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firezone/rust
Thomas Eizinger 44a402e1db feat(connlib): increase the number of GRO batches (#8874)
When reading from our UDP socket, we utilise GRO to read multiple
packets originating from the same IP + port and with the same length in
a single syscall. Currently, we can read up to 10 different combinations
here in a single syscall. `quinn_udp` actually exposes a constant for
how many batches it can handle at a time. Instead of hard-coding the
value 10, we now follow this constant.

On Linux and MacOS (with `apple-fast-datapath`), this constant has the
value 32. On Windows, it is 1.

Even on my not-so-fast Internet connection of 100Mbit, I can see an
increase in batch-count of up to 29 so increasing this value seems to be
definitely worth it.
2025-04-22 02:07:12 +00:00
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2023-05-10 07:58:32 -07:00

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.