On Aug 21, 2013, at 1:00 , Mark Johnston <ma...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello! > > I've ported the ip, tcp and udp DTrace providers to FreeBSD, following > the Solaris documentation here: > > https://wikis.oracle.com/display/DTrace/ip+Provider > https://wikis.oracle.com/display/DTrace/tcp+Provider > https://wikis.oracle.com/display/DTrace/udp+Provider > > My implementation of these providers makes use of dynamic translators, > for which FreeBSD support was added in r254468; this patch won't compile > with earlier revisions. The use of dynamic translators means that > existing DTrace scripts which use these providers will just work when run > on FreeBSD - no modifications needed. In particular, all of the examples > in the links above will work properly on FreeBSD with my diff. > > I've collected a bunch of example scripts for these providers and placed > them here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~markj/dtrace/network-providers/ > > To run one you just need to execute "dtrace -s <script>". > > In general these providers make it trivial to monitor or count packets > and bytes on a per-host/port/protocol/interface basis. One can also do > neat things like watch TCP connection state transitions in real time > (tcpstate.d) and measure connection latency. All of the probes > correspond to logical events in their respective protocol > implementations; all of the providers have send and receive probes, and > the tcp provider has a few more. > > I didn't have to make any major changes to add support for these > providers, but I've made a few small tweaks: > > 1. Add a little helper function for TCP state changes instead of > sprinkling a bunch of SDT_PROBE calls throughout the code. > 2. Set the IPv6 payload size in TCP and UDP before calling ip6_output(). > This is done for the send probes so that the ipinfo_t argument > can be used to get the payload size. It's not quite correct since it > doesn't include the length of IPv6 option headers (they aren't known > yet), but I think that's ok for the purposes of these providers. > 3. Set the IPv4 header version in udp_output(). This is already done for > IPv6. > > I'm hoping that none of this (or the rest of the diff) is controversial, > but I wanted to make sure, so any review would be really appreciated. > > The patch is here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~markj/patches/network-providers/network-providers-1.diff > > It depends on r254468. To use it, just recompile the kernel (assuming > that KDTRACE_HOOKS is enabled) and copy > $SRC/cddl/lib/libdtrace/{ip,tcp,udp}.d (added by the patch) to > /usr/lib/dtrace. Then the example scripts I linked above should just > work. >
Excellent work. I'll test these today. Best, George _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
