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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> |
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