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[ovs-dev,v3] utilities: Add kernel_delay.py script to debug a busy Linux kernel.

Message ID 169442590245.81345.13145275940715632664.stgit@ebuild
State Superseded
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Series [ovs-dev,v3] utilities: Add kernel_delay.py script to debug a busy Linux kernel. | expand

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Eelco Chaudron Sept. 11, 2023, 9:51 a.m. UTC
This patch adds an utility that can be used to determine if
an issue is related to a lack of Linux kernel resources.

This tool is also featured in a Red Hat developers blog article:

  https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/07/24/troubleshooting-open-vswitch-kernel-blame

Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>

---
v2: Addressed review comments from Aaron.
v3: Changed wording in documentation.

 utilities/automake.mk                   |    4 
 utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.py  | 1402 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.rst |  596 +++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 2002 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.py
 create mode 100644 utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.rst
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diff --git a/utilities/automake.mk b/utilities/automake.mk
index 37d679f82..9a2114df4 100644
--- a/utilities/automake.mk
+++ b/utilities/automake.mk
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@  scripts_DATA += utilities/ovs-lib
 usdt_SCRIPTS += \
 	utilities/usdt-scripts/bridge_loop.bt \
 	utilities/usdt-scripts/dpif_nl_exec_monitor.py \
+	utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.py \
+	utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.rst \
 	utilities/usdt-scripts/reval_monitor.py \
 	utilities/usdt-scripts/upcall_cost.py \
 	utilities/usdt-scripts/upcall_monitor.py
@@ -70,6 +72,8 @@  EXTRA_DIST += \
 	utilities/docker/debian/build-kernel-modules.sh \
 	utilities/usdt-scripts/bridge_loop.bt \
 	utilities/usdt-scripts/dpif_nl_exec_monitor.py \
+	utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.py \
+	utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.rst \
 	utilities/usdt-scripts/reval_monitor.py \
 	utilities/usdt-scripts/upcall_cost.py \
 	utilities/usdt-scripts/upcall_monitor.py
diff --git a/utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.py b/utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..afecca68f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.py
@@ -0,0 +1,1402 @@ 
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2022,2023 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# Script information:
+# -------------------
+# This script allows a developer to quickly identify if the issue at hand
+# might be related to the kernel running out of resources or if it really is
+# an Open vSwitch issue.
+#
+# For documentation see the kernel_delay.rst file.
+#
+import argparse
+import datetime
+import os
+import pytz
+import psutil
+import re
+import sys
+import time
+
+import ctypes as ct
+
+try:
+    from bcc import BPF, USDT, USDTException
+    from bcc.syscall import syscalls, syscall_name
+except ModuleNotFoundError:
+    print("ERROR: Can't find the BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) tools!")
+    sys.exit(os.EX_OSFILE)
+
+from enum import IntEnum
+
+
+#
+# Actual eBPF source code
+#
+EBPF_SOURCE = """
+#include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+
+#define MONITOR_PID <MONITOR_PID>
+
+enum {
+<EVENT_ENUM>
+};
+
+struct event_t {
+    u64 ts;
+    u32 tid;
+    u32 id;
+
+    int user_stack_id;
+    int kernel_stack_id;
+
+    u32 syscall;
+    u64 entry_ts;
+
+};
+
+BPF_RINGBUF_OUTPUT(events, <BUFFER_PAGE_CNT>);
+BPF_STACK_TRACE(stack_traces, <STACK_TRACE_SIZE>);
+BPF_TABLE("percpu_array", uint32_t, uint64_t, dropcnt, 1);
+BPF_TABLE("percpu_array", uint32_t, uint64_t, trigger_miss, 1);
+
+BPF_ARRAY(capture_on, u64, 1);
+static bool capture_enabled(u64 pid_tgid) {
+    int key = 0;
+    u64 *ret;
+
+    if ((pid_tgid >> 32) != MONITOR_PID)
+        return false;
+
+    ret = capture_on.lookup(&key);
+    return ret && *ret == 1;
+}
+
+static inline bool capture_enabled__() {
+    int key = 0;
+    u64 *ret;
+
+    ret = capture_on.lookup(&key);
+    return ret && *ret == 1;
+}
+
+
+static struct event_t *get_event(uint32_t id) {
+    struct event_t *event = events.ringbuf_reserve(sizeof(struct event_t));
+
+    if (!event) {
+        dropcnt.increment(0);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    event->id = id;
+    event->ts = bpf_ktime_get_ns();
+    event->tid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid();
+
+    return event;
+}
+
+static int start_trigger() {
+    int key = 0;
+    u64 *val = capture_on.lookup(&key);
+
+    /* If the value is -1 we can't start as we are still processing the
+     * results in userspace. */
+    if (!val || *val != 0) {
+        trigger_miss.increment(0);
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    struct event_t *event = get_event(EVENT_START_TRIGGER);
+    if (event) {
+       events.ringbuf_submit(event, 0);
+       *val = 1;
+    } else {
+        trigger_miss.increment(0);
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static int stop_trigger() {
+    int key = 0;
+    u64 *val = capture_on.lookup(&key);
+
+    if (!val || *val != 1)
+        return 0;
+
+    struct event_t *event = get_event(EVENT_STOP_TRIGGER);
+
+    if (event)
+       events.ringbuf_submit(event, 0);
+
+    if (val)
+        *val = -1;
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+<START_TRIGGER>
+<STOP_TRIGGER>
+
+
+/*
+ * For the syscall monitor the following probes get installed.
+ */
+struct syscall_data_t {
+    u64 count;
+    u64 total_ns;
+    u64 worst_ns;
+};
+
+struct syscall_data_key_t {
+    u32 pid;
+    u32 tid;
+    u32 syscall;
+};
+
+BPF_HASH(syscall_start, u64, u64);
+BPF_HASH(syscall_data, struct syscall_data_key_t, struct syscall_data_t);
+
+TRACEPOINT_PROBE(raw_syscalls, sys_enter) {
+    u64 pid_tgid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid();
+
+    if (!capture_enabled(pid_tgid))
+       return 0;
+
+    u64 t = bpf_ktime_get_ns();
+    syscall_start.update(&pid_tgid, &t);
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+TRACEPOINT_PROBE(raw_syscalls, sys_exit) {
+    struct syscall_data_t *val, zero = {};
+    struct syscall_data_key_t key;
+
+    u64 pid_tgid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid();
+
+    if (!capture_enabled(pid_tgid))
+       return 0;
+
+    key.pid = pid_tgid >> 32;
+    key.tid = (u32)pid_tgid;
+    key.syscall = args->id;
+
+    u64 *start_ns = syscall_start.lookup(&pid_tgid);
+
+    if (!start_ns)
+        return 0;
+
+    val = syscall_data.lookup_or_try_init(&key, &zero);
+    if (val) {
+        u64 delta = bpf_ktime_get_ns() - *start_ns;
+        val->count++;
+        val->total_ns += delta;
+        if (val->worst_ns == 0 || delta > val->worst_ns)
+            val->worst_ns = delta;
+
+        if (<SYSCAL_TRACE_EVENTS>) {
+            struct event_t *event = get_event(EVENT_SYSCALL);
+            if (event) {
+                event->syscall = args->id;
+                event->entry_ts = *start_ns;
+                if (<STACK_TRACE_ENABLED>) {
+                    event->user_stack_id = stack_traces.get_stackid(
+                        args, BPF_F_USER_STACK);
+                    event->kernel_stack_id = stack_traces.get_stackid(
+                        args, 0);
+                }
+                events.ringbuf_submit(event, 0);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+
+
+/*
+ * For measuring the thread run time, we need the following.
+ */
+struct run_time_data_t {
+    u64 count;
+    u64 total_ns;
+    u64 max_ns;
+    u64 min_ns;
+};
+
+struct pid_tid_key_t {
+    u32  pid;
+    u32  tid;
+};
+
+BPF_HASH(run_start, u64, u64);
+BPF_HASH(run_data, struct pid_tid_key_t, struct run_time_data_t);
+
+static inline void thread_start_run(u64 pid_tgid, u64 ktime)
+{
+    run_start.update(&pid_tgid, &ktime);
+}
+
+static inline void thread_stop_run(u32 pid, u32 tgid, u64 ktime)
+{
+    u64 pid_tgid = (u64) tgid << 32 | pid;
+    u64 *start_ns = run_start.lookup(&pid_tgid);
+
+    if (!start_ns || *start_ns == 0)
+        return;
+
+    struct run_time_data_t *val, zero = {};
+    struct pid_tid_key_t key = { .pid = tgid,
+                                 .tid = pid };
+
+    val = run_data.lookup_or_try_init(&key, &zero);
+    if (val) {
+        u64 delta = ktime - *start_ns;
+        val->count++;
+        val->total_ns += delta;
+        if (val->max_ns == 0 || delta > val->max_ns)
+            val->max_ns = delta;
+        if (val->min_ns == 0 || delta < val->min_ns)
+            val->min_ns = delta;
+    }
+    *start_ns = 0;
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * For measuring the thread-ready delay, we need the following.
+ */
+struct ready_data_t {
+    u64 count;
+    u64 total_ns;
+    u64 worst_ns;
+};
+
+BPF_HASH(ready_start, u64, u64);
+BPF_HASH(ready_data, struct pid_tid_key_t, struct ready_data_t);
+
+static inline int sched_wakeup__(u32 pid, u32 tgid)
+{
+    u64 pid_tgid = (u64) tgid << 32 | pid;
+
+    if (!capture_enabled(pid_tgid))
+        return 0;
+
+    u64 t = bpf_ktime_get_ns();
+    ready_start.update(&pid_tgid, &t);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+RAW_TRACEPOINT_PROBE(sched_wakeup)
+{
+    struct task_struct *t = (struct task_struct *)ctx->args[0];
+    return sched_wakeup__(t->pid, t->tgid);
+}
+
+RAW_TRACEPOINT_PROBE(sched_wakeup_new)
+{
+    struct task_struct *t = (struct task_struct *)ctx->args[0];
+    return sched_wakeup__(t->pid, t->tgid);
+}
+
+RAW_TRACEPOINT_PROBE(sched_switch)
+{
+    struct task_struct *prev = (struct task_struct *)ctx->args[1];
+    struct task_struct *next= (struct task_struct *)ctx->args[2];
+    u64 ktime = 0;
+
+    if (!capture_enabled__())
+        return 0;
+
+    if (prev-><STATE_FIELD> == TASK_RUNNING && prev->tgid == MONITOR_PID)
+        sched_wakeup__(prev->pid, prev->tgid);
+
+    if (prev->tgid == MONITOR_PID) {
+        ktime = bpf_ktime_get_ns();
+        thread_stop_run(prev->pid, prev->tgid, ktime);
+    }
+
+    u64 pid_tgid = (u64)next->tgid << 32 | next->pid;
+
+    if (next->tgid != MONITOR_PID)
+        return 0;
+
+    if (ktime == 0)
+        ktime = bpf_ktime_get_ns();
+
+    u64 *start_ns = ready_start.lookup(&pid_tgid);
+
+    if (start_ns && *start_ns != 0) {
+
+        struct ready_data_t *val, zero = {};
+        struct pid_tid_key_t key = { .pid = next->tgid,
+                                     .tid = next->pid };
+
+        val = ready_data.lookup_or_try_init(&key, &zero);
+        if (val) {
+            u64 delta = ktime - *start_ns;
+            val->count++;
+            val->total_ns += delta;
+            if (val->worst_ns == 0 || delta > val->worst_ns)
+                val->worst_ns = delta;
+        }
+        *start_ns = 0;
+    }
+
+    thread_start_run(pid_tgid, ktime);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * For measuring the hard irq time, we need the following.
+ */
+struct hardirq_start_data_t {
+    u64  start_ns;
+    char irq_name[32];
+};
+
+struct hardirq_data_t {
+    u64 count;
+    u64 total_ns;
+    u64 worst_ns;
+};
+
+struct hardirq_data_key_t {
+    u32 pid;
+    u32 tid;
+    char irq_name[32];
+};
+
+BPF_HASH(hardirq_start, u64, struct hardirq_start_data_t);
+BPF_HASH(hardirq_data, struct hardirq_data_key_t, struct hardirq_data_t);
+
+TRACEPOINT_PROBE(irq, irq_handler_entry)
+{
+    u64 pid_tgid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid();
+
+    if (!capture_enabled(pid_tgid))
+        return 0;
+
+    struct hardirq_start_data_t data = {};
+
+    data.start_ns = bpf_ktime_get_ns();
+    TP_DATA_LOC_READ_STR(&data.irq_name, name, sizeof(data.irq_name));
+    hardirq_start.update(&pid_tgid, &data);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+TRACEPOINT_PROBE(irq, irq_handler_exit)
+{
+    u64 pid_tgid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid();
+
+    if (!capture_enabled(pid_tgid))
+        return 0;
+
+    struct hardirq_start_data_t *data;
+    data = hardirq_start.lookup(&pid_tgid);
+    if (!data || data->start_ns == 0)
+        return 0;
+
+    if (args->ret != IRQ_NONE) {
+        struct hardirq_data_t *val, zero = {};
+        struct hardirq_data_key_t key = { .pid = pid_tgid >> 32,
+                                          .tid = (u32)pid_tgid };
+
+        bpf_probe_read_kernel(&key.irq_name, sizeof(key.irq_name),
+                              data->irq_name);
+        val = hardirq_data.lookup_or_try_init(&key, &zero);
+        if (val) {
+            u64 delta = bpf_ktime_get_ns() - data->start_ns;
+            val->count++;
+            val->total_ns += delta;
+            if (val->worst_ns == 0 || delta > val->worst_ns)
+                val->worst_ns = delta;
+        }
+    }
+
+    data->start_ns = 0;
+    return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * For measuring the soft irq time, we need the following.
+ */
+struct softirq_start_data_t {
+    u64 start_ns;
+    u32 vec_nr;
+};
+
+struct softirq_data_t {
+    u64 count;
+    u64 total_ns;
+    u64 worst_ns;
+};
+
+struct softirq_data_key_t {
+    u32 pid;
+    u32 tid;
+    u32 vec_nr;
+};
+
+BPF_HASH(softirq_start, u64, struct softirq_start_data_t);
+BPF_HASH(softirq_data, struct softirq_data_key_t, struct softirq_data_t);
+
+TRACEPOINT_PROBE(irq, softirq_entry)
+{
+    u64 pid_tgid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid();
+
+    if (!capture_enabled(pid_tgid))
+        return 0;
+
+    struct softirq_start_data_t data = {};
+
+    data.start_ns = bpf_ktime_get_ns();
+    data.vec_nr = args->vec;
+    softirq_start.update(&pid_tgid, &data);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+TRACEPOINT_PROBE(irq, softirq_exit)
+{
+    u64 pid_tgid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid();
+
+    if (!capture_enabled(pid_tgid))
+        return 0;
+
+    struct softirq_start_data_t *data;
+    data = softirq_start.lookup(&pid_tgid);
+    if (!data || data->start_ns == 0)
+        return 0;
+
+    struct softirq_data_t *val, zero = {};
+    struct softirq_data_key_t key = { .pid = pid_tgid >> 32,
+                                      .tid = (u32)pid_tgid,
+                                      .vec_nr = data->vec_nr};
+
+    val = softirq_data.lookup_or_try_init(&key, &zero);
+    if (val) {
+        u64 delta = bpf_ktime_get_ns() - data->start_ns;
+        val->count++;
+        val->total_ns += delta;
+        if (val->worst_ns == 0 || delta > val->worst_ns)
+            val->worst_ns = delta;
+    }
+
+    data->start_ns = 0;
+    return 0;
+}
+"""
+
+
+#
+# time_ns()
+#
+try:
+    from time import time_ns
+except ImportError:
+    # For compatibility with Python <= v3.6.
+    def time_ns():
+        now = datetime.datetime.now()
+        return int(now.timestamp() * 1e9)
+
+
+#
+# Probe class to use for the start/stop triggers
+#
+class Probe(object):
+    '''
+    The goal for this object is to support as many as possible
+    probe/events as supported by BCC. See
+       https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/docs/reference_guide.md#events--arguments
+    '''
+    def __init__(self, probe, pid=None):
+        self.pid = pid
+        self.text_probe = probe
+        self._parse_text_probe()
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        if self.probe_type == "usdt":
+            return "[{}]; {}:{}:{}".format(self.text_probe, self.probe_type,
+                                           self.usdt_provider, self.usdt_probe)
+        elif self.probe_type == "trace":
+            return "[{}]; {}:{}:{}".format(self.text_probe, self.probe_type,
+                                           self.trace_system, self.trace_event)
+        elif self.probe_type == "kprobe" or self.probe_type == "kretprobe":
+            return "[{}]; {}:{}".format(self.text_probe, self.probe_type,
+                                        self.kprobe_function)
+        elif self.probe_type == "uprobe" or self.probe_type == "uretprobe":
+            return "[{}]; {}:{}".format(self.text_probe, self.probe_type,
+                                        self.uprobe_function)
+        else:
+            return "[{}] <{}:unknown probe>".format(self.text_probe,
+                                                    self.probe_type)
+
+    def _raise(self, error):
+        raise ValueError("[{}]; {}".format(self.text_probe, error))
+
+    def _verify_kprobe_probe(self):
+        # Nothing to verify for now, just return.
+        return
+
+    def _verify_trace_probe(self):
+        # Nothing to verify for now, just return.
+        return
+
+    def _verify_uprobe_probe(self):
+        # Nothing to verify for now, just return.
+        return
+
+    def _verify_usdt_probe(self):
+        if not self.pid:
+            self._raise("USDT probes need a valid PID.")
+
+        usdt = USDT(pid=self.pid)
+
+        for probe in usdt.enumerate_probes():
+            if probe.provider.decode('utf-8') == self.usdt_provider and \
+               probe.name.decode('utf-8') == self.usdt_probe:
+                return
+
+        self._raise("Can't find UDST probe '{}:{}'".format(self.usdt_provider,
+                                                           self.usdt_probe))
+
+    def _parse_text_probe(self):
+        '''
+        The text probe format is defined as follows:
+          <probe_type>:<probe_specific>
+
+        Types:
+          USDT:      u|usdt:<provider>:<probe>
+          TRACE:     t|trace:<system>:<event>
+          KPROBE:    k|kprobe:<kernel_function>
+          KRETPROBE: kr|kretprobe:<kernel_function>
+          UPROBE:    up|uprobe:<function>
+          URETPROBE: ur|uretprobe:<function>
+        '''
+        args = self.text_probe.split(":")
+        if len(args) <= 1:
+            self._raise("Can't extract probe type.")
+
+        if args[0] not in ["k", "kprobe", "kr", "kretprobe", "t", "trace",
+                           "u", "usdt", "up", "uprobe", "ur", "uretprobe"]:
+            self._raise("Invalid probe type '{}'".format(args[0]))
+
+        self.probe_type = "kprobe" if args[0] == "k" else args[0]
+        self.probe_type = "kretprobe" if args[0] == "kr" else self.probe_type
+        self.probe_type = "trace" if args[0] == "t" else self.probe_type
+        self.probe_type = "usdt" if args[0] == "u" else self.probe_type
+        self.probe_type = "uprobe" if args[0] == "up" else self.probe_type
+        self.probe_type = "uretprobe" if args[0] == "ur" else self.probe_type
+
+        if self.probe_type == "usdt":
+            if len(args) != 3:
+                self._raise("Invalid number of arguments for USDT")
+
+            self.usdt_provider = args[1]
+            self.usdt_probe = args[2]
+            self._verify_usdt_probe()
+
+        elif self.probe_type == "trace":
+            if len(args) != 3:
+                self._raise("Invalid number of arguments for TRACE")
+
+            self.trace_system = args[1]
+            self.trace_event = args[2]
+            self._verify_trace_probe()
+
+        elif self.probe_type == "kprobe" or self.probe_type == "kretprobe":
+            if len(args) != 2:
+                self._raise("Invalid number of arguments for K(RET)PROBE")
+            self.kprobe_function = args[1]
+            self._verify_kprobe_probe()
+
+        elif self.probe_type == "uprobe" or self.probe_type == "uretprobe":
+            if len(args) != 2:
+                self._raise("Invalid number of arguments for U(RET)PROBE")
+            self.uprobe_function = args[1]
+            self._verify_uprobe_probe()
+
+    def _get_kprobe_c_code(self, function_name, function_content):
+        #
+        # The kprobe__* do not require a function name, so it's
+        # ignored in the code generation.
+        #
+        return """
+int {}__{}(struct pt_regs *ctx) {{
+    {}
+}}
+""".format(self.probe_type, self.kprobe_function, function_content)
+
+    def _get_trace_c_code(self, function_name, function_content):
+        #
+        # The TRACEPOINT_PROBE() do not require a function name, so it's
+        # ignored in the code generation.
+        #
+        return """
+TRACEPOINT_PROBE({},{}) {{
+    {}
+}}
+""".format(self.trace_system, self.trace_event, function_content)
+
+    def _get_uprobe_c_code(self, function_name, function_content):
+        return """
+int {}(struct pt_regs *ctx) {{
+    {}
+}}
+""".format(function_name, function_content)
+
+    def _get_usdt_c_code(self, function_name, function_content):
+        return """
+int {}(struct pt_regs *ctx) {{
+    {}
+}}
+""".format(function_name, function_content)
+
+    def get_c_code(self, function_name, function_content):
+        if self.probe_type == 'kprobe' or self.probe_type == 'kretprobe':
+            return self._get_kprobe_c_code(function_name, function_content)
+        elif self.probe_type == 'trace':
+            return self._get_trace_c_code(function_name, function_content)
+        elif self.probe_type == 'uprobe' or self.probe_type == 'uretprobe':
+            return self._get_uprobe_c_code(function_name, function_content)
+        elif self.probe_type == 'usdt':
+            return self._get_usdt_c_code(function_name, function_content)
+
+        return ""
+
+    def probe_name(self):
+        if self.probe_type == 'kprobe' or self.probe_type == 'kretprobe':
+            return "{}".format(self.kprobe_function)
+        elif self.probe_type == 'trace':
+            return "{}:{}".format(self.trace_system,
+                                  self.trace_event)
+        elif self.probe_type == 'uprobe' or self.probe_type == 'uretprobe':
+            return "{}".format(self.uprobe_function)
+        elif self.probe_type == 'usdt':
+            return "{}:{}".format(self.usdt_provider,
+                                  self.usdt_probe)
+
+        return ""
+
+
+#
+# event_to_dict()
+#
+def event_to_dict(event):
+    return dict([(field, getattr(event, field))
+                 for (field, _) in event._fields_
+                 if isinstance(getattr(event, field), (int, bytes))])
+
+
+#
+# Event enum
+#
+Event = IntEnum("Event", ["SYSCALL", "START_TRIGGER", "STOP_TRIGGER",
+                          ], start=0)
+
+
+#
+# process_event()
+#
+def process_event(ctx, data, size):
+    global start_trigger_ts
+    global stop_trigger_ts
+
+    event = bpf['events'].event(data)
+    if event.id == Event.SYSCALL:
+        syscall_events.append({"tid": event.tid,
+                               "ts_entry": event.entry_ts,
+                               "ts_exit": event.ts,
+                               "syscall": event.syscall,
+                               "user_stack_id": event.user_stack_id,
+                               "kernel_stack_id": event.kernel_stack_id})
+    elif event.id == Event.START_TRIGGER:
+        #
+        # This event would have start the trigger already, so all we need to
+        # do is record the start timestamp.
+        #
+        start_trigger_ts = event.ts
+
+    elif event.id == Event.STOP_TRIGGER:
+        #
+        # This event would have stopped the trigger already, so all we need to
+        # do is record the start timestamp.
+        stop_trigger_ts = event.ts
+
+
+#
+# next_power_of_two()
+#
+def next_power_of_two(val):
+    np = 1
+    while np < val:
+        np *= 2
+    return np
+
+
+#
+# unsigned_int()
+#
+def unsigned_int(value):
+    try:
+        value = int(value)
+    except ValueError:
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError("must be an integer")
+
+    if value < 0:
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError("must be positive")
+    return value
+
+
+#
+# unsigned_nonzero_int()
+#
+def unsigned_nonzero_int(value):
+    value = unsigned_int(value)
+    if value == 0:
+        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError("must be nonzero")
+    return value
+
+
+#
+# get_thread_name()
+#
+def get_thread_name(pid, tid):
+    try:
+        with open(f"/proc/{pid}/task/{tid}/comm", encoding="utf8") as f:
+            return f.readline().strip("\n")
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        pass
+
+    return f"<unknown:{pid}/{tid}>"
+
+
+#
+# get_vec_nr_name()
+#
+def get_vec_nr_name(vec_nr):
+    known_vec_nr = ["hi", "timer", "net_tx", "net_rx", "block", "irq_poll",
+                    "tasklet", "sched", "hrtimer", "rcu"]
+
+    if vec_nr < 0 or vec_nr > len(known_vec_nr):
+        return f"<unknown:{vec_nr}>"
+
+    return known_vec_nr[vec_nr]
+
+
+#
+# start/stop/reset capture
+#
+def start_capture():
+    bpf["capture_on"][ct.c_int(0)] = ct.c_int(1)
+
+
+def stop_capture(force=False):
+    if force:
+        bpf["capture_on"][ct.c_int(0)] = ct.c_int(0xffff)
+    else:
+        bpf["capture_on"][ct.c_int(0)] = ct.c_int(0)
+
+
+def capture_running():
+    return True if bpf["capture_on"][ct.c_int(0)].value == 1 else False
+
+
+def reset_capture():
+    bpf["syscall_start"].clear()
+    bpf["syscall_data"].clear()
+    bpf["run_start"].clear()
+    bpf["run_data"].clear()
+    bpf["ready_start"].clear()
+    bpf["ready_data"].clear()
+    bpf["hardirq_start"].clear()
+    bpf["hardirq_data"].clear()
+    bpf["softirq_start"].clear()
+    bpf["softirq_data"].clear()
+    bpf["stack_traces"].clear()
+
+
+#
+# Display timestamp
+#
+def print_timestamp(msg):
+    ltz = datetime.datetime.now()
+    utc = ltz.astimezone(pytz.utc)
+    time_string = "{} @{} ({} UTC)".format(
+        msg, ltz.isoformat(), utc.strftime("%H:%M:%S"))
+    print(time_string)
+
+
+#
+# process_results()
+#
+def process_results(syscal_events=None, trigger_delta=None):
+    if trigger_delta:
+        print_timestamp("# Triggered sample dump, stop-start delta {:,} ns".
+                        format(trigger_delta))
+    else:
+        print_timestamp("# Sample dump")
+
+    #
+    # First get a list of all threads we need to report on.
+    #
+    threads_syscall = {k.tid for k, _ in bpf["syscall_data"].items()
+                       if k.syscall != 0xffffffff}
+
+    threads_run = {k.tid for k, _ in bpf["run_data"].items()
+                   if k.pid != 0xffffffff}
+
+    threads_ready = {k.tid for k, _ in bpf["ready_data"].items()
+                     if k.pid != 0xffffffff}
+
+    threads_hardirq = {k.tid for k, _ in bpf["hardirq_data"].items()
+                       if k.pid != 0xffffffff}
+
+    threads_softirq = {k.tid for k, _ in bpf["softirq_data"].items()
+                       if k.pid != 0xffffffff}
+
+    threads = sorted(threads_syscall | threads_run | threads_ready |
+                     threads_hardirq | threads_softirq,
+                     key=lambda x: get_thread_name(options.pid, x))
+
+    #
+    # Print header...
+    #
+    print("{:10} {:16} {}".format("TID", "THREAD", "<RESOURCE SPECIFIC>"))
+    print("{:10} {:16} {}".format("-" * 10, "-" * 16, "-" * 76))
+    indent = 28 * " "
+
+    #
+    # Print all events/statistics per threads.
+    #
+    poll_id = [k for k, v in syscalls.items() if v == b'poll'][0]
+    for thread in threads:
+
+        if thread != threads[0]:
+            print("")
+
+        #
+        # SYSCALL_STATISTICS
+        #
+        print("{:10} {:16} {}\n{}{:20} {:>6}  {:>10}  {:>16}  {:>16}".format(
+            thread, get_thread_name(options.pid, thread),
+            "[SYSCALL STATISTICS]", indent,
+            "NAME", "NUMBER", "COUNT", "TOTAL ns", "MAX ns"))
+
+        total_count = 0
+        total_ns = 0
+        for k, v in sorted(bpf["syscall_data"].items(),
+                           key=lambda kv: -kv[1].total_ns):
+            if k.tid != thread:
+                continue
+
+            print("{}{:20.20} {:6}  {:10}  {:16,}  {:16,}".format(
+                indent, syscall_name(k.syscall).decode('utf-8'), k.syscall,
+                v.count, v.total_ns, v.worst_ns))
+            if k.syscall != poll_id:
+                total_count += v.count
+                total_ns += v.total_ns
+
+        if total_count > 0:
+            print("{}{:20.20} {:6}  {:10}  {:16,}".format(
+                indent, "TOTAL( - poll):", "", total_count, total_ns))
+
+        #
+        # THREAD RUN STATISTICS
+        #
+        print("\n{:10} {:16} {}\n{}{:10}  {:>16}  {:>16}  {:>16}".format(
+            "", "", "[THREAD RUN STATISTICS]", indent,
+            "SCHED_CNT", "TOTAL ns", "MIN ns", "MAX ns"))
+
+        for k, v in bpf["run_data"].items():
+            if k.tid != thread:
+                continue
+
+            print("{}{:10}  {:16,}  {:16,}  {:16,}".format(
+                indent, v.count, v.total_ns, v.min_ns, v.max_ns))
+
+        #
+        # THREAD READY STATISTICS
+        #
+        print("\n{:10} {:16} {}\n{}{:10}  {:>16}  {:>16}".format(
+            "", "", "[THREAD READY STATISTICS]", indent,
+            "SCHED_CNT", "TOTAL ns", "MAX ns"))
+
+        for k, v in bpf["ready_data"].items():
+            if k.tid != thread:
+                continue
+
+            print("{}{:10}  {:16,}  {:16,}".format(
+                indent, v.count, v.total_ns, v.worst_ns))
+
+        #
+        # HARD IRQ STATISTICS
+        #
+        total_ns = 0
+        total_count = 0
+        header_printed = False
+        for k, v in sorted(bpf["hardirq_data"].items(),
+                           key=lambda kv: -kv[1].total_ns):
+            if k.tid != thread:
+                continue
+
+            if not header_printed:
+                print("\n{:10} {:16} {}\n{}{:20}  {:>10}  {:>16}  {:>16}".
+                      format("", "", "[HARD IRQ STATISTICS]", indent,
+                             "NAME", "COUNT", "TOTAL ns", "MAX ns"))
+                header_printed = True
+
+            print("{}{:20.20}  {:10}  {:16,}  {:16,}".format(
+                indent, k.irq_name.decode('utf-8'),
+                v.count, v.total_ns, v.worst_ns))
+
+            total_count += v.count
+            total_ns += v.total_ns
+
+        if total_count > 0:
+            print("{}{:20.20}  {:10}  {:16,}".format(
+                indent, "TOTAL:", total_count, total_ns))
+
+        #
+        # SOFT IRQ STATISTICS
+        #
+        total_ns = 0
+        total_count = 0
+        header_printed = False
+        for k, v in sorted(bpf["softirq_data"].items(),
+                           key=lambda kv: -kv[1].total_ns):
+            if k.tid != thread:
+                continue
+
+            if not header_printed:
+                print("\n{:10} {:16} {}\n"
+                      "{}{:20} {:>7}  {:>10}  {:>16}  {:>16}".
+                      format("", "", "[SOFT IRQ STATISTICS]", indent,
+                             "NAME", "VECT_NR", "COUNT", "TOTAL ns", "MAX ns"))
+                header_printed = True
+
+            print("{}{:20.20} {:>7}  {:10}  {:16,}  {:16,}".format(
+                indent, get_vec_nr_name(k.vec_nr), k.vec_nr,
+                v.count, v.total_ns, v.worst_ns))
+
+            total_count += v.count
+            total_ns += v.total_ns
+
+        if total_count > 0:
+            print("{}{:20.20} {:7}  {:10}  {:16,}".format(
+                indent, "TOTAL:", "", total_count, total_ns))
+
+    #
+    # Print events
+    #
+    lost_stack_traces = 0
+    if syscall_events is not None and len(syscall_events) > 0:
+        stack_traces = bpf.get_table("stack_traces")
+
+        print("\n\n# SYSCALL EVENTS:"
+              "\n{}{:>19} {:>19} {:>10} {:16} {:>10}  {}".format(
+                  2 * " ", "ENTRY (ns)", "EXIT (ns)", "TID", "COMM",
+                  "DELTA (us)", "SYSCALL"))
+        print("{}{:19} {:19} {:10} {:16} {:10}  {}".format(
+            2 * " ", "-" * 19, "-" * 19, "-" * 10, "-" * 16,
+            "-" * 10, "-" * 16))
+        for event in syscall_events:
+            print("{}{:19} {:19} {:10} {:16} {:10,}  {}".format(
+                " " * 2,
+                event["ts_entry"], event["ts_exit"], event["tid"],
+                get_thread_name(options.pid, event["tid"]),
+                int((event["ts_exit"] - event["ts_entry"]) / 1000),
+                syscall_name(event["syscall"]).decode('utf-8')))
+            #
+            # Not sure where to put this, but I'll add some info on stack
+            # traces here... Userspace stack traces are very limited due to
+            # the fact that bcc does not support dwarf backtraces. As OVS
+            # gets compiled without frame pointers we will not see much.
+            # If however, OVS does get built with frame pointers, we should not
+            # use the BPF_STACK_TRACE_BUILDID as it does not seem to handle
+            # the debug symbols correctly. Also, note that for kernel
+            # traces you should not use BPF_STACK_TRACE_BUILDID, so two
+            # buffers are needed.
+            #
+            # Some info on manual dwarf walk support:
+            #   https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/3515
+            #   https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/4463
+            #
+            if options.stack_trace_size == 0:
+                continue
+
+            if event['kernel_stack_id'] < 0 or event['user_stack_id'] < 0:
+                lost_stack_traces += 1
+
+            kernel_stack = stack_traces.walk(event['kernel_stack_id']) \
+                if event['kernel_stack_id'] >= 0 else []
+            user_stack = stack_traces.walk(event['user_stack_id']) \
+                if event['user_stack_id'] >= 0 else []
+
+            for addr in kernel_stack:
+                print("{}{}".format(
+                    " " * 10,
+                    bpf.ksym(addr, show_module=True,
+                             show_offset=True).decode('utf-8', 'replace')))
+
+            for addr in user_stack:
+                addr_str = bpf.sym(addr, options.pid, show_module=True,
+                                   show_offset=True).decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+
+                if addr_str == "[unknown]":
+                    addr_str += " 0x{:x}".format(addr)
+
+                print("{}{}".format(" " * 10, addr_str))
+
+    #
+    # Print any footer messages.
+    #
+    if lost_stack_traces > 0:
+        print("\n#WARNING: We where not able to display {} stack traces!\n"
+              "#         Consider increasing the stack trace size using\n"
+              "#         the '--stack-trace-size' option.\n"
+              "#         Note that this can also happen due to a stack id\n"
+              "#         collision.".format(lost_stack_traces))
+
+
+#
+# main()
+#
+def main():
+    #
+    # Don't like these globals, but ctx passing does not seem to work with the
+    # existing open_ring_buffer() API :(
+    #
+    global bpf
+    global options
+    global syscall_events
+    global start_trigger_ts
+    global stop_trigger_ts
+
+    start_trigger_ts = 0
+    stop_trigger_ts = 0
+
+    #
+    # Argument parsing
+    #
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+
+    parser.add_argument("-D", "--debug",
+                        help="Enable eBPF debugging",
+                        type=int, const=0x3f, default=0, nargs='?')
+    parser.add_argument("-p", "--pid", metavar="VSWITCHD_PID",
+                        help="ovs-vswitch's PID",
+                        type=unsigned_int, default=None)
+    parser.add_argument("-s", "--syscall-events", metavar="DURATION_NS",
+                        help="Record syscall events, default disabled",
+                        type=unsigned_int, const=0, default=None, nargs='?')
+    parser.add_argument("--buffer-page-count",
+                        help="Number of BPF ring buffer pages, default 1024",
+                        type=unsigned_int, default=1024, metavar="NUMBER")
+    parser.add_argument("--sample-count",
+                        help="Number of sample runs, default 1",
+                        type=unsigned_nonzero_int, default=1, metavar="RUNS")
+    parser.add_argument("--sample-interval",
+                        help="Delay between sample runs, default 0",
+                        type=float, default=0, metavar="SECONDS")
+    parser.add_argument("--sample-time",
+                        help="Sample time, default 0.5 seconds",
+                        type=float, default=0.5, metavar="SECONDS")
+    parser.add_argument("--skip-syscall-poll-events",
+                        help="Skip poll() syscalls with --syscall-events",
+                        action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument("--stack-trace-size",
+                        help="Number of unique stack traces that can be "
+                        "recorded, default 4096. 0 to disable",
+                        type=unsigned_int, default=4096)
+    parser.add_argument("--start-trigger", metavar="TRIGGER",
+                        help="Start trigger, see documentation for details",
+                        type=str, default=None)
+    parser.add_argument("--stop-trigger", metavar="TRIGGER",
+                        help="Stop trigger, see documentation for details",
+                        type=str, default=None)
+    parser.add_argument("--trigger-delta", metavar="DURATION_NS",
+                        help="Only report event when the trigger duration > "
+                             "DURATION_NS, default 0 (all events)",
+                        type=unsigned_int, const=0, default=0, nargs='?')
+
+    options = parser.parse_args()
+
+    #
+    # Find the PID of the ovs-vswitchd daemon if not specified.
+    #
+    if options.pid is None:
+        for proc in psutil.process_iter():
+            if 'ovs-vswitchd' in proc.name():
+                if options.pid is not None:
+                    print("ERROR: Multiple ovs-vswitchd daemons running, "
+                          "use the -p option!")
+                    sys.exit(os.EX_NOINPUT)
+
+                options.pid = proc.pid
+
+    #
+    # Error checking on input parameters.
+    #
+    if options.pid is None:
+        print("ERROR: Failed to find ovs-vswitchd's PID!")
+        sys.exit(os.EX_UNAVAILABLE)
+
+    options.buffer_page_count = next_power_of_two(options.buffer_page_count)
+
+    #
+    # Make sure we are running as root, or else we can not attach the probes.
+    #
+    if os.geteuid() != 0:
+        print("ERROR: We need to run as root to attached probes!")
+        sys.exit(os.EX_NOPERM)
+
+    #
+    # Setup any of the start stop triggers
+    #
+    if options.start_trigger is not None:
+        try:
+            start_trigger = Probe(options.start_trigger, pid=options.pid)
+        except ValueError as e:
+            print(f"ERROR: Invalid start trigger {str(e)}")
+            sys.exit(os.EX_CONFIG)
+    else:
+        start_trigger = None
+
+    if options.stop_trigger is not None:
+        try:
+            stop_trigger = Probe(options.stop_trigger, pid=options.pid)
+        except ValueError as e:
+            print(f"ERROR: Invalid stop trigger {str(e)}")
+            sys.exit(os.EX_CONFIG)
+    else:
+        stop_trigger = None
+
+    #
+    # Attach probe to running process.
+    #
+    source = EBPF_SOURCE.replace("<EVENT_ENUM>", "\n".join(
+        ["    EVENT_{} = {},".format(
+            event.name, event.value) for event in Event]))
+    source = source.replace("<BUFFER_PAGE_CNT>",
+                            str(options.buffer_page_count))
+    source = source.replace("<MONITOR_PID>", str(options.pid))
+
+    if BPF.kernel_struct_has_field(b'task_struct', b'state') == 1:
+        source = source.replace('<STATE_FIELD>', 'state')
+    else:
+        source = source.replace('<STATE_FIELD>', '__state')
+
+    poll_id = [k for k, v in syscalls.items() if v == b'poll'][0]
+    if options.syscall_events is None:
+        syscall_trace_events = "false"
+    elif options.syscall_events == 0:
+        if not options.skip_syscall_poll_events:
+            syscall_trace_events = "true"
+        else:
+            syscall_trace_events = f"args->id != {poll_id}"
+    else:
+        syscall_trace_events = "delta > {}".format(options.syscall_events)
+        if options.skip_syscall_poll_events:
+            syscall_trace_events += f" && args->id != {poll_id}"
+
+    source = source.replace("<SYSCAL_TRACE_EVENTS>",
+                            syscall_trace_events)
+
+    source = source.replace("<STACK_TRACE_SIZE>",
+                            str(options.stack_trace_size))
+
+    source = source.replace("<STACK_TRACE_ENABLED>", "true"
+                            if options.stack_trace_size > 0 else "false")
+
+    #
+    # Handle start/stop probes
+    #
+    if start_trigger:
+        source = source.replace("<START_TRIGGER>",
+                                start_trigger.get_c_code(
+                                    "start_trigger_probe",
+                                    "return start_trigger();"))
+    else:
+        source = source.replace("<START_TRIGGER>", "")
+
+    if stop_trigger:
+        source = source.replace("<STOP_TRIGGER>",
+                                stop_trigger.get_c_code(
+                                    "stop_trigger_probe",
+                                    "return stop_trigger();"))
+    else:
+        source = source.replace("<STOP_TRIGGER>", "")
+
+    #
+    # Setup usdt or other probes that need handling trough the BFP class.
+    #
+    usdt = USDT(pid=int(options.pid))
+    try:
+        if start_trigger and start_trigger.probe_type == 'usdt':
+            usdt.enable_probe(probe=start_trigger.probe_name(),
+                              fn_name="start_trigger_probe")
+        if stop_trigger and stop_trigger.probe_type == 'usdt':
+            usdt.enable_probe(probe=stop_trigger.probe_name(),
+                              fn_name="stop_trigger_probe")
+
+    except USDTException as e:
+        print("ERROR: {}".format(
+            (re.sub('^', ' ' * 7, str(e), flags=re.MULTILINE)).strip().
+            replace("--with-dtrace or --enable-dtrace",
+                    "--enable-usdt-probes")))
+        sys.exit(os.EX_OSERR)
+
+    bpf = BPF(text=source, usdt_contexts=[usdt], debug=options.debug)
+
+    if start_trigger:
+        try:
+            if start_trigger.probe_type == "uprobe":
+                bpf.attach_uprobe(name=f"/proc/{options.pid}/exe",
+                                  sym=start_trigger.probe_name(),
+                                  fn_name="start_trigger_probe",
+                                  pid=options.pid)
+
+            if start_trigger.probe_type == "uretprobe":
+                bpf.attach_uretprobe(name=f"/proc/{options.pid}/exe",
+                                     sym=start_trigger.probe_name(),
+                                     fn_name="start_trigger_probe",
+                                     pid=options.pid)
+        except Exception as e:
+            print("ERROR: Failed attaching uprobe start trigger "
+                  f"'{start_trigger.probe_name()}';\n         {str(e)}")
+            sys.exit(os.EX_OSERR)
+
+    if stop_trigger:
+        try:
+            if stop_trigger.probe_type == "uprobe":
+                bpf.attach_uprobe(name=f"/proc/{options.pid}/exe",
+                                  sym=stop_trigger.probe_name(),
+                                  fn_name="stop_trigger_probe",
+                                  pid=options.pid)
+
+            if stop_trigger.probe_type == "uretprobe":
+                bpf.attach_uretprobe(name=f"/proc/{options.pid}/exe",
+                                     sym=stop_trigger.probe_name(),
+                                     fn_name="stop_trigger_probe",
+                                     pid=options.pid)
+        except Exception as e:
+            print("ERROR: Failed attaching uprobe stop trigger"
+                  f"'{stop_trigger.probe_name()}';\n         {str(e)}")
+            sys.exit(os.EX_OSERR)
+
+    #
+    # If no triggers are configured use the delay configuration
+    #
+    bpf['events'].open_ring_buffer(process_event)
+
+    sample_count = 0
+    while sample_count < options.sample_count:
+        sample_count += 1
+        syscall_events = []
+
+        if options.start_trigger is None:
+            print_timestamp("# Start sampling")
+            start_capture()
+            stop_time = -1 if options.stop_trigger else \
+                time_ns() + options.sample_time * 1000000000
+        else:
+            # For start triggers the stop time depends on the start trigger
+            # time, or depends on the stop trigger if configured.
+            stop_time = -1 if options.stop_trigger else 0
+
+        while True:
+            try:
+                last_start_ts = start_trigger_ts
+                last_stop_ts = stop_trigger_ts
+
+                if stop_time > 0:
+                    delay = int((stop_time - time_ns()) / 1000000)
+                    if delay <= 0:
+                        break
+                else:
+                    delay = -1
+
+                bpf.ring_buffer_poll(timeout=delay)
+
+                if stop_time <= 0 and last_start_ts != start_trigger_ts:
+                    print_timestamp(
+                        "# Start sampling (trigger@{})".format(
+                            start_trigger_ts))
+
+                    if not options.stop_trigger:
+                        stop_time = time_ns() + \
+                            options.sample_time * 1000000000
+
+                if last_stop_ts != stop_trigger_ts:
+                    break
+
+            except KeyboardInterrupt:
+                break
+
+        if options.stop_trigger and not capture_running():
+            print_timestamp("# Stop sampling (trigger@{})".format(
+                stop_trigger_ts))
+        else:
+            print_timestamp("# Stop sampling")
+
+        if stop_trigger_ts != 0 and start_trigger_ts != 0:
+            trigger_delta = stop_trigger_ts - start_trigger_ts
+        else:
+            trigger_delta = None
+
+        if not trigger_delta or trigger_delta >= options.trigger_delta:
+            stop_capture(force=True)  # Prevent a new trigger to start.
+            process_results(syscal_events=syscall_events,
+                            trigger_delta=trigger_delta)
+        elif trigger_delta:
+            sample_count -= 1
+            print_timestamp("# Sample dump skipped, delta {:,} ns".format(
+                trigger_delta))
+
+        reset_capture()
+        stop_capture()
+        if options.sample_interval > 0:
+            time.sleep(options.sample_interval)
+
+    #
+    # Report lost events.
+    #
+    dropcnt = bpf.get_table("dropcnt")
+    for k in dropcnt.keys():
+        count = dropcnt.sum(k).value
+        if k.value == 0 and count > 0:
+            print("\n# WARNING: Not all events were captured, {} were "
+                  "dropped!\n#          Increase the BPF ring buffer size "
+                  "with the --buffer-page-count option.".format(count))
+
+    if (options.sample_count > 1):
+        trigger_miss = bpf.get_table("trigger_miss")
+        for k in trigger_miss.keys():
+            count = trigger_miss.sum(k).value
+            if k.value == 0 and count > 0:
+                print("\n# WARNING: Not all start triggers were successful. "
+                      "{} were missed due to\n#          slow userspace "
+                      "processing!".format(count))
+
+
+#
+# Start main() as the default entry point...
+#
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.rst b/utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6f7d7f846
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utilities/usdt-scripts/kernel_delay.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,596 @@ 
+Troubleshooting Open vSwitch: Is the kernel to blame?
+=====================================================
+Often, when troubleshooting Open vSwitch (OVS) in the field, you might be left
+wondering if the issue is really OVS-related, or if it's a problem with the
+kernel being overloaded. Messages in the log like
+``Unreasonably long XXXXms poll interval`` might suggest it's OVS, but from
+experience, these are mostly related to an overloaded Linux Kernel.
+The kernel_delay.py tool can help you quickly identify if the focus of your
+investigation should be OVS or the Linux kernel.
+
+
+Introduction
+------------
+``kernel_delay.py`` consists of a Python script that uses the BCC [#BCC]_
+framework to install eBPF probes. The data the eBPF probes collect will be
+analyzed and presented to the user by the Python script. Some of the presented
+data can also be captured by the individual scripts included in the BBC [#BCC]_
+framework.
+
+kernel_delay.py has two modes of operation:
+
+- In **time mode**, the tool runs for a specific time and collects the
+  information.
+- In **trigger mode**, event collection can be started and/or stopped based on
+  a specific eBPF probe. Currently, the following probes are supported:
+  - USDT probes
+  - Kernel tracepoints
+  - kprobe
+  - kretprobe
+  - uprobe
+  - uretprobe
+
+
+In addition, the option, ``--sample-count``, exists to specify how many
+iterations you would like to do. When using triggers, you can also ignore
+samples if they are less than a number of nanoseconds with the
+``--trigger-delta`` option. The latter might be useful when debugging Linux
+syscalls which take a long time to complete. More on this later. Finally, you
+can configure the delay between two sample runs with the ``--sample-interval``
+option.
+
+Before getting into more details, you can run the tool without any options
+to see what the output looks like. Notice that it will try to automatically
+get the process ID of the running ``ovs-vsdwitchd``. You can overwrite this
+with the ``--pid`` option.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ sudo ./kernel_delay.py
+  # Start sampling @2023-06-08T12:17:22.725127 (10:17:22 UTC)
+  # Stop sampling @2023-06-08T12:17:23.224781 (10:17:23 UTC)
+  # Sample dump @2023-06-08T12:17:23.224855 (10:17:23 UTC)
+  TID        THREAD           <RESOURCE SPECIFIC>
+  ---------- ---------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+       27090 ovs-vswitchd     [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+                  <EDIT: REMOVED DATA FOR ovs-vswitchd THREAD>
+
+       31741 revalidator122   [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+                  NAME                 NUMBER       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                  poll                      7           5       184,193,176       184,191,520
+                  recvmsg                  47         494       125,208,756           310,331
+                  futex                   202           8        18,768,758         4,023,039
+                  sendto                   44          10           375,861           266,867
+                  sendmsg                  46           4            43,294            11,213
+                  write                     1           1             5,949             5,949
+                  getrusage                98           1             1,424             1,424
+                  read                      0           1             1,292             1,292
+                  TOTAL( - poll):                     519       144,405,334
+
+                  [THREAD RUN STATISTICS]
+                  SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MIN ns            MAX ns
+                       6       136,764,071             1,480       115,146,424
+
+                  [THREAD READY STATISTICS]
+                  SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                       7            11,334             6,636
+
+                  [HARD IRQ STATISTICS]
+                  NAME                       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                  eno8303-rx-1                   1             3,586             3,586
+                  TOTAL:                         1             3,586
+
+                  [SOFT IRQ STATISTICS]
+                  NAME                 VECT_NR       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                  net_rx                     3           1            17,699            17,699
+                  sched                      7           6            13,820             3,226
+                  rcu                        9          16            13,586             1,554
+                  timer                      1           3            10,259             3,815
+                  TOTAL:                                26            55,364
+
+
+By default, the tool will run for half a second in `time mode`. To extend this
+you can use the ``--sample-time`` option.
+
+
+What will it report
+-------------------
+The above sample output separates the captured data on a per-thread basis.
+For this, it displays the thread's id (``TID``) and name (``THREAD``),
+followed by resource-specific data. Which are:
+
+- ``SYSCALL STATISTICS``
+- ``THREAD RUN STATISTICS``
+- ``THREAD READY STATISTICS``
+- ``HARD IRQ STATISTICS``
+- ``SOFT IRQ STATISTICS``
+
+The following sections will describe in detail what statistics they report.
+
+
+``SYSCALL STATISTICS``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+``SYSCALL STATISTICS`` tell you which Linux system calls got executed during
+the measurement interval. This includes the number of times the syscall was
+called (``COUNT``), the total time spent in the system calls (``TOTAL ns``),
+and the worst-case duration of a single call (``MAX ns``).
+
+It also shows the total of all system calls, but it excludes the poll system
+call, as the purpose of this call is to wait for activity on a set of sockets,
+and usually, the thread gets swapped out.
+
+Note that it only counts calls that started and stopped during the
+measurement interval!
+
+
+``THREAD RUN STATISTICS``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+``THREAD RUN STATISTICS`` tell you how long the thread was running on a CPU
+during the measurement interval.
+
+Note that these statistics only count events where the thread started and
+stopped running on a CPU during the measurement interval. For example, if
+this was a PMD thread, you should see zero ``SCHED_CNT`` and ``TOTAL_ns``.
+If not, there might be a misconfiguration.
+
+
+``THREAD READY STATISTICS``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+``THREAD READY STATISTICS`` tell you the time between the thread being ready
+to run and it actually running on the CPU.
+
+Note that these statistics only count events where the thread was getting
+ready to run and started running during the measurement interval.
+
+
+``HARD IRQ STATISTICS``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+``HARD IRQ STATISTICS`` tell you how much time was spent servicing hard
+interrupts during the threads run time.
+
+It shows the interrupt name (``NAME``), the number of interrupts (``COUNT``),
+the total time spent in the interrupt handler (``TOTAL ns``), and the
+worst-case duration (``MAX ns``).
+
+
+``SOFT IRQ STATISTICS``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+``SOFT IRQ STATISTICS`` tell you how much time was spent servicing soft
+interrupts during the threads run time.
+
+It shows the interrupt name (``NAME``), vector number (``VECT_NR``), the
+number of interrupts (``COUNT``), the total time spent in the interrupt
+handler (``TOTAL ns``), and the worst-case duration (``MAX ns``).
+
+
+The ``--syscall-events`` option
+-------------------------------
+In addition to reporting global syscall statistics in ``SYSCALL_STATISTICS``,
+the tool can also report each individual syscall. This can be a usefull
+second step if the ``SYSCALL_STATISTICS`` show high latency numbers.
+
+All you need to do is add the ``--syscall-events`` option, with or without
+the additional ``DURATION_NS`` parameter. The ``DUTATION_NS`` parameter
+allows you to exclude events that take less than the supplied time.
+
+The ``--skip-syscall-poll-events`` option allows you to exclude poll
+syscalls from the report.
+
+Below is an example run, note that the resource-specific data is removed
+to highlight the syscall events:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ sudo ./kernel_delay.py  --syscall-events 50000 --skip-syscall-poll-events
+  # Start sampling @2023-06-13T17:10:46.460874 (15:10:46 UTC)
+  # Stop sampling @2023-06-13T17:10:46.960727 (15:10:46 UTC)
+  # Sample dump @2023-06-13T17:10:46.961033 (15:10:46 UTC)
+  TID        THREAD           <RESOURCE SPECIFIC>
+  ---------- ---------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+     3359686 ipf_clean2       [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ...
+     3359635 ovs-vswitchd     [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ...
+     3359697 revalidator12    [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ...
+     3359698 revalidator13    [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ...
+     3359699 revalidator14    [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ...
+     3359700 revalidator15    [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ...
+
+  # SYSCALL EVENTS:
+         ENTRY (ns)           EXIT (ns)        TID COMM             DELTA (us)  SYSCALL
+    ------------------- ------------------- ---------- ---------------- ----------  ----------------
+       2161821694935486    2161821695031201    3359699 revalidator14            95  futex
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x161 [kernel]
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x161 [kernel]
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x9 [kernel]
+        do_syscall_64+0x68 [kernel]
+        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72 [kernel]
+        __GI___lll_lock_wait+0x30 [libc.so.6]
+        ovs_mutex_lock_at+0x18 [ovs-vswitchd]
+        [unknown] 0x696c003936313a63
+       2161821695276882    2161821695333687    3359698 revalidator13            56  futex
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x161 [kernel]
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x161 [kernel]
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x9 [kernel]
+        do_syscall_64+0x68 [kernel]
+        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72 [kernel]
+        __GI___lll_lock_wait+0x30 [libc.so.6]
+        ovs_mutex_lock_at+0x18 [ovs-vswitchd]
+        [unknown] 0x696c003134313a63
+       2161821695275820    2161821695405733    3359700 revalidator15           129  futex
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x161 [kernel]
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x161 [kernel]
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x9 [kernel]
+        do_syscall_64+0x68 [kernel]
+        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72 [kernel]
+        __GI___lll_lock_wait+0x30 [libc.so.6]
+        ovs_mutex_lock_at+0x18 [ovs-vswitchd]
+        [unknown] 0x696c003936313a63
+       2161821695964969    2161821696052021    3359635 ovs-vswitchd             87  accept
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x161 [kernel]
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x161 [kernel]
+        syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x9 [kernel]
+        do_syscall_64+0x68 [kernel]
+        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72 [kernel]
+        __GI_accept+0x4d [libc.so.6]
+        pfd_accept+0x3a [ovs-vswitchd]
+        [unknown] 0x7fff19f2bd00
+        [unknown] 0xe4b8001f0f
+
+As you can see above, the output also shows the stackback trace. You can
+disable this using the ``--stack-trace-size 0`` option.
+
+As you can see above, the backtrace does not show a lot of useful information
+due to the BCC [#BCC]_ toolkit not supporting dwarf decoding. So to further
+analyze system call backtraces, you could use perf. The following perf
+script can do this for you (refer to the embedded instructions):
+
+https://github.com/chaudron/perf_scripts/blob/master/analyze_perf_pmd_syscall.py
+
+
+Using triggers
+--------------
+The tool supports start and, or stop triggers. This will allow you to capture
+statistics triggered by a specific event. The following combinations of
+stop-and-start triggers can be used.
+
+If you only use ``--start-trigger``, the inspection start when the trigger
+happens and runs until the ``--sample-time`` number of seconds has passed.
+The example below shows all the supported options in this scenario.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ sudo ./kernel_delay.py --start-trigger up:bridge_run --sample-time 4 \
+                           --sample-count 4 --sample-interval 1
+
+
+If you only use ``--stop-trigger``, the inspection starts immediately and
+stops when the trigger happens.  The example below shows all the supported
+options in this scenario.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ sudo ./kernel_delay.py --stop-trigger upr:bridge_run \
+                           --sample-count 4 --sample-interval 1
+
+
+If you use both ``--start-trigger`` and ``--stop-trigger`` triggers, the
+statistics are captured between the two first occurrences of these events.
+The example below shows all the supported options in this scenario.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ sudo ./kernel_delay.py --start-trigger up:bridge_run \
+                           --stop-trigger upr:bridge_run \
+                           --sample-count 4 --sample-interval 1 \
+                           --trigger-delta 50000
+
+What triggers are supported? Note that what ``kernel_delay.py`` calls triggers,
+BCC [#BCC]_, calls events; these are eBPF tracepoints you can attach to.
+For more details on the supported tracepoints, check out the BCC
+documentation [#BCC_EVENT]_.
+
+The list below shows the supported triggers and their argument format:
+
+**USDT probes:**
+  [u|usdt]:{provider}:{probe}
+**Kernel tracepoint:**
+  [t:trace]:{system}:{event}
+**kprobe:**
+  [k:kprobe]:{kernel_function}
+**kretprobe:**
+  [kr:kretprobe]:{kernel_function}
+**uprobe:**
+  [up:uprobe]:{function}
+**uretprobe:**
+  [upr:uretprobe]:{function}
+
+Here are a couple of trigger examples, more use-case-specific examples can be
+found in the *Examples* section.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  --start|stop-trigger u:udpif_revalidator:start_dump
+  --start|stop-trigger t:openvswitch:ovs_dp_upcall
+  --start|stop-trigger k:ovs_dp_process_packet
+  --start|stop-trigger kr:ovs_dp_process_packet
+  --start|stop-trigger up:bridge_run
+  --start|stop-trigger upr:bridge_run
+
+
+Examples
+--------
+This section will give some examples of how to use this tool in real-world
+scenarios. Let's start with the issue where Open vSwitch reports
+``Unreasonably long XXXXms poll interval`` on your revalidator threads. Note
+that there is a blog available explaining how the revalidator process works
+in OVS [#REVAL_BLOG]_.
+
+First, let me explain this log message. It gets logged if the time delta
+between two ``poll_block()`` calls is more than 1 second. In other words,
+the process was spending a lot of time processing stuff that was made
+available by the return of the ``poll_block()`` function.
+
+Do a run with the tool using the existing USDT revalidator probes as a start
+and stop trigger (Note that the resource-specific data is removed from the none
+revalidator threads):
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ sudo ./kernel_delay.py --start-trigger u:udpif_revalidator:start_dump --stop-trigger u:udpif_revalidator:sweep_done
+  # Start sampling (trigger@791777093512008) @2023-06-14T14:52:00.110303 (12:52:00 UTC)
+  # Stop sampling (trigger@791778281498462) @2023-06-14T14:52:01.297975 (12:52:01 UTC)
+  # Triggered sample dump, stop-start delta 1,187,986,454 ns @2023-06-14T14:52:01.298021 (12:52:01 UTC)
+  TID        THREAD           <RESOURCE SPECIFIC>
+  ---------- ---------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+     1457761 handler24        [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+                              NAME                 NUMBER       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                              sendmsg                  46        6110       123,274,761            41,776
+                              recvmsg                  47      136299        99,397,508            49,896
+                              futex                   202          51         7,655,832         7,536,776
+                              poll                      7        4068         1,202,883             2,907
+                              getrusage                98        2034           586,602             1,398
+                              sendto                   44           9           213,682            27,417
+                              TOTAL( - poll):                  144503       231,128,385
+
+                              [THREAD RUN STATISTICS]
+                              SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MIN ns            MAX ns
+
+                              [THREAD READY STATISTICS]
+                              SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                                       1             1,438             1,438
+
+                              [SOFT IRQ STATISTICS]
+                              NAME                 VECT_NR       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                              sched                      7          21            59,145             3,769
+                              rcu                        9          50            42,917             2,234
+                              TOTAL:                                71           102,062
+     1457733 ovs-vswitchd     [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ...
+     1457792 revalidator55    [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+                              NAME                 NUMBER       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                              futex                   202          73       572,576,329        19,621,600
+                              recvmsg                  47         815       296,697,618           405,338
+                              sendto                   44           3            78,302            26,837
+                              sendmsg                  46           3            38,712            13,250
+                              write                     1           1             5,073             5,073
+                              TOTAL( - poll):                     895       869,396,034
+
+                              [THREAD RUN STATISTICS]
+                              SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MIN ns            MAX ns
+                                      48       394,350,393             1,729       140,455,796
+
+                              [THREAD READY STATISTICS]
+                              SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                                      49            23,650             1,559
+
+                              [SOFT IRQ STATISTICS]
+                              NAME                 VECT_NR       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                              sched                      7          14            26,889             3,041
+                              rcu                        9          28            23,024             1,600
+                              TOTAL:                                42            49,913
+
+
+Above you see from the start of the output that the trigger took more than a
+second (1,187,986,454 ns), which is already know, by looking at the output of
+the ``ovs-vsctl upcall/show`` command.
+
+From the *revalidator55*'s ``SYSCALL STATISTICS`` statistics you can see it
+spent almost 870ms handling syscalls, and there were no poll() calls being
+executed. The ``THREAD RUN STATISTICS`` statistics here are a bit misleading,
+as it looks like OVS only spent 394ms on the CPU. But earlier, it was mentioned
+that this time does not include the time being on the CPU at the start or stop
+of an event. What is exactly the case here, because USDT probes were used.
+
+From the above data and maybe some ``top`` output, it can be determined that
+the *revalidator55* thread is taking a lot of CPU time, probably because it
+has to do a lot of revalidator work by itself. The solution here is to increase
+the number of revalidator threads, so more work could be done in parallel.
+
+Here is another run of the same command in another scenario:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ sudo ./kernel_delay.py --start-trigger u:udpif_revalidator:start_dump --stop-trigger u:udpif_revalidator:sweep_done
+  # Start sampling (trigger@795160501758971) @2023-06-14T15:48:23.518512 (13:48:23 UTC)
+  # Stop sampling (trigger@795160764940201) @2023-06-14T15:48:23.781381 (13:48:23 UTC)
+  # Triggered sample dump, stop-start delta 263,181,230 ns @2023-06-14T15:48:23.781414 (13:48:23 UTC)
+  TID        THREAD           <RESOURCE SPECIFIC>
+  ---------- ---------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+     1457733 ovs-vswitchd     [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+                              ...
+     1457792 revalidator55    [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+                              NAME                 NUMBER       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                              recvmsg                  47         284       193,422,110        46,248,418
+                              sendto                   44           2            46,685            23,665
+                              sendmsg                  46           2            24,916            12,703
+                              write                     1           1             6,534             6,534
+                              TOTAL( - poll):                     289       193,500,245
+
+                              [THREAD RUN STATISTICS]
+                              SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MIN ns            MAX ns
+                                       2        47,333,558           331,516        47,002,042
+
+                              [THREAD READY STATISTICS]
+                              SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                                       3        87,000,403        45,999,712
+
+                              [SOFT IRQ STATISTICS]
+                              NAME                 VECT_NR       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                              sched                      7           2             9,504             5,109
+                              TOTAL:                                 2             9,504
+
+
+Here you can see the revalidator run took about 263ms, which does not look
+odd, however, the ``THREAD READY STATISTICS`` information shows that OVS was
+waiting 87ms for a CPU to be run on. This means the revalidator process could
+have finished 87ms faster. Looking at the ``MAX ns`` value, a worst-case delay
+of almost 46ms can be seen, which hints at an overloaded system.
+
+One final example that uses a ``uprobe`` to get some statistics on a
+``bridge_run()`` execution that takes more than 1ms.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ sudo ./kernel_delay.py --start-trigger up:bridge_run --stop-trigger ur:bridge_run --trigger-delta 1000000
+  # Start sampling (trigger@2245245432101270) @2023-06-14T16:21:10.467919 (14:21:10 UTC)
+  # Stop sampling (trigger@2245245432414656) @2023-06-14T16:21:10.468296 (14:21:10 UTC)
+  # Sample dump skipped, delta 313,386 ns @2023-06-14T16:21:10.468419 (14:21:10 UTC)
+  # Start sampling (trigger@2245245505301745) @2023-06-14T16:21:10.540970 (14:21:10 UTC)
+  # Stop sampling (trigger@2245245506911119) @2023-06-14T16:21:10.542499 (14:21:10 UTC)
+  # Triggered sample dump, stop-start delta 1,609,374 ns @2023-06-14T16:21:10.542565 (14:21:10 UTC)
+  TID        THREAD           <RESOURCE SPECIFIC>
+  ---------- ---------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+     3371035 <unknown:3366258/3371035> [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ... <REMOVED 7 MORE unknown THREADS>
+     3371102 handler66        [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ... <REMOVED 7 MORE HANDLER THREADS>
+     3366258 ovs-vswitchd     [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+                              NAME                 NUMBER       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                              futex                   202          43           403,469           199,312
+                              clone3                  435          13           174,394            30,731
+                              munmap                   11           8           115,774            21,861
+                              poll                      7           5            92,969            38,307
+                              unlink                   87           2            49,918            35,741
+                              mprotect                 10           8            47,618            13,201
+                              accept                   43          10            31,360             6,976
+                              mmap                      9           8            30,279             5,776
+                              write                     1           6            27,720            11,774
+                              rt_sigprocmask           14          28            12,281               970
+                              read                      0           6             9,478             2,318
+                              recvfrom                 45           3             7,024             4,024
+                              sendto                   44           1             4,684             4,684
+                              getrusage                98           5             4,594             1,342
+                              close                     3           2             2,918             1,627
+                              recvmsg                  47           1             2,722             2,722
+                              TOTAL( - poll):                     144           924,233
+
+                              [THREAD RUN STATISTICS]
+                              SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MIN ns            MAX ns
+                                      13           817,605             5,433           524,376
+
+                              [THREAD READY STATISTICS]
+                              SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                                      14            28,646            11,566
+
+                              [SOFT IRQ STATISTICS]
+                              NAME                 VECT_NR       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                              rcu                        9           1             2,838             2,838
+                              TOTAL:                                 1             2,838
+
+     3371110 revalidator74    [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ... <REMOVED 7 MORE NEW revalidator THREADS>
+     3366311 urcu3            [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+     ...
+
+
+OVS removed some of the threads and their resource-specific data, but based
+on the ``<unknown:3366258/3371035>`` thread name, you can determine that some
+threads no longer exist. In the ``ovs-vswitchd`` thread, you can see some
+``clone3`` syscalls, indicating threads were created. In this example, it was
+due to the deletion of a bridge, which resulted in the recreation of the
+revalidator and handler threads.
+
+
+Use with Openshift
+------------------
+This section describes how you would use the tool on a node in an OpenShift
+cluster. It assumes you have console access to the node, either directly or
+through a debug container.
+
+A base fedora38 container will be used through podman, as this will allow the
+use of some additional tools and packages needed.
+
+First the containers need to be started:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  [core@sno-master ~]$ sudo podman run -it --rm \
+     -e PS1='[(DEBUG)\u@\h \W]\$ ' \
+     --privileged --network=host --pid=host \
+     -v /lib/modules:/lib/modules:ro \
+     -v /sys/kernel/debug:/sys/kernel/debug \
+     -v /proc:/proc \
+     -v /:/mnt/rootdir \
+     quay.io/fedora/fedora:38-x86_64
+
+  [(DEBUG)root@sno-master /]#
+
+
+Next add the ``linux_delay.py`` dependencies:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  [(DEBUG)root@sno-master /]# dnf install -y bcc-tools perl-interpreter \
+       python3-pytz  python3-psutil
+
+
+You need to install the devel, debug and source RPMs for your OVS and kernel
+version:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  [(DEBUG)root@sno-master home]# rpm -i \
+      openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-67.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm \
+      openvswitch2.17-debugsource-2.17.0-67.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm \
+      kernel-devel-4.18.0-372.41.1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
+
+
+Now the tool can be started. Here the above ``bridge_run()`` example is used:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  [(DEBUG)root@sno-master home]# ./kernel_delay.py --start-trigger up:bridge_run --stop-trigger ur:bridge_run
+  # Start sampling (trigger@75279117343513) @2023-06-15T11:44:07.628372 (11:44:07 UTC)
+  # Stop sampling (trigger@75279117443980) @2023-06-15T11:44:07.628529 (11:44:07 UTC)
+  # Triggered sample dump, stop-start delta 100,467 ns @2023-06-15T11:44:07.628569 (11:44:07 UTC)
+  TID        THREAD           <RESOURCE SPECIFIC>
+  ---------- ---------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+        1246 ovs-vswitchd     [SYSCALL STATISTICS]
+                              NAME                 NUMBER       COUNT          TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+                              getdents64              217           2             8,560             8,162
+                              openat                  257           1             6,951             6,951
+                              accept                   43           4             6,942             3,763
+                              recvfrom                 45           1             3,726             3,726
+                              recvmsg                  47           2             2,880             2,188
+                              stat                      4           2             1,946             1,384
+                              close                     3           1             1,393             1,393
+                              fstat                     5           1             1,324             1,324
+                              TOTAL( - poll):                      14            33,722
+
+                              [THREAD RUN STATISTICS]
+                              SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MIN ns            MAX ns
+
+                              [THREAD READY STATISTICS]
+                              SCHED_CNT           TOTAL ns            MAX ns
+
+
+.. rubric:: Footnotes
+
+.. [#BCC] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
+.. [#BCC_EVENT] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/docs/reference_guide.md#events--arguments
+.. [#REVAL_BLOG] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/10/19/open-vswitch-revalidator-process-explained