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firezone/rust
Thomas Eizinger 17a18fdfbb feat(connlib): always use candidates in order of priority (#10063)
To make things easier to debug, we enforce the order that candidates are
processed in. We want candidates to be processed in the order of their
inverse priority as higher priorities are better. For example, a host
candidate has a higher priority than a relay candidate.

This will make our logs more consistent because a `0-0` candidate pair
is always a `host-host` pair.

We enforce this with our own `IceCandidate` type which implements
`PartialOrd` and `Ord`. This now moves the deserialisation for the
portal messages to a `Deserialise` impl on this type. In order to ensure
that a single faulty candidate doesn't invalidate the entire list, we
use `serde_with` to skip over those elements that cannot be
deserialised.
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Rust development guide

Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.

We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml. If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you. Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the release profile.
  2. sudo perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.