Feature: Optimizations
Goal: Waste less CPU
Status: in progress
ETA: unknown
Developer: AdrianChadd, AmosJeffries, everyone
More: Current work at http://devel.squid-cache.org/changesets/squid/s27_adri.html
Optimize the easy parts
Get rid of some unneeded duplicate copying of information
- There's a copy from the http.c server-side code (via storeAppend()) to the client_side.c client-side code (via storeClientCopy()) - in progress in s27_adri branch.
- There's a copy out from the store memory into the client-side layer (via storeClientCopy()) - integrated into Squid-2.HEAD
Optimise the hard parts
- The data copying involved in parsing http headers, URLs, and such from requests and replies - in progress in s27_adri branch.
Implement scatter-gather IO
Avoid having to use the packer to pack HTTP request/reply and headers into a buffer before write()ing to the network-side; this won't really be worth it until the copies are eliminated (above) and the stackable IO model is in.
Use readv() to read into partially-filled large buffers - the goal is to use larger buffers in the store memory if applicable to hold an entire object in on memory allocation.