prometheus/model/labels/sharding.go

// Copyright 2020 The Prometheus Authors
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//go:build !stringlabels && !dedupelabels

package labels

import (
	"github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2"
)

// StableHash is a labels hashing implementation which is guaranteed to not change over time.
// This function should be used whenever labels hashing backward compatibility must be guaranteed.
func StableHash(ls Labels) uint64 {
	// Use xxhash.Sum64(b) for fast path as it's faster.
	b := make([]byte, 0, 1024)
	for i, v := range ls {
		if len(b)+len(v.Name)+len(v.Value)+2 >= cap(b) {
			// If labels entry is 1KB+ do not allocate whole entry.
			h := xxhash.New()
			_, _ = h.Write(b)
			for _, v := range ls[i:] {
				_, _ = h.WriteString(v.Name)
				_, _ = h.Write(seps)
				_, _ = h.WriteString(v.Value)
				_, _ = h.Write(seps)
			}
			return h.Sum64()
		}

		b = append(b, v.Name...)
		b = append(b, seps[0])
		b = append(b, v.Value...)
		b = append(b, seps[0])
	}
	return xxhash.Sum64(b)
}