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authorAdrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>2024-07-04 10:56:55 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-07-05 17:45:47 -0700
commit7b1b2b60c63f070e0dfbe072ccaae13168b38d01 (patch)
tree68420e693c20aacac7c60dd3407418c29126787b
parentc35d86a23029f1186e3c7a65df7c38b762fb0434 (diff)
net: psample: allow using rate as probability
Although not explicitly documented in the psample module itself, the definition of PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE seems inherited from act_sample. Quoting tc-sample(8): "RATE of 100 will lead to an average of one sampled packet out of every 100 observed." With this semantics, the rates that we can express with an unsigned 32-bits number are very unevenly distributed and concentrated towards "sampling few packets". For example, we can express a probability of 2.32E-8% but we cannot express anything between 100% and 50%. For sampling applications that are capable of sampling a decent amount of packets, this sampling rate semantics is not very useful. Add a new flag to the uAPI that indicates that the sampling rate is expressed in scaled probability, this is: - 0 is 0% probability, no packets get sampled. - U32_MAX is 100% probability, all packets get sampled. Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240704085710.353845-5-amorenoz@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/net/psample.h3
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/psample.h10
-rw-r--r--net/psample/psample.c3
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/psample.h b/include/net/psample.h
index 2ac71260a546..c52e9ebd88dd 100644
--- a/include/net/psample.h
+++ b/include/net/psample.h
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ struct psample_metadata {
u8 out_tc_valid:1,
out_tc_occ_valid:1,
latency_valid:1,
- unused:5;
+ rate_as_probability:1,
+ unused:4;
const u8 *user_cookie;
u32 user_cookie_len;
};
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/psample.h b/include/uapi/linux/psample.h
index e80637e1d97b..b765f0e81f20 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/psample.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/psample.h
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ enum {
PSAMPLE_ATTR_ORIGSIZE,
PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_GROUP,
PSAMPLE_ATTR_GROUP_SEQ,
- PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE,
+ PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE, /* u32, ratio between observed and
+ * sampled packets or scaled probability
+ * if PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_PROBABILITY
+ * is set.
+ */
PSAMPLE_ATTR_DATA,
PSAMPLE_ATTR_GROUP_REFCOUNT,
PSAMPLE_ATTR_TUNNEL,
@@ -20,6 +24,10 @@ enum {
PSAMPLE_ATTR_TIMESTAMP, /* u64, nanoseconds */
PSAMPLE_ATTR_PROTO, /* u16 */
PSAMPLE_ATTR_USER_COOKIE, /* binary, user provided data */
+ PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_PROBABILITY,/* no argument, interpret rate in
+ * PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE as a
+ * probability scaled 0 - U32_MAX.
+ */
__PSAMPLE_ATTR_MAX
};
diff --git a/net/psample/psample.c b/net/psample/psample.c
index 1c76f3e48dcd..f48b5b9cd409 100644
--- a/net/psample/psample.c
+++ b/net/psample/psample.c
@@ -497,6 +497,9 @@ void psample_sample_packet(struct psample_group *group, struct sk_buff *skb,
md->user_cookie))
goto error;
+ if (md->rate_as_probability)
+ nla_put_flag(skb, PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_PROBABILITY);
+
genlmsg_end(nl_skb, data);
genlmsg_multicast_netns(&psample_nl_family, group->net, nl_skb, 0,
PSAMPLE_NL_MCGRP_SAMPLE, GFP_ATOMIC);