[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/10] introduce telemetry library

Kevin Laatz kevin.laatz at intel.com
Wed Oct 3 19:36:02 CEST 2018


This patchset introduces a Telemetry library for DPDK Service Assurance.
This library provides an easy way to query DPDK Ethdev metrics.

The telemetry library provides a method for a service assurance component
to retrieve metrics from a DPDK packet forwarding application.
Communicating from the service assurance component to DPDK is done using a
UNIX domain socket, passing a JSON formatted string. A reply is sent (again
a JSON formatted string) of the current DPDK metrics.

The telemetry component makes use of the existing rte_metrics library to
query values. The values to be transmitted via the telemetry infrastructure
must be present in the Metrics library. Currently the ethdev values are
pushed to the metrics library, and the queried from there  there is an open
question on how applications would like this to occur. Currently only
ethdev to metrics functionality is implemented, however other subsystems
like crypto, eventdev, keepalive etc can use similar mechanisms.

Exposing DPDK Telemetry via a socket interface enables service assurance
agents like collectd to consume data from DPDK. This is vital for
monitoring, fault-detection, and error reporting. A collectd plugin has
been created to interact with the DPDK Telemetry component, showing how it
can be used in practice. The collectd plugin will be upstreamed to collectd
at a later stage. A small python script is provided in
./usertools/telemetry_client.py to quick-start using DPDK Telemetry.

Note: We are aware that the --telemetry flag is not working for meson
builds, we are working on it for a future patch.  Despite opterr being set
to 0, --telemetry said to be 'unrecognized' as a startup print. This is a
cosmetic issue and will also be addressed.

---
v2:
   - Reworked telemetry as part of EAL instead of using vdev (Gaetan)
   - Refactored rte_telemetry_command (Gaetan)
   - Added MAINTAINERS file entry (Stephen)
   - Updated docs to reflect vdev to eal rework
   - Removed collectd patch from patchset (Thomas)
   - General code clean up from v1 feedback

Ciara Power, Brian Archbold and Kevin Laatz (10):
  telemetry: initial telemetry infrastructure
  telemetry: add initial connection socket
  telemetry: add client feature and sockets
  telemetry: add parser for client socket messages
  telemetry: update metrics before sending stats
  telemetry: format json response when sending stats
  telemetry: add tests for telemetry api
  telemetry: add ability to disable selftest
  doc: add telemetry documentation
  usertools: add client python script for telemetry

 MAINTAINERS                                       |    5 +
 config/common_base                                |    5 +
 doc/guides/howto/index.rst                        |    1 +
 doc/guides/howto/telemetry.rst                    |   85 +
 lib/Makefile                                      |    2 +
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h           |   19 +
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c                 |   37 +-
 lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map                |    7 +
 lib/librte_telemetry/Makefile                     |   30 +
 lib/librte_telemetry/meson.build                  |    9 +
 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry.c              | 1786 +++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry.h              |   48 +
 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_internal.h     |   81 +
 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_parser.c       |  586 +++++++
 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_parser.h       |   13 +
 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_parser_test.c  |  534 ++++++
 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_parser_test.h  |   39 +
 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_socket_tests.h |   36 +
 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_version.map    |    7 +
 lib/meson.build                                   |    2 +-
 mk/rte.app.mk                                     |    1 +
 usertools/dpdk-telemetry-client.py                |  116 ++
 22 files changed, 3447 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/howto/telemetry.rst
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/Makefile
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/meson.build
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry.c
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_internal.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_parser.c
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_parser.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_parser_test.c
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_parser_test.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_socket_tests.h
 create mode 100644 lib/librte_telemetry/rte_telemetry_version.map
 create mode 100644 usertools/dpdk-telemetry-client.py

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