Optimize exporter CPU and memory usage for high-density nodes - #351
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Summary
This MR addresses high CPU (~367m) and memory (~300Mi) consumption of kubeskoop-agent on nodes
with many pods (60+). Through a series of targeted optimizations, CPU is reduced by 72% to ~101m
and memory by 58% to ~126Mi.
Changes
1. LinkManager abstraction (
linkmanager.go)2. Switch from bswang/netlink fork to upstream vishvananda/netlink
causing unnecessary CPU consumption
3. Optimize proctcpsummary /proc/net/tcp parsing (
proctcp.go)4. NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG for TCP socket collection (
sockdiag.go)5. Lazy-load kernel symbols (
kallsyms.go)6. Eliminate intermediate string map allocations (
procnetstat.go,procsnmp.go)needed fields. Reduced cumulative allocations from ~7.7GB to near zero.
cumulative allocations.
Performance Results (node with 63 pods, 59 unique namespaces)
Test Plan
(conntrack, qdisc, netdev, io, sock, tcpsummary, tcp, tcpext, udp, rdma)
0/1K/10K/50K socket scales