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JITed BPF programs are indistinguishable from kernel functions, but unlike kernel code BPF code can be changed often. Typical approach of "perf record" + "perf report" profiling and tuning of kernel code works just as well for BPF programs, but kernel code doesn't need to be monitored whereas BPF programs do. Users load and run large amount of BPF programs. These BPF stats allow tools monitor the usage of BPF on the server. The monitoring tools will turn sysctl kernel.bpf_stats_enabled on and off for few seconds to sample average cost of the programs. Aggregated data over hours and days will provide an insight into cost of BPF and alarms can trigger in case given program suddenly gets more expensive. The cost of two sched_clock() per program invocation adds ~20 nsec. Fast BPF progs (like selftests/bpf/progs/test_pkt_access.c) will slow down from ~10 nsec to ~30 nsec. static_key minimizes the cost of the stats collection. There is no measurable difference before/after this patch with kernel.bpf_stats_enabled=0 Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.