Supporting pagespeed on ARM devices?

[pappkopp]

Is there any further plans on adding support for arm devices with ngx_pagespeed?

I think that theres s a growing demand with more and more providers selling and hosting servers based on the arm architecture..

[hillsp]

We don't currently have plans to support ARM mostly because I don't think we've especially been peppered with requests for it.

We have a lot of library dependencies and I imagine at least some of them don't support ARM, which makes this a lot more painful.

[ruimnetob]

Will there be a mod_pagespeed supported for armhf? I am running a webserver on my Pi and would be great to have pagespeed there.
with IoT and these ARM System on chip there will be more and more people requesting this

[nachoparker]

+1 here, I am interested in trying this with NextCloudPi

[granvillepaut]

I too am running a webserver on a Pi-like board and would be really interested in having this module.

[georges-2000]

+1 im interested in this module

[iishtiaque]

+1 It would be a really nice thing to have

[thegr33nhornet]

+1 ARM based servers are becoming much more mainstream.

[FalcoGer]

I to would like this to work on armv7 and armv8 (64bit) for a raspberry running apache.

[L422Y]

+1 really would be nice

[petter5]

+1 would love to have pagespeed for the pi4 - Raspbian - tried the Automated Install build from source, but no sucess,,,

[iishtiaque]

Yeah that would be the best thing ever. 💓

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[pilfs]

I have ngx_pagespeed running on aarch64 and armv7l.

You can find the PSOL binaries and instructions here:

https://gitlab.com/gusco/ngx_pagespeed_arm

I believe we are about to see ARM grow in the server space this year,
thought it would be a shame for ngx_pagespeed to miss out.

[jmarantz]

nice! would you consider upstreaming your work to https://github.com/apache/incubator-pagespeed-mod ?

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[jsrz]

I tried @pilfs instructions and can verify that they do work. I tried it out on an AWS m6g instance.

That said, a few other things to note:

• The ngx_pagespeed build script downloads pre-built binaries for PSOL. Thus, in order for that script to work on Arm machines, we will need pre-built binaries released for aarch64 (arm64) and armv7l.

• The ngx_pagespeed script does offer a switch (-s) which tells it to build PSOL rather than download the pre-built binary. This script is broken. I ran it on both Arm and x86 instances. If this script weren't broken, then you would not necessarily need the pre-built PSOL binaries.

• I was poking around at the patches @pilfs posted. I see a bunch of stuff around atomic operation intrinsics. There are legacy __sync, and newer __atomic intrinsics. I'd guess that there is room to improve performance, especially since newer Arm 8.2 added newer/improved atomic instructions. I don't claim to know what should be done, but it feels like there's room for lots of improvement.

All of that said, I think pilfs changes should be merged to get the Arm support in.