fix(containerprofile): reduce syscall loss window on container termination - #924
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a five-second default for ChangesSyscall polling and profile finalization
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change adds direct batched syscall reporting and a termination-time flush, but excluded workloads may still be recorded and delayed syscall delivery can be omitted from final profiles. These bounded correctness risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Config
participant TracerFactory
participant SyscallTracer
participant ContainerProfileManager
participant ProfileStore
Config->>TracerFactory: provide SyscallPollInterval
TracerFactory->>SyscallTracer: create tracer with ReportSyscalls
SyscallTracer->>SyscallTracer: fetch syscall map periodically
TracerFactory->>ContainerProfileManager: register SyscallTracer.Peek
ContainerProfileManager->>SyscallTracer: flush before final save
SyscallTracer-->>ContainerProfileManager: deliver syscall batch
ContainerProfileManager->>ProfileStore: save final profile after 500 ms settling delay
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Reviewed at head 5e1c190 (the on-demand-flush redesign, not the earlier "shrink poll interval to 2s" version).
The design itself looks solid: TriggerManualMapFetch is fire-and-forget with coalesced, non-blocking sends; flushAndSettle's 500ms wait is scoped to the event pipeline rather than the poll interval; the flusher is only wired when IsEnabled is true so a disabled tracer pays nothing; and the doc (docs/features/syscall-poll-interval.md) is honest about the remaining known limitation (bounded wait, not a hard guarantee). Test coverage is good on both sides: TestSetSyscallFlusher, TestFlushAndSettleNoFlusherIsNoopAndFast, TestFlushAndSettleCallsFlusherAndWaits, TestSyscallTracerPeekDoesNotPanic, TestSyscallTracerPollInterval here, plus the manualfetch_test.go suite in the fork.
Blocker: go.mod/go.sum pin github.com/matthyx/inspektor-gadget to 2b683d258349..., which is the current head of matthyx/inspektor-gadget#12 — an open, unreviewed PR on a personal-fork feature branch (feat/ebpf-manual-map-fetch-trigger), not a commit on that fork's main. That's fragile: a rebase or force-push on that branch would silently break go mod download reproducibility here, and TriggerManualMapFetch doesn't exist anywhere durable yet. Please get #12 merged into the fork's main (or otherwise onto a stable ref) and repoint the pin before this is mergeable. The PR description already calls this out as a known dependency — flagging that it's still outstanding as of this push, since mergeable_state is currently blocked.
Side note, not a blocker: CodeRabbit's automated walkthrough on this PR describes the earlier 2s-poll-interval/5s-grace-period approach (it only diffed through commit f62614b, before the redesign in 5e1c190) — it doesn't reflect what's actually in the diff now, so it can be disregarded.
Will come back and approve once the fork dependency lands and the pin is updated.
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Re-reviewed at head 2abb685 (the batching + restored-5s-cadence update). The updated design is well thought through — restoring the pre-#591 RuleManager alerting cadence via a single global runPeekLoop ticker (rather than the old per-container ticker) while giving ContainerProfileManager a batched, pipeline-bypassing ReportSyscalls is a nice piece of engineering, and the docs update explaining the pre-#591 history is genuinely useful context for future readers. Also: thanks for clarifying in the description that the go.mod replace pin doesn't need matthyx/inspektor-gadget#12 merged to build — that's correct (Go module pseudo-versions resolve any reachable commit regardless of PR/merge status) and addresses my earlier concern about buildability. I'd still keep an eye on that pin pointing at an unmerged feature branch (a force-push/rebase there would break go mod download reproducibility), but I agree it's not a build blocker.
Found two correctness issues on this pass that I verified directly against the current diff and the surrounding call graph, not just the new code in isolation:
1. Unsynchronized cpm.syscallFlusher read/write — a real race that can silently reintroduce #922 during startup.
pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/containerprofile_manager.go adds syscallFlusher func() as a plain struct field, written once by SetSyscallFlusher and read by flushAndSettle (pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/helpers.go:47) — no mutex/atomic on either side. I traced the call order in pkg/containerwatcher/v2/container_watcher.go's Start(): it calls cw.StartContainerCollection(ctx) — which synchronously kicks off container enumeration, and whose containerCallback submits each container's callback (including whatever starts ContainerProfileManager's per-container monitorContainer goroutine) to cw.pool.Submit(...), i.e. asynchronously on a separate worker-pool goroutine — before Start() goes on to build the TracerFactory and call StartAllTracers() → CreateAllTracers() → SetSyscallFlusher() further down the same function. A pre-existing container that starts and terminates in that window has its monitorContainer goroutine call flushAndSettle() concurrently with (or before) SetSyscallFlusher's write — a genuine data race the Go race detector would flag, and one that, if the read loses the race, silently skips the flush and reproduces the exact syscall-loss bug this PR exists to fix, right at node-agent startup/restart — the highest-container-churn moment there is. Worth guarding syscallFlusher with a mutex (or an atomic.Pointer[func()]), independent of anything else in this PR.
2. ContainerProfileManager.ReportSyscalls is now called synchronously, every syscallPollInterval (5s) tick, from the single goroutine that processes the shared seccomp gadget's fetch dispatch — and it can block.
Previously ReportSyscall reached ContainerProfileManager through the generic pipeline (queue → one of WorkerPoolSize pooled goroutines), so any per-container blocking there only ever tied up one interchangeable worker. Now SyscallTracer.callback calls st.reportSyscalls(containerID, syscallList) (→ ContainerProfileManager.ReportSyscalls → withContainer) directly and synchronously, and withContainer (pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/container_operations.go:47) does entry.data.watchedContainerData.SyncChannel <- ProfileRequiresSplit while holding entry.mu when a profile crosses MaxTsProfileSize. If that container's monitorContainer select loop is momentarily busy (e.g. mid-saveProfile/storage I/O), this now blocks the one goroutine that every currently-traced container's syscall data — for both profile-building and, since batching only applies to ContainerProfileManager, indirectly delays the next fetch dispatch entirely — funnels through, at a 5s cadence instead of the old 30s-and-only-at-termination cadence. That's a new, real backpressure/head-of-line-blocking path that didn't exist before this PR, since the old fan-out was decoupled per-worker. Not a data-loss bug like #1, but worth a look — e.g. a buffered/async handoff for the SyncChannel send, or bounding how long withContainer can block on it.
Nice-to-haves, not blocking: defaultSyscallPollInterval (syscall.go) and viper.SetDefault("syscallPollInterval", ...) (config.go) hardcode the same 5s in two places with nothing keeping them in sync; decodeSyscalls could pre-size its slice with make([]string, 0, len(syscallsBuffer)) since the upper bound is already known; and runPeekLoop's new done channel duplicates what ctx.Done() (already passed into Start) does elsewhere in this same package (e.g. procfs.go).
Not approving yet given #1 is a genuine concurrency bug, but the overall direction here is solid.
…ation The seccomp syscall tracer only fetches the advise_seccomp eBPF map on a fixed 30s poll; a container terminating between polls loses whatever it executed since the last fetch once its profile is saved and its data is removed. Make the poll interval configurable (syscallPollInterval, default 2s, down from a hardcoded 30s) and wait one bounded poll interval before the final forced profile save on termination, so the tracer's next poll cycle has a chance to land first. Fixes #922 Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
…the poll interval Bumps the inspektor-gadget fork to matthyx/inspektor-gadget#12, which adds ebpfoperator.TriggerManualMapFetch: an on-demand trigger for the eBPF map iterator that the periodic syscall poll relies on. ContainerProfileManager now calls this (via SyscallTracer.Peek, wired through the new SetSyscallFlusher hook) right before a container's final forced profile save on termination, instead of guessing how long to wait for the next scheduled poll. This replaces the previous mitigation (shrinking syscallPollInterval to 2s and sleeping up to that long on every termination) with an actual fix: the poll interval reverts to its original 30s default since it no longer needs to be short for correctness, and the wait before saving is now a fixed 500ms settle delay for the event pipeline, only paid when a flush was actually requested. Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
…store 5s alerting cadence The gadget's own internal fetch schedule is now disabled entirely (map-fetch-interval/count both "0"); every fetch, periodic or not, goes through SyscallTracer.Peek. A single background loop in Start calls Peek on syscallPollInterval (default 5s, was 30s) for live event delivery to every consumer (profile-building and RuleManager's real-time syscall alerting alike), and ContainerProfileManager calls Peek once more, out of that schedule, right before a container's final forced save. This restores the pre-PR-#591 architecture's actual property that mattered: RuleManager's real-time alerting ran on its own dedicated schedule (a 5s ticker per container) fully decoupled from ContainerProfileManager's save-driven Peek() calls. The destructive batch read the current OCI gadget uses was never actually why a single shared 30s schedule was needed; there was simply one internal ticker serving every consumer at the same cadence. Driving everything through one explicit Peek call, and making that call on the original 5s cadence, is now also cheaper than the pre-#591 design: one global fetch drains and dispatches every currently traced container in a batch, rather than one ticker per container. Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
SyscallTracer.callback decodes one eBPF fetch into a batch of syscall names per container, but was still emitting one SyscallEventType event per syscall through the generic per-event pipeline (AddEventDirect, dedup-key computation, handler dispatch) for a data source that isn't actually a discrete event stream - it's a periodic snapshot of a persistent per-mntns bitmap. That per-item overhead scales with how many distinct syscalls a container has executed since its last fetch, worst right after a container starts. RuleManager's rule matching and the generic dedup cache both key off a single event.syscall value, so they still need one event per syscall. ContainerProfileManager has no such constraint - it only folds each syscall into a per-container set - so it now gets the whole batch directly via the new ReportSyscalls(containerID, []string) method, bypassing the queue/dedup/dispatch pipeline entirely for this consumer. RuleManager and metrics are unaffected, still receiving one event per syscall exactly as before. Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
…ch, empty containerID Fixes three issues from review on PR #924 (pullrequestreview-5027546778) plus the CI failures they caused: - ContainerProfileManager.syscallFlusher was a plain func() field written once by SetSyscallFlusher (from TracerFactory, during startup wiring) and read by flushAndSettle from concurrently-running per-container monitorContainer goroutines - an unsynchronized data race that could silently skip the flush at exactly the highest-container-churn moment there is (startup/restart). Now stored via atomic.Pointer[func()]. - SyscallTracer.callback called ContainerProfileManager.ReportSyscalls synchronously and inline, on the single goroutine the gadget uses to process every currently-traced container's fetch results. ReportSyscalls can itself block (withContainer sends on a container's bounded SyncChannel while holding its lock, on a profile-size-split). Previously this same call went through the generic queue and one of many pooled workers, so one slow container never affected any other. Now dispatched on its own goroutine so it can't stall the shared fetch-processing path. - The seccomp map covers every mount namespace on the node, including ones never resolved to a container (host processes, etc). The generic pipeline used to drop those via EventHandlerFactory.ProcessEvent's empty-ContainerID check before they reached ReportSyscall; the direct call bypasses that check, so every such row was logging "invalid empty containerID" and wasting a container-map lookup, every tick - visible as hundreds of these errors in the failing CI runs (Test_02_AllAlertsFromMaliciousApp, Test_23_RuleCooldownTest, Test_28_UserDefinedNetworkNeighborhood). callback now filters these out itself before decoding or reporting. Also: shared config.DefaultSyscallPollInterval constant instead of duplicating the 5s literal in both packages, and decodeSyscalls pre-sizes its slice since the upper bound is already known. Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
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Both issues from my last review are fixed correctly at 2acc775 (can't submit an APPROVE — GitHub blocks self-approval on your own PR — so recording the verdict as a comment instead):
syscallFlusheris nowatomic.Pointer[func()](Load/Store), andTestSetSyscallFlusherConcurrentWithFlushAndSettlereproduces the exact race and passes under-race. Good fix.SyscallTracer.callbacknow dispatchesreportSyscallson its own goroutine instead of calling it inline, so a stalled container can no longer block the shared fetch-processing goroutine for every other container.
Also appreciate that you caught and fixed the empty-containerID (unresolved mount namespace) spam that was actually failing 3 CI runs — good catch, and the fix (filtering before decode/report in callback) is in the right place. The done-channel-vs-ctx.Done() reasoning for Stop() needing to immediately halt the peek loop rather than waiting on the caller to cancel ctx makes sense too — no need to change that.
I don't see any remaining correctness issues. LGTM to merge — component-tests/build for 2acc775 were still in progress as of this review, worth a final glance once they're green, but nothing here should block merge otherwise.
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In `@docs/features/syscall-poll-interval.md`:
- Around line 63-65: Update the documentation around flushAndSettle and the
corresponding section near ReportSyscalls to describe asynchronous
ReportSyscalls execution and per-container SyncChannel backpressure, replacing
references to the generic event queue and worker pool. Preserve the existing
explanation of the postSyscallFlushSettleDelay and snapshot timing.
In `@pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/helpers.go`:
- Around line 52-53: Update flushAndSettle so it waits for the ReportSyscalls
callback’s delivery completion signal before performing the final profile save,
rather than relying on postSyscallFlushSettleDelay; ensure the signal is always
completed on the callback’s success and failure paths, and add an integration
test covering delayed syscall delivery.
In `@pkg/containerwatcher/v2/tracers/syscall.go`:
- Around line 193-200: Update ReportSyscalls and its direct reporting path to
apply the same container eligibility checks as EventHandlerFactory.ProcessEvent,
including unavailable containers and cfg.IgnoreContainer policies, before
dispatching to ContainerProfileManager. Preserve event.Release and early return
for every ineligible container, not only when containerID is empty.
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Wait for syscall delivery completion before the final save.
SyscallTracer.Peek only triggers the fetch. Its callback starts ReportSyscalls in a separate goroutine. flushAndSettle waits a fixed 500 ms, then the final save snapshots and clears containerData. If delivery takes longer, the final profile can omit the delayed syscalls. Replace the sleep with a completion signal and add an integration test for delayed delivery.
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In `@pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/helpers.go` around lines 52 - 53, Update
flushAndSettle so it waits for the ReportSyscalls callback’s delivery completion
signal before performing the final profile save, rather than relying on
postSyscallFlushSettleDelay; ensure the signal is always completed on the
callback’s success and failure paths, and add an integration test covering
delayed syscall delivery.
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Preserve configured container exclusions for direct syscall reporting.
This filter rejects only an empty container ID. The previous EventHandlerFactory.ProcessEvent path also rejects unavailable containers and containers matched by cfg.IgnoreContainer before it dispatches to ContainerProfileManager.
ReportSyscalls has no equivalent check. A workload excluded by namespace, label, or other configured policy can now add syscall data to its stored profile. Apply the same eligibility policy before direct batch reporting.
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In `@pkg/containerwatcher/v2/tracers/syscall.go` around lines 193 - 200, Update
ReportSyscalls and its direct reporting path to apply the same container
eligibility checks as EventHandlerFactory.ProcessEvent, including unavailable
containers and cfg.IgnoreContainer policies, before dispatching to
ContainerProfileManager. Preserve event.Release and early return for every
ineligible container, not only when containerID is empty.
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Leftover from before the review-fix commit: ContainerProfileManager no longer goes through the generic event queue/worker pool for syscalls, so the 500ms wait description was stale (CodeRabbit review comment on PR #924). Docs-exempt: documentation-only correction, no behavioral change Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
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…cape#925) Switch the replace directive from the personal matthyx/inspektor-gadget fork to the org-owned kubescape/inspektor-gadget at the same commit main pins post-kubescape#925 (v0.0.0-20260826074832-06b0d12baca0). The fork module content is identical (same go.mod hash), only the org path changed; go.sum h1 matches kubescape#925. Node-agent builds clean against it. No rebase onto main for kubescape#924 — the syscall poll-interval change is orthogonal to the network feature. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A8UV2B7b6dpDJQci31aC6c
…ation (kubescape#924) * fix(containerprofile): reduce syscall loss window on container termination The seccomp syscall tracer only fetches the advise_seccomp eBPF map on a fixed 30s poll; a container terminating between polls loses whatever it executed since the last fetch once its profile is saved and its data is removed. Make the poll interval configurable (syscallPollInterval, default 2s, down from a hardcoded 30s) and wait one bounded poll interval before the final forced profile save on termination, so the tracer's next poll cycle has a chance to land first. Fixes kubescape#922 Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com> * fix(containerprofile): flush syscalls on demand instead of shrinking the poll interval Bumps the inspektor-gadget fork to matthyx/inspektor-gadget#12, which adds ebpfoperator.TriggerManualMapFetch: an on-demand trigger for the eBPF map iterator that the periodic syscall poll relies on. ContainerProfileManager now calls this (via SyscallTracer.Peek, wired through the new SetSyscallFlusher hook) right before a container's final forced profile save on termination, instead of guessing how long to wait for the next scheduled poll. This replaces the previous mitigation (shrinking syscallPollInterval to 2s and sleeping up to that long on every termination) with an actual fix: the poll interval reverts to its original 30s default since it no longer needs to be short for correctness, and the wait before saving is now a fixed 500ms settle delay for the event pipeline, only paid when a flush was actually requested. Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com> * fix(containerprofile): drive all syscall map fetches through Peek, restore 5s alerting cadence The gadget's own internal fetch schedule is now disabled entirely (map-fetch-interval/count both "0"); every fetch, periodic or not, goes through SyscallTracer.Peek. A single background loop in Start calls Peek on syscallPollInterval (default 5s, was 30s) for live event delivery to every consumer (profile-building and RuleManager's real-time syscall alerting alike), and ContainerProfileManager calls Peek once more, out of that schedule, right before a container's final forced save. This restores the pre-PR-kubescape#591 architecture's actual property that mattered: RuleManager's real-time alerting ran on its own dedicated schedule (a 5s ticker per container) fully decoupled from ContainerProfileManager's save-driven Peek() calls. The destructive batch read the current OCI gadget uses was never actually why a single shared 30s schedule was needed; there was simply one internal ticker serving every consumer at the same cadence. Driving everything through one explicit Peek call, and making that call on the original 5s cadence, is now also cheaper than the pre-kubescape#591 design: one global fetch drains and dispatches every currently traced container in a batch, rather than one ticker per container. Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com> * feat(containerprofile): batch syscall reporting, bypass generic pipeline SyscallTracer.callback decodes one eBPF fetch into a batch of syscall names per container, but was still emitting one SyscallEventType event per syscall through the generic per-event pipeline (AddEventDirect, dedup-key computation, handler dispatch) for a data source that isn't actually a discrete event stream - it's a periodic snapshot of a persistent per-mntns bitmap. That per-item overhead scales with how many distinct syscalls a container has executed since its last fetch, worst right after a container starts. RuleManager's rule matching and the generic dedup cache both key off a single event.syscall value, so they still need one event per syscall. ContainerProfileManager has no such constraint - it only folds each syscall into a per-container set - so it now gets the whole batch directly via the new ReportSyscalls(containerID, []string) method, bypassing the queue/dedup/dispatch pipeline entirely for this consumer. RuleManager and metrics are unaffected, still receiving one event per syscall exactly as before. Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com> * fix(containerprofile): address review — flusher race, blocking dispatch, empty containerID Fixes three issues from review on PR kubescape#924 (pullrequestreview-5027546778) plus the CI failures they caused: - ContainerProfileManager.syscallFlusher was a plain func() field written once by SetSyscallFlusher (from TracerFactory, during startup wiring) and read by flushAndSettle from concurrently-running per-container monitorContainer goroutines - an unsynchronized data race that could silently skip the flush at exactly the highest-container-churn moment there is (startup/restart). Now stored via atomic.Pointer[func()]. - SyscallTracer.callback called ContainerProfileManager.ReportSyscalls synchronously and inline, on the single goroutine the gadget uses to process every currently-traced container's fetch results. ReportSyscalls can itself block (withContainer sends on a container's bounded SyncChannel while holding its lock, on a profile-size-split). Previously this same call went through the generic queue and one of many pooled workers, so one slow container never affected any other. Now dispatched on its own goroutine so it can't stall the shared fetch-processing path. - The seccomp map covers every mount namespace on the node, including ones never resolved to a container (host processes, etc). The generic pipeline used to drop those via EventHandlerFactory.ProcessEvent's empty-ContainerID check before they reached ReportSyscall; the direct call bypasses that check, so every such row was logging "invalid empty containerID" and wasting a container-map lookup, every tick - visible as hundreds of these errors in the failing CI runs (Test_02_AllAlertsFromMaliciousApp, Test_23_RuleCooldownTest, Test_28_UserDefinedNetworkNeighborhood). callback now filters these out itself before decoding or reporting. Also: shared config.DefaultSyscallPollInterval constant instead of duplicating the 5s literal in both packages, and decodeSyscalls pre-sizes its slice since the upper bound is already known. Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com> * docs: correct flushAndSettle description to match the direct-call path Leftover from before the review-fix commit: ContainerProfileManager no longer goes through the generic event queue/worker pool for syscalls, so the 500ms wait description was stale (CodeRabbit review comment on PR kubescape#924). Docs-exempt: documentation-only correction, no behavioral change Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
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Overview
Fixes #922.
Root cause
SyscallTracerran theadvise_seccompOCI gadget with its own internal periodic map-fetch (ended up at 30s).ContainerProfileManagersaves a container's profile synchronously on termination; whatever syscalls the kernel recorded since the tracer's last internal fetch were still sitting unfetched in the eBPF map at that moment and became unreachable once the container's data was removed.History that shaped the fix
Before PR #591, node-agent used a non-destructive
Peek(mntns)(plain map lookup, no delete) on the old native seccomp tracer. Two independent consumers drove it on their own schedule:ContainerProfileManageron demand at save time, andRuleManageron its own 5-second ticker per container, purely for real-time syscall-based rule alerting. PR #591 moved to the OCI-gadget framework, whose generic map-iterator does a destructiveBPF_MAP_LOOKUP_AND_DELETE_BATCH, and consolidated everything onto one shared instance with one internal schedule — which is what dropped alerting latency from 5s to 30s, and also created the #922 race. (The destructive read itself was never actually the reason a shared schedule was required — that just fell out of there being one tracer instance with one internal ticker serving every consumer.)The fix
All fetching — periodic or not — now goes through one explicit call instead of the gadget's own internal schedule:
ebpfoperator.TriggerManualMapFetch(names ...string), an on-demand trigger for the map-iterator mechanism, independent of any schedule.SyscallTracer.Peek()calls it. The gadget is started withmap-fetch-interval/map-fetch-countboth"0", which disables its internal ticker entirely.SyscallTracer.runPeekLoop(started inStart) callsPeekonsyscallPollInterval— default5s(was30spre-this-PR, briefly2sin an earlier revision) — restoring the originalRuleManageralerting cadence. This is one global ticker regardless of container count (vs. the old per-container ticker), since oneTriggerManualMapFetchdrains and dispatches every tracked container in one batch.ContainerProfileManager.SetSyscallFlusherwiresPeekto also fire once more, out of that schedule, right before a container's final forced save (flushAndSettle), closing the race at exactly the moment a container disappears. A fixed500mssettle delay follows, only paid when a flush was actually requested.Batching: cutting per-event overhead for ContainerProfileManager
SyscallTracer.callbackdecodes one fetch into a batch of syscall names per container, but was still emitting oneSyscallEventTypeevent per syscall through the generic pipeline (AddEventDirect, dedup-key computation, handler dispatch) — pure per-item overhead for a data source that isn't a discrete event stream to begin with.RuleManager's CEL rule matching and the generic dedup cache both key off a singleevent.syscallvalue, so they still need one event per syscall — butContainerProfileManagerdoesn't (it only folds each syscall into a per-container set), so it now gets the whole batch directly via a newReportSyscalls(containerID string, syscalls []string)method, bypassing the queue/dedup/dispatch pipeline entirely for this one consumer.containerProfileManageris correspondingly removed fromehf.handlers[utils.SyscallEventType];RuleManagerandmetricsare unaffected.RuleManager's real-time syscall-based alerting (pkg/ruleadapters/adapters/syscall.go) still shares the event pipeline, so restoring the periodic cadence to 5s isn't just for profile freshness — it's what keeps that alerting path from regressing to a 10-minute-plus delay.See
docs/features/syscall-poll-interval.mdfor the full writeup and known limitations.Additional Information
go.modreplace, doesn't need to be merged for this to build).syscallPollIntervaldocumented indocs/CONFIGURATION.md, default5s.How to Test
go test ./pkg/config/... ./pkg/containerprofilemanager/... ./pkg/containerwatcher/...TestSetSyscallFlusher,TestFlushAndSettleNoFlusherIsNoopAndFast,TestFlushAndSettleCallsFlusherAndWaits,TestReportSyscallsSizeAccounting,TestReportSyscallsBatchInOneCall(containerprofilemanager),TestSyscallTracerPeekDoesNotPanic,TestSyscallTracerRunPeekLoopStopsOnDone,TestSyscallTracerPollInterval(tracers), plus fork-side tests in feat(ebpf): add on-demand trigger for periodic map iterators matthyx/inspektor-gadget#12.Related issues/PRs
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