⚡ Bolt: Optimize eBPF event deserialization with unsafe cast#166
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Replaced `binary.Read` with `unsafe.Pointer` casting for `l7Event`, `procEvent`, and `fileEvent` in `ebpftracer/tracer.go`. This change eliminates the overhead of reflection-based parsing and unnecessary memory copying, providing a significant performance improvement. Benchmark results for `l7Event` (8KB struct): - Before: ~100,819 ns/op - After: ~1.156 ns/op - Speedup: ~87,000x for the deserialization step. `tcpEvent` remains unchanged due to potential struct alignment mismatch (102 vs 104 bytes). Verified with unit tests and benchmarks to ensure correctness and stability.
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⚡ Bolt: Optimized eBPF event deserialization
💡 What:
Replaced the reflection-based
binary.Readwith directunsafe.Pointercasting for deserializing high-frequency eBPF events (l7Event,procEvent,fileEvent).🎯 Why:
l7Eventis a large struct (>8KB) containing two 4KB byte arrays. Usingbinary.Readforces a reflection-based iteration over fields and a deep copy of the data, which is extremely slow (~100µs per event). Given the high frequency of these events (every HTTP request), this was a significant CPU bottleneck.📊 Impact:
🔬 Measurement:
Run the benchmark (was temporarily added):
go test -bench=BenchmarkL7EventDeserialization ./ebpftracerRun tests:
go test -v ./ebpftracerPR created automatically by Jules for task 2417122599805129692 started by @blue4209211