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tstime/mono: remove package #8839

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crawshaw opened this issue Aug 10, 2023 · 1 comment
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tstime/mono: remove package #8839

crawshaw opened this issue Aug 10, 2023 · 1 comment

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@crawshaw
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The premise of tstime/mono is that time.Now is too slow because it looks up time twice.

@dsnet points out that Russ has an idiom in golang/go#61765 (comment) for using the time package to get efficient monotonic time, that is easier to read than a custom Go package.

First define a single global time:

var globalStart = time.Now()

Then in any hot path, compute monotonic time by looking at the time since globalStart. E.g. to compute a duration:

start := time.Since(globalStart)
// ...
d := time.Since(globalStart) - start

Similarly if you want to log the current mono time it is globalStart.Add(time.Since(globalStart)).

We could replace the unsafe machinery in the mono package with this, but given that it is generally easier to read code that depends on fewer bespoke packages and types, I propose we remove the mono package altogether and adopt this idiom where we need the performance.

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Yes, please.

bradfitz added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 11, 2023
This removes the unsafe/linkname and only uses the standard library.

It's a bit slower, for now, but https://go.dev/cl/518336 should get us
back.

On darwin/arm64, without https://go.dev/cl/518336

    pkg: tailscale.com/tstime/mono
              │   before    │                after                │
              │   sec/op    │   sec/op     vs base                │
    MonoNow-8   16.20n ± 0%   19.75n ± 0%  +21.92% (p=0.000 n=10)
    TimeNow-8   39.46n ± 0%   39.40n ± 0%   -0.16% (p=0.002 n=10)
    geomean     25.28n        27.89n       +10.33%

Updates #8839

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
bradfitz added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 11, 2023
This removes the unsafe/linkname and only uses the standard library.

It's a bit slower, for now, but https://go.dev/cl/518336 should get us
back.

On darwin/arm64, without https://go.dev/cl/518336

    pkg: tailscale.com/tstime/mono
              │   before    │                after                │
              │   sec/op    │   sec/op     vs base                │
    MonoNow-8   16.20n ± 0%   19.75n ± 0%  +21.92% (p=0.000 n=10)
    TimeNow-8   39.46n ± 0%   39.40n ± 0%   -0.16% (p=0.002 n=10)
    geomean     25.28n        27.89n       +10.33%

And with it,

    MonoNow-8   16.34n ±  1%   16.93n ± 0%  +3.67% (p=0.001 n=10)
    TimeNow-8   39.55n ± 15%   38.46n ± 1%  -2.76% (p=0.000 n=10)
    geomean     25.42n         25.52n       +0.41%

Updates #8839
Updates tailscale/go#70

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
bradfitz added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 11, 2023
This removes the unsafe/linkname and only uses the standard library.

It's a bit slower, for now, but https://go.dev/cl/518336 should get us
back.

On darwin/arm64, without https://go.dev/cl/518336

    pkg: tailscale.com/tstime/mono
              │   before    │                after                │
              │   sec/op    │   sec/op     vs base                │
    MonoNow-8   16.20n ± 0%   19.75n ± 0%  +21.92% (p=0.000 n=10)
    TimeNow-8   39.46n ± 0%   39.40n ± 0%   -0.16% (p=0.002 n=10)
    geomean     25.28n        27.89n       +10.33%

And with it,

    MonoNow-8   16.34n ±  1%   16.93n ± 0%  +3.67% (p=0.001 n=10)
    TimeNow-8   39.55n ± 15%   38.46n ± 1%  -2.76% (p=0.000 n=10)
    geomean     25.42n         25.52n       +0.41%

Updates #8839
Updates tailscale/go#70

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
alexelisenko pushed a commit to Control-D-Inc/tailscale that referenced this issue Feb 15, 2024
This removes the unsafe/linkname and only uses the standard library.

It's a bit slower, for now, but https://go.dev/cl/518336 should get us
back.

On darwin/arm64, without https://go.dev/cl/518336

    pkg: tailscale.com/tstime/mono
              │   before    │                after                │
              │   sec/op    │   sec/op     vs base                │
    MonoNow-8   16.20n ± 0%   19.75n ± 0%  +21.92% (p=0.000 n=10)
    TimeNow-8   39.46n ± 0%   39.40n ± 0%   -0.16% (p=0.002 n=10)
    geomean     25.28n        27.89n       +10.33%

And with it,

    MonoNow-8   16.34n ±  1%   16.93n ± 0%  +3.67% (p=0.001 n=10)
    TimeNow-8   39.55n ± 15%   38.46n ± 1%  -2.76% (p=0.000 n=10)
    geomean     25.42n         25.52n       +0.41%

Updates tailscale#8839
Updates tailscale/go#70

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Paguis <alex@windscribe.com>
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