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Re: ktcpvs

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Subject: Re: ktcpvs
From: Wensong Zhang <wensong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 22:03:29 +0800 (CST)
Hi Ratz,

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Roberto Nibali wrote:

> Hi Wensong,
>
> You're a sick boy :)
>

Nice comments. :) I used to want to rewrite ktcpvs code and release the
first version as a useable one, but I didn't get time to work on it, while
time passed day after day. So, I decide to release this draft one so that
it could give me some pressure to work on it. :)

> > KTCPVS stands for Kernel TCP Virtual Server. It implements
> > application-level load balancing inside the Linux kernel, so called
> > Layer-7 switching. Since the overhead of layer-7 switching in user-space
> > is very high, it is good to implement it inside the kernel in order to
> > avoid the overhead of context switching and memory copying between
> > user-space and kernel-space. Although the scalability of KTCPVS is lower
> > than that of IPVS (IP Virtual Server), it is flexible, because the content
> > of request is known before the request is redirected to one server.
>
> Is it still the same code as you had at OLS last year?
>

Yes, almost the same code.

> > Here are some simple commands to test this ktcpvs:
>
> I'll check it out after my holidays in Florida starting tomorrow.
>

Maybe it is better to check later versions. :)

Regards,

Wensong

> Guo you bu ji!
>
> Best regards,
> Roberto Nibali, ratz
>
>



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