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weave/pcap.go
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Matthias Radestock 025315363d prevent CPU churn by setting long pcap timeout
pcap timeouts are a mystery. Setting the timeout to -1 used to reduce
latency, but that was before we started setting immediate mode. And it
turns out that with that timeout, pcap chews through a lot of CPU
polling its file descriptor, checking timers, etc. However, the
behaviour of setting *no* timeout is defined as, err, undefined. So
instead we set a very long timeout indeed. And loop if it expires.

Fixes #80
2014-09-23 17:54:40 +01:00

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package weave
import (
"code.google.com/p/gopacket/pcap"
)
type PcapIO struct {
handle *pcap.Handle
}
func NewPcapIO(ifName string, bufSz int) (PacketSourceSink, error) {
pio, err := newPcapIO(ifName, true, 65535, bufSz)
if err != nil {
return pio, err
}
// Under Linux, libpcap implements the SetDirection filtering
// in userspace. So set a BPF filter to discard outbound
// packets inside the kernel. We do this here rather than in
// newPcapIO because libpcap doesn't like this in combination
// with a 0 snaplen.
err = pio.handle.SetBPFFilter("inbound")
return pio, err
}
func NewPcapO(ifName string) (po PacketSink, err error) {
po, err = newPcapIO(ifName, false, 0, 0)
return
}
func newPcapIO(ifName string, promisc bool, snaplen int, bufSz int) (handle *PcapIO, err error) {
inactive, err := pcap.NewInactiveHandle(ifName)
if err != nil {
return
}
defer inactive.CleanUp()
if err = inactive.SetPromisc(promisc); err != nil {
return
}
if err = inactive.SetSnapLen(snaplen); err != nil {
return
}
if err = inactive.SetTimeout(MaxDuration); err != nil {
return
}
if err = inactive.SetImmediateMode(true); err != nil {
return
}
if err = inactive.SetBufferSize(bufSz); err != nil {
return
}
active, err := inactive.Activate()
if err != nil {
return
}
if err = active.SetDirection(pcap.DirectionIn); err != nil {
return
}
return &PcapIO{handle: active}, nil
}
func (pi *PcapIO) ReadPacket() (data []byte, err error) {
for {
data, _, err = pi.handle.ZeroCopyReadPacketData()
if err == nil || err != pcap.NextErrorTimeoutExpired {
break
}
}
return
}
func (po *PcapIO) WritePacket(data []byte) error {
return po.handle.WritePacketData(data)
}