Commit 1ab1291c authored by Nils Goroll's avatar Nils Goroll

update README based on master README.40.rst

parent 39042bb7
......@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Varnish Consistent Hashing Director Module
:Author: Julian Wiesener
:Date: 2014-07-16
:Version: 1.0
:Version: 1.1
:Manual section: 3
.. _synopsis:
......@@ -109,8 +109,11 @@ Exception To the Rule) ;-) http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/VTLA
FUNCTIONS
=========
_Note_ The vmod functions differ for varnish 4.0 and 4.1. This is the
documentation for the varnish 4.0 interface.
VSLP needs to be configured before it can hand out backends. The functions not
returning a backend, should only be called in vcl_init, as we can safely skip
returning a backend should only be called in vcl_init, as we can safely skip
locking for most parts of the code, if we do not modify the hash ring after
initialization.
......@@ -121,9 +124,9 @@ Adds a backend to the Director, must be called in before init_hashcircle().
VOID .set_rampup_ratio(REAL)
----------------------------
Sets the raito of requests (0.0 to 1.0) that goes to the next alternate backend
to warm it up if the preferd backend is healthy. If the prefered backend just
recoverd from beeing unhealthy, the ratio will be used to warm the prefered
Sets the ratio of requests (0.0 to 1.0) that goes to the next alternate backend
to warm it up when the preferd backend is healthy. If the preferred backend just
recovered from being unhealthy, the ratio will be used to warm the preferred
backend. Defaults to 0.1 (10%).
VOID .set_rampup_time(DURATION)
......@@ -159,17 +162,23 @@ BACKEND .backend()
Returns a backend based on the default hash of the request URL.
BACKEND .backend_n(INT, BOOL, BOOL, INT)
----------------------------
----------------------------------------
Returns the n-th backend (first parameter) with respect of altsrv_p (second
parameter) and respect of its healthy state (third parameter) for the given
hash (last parameter).
Returns the n-th backend (first parameter) with respect of altsrv_p
(second parameter) and respect of its healthy state (third parameter)
for the given hash (last parameter).
BACKEND .backend_by_int(INT)
----------------------------
Returns a backend based on the value of its parameter. The value should be
evenly distributet between 0 and MAX_INT to get a good distribution of requests.
Returns a backend based on the value of its parameter. The value
should be evenly distributed between 0 and MAX_INT to get a good
distribution of requests.
Example: To select a backend from director `vd` based on a string
value hashed with `SHA256`, use::
vd.backend_by_int(vd.hash_string("some_string", SHA256))
BACKEND .backend_by_string(STRING)
----------------------------------
......@@ -224,6 +233,18 @@ Make targets:
* make check - runs the unit tests in ``src/tests/*.vtc``
* make distcheck - run check and prepare a tarball of the vmod.
Installation directories
------------------------
By default, the vmod ``configure`` script installs the built vmod in
the same directory as Varnish, determined via ``pkg-config(1)``. The
vmod installation directory can be overridden by passing the
``VMOD_DIR`` variable to ``configure``.
Other files like man-pages and documentation are installed in the
locations determined by ``configure``, which inherits its default
``--prefix`` setting from Varnish.
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......@@ -247,5 +268,4 @@ COPYRIGHT
This document is licensed under the same license as the
libvmod-vslp project. See LICENSE for details.
Copyright (c) 2013-2015 UPLEX Nils Goroll Systemoptimierung. All rights
reserved.
Copyright 2013-2015 UPLEX Nils Goroll Systemoptimierung. All rights reserved.
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