Re: Network RX per process per interface statistics

By "modifies" - do you mean the payload/headers? You can probably use
the skb pointer address as a unique identifier to connect across different
tracepoints?

No, I mean when situations when same package through its way to the network stack change sk_buff pointer. For example, after skb_clone() call. I have made some test and found out (empirically) that pointer to the skb->head a much better tracking ID. However, I am not sure that there is no other corner cases when skb->head also can change.

Nothing pops to my mind. But I think that if you store skbaddr=dev from
netif_receive_skb, you should be able to look this up at a later point
where you know skb->process association?

Yes, I have already implemented and make some test of this approach: I’m listening at netif_receive_skb tracepoint to create skb_head->netif map and then listening for __kfree_skb calls to create pid->skb_head map. However, this approach have some weaknesses:
- Part of packages of TCP protocol packages (ACK, for example) are handled by the kernel, so I account this packages as kernel activity. But almost every TCP ACK package have some  associated socket, which, in turn, have associated process.
- I am not sure that all package consumes call __kfree_skb at the end. Maybe there is some other miscounting in this place.

Maybe there is some other approaches to map packages to processes?