[Bloat] one big bump in the wire for latency monitoring

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 23:15:17 +0100
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:

> Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > https://blog.apnic.net/2018/01/22/ruru-real-time-wide-area-tcp-latency-monitoring/  
> 
> Neat! The packet tapping part could probably be implemented in XDP to
> avoid the DPDK space heater... ;)

I was thinking the exact same thing ;-)

It should be fairly simple to write a XDP/eBPF program, that timestamp
via bpf_ktime_get_ns() and queue the events via a perf ring-buffer via
bpf_perf_event_output() (the only kernel example is [1]). And a
userspace side tool[2] that reads these perf_event's.

Cc. xdp-newbies at vger.kernel.org hoping someone want to give it a go?

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/samples/bpf/trace_output_kern.c
[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/samples/bpf/trace_output_user.c
-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer