On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:25 AM, hiren panchasara < hiren.panchas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:36 AM, George Neville-Neil <g...@freebsd.org>wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > > +1. Great work. > > Updating my laptop right now to test. > Tried a bunch of basic things and it works great! Thanks again. Hiren > > cheers, > Hiren > _______________________________________________ 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"
