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5 This file documents the mmap() facility available with the PACKET
6 socket interface on 2.4/2.6/3.x kernels. This type of sockets is used for
7 i) capture network traffic with utilities like tcpdump, ii) transmit network
8 traffic, or any other that needs raw access to network interface.
10 You can find the latest version of this document at:
11 http://wiki.ipxwarzone.com/index.php5?title=Linux_packet_mmap
13 Howto can be found at:
14 http://wiki.gnu-log.net (packet_mmap)
16 Please send your comments to
17 Ulisses Alonso CamarĂ³ <uaca@i.hate.spam.alumni.uv.es>
18 Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@gnu-log.net>
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24 In Linux 2.4/2.6/3.x if PACKET_MMAP is not enabled, the capture process is very
25 inefficient. It uses very limited buffers and requires one system call to
26 capture each packet, it requires two if you want to get packet's timestamp
27 (like libpcap always does).
29 In the other hand PACKET_MMAP is very efficient. PACKET_MMAP provides a size
30 configurable circular buffer mapped in user space that can be used to either
31 send or receive packets. This way reading packets just needs to wait for them,
32 most of the time there is no need to issue a single system call. Concerning
33 transmission, multiple packets can be sent through one system call to get the
34 highest bandwidth. By using a shared buffer between the kernel and the user
35 also has the benefit of minimizing packet copies.
37 It's fine to use PACKET_MMAP to improve the performance of the capture and
38 transmission process, but it isn't everything. At least, if you are capturing
39 at high speeds (this is relative to the cpu speed), you should check if the
40 device driver of your network interface card supports some sort of interrupt
41 load mitigation or (even better) if it supports NAPI, also make sure it is
42 enabled. For transmission, check the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) used and
43 supported by devices of your network. CPU IRQ pinning of your network interface
44 card can also be an advantage.
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47 + How to use mmap() to improve capture process
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50 From the user standpoint, you should use the higher level libpcap library, which
51 is a de facto standard, portable across nearly all operating systems
54 Said that, at time of this writing, official libpcap 0.8.1 is out and doesn't include
55 support for PACKET_MMAP, and also probably the libpcap included in your distribution.
57 I'm aware of two implementations of PACKET_MMAP in libpcap:
59 http://wiki.ipxwarzone.com/ (by Simon Patarin, based on libpcap 0.6.2)
60 http://public.lanl.gov/cpw/ (by Phil Wood, based on lastest libpcap)
62 The rest of this document is intended for people who want to understand
63 the low level details or want to improve libpcap by including PACKET_MMAP
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67 + How to use mmap() directly to improve capture process
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70 From the system calls stand point, the use of PACKET_MMAP involves
71 the following process:
74 [setup] socket() -------> creation of the capture socket
75 setsockopt() ---> allocation of the circular buffer (ring)
76 option: PACKET_RX_RING
77 mmap() ---------> mapping of the allocated buffer to the
80 [capture] poll() ---------> to wait for incoming packets
82 [shutdown] close() --------> destruction of the capture socket and
83 deallocation of all associated
87 socket creation and destruction is straight forward, and is done
88 the same way with or without PACKET_MMAP:
90 int fd = socket(PF_PACKET, mode, htons(ETH_P_ALL));
92 where mode is SOCK_RAW for the raw interface were link level
93 information can be captured or SOCK_DGRAM for the cooked
94 interface where link level information capture is not
95 supported and a link level pseudo-header is provided
98 The destruction of the socket and all associated resources
99 is done by a simple call to close(fd).
101 Next I will describe PACKET_MMAP settings and its constraints,
102 also the mapping of the circular buffer in the user process and
103 the use of this buffer.
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106 + How to use mmap() directly to improve transmission process
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108 Transmission process is similar to capture as shown below.
110 [setup] socket() -------> creation of the transmission socket
111 setsockopt() ---> allocation of the circular buffer (ring)
112 option: PACKET_TX_RING
113 bind() ---------> bind transmission socket with a network interface
114 mmap() ---------> mapping of the allocated buffer to the
117 [transmission] poll() ---------> wait for free packets (optional)
118 send() ---------> send all packets that are set as ready in
120 The flag MSG_DONTWAIT can be used to return
121 before end of transfer.
123 [shutdown] close() --------> destruction of the transmission socket and
124 deallocation of all associated resources.
126 Binding the socket to your network interface is mandatory (with zero copy) to
127 know the header size of frames used in the circular buffer.
129 As capture, each frame contains two parts:
132 | struct tpacket_hdr | Header. It contains the status of
134 |--------------------|
136 . . Data that will be sent over the network interface.
140 bind() associates the socket to your network interface thanks to
141 sll_ifindex parameter of struct sockaddr_ll.
143 Initialization example:
145 struct sockaddr_ll my_addr;
149 strncpy (s_ifr.ifr_name, "eth0", sizeof(s_ifr.ifr_name));
151 /* get interface index of eth0 */
152 ioctl(this->socket, SIOCGIFINDEX, &s_ifr);
154 /* fill sockaddr_ll struct to prepare binding */
155 my_addr.sll_family = AF_PACKET;
156 my_addr.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_ALL);
157 my_addr.sll_ifindex = s_ifr.ifr_ifindex;
159 /* bind socket to eth0 */
160 bind(this->socket, (struct sockaddr *)&my_addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr_ll));
162 A complete tutorial is available at: http://wiki.gnu-log.net/
164 By default, the user should put data at :
165 frame base + TPACKET_HDRLEN - sizeof(struct sockaddr_ll)
167 So, whatever you choose for the socket mode (SOCK_DGRAM or SOCK_RAW),
168 the beginning of the user data will be at :
169 frame base + TPACKET_ALIGN(sizeof(struct tpacket_hdr))
171 If you wish to put user data at a custom offset from the beginning of
172 the frame (for payload alignment with SOCK_RAW mode for instance) you
173 can set tp_net (with SOCK_DGRAM) or tp_mac (with SOCK_RAW). In order
174 to make this work it must be enabled previously with setsockopt()
175 and the PACKET_TX_HAS_OFF option.
177 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
178 + PACKET_MMAP settings
179 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
181 To setup PACKET_MMAP from user level code is done with a call like
184 setsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_RX_RING, (void *) &req, sizeof(req))
185 - Transmission process
186 setsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_TX_RING, (void *) &req, sizeof(req))
188 The most significant argument in the previous call is the req parameter,
189 this parameter must to have the following structure:
193 unsigned int tp_block_size; /* Minimal size of contiguous block */
194 unsigned int tp_block_nr; /* Number of blocks */
195 unsigned int tp_frame_size; /* Size of frame */
196 unsigned int tp_frame_nr; /* Total number of frames */
199 This structure is defined in /usr/include/linux/if_packet.h and establishes a
200 circular buffer (ring) of unswappable memory.
201 Being mapped in the capture process allows reading the captured frames and
202 related meta-information like timestamps without requiring a system call.
204 Frames are grouped in blocks. Each block is a physically contiguous
205 region of memory and holds tp_block_size/tp_frame_size frames. The total number
206 of blocks is tp_block_nr. Note that tp_frame_nr is a redundant parameter because
208 frames_per_block = tp_block_size/tp_frame_size
210 indeed, packet_set_ring checks that the following condition is true
212 frames_per_block * tp_block_nr == tp_frame_nr
214 Lets see an example, with the following values:
221 we will get the following buffer structure:
224 +---------+---------+ +---------+---------+
225 | frame 1 | frame 2 | | frame 3 | frame 4 |
226 +---------+---------+ +---------+---------+
229 +---------+---------+ +---------+---------+
230 | frame 5 | frame 6 | | frame 7 | frame 8 |
231 +---------+---------+ +---------+---------+
233 A frame can be of any size with the only condition it can fit in a block. A block
234 can only hold an integer number of frames, or in other words, a frame cannot
235 be spawned across two blocks, so there are some details you have to take into
236 account when choosing the frame_size. See "Mapping and use of the circular
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240 + PACKET_MMAP setting constraints
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243 In kernel versions prior to 2.4.26 (for the 2.4 branch) and 2.6.5 (2.6 branch),
244 the PACKET_MMAP buffer could hold only 32768 frames in a 32 bit architecture or
245 16384 in a 64 bit architecture. For information on these kernel versions
246 see http://pusa.uv.es/~ulisses/packet_mmap/packet_mmap.pre-2.4.26_2.6.5.txt
251 As stated earlier, each block is a contiguous physical region of memory. These
252 memory regions are allocated with calls to the __get_free_pages() function. As
253 the name indicates, this function allocates pages of memory, and the second
254 argument is "order" or a power of two number of pages, that is
255 (for PAGE_SIZE == 4096) order=0 ==> 4096 bytes, order=1 ==> 8192 bytes,
256 order=2 ==> 16384 bytes, etc. The maximum size of a
257 region allocated by __get_free_pages is determined by the MAX_ORDER macro. More
258 precisely the limit can be calculated as:
260 PAGE_SIZE << MAX_ORDER
262 In a i386 architecture PAGE_SIZE is 4096 bytes
263 In a 2.4/i386 kernel MAX_ORDER is 10
264 In a 2.6/i386 kernel MAX_ORDER is 11
266 So get_free_pages can allocate as much as 4MB or 8MB in a 2.4/2.6 kernel
267 respectively, with an i386 architecture.
269 User space programs can include /usr/include/sys/user.h and
270 /usr/include/linux/mmzone.h to get PAGE_SIZE MAX_ORDER declarations.
272 The pagesize can also be determined dynamically with the getpagesize (2)
278 To understand the constraints of PACKET_MMAP, we have to see the structure
279 used to hold the pointers to each block.
281 Currently, this structure is a dynamically allocated vector with kmalloc
282 called pg_vec, its size limits the number of blocks that can be allocated.
294 kmalloc allocates any number of bytes of physically contiguous memory from
295 a pool of pre-determined sizes. This pool of memory is maintained by the slab
296 allocator which is at the end the responsible for doing the allocation and
297 hence which imposes the maximum memory that kmalloc can allocate.
299 In a 2.4/2.6 kernel and the i386 architecture, the limit is 131072 bytes. The
300 predetermined sizes that kmalloc uses can be checked in the "size-<bytes>"
301 entries of /proc/slabinfo
303 In a 32 bit architecture, pointers are 4 bytes long, so the total number of
304 pointers to blocks is
306 131072/4 = 32768 blocks
308 PACKET_MMAP buffer size calculator
309 ------------------------------------
313 <size-max> : is the maximum size of allocable with kmalloc (see /proc/slabinfo)
314 <pointer size>: depends on the architecture -- sizeof(void *)
315 <page size> : depends on the architecture -- PAGE_SIZE or getpagesize (2)
316 <max-order> : is the value defined with MAX_ORDER
317 <frame size> : it's an upper bound of frame's capture size (more on this later)
319 from these definitions we will derive
321 <block number> = <size-max>/<pointer size>
322 <block size> = <pagesize> << <max-order>
324 so, the max buffer size is
326 <block number> * <block size>
328 and, the number of frames be
330 <block number> * <block size> / <frame size>
332 Suppose the following parameters, which apply for 2.6 kernel and an
335 <size-max> = 131072 bytes
336 <pointer size> = 4 bytes
337 <pagesize> = 4096 bytes
340 and a value for <frame size> of 2048 bytes. These parameters will yield
342 <block number> = 131072/4 = 32768 blocks
343 <block size> = 4096 << 11 = 8 MiB.
345 and hence the buffer will have a 262144 MiB size. So it can hold
346 262144 MiB / 2048 bytes = 134217728 frames
348 Actually, this buffer size is not possible with an i386 architecture.
349 Remember that the memory is allocated in kernel space, in the case of
350 an i386 kernel's memory size is limited to 1GiB.
352 All memory allocations are not freed until the socket is closed. The memory
353 allocations are done with GFP_KERNEL priority, this basically means that
354 the allocation can wait and swap other process' memory in order to allocate
355 the necessary memory, so normally limits can be reached.
360 If you check the source code you will see that what I draw here as a frame
361 is not only the link level frame. At the beginning of each frame there is a
362 header called struct tpacket_hdr used in PACKET_MMAP to hold link level's frame
363 meta information like timestamp. So what we draw here a frame it's really
364 the following (from include/linux/if_packet.h):
369 - Start. Frame must be aligned to TPACKET_ALIGNMENT=16
371 - pad to TPACKET_ALIGNMENT=16
373 - Gap, chosen so that packet data (Start+tp_net) aligns to
375 - Start+tp_mac: [ Optional MAC header ]
376 - Start+tp_net: Packet data, aligned to TPACKET_ALIGNMENT=16.
377 - Pad to align to TPACKET_ALIGNMENT=16
380 The following are conditions that are checked in packet_set_ring
382 tp_block_size must be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE (1)
383 tp_frame_size must be greater than TPACKET_HDRLEN (obvious)
384 tp_frame_size must be a multiple of TPACKET_ALIGNMENT
385 tp_frame_nr must be exactly frames_per_block*tp_block_nr
387 Note that tp_block_size should be chosen to be a power of two or there will
388 be a waste of memory.
390 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
391 + Mapping and use of the circular buffer (ring)
392 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
394 The mapping of the buffer in the user process is done with the conventional
395 mmap function. Even the circular buffer is compound of several physically
396 discontiguous blocks of memory, they are contiguous to the user space, hence
397 just one call to mmap is needed:
399 mmap(0, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
401 If tp_frame_size is a divisor of tp_block_size frames will be
402 contiguously spaced by tp_frame_size bytes. If not, each
403 tp_block_size/tp_frame_size frames there will be a gap between
404 the frames. This is because a frame cannot be spawn across two
407 At the beginning of each frame there is an status field (see
408 struct tpacket_hdr). If this field is 0 means that the frame is ready
409 to be used for the kernel, If not, there is a frame the user can read
410 and the following flags apply:
413 from include/linux/if_packet.h
415 #define TP_STATUS_COPY 2
416 #define TP_STATUS_LOSING 4
417 #define TP_STATUS_CSUMNOTREADY 8
419 TP_STATUS_COPY : This flag indicates that the frame (and associated
420 meta information) has been truncated because it's
421 larger than tp_frame_size. This packet can be
422 read entirely with recvfrom().
424 In order to make this work it must to be
425 enabled previously with setsockopt() and
426 the PACKET_COPY_THRESH option.
428 The number of frames than can be buffered to
429 be read with recvfrom is limited like a normal socket.
430 See the SO_RCVBUF option in the socket (7) man page.
432 TP_STATUS_LOSING : indicates there were packet drops from last time
433 statistics where checked with getsockopt() and
434 the PACKET_STATISTICS option.
436 TP_STATUS_CSUMNOTREADY: currently it's used for outgoing IP packets which
437 its checksum will be done in hardware. So while
438 reading the packet we should not try to check the
441 for convenience there are also the following defines:
443 #define TP_STATUS_KERNEL 0
444 #define TP_STATUS_USER 1
446 The kernel initializes all frames to TP_STATUS_KERNEL, when the kernel
447 receives a packet it puts in the buffer and updates the status with
448 at least the TP_STATUS_USER flag. Then the user can read the packet,
449 once the packet is read the user must zero the status field, so the kernel
450 can use again that frame buffer.
452 The user can use poll (any other variant should apply too) to check if new
453 packets are in the ring:
459 pfd.events = POLLIN|POLLRDNORM|POLLERR;
461 if (status == TP_STATUS_KERNEL)
462 retval = poll(&pfd, 1, timeout);
464 It doesn't incur in a race condition to first check the status value and
465 then poll for frames.
467 ++ Transmission process
468 Those defines are also used for transmission:
470 #define TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE 0 // Frame is available
471 #define TP_STATUS_SEND_REQUEST 1 // Frame will be sent on next send()
472 #define TP_STATUS_SENDING 2 // Frame is currently in transmission
473 #define TP_STATUS_WRONG_FORMAT 4 // Frame format is not correct
475 First, the kernel initializes all frames to TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE. To send a
476 packet, the user fills a data buffer of an available frame, sets tp_len to
477 current data buffer size and sets its status field to TP_STATUS_SEND_REQUEST.
478 This can be done on multiple frames. Once the user is ready to transmit, it
479 calls send(). Then all buffers with status equal to TP_STATUS_SEND_REQUEST are
480 forwarded to the network device. The kernel updates each status of sent
481 frames with TP_STATUS_SENDING until the end of transfer.
482 At the end of each transfer, buffer status returns to TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE.
484 header->tp_len = in_i_size;
485 header->tp_status = TP_STATUS_SEND_REQUEST;
486 retval = send(this->socket, NULL, 0, 0);
488 The user can also use poll() to check if a buffer is available:
489 (status == TP_STATUS_SENDING)
494 pfd.events = POLLOUT;
495 retval = poll(&pfd, 1, timeout);
497 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
498 + What TPACKET versions are available and when to use them?
499 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
501 int val = tpacket_version;
502 setsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_VERSION, &val, sizeof(val));
503 getsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_VERSION, &val, sizeof(val));
505 where 'tpacket_version' can be TPACKET_V1 (default), TPACKET_V2, TPACKET_V3.
508 - Default if not otherwise specified by setsockopt(2)
509 - RX_RING, TX_RING available
510 - VLAN metadata information available for packets
511 (TP_STATUS_VLAN_VALID)
513 TPACKET_V1 --> TPACKET_V2:
514 - Made 64 bit clean due to unsigned long usage in TPACKET_V1
515 structures, thus this also works on 64 bit kernel with 32 bit
516 userspace and the like
517 - Timestamp resolution in nanoseconds instead of microseconds
518 - RX_RING, TX_RING available
519 - How to switch to TPACKET_V2:
520 1. Replace struct tpacket_hdr by struct tpacket2_hdr
521 2. Query header len and save
522 3. Set protocol version to 2, set up ring as usual
523 4. For getting the sockaddr_ll,
524 use (void *)hdr + TPACKET_ALIGN(hdrlen) instead of
525 (void *)hdr + TPACKET_ALIGN(sizeof(struct tpacket_hdr))
527 TPACKET_V2 --> TPACKET_V3:
528 - Flexible buffer implementation:
529 1. Blocks can be configured with non-static frame-size
530 2. Read/poll is at a block-level (as opposed to packet-level)
531 3. Added poll timeout to avoid indefinite user-space wait
533 4. Added user-configurable knobs:
535 4.2 tpkt_hdr::sk_rxhash
536 - RX Hash data available in user space
537 - Currently only RX_RING available
539 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
540 + AF_PACKET fanout mode
541 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
543 In the AF_PACKET fanout mode, packet reception can be load balanced among
544 processes. This also works in combination with mmap(2) on packet sockets.
546 Currently implemented fanout policies are:
548 - PACKET_FANOUT_HASH: schedule to socket by skb's rxhash
549 - PACKET_FANOUT_LB: schedule to socket by round-robin
550 - PACKET_FANOUT_CPU: schedule to socket by CPU packet arrives on
551 - PACKET_FANOUT_RND: schedule to socket by random selection
552 - PACKET_FANOUT_ROLLOVER: if one socket is full, rollover to another
554 Minimal example code by David S. Miller (try things like "./test eth0 hash",
555 "./test eth0 lb", etc.):
562 #include <sys/types.h>
563 #include <sys/wait.h>
564 #include <sys/socket.h>
565 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
569 #include <linux/if_ether.h>
570 #include <linux/if_packet.h>
574 static const char *device_name;
575 static int fanout_type;
576 static int fanout_id;
578 #ifndef PACKET_FANOUT
579 # define PACKET_FANOUT 18
580 # define PACKET_FANOUT_HASH 0
581 # define PACKET_FANOUT_LB 1
584 static int setup_socket(void)
586 int err, fd = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_IP));
587 struct sockaddr_ll ll;
596 memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
597 strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, device_name);
598 err = ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr);
600 perror("SIOCGIFINDEX");
604 memset(&ll, 0, sizeof(ll));
605 ll.sll_family = AF_PACKET;
606 ll.sll_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
607 err = bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *) &ll, sizeof(ll));
613 fanout_arg = (fanout_id | (fanout_type << 16));
614 err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_FANOUT,
615 &fanout_arg, sizeof(fanout_arg));
617 perror("setsockopt");
624 static void fanout_thread(void)
626 int fd = setup_socket();
632 while (limit-- > 0) {
636 err = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
641 if ((limit % 10) == 0)
642 fprintf(stdout, "(%d) \n", getpid());
645 fprintf(stdout, "%d: Received 10000 packets\n", getpid());
651 int main(int argc, char **argp)
657 fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s INTERFACE {hash|lb}\n", argp[0]);
661 if (!strcmp(argp[2], "hash"))
662 fanout_type = PACKET_FANOUT_HASH;
663 else if (!strcmp(argp[2], "lb"))
664 fanout_type = PACKET_FANOUT_LB;
666 fprintf(stderr, "Unknown fanout type [%s]\n", argp[2]);
670 device_name = argp[1];
671 fanout_id = getpid() & 0xffff;
673 for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
686 for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
695 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
696 + AF_PACKET TPACKET_V3 example
697 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
699 AF_PACKET's TPACKET_V3 ring buffer can be configured to use non-static frame
700 sizes by doing it's own memory management. It is based on blocks where polling
701 works on a per block basis instead of per ring as in TPACKET_V2 and predecessor.
703 It is said that TPACKET_V3 brings the following benefits:
704 *) ~15 - 20% reduction in CPU-usage
705 *) ~20% increase in packet capture rate
706 *) ~2x increase in packet density
707 *) Port aggregation analysis
708 *) Non static frame size to capture entire packet payload
710 So it seems to be a good candidate to be used with packet fanout.
712 Minimal example code by Daniel Borkmann based on Chetan Loke's lolpcap (compile
713 it with gcc -Wall -O2 blob.c, and try things like "./a.out eth0", etc.):
715 /* Written from scratch, but kernel-to-user space API usage
716 * dissected from lolpcap:
717 * Copyright 2011, Chetan Loke <loke.chetan@gmail.com>
718 * License: GPL, version 2.0
727 #include <arpa/inet.h>
732 #include <inttypes.h>
733 #include <sys/socket.h>
734 #include <sys/mman.h>
735 #include <linux/if_packet.h>
736 #include <linux/if_ether.h>
737 #include <linux/ip.h>
740 # define likely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
743 # define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
748 uint32_t offset_to_priv;
749 struct tpacket_hdr_v1 h1;
755 struct tpacket_req3 req;
758 static unsigned long packets_total = 0, bytes_total = 0;
759 static sig_atomic_t sigint = 0;
761 static void sighandler(int num)
766 static int setup_socket(struct ring *ring, char *netdev)
768 int err, i, fd, v = TPACKET_V3;
769 struct sockaddr_ll ll;
770 unsigned int blocksiz = 1 << 22, framesiz = 1 << 11;
771 unsigned int blocknum = 64;
773 fd = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_ALL));
779 err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_VERSION, &v, sizeof(v));
781 perror("setsockopt");
785 memset(&ring->req, 0, sizeof(ring->req));
786 ring->req.tp_block_size = blocksiz;
787 ring->req.tp_frame_size = framesiz;
788 ring->req.tp_block_nr = blocknum;
789 ring->req.tp_frame_nr = (blocksiz * blocknum) / framesiz;
790 ring->req.tp_retire_blk_tov = 60;
791 ring->req.tp_feature_req_word = TP_FT_REQ_FILL_RXHASH;
793 err = setsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_RX_RING, &ring->req,
796 perror("setsockopt");
800 ring->map = mmap(NULL, ring->req.tp_block_size * ring->req.tp_block_nr,
801 PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_LOCKED, fd, 0);
802 if (ring->map == MAP_FAILED) {
807 ring->rd = malloc(ring->req.tp_block_nr * sizeof(*ring->rd));
809 for (i = 0; i < ring->req.tp_block_nr; ++i) {
810 ring->rd[i].iov_base = ring->map + (i * ring->req.tp_block_size);
811 ring->rd[i].iov_len = ring->req.tp_block_size;
814 memset(&ll, 0, sizeof(ll));
815 ll.sll_family = PF_PACKET;
816 ll.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_ALL);
817 ll.sll_ifindex = if_nametoindex(netdev);
822 err = bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *) &ll, sizeof(ll));
831 static void display(struct tpacket3_hdr *ppd)
833 struct ethhdr *eth = (struct ethhdr *) ((uint8_t *) ppd + ppd->tp_mac);
834 struct iphdr *ip = (struct iphdr *) ((uint8_t *) eth + ETH_HLEN);
836 if (eth->h_proto == htons(ETH_P_IP)) {
837 struct sockaddr_in ss, sd;
838 char sbuff[NI_MAXHOST], dbuff[NI_MAXHOST];
840 memset(&ss, 0, sizeof(ss));
841 ss.sin_family = PF_INET;
842 ss.sin_addr.s_addr = ip->saddr;
843 getnameinfo((struct sockaddr *) &ss, sizeof(ss),
844 sbuff, sizeof(sbuff), NULL, 0, NI_NUMERICHOST);
846 memset(&sd, 0, sizeof(sd));
847 sd.sin_family = PF_INET;
848 sd.sin_addr.s_addr = ip->daddr;
849 getnameinfo((struct sockaddr *) &sd, sizeof(sd),
850 dbuff, sizeof(dbuff), NULL, 0, NI_NUMERICHOST);
852 printf("%s -> %s, ", sbuff, dbuff);
855 printf("rxhash: 0x%x\n", ppd->hv1.tp_rxhash);
858 static void walk_block(struct block_desc *pbd, const int block_num)
860 int num_pkts = pbd->h1.num_pkts, i;
861 unsigned long bytes = 0;
862 struct tpacket3_hdr *ppd;
864 ppd = (struct tpacket3_hdr *) ((uint8_t *) pbd +
865 pbd->h1.offset_to_first_pkt);
866 for (i = 0; i < num_pkts; ++i) {
867 bytes += ppd->tp_snaplen;
870 ppd = (struct tpacket3_hdr *) ((uint8_t *) ppd +
871 ppd->tp_next_offset);
874 packets_total += num_pkts;
875 bytes_total += bytes;
878 static void flush_block(struct block_desc *pbd)
880 pbd->h1.block_status = TP_STATUS_KERNEL;
883 static void teardown_socket(struct ring *ring, int fd)
885 munmap(ring->map, ring->req.tp_block_size * ring->req.tp_block_nr);
890 int main(int argc, char **argp)
896 unsigned int block_num = 0, blocks = 64;
897 struct block_desc *pbd;
898 struct tpacket_stats_v3 stats;
901 fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s INTERFACE\n", argp[0]);
905 signal(SIGINT, sighandler);
907 memset(&ring, 0, sizeof(ring));
908 fd = setup_socket(&ring, argp[argc - 1]);
911 memset(&pfd, 0, sizeof(pfd));
913 pfd.events = POLLIN | POLLERR;
916 while (likely(!sigint)) {
917 pbd = (struct block_desc *) ring.rd[block_num].iov_base;
919 if ((pbd->h1.block_status & TP_STATUS_USER) == 0) {
924 walk_block(pbd, block_num);
926 block_num = (block_num + 1) % blocks;
930 err = getsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_STATISTICS, &stats, &len);
932 perror("getsockopt");
937 printf("\nReceived %u packets, %lu bytes, %u dropped, freeze_q_cnt: %u\n",
938 stats.tp_packets, bytes_total, stats.tp_drops,
939 stats.tp_freeze_q_cnt);
941 teardown_socket(&ring, fd);
945 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
947 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
949 The PACKET_TIMESTAMP setting determines the source of the timestamp in
950 the packet meta information for mmap(2)ed RX_RING and TX_RINGs. If your
951 NIC is capable of timestamping packets in hardware, you can request those
952 hardware timestamps to be used. Note: you may need to enable the generation
953 of hardware timestamps with SIOCSHWTSTAMP (see related information from
954 Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt).
956 PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as
957 SO_TIMESTAMPING. However, only the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE
958 and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE values are recognized by
959 PACKET_TIMESTAMP. SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE takes precedence over
960 SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE if both bits are set.
963 req |= SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE;
964 setsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, (void *) &req, sizeof(req))
966 For the mmap(2)ed ring buffers, such timestamps are stored in the
967 tpacket{,2,3}_hdr structure's tp_sec and tp_{n,u}sec members. To determine
968 what kind of timestamp has been reported, the tp_status field is binary |'ed
969 with the following possible bits ...
971 TP_STATUS_TS_SYS_HARDWARE
972 TP_STATUS_TS_RAW_HARDWARE
973 TP_STATUS_TS_SOFTWARE
975 ... that are equivalent to its SOF_TIMESTAMPING_* counterparts. For the
976 RX_RING, if none of those 3 are set (i.e. PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set),
977 then this means that a software fallback was invoked *within* PF_PACKET's
978 processing code (less precise).
980 Getting timestamps for the TX_RING works as follows: i) fill the ring frames,
981 ii) call sendto() e.g. in blocking mode, iii) wait for status of relevant
982 frames to be updated resp. the frame handed over to the application, iv) walk
983 through the frames to pick up the individual hw/sw timestamps.
985 Only (!) if transmit timestamping is enabled, then these bits are combined
986 with binary | with TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE, so you must check for that in your
987 application (e.g. !(tp_status & (TP_STATUS_SEND_REQUEST | TP_STATUS_SENDING))
988 in a first step to see if the frame belongs to the application, and then
989 one can extract the type of timestamp in a second step from tp_status)!
991 If you don't care about them, thus having it disabled, checking for
992 TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE resp. TP_STATUS_WRONG_FORMAT is sufficient. If in the
993 TX_RING part only TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE is set, then the tp_sec and tp_{n,u}sec
994 members do not contain a valid value. For TX_RINGs, by default no timestamp
997 See include/linux/net_tstamp.h and Documentation/networking/timestamping
998 for more information on hardware timestamps.
1000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1001 + Miscellaneous bits
1002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1004 - Packet sockets work well together with Linux socket filters, thus you also
1005 might want to have a look at Documentation/networking/filter.txt
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1011 Jesse Brandeburg, for fixing my grammathical/spelling errors