Document the accf_http accept filter "httpready".

share/man/man9/accf_http.9

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+.Dd November 15, 2000
+.Os FreeBSD
+.Dt accf_http 9
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm accf_http
+.Nd buffer incoming connections until a certain complete HTTP requests arrive
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm options INET
+.Nm options ACCEPT_FILTER_HTTP
+.Nm kldload accf_http
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This is a filter to be placed on an socket that will be using
+.Fn accept
+to recieve incomming HTTP connections.
+.Pp
+It prevents the application from recieving the a connected descriptor via
+.Fn accept
+until either a full HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 HEAD or GET request has
+been buffered by the kernel.
+.Pp
+If something other than a HTTP/1.0 or
+HTTP/1.1 HEAD or GET request is recieved the kernel will
+allow the application to recieve the connection descriptor
+via
+.Fn accept .
+.Pp
+The utlity of
+.Xr accf_http 9
+is such that a server will not have to context switch several times
+before performing the initial parsing of the request.
+This effectively reduces the amount of required CPU utilization
+to handle incoming requests be keeping active
+processes in preforking servers such as Apache low
+and reducing the size of the filedescriptor set that needs
+to be managed by interfaces such as
+.Fn select ,
+.Fn poll
+or
+.Fn kevent
+based servers.
+.Pp
+The
+.Xr accf_http 9
+kernel option is also a module that can be enabled at runtime via
+.Xr kldload 8
+if the INET option has been compiled into the kernel.
+.Sh EXAMPLE
+Assuming ACCEPT_FILTER_HTTP has been included in the kernel config
+file or the module
+.Xr accf_http 9
+has been loaded, this will enable the http accept filter
+on the socket
+.Fa sok .
+.Bd -literal -offset 0i
+	struct accept_filter_arg afa;
+
+	bzero(&afa, sizeof(afa));
+	strcpy(afa.af_name, "httpready");
+	setsockopt(sok, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ACCEPTFILTER, &afa, sizeof(afa));
+.Ed
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr setsockopt 2 ,
+.Xr accept_filter 9
+.Sh HISTORY
+The accept filter mechanism and the
+accf_http filter were introduced in
+.Fx 4.0 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+This manual page and the filter were written by
+.An Alfred Perlstein ,