forked from Minki/linux
b8c6bcee1d
This fixes the problem that dccp_probe output can grow quite large without
apparent benefit (many identical data points), creating huge files (up to
over one Gigabyte for a few minutes' test run) which are very hard to
post-process (in one instance it got so bad that gnuplot ate up all memory
plus swap).
The cause for the problem is that the kprobe is inserted into dccp_sendmsg(),
which can be called in a polling-mode (whenever the TX queue is full due to
congestion-control issues, EAGAIN is returned). This creates many very
similar data points, i.e. the increase of processing time does not increase
the quality/information of the probe output.
The fix is to attach the probe to a different function -- write_xmit was
chosen since it gets called continually (both via userspace and timer);
an input-path function would stop sampling as soon as the other end stops
sending feedback.
For comparison the output file sizes for the same 20 second test
run over a lossy link:
* before / without patch: 118 Megabytes
* after / with patch: 1.2 Megabytes
and there was much less noise in the output.
To allow backward compatibility with scripts that people use, the now-unused
`size' field in the output has been replaced with the CCID identifier. This
also serves for future compatibility - support for CCID2 is work in progress
(depends on the still unfinished SRTT/RTTVAR updates).
While at it, the update to ktime_t was also performed.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
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