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Tpacket v3 10 #2036

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@regit regit commented Apr 26, 2016

Rework of #2032.

Modifications:

  • Merge commit on block-size.
  • Add a patch to use time() instead of GetTime()
  • Add a patch to print mmap error
  • Address comments of Tpacket v3 9 #2032

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No need for cooked header in the case of mmap capture.
This patch adds a basic implementation of AF_PACKET tpacket v3. It
is basic in the way it is only working for 'workers' runnning mode.
If not in 'workers' mode there is a fallback to tpacket_v2. Feature
is activated via tpacket-v3 option in the af-packet section of
Suricata YAML.
Reorder fields in AFPThreadVars and suppress some that were not
used elsewhere than in the initialization.
Suppress useless fields in AFPThreadVars. This patch also get rid
of bytes counter as it was only used to display a message at exit.
Information on livedev and on packet counters are enough.
Error handling was not done. The implementation is making the
choice to consider we must detroy the socket in case of parsing
error. The same was done for tpacket_v2.
It is used to set the block size in tpacket_v3. It will allow user
to tune the capture depending on his bandwidth.

Default block size value has been updated to a bigger value to
allow more efficient wlak on block.
Block timeout defines the maximum filling duration of a block.
If TPACKET_V3 is not defined then it is not available and we should
not build anything related to tpacket_v3. This will allow us to
activate it dy default and fallback to v2 if not available.
Update the code to use mmap capture by default even in unset in
configuration file. mmap capture is now be turned off by using
explicitely 'use-mmap: no' in configuration.
We can loose packets during setup because we are reading nothing.
So it is logical to discard the counter at start of capture to
start from a clean state. This means we don't need to account the
drop at start. But the stats call that will reset the drop counts
will also return and reset the packets count. So we need to know
how many packets we really have. This is in fact the number of
packets coming from the stats call minus the number of discarded
packets and the drop count. All the other packets will have to be
read.
Only parse them if mmap is activated.
As we only use the second we don't need GetTime() which is slower
and get us milliseconds.
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ptv->req3.tp_frame_size);
return -1;
}
ptv->req3.tp_block_nr = ptv->ring_size / frames_per_block + 1;
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why is block_nr (which I interpret as: the number of blocks of size 'ptv->block_size') not calculated as ring_size / block_size?

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ring_size is in number of elements not in bytes. So we divide by number of frame per block to get number of elements. This is for sure making less sense in v3 than in v2.

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regit commented May 2, 2016

Closing and resubmitting with rebase and a little fix.

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