spawn primary worker firstly, and then wait for primary startup, continue to spawn secondary workers. 42 43- 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). 44 45## What's Different? 46### New directives: 47All the directives below are available only when ```NGX_HAVE_FSTACK``` is defined. 48``` 49 Syntax: kernel_network_stack on | off; 50 Default: kernel_network_stack off; 51 Context: http, server 52 53 Determines whether server should run on kernel network stack or fstack. 54``` 55 56``` 57 Syntax: proxy_kernel_network_stack on | off; 58 Default: kernel_network_stack off; 59 Context: http, stream, mail, server 60 61 Determines whether proxy should go through kernel network stack or fstack. 62``` 63 64``` 65 Syntax: schedule_timeout time; 66 Default: schedule_timeout 30m; 67 Context: http, server 68 69 Sets a time interval for polling kernel_network_stack. The default value is 30 msec. 70``` 71 72### Command-line `reload` 73the `reload` is not graceful, service will still be unavailable during the process of reloading. 74 75### Necessary modifies in nginx.conf: 76``` 77 user root; # root account is necessary. 78 fstack_conf f-stack.conf; # path of f-stack configuration file, default: $NGX_PREFIX/conf/f-stack.conf. 79 worker_processes 1; # should be equal to the lcore count of `dpdk.lcore_mask` in f-stack.conf. 80 81 events { 82 worker_connections 102400; # increase 83 use kqueue; # use kqueue 84 } 85 86 sendfile off; # sendfile off 87``` 88 89## Nginx compiling 90 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx_fstack --with-ff_module 91 make 92 make install 93 94