[CFT] SIFTR - Statistical Information For TCP Research

From: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:12:00 +1000
Hi all,

The time has come to solicit some external testing for my SIFTR tool. 
I'm hoping to commit it within a week or so unless problems are discovered.

SIFTR is a kernel module that logs a range of statistics on active TCP 
connections to a log file. It provides the ability to make highly 
granular measurements of TCP connection state, aimed at system 
administrators, developers and researchers. You can use the data to find 
bugs in the stack, understand why connections are performing badly and 
test new code to name a few uses.

Development has been made possible in part by grants from the Cisco 
University Research Program Fund at Community Foundation Silicon Valley, 
and the FreeBSD Foundation. Bringing it into FreeBSD proper is being 
carried out under the auspices of the "Enhancing the FreeBSD TCP 
Implementation" FreeBSD Foundation project. More details are available 
at [1,2,3].

If you can help out, please read on!

Before continuing, make sure you're running with at least svn revision 
209119 (my commit to <sys/pcpu.h>), or you can manually apply the 
r209119 diff to to your earlier rev source tree.

The SIFTR patch is here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/patches/tcp_ffcaia2008/siftr_9.x.r209119.patch

Copy it to the root of your source tree and run the following:

patch -p1 < siftr_9.x.r209119.patch

It's a loadable kernel module so you can build it for testing like so:

cd <path/to/src>/sys/modules/siftr
make
kldload ./siftr.ko
(don't forget to "make cleandir" to remove cruft when finished testing)

After applying the patch, you can read the man page by running:

man -M <path/to/src>/share/man siftr

If I've done a decent job, all the info you need to understand what it 
does and how to use it should be in the man page.

I'm interested in all feedback and reports of success/failure, along 
with details of the architecture tested and number of CPUs if you would 
be so kind.

That should be enough to get the ball rolling. Thanks and I look forward 
to hearing from you!

Cheers,
Lawrence

[1] http://caia.swin.edu.au/freebsd/etcp09/

[2] http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/projects.shtml#Swinburne

[3] http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/
Received on Sun Jun 13 2010 - 06:12:03 UTC

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