f-stack/doc/F-Stack_Nginx_APP_Guide.md

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# F-Stack Nginx APP Guide
F-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.
## How does Nginx use F-Stack?
Nginx APP is in `app/nginx-1.11.10` directory.
```
+--------+
|
+------------------------+ |
channel: socketpair | signal(reload, quit..)
+------------------------+ |
|
+---------v--------+
| |
+----------------+ master process +---------------+
| | | |
| channel +----------+-------+ |
| | channel |
| channel | |
| | |
+---------+----------+ +----------+--------+ +---------+--------+
| | | | | |
| ff primary process | | worker process | | worker process |
| | | | | |
+--------------------+ +-------------------+ +------------------+
ff_init(primary) +--------+ +-------+
loop: | | | |
handle channel event | fstack | |channel|
| main | | event |
| loop | |thread |
| thread | | |
| | | |
+--------+ +-------+
woker loop:
process handle
cycle channel
event
```
- spawn an extra process ff primary: ff_init(primary);loop(handle channel event).This process doesn't handle SIGQUIT.
- worker process has 2 threads. main thread: ff_init(secondary);ff_run(worker_process_cycle), channel thread: loop(handle channel event).
Note that:
- kni couldn't be enabled in this version, because kni is only processed by primary and worker `ff_primary` won't execute `ff_run()`.
- supported nginx signals: reload(HUP)/reopen(USR1)/stop(TERM).
- unsupported nginx signals: NGX_CHANGEBIN_SIGNAL(USR2).
- when use `nginx -s reload`, you should make sure that `woker_processes` in nginx.conf and f-stack.conf haven't be modified.
- necessary modifies in nginx.conf:
```
user root; # root account is necessary.
fstack_conf f-stack.conf; # path of f-stack configuration file, default: $NGX_PREFIX/conf/f-stack.conf.
worker_processes 1; # should be equal to the lcore count of `dpdk.lcore_mask` in f-stack.conf.
events {
worker_connections 102400; # increase
use kqueue; # use kqueue
}
sendfile off; # sendfile off
```
## Nginx compiling
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nginx_fstack --with-ff_module
make
make install