nginx kTLS support blog post

Maxim Konovalov maxim at nginx.com
Fri Nov 12 09:02:33 UTC 2021


Hello,

As some of you probably know we added kTLS support in nginx-1.21.4.

We also published a blog post that provides more information about how 
it works and how to enable it in nginx:

https://www.nginx.com/blog/improving-nginx-performance-with-kernel-tls/

Additional reading:

Drew Gallatin's from Netflix talks:

kTLS and hardware TLS offload
https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2019-ktls.pdf

Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD
https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2021.pdf

John Baldwin's "TLS offload in the kernel"

https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/TLS-Offload-in-the-Kernel.pdf 


Hope you will enjoy it.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov


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