Commit d7b4f36a authored by Yorick Peterse's avatar Yorick Peterse

Use clock_gettime for all performance timestamps

Process.clock_gettime allows getting the real time in nanoseconds as
well as allowing one to get a monotonic timestamp. This offers greater
accuracy without the overhead of having to allocate a Time instance. In
general using Time.now/Time.new is about 2x slower than using
Process.clock_gettime(). For example:

    require 'benchmark/ips'

    Benchmark.ips do |bench|
      bench.report 'Time.now' do
        Time.now.to_f
      end

      bench.report 'clock_gettime' do
        Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC, :millisecond)
      end

      bench.compare!
    end

Running this benchmark gives:

    Calculating -------------------------------------
                Time.now   108.052k i/100ms
           clock_gettime   125.984k i/100ms
    -------------------------------------------------
                Time.now      2.343M (± 7.1%) i/s -     11.670M
           clock_gettime      4.979M (± 0.8%) i/s -     24.945M

    Comparison:
           clock_gettime:  4979393.8 i/s
                Time.now:  2342986.8 i/s - 2.13x slower

Another benefit of using Process.clock_gettime() is that we can simplify
the code a bit since it can give timestamps in nanoseconds out of the
box.
parent 7a94432e
......@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ module Gitlab
# Measures the real and CPU execution time of the supplied block.
def measure
start_real = Time.now
start_real = System.monotonic_time
start_cpu = System.cpu_time
retval = yield
@real_time += (Time.now - start_real) * 1000.0
@cpu_time += System.cpu_time.to_f - start_cpu
@real_time += System.monotonic_time - start_real
@cpu_time += System.cpu_time - start_cpu
@call_count += 1
retval
......
......@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ module Gitlab
class Metric
JITTER_RANGE = 0.000001..0.001
attr_reader :series, :values, :tags, :created_at
attr_reader :series, :values, :tags
# series - The name of the series (as a String) to store the metric in.
# values - A Hash containing the values to store.
......@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ module Gitlab
@values = values
@series = series
@tags = tags
@created_at = Time.now.utc
end
# Returns a Hash in a format that can be directly written to InfluxDB.
......@@ -27,20 +26,20 @@ module Gitlab
#
# Due to the way InfluxDB is set up there's no solution to this problem,
# all we can do is lower the amount of collisions. We do this by using
# Time#to_f which returns the seconds as a Float providing greater
# accuracy. We then add a small random value that is large enough to
# distinguish most timestamps but small enough to not alter the amount
# of seconds.
# System.real_time which returns the nanoseconds as a Float providing
# greater accuracy. We then add a small random value that is large
# enough to distinguish most timestamps but small enough to not alter
# the timestamp significantly.
#
# See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/175 for more
# information.
time = @created_at.to_f + rand(JITTER_RANGE)
time = System.real_time(:nanosecond) + rand(JITTER_RANGE)
{
series: @series,
tags: @tags,
values: @values,
timestamp: (time * 1_000_000_000).to_i
timestamp: time.to_i
}
end
end
......
......@@ -34,13 +34,29 @@ module Gitlab
# THREAD_CPUTIME is not supported on OS X
if Process.const_defined?(:CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)
def self.cpu_time
Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, :millisecond)
Process.
clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, :millisecond).to_f
end
else
def self.cpu_time
Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, :millisecond)
Process.
clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, :millisecond).to_f
end
end
# Returns the current real time in a given precision.
#
# Returns the time as a Float.
def self.real_time(precision = :millisecond)
Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_REALTIME, precision).to_f
end
# Returns the current monotonic clock time in a given precision.
#
# Returns the time as a Float.
def self.monotonic_time(precision = :millisecond)
Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC, precision).to_f
end
end
end
end
......@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ module Gitlab
end
def duration
@finished_at ? (@finished_at - @started_at) * 1000.0 : 0.0
@finished_at ? (@finished_at - @started_at) : 0.0
end
def allocated_memory
......@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ module Gitlab
Thread.current[THREAD_KEY] = self
@memory_before = System.memory_usage
@started_at = Time.now
@started_at = System.monotonic_time
yield
ensure
@memory_after = System.memory_usage
@finished_at = Time.now
@finished_at = System.monotonic_time
Thread.current[THREAD_KEY] = nil
end
......
......@@ -28,8 +28,20 @@ describe Gitlab::Metrics::System do
end
describe '.cpu_time' do
it 'returns a Fixnum' do
expect(described_class.cpu_time).to be_an_instance_of(Fixnum)
it 'returns a Float' do
expect(described_class.cpu_time).to be_an_instance_of(Float)
end
end
describe '.real_time' do
it 'returns a Float' do
expect(described_class.real_time).to be_an_instance_of(Float)
end
end
describe '.monotonic_time' do
it 'returns a Float' do
expect(described_class.monotonic_time).to be_an_instance_of(Float)
end
end
end
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