Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

subscriber: fix incorrect filter selection + improve filter performance #583

Merged
merged 5 commits into from
Feb 14, 2020

Conversation

hawkw
Copy link
Member

@hawkw hawkw commented Feb 13, 2020

Motivation

The benchmarks added in #581 indicate that tracing-subscriber's
EnvFilter has significant overhead when filtering events generated
from log records that is not present when filtering native tracing
events.

Additionally, the behavior of EnvFilter differs from the env_logger
crate it emulates: when a less specific filter is more verbose than a
more specific filter, the more verbose filter is used. For example:

RUST_LOG=debug,tokio_postgres=info,hyper::server::response=info
  • With env_logger - treat all targets as DEBUG except for
    tokio_postgres and hyper::server::response

  • With EnvFilter::from_default_env() - treat all targets as DEBUG.
    This then overrides the explicit setting of INFO for the other two,
    so they are DEBUG as well.

(see #512)

Solution

This branch makes some performance optimizations to filtering, to
improve performance with log events significantly. In particular, it
makes the following changes:

  • Code was previously added to record the maximum level enabled by
    the static and dynamic directive sets. This would allow a fast path
    for skipping events that no directive will ever enable. However, this
    currently is never actually checked, so we always have to check an
    event against every directive. I've fixed that.

  • If there are no dynamic directives that would require looking at the
    dynamic span state (a TLS value), we now avoid looking at TLS.

  • Finally, I've fixed EnvFilter::from_default_env() acts differently to env_logger #512, by changing enabled to select the most
    specific static filter, rather than by checking every filter until
    it finds something that enables the span. In addition to making the
    behaviour correct, this also improves performance: it means we only
    iterate over the statics until we find something that cares about an
    event, and then return. In the previous implementation (of incorrect
    behavior), we would break the iteration if the event was enabled, but
    never break iteration if it was disabled. Now, we can return early.
    This should improve performance significantly with a large number of
    filters.

Benchmark Results

Performance in the filter_log benchmark is significantly improved in
most cases, while performance in the filter benchmark (for filtering
tracing events) is about the same as master, but significantly better
than filter_log across the board. This is expected, since the
tracing events in filter benchmark can (in most cases) participate
in the callsite cache, while the log events cannot. Therefore, the
filter benchmarks with static filters are measuring the overhead of a
single filter hit + multiple callsite cache loads, while the
filter_log benchmarks are always measuring an actual filter hit.

Benchmark results (vs master):
eliza@ares:~/tracing$ cargo bench -p tracing-subscriber --bench filter --bench filter_log
   Compiling tracing-subscriber v0.2.0 (/home/eliza/tracing/tracing-subscriber)
    Finished bench [optimized] target(s) in 9.86s
     Running target/release/deps/filter-b804f035b8022c0d
static/baseline_single_threaded
                        time:   [109.11 ns 109.21 ns 109.32 ns]
                        change: [-6.3289% -4.9555% -3.6799%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 11 outliers among 100 measurements (11.00%)
  2 (2.00%) high mild
  9 (9.00%) high severe
static/single_threaded  time:   [62.942 ns 63.023 ns 63.150 ns]
                        change: [-0.1370% +0.0191% +0.2011%] (p = 0.83 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 15 outliers among 100 measurements (15.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  6 (6.00%) high mild
  8 (8.00%) high severe
static/enabled_one      time:   [28.745 ns 28.764 ns 28.789 ns]
                        change: [-0.2144% -0.0862% +0.0283%] (p = 0.18 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 13 outliers among 100 measurements (13.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  4 (4.00%) high mild
  8 (8.00%) high severe
static/enabled_many     time:   [28.765 ns 28.827 ns 28.912 ns]
                        change: [-0.0864% +0.2092% +0.5574%] (p = 0.25 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 16 outliers among 100 measurements (16.00%)
  5 (5.00%) high mild
  11 (11.00%) high severe
static/disabled_level_one
                        time:   [4.1104 ns 4.1134 ns 4.1170 ns]
                        change: [+0.0402% +0.1317% +0.2300%] (p = 0.01 < 0.05)
                        Change within noise threshold.
Found 13 outliers among 100 measurements (13.00%)
  5 (5.00%) high mild
  8 (8.00%) high severe
static/disabled_level_many
                        time:   [3.6496 ns 3.6530 ns 3.6573 ns]
                        change: [-0.2017% -0.0164% +0.1271%] (p = 0.86 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 15 outliers among 100 measurements (15.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  1 (1.00%) high mild
  13 (13.00%) high severe
static/disabled_one     time:   [3.6496 ns 3.6517 ns 3.6543 ns]
                        change: [-0.1254% +0.1413% +0.5468%] (p = 0.52 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 14 outliers among 100 measurements (14.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  1 (1.00%) high mild
  12 (12.00%) high severe
static/disabled_many    time:   [3.6501 ns 3.6518 ns 3.6538 ns]
                        change: [-0.0351% +0.0331% +0.1054%] (p = 0.35 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 15 outliers among 100 measurements (15.00%)
  2 (2.00%) low mild
  2 (2.00%) high mild
  11 (11.00%) high severe
static/baseline_multithreaded
                        time:   [7.6316 us 7.8421 us 8.0892 us]
                        change: [-1.1385% +2.9646% +7.3036%] (p = 0.18 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 7 outliers among 100 measurements (7.00%)
  5 (5.00%) high mild
  2 (2.00%) high severe
static/multithreaded    time:   [7.5579 us 7.7286 us 7.9126 us]
                        change: [+0.2480% +3.6935% +7.1400%] (p = 0.04 < 0.05)
                        Change within noise threshold.
Found 4 outliers among 100 measurements (4.00%)
  3 (3.00%) high mild
  1 (1.00%) high severe

dynamic/baseline_single_threaded
                        time:   [245.73 ns 246.12 ns 246.67 ns]
                        change: [-2.6694% -2.3670% -2.0569%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 20 outliers among 100 measurements (20.00%)
  7 (7.00%) low mild
  2 (2.00%) high mild
  11 (11.00%) high severe
dynamic/single_threaded time:   [1.1532 us 1.1550 us 1.1568 us]
                        change: [+0.2317% +0.4117% +0.5707%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Change within noise threshold.
Found 3 outliers among 100 measurements (3.00%)
  2 (2.00%) high mild
  1 (1.00%) high severe
dynamic/baseline_multithreaded
                        time:   [7.6121 us 7.7931 us 7.9882 us]
                        change: [-4.3847% +0.2323% +4.8431%] (p = 0.92 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 3 outliers among 100 measurements (3.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  1 (1.00%) high mild
  1 (1.00%) high severe
dynamic/multithreaded   time:   [8.0848 us 8.2926 us 8.5161 us]
                        change: [-2.0820% +1.4262% +4.9321%] (p = 0.42 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 5 outliers among 100 measurements (5.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  4 (4.00%) high mild

mixed/disabled          time:   [67.544 ns 67.623 ns 67.716 ns]
                        change: [+4.0220% +4.3608% +4.6472%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has regressed.
Found 12 outliers among 100 measurements (12.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  1 (1.00%) high mild
  10 (10.00%) high severe
mixed/disabled_by_level time:   [26.704 ns 26.743 ns 26.785 ns]
                        change: [-51.833% -51.737% -51.632%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 4 outliers among 100 measurements (4.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  2 (2.00%) high mild
  1 (1.00%) high severe

     Running target/release/deps/filter_log-b8cedd42cccfa727
log/static/baseline_single_threaded
                        time:   [459.87 ns 460.05 ns 460.28 ns]
                        change: [-4.4236% -4.3735% -4.3170%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 13 outliers among 100 measurements (13.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low severe
  4 (4.00%) low mild
  1 (1.00%) high mild
  7 (7.00%) high severe
log/static/single_threaded
                        time:   [469.18 ns 470.12 ns 471.08 ns]
                        change: [-12.406% -12.037% -11.759%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 1 outliers among 100 measurements (1.00%)
  1 (1.00%) high severe
log/static/enabled_one  time:   [154.79 ns 155.08 ns 155.54 ns]
                        change: [-10.717% -10.585% -10.436%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 11 outliers among 100 measurements (11.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  4 (4.00%) high mild
  6 (6.00%) high severe
log/static/enabled_many time:   [229.55 ns 229.69 ns 229.86 ns]
                        change: [-11.433% -11.076% -10.828%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 4 outliers among 100 measurements (4.00%)
  3 (3.00%) high mild
  1 (1.00%) high severe
log/static/disabled_level_one
                        time:   [57.489 ns 57.518 ns 57.557 ns]
                        change: [-20.363% -20.247% -20.155%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 7 outliers among 100 measurements (7.00%)
  2 (2.00%) high mild
  5 (5.00%) high severe
log/static/disabled_level_many
                        time:   [57.486 ns 57.515 ns 57.554 ns]
                        change: [-48.696% -48.652% -48.610%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 6 outliers among 100 measurements (6.00%)
  1 (1.00%) high mild
  5 (5.00%) high severe
log/static/disabled_one time:   [68.872 ns 68.902 ns 68.941 ns]
                        change: [-4.0195% -3.8865% -3.7487%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 10 outliers among 100 measurements (10.00%)
  2 (2.00%) low mild
  8 (8.00%) high severe
log/static/disabled_many
                        time:   [103.10 ns 103.38 ns 103.72 ns]
                        change: [-5.8728% -5.6128% -5.3436%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 6 outliers among 100 measurements (6.00%)
  3 (3.00%) high mild
  3 (3.00%) high severe
log/static/baseline_multithreaded
                        time:   [7.5054 us 7.7234 us 7.9713 us]
                        change: [-4.8650% -1.5881% +2.0839%] (p = 0.37 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 4 outliers among 100 measurements (4.00%)
  3 (3.00%) high mild
  1 (1.00%) high severe
log/static/multithreaded
                        time:   [7.6285 us 7.7574 us 7.8967 us]
                        change: [-4.5998% -2.0115% +0.5929%] (p = 0.14 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 1 outliers among 100 measurements (1.00%)
  1 (1.00%) high mild

log/dynamic/baseline_single_threaded
                        time:   [603.16 ns 603.55 ns 603.96 ns]
                        change: [-6.9548% -6.7858% -6.6651%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 20 outliers among 100 measurements (20.00%)
  3 (3.00%) high mild
  17 (17.00%) high severe
log/dynamic/single_threaded
                        time:   [1.4624 us 1.4645 us 1.4669 us]
                        change: [+4.2866% +4.4193% +4.5763%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has regressed.
Found 4 outliers among 100 measurements (4.00%)
  1 (1.00%) high mild
  3 (3.00%) high severe
log/dynamic/baseline_multithreaded
                        time:   [7.6292 us 7.8527 us 8.1103 us]
                        change: [-6.4268% -2.6258% +0.8495%] (p = 0.17 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 9 outliers among 100 measurements (9.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  8 (8.00%) high mild
log/dynamic/multithreaded
                        time:   [8.0253 us 8.2673 us 8.5647 us]
                        change: [-3.4243% +0.5838% +5.0749%] (p = 0.79 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 6 outliers among 100 measurements (6.00%)
  2 (2.00%) low mild
  1 (1.00%) high mild
  3 (3.00%) high severe

log/mixed/disabled      time:   [94.775 ns 94.825 ns 94.884 ns]
                        change: [-0.0623% +0.0665% +0.1997%] (p = 0.33 > 0.05)
                        No change in performance detected.
Found 11 outliers among 100 measurements (11.00%)
  2 (2.00%) low mild
  1 (1.00%) high mild
  8 (8.00%) high severe
log/mixed/disabled_by_level
                        time:   [59.763 ns 59.809 ns 59.873 ns]
                        change: [-26.225% -26.054% -25.852%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
Found 12 outliers among 100 measurements (12.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  2 (2.00%) high mild
  9 (9.00%) high severe
Benchmark environment:
eliza@ares:~/tracing$ uname -a
Linux ares 4.9.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u2 (2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux
eliza@ares:~/tracing$ rustc --version
rustc 1.41.0 (5e1a79984 2020-01-27)
eliza@ares:~/tracing$ lscpu
Architecture:          x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                40
On-line CPU(s) list:   0-39
Thread(s) per core:    2
Core(s) per socket:    10
Socket(s):             2
NUMA node(s):          2
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            6
Model:                 79
Model name:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz
Stepping:              1
CPU MHz:               1879.077
CPU max MHz:           2200.0000
CPU min MHz:           1200.0000
BogoMIPS:              4390.06
Virtualization:        VT-x
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              256K
L3 cache:              25600K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-9,20-29
NUMA node1 CPU(s):     10-19,30-39
Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch epb invpcid_single kaiser tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm cqm rdseed adx smap intel_pt xsaveopt cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local dtherm arat pln pts
eliza@ares:~/tracing$

Fixes #512

Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman eliza@buoyant.io

Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
@hawkw hawkw force-pushed the eliza/fast-filters branch from 8003804 to 19b54fc Compare February 13, 2020 22:19
@hawkw hawkw changed the title [DRAFT] various performance improvements for filters subscriber: fix incorrect filter selection + improve filter performance Feb 14, 2020
@hawkw hawkw self-assigned this Feb 14, 2020
@hawkw hawkw added crate/tracing Related to the `tracing` crate kind/bug Something isn't working kind/perf Performance improvements labels Feb 14, 2020
@hawkw hawkw requested a review from a team February 14, 2020 00:29
@hawkw
Copy link
Member Author

hawkw commented Feb 14, 2020

I believe @samschlegel has also seen very significant reductions in the performance impact of slow filtering in more real-world benchmarks.

@hawkw hawkw marked this pull request as ready for review February 14, 2020 00:30
@hawkw hawkw merged commit d2489fd into master Feb 14, 2020
hawkw added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 14, 2020
Changed

- **filter**: `EnvFilter` directive selection now behaves correctly
  (i.e. like `env_logger`) (#583)

Fixed

- **filter**: Fixed `EnvFilter` incorrectly allowing less-specific
  filter directives to enable events that are disabled by more-specific
  filters (#583)
- **filter**: Multiple significant `EnvFilter`  performance
  improvements, especially when filtering events generated by `log`
  records (#578, #583)
- **filter**: Replaced `BTreeMap` with `Vec` in `DirectiveSet`,
  improving iteration performance significantly with typical numbers of
  filter directives (#580)

Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
hawkw added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 14, 2020
Changed

- **filter**: `EnvFilter` directive selection now behaves correctly
  (i.e. like `env_logger`) (#583)

Fixed

- **filter**: Fixed `EnvFilter` incorrectly allowing less-specific
  filter directives to enable events that are disabled by more-specific
  filters (#583)
- **filter**: Multiple significant `EnvFilter`  performance
  improvements, especially when filtering events generated by `log`
  records (#578, #583)
- **filter**: Replaced `BTreeMap` with `Vec` in `DirectiveSet`,
  improving iteration performance significantly with typical numbers of
  filter directives (#580)

Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
hawkw added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 14, 2020
Changed

- **filter**: `EnvFilter` directive selection now behaves correctly
  (i.e. like `env_logger`) (#583)

Fixed

- **filter**: Fixed `EnvFilter` incorrectly allowing less-specific
  filter directives to enable events that are disabled by more-specific
  filters (#583)
- **filter**: Multiple significant `EnvFilter`  performance
  improvements, especially when filtering events generated by `log`
  records (#578, #583)
- **filter**: Replaced `BTreeMap` with `Vec` in `DirectiveSet`,
  improving iteration performance significantly with typical numbers of
  filter directives (#580)

Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
hawkw added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 14, 2020
Changed

- **filter**: `EnvFilter` directive selection now behaves correctly
  (i.e. like `env_logger`) (#583)

Fixed

- **filter**: Fixed `EnvFilter` incorrectly allowing less-specific
  filter directives to enable events that are disabled by more-specific
  filters (#583)
- **filter**: Multiple significant `EnvFilter`  performance
  improvements, especially when filtering events generated by `log`
  records (#578, #583)
- **filter**: Replaced `BTreeMap` with `Vec` in `DirectiveSet`,
  improving iteration performance significantly with typical numbers of
  filter directives (#580)

Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
hawkw added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 14, 2020
### Changed

- **filter**: `EnvFilter` directive selection now behaves correctly
  (i.e. like `env_logger`) (#583)

### Fixed

- **filter**: Fixed `EnvFilter` incorrectly allowing less-specific
  filter directives to enable events that are disabled by more-specific
  filters (#583)
- **filter**: Multiple significant `EnvFilter`  performance
  improvements, especially when filtering events generated by `log`
  records (#578, #583)
- **filter**: Replaced `BTreeMap` with `Vec` in `DirectiveSet`,
  improving iteration performance significantly with typical numbers of
  filter directives (#580)

A big thank-you to @samschlegel for lots of help with `EnvFilter` 
performance tuning in this release!

Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
hawkw added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 5, 2020
## Motivation

Recent changes to `tracing-subscriber` (#580 and #583) introduced some
regressions in filter directive selection. In particular, directive
selection appears to depend on the _order_ in which directives were
specified in a env filter string, or on the order in which they were
added using `add_directive`, rather than on specificity. 

This regression is due to the change that switched the storage of filter
directives in `DirectiveSet`s from a `BTreeSet` to a `Vec`. Previously,
the `DirectiveSet::add` and `DirectiveSet::extend` methods both relied
on the inherent ordering of `BTreeSet`s. After changing to a `Vec`, the
`DirectiveSet::add` method was changed to use a binary search to find
the correct position for each directive, and use `Vec::insert` to add
the directive at that position. This is correct behavior. However, the
`Extend` (and therefore also `FromIterator`) implementations _did not
use_ `add_directive` --- instead, they simply called `extend` on the
underlying data structure. This was fine previously, when we could rely
on the sorted nature of `BTreeSet`s, but now, it means that when a
directive set is created from an iterator (such as when parsing a string
with multiple filter directives!), the ordering of the directive set is
based on the iterator's ordering, rather than sorted.

We didn't catch this bug because all of our tests happen to put the
least specific directive first. When the change to using a `Vec` broke
all the existing tests, I was able to "fix" them simply by adding a
`.rev()` call to the iterator, based on the incorrect assumption that we
were always using the sorted insertion order, and that the test failures
were simply due to the binary search inserting in the opposite order as
`BTreeSet`. Adding the `.rev()` call caused issue #591, where a
`DirectiveSet` built by calls to `add_directive` (which _does_ obey the
correct sorting) was not selecting the right filters, since we were
reversing the ordering and picking the least specific directive first.

## Solution

I've changed the `DirectiveSet::extend` method to call `self.add` for
each directive in the iterator. Now, they are inserted at the correct
position. I've also removed the call to `.rev()` so that we iterate 
over the correctly sorted `DirectiveSet` in most-specific-first order.

I've added new tests to reproduce both issue #591 and issue #623, and
confirmed that they both fail prior to this change.

Fixes #591
Fixes #623

Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
@fw42
Copy link

fw42 commented Nov 21, 2024

I'm seeing this same bug on the latest version. Has there possibly been a regression after this was fixed?

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
crate/tracing Related to the `tracing` crate kind/bug Something isn't working kind/perf Performance improvements
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

EnvFilter::from_default_env() acts differently to env_logger
4 participants