[ltt-dev] Extended network tracepoints

[Benjamin Poirier]

When tracing, you can leave out these extended probes or not activate the
*_extended markers if you are not especially interested in the details of
network traffic and do not wish to synchronize distributed traces.

For those eager to try out time synchronization in lttv, a development tree is
available these days at:
git clone git://hal.drap.polymtl.ca/lttv-sync.git

See lttv/lttv/sync/README in there for instructions and info. You need traces
with the *_extended events, so you need an lttng with the patches in this
series too.

Sample traces showcasing a web client and server are also available at:
http://hal.drap.polymtl.ca/results55.tar.bz2

Using lttv built from the git tree above, first have a look at the traces
without synchronization. From the base of the build dir and adjusting the
paths to the traces:
$ ./runlttv /tmp/results55/client /tmp/results55/server

The web client is wget (PID 1709). Apache spawns a truckload of processes, the
relevant ones are PID 2171 & 2196. Display the relevant processes in lttv
using the following filter in the control flow view:
(event.target_pid=1709|event.target_pid=2171|event.target_pid=2196)
Notice that wget (around time 323) is done before the trace with apache is
even started. Apache processes the request around time 363. Something is not
right, and that's because the traces are not synchronized.

Now have a look at the traces with synchronization:
./runlttv -a"--sync" /tmp/results55/client /tmp/results55/server
Zoom in around time 363 and redraw the window or use the same filter as above
to see the wget and apache processes. We can now follow the request from the
client to the server. We see that wget blocks a little bit waiting for the
connection to be established and then a lot longer while apache is processing.
We can see that apache is waiting on a lot of page faults, probably because it
was the first request it served since being started, ...

Have fun, feedback is welcome,
-Ben

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[PATCH 1/4] Move network tracepoints
[PATCH 2/4] Trace incoming TCP traffic
[PATCH 3/4] Trace incomming UDP traffic
[PATCH 4/4] Add probes for detailed tracing of network traffic

 include/linux/ltt-type-serializer.h |   49 ++++++++++++
 include/trace/net.h                 |    6 ++
 ltt/probes/Makefile                 |    3 +-
 ltt/probes/net-extended-trace.c     |  143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 ltt/probes/net-trace.c              |   28 +++++++
 net/core/dev.c                      |   10 ++-
 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c                 |    7 ++
 net/ipv4/udp.c                      |    5 +
 8 files changed, 248 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)