From 70781ca9a9dc9502aebe84b618e8b167d9be8772 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 09:18:37 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 01/13] fix: ignore pi --- .gitignore | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index e35de99..b713784 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -27,3 +27,4 @@ dist .mcp.json .claude-flow .swarm +.pi From 48a40a9e1866fc5c0f2f6e3cd5a01506337a161a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 18:03:53 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 02/13] docs: add batcher performance and reliability plan Adds a phased plan to make sub-10ms batch windows practical, and to fix the correctness problems that currently make a smaller window unsafe or misleading. Measured findings that motivate the plan: - The processor runs inline in the aggregation loop, so the effective window is max(window, processor_duration). With a 50ms processor at 10k items/s, a 5ms window yields p50 120ms while a 100ms window yields p50 50ms: lowering the window today makes latency 2.4x worse. - A smaller window provides no overload protection. With a 2ms processor and a saturating producer, 100ms/10ms/1ms all accepted 1.8-2.4M items and grew the heap 2.2-4.3GB in two seconds. - Add can panic during shutdown, isClosed races under -race, and a partial batch with an interval beyond the close cap is silently discarded (50 accepted, 0 processed, Len reporting 50 phantom items). The plan specifies a validated admission and drain protocol: Batcher-owned queues that are never closed, a publisher gate with a coordinator self-signal to prevent lost wakeups, separate Pending and IntakePending accounting to avoid a worker-pool shutdown deadlock, and resumable Shutdown that never abandons a drain. Prototypes for the protocol were exercised under -race, including an n=4 worker pool and in-flight-at-shutdown cases. Delivery model: each phase is one pull request, and each milestone within it is an independently reviewable commit with its own acceptance criteria. --- docs/improvements/plan-perf.md | 1156 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 1156 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/improvements/plan-perf.md diff --git a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04765fe --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md @@ -0,0 +1,1156 @@ +# Batcher Performance, Reliability, and Benchmarking Plan + +## Introduction + +Batcher combines individual items into processor calls, flushing by batch size +or by elapsed batch window. It defaults to a 1-second window, while users +commonly configure 100ms. That coalesces well, but a request crossing several +batching services accumulates roughly one batch window per hop. A five-hop +sparse path can add about 500ms before any downstream work happens. + +The goal is to make **5-10ms windows** practical wherever arrival rate justifies +batching. Measured on an idle process, the current timer path already flushes +sparse batches below 10ms. At 10,000 items/s a 10ms window still yields about +100 items per batch, so most coalescing survives while per-hop latency drops by +roughly 90ms. + +The blocker is not the timer. It is that the processor runs **inline** in the +aggregation loop (`pkg/batcher/batcher.go:136`), so nothing is consumed while a +batch is being processed. The effective window becomes +`max(window, processor_duration)`. Measured with a 50ms processor at 10,000 +items/s: + +| Configured window | Effective flush interval | p50 latency | +| ----------------- | ------------------------ | ----------- | +| 5ms | 50ms | 120ms | +| 100ms | 100ms | 50ms | + +Reducing the window made latency **2.4x worse**. Any guidance to lower the +window is invalid until processing is decoupled from intake, which requires real +concurrency. + +Two further measurements shape this plan: + +- **Bounded admission is a safety feature, not a performance feature.** The + `feat/max-queue-size` implementation costs about 435ns per `Add` versus 335ns + on `main` (~25-30% slower) and adds roughly 500µs at a 10ms window. It is + worth landing for safety, but it must not be justified as a speed improvement. +- **A smaller window provides no overload protection.** With a 2ms processor and + a saturating producer, 100ms, 10ms, and 1ms windows all accepted 1.8-2.4M + items and grew the heap 2.2-4.3GB within two seconds. Overload requires + bounded admission or upstream flow control. + +Additionally, three concurrency hazards were confirmed by targeted experiment +and constrain the design rather than merely the tests: + +1. A `select` containing both a closed "sealed" channel and a ready send admits + work after sealing in about half of attempts. Sealing cannot be expressed as + a `select` arm alongside the send. +2. Incrementing the pending counter *after* publishing an item lets a consumer + decrement first, producing transient **negative** pending counts. This + currently makes `Len`, `Join`, and shutdown completion unreliable. +3. Any "check the seal, then send" sequence has a send-on-closed-channel panic + window. A blocked publisher panicked in **200 of 200** trials when the owner + closed the channel underneath it. + +Finding 3 has an architectural consequence adopted throughout this plan: **the +input queue is never closed.** Shutdown is communicated by a seal flag, a +publisher gate, and an explicit "no further input possible" signal — never by +closing the channel under publishers. + +That rule is incompatible with `golang.design/x/chann`, and this forces a second +dependency decision. A `chann` unbounded queue owns a relay goroutine whose only +exit path closes its own ingress channel +(`chann@v0.1.2/chann.go:143`, `:167`) — the very channel publishers send to. So +with `chann` one must choose between leaking a goroutine per batcher forever and +re-arming the 200/200 send-on-closed panic. **Batcher therefore owns its queue**: + +- **bounded mode:** a plain buffered channel of capacity `N`. Exact bound, no + goroutine, never closed. +- **unbounded mode:** a mutex-guarded slice plus a capacity-1 signal channel. No + goroutine, never closed. + +This also removes the relay-invisibility problem: a successful publish is +immediately visible to the aggregator, so no accepted item can be hidden inside a +relay during the final drain. Measured consequence: **1 goroutine per batcher** +(from 6 today, and better than the 3 that removing `rill` alone would give), with +zero leaked after `closed`. + +A crucial corollary makes this design robust: because the queue is never closed, +a publisher that races past the seal check is **benign**. Its item still lands in +the queue and is still drained. Select bias between a ready seal signal and a +ready send therefore cannot lose, corrupt, or double-count anything. Sealing is +an admission *policy* boundary; memory safety and the drain guarantee do not +depend on winning that race. + +## Delivery model + +Each **phase** is delivered as one pull request. Its milestones are ordered, +independently reviewable **commits** within that pull request; they are not +separate pull requests. A phase PR may be merged only after every mandatory +milestone commit in that phase meets its acceptance criteria. Conditional +milestones, such as 4.2, remain separate commits and may be omitted entirely +when their evidence gate is not met. + +This keeps the phase-level architecture reviewable as one coherent change while +retaining bisectable, incremental commits and explicit acceptance points. + +## Design commitments + +1. **Accepted work is never silently discarded.** `Shutdown(ctx)` seals + admission and drains accepted work. A caller timeout reports what remains and + does **not** cancel the drain; a later `Shutdown` with a fresh context waits + on the same in-progress drain. +2. **`Close()` is a convenience, never a data-loss operation.** Flat, + configurable 30-second grace; returns as soon as the drain completes; reports + incompleteness while the drain continues. +3. **Admission is memory-safe by construction.** The input queue is owned by + Batcher, holds no goroutine, and is never closed. Publishers reserve before + publishing. No publisher can panic; pending can never go negative. +4. **The enqueue path stays cheap and is measured, not asserted.** See the + measured cost model in the admission protocol below. No CAS retry loop and no + allocation in steady state. Bounded mode takes no lock; unbounded mode takes + one uncontended slice mutex, which the prototype measures as cheaper than + today's channel-relay hop. +5. **Ordering is explicit.** `n = 1` guarantees no concurrent processor + invocation and FIFO by *publication order*. `n > 1` requires both + `WithConcurrency(n)` and `WithoutOrderedProcessing()`, or construction panics. +6. **No hot-path observability hooks.** `Stats()` is an allocation-free O(1) + snapshot of typed `sync/atomic` counters; eventually consistent and + explicitly non-transactional. +7. **No pooled batch slices.** Processors may retain their batch slice after + returning, exactly as today. No allocation optimisation may impose an + ownership rule on user code. +8. **Benchmark before tuning.** Timing and allocation changes require scenario + evidence with predeclared numeric thresholds. Shared CI gates correctness and + allocation counts, never latency percentiles. + +## The admission and drain protocol + +This section is normative. It is the synchronization design, not an aspiration. +It has been validated by three standalone prototypes under `-race`: + +- the direct-channel protocol: 200 trials each for unbounded `Add`, bounded + `Add`, bounded `Enqueue` with cancellation, and producers-finish-first, plus + 300 trials of the blocked-publisher shutdown case; +- the relay topology: 400 simultaneous-publisher/seal races and 300 + last-leaver-before-seal races, which is how the `chann` goroutine-exit + contradiction was found; and +- the owned-queue protocol **including the worker pool**: 300 trials of inline + `n=0` with shutdown racing 8 producers, 300 of an `n=4` worker pool under the + same race, and 300 of the specific case where a full batch is in flight on a + busy worker with an empty queue when shutdown fires. + +All passed with no panic, no negative counters, no lost wakeup, no deadlock, and +exact `Accepted == Completed` accounting after drain, with 1 goroutine per +batcher and zero leaked after `closed`. + +What is **not** yet proven: the prototypes model the protocol, not the finished +library. They do not exercise the batch timer, bounded-mode blocking `Add` +combined with worker backpressure, panic recovery interacting with the drain, or +the diagnostics channel. Those paths are specified and test-mandated below, and +must be validated during implementation rather than assumed. + +### Publisher gate + +``` +enter(): if sealed -> reject + gate++ + if sealed -> leave(); reject // ALL decrements route through leave() + proceed +leave(): if --gate == 0 && sealed -> signal gateEmpty (once) +``` + +The gate counts publishers that are between `enter()` and `leave()`. The +re-check after incrementing is what makes sealing observable without a mutex. + +**Every gate decrement must route through `leave()`**, including the rejection +path in `enter()`. A bare `gate--` there reintroduces the lost wakeup: an entrant +could increment the gate, the coordinator's step-3 check could observe a non-zero +gate and proceed to wait, and the entrant's re-check could then decrement to zero +and return without signalling — leaving `Shutdown` blocked forever. This is a +distinct interleaving from the last-leaver-before-seal case and has its own +mandatory test. + +### Reservation, acceptance, and accounting + +A pre-publication reservation is needed to ensure the drain cannot finish before +a publisher that has entered the gate either publishes or aborts. The library +therefore uses **two distinct work counters**, both typed atomics: + +- `Pending` counts every drain obligation: a publisher that has entered the + publication window plus every successfully published item until its terminal + processor outcome. It is incremented before publication; an abort or a terminal + outcome decrements it exactly once. +- `IntakePending` counts obligations that the **aggregator has not yet received**. + It too is incremented before publication, decremented when the aggregator + receives the item, and rolled back on abort. It is the only counter used to + decide how many post-`noInput` receives remain. +- `Accepted` is incremented on successful publication. Cancellation or seal + rollback never increments it, consumes no FIFO position, and is therefore + never accepted work. + +There is intentionally no `Reserved` statistic. The gate is the authoritative +proof that no publisher remains in the reservation/publication window once +`gateEmpty` is observed. Exposing a partial `Reserved` count would still not make +an atomic multi-field `Stats()` snapshot transactional. + +The equations have explicit scopes: + +``` +// Exact after publisher quiescence (gateEmpty), before terminal completion: +Accepted == Completed + Failed + Panicked + Pending + +// Intake-only drain obligation. It excludes worker in-flight work: +IntakePending == 0 and noInput closed => intake is exhausted forever +``` + +`Pending` is deliberately conservative during `sealing`: it may include a +publisher that will shortly abort on `sealCh`. This protects correctness. A +`ShutdownIncompleteError` must therefore report both `Pending` and the current +`PublishersInGate`, and document that `Pending` is a **conservative drain +obligation**, not an exact count of already accepted items until `gateEmpty`. + +No accepted item is ever discarded by cancellation: cancellation happens before +`Accepted` increments. `Pending` and `IntakePending` are incremented before +publication specifically so the drain cannot terminate while a publisher is in +the publication window. + +### Publication and hot-path atomic budget + +``` +enter(): // gate: 1 seal load, gate++, 1 seal re-check load +Add / Enqueue entry: + Pending++ ; IntakePending++ // reserve before publication + +successfully publish: + Accepted++ // semantic acceptance + +abort (seal, context cancellation): + Pending-- ; IntakePending-- ; Rejected++ + // MUST complete inside the gate window, before leave() + +leave(): // gate--, 1 seal load + +aggregator receives: + IntakePending-- + +terminal processor outcome: + Pending-- ; increment exactly one terminal category +``` + +The honest successful-path budget is therefore **two seal loads plus one in +`leave()`, five typed atomic RMWs (`gate++`, `Pending++`, `IntakePending++`, +`Accepted++`, `gate--`), and one publish**. Earlier drafts claimed one RMW and +then three; both undercounted by ignoring the mandatory gate. The count is stated +here in full precisely because Phase 4's own measurement shows contended atomics +are the dominant enqueue cost, so an understated budget would invalidate the +design rationale. + +There is no CAS retry loop and no allocation. The owned-queue prototype measures +**136-168 ns/op with zero allocations** at 1, 4, and 12 producers — faster than +today's 335 ns/op `Add`, because removing the `chann` relay removes a channel +hop and a goroutine handoff. Phase 1 owns the authoritative evidence and must +confirm this before the change is accepted; the figure is a prototype baseline, +not a portable promise. + +**Rollback ordering is a correctness requirement, not a detail.** An abort must +roll `Pending` and `IntakePending` back *before* `leave()`. If a rejected +publisher left the gate first, the coordinator could observe `gateEmpty` while a +phantom intake obligation remained, and the final drain would wait for an item +that will never arrive. + +`Add` remains the compatibility fast path: normally unbounded mode completes as +a direct send; in bounded mode it may block when full, as it does today. It does +not expose an error. `Enqueue` is the API for callers who require a cancellation +deadline. Both select on `sealCh`, which releases an already-blocked publisher +when shutdown starts. + +### Drain and aggregator termination + +The aggregator cannot learn "input is exhausted" from a never-closed channel, so +the coordinator supplies that knowledge explicitly via a `noInput` channel. The +aggregator selects on input and on `noInput`; there is **no polling and no +busy-wait** in steady state. + +``` +Shutdown(): + 1. sealed = true + 2. close(sealCh) // release publishers blocked on a full queue + 3. if gate == 0 { signal gateEmpty } // coordinator self-check, see below + 4. wait for gateEmpty // aggregator KEEPS DRAINING during this wait + 5. close(noInput) // no publisher can ever send again + 6. aggregator: drain intake by accounting; flush partial batch exactly once + 7. terminate worker dispatch; wait for workers (Pending -> 0) + 8. close diagnostics last +``` + +`gateEmpty` must be a **durable, non-blocking latch** — a `sync.Once` closing a +channel, or a capacity-one token. An unbuffered send at step 3 would deadlock +before step 4. + +**Step 3 is mandatory, not an optimisation.** `leave()` signals `gateEmpty` only +when it observes `sealed`. If the last publisher leaves *before* `sealed` is +stored, nobody would ever signal and `Shutdown` would block forever. The +coordinator must therefore perform its own post-seal `gate == 0` check. This is +the lost-wakeup hazard; a prototype without step 3 deadlocks, and with it 300 of +300 last-leaver-before-seal trials complete. + +**The gate barrier.** `enter()` increments the gate and then *re-checks* the +seal, aborting if set. Combined with step 3, this is sufficient under +sequentially consistent `sync/atomic` accesses. A successful `enter()` performed +its second unsealed read before the coordinator's seal store in the total order, +so its gate increment is visible to any later coordinator read; an entrant that +increments *after* the coordinator observed zero must observe `sealed` in its +re-check and abort without publishing. Validated across 400 trials of 16 +publishers released simultaneously with a concurrent `Shutdown`, under `-race`, +with zero lost items and zero deadlocks. That run used the relay topology; the +owned-queue prototype re-validates the same gate at `n=0` and `n=4`. + +**Intake termination is by intake accounting.** After `noInput` closes, the +aggregator drains on `IntakePending` rather than on an empty-queue observation: + +``` +<-noInput +for IntakePending > 0 { drainReady() } // owned queue: a publish is immediately visible +flush() // final partial batch, exactly once +close(dispatch); workers.Wait() // n>1 only +``` + +Draining on the counter rather than on "the queue looks empty" is what makes this +correct for any queue implementation. It was originally required because a +`chann` relay could hide an accepted item mid-transfer; with an owned queue a +successful publish is immediately visible, so the counter and the queue agree, and +the rule now also guards against a publisher that has reserved but not yet +pushed. + +`IntakePending`, **not** `Pending`, is the loop condition. `Pending` includes +worker in-flight items, so using it would deadlock at `n > 1`: with a full batch +already dispatched to a busy worker and no items left in the queue, `Pending > 0` +while nothing further can ever arrive, and the aggregator would block forever on +a receive. `IntakePending` counts only obligations the aggregator has not yet +received, so it reaches zero exactly when intake is exhausted. Because the gate +guarantees no publisher remains, every awaited receive is guaranteed to arrive and +the loop cannot hang or over-receive. + +Termination is thus driven by the gate, `noInput`, intake accounting, and finally +worker quiescence — never by observing an empty channel. + +### Lifecycle states + +Exactly one of: `new` (constructed, not started), `running`, `sealing` +(admission closed, publishers still leaving the gate), `draining` (gate empty, +accepted work still processing), `closed` (terminal, all owned goroutines +exited). + +- `IsClosing()` is true in `sealing`, `draining`, `closed`. +- `IsClosed()` is true only in `closed`. +- A processor that never returns holds the batcher in `draining` forever. This + library cannot cancel user code; that is documented, not worked around. + +### Terminal outcomes + +Terminal counters are **mutually exclusive**: a batch whose processor returns an +error increments `Failed` only; a batch whose processor panics increments +`Panicked` only. `Failed` means "processor returned a non-nil error", never +"panicked". `Pending` is decremented exactly once per item, on abort or terminal +outcome. The scope rules for the accounting equations are given in +"Reservation, acceptance, and accounting" above: the `Accepted` equation is exact +only at publisher quiescence, and the `Pending` decomposition is a diagnostic +conservation check, never an instantaneous API guarantee. + +### Capacity contract + +`WithMaxQueueSize(N)` bounds queued items. Total accepted-but-not-terminal work +is bounded by: + +``` +N + BatchSize + (concurrency × BatchSize) + P +``` + +where `P` is the number of publishers currently inside the gate, exposed as +`Stats().PublishersInGate`. At `n = 1` there is no dispatch stage, so the +`concurrency × BatchSize` term collapses to the single inline batch already +counted by `BatchSize`; the formula is therefore conservative rather than wrong +at `n = 1`. `P` is bounded by the caller's own concurrency, not +by Batcher, because a blocking `Add` on a full queue is by definition a parked +caller goroutine. This must be documented plainly: **Batcher bounds its own +buffers; it cannot bound how many goroutines a caller parks in `Add`.** Callers +who need a hard cap on that term must use `Enqueue` with a context deadline, +which converts parked publishers into bounded, rejected admissions. + +## Phase 1: Establish a truthful measurement baseline + +### Reason + +No default window, allocation change, or regression claim is defensible without +end-to-end measurement. Current benchmarks time only serial `Add`, use a +one-second interval, include `fmt.Sprintf` inside the timed loop, stop timing +before `Join`, and mislabel two batch sizes. Measured spread across all five +existing benchmarks (240-446 ns/op) exceeds the difference between the +configurations they claim to compare. + +Phase 1 changes no library behaviour, so it can land while Phase 2 design +review proceeds. + +### Milestone 1.1 — Fix and scope the enqueue microbenchmarks + +**Commit scope** + +- Fix `BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize10_000` and `BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize100_000`, + which both call `runBench(b, 100)` (`pkg/batcher/batcher_bench_test.go:24-30`). +- Hoist payload construction out of the timed loop + (`batcher_bench_test.go:48`); the `fmt.Sprintf` alone measured ~51 ns/op. +- Add `ReportAllocs`, sequential and `RunParallel` variants at `-cpu=1,2,GOMAXPROCS`. +- Document the exact invocation, including `-count`, `-benchtime`, `-benchmem`. +- Label this suite explicitly as enqueue overhead, not throughput. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- Each benchmark's configured batch size equals the size in its name. +- No formatting or payload allocation inside any timed region. +- Allocations reported for every case. +- `benchstat` over `-count=10` shows the previously mislabeled cases now differ + from the 100 case beyond noise. +- No non-test file is modified. + +**Dependencies**: none. + +### Milestone 1.2 — Open-loop scenario harness + +**Commit scope** + +Build a deterministic, in-repo harness with mock processors and no network +dependency. It must be **open-loop**: arrivals follow a precomputed schedule and +are never gated on completion or on capacity, so overload cannot suppress +arrivals (coordinated omission). + +Required per-item timestamps: `scheduled_at`, `admission_start`, +`admission_end`, `processor_start`, `processor_end`. + +Required reported metrics: + +- schedule lateness (`admission_start - scheduled_at`) as a distribution; +- admission blocking time and rejection counts, reported separately from + processing latency; +- end-to-end latency p50/p95/p99/p99.9/max from raw samples, never from `ns/op`; +- offered, accepted, rejected, and completed rates; +- batch-size histogram, partial-batch fraction, downstream calls/s; +- allocations/item, heap high-water, GC count and pause totals, goroutine count; +- post-burst recovery time to a stated queue-depth threshold. + +Harness hygiene requirements: + +- sample storage preallocated before measurement; no growth during a run; +- recording via preallocated per-producer buffers, merged after the run, so the + recorder neither allocates nor locks on the hot path; +- fixed PRNG seeds for jitter; documented warmup and measurement windows; +- memory/GC runs separated from latency runs in distinct processes; +- `GOMAXPROCS`, Go version, OS/arch, and CPU model recorded per report; +- sub-millisecond windows flagged as environment-sensitive and excluded from + portable pass/fail claims. + +Scenario matrix: windows `500µs, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100ms` × arrivals +`sparse, steady 40/70/90/100%, overload 150/200/500%, bursty` × producers +`1, 4, GOMAXPROCS, 4×GOMAXPROCS` × processors +`no-op, fixed 0.5/2/50ms, jittered, occasional-slow-outlier, error-returning`. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- Arrival generation is open-loop and lateness is reported; a scenario whose + lateness p99 exceeds a declared bound is marked invalid rather than reported + as a latency result. +- Completion is observed via explicit processor signals, never `Join` polling. +- A self-check scenario confirms harness overhead: recorder allocations per item + are zero during measurement. +- Reproduces the two known baseline results (inline slow-processor inversion; + overload heap growth at every window). + +**Dependencies**: Milestone 1.1. + +### Milestone 1.3 — CI lanes and predeclared thresholds + +**Commit scope** + +- Blocking PR lane: `go test -race ./...` plus allocation-count assertions via + `testing.AllocsPerRun` for `Add`, `Enqueue`, and the recovery wrapper. +- Scheduled/manual lane: full scenario matrix, artifacts published, trend + comparison via `benchstat -count=10`. +- Record predeclared numeric thresholds in a checked-in file, keyed by Go version + and architecture. Initial values, to be re-baselined on the chosen reference + runner in this milestone: + + | Gate | Threshold | + | ------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------- | + | `Add` allocations, unbounded path | 0 in steady state (see note) | + | `Stats()` allocations | exactly 0 | + | Recovery wrapper allocations, non-panic | exactly 0 | + | `Add` ns/op regression (enqueue microbench) | ≤ +10% vs stored baseline | + | Sparse-window allocated bytes/flush, 4.2 trigger | > 2 KB/flush to justify work | + | 4.2 allocation regression ceiling, any scenario | ≤ +2% allocated bytes | + | Goroutines per idle batcher after 2.2 | exactly 0 | + | Goroutines per running n=1 batcher after 2.2 | exactly 1 (aggregator) | + | Goroutines after `closed` | equal to pre-construction baseline | + + Latency percentiles are deliberately absent: they are reported, never gated. + + Note on the allocation gate: the unbounded queue is slice-backed, so `append` + must allocate when it grows its backing array. The gate is therefore "zero + allocations per `Add` in steady state", measured with `AllocsPerRun` after a + stated warmup and with the queue retaining capacity across drains. Growth-path + allocations are exempt and must be named in the test. +- Demote the current post-merge 200% threshold + (`.github/workflows/bench.yml:27-29`) to informational; it cannot catch + meaningful regressions and runs on mutable `ubuntu-latest` with Go `stable`. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- The PR lane contains no latency-percentile pass/fail gate. +- Allocation thresholds are exact integers, not prose. +- Every scheduled report embeds full environment metadata. +- A deliberately introduced extra allocation in `Add` fails the PR lane. + +**Dependencies**: Milestone 1.2. + +## Phase 2: Make admission and shutdown safe + +### Reason + +Performance work is not credible while `Add` can panic during shutdown +(reproduced), `IsClosed` races (reproduced under `-race` at +`batcher.go:177/184`), and shutdown can discard accepted work (reproduced: 50 +accepted, 0 processed, `Len()` reporting 50 phantom items). Each milestone here +is an independently reviewable commit that leaves the library semantically +consistent, so the phase PR can be bisected safely. + +### Milestone 2.1 — Replace `rill` with an owned aggregation loop + +**Commit scope** + +This is separated from admission work deliberately: it is a pipeline rewrite, +and bundling it would make regressions unattributable. It ports the equivalent +commits from `feat/max-queue-size` (`f896def`, `b452bb0`, `05dca9b`) as one +reviewable behaviour-preserving change. + +- Land characterization tests against current `rill` behaviour **first**, in the + same PR, and keep them passing after the swap. +- Replace `rill.Batch` (`pkg/batcher/batcher.go:62`) with an in-repo aggregation + loop preserving today's semantics: timer armed on first item of an empty + batch; flush on size, on timer, and at shutdown; no empty batches. +- Remove the `github.com/destel/rill` dependency. +- **Retain today's close-to-terminate shutdown model in this commit.** The + never-closed-input design arrives in 2.2. Adopting it partially here would + leave an intermediate release with neither channel closure nor a viable + drain-exit signal. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- Characterization tests written pre-swap pass unchanged post-swap: batch + boundaries, timer-armed-on-first-item behaviour, ordering, error propagation, + no-empty-batch guarantee. +- Goroutines per *constructed, auto-started* batcher drop from 6 to 3, verified by + test. (2.2 removes the remaining two by replacing `chann`, reaching 1 per + running batcher and 0 for an unstarted one.) +- Enqueue benchmarks from 1.1 show no regression beyond predeclared thresholds. +- `go.mod`/`go.sum` no longer reference `rill`; no other dependency added. +- No public API change in this commit. +- Shutdown semantics are byte-for-byte equivalent to pre-PR behaviour, including + its existing defects; this commit fixes no lifecycle bug. + +**Dependencies**: Milestones 1.1 and 1.3 (regression attribution needs the +threshold file). + +### Milestone 2.2 — Never-closed input and the admission gate + +**Commit scope** + +This milestone is the **complete internal lifecycle migration** required by a +never-closed queue. It is self-contained because it includes the +internal coordinator that owns `sealed`, `sealCh`, `gateEmpty`, `noInput`, final +intake drain, and legacy `Close()` termination. It also replaces `chann`, whose +relay cannot exit without closing publisher ingress. It does **not** yet expose +the new resumable `Shutdown(ctx)` API; externally, `Close()` retains its existing +grace-period result shape while using the new safe internal coordinator. + +Implement the publisher gate, two-counter accounting, and owned queues exactly +as specified in "The admission and drain protocol": + +- Replace both `chann` instances and remove the dependency from `go.mod`: + - **input queue:** plain buffered channel of capacity `N` in bounded mode; a + mutex-guarded slice plus a capacity-1 signal channel in unbounded mode. Never + closed; owns no goroutine. + - **diagnostics queue:** a plain buffered channel (capacity 1,024 by default), + closed once by the drain coordinator after all senders have exited. Owns no + goroutine. Milestone 2.4 adds the drop-newest policy and counter on top of + this channel; it does not re-replace the queue. +- Publisher gate with the post-increment seal re-check, plus the coordinator's + mandatory post-seal `gate == 0` self-signal to prevent a lost wakeup. +- Reserve `Pending + IntakePending` before publish; successful publication + increments `Accepted`; abort rolls both obligations back **before `leave()`**. +- Add `sealCh`, closed at shutdown, to release publishers blocked on a full + bounded queue. +- Add `Enqueue(ctx, item) error` returning `ErrClosing`, `ctx.Err()`, or `nil`; + drop the branch's redundant pre-flight selects. +- Add `WithMaxQueueSize(N)`; default remains unbounded. +- Keep `Add` as the compatibility fast path: it may block on a full bounded + queue, as today's `Add` does, and `sealCh` releases it at shutdown. Callers + that need cancellation use `Enqueue`. +- **`Close()` on timeout must already report-and-keep-draining** in this + milestone. It may keep its existing signature and grace behaviour, but it must + not retain the legacy path that signalled `doneChan` and abandoned the drain + (`pkg/batcher/batcher.go:171`), because that is the data-loss defect. The + resumable public API and typed error arrive in 2.3; the non-destructive + behaviour arrives here. +- **A minimal `Stats()` lands here**, exposing every field this milestone's own + acceptance criteria assert: `Pending`, `IntakePending`, `PublishersInGate`, + `Queued`, `Accepted`, `Completed`, `Failed`, `Panicked`, and `Rejected`. + Later milestones each add the field they need as they add the mechanism: 2.4 + adds `DroppedErrors`, 3.2 adds `InFlight`. Milestone 4.1 completes the snapshot + (`BatchHeld`, `BatchesFlushed`), documents the whole contract, and asserts the + accounting invariants — it does not introduce `Stats()`. + +Because this milestone introduces the never-closed input, it must also land the +`noInput`-based aggregator termination from the protocol section; 2.1's +close-to-terminate model is replaced here, atomically, in one PR. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- A test that parks a publisher mid-send and seals concurrently produces zero + panics across ≥10,000 iterations. (Worker concurrency does not exist until + Phase 3; 3.2 re-runs this and every other admission/drain test at `n>1`.) +- A stress test asserts `Pending` is **never observed negative** and converges + to zero, with `Accepted == Completed + Failed + Panicked` at quiescence, across + ≥400 trials of: unbounded `Add`; bounded `Add`; bounded `Enqueue` with + cancellation; and shutdown racing simultaneously-released publishers. +- **Lost-wakeup test A (last leaver before seal):** the last publisher leaves the + gate *before* sealing begins; `Shutdown` still completes, across ≥300 + iterations. Removing the coordinator's post-seal `gate == 0` self-check must + make this test hang, proving the check is load-bearing. +- **Lost-wakeup test B (entrant re-check rejection):** using barriers, force the + interleaving where an entrant does `gate++`, the coordinator seals and observes + a non-zero gate and commits to waiting, and only then does the entrant's + re-check reject and decrement to zero. `Shutdown` must complete across ≥500 + iterations. Replacing `enter()`'s `leave()` call with a bare `gate--` must make + this test hang; prototype confirms the bare decrement deadlocks while routing + through `leave()` completes 500/500. +- **Entrant-race test:** N publishers released simultaneously with a concurrent + `Shutdown`; every publisher either observes rejection or has its item + processed. `Accepted == Completed` exactly; no item is lost. +- **Final-intake completeness test:** shutdown immediately after a successful + publish, repeated, asserts the item is always processed. A deliberately broken + implementation that terminates from an empty-queue observation instead of + `IntakePending` must fail this test, proving accounting-based draining is + required. +- `PublishersInGate` and `IntakePending` are exposed and asserted: a test parks + publishers in the publication window and asserts `PublishersInGate > 0`, that + it reaches zero exactly when `gateEmpty` is observed, and that + `IntakePending == 0` once the final intake drain completes. +- A canceled or seal-rejected reservation increments `Rejected`, leaves + `Accepted` unchanged, rolls `Pending` back, and consumes no FIFO position. +- `Enqueue` blocked on a full bounded queue returns `ErrClosing` promptly when + `sealCh` closes, with its reservation rolled back. +- `Start` called twice, concurrently, or after sealing yields exactly one + processing lifecycle and no double-close. +- No code path closes the input channel; enforced by a review checklist item and + by a test that seals while a publisher is parked in the send. +- Steady-state operation performs no polling: a test asserts the aggregator + blocks in `select` rather than spinning when idle. +- `AllocsPerRun` shows zero allocations for `Add` in the unbounded path **in + steady state**, measured after the warmup and with queue capacity retained + across drains as defined in 1.3; slice growth is the one named exemption. The + enqueue benchmark stays within the predeclared threshold of the recorded + baseline. Removing the `chann` relay is expected to make `Add` *faster* than + today's 335 ns/op (prototype: 136-168 ns/op); a regression here indicates the + owned queue is mis-implemented. +- **Goroutine assertions:** 0 per idle batcher, 1 per running `n=1` batcher, and + exact return to the pre-construction baseline after `closed`. No queue owns a + goroutine. + +**Dependencies**: Milestones 2.1 and 1.3. + +### Milestone 2.3 — Drain protocol and resumable shutdown + +**Commit scope** + +- Add `Shutdown(ctx) error` with a single drain coordinator and a write-once + terminal result. Additional and later callers wait on the same drain; none + restarts it. The internal coordinator itself already exists from 2.2; this + milestone adds the public resumable API, per-caller waiting, and the terminal + result, and must not re-implement the seal/gate/`noInput` sequence. +- The aggregator **keeps draining while the coordinator waits for the gate to + empty**; the gate wait must never block consumption, or a publisher parked on a + full bounded queue can never leave the gate. +- **`Shutdown` on an unstarted batcher with pending items starts the drain + lifecycle** to satisfy commitment 1. This is the one permitted exception to + "no start after sealing", and it is stated as such. For an unstarted bounded + batcher, the drain consumer must start before the gate wait, for the same + deadlock reason. +- Return `*ShutdownIncompleteError{Pending int, PublishersInGate int, Cause error}` + on caller timeout, while the drain continues. Its godoc must state that + `Pending` is a **conservative drain obligation**: it can include publishers + still inside the gate which may yet abort on `sealCh`, and it counts worker + in-flight batches, so it is not a queue depth. It is an exact count of + accepted-but-unfinished work only once `PublishersInGate == 0`. `Cause` is the + caller's `ctx.Err()`. +- **Terminal result semantics**, defined explicitly: + - a per-caller deadline error is returned to *that caller only* and is never + stored as the batcher's terminal result, so a short deadline cannot poison a + later caller; + - the stored terminal result is written once, when the drain completes, and is + `nil` on a completed drain; + - processor errors and recovered panics are **not** returned by `Shutdown` or + `Close`; they remain on `Errors()`, preserving today's separation + (`pkg/batcher/batcher.go:130-140`). Error-channel overflow is reported via + `Stats().DroppedErrors`, not via the shutdown result. +- `Close()` = `Shutdown` with a flat, configurable 30-second grace + (`WithCloseGrace`). Delete the queue-size/interval timeout formula + (`batcher.go:154-161`), the fixed 50ms sleep (`batcher.go:175`), and the + drain-without-processing path (`batcher.go:114-116`). +- `fx.go` forwards the `StopHook` context (currently discarded at + `fx.go:41-47`). + +**Acceptance criteria** + +Each of these is a required deterministic test, using injected barriers rather +than sleeps: + +- `Shutdown` before `Start` with queued items drains them. +- `Shutdown` on an empty, never-started batcher reaches `closed` promptly. +- **`Shutdown` on an unstarted bounded batcher whose queue is full and which has + a publisher parked in `Add` completes without deadlock**, across ≥300 + iterations. This is the specific ordering hazard the protocol addresses. +- `Start` racing `Shutdown` yields exactly one lifecycle; no goroutine leak. +- Two callers with different deadlines: the short one gets + `ShutdownIncompleteError`, the long one observes drain completion and receives + `nil`; the short caller's deadline error is not stored as terminal. +- `Shutdown` after terminal completion returns the stored terminal result. +- A processor that returns errors, and one that panics, both still yield a `nil` + terminal shutdown result; the diagnostics appear on `Errors()`. +- Bounded `Enqueue` blocked on a full queue unblocks with `ErrClosing` when + sealing begins; its reservation is rolled back. +- A timer tick delivered concurrently with the final drain flushes the partial + batch exactly once, never twice, never zero times. +- Partial batch with interval far exceeding the grace period: processed, or + reported pending; never discarded. (Today: silently dropped.) +- A non-returning processor keeps `IsClosed()` false and is documented, with a + test asserting `IsClosing()` true and `IsClosed()` false. +- Fx: stop-hook context is used; a timed-out hook leaves no leaked goroutine and + the drain continues. + +**Dependencies**: Milestone 2.2. + +### Milestone 2.4 — Bounded diagnostics and per-batch panic recovery + +**Commit scope** + +- Bounded error policy on the plain buffered diagnostics channel introduced in + 2.2 (default capacity 1,024, configurable), adding `Stats().DroppedErrors`; + non-blocking drop-newest + with a `DroppedErrors` counter. It must never block, since a blocking error + send with no reader would deadlock a failing pipeline. +- **Single closer rule:** only the drain coordinator closes the error channel, + and only after a `WaitGroup` confirms every potential sender (aggregator and + all workers) has exited. +- Per-batch recovery with fixed `defer` ordering: mark in-flight → invoke → + recover → publish diagnostic non-blockingly → decrement in-flight and pending + exactly once → increment exactly one terminal category (`Completed` on a nil + error, `Failed` on a non-nil error, `Panicked` on a recovered panic) → continue + the worker loop. + Recovery is scoped to the batch, never the worker, so a panic cannot silently + reduce effective concurrency. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- Error storm with no consumer: retained memory bounded; processing never + blocks; `DroppedErrors` exact. +- Panic in the first, a middle, and the final batch during shutdown, at `n=1` + and `n>1`: worker survives, accounting invariant holds, drain still completes. +- A panic never leaves `Pending` inflated (which would hang shutdown forever). +- Error or panic emitted concurrently with final worker exit and channel close + produces no send-on-closed panic across ≥10,000 iterations. +- Measured recovery cost: ~3ns and **zero** added allocations on the non-panic + path; asserted via `AllocsPerRun`. + +**Dependencies**: Milestone 2.3 (the drain coordinator owns the single-closer +rule for diagnostics). + +## Phase 3: Explicit concurrency + +### Reason + +`Config.Concurrency` defaults to 3 (`pkg/batcher/constants.go:12-13`) but is +read nowhere; observed parallelism is 1. This is the phase that actually +unlocks small windows, because it removes the +`effective window = max(window, processor_duration)` coupling. + +Prototype evidence, 5ms window and 50ms processor at 10,000 items/s: + +| Design | mean batch | p50 | +| -------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | +| inline (today) | 536 | 27.7ms | +| decoupled, n=1, blocking handoff | 484 | **70ms** | +| decoupled, n=1, adaptive | 492 | 25.0ms | +| decoupled, n=4 | 124 | **9.6ms** | + +Naive decoupling at `n=1` is **2.5x worse**, because it adds a stage without +adding capacity. Inline aggregation already self-tunes: items pool while the +processor runs, so the next batch is larger. Therefore the `n=1` path is left +inline and unchanged; only `n>1` introduces a worker pool. + +### Milestone 3.1 — Concurrency configuration and ordering contract + +**Commit scope** + +- Add `WithConcurrency(n)`; set `DefaultConcurrency = 1`. +- Add `WithoutOrderedProcessing()` as an acknowledgement-only gate. +- Panic at construction when `n > 1` without the acknowledgement. +- Keep the `n = 1` aggregation path **without a worker-handoff stage**. It is + not byte-for-byte identical after Phase 2 — it necessarily uses the new gate, + accounting, drain, recovery, and stats machinery — but it preserves the + important performance shape: aggregation invokes the processor inline and no + additional dispatch queue exists. +- Document FIFO-by-publication-order and processor mutual-exclusion guarantees + for `n = 1`. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- `n = 1` ordering test across full, timer, and shutdown flushes, from a single + producer, asserts exact FIFO. +- A concurrent-producer test asserts per-producer subsequence order is + preserved, and explicitly does **not** assert cross-producer order. +- `n = 1` never invokes the processor concurrently, verified with a concurrency + detector in the processor. +- `WithConcurrency(3)` without the gate panics; `WithConcurrency(1)` does not. +- Enqueue and end-to-end benchmarks at `n=1` show no regression versus 2.x + baselines beyond predeclared thresholds. + +**Dependencies**: Milestones 2.3 and 1.3. + +### Milestone 3.2 — Worker pool, dispatch bound, and shutdown accounting + +**Commit scope** + +- Worker pool for acknowledged unordered processing; item order preserved + *within* each batch. +- **Bounded dispatch:** the aggregator-to-worker handoff is unbuffered, so + backpressure remains at admission and total accepted work stays bounded by + `N + BatchSize + (n × BatchSize)`. An unbounded dispatch queue would silently + void the `MaxQueueSize` contract. +- Add `Stats().InFlight`, tracked per worker, so the snapshot separates queued, + batch-held, and in-flight work, and so the drain waits for active workers. +- Reuse 2.4's recovery and single-closer rules in every worker. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- With a slow processor, `n>1` prevents serial head-of-line blocking; scenario + data shows the p50 improvement over `n=1` at the same window. +- **Semantic-difference matrix:** scenarios compare `n=1` and `n>1` timer + cadence, batch-size distribution, admission blocking, pending depth, and + flush timing under the same slow processor. Documentation labels the observed + differences contractual: n=1 aggregates inline; n>1 aggregates independently + until the unbuffered worker dispatch is unavailable; cross-batch ordering is + not guaranteed at n>1. +- Total accepted-but-not-terminal items never exceed + `N + BatchSize + (n × BatchSize) + PublishersInGate` under a blocked processor; + the test records `PublishersInGate` separately and demonstrates that its maximum + equals the number of intentionally parked publisher goroutines. +- **Worker-mode drain test:** shutdown while a full batch is in flight on a busy + worker and no items remain in the queue. The aggregator must terminate intake + and wait for the worker, not block on a receive. A version of the loop + conditioned on `Pending` instead of `IntakePending` must deadlock this test, + proving the distinction is load-bearing. +- Shutdown with batches queued and workers active completes with the accounting + invariant intact and nothing discarded. +- Goroutine count returns to the pre-construction baseline after `closed`, for + `n=1` and `n>1`, using this leak-check protocol: sample after `Shutdown` + returns, retry up to 50 times at 20ms intervals to allow scheduler settle, + then require exact equality with the pre-construction count. No unexplained + allowance is permitted; any runtime-owned goroutine must be named in the test. +- **Per-batcher goroutine budget is asserted by a test table** covering `new`, + `running` at `n=1`, `running` at `n>1`, `draining`, and `closed`. Because 2.2 + replaces both `chann` queues with goroutine-free owned queues, the achievable + budget is: `new` = 0; `running` at `n=1` = 1 (aggregator); `running` at `n>1` + = 1 + n; `closed` = 0. Any deviation must be explained in the test rather than + absorbed into an allowance. The drain coordinator runs on the caller's + `Shutdown` goroutine and must not add a persistent goroutine; if an + implementation needs one, the table and this budget must be updated with it + named explicitly. +- Race tests cover worker completion vs close vs error publication vs enqueue. + +**Dependencies**: Milestones 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, and 1.2 (scenario evidence for the +semantic-difference matrix). + +## Phase 4: Observability and allocation + +### Reason + +Unbounded queues remain the default for spike-and-recover workloads, so +operators need a cheap way to distinguish a recovering spike from a runaway one. +`Len()` alone cannot: it conflates queued with in-flight work. + +Counter placement is performance-critical. Four contended atomics per `Add` +measured 97-174 ns/op versus 37-45 ns/op for one — up to **4x**, worst at 4-12 +producers. All non-reservation counters therefore live on the flush/worker path, +amortized across a batch. + +### Milestone 4.1 — Complete the stats snapshot + +**Commit scope** + +`Stats()` already exists: 2.2 introduced it, 2.4 added `DroppedErrors`, 3.2 added +`InFlight`. This milestone completes and ratifies it. + +- Add the remaining fields (`BatchHeld`, `BatchesFlushed`) so the full set is + `Pending`, `IntakePending`, `PublishersInGate`, `Queued`, `BatchHeld`, + `InFlight`, `Accepted`, `Completed`, `Failed`, `Panicked`, `BatchesFlushed`, + `DroppedErrors`, `Rejected`. +- All counters are typed atomics (`atomic.Int64`, `atomic.Uint64`, + `atomic.Bool`); `Queued` is read from the queue as specified below. +- Document the complete contract and assert the accounting invariants. +- `Queued` has exactly **one owner: the queue itself**, and one definition: items + successfully published and not yet received by the aggregator. + - bounded mode: `len(ch)` on the buffered channel — no counter, no lock. + - unbounded mode: `len(items)` read under the slice mutex the queue already + holds for `push`/`pop`, so it adds no new synchronization and no + producer-side atomic. + + `Stats()` therefore reads `Queued` from the queue rather than from an atomic + counter, and its godoc states this single field may take an uncontended lock in + unbounded mode. It is deliberately *not* derived as + `IntakePending - PublishersInGate`: that expression subtracts publishers that + have already published but not yet left the gate, so it undercounts and can go + negative. `Queued` is the value operators should scrape and alert on. +- Hot path performs exactly the budget defined in the protocol section: three + seal loads (two in `enter()`, one in `leave()`) and five typed atomic RMWs + (`gate++`, `Pending++`, `IntakePending++`, `Accepted++`, `gate--`) on the + success path. Failure-path counters (`Rejected`, rollbacks) occur only on + failure. Terminal counters update on the flush/worker path, amortized across a + batch. +- **No `QueueHighWater`**: a correct high-water needs a per-item CAS-max, which + measurement showed is the dominant contended cost. Operators derive max from + sampled queue depth. +- `Len()` retained as the `Pending` snapshot. Note this is a **semantic change** + that 5.1 must inventory: `Len()` now counts accepted-but-unfinished work + including in-flight batches and gate reservations, so it can be non-zero while + the queue is empty and can briefly exceed accepted work. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- `AllocsPerRun` shows `Stats()` allocates zero and `Add` allocation count is + unchanged from Phase 2. +- A successful `Add` performs the protocol's stated budget exactly — three seal + loads and five typed atomic RMWs — verified by review checklist against the + protocol section, not by an independently invented number. Failure-path + counters are measured separately and reported in the benchmark table. +- Terminal counters are mutually exclusive: a test asserts an erroring processor + increments only `Failed` and a panicking processor increments only `Panicked`. +- `Accepted == Completed + Failed + Panicked + Pending` is asserted **after + terminal drain**, when `PublishersInGate == 0` and `Pending == 0`; it is never + sampled mid-flight. +- The intake condition `IntakePending == 0` is asserted after final intake drain. + The detailed `BatchHeld`/`InFlight` fields are documented as + non-transactional diagnostics, not as an equation testable from a live + `Stats()` snapshot. +- A test demonstrates that sampling `Stats()` during active load can legitimately + show transiently inconsistent detailed fields, so the documented contract and + the tests agree. +- Godoc states the snapshot is per-field atomic and not transactional. + +**Dependencies**: Milestone 3.2. + +### Milestone 4.2 — Conditional adaptive initial batch capacity + +**Commit scope** + +Only opened if 1.2 shows sparse-window allocation pressure above the +predeclared threshold. Both `rill` and the ported loop allocate the batch at +full `BatchSize`, so a 1ms window with `BatchSize=1000` can reserve ~8KB per +flush to hold one item. + +The estimator is **recent-max, rounded to a power of two, clamped to +`[16, BatchSize]`**, re-evaluated on a fixed flush window, updated once per +flush in the aggregator goroutine only — no locks, no atomics, no pooling, no +ownership change. + +EWMA-of-mean was evaluated and **rejected**: on alternating sparse/full traffic +it allocated 2.80MB versus 1.64MB for the current full-size strategy, i.e. worse +than doing nothing. Recent-max avoids this: + +| Workload | full (today) | EWMA×1.25 | recent-max pow2 | +| ----------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------------- | +| steady sparse | 1.64MB | 25.6KB | **25.6KB** | +| alternating sparse/full | 1.64MB | **2.80MB** | 1.65MB | +| bimodal | 1.64MB | 0.60MB | 1.65MB | + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- Sparse scenarios improve allocated bytes/flush by a predeclared factor. +- **No scenario regresses beyond +2% allocated bytes versus the current + full-capacity strategy**, specifically including alternating sparse/full, + burst-after-idle, and bimodal. +- A stated retention bound: capacity never exceeds `BatchSize`, so a + user-retained batch slice never holds more than today's worst case. +- Processors may still retain batch slices; a test mutates a retained slice + across subsequent flushes and asserts no corruption. + +**Dependencies**: Milestones 1.2 and 1.3. Conditional, not mandatory. + +## Phase 5: Compatibility, guidance, and the default decision + +### Reason + +The preceding phases change public semantics. Users need an explicit +compatibility story, and the window recommendation must follow measurement +rather than intuition. + +### Milestone 5.1 — API compatibility and release strategy + +**Commit scope** + +- Publish an API inventory covering: `Config.Concurrency` becoming meaningful + and its default changing 3 → 1; `Add` becoming a counted rejection after + sealing instead of panicking; `Close()` no longer abandoning the drain at its + deadline; **`Len()` now counting accepted-but-unfinished work including + in-flight batches, so it can be non-zero with an empty queue**; `Join`'s + clarified quiescence-snapshot contract; the removal of the `rill` and `chann` + dependencies; and any `ProvideBatcherInFX` signature change. +- **`Config()` must stop exposing live mutable state.** It currently returns the + internal pointer (`batcher.go:76-78`), letting callers mutate `ProcessorFunc` + or `BatchSize` during processing — an exported data race that can invalidate + every invariant in this plan. Return a value snapshot and add a race test + proving live configuration cannot be mutated. +- **`Join` contract decision.** Document it as a *quiescence snapshot*, + authoritative only after admission is sealed, and state that a concurrent + `Add` can invalidate it. Keep the existing 1ms polling implementation, since + it is off the operational hot path; benchmarks must not use it. +- Choose and document the release version, with migration notes. +- **Fx integration shape is decided, not deferred:** keep the existing + `ProvideBatcherInFX(processorFactory, batchSize, batchInterval)` signature + compiling unchanged, and add `ProvideBatcherInFXWithOptions[T](factory, ...Option[T])` + for new configuration. No positional parameter is added to the existing + function, so no current call site breaks. The stop hook forwards its context to + `Shutdown` in both variants. +- Document Fx stop-hook behaviour for each case: normal drain returns `nil`; a + stop-context deadline returns `ShutdownIncompleteError` (an Fx lifecycle + error) while the background drain continues; an unstarted batcher with pending + items drains; repeated app stop is idempotent. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- Every behaviour change is listed with before/after and a migration note. +- A compile-level compatibility test builds the previous README examples, or the + break is explicitly declared in release notes. +- `Config()` mutation can no longer affect a running batcher; proven under + `-race`. +- Release notes state the ~25-30% `Add` cost of bounded-admission safety work. + +**Dependencies**: Milestones 2.4, 3.2, 4.1. + +### Milestone 5.2 — Documentation + +**Commit scope** + +- Remove the stale `StopProcessing` reference (`README.md:174`). +- Migrate the request-handler example (`README.md:243`) to `Enqueue`, since a + handler should observe rejection; retain an `Add` example for deliberate + best-effort use. +- Document: the unbounded default and its measured risk; the full capacity + formula; error-drop policy; `Stats()` scraping; resumable shutdown; the + `n > 1` acknowledgement; and per-batcher goroutine counts by state. +- Sizing guidance: expected batch ≈ `arrival rate × window`; 5-10ms is + reasonable where that preserves useful batch sizes. +- State plainly that at `n = 1` a slow processor bounds effective batch timing, + with the measured 5ms/50ms inversion as the worked example. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- Every public addition has a documented contract and a compiling example. +- No documentation claims a smaller window provides overload protection. +- The measured inversion table appears in the tuning guidance. + +**Dependencies**: Milestone 5.1. + +### Milestone 5.3 — Default-window decision record + +**Commit scope** + +- Run the full matrix against the completed implementation. +- Publish the decision and its evidence. +- Change `DefaultBatchInterval` only if p99 latency, batching efficiency, + allocation, and overload behaviour all support it. + +**Acceptance criteria** + +- Decision cites measured p50/p99/p99.9, batch-size distribution, + downstream-call rate, allocation/GC, sustained and burst behaviour, and + schedule-lateness validity. +- Any default change is accompanied by migration notes and scenario validation. +- If evidence is insufficient, the default is retained and only a configuration + recommendation is published. + +**Dependencies**: all prior mandatory milestones. + +## Sequencing summary + +``` +Mandatory path: + 1.1 ──► 1.2 ──► 1.3 + 2.1 ──► 2.2 ──► 2.3 ──► 2.4 ──► 3.1 ──► 3.2 ──► 4.1 ──► 5.1 ──► 5.2 ──► 5.3 + +Conditional, off the critical path (nothing depends on it): + 4.2 (requires 1.2 and 1.3 only; may land any time after them, or never) + +All declared edges: + 1.2←1.1 1.3←1.2 + 2.1←1.1,1.3 2.2←2.1,1.3 2.3←2.2 2.4←2.3 + 3.1←2.3,1.3 3.2←2.3,2.4,3.1,1.2 + 4.1←3.2 4.2←1.2,1.3 + 5.1←2.4,3.2,4.1 5.2←5.1 5.3←all mandatory + +Every cross-phase edge points to an earlier phase, so merging the phase PRs in +order (1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5) satisfies all dependencies with no back-edges. +``` + +Phases are pull requests; milestones are commits inside them. Every milestone +commit leaves the library in a consistent state, so any prefix of the plan is a +valid stopping point: + +- Stopping after **1.x**: measurement only, no behaviour change. +- Stopping after **2.1**: same semantics, `rill` removed, goroutines 6 → 3. +- Stopping after **2.2**: admission is panic-free, accounting is sound, `chann` + is gone (1 goroutine per running batcher, 0 idle), and the internal + seal/gate/`noInput` coordinator is complete. `Close()` keeps its existing + signature, no longer abandons the drain, and a minimal `Stats()` is public; only + the resumable API and typed error are absent. +- Stopping after **2.3**: no accepted work is ever silently discarded. +- Stopping after **2.4**: diagnostics bounded, panics survivable. +- Stopping after **3.x**: small windows are honoured under slow processors. +- Stopping after **4.x**: operators can see overload developing. + +## Conclusion + +Batcher becomes usable as a low-latency batching primitive instead of a +one-second queue with hidden failure modes. + +Admission is memory-safe by construction: the input channel is never closed, so +no producer can panic during shutdown, and reservation-before-publish makes +negative pending counts impossible. Shutdown seals admission and either drains +accepted work or reports precisely what remains while continuing to drain, and +any caller may wait longer with a fresh context. The one case the library cannot +solve — a processor that never returns — is documented as a visible, +non-terminal `draining` state instead of silent data loss. + +Serial users keep non-concurrent processing and FIFO by admission order. Users +who explicitly acknowledge unordered processing get real worker concurrency, +which is what stops a slow processor from inflating a 5-10ms window into tens or +hundreds of milliseconds. Bounded admission is available for process protection, +with a documented total-memory formula covering queue, aggregator, and in-flight +work; the unbounded default is retained for spike-and-recover workloads and is +now observable through an O(1) `Stats()` snapshot whose counters are placed to +keep the enqueue path measurably faster than today's. + +Finally, the repository gains an open-loop measurement harness that resists +coordinated omission, reports admission and processing latency separately, and +carries predeclared thresholds. The 5-10ms recommendation is then made — or +declined — on evidence, with the honest caveat that a timer setting alone has +never been overload protection. From 11d55ad0d2a29fe9462bef29716f9ef502b618e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 18:12:02 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 03/13] test: fix and scope enqueue microbenchmarks Milestone 1.1 of the performance plan. The previous suite could not support any performance claim: - BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize10_000 and BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize100_000 both called runBench(b, 100), so the published results for large batch sizes described a batch size of 100. - fmt.Sprintf ran inside the timed loop, so roughly 51 ns/op and 2 allocs/op of payload construction were attributed to Add. - Allocations were not reported and there was no multi-producer case. Each benchmark now configures the batch size in its name, builds its payload before the timed region, reports allocations, and has a RunParallel variant for producer contention. The suite is documented as enqueue overhead only, with a repeatable invocation, since it deliberately excludes batch completion and processor work. Measured effect: 0 allocs/op in the timed region, down from 2. benchstat over -count=10 separates the 100k case from the 100 case in bytes/op (238.5 B/op vs 176.0 B/op) while sec/op overlaps, which is expected because Add performs the same per-item work at any batch size. The plan's acceptance criterion is updated to state that bytes/op, not ns/op, is the discriminator. --- docs/improvements/plan-perf.md | 8 ++- pkg/batcher/batcher_bench_test.go | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md index 04765fe..f71e93b 100644 --- a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md +++ b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md @@ -410,8 +410,12 @@ review proceeds. - Each benchmark's configured batch size equals the size in its name. - No formatting or payload allocation inside any timed region. - Allocations reported for every case. -- `benchstat` over `-count=10` shows the previously mislabeled cases now differ - from the 100 case beyond noise. +- `benchstat` over `-count=10` distinguishes the previously mislabeled 100k case + from the 100 case. Note the separation appears in **bytes/op**, not ns/op: + measured 238.5 B/op ± 5% versus 176.0 B/op ± 7%, while sec/op overlaps within + noise. That is expected — `Add` does the same work per item regardless of batch + size, and only the per-flush batch slice capacity differs — so ns/op must not + be used as the discriminator here. - No non-test file is modified. **Dependencies**: none. diff --git a/pkg/batcher/batcher_bench_test.go b/pkg/batcher/batcher_bench_test.go index 310f757..5da42c1 100644 --- a/pkg/batcher/batcher_bench_test.go +++ b/pkg/batcher/batcher_bench_test.go @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ package batcher_test import ( - "fmt" + "strconv" "testing" "time" @@ -9,52 +9,104 @@ import ( "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/pkg/batcher" ) -func BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize10(b *testing.B) { - runBench(b, 10) -} +// benchmarkBatchInterval keeps the final partial batch drainable at the end of a +// benchmark run without making the timer a significant part of the measurement: +// flushes happen on the aggregator goroutine, not on the producer's Add path. +const benchmarkBatchInterval = 5 * time.Millisecond -func BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize100(b *testing.B) { - runBench(b, 100) -} +// benchmarkBatchSizes covers the range advertised by the historical suite. The +// two largest cases previously ran with a batch size of 100 despite their names. +var benchmarkBatchSizes = []int{10, 100, 1_000, 10_000, 100_000} -func BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize1_000(b *testing.B) { - runBench(b, 1000) -} +// BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue measures producer-side Add overhead only. +// +// Batch completion and processor execution are deliberately excluded, so these +// numbers are enqueue overhead and must not be reported as end-to-end +// throughput. End-to-end latency, batching efficiency, and overload behaviour +// are covered by the scenario harness instead. +// +// Repeatable invocation: +// +// go test -run='^$' -bench='BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue' -benchmem \ +// -benchtime=3s -count=10 -cpu=1,2,$(nproc) ./pkg/batcher +// +// Compare the resulting files with benchstat. On macOS, replace $(nproc) with +// the logical CPU count from sysctl -n hw.ncpu. +func BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue(b *testing.B) { + for _, batchSize := range benchmarkBatchSizes { + b.Run("batch_size="+formatCount(batchSize), func(b *testing.B) { + batch := newBenchmarkBatcher(batchSize) + defer closeBenchmarkBatcher(b, batch) -func BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize10_000(b *testing.B) { - runBench(b, 100) -} + // Built before the timed region: no payload construction is measured. + item := test.BatchItem{Key: "benchmark"} + + b.ReportAllocs() + b.ResetTimer() -func BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize100_000(b *testing.B) { - runBench(b, 100) + for range b.N { + batch.Add(item) + } + + b.StopTimer() + }) + } } -func runBench(b *testing.B, batchSize int) { - b.StopTimer() +// BenchmarkBatcherEnqueueParallel measures Add under producer contention. +// Run with -cpu=1,2, to observe how the shared input queue and the +// shared item counter scale with concurrent producers. +func BenchmarkBatcherEnqueueParallel(b *testing.B) { + for _, batchSize := range benchmarkBatchSizes { + b.Run("batch_size="+formatCount(batchSize), func(b *testing.B) { + batch := newBenchmarkBatcher(batchSize) + defer closeBenchmarkBatcher(b, batch) + + b.ReportAllocs() + b.ResetTimer() + + b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) { + item := test.BatchItem{Key: "benchmark"} + for pb.Next() { + batch.Add(item) + } + }) - batch := batcher.New( + b.StopTimer() + }) + } +} + +func newBenchmarkBatcher(batchSize int) *batcher.Batcher[test.BatchItem] { + return batcher.New( batcher.WithProcessor(func(_ []test.BatchItem) error { return nil }), batcher.WithBatchSize[test.BatchItem](batchSize), - batcher.WithBatchInterval[test.BatchItem](1*time.Second), + batcher.WithBatchInterval[test.BatchItem](benchmarkBatchInterval), ) +} - defer batch.Close() - - b.StartTimer() +func closeBenchmarkBatcher(b *testing.B, batch *batcher.Batcher[test.BatchItem]) { + b.Helper() - for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ { - batch.Add(test.BatchItem{Key: fmt.Sprintf("key_%d", i)}) + if err := batch.Join(60 * time.Second); err != nil { + b.Fatalf("draining benchmark batcher: %v", err) } - b.StopTimer() + if remaining := batch.Len(); remaining != 0 { + b.Fatalf("expected 0 items after drain, got %d", remaining) + } - if err := batch.Join(5 * time.Second); err != nil { - b.Fatalf("error: %v", err) + if err := batch.Close(); err != nil { + b.Fatalf("closing benchmark batcher: %v", err) } +} - if batch.Len() > 0 { - b.Fatalf("expected 0 items in batch, got %d", batch.Len()) +func formatCount(value int) string { + if value < 1_000 { + return strconv.Itoa(value) } + + return strconv.Itoa(value/1_000) + "k" } From e2946e51b0b5bf8bb6ae2983762fe42baca811b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 18:20:31 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 04/13] test: add open-loop scenario harness Milestone 1.2 of the performance plan. Go benchmarks cannot answer the questions this project needs answered. ns/op is a mean over a closed loop, and a closed loop stops offering load exactly when the system slows down, hiding the failure mode that matters most: a slow processor under sustained arrivals. The harness is therefore open-loop. Arrival times are precomputed from a seeded schedule and are never gated on completion or capacity, so overload cannot suppress offered load (coordinated omission). It reports distributions from raw samples rather than means, separates admission blocking from queueing and processing, and marks a run invalid when the generator itself fell behind, so generator lag can never be reported as batcher latency. Recording uses preallocated atomic slots indexed directly by the item, so neither the producing nor the processing path allocates or locks while being measured. Heap and queue depth are sampled during the run, because reading after the drain reports a recovered process and hides the peak backlog. The suite reproduces both baseline findings independently of the ad-hoc probes used while writing the plan: - Inline slow-processor inversion: with a 50ms processor at 10k items/s, a 5ms window measures p50 170ms while a 100ms window measures p50 100ms. Lowering the window makes latency worse, because the inline processor bounds the effective window. - No overload protection from a smaller window: at 500k items/s offered against a 2ms processor, both 100ms and 1ms accept everything (~500k/s) while completing only ~240k/s, peaking at 76,000 queued items. The window does not bound queued work. Both are pinned as tests, so decoupling intake from processing in Phase 3 will make the inversion test fail, and that failure is the signal the fix worked. --- internal/scenario/arrival.go | 129 ++++++++++++ internal/scenario/matrix_test.go | 103 ++++++++++ internal/scenario/processor.go | 102 ++++++++++ internal/scenario/report.go | 105 ++++++++++ internal/scenario/run.go | 308 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ internal/scenario/sample.go | 119 +++++++++++ internal/scenario/scenario_test.go | 217 ++++++++++++++++++++ internal/scenario/summarise.go | 135 +++++++++++++ 8 files changed, 1218 insertions(+) create mode 100644 internal/scenario/arrival.go create mode 100644 internal/scenario/matrix_test.go create mode 100644 internal/scenario/processor.go create mode 100644 internal/scenario/report.go create mode 100644 internal/scenario/run.go create mode 100644 internal/scenario/sample.go create mode 100644 internal/scenario/scenario_test.go create mode 100644 internal/scenario/summarise.go diff --git a/internal/scenario/arrival.go b/internal/scenario/arrival.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..344da8e --- /dev/null +++ b/internal/scenario/arrival.go @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +package scenario + +import ( + "math" + "math/rand" + "time" +) + +// Arrival describes how offered load is shaped over time. Schedules are +// precomputed in full before a run starts, so the generator never allocates +// during measurement and the offered rate is independent of system health. +type Arrival struct { + // Name identifies the shape in reports. + Name string + + // Schedule returns offer times relative to run start, ascending. + Schedule func(seed int64) []time.Duration +} + +// Steady offers items at a fixed rate for the given duration. +func Steady(ratePerSecond int, duration time.Duration) Arrival { + return Arrival{ + Name: "steady", + Schedule: func(int64) []time.Duration { + return fixedRate(ratePerSecond, duration) + }, + } +} + +// Sparse offers a single item every gap, which forces every batch to close on +// the timer rather than on size. This is the shape that exposes per-hop latency. +func Sparse(count int, gap time.Duration) Arrival { + return Arrival{ + Name: "sparse", + Schedule: func(int64) []time.Duration { + out := make([]time.Duration, count) + for i := range out { + out[i] = time.Duration(i+1) * gap + } + + return out + }, + } +} + +// Poisson offers items at an average rate with exponentially distributed gaps, +// which is a more realistic model of independent callers than a fixed rate. +// The seed is fixed by the caller so runs are reproducible. +func Poisson(ratePerSecond int, duration time.Duration) Arrival { + return Arrival{ + Name: "poisson", + Schedule: func(seed int64) []time.Duration { + rng := rand.New(rand.NewSource(seed)) + mean := float64(time.Second) / float64(ratePerSecond) + + var ( + out []time.Duration + at float64 + ) + + for { + at += rng.ExpFloat64() * mean + if time.Duration(at) > duration { + break + } + + out = append(out, time.Duration(at)) + } + + return out + }, + } +} + +// Burst alternates high-rate bursts with idle gaps. It measures absorption and +// recovery, which a steady rate cannot show. +func Burst(burstRate int, burstFor, idleFor time.Duration, cycles int) Arrival { + return Arrival{ + Name: "burst", + Schedule: func(int64) []time.Duration { + var ( + out []time.Duration + offset time.Duration + ) + + for range cycles { + for _, at := range fixedRate(burstRate, burstFor) { + out = append(out, offset+at) + } + + offset += burstFor + idleFor + } + + return out + }, + } +} + +// AtCapacity offers load at a multiple of the processor's theoretical service +// rate, so overload is expressed as a ratio rather than a magic number. +// +// serviceRate is the number of items per second the configured processor and +// batch size can retire. A multiplier above 1.0 is deliberate overload. +func AtCapacity(serviceRate float64, multiplier float64, duration time.Duration) Arrival { + rate := int(math.Max(1, serviceRate*multiplier)) + + return Arrival{ + Name: "capacity", + Schedule: func(int64) []time.Duration { + return fixedRate(rate, duration) + }, + } +} + +func fixedRate(ratePerSecond int, duration time.Duration) []time.Duration { + if ratePerSecond <= 0 || duration <= 0 { + return nil + } + + gap := time.Second / time.Duration(ratePerSecond) + count := int(duration / gap) + + out := make([]time.Duration, count) + for i := range out { + out[i] = time.Duration(i+1) * gap + } + + return out +} diff --git a/internal/scenario/matrix_test.go b/internal/scenario/matrix_test.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2697a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/internal/scenario/matrix_test.go @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +package scenario_test + +import ( + "os" + "testing" + "time" + + "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/internal/scenario" +) + +// TestScenarioMatrix runs the sweep that Phase 5 uses to choose a default batch +// window, and prints a report. It is opt-in because it deliberately takes +// minutes and produces measurements, not pass/fail assertions. +// +// Latency percentiles are reported, never gated: shared CI runners are too noisy +// for a p99 threshold to mean anything. Correctness and allocation counts are +// what the blocking lane checks. +// +// Run with: +// +// SCENARIO_MATRIX=1 go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 30m ./internal/scenario/ +func TestScenarioMatrix(t *testing.T) { + if os.Getenv("SCENARIO_MATRIX") == "" { + t.Skip("set SCENARIO_MATRIX=1 to run the reporting matrix") + } + + windows := []time.Duration{ + 500 * time.Microsecond, + time.Millisecond, + 2 * time.Millisecond, + 5 * time.Millisecond, + 10 * time.Millisecond, + 20 * time.Millisecond, + 50 * time.Millisecond, + 100 * time.Millisecond, + } + + const ( + duration = 2 * time.Second + warmup = 200 * time.Millisecond + batchSize = 1_000 + ) + + processors := []scenario.Processor{ + scenario.NoOpProcessor(), + scenario.FixedProcessor(2 * time.Millisecond), + scenario.JitteredProcessor(2*time.Millisecond, time.Millisecond), + scenario.SlowOutlierProcessor(2*time.Millisecond, 50*time.Millisecond, 50), + } + + var results []scenario.Result + + for _, proc := range processors { + for _, window := range windows { + for _, rate := range []int{1_000, 10_000, 50_000} { + results = append(results, scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: proc.Name + "/rate=" + itoa(rate), + BatchSize: batchSize, + BatchInterval: window, + Arrival: scenario.Steady(rate, duration), + Processor: proc, + Warmup: warmup, + Seed: 1, + LatenessBudget: 2 * time.Millisecond, + })) + } + + // Sparse arrivals isolate timer-driven flushing, which is where + // per-hop latency comes from. + results = append(results, scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: proc.Name + "/sparse", + BatchSize: batchSize, + BatchInterval: window, + Arrival: scenario.Sparse(300, window*2), + Processor: proc, + Seed: 1, + LatenessBudget: 2 * time.Millisecond, + })) + } + } + + if err := scenario.WriteReport(os.Stdout, results); err != nil { + t.Fatalf("writing report: %v", err) + } +} + +func itoa(v int) string { + if v >= 1_000 { + return itoa(v/1_000) + "k" + } + + digits := "" + for v > 0 { + digits = string(rune('0'+v%10)) + digits + v /= 10 + } + + if digits == "" { + return "0" + } + + return digits +} diff --git a/internal/scenario/processor.go b/internal/scenario/processor.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..321745d --- /dev/null +++ b/internal/scenario/processor.go @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +package scenario + +import ( + "math/rand" + "time" +) + +// Processor models downstream service time. A no-op processor measures Batcher +// itself; the others exist because Batcher's most important behaviour only +// appears when the downstream is slower than the arrival rate. +type Processor struct { + // Name identifies the model in reports. + Name string + + // ServiceTime returns how long a batch of the given size takes. It is called + // on the processing goroutine. + ServiceTime func(rng *rand.Rand, batchSize int) time.Duration + + // Err, when non-nil, is returned for every batch, exercising the error path. + Err error +} + +// NoOpProcessor returns immediately. Use it to isolate Batcher's own overhead. +func NoOpProcessor() Processor { + return Processor{ + Name: "noop", + ServiceTime: func(*rand.Rand, int) time.Duration { return 0 }, + } +} + +// FixedProcessor takes the same time for every batch, regardless of size. This +// models a downstream dominated by round-trip latency rather than payload size. +func FixedProcessor(d time.Duration) Processor { + return Processor{ + Name: "fixed=" + d.String(), + ServiceTime: func(*rand.Rand, int) time.Duration { return d }, + } +} + +// JitteredProcessor varies service time uniformly within +/- jitter, modelling +// ordinary downstream variance. +func JitteredProcessor(base, jitter time.Duration) Processor { + return Processor{ + Name: "jittered=" + base.String(), + ServiceTime: func(rng *rand.Rand, _ int) time.Duration { + if jitter <= 0 { + return base + } + + delta := time.Duration(rng.Int63n(int64(2*jitter))) - jitter + + d := base + delta + if d < 0 { + return 0 + } + + return d + }, + } +} + +// SlowOutlierProcessor is fast most of the time and occasionally very slow. +// Tail behaviour, not the mean, is what breaks latency budgets, and a +// head-of-line blocking design only reveals itself under outliers. +func SlowOutlierProcessor(base, slow time.Duration, oneIn int) Processor { + return Processor{ + Name: "outlier=" + base.String() + "/" + slow.String(), + ServiceTime: func(rng *rand.Rand, _ int) time.Duration { + if oneIn > 0 && rng.Intn(oneIn) == 0 { + return slow + } + + return base + }, + } +} + +// ErroringProcessor always fails, exercising the diagnostics path. +func ErroringProcessor(err error) Processor { + p := NoOpProcessor() + p.Name = "erroring" + p.Err = err + + return p +} + +// ServiceRate estimates how many items per second a processor can retire at the +// given batch size. It is used to express arrival rates as a fraction of +// capacity rather than as arbitrary numbers. +// +// A zero service time has no finite capacity, so callers must supply their own +// arrival rate in that case; this returns 0 to signal that. +func ServiceRate(p Processor, batchSize int) float64 { + d := p.ServiceTime(rand.New(rand.NewSource(1)), batchSize) + if d <= 0 { + return 0 + } + + batchesPerSecond := float64(time.Second) / float64(d) + + return batchesPerSecond * float64(batchSize) +} diff --git a/internal/scenario/report.go b/internal/scenario/report.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9cb99b --- /dev/null +++ b/internal/scenario/report.go @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +package scenario + +import ( + "fmt" + "io" + "runtime" + "strings" + "time" +) + +// Environment captures everything needed to interpret a report. Latency numbers +// are meaningless without it: the same scenario on a different runner, Go +// version, or GOMAXPROCS is a different measurement. +type Environment struct { + GoVersion string + OS string + Arch string + GOMAXPROCS int + NumCPU int +} + +// CurrentEnvironment reads the environment of the running process. +func CurrentEnvironment() Environment { + return Environment{ + GoVersion: runtime.Version(), + OS: runtime.GOOS, + Arch: runtime.GOARCH, + GOMAXPROCS: runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0), + NumCPU: runtime.NumCPU(), + } +} + +func (e Environment) String() string { + return fmt.Sprintf("go=%s os=%s arch=%s gomaxprocs=%d cpus=%d", + e.GoVersion, e.OS, e.Arch, e.GOMAXPROCS, e.NumCPU) +} + +// SubMillisecondWindow reports whether a configured window is small enough that +// results depend heavily on host timer and scheduler behaviour. Such runs are +// reported but must not be used as portable pass/fail evidence. +func SubMillisecondWindow(window time.Duration) bool { + return window < time.Millisecond +} + +// WriteReport renders results as a fixed-width table with environment metadata. +// Invalid runs are labelled rather than silently mixed with valid ones. +func WriteReport(w io.Writer, results []Result) error { + env := CurrentEnvironment() + + if _, err := fmt.Fprintf(w, "environment: %s\n\n", env); err != nil { + return err + } + + header := fmt.Sprintf("%-26s %-8s %-9s %8s %8s %9s %9s %8s %10s %9s %7s", + "scenario", "window", "arrival", "p50", "p99", "p99.9", "max", + "batch", "pending_pk", "calls/s", "valid") + + if _, err := fmt.Fprintln(w, header); err != nil { + return err + } + + if _, err := fmt.Fprintln(w, strings.Repeat("-", len(header))); err != nil { + return err + } + + for _, r := range results { + valid := "yes" + if !r.LatenessValid { + valid = "LATE" + } else if SubMillisecondWindow(r.Config.BatchInterval) { + valid = "env" + } + + if _, err := fmt.Fprintf(w, + "%-26s %-8s %-9s %8s %8s %9s %9s %8.0f %10d %9.0f %7s\n", + truncate(r.Config.Name, 26), + r.Config.BatchInterval, + truncate(r.Config.Arrival.Name, 9), + round(r.EndToEnd.P50), + round(r.EndToEnd.P99), + round(r.EndToEnd.P999), + round(r.EndToEnd.Max), + r.MeanBatchSize, + r.PendingPeak, + r.DownstreamPerSec, + valid, + ); err != nil { + return err + } + } + + return nil +} + +func round(d time.Duration) time.Duration { + return d.Round(time.Microsecond) +} + +func truncate(s string, limit int) string { + if len(s) <= limit { + return s + } + + return s[:limit] +} diff --git a/internal/scenario/run.go b/internal/scenario/run.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5431fed --- /dev/null +++ b/internal/scenario/run.go @@ -0,0 +1,308 @@ +package scenario + +import ( + "errors" + "math/rand" + "runtime" + "sync" + "sync/atomic" + "time" + + "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/pkg/batcher" +) + +// Item is the payload pushed through the batcher. It carries a flat index into +// the preallocated recording slots, so the processor records timings with a +// single atomic store: no lookup, no allocation, no shared-map contention. +type Item struct { + index int + _ [48]byte // padding: keeps a realistic payload size +} + +// slot holds one item's timings. Producer and processor touch disjoint atomics, +// so recording is race-free without a lock on either hot path. +type slot struct { + scheduledAt atomic.Int64 + admissionStart atomic.Int64 + admissionEnd atomic.Int64 + processorStart atomic.Int64 + processorEnd atomic.Int64 + accepted atomic.Bool +} + +// Config describes one scenario run. +type Config struct { + Name string + + BatchSize int + BatchInterval time.Duration + + Arrival Arrival + Processor Processor + + // Producers is how many goroutines offer the schedule concurrently. The + // schedule is partitioned across them, so offered load is independent of + // producer count. + Producers int + + // Warmup discards samples offered before this point, so scheduler and + // allocator warm-up does not pollute the distributions. + Warmup time.Duration + + // Seed fixes all randomness (arrival jitter and processor service time). + Seed int64 + + // LatenessBudget marks a run invalid when the generator itself fell behind by + // more than this at p99. Without this guard, an overloaded generator would be + // silently reported as batcher latency. + LatenessBudget time.Duration +} + +func (c Config) withDefaults() Config { + if c.Producers <= 0 { + c.Producers = 1 + } + + if c.Seed == 0 { + c.Seed = 1 + } + + if c.LatenessBudget <= 0 { + c.LatenessBudget = 5 * time.Millisecond + } + + return c +} + +// Result is everything one run measured. +type Result struct { + Config Config + + // Validity + Lateness Distribution + LatenessValid bool + + // Latency + EndToEnd Distribution + QueueDelay Distribution + AdmissionBlocking Distribution + + // Rates, in items per second over the offered window. + OfferedRate float64 + AcceptedRate float64 + CompletedRate float64 + RejectedCount int + + // Batching efficiency + Batches int + MeanBatchSize float64 + PartialBatches int + BatchSizes Distribution // as durations for reuse; nanoseconds == items + DownstreamPerSec float64 + + // Resources + AllocsPerItem float64 + HeapHighWater uint64 // peak HeapAlloc observed while load was in flight + PendingPeak int64 // peak accepted-but-unfinished items (queue depth proxy) + GCCount uint32 + GCPauseTotal time.Duration + GoroutinesPeak int + + Duration time.Duration +} + +// Run executes one scenario and returns its measurements. +// +// Completion is observed through the processor itself: the run finishes when the +// processor has accounted for every accepted item. Join is deliberately not used +// as the completion signal, since its 1ms polling would quantise results in the +// sub-10ms range this harness exists to measure. +func Run(cfg Config) Result { + cfg = cfg.withDefaults() + + schedule := cfg.Arrival.Schedule(cfg.Seed) + if len(schedule) == 0 { + return Result{Config: cfg, LatenessValid: true} + } + + // Partition the schedule across producers, preserving both global offer times + // and each item's flat recording index. + type offer struct { + at time.Duration + index int + } + + perProducer := make([][]offer, cfg.Producers) + for i, at := range schedule { + p := i % cfg.Producers + perProducer[p] = append(perProducer[p], offer{at: at, index: i}) + } + + // Preallocate every recording slot before measurement begins, so neither the + // producing nor the processing path allocates while being measured. + slots := make([]slot, len(schedule)) + + var ( + batches []int + batchesMu sync.Mutex + completed = make(chan int, 1024) + procRNG = rand.New(rand.NewSource(cfg.Seed)) + start time.Time + goroutinePk = runtime.NumGoroutine() + ) + + b := batcher.New( + batcher.WithBatchSize[Item](cfg.BatchSize), + batcher.WithBatchInterval[Item](cfg.BatchInterval), + batcher.WithProcessor(func(items []Item) error { + procStart := int64(time.Since(start)) + + if d := cfg.Processor.ServiceTime(procRNG, len(items)); d > 0 { + time.Sleep(d) + } + + procEnd := int64(time.Since(start)) + + for _, it := range items { + slots[it.index].processorStart.Store(procStart) + slots[it.index].processorEnd.Store(procEnd) + } + + batchesMu.Lock() + batches = append(batches, len(items)) + batchesMu.Unlock() + + completed <- len(items) + + return cfg.Processor.Err + }), + ) + + // Drain diagnostics so an erroring processor cannot grow memory unboundedly + // during the run. + errsDone := make(chan struct{}) + go func() { + defer close(errsDone) + for range b.Errors() { + } + }() + + var memBefore, memAfter runtime.MemStats + runtime.GC() + runtime.ReadMemStats(&memBefore) + + // Sample heap and queue depth while load is in flight. Reading only after the + // drain would report a recovered process and hide the peak backlog, which is + // precisely the number overload scenarios need. + var ( + heapPeak atomic.Uint64 + pendingPeak atomic.Int64 + samplerDone = make(chan struct{}) + samplerStop = make(chan struct{}) + ) + + go func() { + defer close(samplerDone) + + ticker := time.NewTicker(2 * time.Millisecond) + defer ticker.Stop() + + var ms runtime.MemStats + + for { + select { + case <-samplerStop: + return + case <-ticker.C: + runtime.ReadMemStats(&ms) + + for { + prev := heapPeak.Load() + if ms.HeapAlloc <= prev || heapPeak.CompareAndSwap(prev, ms.HeapAlloc) { + break + } + } + + if depth := int64(b.Len()); depth > pendingPeak.Load() { + pendingPeak.Store(depth) + } + } + } + }() + + var ( + wg sync.WaitGroup + accepted = make([]int, cfg.Producers) + ) + + start = time.Now() + + for p := range cfg.Producers { + wg.Add(1) + + go func(producer int) { + defer wg.Done() + + for _, o := range perProducer[producer] { + // Open loop: sleep until the item's scheduled time, regardless of + // how the batcher is coping. Never gate on completion or capacity. + if d := o.at - time.Since(start); d > 0 { + time.Sleep(d) + } + + s := &slots[o.index] + s.scheduledAt.Store(int64(o.at)) + s.admissionStart.Store(int64(time.Since(start))) + + b.Add(Item{index: o.index}) + + s.admissionEnd.Store(int64(time.Since(start))) + s.accepted.Store(true) + accepted[producer]++ + } + }(p) + } + + wg.Wait() + offeredFor := time.Since(start) + + if n := runtime.NumGoroutine(); n > goroutinePk { + goroutinePk = n + } + + totalAccepted := 0 + for _, n := range accepted { + totalAccepted += n + } + + // Wait for the processor to account for every accepted item. + deadline := time.NewTimer(60 * time.Second) + defer deadline.Stop() + + for done := 0; done < totalAccepted; { + select { + case n := <-completed: + done += n + case <-deadline.C: + // Give up rather than hang; the result will show the shortfall. + done = totalAccepted + } + } + + runDuration := time.Since(start) + + close(samplerStop) + <-samplerDone + + runtime.ReadMemStats(&memAfter) + + if err := b.Close(); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, batcher.ErrTimeout) { + // Close errors are reported through the result's completed counts. + _ = err + } + + <-errsDone + + return summarise(cfg, slots, batches, offeredFor, runDuration, + memBefore, memAfter, goroutinePk, heapPeak.Load(), pendingPeak.Load()) +} diff --git a/internal/scenario/sample.go b/internal/scenario/sample.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ace539 --- /dev/null +++ b/internal/scenario/sample.go @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +// Package scenario provides an open-loop load harness for measuring Batcher's +// end-to-end behaviour. +// +// The harness exists because Go benchmarks alone cannot answer the questions +// this project needs answered. `ns/op` is a mean over a closed loop, and a +// closed loop stops offering load exactly when the system slows down. That +// hides the failure mode we care about most: a slow processor under sustained +// arrivals. This package therefore drives load from a precomputed schedule that +// never waits for completion, and reports distributions rather than means. +// +// Terminology used throughout: +// +// - scheduled_at: when an item was due to be offered, fixed before the run. +// - admission_start/admission_end: the window spent inside Add or Enqueue. +// - processor_start/processor_end: the window spent inside the user processor. +// - lateness: admission_start - scheduled_at. If the generator itself cannot +// keep up, lateness rises and the run's latency numbers become meaningless; +// the harness marks such runs invalid instead of reporting them. +package scenario + +import ( + "sort" + "time" +) + +// Sample is one item's journey through the batcher. Times are monotonic +// readings captured on the producing and processing goroutines. +type Sample struct { + ScheduledAt time.Duration // relative to run start + AdmissionStart time.Duration + AdmissionEnd time.Duration + ProcessorStart time.Duration + ProcessorEnd time.Duration + + // Accepted is false when admission rejected or dropped the item. Rejected + // items carry no processor timings and are excluded from latency stats. + Accepted bool +} + +// Lateness reports how far behind schedule the generator was when it offered +// this item. A healthy run keeps this far below the batch window. +func (s Sample) Lateness() time.Duration { + return s.AdmissionStart - s.ScheduledAt +} + +// AdmissionBlocking reports time spent parked inside Add or Enqueue, which is +// backpressure rather than batching delay. +func (s Sample) AdmissionBlocking() time.Duration { + return s.AdmissionEnd - s.AdmissionStart +} + +// EndToEnd reports the latency a caller ultimately experiences: from the moment +// the item was due to be sent until its batch finished processing. +func (s Sample) EndToEnd() time.Duration { + return s.ProcessorEnd - s.ScheduledAt +} + +// QueueDelay reports time between successful admission and the processor +// starting on the item's batch. This is the portion attributable to batching +// and queueing rather than to the processor itself. +func (s Sample) QueueDelay() time.Duration { + return s.ProcessorStart - s.AdmissionEnd +} + +// Distribution summarises a set of durations. Percentiles are computed from raw +// samples; nothing here is derived from a mean. +type Distribution struct { + Count int + Min time.Duration + P50 time.Duration + P95 time.Duration + P99 time.Duration + P999 time.Duration + Max time.Duration + Mean time.Duration +} + +// NewDistribution sorts values in place and summarises them. +func NewDistribution(values []time.Duration) Distribution { + if len(values) == 0 { + return Distribution{} + } + + sort.Slice(values, func(i, j int) bool { return values[i] < values[j] }) + + var total time.Duration + for _, v := range values { + total += v + } + + return Distribution{ + Count: len(values), + Min: values[0], + P50: quantile(values, 0.50), + P95: quantile(values, 0.95), + P99: quantile(values, 0.99), + P999: quantile(values, 0.999), + Max: values[len(values)-1], + Mean: total / time.Duration(len(values)), + } +} + +// quantile expects values to be sorted ascending. +func quantile(values []time.Duration, q float64) time.Duration { + if len(values) == 0 { + return 0 + } + + idx := int(float64(len(values)-1) * q) + if idx < 0 { + idx = 0 + } + + if idx >= len(values) { + idx = len(values) - 1 + } + + return values[idx] +} diff --git a/internal/scenario/scenario_test.go b/internal/scenario/scenario_test.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b238835 --- /dev/null +++ b/internal/scenario/scenario_test.go @@ -0,0 +1,217 @@ +package scenario_test + +import ( + "errors" + "testing" + "time" + + "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/internal/scenario" + "github.com/stretchr/testify/require" +) + +// TestHarnessIsOpenLoop asserts the generator offers its whole schedule even +// when the processor cannot keep up. A closed-loop harness would silently stop +// offering load here, which is the coordinated-omission trap this design avoids. +func TestHarnessIsOpenLoop(t *testing.T) { + t.Parallel() + + const offered = 200 + + result := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: "open-loop-under-slow-processor", + BatchSize: 10, + BatchInterval: 2 * time.Millisecond, + Arrival: scenario.Sparse(offered, time.Millisecond), + Processor: scenario.FixedProcessor(5 * time.Millisecond), + LatenessBudget: time.Second, // this run is expected to be late; see below + }) + + require.Equal(t, offered, result.EndToEnd.Count+result.RejectedCount, + "every scheduled item must be offered regardless of processor speed") + require.Positive(t, result.Lateness.P99, + "a slow processor must show up as generator lateness, not as suppressed load") +} + +// TestHarnessReportsLatenessAndInvalidatesBadRuns asserts the validity guard. +// Without it, a generator that itself fell behind would be reported as batcher +// latency, which is how benchmark harnesses produce confidently wrong numbers. +func TestHarnessReportsLatenessAndInvalidatesBadRuns(t *testing.T) { + t.Parallel() + + healthy := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: "healthy", + BatchSize: 100, + BatchInterval: 5 * time.Millisecond, + Arrival: scenario.Sparse(100, 2*time.Millisecond), + Processor: scenario.NoOpProcessor(), + LatenessBudget: 5 * time.Millisecond, + }) + + require.True(t, healthy.LatenessValid, + "an idle no-op run must not be marked invalid (p99 lateness %s)", healthy.Lateness.P99) + + strict := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: "impossible-budget", + BatchSize: 100, + BatchInterval: 5 * time.Millisecond, + Arrival: scenario.Sparse(100, 2*time.Millisecond), + Processor: scenario.NoOpProcessor(), + LatenessBudget: time.Nanosecond, // no real scheduler can meet this + }) + + require.False(t, strict.LatenessValid, + "a run whose lateness exceeds its budget must be marked invalid") +} + +// TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem is the harness self-check required +// before trusting any allocation number it reports. If the recorder allocated +// per item, every allocation measurement would be measuring the harness. +func TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem(t *testing.T) { + t.Parallel() + + small := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: "alloc-small", + BatchSize: 100, + BatchInterval: 2 * time.Millisecond, + Arrival: scenario.Steady(20_000, 100*time.Millisecond), + Processor: scenario.NoOpProcessor(), + }) + + large := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: "alloc-large", + BatchSize: 100, + BatchInterval: 2 * time.Millisecond, + Arrival: scenario.Steady(20_000, 400*time.Millisecond), + Processor: scenario.NoOpProcessor(), + }) + + // Per-item allocations must not grow with run length. Batcher itself + // allocates per item today, so the absolute number is not zero; what matters + // is that the harness adds no per-item growth of its own. + require.InDelta(t, small.AllocsPerItem, large.AllocsPerItem, 1.0, + "per-item allocations must not scale with run length (small=%.2f large=%.2f)", + small.AllocsPerItem, large.AllocsPerItem) +} + +// TestReproducesInlineSlowProcessorInversion pins the central finding that +// motivates the whole plan: because the processor runs inline in the aggregation +// loop, the effective window becomes max(window, processor_duration). A smaller +// configured window therefore makes latency WORSE, not better. +// +// If a future change decouples intake from processing, this test should start +// failing, and that failure is the signal that the fix worked. +func TestReproducesInlineSlowProcessorInversion(t *testing.T) { + t.Parallel() + + if testing.Short() { + t.Skip("timing-sensitive; runs in the full suite only") + } + + const ( + rate = 10_000 + duration = 1500 * time.Millisecond + serviceTime = 50 * time.Millisecond + ) + + small := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: "window=5ms", + BatchSize: 100_000, // never size-triggered: isolate the timer + BatchInterval: 5 * time.Millisecond, + Arrival: scenario.Steady(rate, duration), + Processor: scenario.FixedProcessor(serviceTime), + LatenessBudget: time.Second, + }) + + large := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: "window=100ms", + BatchSize: 100_000, + BatchInterval: 100 * time.Millisecond, + Arrival: scenario.Steady(rate, duration), + Processor: scenario.FixedProcessor(serviceTime), + LatenessBudget: time.Second, + }) + + t.Logf("5ms window: p50=%s p99=%s mean_batch=%.0f downstream/s=%.0f", + small.EndToEnd.P50, small.EndToEnd.P99, small.MeanBatchSize, small.DownstreamPerSec) + t.Logf("100ms window: p50=%s p99=%s mean_batch=%.0f downstream/s=%.0f", + large.EndToEnd.P50, large.EndToEnd.P99, large.MeanBatchSize, large.DownstreamPerSec) + + require.Greater(t, small.EndToEnd.P50, large.EndToEnd.P50, + "with a %s processor the 5ms window should be SLOWER than 100ms, "+ + "because the inline processor bounds the effective window", serviceTime) +} + +// TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection pins the second baseline finding: +// shrinking the batch window does not bound queued work. Overload protection +// requires bounded admission, which the library does not yet offer. +func TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection(t *testing.T) { + t.Parallel() + + if testing.Short() { + t.Skip("allocates aggressively; runs in the full suite only") + } + + const ( + rate = 500_000 + duration = 300 * time.Millisecond + ) + + for _, window := range []time.Duration{100 * time.Millisecond, 1 * time.Millisecond} { + result := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: "overload", + BatchSize: 500, + BatchInterval: window, + Arrival: scenario.Steady(rate, duration), + Processor: scenario.FixedProcessor(2 * time.Millisecond), + LatenessBudget: time.Second, + }) + + t.Logf("window=%-6s offered/s=%.0f accepted/s=%.0f completed/s=%.0f "+ + "pending_peak=%d heap_peak=%dMB", + window, result.OfferedRate, result.AcceptedRate, result.CompletedRate, + result.PendingPeak, result.HeapHighWater/(1<<20)) + + require.Zero(t, result.RejectedCount, + "window=%s: an unbounded queue must accept everything, which is exactly "+ + "why a smaller window cannot protect the process", window) + + // The load is deliberately far above what a 2ms processor can retire, so a + // large backlog must accumulate no matter how small the window is. This is + // the evidence that overload protection needs bounded admission, not a + // shorter timer. + require.Greater(t, result.PendingPeak, int64(rate/10), + "window=%s: expected a large backlog to accumulate under overload", window) + } +} + +// TestErroringProcessorDoesNotStallTheHarness keeps the diagnostics path covered, +// so scenarios can model failing downstreams without hanging the run. +func TestErroringProcessorDoesNotStallTheHarness(t *testing.T) { + t.Parallel() + + result := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: "erroring", + BatchSize: 10, + BatchInterval: 2 * time.Millisecond, + Arrival: scenario.Sparse(50, time.Millisecond), + Processor: scenario.ErroringProcessor(errors.New("downstream unavailable")), + }) + + require.Positive(t, result.Batches, "batches must still be processed when the processor errors") + require.Positive(t, result.EndToEnd.Count, "latency must still be recorded for failed batches") +} + +// TestDeterministicSchedules asserts fixed seeds produce identical schedules, so +// a reported result can be reproduced exactly. +func TestDeterministicSchedules(t *testing.T) { + t.Parallel() + + arrival := scenario.Poisson(5_000, 200*time.Millisecond) + + first := arrival.Schedule(42) + second := arrival.Schedule(42) + different := arrival.Schedule(43) + + require.Equal(t, first, second, "same seed must produce the same schedule") + require.NotEqual(t, first, different, "different seeds must produce different schedules") +} diff --git a/internal/scenario/summarise.go b/internal/scenario/summarise.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f36b48 --- /dev/null +++ b/internal/scenario/summarise.go @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +package scenario + +import ( + "runtime" + "time" +) + +// summarise converts raw per-item samples into the reported metrics. +// +// Samples offered during the warmup window are excluded from latency +// distributions but still counted in rates, since they were real load. +func summarise( + cfg Config, + slots []slot, + batches []int, + offeredFor time.Duration, + runDuration time.Duration, + memBefore, memAfter runtime.MemStats, + goroutinesPeak int, + heapPeak uint64, + pendingPeak int64, +) Result { + var ( + lateness []time.Duration + endToEnd []time.Duration + queueDelay []time.Duration + admission []time.Duration + + offered int + accepted int + completed int + rejected int + ) + + for i := range slots { + s := Sample{ + ScheduledAt: time.Duration(slots[i].scheduledAt.Load()), + AdmissionStart: time.Duration(slots[i].admissionStart.Load()), + AdmissionEnd: time.Duration(slots[i].admissionEnd.Load()), + ProcessorStart: time.Duration(slots[i].processorStart.Load()), + ProcessorEnd: time.Duration(slots[i].processorEnd.Load()), + Accepted: slots[i].accepted.Load(), + } + + offered++ + + if !s.Accepted { + rejected++ + + continue + } + + accepted++ + + // A zero ProcessorEnd means the item never reached the processor, which + // is a shortfall worth surfacing rather than averaging away. + if s.ProcessorEnd > 0 { + completed++ + } + + if s.ScheduledAt < cfg.Warmup { + continue + } + + lateness = append(lateness, s.Lateness()) + admission = append(admission, s.AdmissionBlocking()) + + if s.ProcessorEnd > 0 { + endToEnd = append(endToEnd, s.EndToEnd()) + queueDelay = append(queueDelay, s.QueueDelay()) + } + } + + latenessDist := NewDistribution(lateness) + + batchSizes := make([]time.Duration, 0, len(batches)) + partial := 0 + totalBatched := 0 + + for _, size := range batches { + batchSizes = append(batchSizes, time.Duration(size)) + totalBatched += size + + if size < cfg.BatchSize { + partial++ + } + } + + meanBatch := 0.0 + if len(batches) > 0 { + meanBatch = float64(totalBatched) / float64(len(batches)) + } + + seconds := offeredFor.Seconds() + if seconds <= 0 { + seconds = runDuration.Seconds() + } + + // Prefer the in-flight peak; fall back to the post-drain reading if the run + // was too short for the sampler to fire. + heapHighWater := heapPeak + if heapHighWater == 0 { + heapHighWater = memAfter.HeapAlloc + } + + allocsPerItem := 0.0 + if accepted > 0 { + allocsPerItem = float64(memAfter.Mallocs-memBefore.Mallocs) / float64(accepted) + } + + return Result{ + Config: cfg, + Lateness: latenessDist, + LatenessValid: latenessDist.Count == 0 || latenessDist.P99 <= cfg.LatenessBudget, + EndToEnd: NewDistribution(endToEnd), + QueueDelay: NewDistribution(queueDelay), + AdmissionBlocking: NewDistribution(admission), + OfferedRate: float64(offered) / seconds, + AcceptedRate: float64(accepted) / seconds, + CompletedRate: float64(completed) / runDuration.Seconds(), + RejectedCount: rejected, + Batches: len(batches), + MeanBatchSize: meanBatch, + PartialBatches: partial, + BatchSizes: NewDistribution(batchSizes), + DownstreamPerSec: float64(len(batches)) / runDuration.Seconds(), + AllocsPerItem: allocsPerItem, + HeapHighWater: heapHighWater, + PendingPeak: pendingPeak, + GCCount: memAfter.NumGC - memBefore.NumGC, + GCPauseTotal: time.Duration(memAfter.PauseTotalNs - memBefore.PauseTotalNs), + GoroutinesPeak: goroutinesPeak, + Duration: runDuration, + } +} From c8cd935cccce53901ea02957d7b25bd7da9d0fe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 18:30:27 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 05/13] ci: add performance guard lanes and predeclared thresholds Milestone 1.3 of the performance plan. CI previously ran benchmarks post-merge only, on mutable ubuntu-latest with Go "stable", alerting at a 200% regression. That threshold cannot catch a real regression: measured run-to-run spread within a single benchmark configuration has exceeded the difference between the configurations it compares. The test job also ran neither the race detector nor any allocation check. Splits performance CI into two lanes with different jobs: - performance.yml "guards" is blocking and gates only on signals that are stable on shared runners: go test -race and exact allocation counts. - performance.yml "matrix" is scheduled and informational. It runs the scenario sweep, records environment metadata, and uploads artifacts. It never fails a pull request on timing. Latency percentiles are deliberately not gated anywhere. They are reported and compared as a trend, because a p99 gate on a GitHub-hosted runner would fire on noise. Adds docs/improvements/thresholds.md with the predeclared numbers, and a stored local baseline. The doc states plainly that the local darwin/arm64 baseline is not the CI reference and that the ns/op gate stays advisory until a baseline is recorded from the reference runner. Adds the first allocation gate: Add must not allocate per call in steady state. Verified it actually catches a regression by temporarily injecting an escaping allocation into Add, which failed the test with 2 allocations; a non-escaping make() was optimised away and did not, so the test asserts on real behaviour rather than on a construct the compiler can elide. The historical bench.yml lane is kept for trend continuity but demoted to fail-on-alert: false, with a comment explaining not to lower its threshold expecting protection. --- .github/workflows/bench.yml | 15 ++- .github/workflows/performance.yml | 78 +++++++++++++++ Makefile | 21 ++++ .../baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt | 72 ++++++++++++++ docs/improvements/thresholds.md | 96 +++++++++++++++++++ pkg/batcher/allocation_test.go | 56 +++++++++++ 6 files changed, 337 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 .github/workflows/performance.yml create mode 100644 docs/improvements/baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt create mode 100644 docs/improvements/thresholds.md create mode 100644 pkg/batcher/allocation_test.go diff --git a/.github/workflows/bench.yml b/.github/workflows/bench.yml index dfec167..99cb9ba 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/bench.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/bench.yml @@ -1,4 +1,14 @@ --- +# Historical benchmark tracking. INFORMATIONAL ONLY. +# +# This lane publishes the enqueue microbenchmark trend to GitHub Pages. It does +# not gate merges: it runs on mutable ubuntu-latest with Go "stable", and its +# measured run-to-run spread has exceeded the difference between the +# configurations it compares, so a timing threshold here cannot catch a real +# regression without also firing on noise. +# +# Blocking performance guards live in performance.yml (race detector and exact +# allocation counts). Predeclared thresholds are in docs/improvements/thresholds.md. name: Go-Benchmarks on: push: @@ -24,7 +34,10 @@ jobs: output-file-path: build/output.txt github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} auto-push: true + # Kept high and non-blocking on purpose: this is a trend record, not a + # gate. Do not lower this expecting it to protect performance; add a + # deterministic gate to performance.yml instead. alert-threshold: "200%" comment-on-alert: true - fail-on-alert: true + fail-on-alert: false alert-comment-cc-users: "@heynemann" diff --git a/.github/workflows/performance.yml b/.github/workflows/performance.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..994bc52 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/performance.yml @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +--- +name: Performance +on: + pull_request: + branches: ["main"] + push: + branches: ["main"] + schedule: + # Weekly full matrix. Latency is reported here, never gated. + - cron: "0 3 * * 1" + workflow_dispatch: +permissions: read-all +jobs: + # Blocking lane. Gates only on signals that are stable on shared runners: + # correctness under the race detector and exact allocation counts. + # Latency percentiles are deliberately NOT gated here, because measured spread + # on GitHub-hosted runners has exceeded the difference between configurations. + guards: + name: Race and allocation guards + runs-on: ubuntu-latest + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v4 + - name: Set up Go + uses: actions/setup-go@v4 + with: + go-version-file: go.mod + - name: Race detector + run: go test -race ./... + - name: Allocation gates + # Thresholds are predeclared in docs/improvements/thresholds.md. + run: go test -run 'Alloc' -count=1 ./... + - name: Enqueue microbenchmarks compile and run + run: | + go test -run='^$' -bench='BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue' \ + -benchtime=100x -benchmem ./pkg/batcher + # Reporting lane. Produces the evidence used to choose a default batch window. + # Informational by design: it must never fail a pull request on timing. + matrix: + name: Scenario matrix (informational) + if: github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' + runs-on: ubuntu-latest + continue-on-error: true + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v4 + - name: Set up Go + uses: actions/setup-go@v4 + with: + go-version-file: go.mod + - name: Record environment + run: | + { + echo "date: $(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)" + echo "go: $(go version)" + echo "runner: ${{ runner.os }} ${{ runner.arch }}" + echo "nproc: $(nproc)" + echo "commit: ${{ github.sha }}" + } > environment.txt + cat environment.txt + - name: Scenario matrix + env: + SCENARIO_MATRIX: "1" + run: | + go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 40m -v ./internal/scenario/ \ + | tee scenario-matrix.txt + - name: Enqueue benchmarks with benchstat input + run: | + go test -run='^$' -bench='BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue' -benchmem \ + -benchtime=2s -count=10 -cpu=1,2,4 ./pkg/batcher \ + | tee enqueue-bench.txt + - name: Upload performance artifacts + uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 + with: + name: performance-report + path: | + environment.txt + scenario-matrix.txt + enqueue-bench.txt + retention-days: 90 diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 3133504..aec1406 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -23,6 +23,27 @@ bench-announce: bench-run: @go test -bench=. ./... +# Blocking performance guards: stable on shared runners, unlike latency. +# Thresholds are predeclared in docs/improvements/thresholds.md. +guards: guards-race guards-allocs + +guards-race: + @echo "Running race detector..." + @go test -race ./... + +guards-allocs: + @echo "Checking allocation gates..." + @go test -run 'Alloc' -count=1 ./... + +# Enqueue microbenchmarks with statistics suitable for benchstat. +bench-enqueue: + @go test -run='^$$' -bench='BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue' -benchmem \ + -benchtime=3s -count=10 ./pkg/batcher + +# Full reporting matrix. Informational: produces measurements, not pass/fail. +bench-matrix: + @SCENARIO_MATRIX=1 go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 40m -v ./internal/scenario/ + coverage: coverage-run coverage-report coverage-run: diff --git a/docs/improvements/baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt b/docs/improvements/baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac671f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/improvements/baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +# Enqueue microbenchmark baseline +# +# environment: go version go1.26.5 darwin/arm64 darwin/arm64 gomaxprocs=12 cpu=Apple M4 Pro +# commit: 6d05236 +# note: local developer baseline, NOT the CI reference runner (ubuntu-latest/amd64). +# +goos: darwin +goarch: arm64 +pkg: github.com/NSXBet/batcher/pkg/batcher +cpu: Apple M4 Pro +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=10-12 9027432 239.1 ns/op 176 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=10-12 10288173 233.9 ns/op 170 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=10-12 9796528 213.9 ns/op 175 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=10-12 13257355 225.7 ns/op 171 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=10-12 11826880 280.7 ns/op 179 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=10-12 9833457 219.1 ns/op 175 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=100-12 12339294 236.8 ns/op 173 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=100-12 13952167 231.6 ns/op 176 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=100-12 11984150 237.7 ns/op 180 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=100-12 8456338 274.6 ns/op 170 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=100-12 13100283 265.0 ns/op 180 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=100-12 12887620 233.3 ns/op 180 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=1k-12 8432460 242.9 ns/op 182 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=1k-12 9488770 242.0 ns/op 181 B/op 0 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ns/op 299 B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueueParallel/batch_size=100k-12 5396383 424.1 ns/op 296 B/op 0 allocs/op +PASS +ok github.com/NSXBet/batcher/pkg/batcher 289.556s diff --git a/docs/improvements/thresholds.md b/docs/improvements/thresholds.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..420f536 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/improvements/thresholds.md @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +# Performance thresholds + +Predeclared gates for the blocking CI lane. Values are committed here so a +regression is caught by a number agreed in advance, not by opinion during review. + +Latency percentiles are deliberately absent. Shared CI runners are far too noisy +for a p99 gate to be meaningful — measured spread within a single benchmark +configuration has exceeded the difference between configurations. Latency is +reported by the scenario matrix and compared as a trend; it never fails a PR. + +## Reference environment + +Thresholds are keyed to the environment. Re-baseline when any of these change. + +| Field | Value | +| ---------- | ---------------------------------------- | +| Go version | 1.22 or later | +| Runner | `ubuntu-latest` (GitHub-hosted, mutable) | +| Arch | `amd64` | + +Local development figures in this repository's history were taken on Apple M4 +Pro / darwin / arm64 / GOMAXPROCS=12 / Go 1.26.5. Those are recorded for +orientation only and are not gates. + +## Allocation gates (blocking) + +Allocation counts are stable even on noisy shared runners, which is why they are +the blocking signal rather than timings. + +| Gate | Threshold | Enforced by | +| --------------------------------------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------- | +| `Add` allocations, unbounded path | exactly 0 | `TestAddAllocationsPerCall` | +| `Stats()` allocations | exactly 0 | added with `Stats()` in Phase 2 | +| Recovery wrapper allocations, non-panic | exactly 0 | added with panic recovery in Phase 2 | +| Scenario recorder allocations per item | no growth | `TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem` | + +`Add` currently allocates 0 per call in the timed region because the item is +constructed by the caller. Phase 2 replaces `chann` with a slice-backed unbounded +queue, at which point the gate becomes "zero allocations per `Add` in steady +state": `append` must allocate when it grows its backing array, so the gate is +measured after a stated warmup with queue capacity retained across drains, and +growth-path allocations are the one named exemption. + +## Throughput gates (blocking) + +| Gate | Threshold | +| ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- | +| `Add` ns/op regression (enqueue microbench) | ≤ +10% vs stored baseline | + +Compare with `benchstat` over `-count=10`. A single run is not evidence. + +## Goroutine gates (blocking, from Phase 2 onward) + +| Gate | Threshold | +| ----------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | +| Goroutines per idle batcher | exactly 0 | +| Goroutines per running `n=1` | exactly 1 (aggregator) | +| Goroutines per running `n>1` | exactly 1 + n | +| Goroutines after terminal `closed` | equal to pre-construction baseline | + +Current `main` owns 6 goroutines per batcher: 1 aggregator, 2 `rill` pipeline +relays, and 2 `chann` relays plus the pipeline's batch goroutine. Phase 2.1 +removes `rill` (6 → 3) and Phase 2.2 removes `chann` (3 → 1). + +## Conditional gates (Milestone 4.2 only) + +| Gate | Threshold | +| ------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------- | +| Sparse-window allocated bytes/flush | > 2 KB/flush to justify work | +| Allocation regression ceiling, any scenario | ≤ +2% allocated bytes | + +The second gate must hold for alternating sparse/full, burst-after-idle, and +bimodal workloads, not just the sparse case the optimisation targets. An +EWMA-of-mean estimator was rejected precisely because it regressed alternating +traffic to 2.80 MB against 1.64 MB for the current full-capacity strategy. + +## Baselines + +Stored benchmark baselines live in `docs/improvements/baselines/`. + +- `enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt` — local developer baseline (Apple M4 Pro, Go 1.26.5). + Useful for spotting a large local regression while iterating. **Not** the CI + reference; do not compare CI results against it. + +A baseline for the CI reference runner (`ubuntu-latest`, amd64) must be recorded +from a scheduled run of `performance.yml` before the ns/op gate can be enforced. +Until then, treat the throughput gate as advisory and rely on the allocation and +race gates. + +Regenerate with: + +```sh +make bench-enqueue > docs/improvements/baselines/enqueue-.txt +``` + +Compare two files with `benchstat old.txt new.txt`. diff --git a/pkg/batcher/allocation_test.go b/pkg/batcher/allocation_test.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0844c6c --- /dev/null +++ b/pkg/batcher/allocation_test.go @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +package batcher_test + +import ( + "testing" + "time" + + "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/internal/test" + "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/pkg/batcher" + "github.com/stretchr/testify/require" +) + +// TestAddAllocatesNothingPerCall is a blocking allocation gate. +// +// Allocation counts are the signal the PR lane enforces, because they are stable +// even on noisy shared runners, whereas latency percentiles there are not. +// +// Scope: this measures the caller-visible cost of Add only. Batcher still +// allocates per batch on the aggregation path (the batch slice) and inside the +// unbounded queue's internal buffer; those are amortised across a batch and are +// measured by the scenario harness, not here. +// +// Threshold recorded in docs/improvements/thresholds.md. +func TestAddAllocatesNothingPerCall(t *testing.T) { + // Deliberately not parallel: testing.AllocsPerRun requires exclusive control + // of GOMAXPROCS and panics when called from a parallel test. + batch := batcher.New( + batcher.WithProcessor(func(_ []test.BatchItem) error { + return nil + }), + batcher.WithBatchSize[test.BatchItem](1_000), + batcher.WithBatchInterval[test.BatchItem](5*time.Millisecond), + ) + + t.Cleanup(func() { + require.NoError(t, batch.Close()) + }) + + item := test.BatchItem{Key: "allocation-gate"} + + // Warm up so queue buffers reach a steady capacity. Without this, the growth + // of internal buffers would be attributed to Add. + for range 10_000 { + batch.Add(item) + } + + require.NoError(t, batch.Join(30*time.Second)) + + allocs := testing.AllocsPerRun(2_000, func() { + batch.Add(item) + }) + + require.Zero(t, allocs, + "Add must not allocate per call in steady state; got %v allocations", allocs) + + require.NoError(t, batch.Join(30*time.Second)) +} From bce5270bfbf1e0c860ef7979a7b60df78c69c433 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 18:32:28 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 06/13] ci: exclude scenario harness from coverage thresholds The scenario harness is test infrastructure, not shipped library code. Its reporting and arrival-shape helpers are exercised by the opt-in matrix lane, which CI skips by default, so counting them dragged reported coverage from 92.4% to 76.2% and would have failed the 80% gate. Excludes internal/scenario the same way internal/test is already excluded, in both the CI action and the Makefile coverage targets. This keeps the gate meaningful for pkg/batcher rather than inviting tests written only to satisfy a percentage. --- .github/workflows/go.yml | 1 + Makefile | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.github/workflows/go.yml b/.github/workflows/go.yml index 6f6b988..58f0765 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/go.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/go.yml @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ jobs: \_string\.go$ \main\.go$ \internal\/test\/.*$ + \internal\/scenario\/.*$ - name: Generate coverage tree map run: | go run github.com/nikolaydubina/go-cover-treemap@latest \ diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index aec1406..48cc30b 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ coverage-run: @go test -coverprofile=coverage.out ./... coverage-report: - @cat coverage.out | grep -v "test/" > coverage-filtered.out + @cat coverage.out | grep -v "test/" | grep -v "internal/scenario/" > coverage-filtered.out @go tool cover -func=coverage-filtered.out coverage-report-ci: coverage-run - @cat coverage.out | grep -v "test/" | grep -v "main.go" > coverage.txt + @cat coverage.out | grep -v "test/" | grep -v "internal/scenario/" | grep -v "main.go" > coverage.txt lint: @docker run \ From 5d668dbfd3abb3119807cc78250a47368c6614ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 20:02:53 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 07/13] test: move scenario harness to test/scenario and derive host-sensitive assertions Two corrections to Phase 1. Location: internal/ is for library code, so the scenario harness belongs in test/scenario. Moving it also simplifies coverage configuration, because the pre-existing "test/" exclusions already cover it and the extra internal/scenario filters added earlier are no longer needed. CI correctness: the first run of the new guard lane failed, and the failures were real rather than flaky. Two assertions had absolute thresholds tuned to a developer machine: - TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection required a backlog above 50,000 items. The GitHub runner could only offer 117k items/s rather than 500k, so the threshold was unreachable there. It now asserts that the peak backlog absorbs the run's own measured accept-minus-complete deficit, which holds on any hardware because it is derived from that run. - TestHarnessReportsLatenessAndInvalidatesBadRuns required a 5ms lateness budget to be achievable. That measures the host scheduler, not the harness: the runner showed 5.63ms of p99 sleep overshoot. It now probes the host's actual overshoot and asserts the guard accepts a budget above it and rejects one below it, so both directions of the validity guard stay covered. Verified under GOMAXPROCS=2 to approximate a constrained runner: p99 overshoot 5.94ms, and both windows still accumulate an ~82,000 item backlog, so the baseline finding is preserved. --- .github/workflows/go.yml | 2 +- .github/workflows/performance.yml | 2 +- Makefile | 6 +- docs/improvements/plan-perf.md | 5 +- docs/improvements/thresholds.md | 2 +- {internal => test}/scenario/arrival.go | 0 {internal => test}/scenario/matrix_test.go | 4 +- {internal => test}/scenario/processor.go | 0 {internal => test}/scenario/report.go | 0 {internal => test}/scenario/run.go | 0 {internal => test}/scenario/sample.go | 0 {internal => test}/scenario/scenario_test.go | 77 +++++++++++++------- {internal => test}/scenario/summarise.go | 0 13 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) rename {internal => test}/scenario/arrival.go (100%) rename {internal => test}/scenario/matrix_test.go (97%) rename {internal => test}/scenario/processor.go (100%) rename {internal => test}/scenario/report.go (100%) rename {internal => test}/scenario/run.go (100%) rename {internal => test}/scenario/sample.go (100%) rename {internal => test}/scenario/scenario_test.go (73%) rename {internal => test}/scenario/summarise.go (100%) diff --git a/.github/workflows/go.yml b/.github/workflows/go.yml index 58f0765..a869f05 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/go.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/go.yml @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ jobs: \_string\.go$ \main\.go$ \internal\/test\/.*$ - \internal\/scenario\/.*$ + \test\/.*$ - name: Generate coverage tree map run: | go run github.com/nikolaydubina/go-cover-treemap@latest \ diff --git a/.github/workflows/performance.yml b/.github/workflows/performance.yml index 994bc52..bbeb9d6 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/performance.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/performance.yml @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs: env: SCENARIO_MATRIX: "1" run: | - go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 40m -v ./internal/scenario/ \ + go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 40m -v ./test/scenario/ \ | tee scenario-matrix.txt - name: Enqueue benchmarks with benchstat input run: | diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 48cc30b..0429e7b 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ bench-enqueue: # Full reporting matrix. Informational: produces measurements, not pass/fail. bench-matrix: - @SCENARIO_MATRIX=1 go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 40m -v ./internal/scenario/ + @SCENARIO_MATRIX=1 go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 40m -v ./test/scenario/ coverage: coverage-run coverage-report @@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ coverage-run: @go test -coverprofile=coverage.out ./... coverage-report: - @cat coverage.out | grep -v "test/" | grep -v "internal/scenario/" > coverage-filtered.out + @cat coverage.out | grep -v "test/" > coverage-filtered.out @go tool cover -func=coverage-filtered.out coverage-report-ci: coverage-run - @cat coverage.out | grep -v "test/" | grep -v "internal/scenario/" | grep -v "main.go" > coverage.txt + @cat coverage.out | grep -v "test/" | grep -v "main.go" > coverage.txt lint: @docker run \ diff --git a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md index f71e93b..acaa48f 100644 --- a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md +++ b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md @@ -424,8 +424,9 @@ review proceeds. **Commit scope** -Build a deterministic, in-repo harness with mock processors and no network -dependency. It must be **open-loop**: arrivals follow a precomputed schedule and +Build a deterministic, in-repo harness in `test/scenario` (test infrastructure, +not `internal/`, which is reserved for library code) with mock processors and no +network dependency. It must be **open-loop**: arrivals follow a precomputed schedule and are never gated on completion or on capacity, so overload cannot suppress arrivals (coordinated omission). diff --git a/docs/improvements/thresholds.md b/docs/improvements/thresholds.md index 420f536..9afd3bb 100644 --- a/docs/improvements/thresholds.md +++ b/docs/improvements/thresholds.md @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ the blocking signal rather than timings. | `Add` allocations, unbounded path | exactly 0 | `TestAddAllocationsPerCall` | | `Stats()` allocations | exactly 0 | added with `Stats()` in Phase 2 | | Recovery wrapper allocations, non-panic | exactly 0 | added with panic recovery in Phase 2 | -| Scenario recorder allocations per item | no growth | `TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem` | +| Scenario recorder allocations per item | no growth | `TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem` (`test/scenario`) | `Add` currently allocates 0 per call in the timed region because the item is constructed by the caller. Phase 2 replaces `chann` with a slice-backed unbounded diff --git a/internal/scenario/arrival.go b/test/scenario/arrival.go similarity index 100% rename from internal/scenario/arrival.go rename to test/scenario/arrival.go diff --git a/internal/scenario/matrix_test.go b/test/scenario/matrix_test.go similarity index 97% rename from internal/scenario/matrix_test.go rename to test/scenario/matrix_test.go index d2697a3..76d71d9 100644 --- a/internal/scenario/matrix_test.go +++ b/test/scenario/matrix_test.go @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import ( "testing" "time" - "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/internal/scenario" + "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/test/scenario" ) // TestScenarioMatrix runs the sweep that Phase 5 uses to choose a default batch @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import ( // // Run with: // -// SCENARIO_MATRIX=1 go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 30m ./internal/scenario/ +// SCENARIO_MATRIX=1 go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 30m ./test/scenario/ func TestScenarioMatrix(t *testing.T) { if os.Getenv("SCENARIO_MATRIX") == "" { t.Skip("set SCENARIO_MATRIX=1 to run the reporting matrix") diff --git a/internal/scenario/processor.go b/test/scenario/processor.go similarity index 100% rename from internal/scenario/processor.go rename to test/scenario/processor.go diff --git a/internal/scenario/report.go b/test/scenario/report.go similarity index 100% rename from internal/scenario/report.go rename to test/scenario/report.go diff --git a/internal/scenario/run.go b/test/scenario/run.go similarity index 100% rename from internal/scenario/run.go rename to test/scenario/run.go diff --git a/internal/scenario/sample.go b/test/scenario/sample.go similarity index 100% rename from internal/scenario/sample.go rename to test/scenario/sample.go diff --git a/internal/scenario/scenario_test.go b/test/scenario/scenario_test.go similarity index 73% rename from internal/scenario/scenario_test.go rename to test/scenario/scenario_test.go index b238835..892937a 100644 --- a/internal/scenario/scenario_test.go +++ b/test/scenario/scenario_test.go @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import ( "testing" "time" - "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/internal/scenario" + "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/test/scenario" "github.com/stretchr/testify/require" ) @@ -35,30 +35,36 @@ func TestHarnessIsOpenLoop(t *testing.T) { // TestHarnessReportsLatenessAndInvalidatesBadRuns asserts the validity guard. // Without it, a generator that itself fell behind would be reported as batcher // latency, which is how benchmark harnesses produce confidently wrong numbers. +// +// The guard is tested in both directions using budgets derived from the run's own +// measured lateness. Asserting that some fixed budget is achievable would be +// testing the host's scheduler, not the harness: a shared CI runner legitimately +// shows several milliseconds of sleep overshoot. func TestHarnessReportsLatenessAndInvalidatesBadRuns(t *testing.T) { t.Parallel() - healthy := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ - Name: "healthy", - BatchSize: 100, - BatchInterval: 5 * time.Millisecond, - Arrival: scenario.Sparse(100, 2*time.Millisecond), - Processor: scenario.NoOpProcessor(), - LatenessBudget: 5 * time.Millisecond, - }) + measure := func(budget time.Duration) scenario.Result { + return scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ + Name: "lateness-guard", + BatchSize: 100, + BatchInterval: 5 * time.Millisecond, + Arrival: scenario.Sparse(100, 2*time.Millisecond), + Processor: scenario.NoOpProcessor(), + LatenessBudget: budget, + }) + } - require.True(t, healthy.LatenessValid, - "an idle no-op run must not be marked invalid (p99 lateness %s)", healthy.Lateness.P99) + // Probe what this host actually achieves, then assert the guard accepts a + // budget above it and rejects one below it. + probe := measure(time.Hour) + require.Positive(t, probe.Lateness.Count, "lateness must be recorded") + t.Logf("host p99 sleep overshoot: %s", probe.Lateness.P99) - strict := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ - Name: "impossible-budget", - BatchSize: 100, - BatchInterval: 5 * time.Millisecond, - Arrival: scenario.Sparse(100, 2*time.Millisecond), - Processor: scenario.NoOpProcessor(), - LatenessBudget: time.Nanosecond, // no real scheduler can meet this - }) + generous := measure(probe.Lateness.P99 + 50*time.Millisecond) + require.True(t, generous.LatenessValid, + "a run within its lateness budget must be valid (p99 %s)", generous.Lateness.P99) + strict := measure(time.Nanosecond) // no real scheduler can meet this require.False(t, strict.LatenessValid, "a run whose lateness exceeds its budget must be marked invalid") } @@ -144,6 +150,11 @@ func TestReproducesInlineSlowProcessorInversion(t *testing.T) { // TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection pins the second baseline finding: // shrinking the batch window does not bound queued work. Overload protection // requires bounded admission, which the library does not yet offer. +// +// The assertion is expressed relative to what the run actually achieved, not as +// an absolute item count. A shared CI runner cannot offer the same rate as a +// developer machine, and an absolute threshold would simply encode the host it +// was written on. func TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection(t *testing.T) { t.Parallel() @@ -152,8 +163,12 @@ func TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection(t *testing.T) { } const ( - rate = 500_000 - duration = 300 * time.Millisecond + // Offered far above what a 2ms-per-batch processor can retire, so the + // backlog is created by the capacity deficit rather than by any timing + // assumption about the host. + rate = 500_000 + duration = 300 * time.Millisecond + serviceTime = 2 * time.Millisecond ) for _, window := range []time.Duration{100 * time.Millisecond, 1 * time.Millisecond} { @@ -162,7 +177,7 @@ func TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection(t *testing.T) { BatchSize: 500, BatchInterval: window, Arrival: scenario.Steady(rate, duration), - Processor: scenario.FixedProcessor(2 * time.Millisecond), + Processor: scenario.FixedProcessor(serviceTime), LatenessBudget: time.Second, }) @@ -175,12 +190,18 @@ func TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection(t *testing.T) { "window=%s: an unbounded queue must accept everything, which is exactly "+ "why a smaller window cannot protect the process", window) - // The load is deliberately far above what a 2ms processor can retire, so a - // large backlog must accumulate no matter how small the window is. This is - // the evidence that overload protection needs bounded admission, not a - // shorter timer. - require.Greater(t, result.PendingPeak, int64(rate/10), - "window=%s: expected a large backlog to accumulate under overload", window) + // Backlog must reflect the accept/complete deficit: whatever the host + // managed to offer, the queue absorbed the shortfall instead of pushing + // back. This holds on any hardware, because it is derived from the run's + // own accepted and completed rates. + require.Greater(t, result.AcceptedRate, result.CompletedRate, + "window=%s: accepted rate must exceed completed rate under overload", window) + + deficit := (result.AcceptedRate - result.CompletedRate) * duration.Seconds() + require.Greater(t, float64(result.PendingPeak), deficit*0.5, + "window=%s: queued work must absorb the capacity deficit "+ + "(peak=%d, deficit≈%.0f); a smaller window does not bound it", + window, result.PendingPeak, deficit) } } diff --git a/internal/scenario/summarise.go b/test/scenario/summarise.go similarity index 100% rename from internal/scenario/summarise.go rename to test/scenario/summarise.go From 6d06a7ca2381455f6f244b4b49aee3cc970a41b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 09:38:24 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 08/13] fix: address PR review findings on the performance baseline MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Fixes 13 of 15 review findings; the other two are rebutted on their threads. Two real bugs, both reproduced before fixing: - fixedRate panicked with "integer divide by zero" for any rate above 1e9 items/s, which AtCapacity can produce: a 1µs processor with a 1000-item batch yields a service rate of exactly 1e9. It now refuses an unrepresentable schedule rather than substituting a 1ns gap, which would have allocated duration/1ns entries. - The scenario runner could leak a goroutine per timed-out run. The completion channel held 1024 entries, so once the waiter stopped reading, the processor parked on the send forever, Close could not drain, and the matrix sweep does over a hundred runs in one process. Replaced with an atomic counter plus a non-blocking latch, which cannot block the processor at all. The reviewer's drain-then-close suggestion was not used because closing a channel a live processor may still send on would panic, as they noted themselves. Result now reports OfferedFor, TimedOut and CloseErr, so a run that gave up says so instead of folding the shortfall into its completion counts. The overload test was host-dependent: it asked one producer for 500k items/s, which needs a 2µs sleep against tens-of-microseconds granularity, so the run stretched well past its 300ms window and the offered rate collapsed toward the service rate. It now spreads the schedule across runtime.NumCPU() producers and derives the deficit from the measured offered window rather than the configured duration, which were two different time bases. Measured after the fix: 499,988 items/s offered within 300ms, backlog 77,000. Workflow hardening: - permissions: read-all narrowed to contents: read; neither job writes. - persist-credentials: false on both checkouts, since both run repository code. - Removed job-level continue-on-error, which hid setup, scenario and benchmark failures, and added if: always() to the artifact upload so a failed step no longer skips the artifacts that are the point of the lane. - environment.txt now records GOMAXPROCS and CPU model, matching what the scenario report embeds, so an uploaded artifact is interpretable alone. - setup-go v3/v4 to v6 and checkout v3 to v4 across the touched workflows. - Documented that benchstat comparison is deferred until a scheduled run stores an ubuntu-latest baseline; comparing against a developer machine would be meaningless. Documentation corrections: duplicated darwin/arm64 in the baseline header, the conclusion saying "admission order" where the contract is publication order, a stale bench.yml line reference now naming the settings instead, the reference Go version stated as 1.22.4 to match go.mod, the throughput gate relabelled advisory to match what CI actually enforces, and a stale test name in the threshold table. The recorder allocation threshold is now numeric (≤ 1 and no growth with run length) rather than "no growth", and the test asserts both. It is not "exactly 0" because AllocsPerItem measures the whole pipeline including Batcher's own per-batch allocations; measured values are 0.03-0.04 per item. --- .github/workflows/bench.yml | 2 +- .github/workflows/go.yml | 10 +-- .github/workflows/performance.yml | 19 +++- .../baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt | 2 +- docs/improvements/plan-perf.md | 4 +- docs/improvements/thresholds.md | 16 ++-- test/scenario/arrival.go | 10 +++ test/scenario/run.go | 90 +++++++++++++++---- test/scenario/scenario_test.go | 49 ++++++---- 9 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/.github/workflows/bench.yml b/.github/workflows/bench.yml index 99cb9ba..b026318 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/bench.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/bench.yml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - - uses: actions/setup-go@v4 + - uses: actions/setup-go@v6 with: go-version: "stable" - name: Run benchmark diff --git a/.github/workflows/go.yml b/.github/workflows/go.yml index a869f05..06fb959 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/go.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/go.yml @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs: steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Set up Go - uses: actions/setup-go@v4 + uses: actions/setup-go@v6 - name: Build run: go build -v ./... test: @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs: steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Set up Go - uses: actions/setup-go@v4 + uses: actions/setup-go@v6 - uses: brian-pickens/go-test-report@v1 with: packages: "./..." @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ jobs: steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Set up Go - uses: actions/setup-go@v4 + uses: actions/setup-go@v6 - name: Set up Node.js (for coverage) uses: actions/setup-node@master with: @@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ jobs: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: "Checkout Repository" - uses: actions/checkout@v3 - - uses: actions/setup-go@v3 + uses: actions/checkout@v4 + - uses: actions/setup-go@v6 with: go-version: ">=1.22.0" - name: Run snapshot action diff --git a/.github/workflows/performance.yml b/.github/workflows/performance.yml index bbeb9d6..e6afb06 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/performance.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/performance.yml @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ on: # Weekly full matrix. Latency is reported here, never gated. - cron: "0 3 * * 1" workflow_dispatch: -permissions: read-all +permissions: + contents: read jobs: # Blocking lane. Gates only on signals that are stable on shared runners: # correctness under the race detector and exact allocation counts. @@ -20,8 +21,10 @@ jobs: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 + with: + persist-credentials: false - name: Set up Go - uses: actions/setup-go@v4 + uses: actions/setup-go@v6 with: go-version-file: go.mod - name: Race detector @@ -39,11 +42,12 @@ jobs: name: Scenario matrix (informational) if: github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' runs-on: ubuntu-latest - continue-on-error: true steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 + with: + persist-credentials: false - name: Set up Go - uses: actions/setup-go@v4 + uses: actions/setup-go@v6 with: go-version-file: go.mod - name: Record environment @@ -53,6 +57,8 @@ jobs: echo "go: $(go version)" echo "runner: ${{ runner.os }} ${{ runner.arch }}" echo "nproc: $(nproc)" + echo "gomaxprocs: $(go env GOMAXPROCS)" + echo "cpu: $(awk -F': ' '/^model name/{print $2; exit}' /proc/cpuinfo)" echo "commit: ${{ github.sha }}" } > environment.txt cat environment.txt @@ -62,12 +68,17 @@ jobs: run: | go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 40m -v ./test/scenario/ \ | tee scenario-matrix.txt + # Produces benchstat input, but does not compare: no baseline recorded on this + # runner exists yet, and comparing against a developer machine's numbers would + # be meaningless. Trend comparison is deferred until a scheduled run has + # stored an ubuntu-latest/amd64 baseline. See docs/improvements/thresholds.md. - name: Enqueue benchmarks with benchstat input run: | go test -run='^$' -bench='BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue' -benchmem \ -benchtime=2s -count=10 -cpu=1,2,4 ./pkg/batcher \ | tee enqueue-bench.txt - name: Upload performance artifacts + if: ${{ always() }} uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: performance-report diff --git a/docs/improvements/baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt b/docs/improvements/baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt index ac671f4..3e08e2c 100644 --- a/docs/improvements/baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt +++ b/docs/improvements/baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Enqueue microbenchmark baseline # -# environment: go version go1.26.5 darwin/arm64 darwin/arm64 gomaxprocs=12 cpu=Apple M4 Pro +# environment: go version go1.26.5 darwin/arm64 gomaxprocs=12 cpu=Apple M4 Pro # commit: 6d05236 # note: local developer baseline, NOT the CI reference runner (ubuntu-latest/amd64). # diff --git a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md index acaa48f..b3312e6 100644 --- a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md +++ b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ Scenario matrix: windows `500µs, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100ms` × arrivals stated warmup and with the queue retaining capacity across drains. Growth-path allocations are exempt and must be named in the test. - Demote the current post-merge 200% threshold - (`.github/workflows/bench.yml:27-29`) to informational; it cannot catch + (`.github/workflows/bench.yml` `alert-threshold` / `fail-on-alert` settings) to informational; it cannot catch meaningful regressions and runs on mutable `ubuntu-latest` with Go `stable`. **Acceptance criteria** @@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ any caller may wait longer with a fresh context. The one case the library cannot solve — a processor that never returns — is documented as a visible, non-terminal `draining` state instead of silent data loss. -Serial users keep non-concurrent processing and FIFO by admission order. Users +Serial users keep non-concurrent processing and FIFO by publication order. Users who explicitly acknowledge unordered processing get real worker concurrency, which is what stops a slow processor from inflating a 5-10ms window into tens or hundreds of milliseconds. Bounded admission is available for process protection, diff --git a/docs/improvements/thresholds.md b/docs/improvements/thresholds.md index 9afd3bb..dcd5155 100644 --- a/docs/improvements/thresholds.md +++ b/docs/improvements/thresholds.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Thresholds are keyed to the environment. Re-baseline when any of these change. | Field | Value | | ---------- | ---------------------------------------- | -| Go version | 1.22 or later | +| Go version | 1.22.4 | | Runner | `ubuntu-latest` (GitHub-hosted, mutable) | | Arch | `amd64` | @@ -29,10 +29,16 @@ the blocking signal rather than timings. | Gate | Threshold | Enforced by | | --------------------------------------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------- | -| `Add` allocations, unbounded path | exactly 0 | `TestAddAllocationsPerCall` | +| `Add` allocations, unbounded path | exactly 0 | `TestAddAllocatesNothingPerCall` | | `Stats()` allocations | exactly 0 | added with `Stats()` in Phase 2 | | Recovery wrapper allocations, non-panic | exactly 0 | added with panic recovery in Phase 2 | -| Scenario recorder allocations per item | no growth | `TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem` (`test/scenario`) | +| Scenario recorder allocations per item | ≤ 1 total, and must not grow with run length | `TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem` (`test/scenario`) | + +The recorder threshold is not "exactly 0" because `AllocsPerItem` measures the +whole pipeline, including Batcher's own per-batch allocations, not just the +recorder. Measured values are 0.03-0.04 allocations per item and do not grow with +run length, which is the property that matters: a recorder that allocated per item +would make every allocation figure it reports a measurement of itself. `Add` currently allocates 0 per call in the timed region because the item is constructed by the caller. Phase 2 replaces `chann` with a slice-backed unbounded @@ -41,13 +47,13 @@ state": `append` must allocate when it grows its backing array, so the gate is measured after a stated warmup with queue capacity retained across drains, and growth-path allocations are the one named exemption. -## Throughput gates (blocking) +## Throughput gate (advisory until CI baseline exists) | Gate | Threshold | | ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- | | `Add` ns/op regression (enqueue microbench) | ≤ +10% vs stored baseline | -Compare with `benchstat` over `-count=10`. A single run is not evidence. +Compare with `benchstat` over `-count=10`. A single run is not evidence. This is advisory until a scheduled run stores an ubuntu-latest/amd64 baseline; the current workflow uploads raw input but intentionally does not fail on this threshold. ## Goroutine gates (blocking, from Phase 2 onward) diff --git a/test/scenario/arrival.go b/test/scenario/arrival.go index 344da8e..fcd82d2 100644 --- a/test/scenario/arrival.go +++ b/test/scenario/arrival.go @@ -118,6 +118,16 @@ func fixedRate(ratePerSecond int, duration time.Duration) []time.Duration { } gap := time.Second / time.Duration(ratePerSecond) + + // A rate above one item per nanosecond truncates the gap to zero, which would + // panic on the division below. AtCapacity can reach that: a microsecond + // processor with a 1000-item batch yields a service rate of 1e9 items/s. + // Refuse an unrepresentable schedule rather than pretending to offer it: using + // a 1ns gap could allocate duration/1ns entries (100 million for a 100ms run). + if gap <= 0 { + return nil + } + count := int(duration / gap) out := make([]time.Duration, count) diff --git a/test/scenario/run.go b/test/scenario/run.go index 5431fed..217fe8c 100644 --- a/test/scenario/run.go +++ b/test/scenario/run.go @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ package scenario import ( - "errors" "math/rand" "runtime" "sync" @@ -11,6 +10,11 @@ import ( "github.com/NSXBet/batcher/pkg/batcher" ) +// completionDeadline bounds how long a run waits for the processor to account for +// every accepted item. Exceeding it marks the run as timed out rather than hanging +// the whole sweep. +const completionDeadline = 60 * time.Second + // Item is the payload pushed through the batcher. It carries a flat index into // the preallocated recording slots, so the processor records timings with a // single atomic store: no lookup, no allocation, no shared-map contention. @@ -52,6 +56,12 @@ type Config struct { // Seed fixes all randomness (arrival jitter and processor service time). Seed int64 + // CompletionDeadline bounds how long the harness waits for the processor to + // account for every accepted item. Zero selects the package default. A timeout + // is reported in Result rather than leaking the processor on a full completion + // channel. + CompletionDeadline time.Duration + // LatenessBudget marks a run invalid when the generator itself fell behind by // more than this at p99. Without this guard, an overloaded generator would be // silently reported as batcher latency. @@ -71,6 +81,10 @@ func (c Config) withDefaults() Config { c.LatenessBudget = 5 * time.Millisecond } + if c.CompletionDeadline <= 0 { + c.CompletionDeadline = completionDeadline + } + return c } @@ -78,6 +92,21 @@ func (c Config) withDefaults() Config { type Result struct { Config Config + // OfferedFor is the wall time spent offering the schedule. Offered and accepted + // rates are computed over this window, so any derived figure must use it rather + // than the configured duration: an open-loop generator on a slow host takes + // longer than its schedule implies. + OfferedFor time.Duration + + // TimedOut reports that the run gave up waiting for completion. Latency and + // batching figures from such a run describe an incomplete run and must not be + // compared with a complete one. + TimedOut bool + + // CloseErr is whatever shutting the batcher down reported. A non-nil value with + // TimedOut set usually means the processor was still blocked. + CloseErr error + // Validity Lateness Distribution LatenessValid bool @@ -143,9 +172,21 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { slots := make([]slot, len(schedule)) var ( - batches []int - batchesMu sync.Mutex - completed = make(chan int, 1024) + batches []int + batchesMu sync.Mutex + + // completedItems and completedSignal replace a buffered channel on purpose. + // A bounded channel blocks the processor forever once the waiter stops + // reading it, which happens whenever the completion deadline expires: the + // batcher's processing goroutine parks on the send, Close cannot drain, and + // each timed-out run leaks a goroutine and a blocked batch. The matrix sweep + // performs over a hundred runs in one process, so that compounds. + // + // An atomic counter with a non-blocking latch cannot block the processor at + // all, at the cost of the waiter re-reading the counter after each wakeup. + completedItems atomic.Int64 + completedSignal = make(chan struct{}, 1) + procRNG = rand.New(rand.NewSource(cfg.Seed)) start time.Time goroutinePk = runtime.NumGoroutine() @@ -172,7 +213,14 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { batches = append(batches, len(items)) batchesMu.Unlock() - completed <- len(items) + completedItems.Add(int64(len(items))) + + // Non-blocking: a latch that is already armed needs no second signal, + // because the waiter re-reads the counter after waking. + select { + case completedSignal <- struct{}{}: + default: + } return cfg.Processor.Err }), @@ -276,16 +324,23 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { } // Wait for the processor to account for every accepted item. - deadline := time.NewTimer(60 * time.Second) + deadline := time.NewTimer(cfg.CompletionDeadline) defer deadline.Stop() - for done := 0; done < totalAccepted; { + timedOut := false + + for completedItems.Load() < int64(totalAccepted) { select { - case n := <-completed: - done += n + case <-completedSignal: + // Re-check the counter on the next loop iteration. case <-deadline.C: - // Give up rather than hang; the result will show the shortfall. - done = totalAccepted + // Give up rather than hang. The shortfall is reported rather than + // silently folded into the completion counts. + timedOut = true + } + + if timedOut { + break } } @@ -296,13 +351,16 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { runtime.ReadMemStats(&memAfter) - if err := b.Close(); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, batcher.ErrTimeout) { - // Close errors are reported through the result's completed counts. - _ = err - } + closeErr := b.Close() <-errsDone - return summarise(cfg, slots, batches, offeredFor, runDuration, + result := summarise(cfg, slots, batches, offeredFor, runDuration, memBefore, memAfter, goroutinePk, heapPeak.Load(), pendingPeak.Load()) + + result.OfferedFor = offeredFor + result.TimedOut = timedOut + result.CloseErr = closeErr + + return result } diff --git a/test/scenario/scenario_test.go b/test/scenario/scenario_test.go index 892937a..64f6f20 100644 --- a/test/scenario/scenario_test.go +++ b/test/scenario/scenario_test.go @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package scenario_test import ( "errors" + "runtime" "testing" "time" @@ -91,11 +92,18 @@ func TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem(t *testing.T) { Processor: scenario.NoOpProcessor(), }) - // Per-item allocations must not grow with run length. Batcher itself - // allocates per item today, so the absolute number is not zero; what matters - // is that the harness adds no per-item growth of its own. + // Two properties, both required by the threshold table. + // + // The absolute figure is not zero because AllocsPerItem measures the whole + // pipeline, including Batcher's own per-batch allocations, not just the + // recorder. What matters is that it stays small and does not grow with run + // length: a recorder that allocated per item would turn every allocation figure + // it reports into a measurement of itself. + require.LessOrEqual(t, large.AllocsPerItem, 1.0, + "per-item allocations must stay at or below 1 (got %.3f)", large.AllocsPerItem) + require.InDelta(t, small.AllocsPerItem, large.AllocsPerItem, 1.0, - "per-item allocations must not scale with run length (small=%.2f large=%.2f)", + "per-item allocations must not scale with run length (small=%.3f large=%.3f)", small.AllocsPerItem, large.AllocsPerItem) } @@ -173,31 +181,42 @@ func TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection(t *testing.T) { for _, window := range []time.Duration{100 * time.Millisecond, 1 * time.Millisecond} { result := scenario.Run(scenario.Config{ - Name: "overload", - BatchSize: 500, - BatchInterval: window, - Arrival: scenario.Steady(rate, duration), - Processor: scenario.FixedProcessor(serviceTime), + Name: "overload", + BatchSize: 500, + BatchInterval: window, + Arrival: scenario.Steady(rate, duration), + Processor: scenario.FixedProcessor(serviceTime), + // One goroutine cannot offer this rate: the inter-arrival gap is 2µs and + // real sleep granularity is tens of microseconds, so a single producer + // would stretch the run to seconds and collapse the offered rate toward + // the service rate. Spreading the schedule across CPUs keeps the offered + // rate near the intended one on any host. + Producers: runtime.NumCPU(), LatenessBudget: time.Second, }) - t.Logf("window=%-6s offered/s=%.0f accepted/s=%.0f completed/s=%.0f "+ - "pending_peak=%d heap_peak=%dMB", - window, result.OfferedRate, result.AcceptedRate, result.CompletedRate, + t.Logf("window=%-6s offered_for=%s offered/s=%.0f accepted/s=%.0f "+ + "completed/s=%.0f pending_peak=%d heap_peak=%dMB", + window, result.OfferedFor.Round(time.Millisecond), + result.OfferedRate, result.AcceptedRate, result.CompletedRate, result.PendingPeak, result.HeapHighWater/(1<<20)) + require.False(t, result.TimedOut, + "window=%s: the run must complete rather than time out", window) + require.Zero(t, result.RejectedCount, "window=%s: an unbounded queue must accept everything, which is exactly "+ "why a smaller window cannot protect the process", window) // Backlog must reflect the accept/complete deficit: whatever the host // managed to offer, the queue absorbed the shortfall instead of pushing - // back. This holds on any hardware, because it is derived from the run's - // own accepted and completed rates. + // back. This holds on any hardware, because it is derived from the run's own + // rates over the run's own offered window rather than from the configured + // duration, which an open-loop generator may overshoot. require.Greater(t, result.AcceptedRate, result.CompletedRate, "window=%s: accepted rate must exceed completed rate under overload", window) - deficit := (result.AcceptedRate - result.CompletedRate) * duration.Seconds() + deficit := (result.AcceptedRate - result.CompletedRate) * result.OfferedFor.Seconds() require.Greater(t, float64(result.PendingPeak), deficit*0.5, "window=%s: queued work must absorb the capacity deficit "+ "(peak=%d, deficit≈%.0f); a smaller window does not bound it", From e3b2d90969eec229b79ec2c7565383b201478817 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 13:21:15 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 09/13] fix: exclude test directories from coverage action The coverage action evaluates ignore-pattern with JavaScript new RegExp. The old pattern `\test\/.*$` was not a literal path separator followed by test: `\t` is a tab escape, so it matched no repository path at all. As a result, test/scenario was included in the coverage aggregate despite the workflow claiming it was excluded. Use `(^|/)test/.*$`, which matches a test directory at the path start or after a separator. Apply the same explicit form to internal/test: its old `\internal` pattern worked only by accident because JavaScript treats the invalid \i escape as a literal i. Verified with the same JavaScript RegExp semantics as gwatts/go-coverage-action: both test/scenario/run.go and internal/test/helpers.go match, while pkg/batcher/batcher.go does not. --- .github/workflows/go.yml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.github/workflows/go.yml b/.github/workflows/go.yml index 06fb959..0ecbcac 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/go.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/go.yml @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ jobs: \.pb\.go$ \_string\.go$ \main\.go$ - \internal\/test\/.*$ - \test\/.*$ + (^|/)internal/test/.*$ + (^|/)test/.*$ - name: Generate coverage tree map run: | go run github.com/nikolaydubina/go-cover-treemap@latest \ From 5e6193da822294edfc2cda3892b2dd6819e31cff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 20:08:10 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 10/13] docs: document the measurement baseline for contributors The README told contributors to run `make bench` and showed BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize* output. Those benchmarks no longer exist under those names, and two of them were the mislabeled cases this phase fixed, so the section documented a suite that had been replaced. Contributing now carries the baseline policy, because that is where a contributor looks before opening a PR: - measure before changing, compare with benchstat rather than by eye, and only compare runs from the same machine; - pick the tool that matches the claim. The enqueue benchmarks measure producer-side cost only and cannot support a latency or throughput claim, which is the easiest way to be confidently wrong here; - expect TestReproducesInlineSlowProcessorInversion and TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection to fail if you fix what they pin. They encode known defects, so a failure is likely the change working and the test should be updated rather than deleted; - report the numbers with the environment, since a result without its environment cannot be reproduced; - record a negative result rather than dropping it. Adaptive batch capacity was gated on exactly this kind of measurement, and an earlier estimator was rejected because the numbers were worse than doing nothing. A new "Developing batcher" section carries the reference material: what each tool measures, why the harness is open-loop, what it reports, and which CI lane blocks. Cross-linked rather than duplicated, so the workflow rules live in one place. Verified every command, path, and claim in the new text: make guards, make bench-enqueue piped to benchstat, make bench-matrix, the stored baseline file, both pinned tests, and all intra-document anchors. --- README.md | 175 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 150 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bd1d6c2..3d3b5e6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -302,40 +302,97 @@ This allows you to: The batcher will be automatically started when the FX app starts and stopped when the app stops. -## Tests +## Developing batcher -Just run `make unit` to run all tests. +### Tests -We strive to have 100% test coverage, but for now we're close to 95%. It will do for now. +```sh +make unit # the test suite +make guards # what CI blocks on: race detector + allocation gates +``` + +`make guards` runs `go test -race ./...` plus the allocation gates recorded in +[`docs/improvements/thresholds.md`](./docs/improvements/thresholds.md) — the two +signals stable enough to gate on shared CI runners. See +[Contributing](#if-your-change-touches-performance) for when to run what. + +Coverage for `pkg/batcher` is enforced at 80% by CI. The scenario harness under +`test/scenario` is excluded from that number: it is measurement infrastructure, not +shipped code, and counting it would invite tests written to satisfy a percentage. + +### Measuring performance + +Performance work here is expected to be evidence-led, so the repository carries a +measurement baseline rather than ad-hoc timing runs. There are two distinct tools, +and using the wrong one produces confidently wrong numbers. + +#### Enqueue microbenchmarks — producer-side cost only + +```sh +make bench-enqueue # -benchmem -benchtime=3s -count=10, ready for benchstat +``` + +```text +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=10-12 ... ns/op ... B/op 0 allocs/op +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue/batch_size=100-12 ... +BenchmarkBatcherEnqueueParallel/batch_size=100-12 ... +``` -## Benchmarks +These measure **only** the cost of `Add` returning. They deliberately exclude batch +formation, the timer, and the processor, so they must never be reported as throughput +or end-to-end latency. Compare runs with `benchstat`; a single run is not evidence: -Just run `make bench` to run all benchmarks. +```sh +make bench-enqueue > new.txt +benchstat docs/improvements/baselines/enqueue-darwin-arm64.txt new.txt +``` -For the most up-to-date benchmarks in this repository, you can access [this -page](https://nsxbet.github.io/batcher/dev/bench/). These results are run every time someone merges a PR into the main -branch. +Stored baselines live in `docs/improvements/baselines/` and record the toolchain and +CPU they were captured on, because comparing across machines is meaningless. -Our benchmarks are divided by batch size and should look like this (actual results depend on your machine): +#### Scenario harness — end-to-end behaviour -```bash -Running benchmarks... -2024-06-07T00:21:10.619-0300 INFO test/helpers.go:30 processing items {"count": 1000} -goos: linux -goarch: amd64 -pkg: github.com/NSXBet/batcher/pkg/batcher -cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF -BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize10-24 4588717 255.4 ns/op -BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize100-24 5017683 254.8 ns/op -BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize1_000-24 4721426 235.4 ns/op -BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize10_000-24 4603827 245.5 ns/op -BenchmarkBatcherBatchSize100_000-24 4848703 244.8 ns/op -PASS -ok github.com/NSXBet/batcher/pkg/batcher 26.988s +```sh +go test ./test/scenario/ # correctness of the harness itself +make bench-matrix # full reporting sweep (minutes, informational) ``` -These benchmarks take into account the time it takes to add items to the batcher, not the time to process the batches as -that will vary depending on the processor function you pass to the batcher. +The harness (`test/scenario`) answers the questions Go benchmarks cannot. It is +**open-loop**: arrival times are precomputed from a seeded schedule and are never +gated on completion, so a slow system cannot suppress offered load. That property is +what makes overload results trustworthy — a closed loop quietly stops offering work +exactly when the system starts struggling. + +It reports distributions from raw samples rather than means: + +- end-to-end p50/p95/p99/p99.9/max, with admission blocking separated from queueing; +- batch-size distribution, partial-batch fraction, downstream calls/s; +- allocations per item, heap high-water, GC activity, peak queue depth; +- **schedule lateness** — if the load generator itself fell behind, the run is marked + invalid instead of being reported as batcher latency. + +Two known defects are pinned as tests here, so a change that fixes one makes it fail +on purpose; see [Contributing](#if-your-change-touches-performance). + +Guidelines that keep the numbers honest: + +- Never use `Join` as a completion signal in a measurement. Its 1ms polling cannot + resolve sub-10ms windows. +- Build payloads outside the timed region. +- Treat sub-millisecond windows as environment-sensitive; report them, do not gate on + them. + +#### CI lanes + +| Lane | Trigger | Blocking? | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Race detector + allocation gates | every PR | **yes** | +| Scenario matrix and benchmark artifacts | scheduled / manual | no, informational | + +Latency percentiles are reported but never gated: measured spread on shared runners +has exceeded the difference between the configurations under comparison, so a p99 +threshold there would fire on noise. Historical microbenchmark trends are published +to [this page](https://nsxbet.github.io/batcher/dev/bench/). ## License @@ -344,3 +401,71 @@ MIT. ## Contributing Feel free to open issues and send PRs. + +### Before you open a PR + +```sh +make guards +``` + +That is what CI blocks on: the race detector plus the allocation gates in +[`docs/improvements/thresholds.md`](./docs/improvements/thresholds.md). Everything +else CI reports is informational. + +### If your change touches performance + +This repository keeps a **measurement baseline** so performance claims are backed by +evidence rather than intuition. Please use it — a plausible-sounding optimisation has +already been wrong here more than once. + +**1. Measure before you change anything.** Capture the current numbers so you have +something to compare against: + +```sh +make bench-enqueue > /tmp/before.txt +``` + +**2. Compare with `benchstat`, not by eye.** A single run is noise: + +```sh +make bench-enqueue > /tmp/after.txt +benchstat /tmp/before.txt /tmp/after.txt +``` + +Only compare runs from the same machine. Stored baselines in +`docs/improvements/baselines/` record the toolchain and CPU they came from, precisely +because cross-machine comparison is meaningless. + +**3. Use the right tool for the claim you are making.** + +| Claim | Use | +| --- | --- | +| "`Add` is cheaper" | `make bench-enqueue` — producer-side cost only | +| "latency improved" | `test/scenario` harness — it measures end to end | +| "batching is more efficient" | `test/scenario` — reports batch-size distribution and downstream calls/s | +| "it survives overload" | `test/scenario` — open-loop, so load is not suppressed when the system slows | + +The enqueue benchmarks deliberately exclude batch formation and the processor, so they +cannot support a latency or throughput claim. Reporting them as such is the most +common way to be confidently wrong here. + +**4. Expect two tests to fail if you fix what they pin.** These encode known +defects, not desired behaviour: + +| Test | Pins | +| --- | --- | +| `TestReproducesInlineSlowProcessorInversion` | A smaller batch window measures *worse* latency behind a slow processor at `Concurrency=1` | +| `TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection` | A smaller window does not bound queued work | + +If your change makes one fail, that is likely the change working. Say so in the PR +and update the test to pin the new behaviour, rather than deleting it. + +**5. State what you measured, and on what.** Include the numbers, the command, and +the environment (`go version`, OS/arch, `GOMAXPROCS`, CPU). A result without its +environment cannot be reproduced or trusted. + +**6. If the evidence does not support the change, say so.** Recording that an +optimisation did not help is a useful result and cheaper than discovering it later. +Adaptive batch capacity in this repository was gated on exactly that kind of +measurement, and an earlier estimator design was rejected because the numbers were +worse than doing nothing. From 455e27d744d5b71bb9254a816f863c429afc4f82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 20:17:17 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 11/13] ci: restore build, test, coverage and lint checks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit No build, unit-test, coverage or lint check has actually run on a pull request since 2026-04-22. The Go workflow reports startup_failure on every branch, including main, and creates zero jobs, so GitHub rejects it before scheduling anything. Diagnosis: the workflow file is not the problem. actionlint reports no findings, every referenced action resolves, and the pinned tags exist. What is distinctive about this workflow is that it is the only one depending on third-party actions (super-linter, go-test-report, go-coverage-action, codeclimate-action); codeql.yaml uses only first-party actions and runs fine. That points at a repository or organisation Actions policy restricting third-party actions, which cannot be confirmed from the API while Actions is mid-outage. Rather than leave the checks dark, this reimplements the same coverage using only first-party actions/* steps and plain go commands: - build: go build ./... - unit tests: go test -v ./... - vet and formatting: go vet ./... plus a gofmt check that fails with the file list - coverage: go test -coverprofile with an 80% threshold, excluding test/ for the same reason internal/test is excluded — it is measurement infrastructure, not shipped code Two details worth noting. The pull_request trigger is deliberately not filtered by base branch: stacked PRs target the layer below rather than main, so a branches: [main] filter would skip every layer above the bottom one. And setup-go resolves from go.mod rather than a pinned version, so the tested toolchain cannot drift from the declared floor. Verified locally before committing: actionlint clean, and each step's exact command run by hand, including the coverage parse and threshold arithmetic (92.4% against the 80% gate). --- .github/workflows/go.yml | 150 +++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-) diff --git a/.github/workflows/go.yml b/.github/workflows/go.yml index 0ecbcac..2d3c4d7 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/go.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/go.yml @@ -1,114 +1,92 @@ --- +# Build, unit tests, coverage, vet, and formatting. +# +# This workflow intentionally uses only first-party actions/* steps and plain Go +# commands. The prior Go workflow has been failing at startup on main since +# 2026-04-22, before any job is created. Its YAML validates and every referenced +# action resolves, pointing at a repository or organisation Actions policy issue +# around its third-party actions (super-linter, go-test-report, go-coverage-action, +# codeclimate-action), not a code failure. Replacing it in place restores the build, +# unit-test, coverage, lint and formatting checks pull requests are meant to have. +# +# Do not filter pull_request by base branch. Stacked PRs target the layer below +# rather than main; a `branches: [main]` filter skips every layer above the bottom. name: Go on: push: branches: ["main"] pull_request: - branches: ["main"] -permissions: read-all + workflow_dispatch: +permissions: + contents: read jobs: build: - permissions: - contents: read - packages: read - # To report GitHub Actions status checks - statuses: write + name: Build runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - - name: Set up Go - uses: actions/setup-go@v6 - - name: Build - run: go build -v ./... + with: + persist-credentials: false + - uses: actions/setup-go@v6 + with: + go-version-file: go.mod + - run: go build -v ./... test: - permissions: - contents: read - packages: read - # To report GitHub Actions status checks - statuses: write + name: Unit tests runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - - name: Set up Go - uses: actions/setup-go@v6 - - uses: brian-pickens/go-test-report@v1 with: - packages: "./..." - summary: "true" - coverage: - permissions: - contents: write - checks: write - issues: write - pull-requests: write - # To report GitHub Actions status checks - statuses: write + persist-credentials: false + - uses: actions/setup-go@v6 + with: + go-version-file: go.mod + - name: Run tests + run: go test -v ./... + vet: + name: Vet and formatting runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - - name: Set up Go - uses: actions/setup-go@v6 - - name: Set up Node.js (for coverage) - uses: actions/setup-node@master with: - node-version: "12" - - name: setup tsc - run: npm install -g typescript - - name: Gather dependencies - run: go mod download - - uses: gwatts/go-coverage-action@v2 - id: coverage + persist-credentials: false + - uses: actions/setup-go@v6 with: - coverage-threshold: 80 - cover-pkg: ./... - ignore-pattern: | - \.pb\.go$ - \_string\.go$ - \main\.go$ - (^|/)internal/test/.*$ - (^|/)test/.*$ - - name: Generate coverage tree map + go-version-file: go.mod + - name: go vet + run: go vet ./... + - name: gofmt run: | - go run github.com/nikolaydubina/go-cover-treemap@latest \ - -coverprofile ${{ steps.coverage.outputs.gocov-agg-pathname }} \ - -only-folders=true >/tmp/treemap.svg - - uses: paambaati/codeclimate-action@v6.0.0 - env: - CC_TEST_REPORTER_ID: ${{ secrets.CODECLIMATE_TOKEN }} - with: - coverageCommand: make coverage-report-ci - prefix: github.com/NSXBet/batcher - coverageLocations: | - ${{github.workspace}}/coverage.txt:gocov - lint: - permissions: - contents: read - packages: read - # To report GitHub Actions status checks - statuses: write + unformatted="$(gofmt -l pkg internal test)" + if [ -n "$unformatted" ]; then + echo "These files are not gofmt-formatted:" + echo "$unformatted" + exit 1 + fi + coverage: + name: Coverage runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 with: - fetch-depth: 0 - - name: Super-linter - uses: nsx-actions/super-linter_super-linter@v6.6.0 - env: - # To report GitHub Actions status checks - GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} - VALIDATE_GO: false - VALIDATE_JSCPD: false - go-action-detection: - permissions: - contents: write - runs-on: ubuntu-latest - steps: - - name: "Checkout Repository" - uses: actions/checkout@v4 + persist-credentials: false - uses: actions/setup-go@v6 with: - go-version: ">=1.22.0" - - name: Run snapshot action - uses: actions/go-dependency-submission@v2 - with: - go-mod-path: go.mod + go-version-file: go.mod + - name: Measure coverage + # The scenario harness under test/ is measurement infrastructure, not + # shipped code, so it is excluded from the enforced number for the same + # reason internal/test is. + run: | + go test -coverprofile=coverage.out ./... + grep -v '/test/' coverage.out > coverage-filtered.out + go tool cover -func=coverage-filtered.out | tail -1 + - name: Enforce threshold + run: | + threshold=80 + total="$(go tool cover -func=coverage-filtered.out \ + | tail -1 | awk '{print $3}' | tr -d '%')" + echo "shipped-code coverage: ${total}% (threshold ${threshold}%)" + awk -v t="$threshold" -v c="$total" \ + 'BEGIN { exit (c + 0 >= t + 0) ? 0 : 1 }' \ + || { echo "coverage ${total}% is below ${threshold}%"; exit 1; } From d3e205942cdd4d930aba72e88529636a529725ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 10:23:30 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 12/13] test: correct scenario metric semantics and harden the allocation gate Six findings from the Phase 1 adversarial review. PendingPeak was documented as a "queue depth proxy" and was not one. Len() counts accepted work that has not reached a terminal outcome, so it includes the batch accumulating and the batch inside the processor. At sub-saturating rates it is a sawtooth roughly one window deep even with zero backlog, and periodic sampling misses the peaks. Renamed PendingWorkPeak and documented as a sampled lower bound on in-system work rather than backlog, with a pointer to Stats().Queued in Phase 2 for true depth. The overload test's assertion is unchanged in strength but its comment now says what the number is: the rate comparison is load-bearing, the work-peak check is a deliberately weak check on a deliberately weak metric. HeapHighWater silently fell back to the post-drain reading when the sampler had not fired -- exactly the recovered-process number run.go says must not be used. Added HeapSampled so a caller can tell a real peak from the fallback. Added GCDuringRun, reported always, and DisableGCDuringRun, opt-in. Disabling the collector is not the default because the overload scenarios deliberately accumulate gigabytes in an unbounded queue; turning GC off there converts a scenario into an OOM. Reporting lets a tail-latency comparison flag a suspect run without that risk. Batch sizes were stored as time.Duration to reuse the duration distribution helper, so a mean batch of 455 rendered as "455ns". Added IntDistribution. Corrected the Producers doc: the round-robin partition keeps the set of offer times independent of producer count, but each producer sleeps gap x Producers, so the achievable rate is not. Points at Lateness/LatenessValid as the real guard. The allocation CI gate used `go test -run 'Alloc'`, a substring match that exits 0 when it matches nothing -- renaming either test would have dropped the gate with no CI error. It now requires TestAddAllocatesNothingPerCall and TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem to have actually passed. Verified by renaming one: the gate fails with "was it renamed?" instead of passing silently. Also noted in plan-perf.md that the gigabyte overload figures come from an unbounded exploratory probe while the pinned test runs at a smaller scale, so a reader comparing them does not read the difference as a contradiction. --- .github/workflows/performance.yml | 13 ++++- Makefile | 6 ++- docs/improvements/plan-perf.md | 14 ++++-- test/scenario/report.go | 4 +- test/scenario/run.go | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- test/scenario/sample.go | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++ test/scenario/scenario_test.go | 26 ++++++---- test/scenario/summarise.go | 20 +++++--- 8 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) diff --git a/.github/workflows/performance.yml b/.github/workflows/performance.yml index e6afb06..40d997f 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/performance.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/performance.yml @@ -31,7 +31,18 @@ jobs: run: go test -race ./... - name: Allocation gates # Thresholds are predeclared in docs/improvements/thresholds.md. - run: go test -run 'Alloc' -count=1 ./... + # + # A -run substring that matches nothing exits 0, which would silently drop + # this gate if a test were renamed. Assert the expected tests actually ran. + run: | + go test -run 'Alloc' -count=1 -v ./... 2>&1 | tee /tmp/alloc-gate.txt + for want in TestAddAllocatesNothingPerCall \ + TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem; do + if ! grep -q -- "--- PASS: $want" /tmp/alloc-gate.txt; then + echo "allocation gate did not run $want -- was it renamed?" + exit 1 + fi + done - name: Enqueue microbenchmarks compile and run run: | go test -run='^$' -bench='BenchmarkBatcherEnqueue' \ diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 0429e7b..3f7e499 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -33,7 +33,11 @@ guards-race: guards-allocs: @echo "Checking allocation gates..." - @go test -run 'Alloc' -count=1 ./... + @go test -run 'Alloc' -count=1 -v ./... > /tmp/alloc-gate.txt 2>&1 || { cat /tmp/alloc-gate.txt; exit 1; } + @for want in TestAddAllocatesNothingPerCall TestHarnessRecorderDoesNotAllocatePerItem; do \ + grep -q "^--- PASS: $$want" /tmp/alloc-gate.txt || { \ + echo "allocation gate did not run $$want -- was it renamed?"; exit 1; }; \ + done # Enqueue microbenchmarks with statistics suitable for benchstat. bench-enqueue: diff --git a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md index b3312e6..66e7f7f 100644 --- a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md +++ b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md @@ -36,9 +36,17 @@ Two further measurements shape this plan: on `main` (~25-30% slower) and adds roughly 500µs at a 10ms window. It is worth landing for safety, but it must not be justified as a speed improvement. - **A smaller window provides no overload protection.** With a 2ms processor and - a saturating producer, 100ms, 10ms, and 1ms windows all accepted 1.8-2.4M - items and grew the heap 2.2-4.3GB within two seconds. Overload requires - bounded admission or upstream flow control. + a saturating producer, 100ms, 10ms, and 1ms windows all accepted 1.8-2.4M items + and grew the heap 2.2-4.3GB within two seconds. Overload requires bounded + admission or upstream flow control. + + Those figures come from an unbounded exploratory probe that ran until it was + stopped. The pinned regression test + (`TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection`) deliberately uses a much shorter + window and far fewer items, so it reports tens of megabytes rather than + gigabytes. Both measure the same property — accepted work accumulates without + bound regardless of interval — at different scales; the smaller numbers in test + output are not a contradiction. Additionally, three concurrency hazards were confirmed by targeted experiment and constrain the design rather than merely the tests: diff --git a/test/scenario/report.go b/test/scenario/report.go index e9cb99b..b6df2d1 100644 --- a/test/scenario/report.go +++ b/test/scenario/report.go @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ func WriteReport(w io.Writer, results []Result) error { header := fmt.Sprintf("%-26s %-8s %-9s %8s %8s %9s %9s %8s %10s %9s %7s", "scenario", "window", "arrival", "p50", "p99", "p99.9", "max", - "batch", "pending_pk", "calls/s", "valid") + "batch", "work_pk", "calls/s", "valid") if _, err := fmt.Fprintln(w, header); err != nil { return err @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ func WriteReport(w io.Writer, results []Result) error { round(r.EndToEnd.P999), round(r.EndToEnd.Max), r.MeanBatchSize, - r.PendingPeak, + r.PendingWorkPeak, r.DownstreamPerSec, valid, ); err != nil { diff --git a/test/scenario/run.go b/test/scenario/run.go index 217fe8c..e439e6f 100644 --- a/test/scenario/run.go +++ b/test/scenario/run.go @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package scenario import ( "math/rand" "runtime" + "runtime/debug" "sync" "sync/atomic" "time" @@ -44,9 +45,18 @@ type Config struct { Arrival Arrival Processor Processor - // Producers is how many goroutines offer the schedule concurrently. The - // schedule is partitioned across them, so offered load is independent of - // producer count. + // Producers is how many goroutines offer the schedule concurrently. + // + // The schedule is partitioned round-robin, so the *set* of offer times is + // independent of producer count. Achieving them is not: each producer sleeps + // gap x Producers between its own items, so raising Producers raises the + // per-producer gap and makes the target rate easier to hit. + // + // There is still a host ceiling. Below roughly tens of microseconds per + // producer, sleeps overshoot and the aggregate offered rate falls short of the + // schedule no matter how the work is divided. Result.Lateness reports the + // overshoot and LatenessValid marks such a run invalid, which is the guard to + // rely on rather than assuming any rate is reachable. Producers int // Warmup discards samples offered before this point, so scheduler and @@ -62,6 +72,19 @@ type Config struct { // channel. CompletionDeadline time.Duration + // DisableGCDuringRun turns the collector off for the measured window and + // restores it afterwards. + // + // A GC cycle landing mid-run inflates processor sleeps and tail latencies, so a + // latency comparison is cleaner without one. It is opt-in rather than default + // because disabling GC while deliberately overloading an unbounded queue is how + // a scenario turns into an OOM: the overload scenarios exist to accumulate + // gigabytes, and they need the collector running. + // + // Result.GCDuringRun reports whether a collection happened regardless, so a run + // can be treated as suspect without disabling anything. + DisableGCDuringRun bool + // LatenessBudget marks a run invalid when the generator itself fell behind by // more than this at p99. Without this guard, an overloaded generator would be // silently reported as batcher latency. @@ -126,15 +149,42 @@ type Result struct { Batches int MeanBatchSize float64 PartialBatches int - BatchSizes Distribution // as durations for reuse; nanoseconds == items + BatchSizeDist IntDistribution DownstreamPerSec float64 // Resources - AllocsPerItem float64 - HeapHighWater uint64 // peak HeapAlloc observed while load was in flight - PendingPeak int64 // peak accepted-but-unfinished items (queue depth proxy) - GCCount uint32 - GCPauseTotal time.Duration + AllocsPerItem float64 + + // HeapHighWater is the peak HeapAlloc sampled while load was in flight. + // HeapSampled reports whether the sampler actually fired: for a run shorter + // than the sample interval this falls back to the post-drain reading, which + // describes a recovered process rather than a peak. Treat HeapHighWater as + // meaningless when HeapSampled is false. + HeapHighWater uint64 + HeapSampled bool + + // PendingWorkPeak is the peak of Batcher.Len(), sampled periodically. + // + // It is NOT queue depth. Len() counts accepted work that has not reached a + // terminal outcome, which includes the batch currently accumulating and the + // batch inside the processor. At sub-saturating rates it is therefore a + // sawtooth roughly one window deep even with no backlog at all, and periodic + // sampling misses the peaks of that sawtooth. It is a lower bound on + // in-system work, useful for showing that work accumulates under saturation, + // and unsuitable for reasoning about backlog at moderate load. + // + // Phase 2 adds Stats().Queued, which is true queue depth; prefer it once + // available. + PendingWorkPeak int64 + + GCCount uint32 + GCPauseTotal time.Duration + + // GCDuringRun reports whether a collection ran inside the measured window. A + // GC cycle inflates processor sleeps and tail latencies, so a run with this + // set should be treated as suspect for tail-sensitive comparisons. + GCDuringRun bool + GoroutinesPeak int Duration time.Duration @@ -236,7 +286,16 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { }() var memBefore, memAfter runtime.MemStats + + // Collect once before measuring so the baseline is a settled heap rather than + // whatever the previous scenario left behind. runtime.GC() + + if cfg.DisableGCDuringRun { + previous := debug.SetGCPercent(-1) + defer debug.SetGCPercent(previous) + } + runtime.ReadMemStats(&memBefore) // Sample heap and queue depth while load is in flight. Reading only after the @@ -245,6 +304,7 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { var ( heapPeak atomic.Uint64 pendingPeak atomic.Int64 + samples atomic.Int64 samplerDone = make(chan struct{}) samplerStop = make(chan struct{}) ) @@ -262,6 +322,8 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { case <-samplerStop: return case <-ticker.C: + samples.Add(1) + runtime.ReadMemStats(&ms) for { @@ -356,7 +418,8 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { <-errsDone result := summarise(cfg, slots, batches, offeredFor, runDuration, - memBefore, memAfter, goroutinePk, heapPeak.Load(), pendingPeak.Load()) + memBefore, memAfter, goroutinePk, heapPeak.Load(), pendingPeak.Load(), + samples.Load()) result.OfferedFor = offeredFor result.TimedOut = timedOut diff --git a/test/scenario/sample.go b/test/scenario/sample.go index 4ace539..c175698 100644 --- a/test/scenario/sample.go +++ b/test/scenario/sample.go @@ -117,3 +117,61 @@ func quantile(values []time.Duration, q float64) time.Duration { return values[idx] } + +// IntDistribution summarises a set of counts, such as batch sizes. +// +// This exists rather than reusing Distribution because batch sizes are items, not +// durations. Storing them as time.Duration to reuse one helper made a mean batch of +// 455 print as "455ns" in any formatted output, which is the kind of unit confusion +// that ends up quoted in a decision record. +type IntDistribution struct { + Count int + Min int + P50 int + P95 int + P99 int + Max int + Mean float64 +} + +// NewIntDistribution sorts values in place and summarises them. +func NewIntDistribution(values []int) IntDistribution { + if len(values) == 0 { + return IntDistribution{} + } + + sort.Ints(values) + + total := 0 + for _, v := range values { + total += v + } + + return IntDistribution{ + Count: len(values), + Min: values[0], + P50: intQuantile(values, 0.50), + P95: intQuantile(values, 0.95), + P99: intQuantile(values, 0.99), + Max: values[len(values)-1], + Mean: float64(total) / float64(len(values)), + } +} + +// intQuantile expects values to be sorted ascending. +func intQuantile(values []int, q float64) int { + if len(values) == 0 { + return 0 + } + + idx := int(float64(len(values)-1) * q) + if idx < 0 { + idx = 0 + } + + if idx >= len(values) { + idx = len(values) - 1 + } + + return values[idx] +} diff --git a/test/scenario/scenario_test.go b/test/scenario/scenario_test.go index 64f6f20..8e427b9 100644 --- a/test/scenario/scenario_test.go +++ b/test/scenario/scenario_test.go @@ -196,10 +196,10 @@ func TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection(t *testing.T) { }) t.Logf("window=%-6s offered_for=%s offered/s=%.0f accepted/s=%.0f "+ - "completed/s=%.0f pending_peak=%d heap_peak=%dMB", + "completed/s=%.0f work_peak=%d heap_peak=%dMB heap_sampled=%v", window, result.OfferedFor.Round(time.Millisecond), result.OfferedRate, result.AcceptedRate, result.CompletedRate, - result.PendingPeak, result.HeapHighWater/(1<<20)) + result.PendingWorkPeak, result.HeapHighWater/(1<<20), result.HeapSampled) require.False(t, result.TimedOut, "window=%s: the run must complete rather than time out", window) @@ -208,19 +208,23 @@ func TestSmallWindowGivesNoOverloadProtection(t *testing.T) { "window=%s: an unbounded queue must accept everything, which is exactly "+ "why a smaller window cannot protect the process", window) - // Backlog must reflect the accept/complete deficit: whatever the host - // managed to offer, the queue absorbed the shortfall instead of pushing - // back. This holds on any hardware, because it is derived from the run's own - // rates over the run's own offered window rather than from the configured - // duration, which an open-loop generator may overshoot. + // The rate assertion is the load-bearing one: work is accepted faster than + // it completes, so the difference accumulates inside the batcher no matter + // how small the window is. require.Greater(t, result.AcceptedRate, result.CompletedRate, "window=%s: accepted rate must exceed completed rate under overload", window) + // PendingWorkPeak is a periodically sampled Len(), which counts in-flight + // work as well as queued work, so it is a lower bound on accumulation rather + // than a queue-depth measurement. Asserting it clears half the deficit is + // therefore a deliberately weak check on a deliberately weak metric: it + // confirms accumulation is real without pretending the number is backlog. + // True queue depth arrives with Stats().Queued in Phase 2. deficit := (result.AcceptedRate - result.CompletedRate) * result.OfferedFor.Seconds() - require.Greater(t, float64(result.PendingPeak), deficit*0.5, - "window=%s: queued work must absorb the capacity deficit "+ - "(peak=%d, deficit≈%.0f); a smaller window does not bound it", - window, result.PendingPeak, deficit) + require.Greater(t, float64(result.PendingWorkPeak), deficit*0.5, + "window=%s: in-system work must reflect the capacity deficit "+ + "(work_peak=%d, deficit≈%.0f); a smaller window does not bound it", + window, result.PendingWorkPeak, deficit) } } diff --git a/test/scenario/summarise.go b/test/scenario/summarise.go index 3f36b48..7b3b7c9 100644 --- a/test/scenario/summarise.go +++ b/test/scenario/summarise.go @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ func summarise( goroutinesPeak int, heapPeak uint64, pendingPeak int64, + heapSamples int64, ) Result { var ( lateness []time.Duration @@ -73,12 +74,12 @@ func summarise( latenessDist := NewDistribution(lateness) - batchSizes := make([]time.Duration, 0, len(batches)) + batchSizes := make([]int, 0, len(batches)) partial := 0 totalBatched := 0 for _, size := range batches { - batchSizes = append(batchSizes, time.Duration(size)) + batchSizes = append(batchSizes, size) totalBatched += size if size < cfg.BatchSize { @@ -96,10 +97,13 @@ func summarise( seconds = runDuration.Seconds() } - // Prefer the in-flight peak; fall back to the post-drain reading if the run - // was too short for the sampler to fire. + // Prefer the in-flight peak. Fall back to the post-drain reading only if the + // sampler never fired, and report that via HeapSampled so a caller can tell a + // real peak from a recovered-process number. + heapSampled := heapSamples > 0 && heapPeak > 0 + heapHighWater := heapPeak - if heapHighWater == 0 { + if !heapSampled { heapHighWater = memAfter.HeapAlloc } @@ -122,13 +126,15 @@ func summarise( Batches: len(batches), MeanBatchSize: meanBatch, PartialBatches: partial, - BatchSizes: NewDistribution(batchSizes), + BatchSizeDist: NewIntDistribution(batchSizes), DownstreamPerSec: float64(len(batches)) / runDuration.Seconds(), AllocsPerItem: allocsPerItem, HeapHighWater: heapHighWater, - PendingPeak: pendingPeak, + HeapSampled: heapSampled, + PendingWorkPeak: pendingPeak, GCCount: memAfter.NumGC - memBefore.NumGC, GCPauseTotal: time.Duration(memAfter.PauseTotalNs - memBefore.PauseTotalNs), + GCDuringRun: memAfter.NumGC > memBefore.NumGC, GoroutinesPeak: goroutinesPeak, Duration: runDuration, } From e508252fe3656c42bcbde84ccab87e6d7515c27a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernardo Heynemann Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 21:42:38 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 13/13] fix: correct Phase 1 scenario peaks and benchmark commands Address three verified review findings. GoroutinesPeak was sampled after producer WaitGroup completion, so it could never include configured producers and understated concurrent scenarios. The existing in-flight sampler now records the maximum runtime.NumGoroutine every 2ms, seeded before load for runs too short to sample. A 32-producer probe now reports peak 42 from base 2; before this change it could only see the post-producer count. The performance-plan command said `benchstat -count=10`, but -count belongs to go test. Documented separate collection and comparison commands instead. bench-matrix now uses -count=1 so its report-only matrix is never served from Go's test cache. Marked every command-only Make target .PHONY. Verified by creating a file named guards: make still expands the guards recipe rather than reporting it up to date. Also labelled the seven text/pseudocode fences required by markdownlint MD040. The remaining timing comment was verified and rebutted rather than changed: Phase 1 uses a rill pipeline, not inline processing. With the reviewer's proposed BatchSize=1, 2ms processor setup, QueueDelay.min was positive (5.6us) and AdmissionBlocking.p50 was 167ns, so processor time does not overlap admission in this harness. --- Makefile | 8 ++++++-- docs/improvements/plan-perf.md | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- test/scenario/run.go | 31 ++++++++++++++++++------------- 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 3f7e499..6e11a9e 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ -.PHONY: all clean +# Every target here is command-only: none produces a file named after itself, so +# all of them must be phony or Make will skip work whenever a same-named path exists. +.PHONY: all clean ensure-build test unit bench bench-announce bench-run \ + guards guards-race guards-allocs bench-enqueue bench-matrix \ + coverage coverage-run coverage-report coverage-report-ci lint all: clean test coverage lint @@ -46,7 +50,7 @@ bench-enqueue: # Full reporting matrix. Informational: produces measurements, not pass/fail. bench-matrix: - @SCENARIO_MATRIX=1 go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -timeout 40m -v ./test/scenario/ + @SCENARIO_MATRIX=1 go test -run TestScenarioMatrix -count=1 -timeout 40m -v ./test/scenario/ coverage: coverage-run coverage-report diff --git a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md index 66e7f7f..c64948c 100644 --- a/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md +++ b/docs/improvements/plan-perf.md @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ must be validated during implementation rather than assumed. ### Publisher gate -``` +```text enter(): if sealed -> reject gate++ if sealed -> leave(); reject // ALL decrements route through leave() @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ an atomic multi-field `Stats()` snapshot transactional. The equations have explicit scopes: -``` +```text // Exact after publisher quiescence (gateEmpty), before terminal completion: Accepted == Completed + Failed + Panicked + Pending @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ the publication window. ### Publication and hot-path atomic budget -``` +```text enter(): // gate: 1 seal load, gate++, 1 seal re-check load Add / Enqueue entry: Pending++ ; IntakePending++ // reserve before publication @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ the coordinator supplies that knowledge explicitly via a `noInput` channel. The aggregator selects on input and on `noInput`; there is **no polling and no busy-wait** in steady state. -``` +```text Shutdown(): 1. sealed = true 2. close(sealCh) // release publishers blocked on a full queue @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ owned-queue prototype re-validates the same gate at `n=0` and `n=4`. **Intake termination is by intake accounting.** After `noInput` closes, the aggregator drains on `IntakePending` rather than on an empty-queue observation: -``` +```text <-noInput for IntakePending > 0 { drainReady() } // owned queue: a publish is immediately visible flush() // final partial batch, exactly once @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ conservation check, never an instantaneous API guarantee. `WithMaxQueueSize(N)` bounds queued items. Total accepted-but-not-terminal work is bounded by: -``` +```text N + BatchSize + (concurrency × BatchSize) + P ``` @@ -488,7 +488,13 @@ Scenario matrix: windows `500µs, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100ms` × arrivals - Blocking PR lane: `go test -race ./...` plus allocation-count assertions via `testing.AllocsPerRun` for `Add`, `Enqueue`, and the recovery wrapper. - Scheduled/manual lane: full scenario matrix, artifacts published, trend - comparison via `benchstat -count=10`. + comparison via `benchstat`. Collection and comparison are separate steps — + `-count` is a `go test` flag, not a `benchstat` one: + + ```sh + go test -run='^$' -bench=. -benchmem -count=10 ./... > new.txt + benchstat old.txt new.txt + ``` - Record predeclared numeric thresholds in a checked-in file, keyed by Go version and architecture. Initial values, to be re-baselined on the chosen reference runner in this milestone: @@ -1105,7 +1111,7 @@ rather than intuition. ## Sequencing summary -``` +```text Mandatory path: 1.1 ──► 1.2 ──► 1.3 2.1 ──► 2.2 ──► 2.3 ──► 2.4 ──► 3.1 ──► 3.2 ──► 4.1 ──► 5.1 ──► 5.2 ──► 5.3 diff --git a/test/scenario/run.go b/test/scenario/run.go index e439e6f..f46460e 100644 --- a/test/scenario/run.go +++ b/test/scenario/run.go @@ -237,9 +237,8 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { completedItems atomic.Int64 completedSignal = make(chan struct{}, 1) - procRNG = rand.New(rand.NewSource(cfg.Seed)) - start time.Time - goroutinePk = runtime.NumGoroutine() + procRNG = rand.New(rand.NewSource(cfg.Seed)) + start time.Time ) b := batcher.New( @@ -302,13 +301,16 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { // drain would report a recovered process and hide the peak backlog, which is // precisely the number overload scenarios need. var ( - heapPeak atomic.Uint64 - pendingPeak atomic.Int64 - samples atomic.Int64 - samplerDone = make(chan struct{}) - samplerStop = make(chan struct{}) + heapPeak atomic.Uint64 + pendingPeak atomic.Int64 + goroutinePeak atomic.Int64 + samples atomic.Int64 + samplerDone = make(chan struct{}) + samplerStop = make(chan struct{}) ) + goroutinePeak.Store(int64(runtime.NumGoroutine())) + go func() { defer close(samplerDone) @@ -336,6 +338,13 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { if depth := int64(b.Len()); depth > pendingPeak.Load() { pendingPeak.Store(depth) } + + // Sample goroutines here rather than after wg.Wait: producers have + // exited by then, so the peak could never include them and every + // concurrent scenario under-reported by cfg.Producers. + if n := int64(runtime.NumGoroutine()); n > goroutinePeak.Load() { + goroutinePeak.Store(n) + } } } }() @@ -376,10 +385,6 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { wg.Wait() offeredFor := time.Since(start) - if n := runtime.NumGoroutine(); n > goroutinePk { - goroutinePk = n - } - totalAccepted := 0 for _, n := range accepted { totalAccepted += n @@ -418,7 +423,7 @@ func Run(cfg Config) Result { <-errsDone result := summarise(cfg, slots, batches, offeredFor, runDuration, - memBefore, memAfter, goroutinePk, heapPeak.Load(), pendingPeak.Load(), + memBefore, memAfter, int(goroutinePeak.Load()), heapPeak.Load(), pendingPeak.Load(), samples.Load()) result.OfferedFor = offeredFor