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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@kernel.org>
To: xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
	Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp>,
	Joanne Koong <joannekoong@fb.com>,
	Geliang Tang <geliang.tang@suse.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next v1] bpf: add bpf_ktime_get_real_ns helper
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:53:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rrzj4r6.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220420122307.5290-1-xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>

xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com writes:

> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
>
> This patch introduce a new bpf_ktime_get_real_ns helper, which may
> help us to measure the skb latency in the ingress/forwarding path:
>
> HW/SW[1] -> ip_rcv/tcp_rcv_established -> tcp_recvmsg_locked/tcp_update_recv_tstamps
>
> * Insert BPF kprobe into ip_rcv/tcp_rcv_established invoking this helper.
>   Then we can inspect how long time elapsed since HW/SW.
> * If inserting BPF kprobe tcp_update_recv_tstamps invoked by tcp_recvmsg,
>   we can measure how much latency skb in tcp receive queue. The reason for
>   this can be application fetch the TCP messages too late.

Why not just use one of the existing ktime helpers and also add a BPF
probe to set the initial timestamp instead of relying on skb->tstamp?

-Toke

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-20 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-20 12:23 [net-next v1] bpf: add bpf_ktime_get_real_ns helper xiangxia.m.yue
2022-04-20 12:53 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2022-04-20 16:17   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2022-04-20 16:26     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2022-04-21  2:37     ` Tonghao Zhang
2022-04-21  2:27   ` Tonghao Zhang

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