[Benchmarks] - Create/Find useful short benchmarks

[Dwctor]

Honey Potion keeps benchmarks in the benchmarks folder. As it stands, we have a few examples from BPFabric and IOVisor. Some of those are already implemented into Honey Potion, namely HelloWorld, CountSysCalls, ForceKill, TrafficCount and DropUDP. You could imagine the benchmarks folder as an eventual "Target".

Currently we are seeking for more benchmarks that have a real-world usage and that are simple. As an example, CountSysCalls Counts system calls (and prints), but doesn't do anything else with it, as it's objective is solely one functionality of what could be a useful full program.

These benchmarks should follow the same convention as the others:

/bench_name/
|_ Makefile
|_ README.md
|_ prog.bpf.c
|_ prog.c
|_ prog.h (Optional)

If you have ideas for benchmarks, but aren't sure if it's worth implementing or adding, feel free to comment on this issue!

[pronesto]

Hi guys! I would like to suggest four monitors as new benchmarks, in case anyone is willing to work on this issue:

• CPU Monitor: an eBPF program that profiles CPU usage by recording timestamps and stack traces at regular intervals. For instance, the eBPF program can sample CPU usage periodically and calculate metrics such as CPU utilization percentage, breakdown of CPU time spent on user-space versus kernel-space, and top processes consuming CPU time.
• Memory Monitor: an eBPF program that tracks memory allocations and deallocations, monitors memory usage per process, and provides metrics such as total memory usage, memory fragmentation, and memory leak detection.
• Disk Monitor: an eBPF program that monitors disk I/O operations (reads and writes), tracks disk I/O latency, and provides statistics on disk usage per process and file.
• Network Monitor: an eBPF program that captures network packets, classifies traffic based on protocols or applications, measures network bandwidth usage, and detects anomalies such as excessive network traffic or suspicious network activity.

Below there is an example of some output that I think it would be nice to have:

{
  "cpu_usage": {
    "total_utilization": 75.3,
    "user_space_utilization": 45.2,
    "kernel_space_utilization": 30.1,
    "top_processes": [
      {"pid": 1234, "name": "nginx", "cpu_usage": 25.0},
      {"pid": 5678, "name": "mysql", "cpu_usage": 20.3}
    ]
  },
  "memory_usage": {
    "total_memory": 8 GB,
    "used_memory": 6 GB,
    "free_memory": 2 GB,
    "top_processes": [
      {"pid": 1234, "name": "nginx", "memory_usage": 2.5 GB},
      {"pid": 5678, "name": "mysql", "memory_usage": 1.8 GB}
    ]
  },
  "disk_io": {
    "read_ops": 1000,
    "write_ops": 800,
    "average_latency": 5 ms
  },
  "network_traffic": {
    "total_packets": 10000,
    "total_bytes": 10 MB,
    "top_applications": [
      {"name": "httpd", "packets": 5000, "bytes": 5 MB},
      {"name": "ssh", "packets": 3000, "bytes": 3 MB}
    ]
  }
}

[sleipnir]

This remind me of Bayla Project

[ChrystianMSC]

Hi everyone!

I'll be working on this issue for now. If you need anything or have any advice or suggestions, feel free to reach out to me anytime.

[Dwctor]

Honey Potion, especially the Elixir side, is extremely well documented in the markdown files. Here's a few I suggest you look (in order) into to have an overview of the project!

• README.md -> General description and user guide
• docs/README.md -> Explanation of the folder structure of the project and it's purpose
• docs/Honey.md -> Quick description of all main modules of Elixir (helps to skim the code later without needing to read deeper into it)
• docs/Language.md -> Short explanation of the permitted user language in Honey Potion
• docs/Makefile.md -> Arguably the most important for your task, it explains how our makefile that compiles the code in C into eBPF works.

Other benchmarks can be found in benchmarks/<benchmark_name> , try and compile a few of them and execute it. Also feel free to use them as template to build more advanced versions (such as borrowing the HelloWorld).

If you have any doubts or have any issues, feel free to contact me or open an issue.