Wiser coders than myself have come to the conclusion that a `switch`
statement is almost always superior to a statement that includes any
`else if`.
The exceptions that I have found in our codebase are just these two:
* The `if else` is followed by an additional statement before the next
condition (separated by a `;`).
* The whole thing is within a `for` loop and `break` statements are
used. In this case, using `switch` would require tagging the `for`
loop, which probably tips the balance.
Why are `switch` statements more readable?
For one, fewer curly braces. But more importantly, the conditions all
have the same alignment, so the whole thing follows the natural flow
of going down a list of conditions. With `else if`, in contrast, all
conditions but the first are "hidden" behind `} else if `, harder to
spot and (for no good reason) presented differently from the first
condition.
I'm sure the aforemention wise coders can list even more reasons.
In any case, I like it so much that I have found myself recommending
it in code reviews. I would like to make it a habit in our code base,
without making it a hard requirement that we would test on the CI. But
for that, there has to be a role model, so this commit eliminates all
`if else` occurrences, unless it is autogenerated code or fits one of
the exceptions above.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
We haven't updated golint-ci in our CI yet, but this commit prepares
for that.
There are a lot of new warnings, and it is mostly because the "revive"
linter got updated. I agree with most of the new warnings, mostly
around not naming unused function parameters (although it is justified
in some cases for documentation purposes – while things like mocks are
a good example where not naming the parameter is clearer).
I'm pretty upset about the "empty block" warning to include `for`
loops. It's such a common pattern to do something in the head of the
`for` loop and then have an empty block. There is still an open issue
about this: https://github.com/mgechev/revive/issues/810 I have
disabled "revive" altogether in files where empty blocks are used
excessively, and I have made the effort to add individual
`// nolint:revive` where empty blocks are used just once or twice.
It's borderline noisy, though, but let's go with it for now.
I should mention that none of the "empty block" warnings for `for`
loop bodies were legitimate.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
In the past, every sample value was a float, so it was fine to call a
variable holding such a float "value" or "sample". With native
histograms, a sample might have a histogram value. And a histogram
value is still a value. Calling a float value just "value" or "sample"
or "V" is therefore misleading. Over the last few commits, I already
renamed many variables, but this cleans up a few more places where the
changes are more invasive.
Note that we do not to attempt naming in the JSON APIs or in the
protobufs. That would be quite a disruption. However, internally, we
can call variables as we want, and we should go with the option of
avoiding misunderstandings.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
In other words: Instead of having a “polymorphous” `Point` that can
either contain a float value or a histogram value, use an `FPoint` for
floats and an `HPoint` for histograms.
This seemingly small change has a _lot_ of repercussions throughout
the codebase.
The idea here is to avoid the increase in size of `Point` arrays that
happened after native histograms had been added.
The higher-level data structures (`Sample`, `Series`, etc.) are still
“polymorphous”. The same idea could be applied to them, but at each
step the trade-offs needed to be evaluated.
The idea with this change is to do the minimum necessary to get back
to pre-histogram performance for functions that do not touch
histograms. Here are comparisons for the `changes` function. The test
data doesn't include histograms yet. Ideally, there would be no change
in the benchmark result at all.
First runtime v2.39 compared to directly prior to this commit:
```
name old time/op new time/op delta
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=1-16 391µs ± 2% 542µs ± 1% +38.58% (p=0.000 n=9+8)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=10-16 452µs ± 2% 617µs ± 2% +36.48% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=100-16 1.12ms ± 1% 1.36ms ± 2% +21.58% (p=0.000 n=8+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=1000-16 7.83ms ± 1% 8.94ms ± 1% +14.21% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=1-16 2.98ms ± 0% 3.30ms ± 1% +10.67% (p=0.000 n=9+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=10-16 3.66ms ± 1% 4.10ms ± 1% +11.82% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=100-16 10.5ms ± 0% 11.8ms ± 1% +12.50% (p=0.000 n=8+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=1000-16 77.6ms ± 1% 87.4ms ± 1% +12.63% (p=0.000 n=9+9)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=1-16 30.4ms ± 2% 32.8ms ± 1% +8.01% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=10-16 37.1ms ± 2% 40.6ms ± 2% +9.64% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=100-16 105ms ± 1% 117ms ± 1% +11.69% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=1000-16 783ms ± 3% 876ms ± 1% +11.83% (p=0.000 n=9+10)
```
And then runtime v2.39 compared to after this commit:
```
name old time/op new time/op delta
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=1-16 391µs ± 2% 547µs ± 1% +39.84% (p=0.000 n=9+8)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=10-16 452µs ± 2% 616µs ± 2% +36.15% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=100-16 1.12ms ± 1% 1.26ms ± 1% +12.20% (p=0.000 n=8+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=1000-16 7.83ms ± 1% 7.95ms ± 1% +1.59% (p=0.000 n=10+8)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=1-16 2.98ms ± 0% 3.38ms ± 2% +13.49% (p=0.000 n=9+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=10-16 3.66ms ± 1% 4.02ms ± 1% +9.80% (p=0.000 n=10+9)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=100-16 10.5ms ± 0% 10.8ms ± 1% +3.08% (p=0.000 n=8+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=1000-16 77.6ms ± 1% 78.1ms ± 1% +0.58% (p=0.035 n=9+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=1-16 30.4ms ± 2% 33.5ms ± 4% +10.18% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=10-16 37.1ms ± 2% 40.0ms ± 1% +7.98% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=100-16 105ms ± 1% 107ms ± 1% +1.92% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=1000-16 783ms ± 3% 775ms ± 1% -1.02% (p=0.019 n=9+9)
```
In summary, the runtime doesn't really improve with this change for
queries with just a few steps. For queries with many steps, this
commit essentially reinstates the old performance. This is good
because the many-step queries are the one that matter most (longest
absolute runtime).
In terms of allocations, though, this commit doesn't make a dent at
all (numbers not shown). The reason is that most of the allocations
happen in the sampleRingIterator (in the storage package), which has
to be addressed in a separate commit.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
query_samples_total is a counter that tracks the total number of samples loaded by all queries.
The goal with this metric is to be able to see the amount of 'work' done by Prometheus to service queries.
At the moment we have metrics with the number of queries, plus more detailed metrics showing how much time each step of a query takes.
While those metrics do help they don't show us the whole picture.
Queries that do load more samples are (in general) more expensive than queries that do load fewer samples.
This means that looking only at the number of queries doesn't tell us how much 'work' Prometheus received.
Adding a counter that tracks the total number of samples loaded allows us to see if there was a spike in the cost of queries, not just the number of them.
Signed-off-by: Łukasz Mierzwa <l.mierzwa@gmail.com>
* Use zeropool.Pool to workaround SA6002
I built a tiny library called https://github.com/colega/zeropool to
workaround the SA6002 staticheck issue.
While searching for the references of that SA6002 staticheck issues on
Github first results was Prometheus itself, with quite a lot of ignores
of it.
This changes the usages of `sync.Pool` to `zeropool.Pool[T]` where a
pointer is not available.
Also added a benchmark for HeadAppender Append/Commit when series
already exist, which is one of the most usual cases IMO, as I didn't find
any.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Zaytsev <mail@olegzaytsev.com>
* Improve BenchmarkHeadAppender with more cases
Signed-off-by: Oleg Zaytsev <mail@olegzaytsev.com>
* A little copying is better than a little dependency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=9m28s
Signed-off-by: Oleg Zaytsev <mail@olegzaytsev.com>
* Fix imports order
Signed-off-by: Oleg Zaytsev <mail@olegzaytsev.com>
* Add license header
Signed-off-by: Oleg Zaytsev <mail@olegzaytsev.com>
* Copyright should be on one of the first 3 lines
Signed-off-by: Oleg Zaytsev <mail@olegzaytsev.com>
* Use require.Equal for testing
I don't depend on testify in my lib, but here we have it available.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Zaytsev <mail@olegzaytsev.com>
* Avoid flaky test
Signed-off-by: Oleg Zaytsev <mail@olegzaytsev.com>
* Also use zeropool for pointsPool in engine.go
Signed-off-by: Oleg Zaytsev <mail@olegzaytsev.com>
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Signed-off-by: Oleg Zaytsev <mail@olegzaytsev.com>
It took a `Labels` where the memory could be re-used, but in practice
this hardly ever benefitted. Especially after converting `relabel.Process`
to `relabel.ProcessBuilder`.
Comparing the parameter to `nil` was a bug; `EmptyLabels` is not `nil`
so the slice was reallocated multiple times by `append`.
Lastly `Builder.Labels()` now estimates that the final size will depend
on labels added and deleted.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
In Thanos we would like to start experimenting with custom functions that are
currently not part of the PromQL spec. We would do this by adding an implementation
for those functions in the Thanos engine: https://github.com/thanos-community/promql-engine and allow
users to decide which engine they want to use on a per-query basis.
Since we use the PromQL parser from Prometheus, injecting functions in the global `Functions` variable
would mean they also become available for the Prometheus engine. To avoid this side-effect, this commit
exposes a Parser interface in which the supported functions can be injected as an option. If not functions
are injected, the parser implementation will default to the functions defined in the global Functions variable.
Signed-off-by: Filip Petkovski <filip.petkovsky@gmail.com>
TestConcurrentRangeQueries runs many queries, up to 4 at the same time,
to try to expose any race conditions.
This change stops four of them from running with a thousand or more steps:
`holt_winters(a_X[1d], 0.3, 0.3)`
`changes(a_X[1d])`
`rate(a_X[1d])`
`absent_over_time(a_X[1d])`
Particularly when the test runs with `-race` in CI, this reduces the
time and resources required.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
This is a bit more conservative than we could be. As long as a chunk
isn't the first in a block, we can be pretty sure that the previous
chunk won't disappear. However, the incremental gain of returning
NotCounterReset in these cases is probably very small and might not be
worth the code complications.
Wwith this, we now also pay attention to an explicitly set counter
reset during ingestion. While the case doesn't show up in practice
yet, there could be scenarios where the metric source knows there was
a counter reset even if it might not be visible from the values in the
histogram. It is also useful for testing.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
Extends Appender.AppendHistogram function to accept the FloatHistogram. TSDB supports appending, querying, WAL replay, for this new type of histogram.
Signed-off-by: Marc Tudurí <marctc@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Vernekar <ganeshvern@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ganesh Vernekar <ganeshvern@gmail.com>
We have a LabelBuilder in EvalNodeHelper; use it instead of creating a new one at every step.
Need to take some care that different uses of enh.lb do not overlap.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* promql: refactor BenchmarkRangeQuery so we can re-use test cases
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* promql: add test for race conditions in query engine
Note we skip large count_values queries -
`count_values` allocates a slice per unique value in the output, and
this test has unique values on every step of every series so it adds up
to a lot of slices. Add Go runtime overhead for checking `-race`, and
it chews up many gigabytes.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* TestConcurrentRangeQueries: wait before starting goroutine
Instead of starting 100 goroutines which just wait for the semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
We use `labels.Builder` to parse metrics, to avoid depending on the
internal implementation. This is not efficient, but the feature is only
used in tests. It wasn't efficient previously either - calling `Sort()`
after adding each label.
`createLabelsForAbsentFunction` also uses a Builder now, and gets
an extra `map` to replace the previous `Has()` usage.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
Fix up promql to compile with changes to Labels
Re-use previous memory if it is already of the correct type.
In `NewListSeries` we hoist the conversion to an interface value out
so it only allocates once.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
Patterned after `Chunk.Iterator()`: pass the old iterator in so it
can be re-used to avoid allocating a new object.
(This commit does not do any re-use; it is just changing all the method
signatures so re-use is possible in later commits.)
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* Switch from 'sanity' to more inclusive lanuage
"Removing ableist language in code is important; it helps to create and
maintain an environment that welcomes all developers of all backgrounds,
while emphasizing that we as developers select the most articulate,
precise, descriptive language we can rather than relying on metaphors.
The phrase sanity check is ableist, and unnecessarily references mental
health in our code bases. It denotes that people with mental illnesses
are inferior, wrong, or incorrect, and the phrase sanity continues to be
used by employers and other individuals to discriminate against these
people."
From https://gist.github.com/seanmhanson/fe370c2d8bd2b3228680e38899baf5cc
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
The bucket receiving math.MaxFloat64 observations now has
math.MaxFloat64 as upper bound, while the bucket after it (the last
possible bucket) has +Inf.
This also adds a test for getBound and moves the getBound code to
generic.go (where it should have been in the first place).
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
* histogram: Simplify iterators
We don't really need currLower and currUpper and can calculate it when
needed (as already done for the floatBucketIterator). The calculation
is cheap, while keeping those extra variables around costs RAM
(potentially a lot with many iterators).
* histogram: Convert Bucket/FloatBucket to one generic type
* histogram: Move some bucket iterator code into generic base iterator
* histogram: Remove cumulative iterator for FloatHistogram
We added it in the past for completeness (Histogram has one), but it
has never been used. Plus, even the cumulative iterator for Histogram
is only there for test reasons.
We can always add it back, and then maybe even using generics.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
If we are populating series for a subquery then set the interval
parameter accordingly so that downstream users could use that
information.
Signed-off-by: Giedrius Statkevičius <giedrius.statkevicius@vinted.com>
Use new experimental package `golang.org/x/exp/slices`.
slices.Sort works on values that are directly comparable, like ints,
so avoids the overhad of an interface call to `.Less()`.
Left tests unchanged, because they don't need the speed and it may be
a cross-check that slices.Sort gives the same answer.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
And use the new method to call to compact Histograms during
parsing. This happens for both `Histogram` and `FloatHistogram`. In
this way, if targets decide to optimize the exposition size by merging
spans with empty buckets in between, we still get a normalized
results. It will also normalize away any valid but weird
representations like empty spans, spans with offset zero, and empty
buckets at the start or end of a span.
The implementation seemed easy at first as it just turns the
`compactBuckets` helper into a generic function (which now got its own
file). However, the integer Histograms have delta buckets instead of
absolute buckets, which had to be treated specially in the generic
`compactBuckets` function. To make sure it works, I have added plenty
of explicit tests for `Histogram` in addition to the `FloatHistogram`
tests.
I have also updated the doc comment for the `Compact` method.
Based on the insights now expressed in the doc comment, compacting
with a maxEmptyBuckets > 0 is rarely useful. Therefore, this commit
also sets the value to 0 in the two cases we were using 3 so far. We
might still want to reconsider, so I don't want to remove the
maxEmptyBuckets parameter right now.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
And a few cases of `EmptyLabels()`.
Replacing code which assumes the internal structure of `Labels`.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* Update go to 1.19, set min version to 1.18
Signed-off-by: Julien Pivotto <roidelapluie@o11y.eu>
* Update golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Julien Pivotto <roidelapluie@o11y.eu>
Signed-off-by: Julien Pivotto <roidelapluie@o11y.eu>
* model/relabel: Add benchmark
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* model/relabel: re-use Builder across relabels
Saves memory allocations.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* labels.Builder: allow re-use of result slice
This reduces memory allocations where the caller has a suitable slice available.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* model/relabel: re-use source values slice
To reduce memory allocations.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* Unwind one change causing test failures
Restore original behaviour in PopulateLabels, where we must not overwrite the input set.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* relabel: simplify values optimisation
Use a stack-based array for up to 16 source labels, which will be the
vast majority of cases.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
* lint
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>