Osmocom Libraries » libosmocore

I briefly looked at migrating the osmo_stats_reporter over to osmo_io, and I'm not entirely sure if it's that great an idea. Right now each stats_reporter has one msgb that's allocated at socket-open time. Whenever there's something to write, that buffer is used and then immediately sent off using sendto(). There's no integration into the osmocom select loop. We always assume the [udp] socket is writable. The buffers are hence never free'd or re-allocated at runtime.

If we switch over to osmo_io, then it would mean every stats report allocates a new msgb, and once that's handed over to the io_uring backend there are even more allocations. So yes, we'd save the sendto system call, but at the cost of more load on the heap allocator. The syscall is likely more expensive, sure. But is it worth it? I'm not so sure.