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Bug #12342

bandwidth display badly formatted in flowstat, dlstat, and dladm

Added by Peter Tribble about 1 month ago. Updated 30 days ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Peter Tribble
Category:
cmd - userland programs
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% Done:

100%

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Difficulty:
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Description

The output from flowstat -h looks like:

FLOW         START         END           RBYTES   OBYTES   BANDWIDTH
znic0flow    18:43:51      18:44:11      1422     38066    0.015 Mbps
znic0flow    18:44:11      18:44:31      1320     38000    0.015 Mbps
znic0flow    18:44:31      18:44:51      83979    1058232      4.266 Mbp
znic0flow    18:44:51      18:45:11      221124   2470940      9.972 Mbp

There are 2 problems here: the first is that the bandwidth numbers don't line up; the second isthat "Mbps" is truncated to "Mbp".

The number formatting is done by dladm_bw2str() in libdladm. It changes the format (specifically, left padding) depending on the size of the numbers, which is unhelpful. It would be better to use the same format string whether or not it's a leading zero.

The string from dladm_bw2str() is formatted as 5.3, so takes up 9 characters. Add 1 for the space, 4 for MBps and 1 for the terminating null, and the string needs to be sized to take 15 character. It's only 14, which explains why the "s" gets cut off.

The same code and bug appears in dlstat and the show-usage command of dladm.

The other use of dladm_bw2str() is to display the maxbw property in flowadm and dladm. As that property has a minimum value of 1200K, it will never have a leading zero so is unaffected by the problem described here.

History

#1

Updated by Peter Tribble about 1 month ago

Testing:

Testing:

That the following are fixed:

flowstat -h -f /var/log/net.log znic0flow

FLOW         START         END           RBYTES   OBYTES   BANDWIDTH
znic0flow    18:43:51      18:44:11      1422     38066        0.015 Mbps
znic0flow    18:44:11      18:44:31      1320     38000        0.015 Mbps
znic0flow    18:44:31      18:44:51      83979    1058232      4.266 Mbps
znic0flow    18:44:51      18:45:11      221124   2470940      9.972 Mbps

and likewise for the other variants:

flowstat -h -f /var/log/net.log

dlstat show-link -h -f /var/log/net.log e1000g0

dlstat show-link -h -f /var/log/net.log

dladm show-usage -f /var/log/net.log e1000g0

dladm show-usage -f /var/log/net.log

Furthermore, verified that the following are unchanged:

flowadm show-flowprop

dladm show-linkprop -p maxbw

#2

Updated by Electric Monk 30 days ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

git commit 3d349c3119b5b6e21daba1ce004cf4625b25d67f

commit  3d349c3119b5b6e21daba1ce004cf4625b25d67f
Author: Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com>
Date:   2020-03-04T07:34:59.000Z

    12342 bandwidth display badly formatted in flowstat, dlstat, and dladm
    Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman <andy@omniosce.org>
    Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org>

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