⚡ Bolt: optimize eBPF event parsing#185
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…h manual parsing Replaces the reflection-based `binary.Read` with manual parsing using `binary.LittleEndian` for high-frequency eBPF events (`l7Event`, `tcpEvent`, `fileEvent`, `procEvent`). This change drastically reduces CPU overhead and memory allocations in the hot path of event processing. Benchmarks show a ~700x speedup for L7 events (101672ns -> 144ns) and ~166x speedup for TCP events (1085ns -> 6.5ns). Additionally, L7 event parsing now avoids copying the full 8KB payload/response arrays into an intermediate struct, instead copying only the actual payload data directly from the raw buffer. - Added `ebpftracer/parsing.go` with optimized parsing functions. - Added `ebpftracer/parsing_test.go` to ensure correctness and prevent regressions. - Updated `ebpftracer/tracer.go` to use the new functions.
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⚡ Bolt: Optimized eBPF event parsing
💡 What: Replaced
binary.Readwith manual parsing forl7Event,tcpEvent,fileEvent, andprocEvent.🎯 Why:
binary.Readuses reflection which is slow and allocates memory. For L7 events, it was also copying 8KB of potentially unused data into a struct.📊 Impact:
🔬 Measurement: Validated with
go test -v ./ebpftracer -run=TestParseand verified benchmarks (see description).PR created automatically by Jules for task 3842516495063705313 started by @blue4209211