Brad Fitzpatrick 1e95ec8ad5 metrics: use Linux 6.2+ stat fast path for CurrentFDs
As of Linux 6.2 (torvalds/linux@f1f1f25699),
the stat size of the /proc/self/fd directory is the number of open file
descriptors, so CurrentFDs no longer needs to walk the directory on
modern kernels. The walk is O(n) in the number of open file descriptors,
which adds up on servers like derper that hold many connections and
report this metric on every scrape: at 10k open fds, the walk takes
about 2.2ms while an fstat takes a constant 300ns.

We fstat a directory file descriptor held open for the process lifetime
rather than calling stat with the path, because syscall.Stat copies the
path string to a NUL-terminated buffer on every call and the metric
must remain allocation-free. Kernels older than 6.2 report a size of
zero, in which case we fall back to the directory walk.

Updates #2784

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: I1742db2ae1938c77f9b7d137b167ab4a2b6b6167
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Tailscale

https://tailscale.com

Private WireGuard® networks made easy

Overview

This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code. Notably, it includes the tailscaled daemon and the tailscale CLI tool. The tailscaled daemon runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and to varying degrees on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.

Other Tailscale repos of note:

For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why, see https://tailscale.com/opensource/.

Using

We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com.

Other clients

The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source.

Building

We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.27. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.)

go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}

If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use build_dist.sh instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:

./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled

If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of build_dist.sh, please do the equivalent of what it does in your distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.

Bugs

Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker.

Contributing

PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs.

We require Developer Certificate of Origin Signed-off-by lines in commits.

See commit-messages.md (or skim git log) for our commit message style.

About Us

Tailscale is primarily developed by the people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors, see:

WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.

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