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    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch 'drop_monitor-Capture-dropped-packets-and-metadata' · 6e5ee483
      David S. Miller authored
      Ido Schimmel says:
      
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      drop_monitor: Capture dropped packets and metadata
      
      So far drop monitor supported only one mode of operation in which a
      summary of recent packet drops is periodically sent to user space as a
      netlink event. The event only includes the drop location (program
      counter) and number of drops in the last interval.
      
      While this mode of operation allows one to understand if the system is
      dropping packets, it is not sufficient if a more detailed analysis is
      required. Both the packet itself and related metadata are missing.
      
      This patchset extends drop monitor with another mode of operation where
      the packet - potentially truncated - and metadata (e.g., drop location,
      timestamp, netdev) are sent to user space as a netlink event. Thanks to
      the extensible nature of netlink, more metadata can be added in the
      future.
      
      To avoid performing expensive operations in the context in which
      kfree_skb() is called, the dropped skbs are cloned and queued on per-CPU
      skb drop list. The list is then processed in process context (using a
      workqueue), where the netlink messages are allocated, prepared and
      finally sent to user space.
      
      A follow-up patchset will integrate drop monitor with devlink and allow
      the latter to call into drop monitor to report hardware drops. In the
      future, XDP drops can be added as well, thereby making drop monitor the
      go-to netlink channel for diagnosing all packet drops.
      
      Example usage with patched dropwatch [1] can be found here [2]. Example
      dissection of drop monitor netlink events with patched wireshark [3] can
      be found here [4]. I will submit both changes upstream after the kernel
      changes are accepted. Another change worth making is adding a dropmon
      pseudo interface to libpcap, similar to the nflog interface [5]. This
      will allow users to specifically listen on dropmon traffic instead of
      capturing all netlink packets via the nlmon netdev.
      
      Patches #1-#5 prepare the code towards the actual changes in later
      patches.
      
      Patch #6 adds another mode of operation to drop monitor in which the
      dropped packet itself is notified to user space along with metadata.
      
      Patch #7 allows users to truncate reported packets to a specific length,
      in case only the headers are of interest. The original length of the
      packet is added as metadata to the netlink notification.
      
      Patch #8 allows user to query the current configuration of drop monitor
      (e.g., alert mode, truncation length).
      
      Patches #9-#10 allow users to tune the length of the per-CPU skb drop
      list according to their needs.
      
      Changes since v1 [6]:
      * Add skb protocol as metadata. This allows user space to correctly
        dissect the packet instead of blindly assuming it is an Ethernet
        packet
      
      Changes since RFC [7]:
      * Limit the length of the per-CPU skb drop list and make it configurable
      * Do not use the hysteresis timer in packet alert mode
      * Introduce alert mode operations in a separate patch and only then
        introduce the new alert mode
      * Use 'skb->skb_iif' instead of 'skb->dev' because the latter is inside
        a union with 'dev_scratch' and therefore not guaranteed to point to a
        valid netdev
      * Return '-EBUSY' instead of '-EOPNOTSUPP' when trying to configure drop
        monitor while it is monitoring
      * Did not change schedule_work() in favor of schedule_work_on() as I did
        not observe a change in number of tail drops
      
      [1] https://github.com/idosch/dropwatch/tree/packet-mode
      [2] https://gist.github.com/idosch/3d524b887e16bc11b4b19e25c23dcc23#file-gistfile1-txt
      [3] https://github.com/idosch/wireshark/tree/drop-monitor-v2
      [4] https://gist.github.com/idosch/3d524b887e16bc11b4b19e25c23dcc23#file-gistfile2-txt
      [5] https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/master/pcap-netfilter-linux.c
      [6] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1143443/
      [7] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1135226/
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      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      6e5ee483
    • Ido Schimmel's avatar
      drop_monitor: Expose tail drop counter · e9feb580
      Ido Schimmel authored
      Previous patch made the length of the per-CPU skb drop list
      configurable. Expose a counter that shows how many packets could not be
      enqueued to this list.
      
      This allows users determine the desired queue length.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      e9feb580