While it seems interesting functionality, this hasn't been documented,
maintained or knowingly leveraged for many years.
There are various other approaches today, too:
* We track the number of event handler invocations regardless of
profiling. It's possible to approximate a load_sample event by
comparing the result of two get_event_stats() calls. Or, visualize
the corresponding counters in a Prometheus setup to get an idea of
event/s broken down by event names.
* HookCallFunction() allows to intercept script execution, including
measuring the time execution takes.
* The global call_stack and g_frame_stack can be used from plugins
(and even external processes) to walk the Zeek script stack at certain
points to implement a sampling profiler.
* USDT probes or more plugin hooks will likely be preferred over Zeek
builtin functionality in the future.
Relates to #3458
We use the SegmentProfiler in quite a few hot places and the memset of
the rusage structure (144bytes here) can show up significantly even if
the segment profiler itself isn't used.
Relates to #3485.
This largely copies over Spicy's `.clang-format` configuration file. The
one place where we deviate is header include order since Zeek depends on
headers being included in a certain order.
The Zeek code base has very inconsistent #includes. Many sources
included a few headers, and those headers included other headers, and
in the end, nearly everything is included everywhere, so missing
#includes were never noticed. Another side effect was a lot of header
bloat which slows down the build.
First step to fix it: in each source file, its own header should be
included first to verify that each header's includes are correct, and
none is missing.
After adding the missing #includes, I replaced lots of #includes
inside headers with class forward declarations. In most headers,
object pointers are never referenced, so declaring the function
prototypes with forward-declared classes is just fine.
This patch speeds up the build by 19%, because each compilation unit
gets smaller. Here are the "time" numbers for a fresh build (with a
warm page cache but without ccache):
Before this patch:
3144.94user 161.63system 3:02.87elapsed 1808%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2168608maxresident)k
760inputs+12008400outputs (1511major+57747204minor)pagefaults 0swaps
After this patch:
2565.17user 141.83system 2:25.46elapsed 1860%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1489076maxresident)k
72576inputs+9130920outputs (1667major+49400430minor)pagefaults 0swaps
This commit marks (hopefully) ever one-parameter constructor as explicit.
It also uses override in (hopefully) all circumstances where a virtual
method is overridden.
There are a very few other minor changes - most of them were necessary
to get everything to compile (like one additional constructor). In one
case I changed an implicit operation to an explicit string conversion -
I think the automatically chosen conversion was much more convoluted.
This took longer than I want to admit but not as long as I feared :)
Broke out the stats collection into a bunch of new Bifs
in stats.bif. Scripts that use stats collection functions
have also been updated. More work to do.
- Problem presented itself through incorrect results in capture-loss.bro
under odd traffic circumstances (exact circumstances unknown).
- Changed variables involved in ack tracking to all be uint64 values.
