> Yes, nginx will process requests one-by-one and won't pipeline
> requests to upstream.
So, you confirm that the current implementation of nginx doesn't pipeline towards upstream, and there is no way to enable that functionality?
> No, it's not something currently implemented. It's not considered
> needed as upstream servers can be easily configured to do this
> instead.
Which configuration parameter of upstream server can be used for that? According to the documentation, we have max_fails. Is that what you were referring to? max_conns is for connections (not for the requests) and it is present only on nginx plus.