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⚡ Bolt: Optimize eBPF event deserialization#179

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💡 What: Replaced binary.Read with manual parsing using binary.LittleEndian for high-frequency eBPF events (l7Event, tcpEvent, fileEvent, procEvent) in ebpftracer/tracer.go.

🎯 Why: binary.Read uses reflection and is extremely slow for high-frequency event processing, causing high CPU usage and garbage collection pressure. It was a significant bottleneck in the event reading loop.

📊 Impact:

  • Reduces deserialization time for tcpEvent by ~200x (from ~1200ns to ~6ns per event).
  • Eliminates heap allocations during event deserialization (previously 2 allocs/op for tcpEvent).
  • Reduces memory copy overhead for l7Event payloads.

🔬 Measurement:
Benchmark results for tcpEvent:

  • Before: ~1213 ns/op, 160 B/op, 2 allocs/op
  • After: ~6 ns/op, 0 B/op, 0 allocs/op

PR created automatically by Jules for task 17295132436640720313 started by @blue4209211

Replaced `binary.Read` with manual parsing using `binary.LittleEndian` for high-frequency eBPF events (`l7Event`, `tcpEvent`, `fileEvent`, `procEvent`) in `ebpftracer/tracer.go`.

Impact:
- Reduces deserialization time for `tcpEvent` by ~200x (from ~1200ns to ~6ns per event).
- Eliminates heap allocations during event deserialization.
- Reduces memory copy overhead for `l7Event` payloads.
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Closing — superseded by newer PRs (#196 for eBPF parsing, #194 for proc/net optimization).

@mayankpande88 mayankpande88 deleted the bolt/optimize-ebpf-parsing-17295132436640720313 branch May 27, 2026 07:07
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