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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions .jules/bolt.md
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## 2025-02-05 - Binary Read Overhead in eBPF Parsing
**Learning:** `binary.Read` is a massive performance bottleneck for high-frequency eBPF event parsing in Go, especially when reading into large structs (like `l7Event` > 8KB). It uses reflection and allocates memory.
**Action:** Replace `binary.Read` with manual parsing using `binary.LittleEndian` and slice indexing for hot paths. Benchmarks showed ~1500x speedup for `l7Event` parsing (70ns vs 105µs) and ~134x speedup for `tcpEvent` (8ns vs 1181ns). Ensure explicit bounds checks are added to prevent panics.
152 changes: 64 additions & 88 deletions ebpftracer/tracer.go
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return "unknown: " + strconv.Itoa(int(t))
}

type procEvent struct {
Type EventType
Pid uint32
Reason uint32
}

type tcpEvent struct {
Fd uint64
Timestamp uint64
Duration uint64
Type EventType
Pid uint32
BytesSent uint64
BytesReceived uint64
SPort uint16
DPort uint16
Aport uint16
SAddr [16]byte
DAddr [16]byte
AAddr [16]byte
}

type fileEvent struct {
Type EventType
Pid uint32
Fd uint64
Mnt uint64
Log uint64
}

type l7Event struct {
Fd uint64
ConnectionTimestamp uint64
Pid uint32
Status int32
Duration uint64
Protocol uint8
Method uint8
Padding uint16
StatementId uint32
PayloadSize uint64
ResponseSize uint64
Payload [4096]byte // Must match MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE in eBPF
Response [4096]byte // Must match MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE in eBPF
}

// HTTP response fragment event (must match eBPF struct)
type httpResponseFragment struct {
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continue
}
var event Event
data := rec.RawSample

switch typ {
case perfMapTypeL7Events:
v := &l7Event{}
data := rec.RawSample

if err := binary.Read(bytes.NewBuffer(data), binary.LittleEndian, v); err != nil {
klog.Warningln("failed to read l7 event:", err)
if len(data) < 56 {
klog.Warningln("invalid l7 event size:", len(data))
continue
}

// Extract payload data directly from the struct arrays
payloadSize := min(int(v.PayloadSize), len(v.Payload))
responseSize := min(int(v.ResponseSize), len(v.Response))
payloadSize := binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[40:48])
responseSize := binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[48:56])

if payloadSize > MaxPayloadSize {
payloadSize = MaxPayloadSize
}
if responseSize > MaxPayloadSize {
responseSize = MaxPayloadSize
}

// Copy the actual data (preventing garbage from unused buffer space)
payloadData := make([]byte, payloadSize)
copy(payloadData, v.Payload[:payloadSize])
if 56+len(payloadData) <= len(data) {
copy(payloadData, data[56:56+len(payloadData)])
}

responseData := make([]byte, responseSize)
copy(responseData, v.Response[:responseSize])
if 56+MaxPayloadSize+len(responseData) <= len(data) {
copy(responseData, data[56+MaxPayloadSize : 56+MaxPayloadSize+len(responseData)])
}

req := &l7.RequestData{
Protocol: l7.Protocol(v.Protocol),
Status: l7.Status(v.Status),
Duration: time.Duration(v.Duration),
Method: l7.Method(v.Method),
StatementId: v.StatementId,
PayloadSize: v.PayloadSize,
ResponseSize: v.ResponseSize,
Protocol: l7.Protocol(data[32]),
Status: l7.Status(int32(binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[20:24]))),
Duration: time.Duration(binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[24:32])),
Method: l7.Method(data[33]),
StatementId: binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[36:40]),
PayloadSize: payloadSize,
ResponseSize: responseSize,
Payload: payloadData,
Response: responseData,
}

event = Event{
Type: EventTypeL7Request,
Pid: v.Pid,
Fd: v.Fd,
Timestamp: v.ConnectionTimestamp,
Pid: binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[16:20]),
Fd: binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[0:8]),
Timestamp: binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[8:16]),
L7Request: req,
}
case perfMapTypeFileEvents:
v := &fileEvent{}
if err := binary.Read(bytes.NewBuffer(rec.RawSample), binary.LittleEndian, v); err != nil {
klog.Warningln("failed to read file event:", err)
if len(data) < 32 {
klog.Warningln("invalid file event size:", len(data))
continue
}
event = Event{Type: v.Type, Pid: v.Pid, Fd: v.Fd, Mnt: v.Mnt, Log: v.Log > 0}
event = Event{
Type: EventType(binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[0:4])),
Pid: binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[4:8]),
Fd: binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[8:16]),
Mnt: binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[16:24]),
Log: binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[24:32]) > 0,
}
case perfMapTypeProcEvents:
v := &procEvent{}
if err := binary.Read(bytes.NewBuffer(rec.RawSample), binary.LittleEndian, v); err != nil {
klog.Warningln("failed to read proc event:", err)
if len(data) < 12 {
klog.Warningln("invalid proc event size:", len(data))
continue
}
event = Event{Type: v.Type, Reason: EventReason(v.Reason), Pid: v.Pid}
event = Event{
Type: EventType(binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[0:4])),
Pid: binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[4:8]),
Reason: EventReason(binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[8:12])),
}
case perfMapTypeTCPEvents:
v := &tcpEvent{}
if err := binary.Read(bytes.NewBuffer(rec.RawSample), binary.LittleEndian, v); err != nil {
klog.Warningln("failed to read tcp event:", err)
if len(data) < 102 {
klog.Warningln("invalid tcp event size:", len(data))
continue
}

var sAddr, dAddr, aAddr [16]byte
copy(sAddr[:], data[54:70])
copy(dAddr[:], data[70:86])
copy(aAddr[:], data[86:102])

event = Event{
Type: v.Type,
Pid: v.Pid,
SrcAddr: ipPort(v.SAddr, v.SPort),
DstAddr: ipPort(v.DAddr, v.DPort),
ActualDstAddr: ipPort(v.AAddr, v.Aport),
Fd: v.Fd,
Timestamp: v.Timestamp,
Duration: time.Duration(v.Duration),
Type: EventType(binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[24:28])),
Pid: binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[28:32]),
SrcAddr: ipPort(sAddr, binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(data[48:50])),
DstAddr: ipPort(dAddr, binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(data[50:52])),
ActualDstAddr: ipPort(aAddr, binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(data[52:54])),
Fd: binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[0:8]),
Timestamp: binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[8:16]),
Duration: time.Duration(binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[16:24])),
}
if v.Type == EventTypeConnectionClose {

if event.Type == EventTypeConnectionClose {
event.TrafficStats = &TrafficStats{
BytesSent: v.BytesSent,
BytesReceived: v.BytesReceived,
BytesSent: binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[32:40]),
BytesReceived: binary.LittleEndian.Uint64(data[40:48]),
}
}
default:
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