[FlowExporter] More efficient IP checks #6960
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The FlowExporter in the Agent queries the NodeRouteController to determine whether the source / destination IPs are Pod IPs (NodeIPAM only). Prior to this change, these checks were expensive, involving an indexer lookup and conversions between different IP formats. The new implementation is about 10x faster, and performs no memory allocations.
The new implementation introduces a new set in the NodeRouteController, dedicated to storing all the PodCIDRs in the cluster. While I considered removing the dependency of the FlowExporter on the NodeRouteController altogether, it would have been a much bigger change. Additionally, in the long term, we could consider removing these checks from the FlowExporter altogether, and pushing the logic to the FlowAggregator.
We also make a few additional changes to the FlowExporter: