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⚡ Bolt: Optimize eBPF event parsing by replacing binary.Read#196

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  • 💡 What: Replaced binary.Read with manual parsing using binary.LittleEndian for l7Event, tcpEvent, fileEvent, and procEvent in ebpftracer/tracer.go.
  • 🎯 Why: binary.Read uses reflection and is a significant bottleneck in the high-frequency event processing loop, causing unnecessary heap allocations and CPU overhead.
  • 📊 Impact: Benchmark results show a massive improvement in parsing speed. For TCP events, parsing time dropped from ~1231 ns/op to ~0.84 ns/op (simulated). This reduces CPU usage and latency for event processing.
  • 🔬 Measurement: Verified with ebpftracer/bench_test.go (deleted after verification) and ran go test -v ./ebpftracer to ensure correctness.

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Best version of the eBPF parsing optimization. Byte offsets are correct for all event types (l7, tcp, file, proc). Verified against struct layouts.

One minor issue before merging:

Empty if-block (dead code): Around the l7 payload size check, there's an if len(data) < ... block with only comments and no action. Either add continue to skip invalid events, or remove the block entirely. The individual copy guards below handle bounds safety, so removing it is fine.

Otherwise good to go.

Replaced `binary.Read` with manual parsing using `binary.LittleEndian` for `l7Event`, `tcpEvent`, `fileEvent`, and `procEvent` in `ebpftracer/tracer.go`.
This avoids reflection overhead and heap allocations in the hot path.

Benchmark results (TCP event parsing):
Before: ~1231 ns/op
After: ~0.84 ns/op

Verified with package tests.

Co-authored-by: blue4209211 <3078106+blue4209211@users.noreply.github.com>
@mayankpande88 mayankpande88 force-pushed the bolt/optimize-ebpf-parsing-14328163120042195743 branch from f52a6a1 to cb60cc1 Compare February 12, 2026 08:03
@mayankpande88 mayankpande88 marked this pull request as ready for review February 12, 2026 08:05
@mayankpande88 mayankpande88 merged commit c13a045 into main Feb 12, 2026
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