linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next v5 04/10] net: psample: allow using rate as probability

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Message-ID: <20240625205204.3199050-5-amorenoz@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:51:47 +0200
From: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@...hat.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: aconole@...hat.com,
	echaudro@...hat.com,
	horms@...nel.org,
	i.maximets@....org,
	dev@...nvswitch.org,
	Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@...hat.com>,
	Yotam Gigi <yotam.gi@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v5 04/10] net: psample: allow using rate as probability

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.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@...hat.com>
---
 include/net/psample.h        |  3 ++-
 include/uapi/linux/psample.h | 10 +++++++++-
 net/psample/psample.c        |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/psample.h b/include/net/psample.h
index 2ac71260a546..c52e9ebd88dd 100644
--- a/include/net/psample.h
+++ b/include/net/psample.h
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ struct psample_metadata {
 	u8 out_tc_valid:1,
 	   out_tc_occ_valid:1,
 	   latency_valid:1,
-	   unused:5;
+	   rate_as_probability:1,
+	   unused:4;
 	const u8 *user_cookie;
 	u32 user_cookie_len;
 };
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/psample.h b/include/uapi/linux/psample.h
index e80637e1d97b..b765f0e81f20 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/psample.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/psample.h
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ enum {
 	PSAMPLE_ATTR_ORIGSIZE,
 	PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_GROUP,
 	PSAMPLE_ATTR_GROUP_SEQ,
-	PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE,
+	PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE,	/* u32, ratio between observed and
+					 * sampled packets or scaled probability
+					 * if PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_PROBABILITY
+					 * is set.
+					 */
 	PSAMPLE_ATTR_DATA,
 	PSAMPLE_ATTR_GROUP_REFCOUNT,
 	PSAMPLE_ATTR_TUNNEL,
@@ -20,6 +24,10 @@ enum {
 	PSAMPLE_ATTR_TIMESTAMP,		/* u64, nanoseconds */
 	PSAMPLE_ATTR_PROTO,		/* u16 */
 	PSAMPLE_ATTR_USER_COOKIE,	/* binary, user provided data */
+	PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_PROBABILITY,/* no argument, interpret rate in
+					 * PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_RATE as a
+					 * probability scaled 0 - U32_MAX.
+					 */
 
 	__PSAMPLE_ATTR_MAX
 };
diff --git a/net/psample/psample.c b/net/psample/psample.c
index 1c76f3e48dcd..f48b5b9cd409 100644
--- a/net/psample/psample.c
+++ b/net/psample/psample.c
@@ -497,6 +497,9 @@ void psample_sample_packet(struct psample_group *group, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		    md->user_cookie))
 		goto error;
 
+	if (md->rate_as_probability)
+		nla_put_flag(skb, PSAMPLE_ATTR_SAMPLE_PROBABILITY);
+
 	genlmsg_end(nl_skb, data);
 	genlmsg_multicast_netns(&psample_nl_family, group->net, nl_skb, 0,
 				PSAMPLE_NL_MCGRP_SAMPLE, GFP_ATOMIC);
-- 
2.45.1