Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To 4.5x Throughput

An interesting new open-source project born out of university research is Beeper to provide application-layer parsing within the in-kernel eBPF. With an HTTP parser implemented by Beeper in eBPF and providing an in-kernel HTTP cache, the throughput for web servers could be improved by 3x at high…