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C++ Mini Project: basic Linux HTTP server
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C++ Mini Project: basic Linux HTTP server

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# minip

C++ Mini Project: basic Linux HTTP server

## Features

1. Handle HTTP/1.1 requests (with connection keepalive)
2. I/O Multiplexing using epoll or io_uring
3. Serves local files (using mmap) or text data
4. Fluent API to chain route handlers

## Example

```c++
#include
#include

#include "file_res_writer.h"
#include "http_handler.h"
#include "res_writer.h"
#include "router.h"
#include "serve.h"

int main() {
auto index_file = minip::create_file_res_writer("./static/index.html", "text/html");
auto video_file = minip::create_file_res_writer("./static/video.mp4", "video/mp4");
std::atomic_int32_t visitor_count{};

auto router = minip::create_router()
.mount("/", [=](auto const &) {
return index_file;
})
.mount("/visitor_count", [&](auto const &) {
auto current_count = visitor_count.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed) + 1;
return minip::buffer_res_writer(200, "text/plain", std::to_string(current_count));
})
.mount("/index.html", [=](auto const &) {
return index_file;
})
.mount("/video.mp4", [=](auto const &) {
return video_file;
});

minip::worker_set worker_set(std::thread::hardware_concurrency(),
minip::create_http_handler_from_router(std::move(router)));
minip::serve("127.0.0.1", "8220", worker_set);
}
```

### Build and Run
```shell
# Optional: install liburing for io_uring support
sudo pacman -S liburing

# Build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release . && make

# Lift restrictions for open files/connections
ulimit -n unliminted

# Run server
./minip 127.0.0.1 8220

# Note that the limit for locked memory is too low for our server to create an
# IO ring. In this case, simply run as root.
sudo ./minip 127.0.0.1 8220
```

## Runtime model
minip uses a multi-thread model to handle connections in parallel. The runtime consists of a main thread, which will
receive new connections and block the main function, and a few worker threads. For each incoming connection, the
ownership is transferred to one of the worker threads where HTTP request parsing and response composing happen. Each
worker thread has its own event loop, backed by io_uring or epoll. An incoming connection will always be handled by the
same thread.

## Performance
Tested on my laptop with Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (8 logical cores) and 8 GB memory.

### epoll, light load
```shell
wrk -t 8 -c64 -d5s http://127.0.0.1:8220/
Running 5s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8220/
8 threads and 64 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 318.39us 831.04us 17.11ms 94.64%
Req/Sec 48.23k 4.32k 85.08k 82.22%
1943528 requests in 5.10s, 0.92GB read
Requests/sec: 381091.77
Transfer/sec: 183.90MB
```

### epoll, heavy load
```shell
Running 5s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8220/
8 threads and 10000 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 22.26ms 11.63ms 99.56ms 71.13%
Req/Sec 30.47k 8.99k 63.23k 78.69%
1159593 requests in 5.09s, 559.57MB read
Requests/sec: 228015.12
Transfer/sec: 110.03MB
```

### io_uring, light load
```shell
❯ wrk -t 8 -c64 -d5s http://127.0.0.1:8220/
Running 5s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8220/
8 threads and 64 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 550.64us 1.81ms 29.58ms 94.83%
Req/Sec 50.62k 5.50k 105.40k 74.56%
2024685 requests in 5.10s, 0.95GB read
Requests/sec: 397092.13
Transfer/sec: 191.62MB
```
### io_uring, heavy load
```shell
❯ wrk -t 8 -c10000 -d5s http://127.0.0.1:8220/
Running 5s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8220/
8 threads and 10000 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 24.42ms 11.70ms 103.05ms 73.13%
Req/Sec 28.03k 6.68k 57.04k 81.56%
1058213 requests in 5.08s, 510.65MB read
Requests/sec: 208211.03
Transfer/sec: 100.47MB
```