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Measure nanomsg perf after error handling implementation #57
I'm not sure but does this mean it is for 1 byte messages: message size: 1 [B] ? If so we probably want data with more realistic message sizes as well (hoping its configurable) as I'd expect in real-life 1 byte messages won't necessarily be the norm.
To understand why Latency is 30% slower with NAPI.
Next steps: Try to stub out NAPI calls on the hot path with static data or V8 calls to find out which NAPI calls are causing the overhead. Also try with larger message size like 1000 bytes.
Update: investigated further about the reason of this GC difference. The conclusion is that nanomsg code itself is introducing a leak by not freeing Napi::Callback allocated and thus the extra object we allocate in Napi::Callback is taking extra space. By freeing Napi::Callback, Nan implementation and Napi implementation of Callback are both ok. But not sure if we want to be different from nan in this case?
Which is already resolved in original node-nanomsg repo. So my next step is to pull in update from original repo and remeasure the performance based on the most updated nanomsg code.
not sure if we want to be different from nan in this case?
Different in what way?
In general we should not be too concerned with doing things exactly like nan. First, Nan is very V8-specific. Second, Nan is basically unable to make breaking changes to fix any issues in its API, because its entire purpose is to provide a more stable API. Since we are introducing an entirely new API, now is our chance to make improvements. See this comment from the Nan maintainer.
So in Nan::Callback, it put the callback directly under the persistent value; in Napi::Callback, we have first store callback under object, and then put the object under the persistent value. Not sure if this is necessary or bringing us any improvement.
That indirection serves no purpose as far as I can see.
Note the Callback class along with everything else in node_api_helpers.h is obsolete and will not be included in the PR to node that we make soon. We need to update all our ported modules to use the new C++ wrappers instead. There, there is no Callback class; you should use Napi::Reference<Napi::Function> instead. (Maybe there should be a typedef?) And then what you get is a Persistent reference to a Function, without the extra Object indirection.
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sampsongao commentedon Feb 6, 2017
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After Error Handling
nanomsg sampsongao/node-nanomsg@df36232
node-napi ae24137
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_l at.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 164.607 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 3841 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.031 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 171.08 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 3913 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.031 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 154.051 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4307 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.034 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 140.03 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4275 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.034 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 160.49 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4055 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.032 [Mb/s]
real 0m9.445s
user 0m3.991s
sys 0m0.798s
real 0m9.632s
user 0m4.179s
sys 0m0.828s
real 0m9.159s
user 0m3.817s
sys 0m0.763s
real 0m9.645s
user 0m3.892s
sys 0m0.745s
real 0m9.607s
user 0m4.191s
sys 0m0.732s
Before Error handling
nanomsg sampsongao/node-nanomsg@c70c99c
node-api 67f4581
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 146.274 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4077 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.033 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 162.018 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4037 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.032 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 147.787 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4105 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.033 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 140.077 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4592 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.037 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 137.002 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4532 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.036 [Mb/s]
real 0m9.819s
user 0m3.851s
sys 0m0.724s
real 0m9.638s
user 0m4.009s
sys 0m0.829s
real 0m9.554s
user 0m4.452s
sys 0m0.730s
real 0m9.789s
user 0m4.198s
sys 0m0.831s
real 0m9.465s
user 0m4.173s
sys 0m0.701s
Before napi
nanomsg: sampsongao/node-nanomsg@4e2bccf
node-api: a4705f6
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 132.443 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4081 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.033 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 125.822 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4415 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.035 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 119.545 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4328 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.035 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 136.911 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4250 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.034 [Mb/s]
node-6.2 perf/local_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_lat.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
roundtrip count: 100000
average latency: 122.18 [us]
node-6.2 perf/local_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000& node-6.2 perf/remote_thr.js tcp://127.0.0.1:5556 1 100000 && wait
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 100000
throughput: 4392 [msg/s]
throughput: 0.035 [Mb/s]
real 0m9.668s
user 0m4.390s
sys 0m0.829s
real 0m9.390s
user 0m3.865s
sys 0m0.773s
real 0m9.513s
user 0m4.075s
sys 0m0.846s
real 0m9.577s
user 0m4.176s
sys 0m0.812s
real 0m9.638s
user 0m4.108s
sys 0m0.735s
sampsongao commentedon Feb 6, 2017
After introduction of error handling
nanomsg sampsongao/node-nanomsg@df36232
node-api ae24137
After introduction of napi
nanomsg sampsongao/node-nanomsg@c70c99c
node-api 67f4581
Original
nanomsg: sampsongao/node-nanomsg@4e2bccf
node-api: a4705f6
sampsongao commentedon Feb 6, 2017
So we introduced about 24% more latency and about 5 percent regression in throughput.
mhdawson commentedon Feb 7, 2017
I'm not sure but does this mean it is for 1 byte messages: message size: 1 [B] ? If so we probably want data with more realistic message sizes as well (hoping its configurable) as I'd expect in real-life 1 byte messages won't necessarily be the norm.
mhdawson commentedon Feb 7, 2017
I might also be useful to try to find the section of code that most affects the latency so we can understand where the additional time is being added.
sampsongao commentedon Feb 8, 2017
for message size of 10 bytes
mhdawson commentedon Feb 8, 2017
We should be able to use standard profiling tools, perf even has node.js support so I'd start with that on linux
aruneshchandra commentedon Feb 10, 2017
To understand why Latency is 30% slower with NAPI.
Next steps: Try to stub out NAPI calls on the hot path with static data or V8 calls to find out which NAPI calls are causing the overhead. Also try with larger message size like 1000 bytes.
sampsongao commentedon Feb 10, 2017
Weight within napi
9.55% node node [.] napi_get_value_int32 ◆
9.38% node node [.] napi_get_cb_args ▒
7.09% node node [.] napi_set_return_value ▒
5.53% node node [.] napi_get_current_env ▒
5.30% node node [.] napi_create_number ▒
5.19% node node_nanomsg.node [.] Send(napi_env__, napi_callback_info__) ▒
4.97% node node [.] napi_escape_handle ▒
4.47% node node [.] napi_make_callback ▒
4.36% node node [.] napi_get_element ▒
4.24% node node [.] v8impl::FunctionCallbackWrapper::Args(napi_value__**▒
4.13% node node [.] napi_open_handle_scope ▒
3.85% node node [.] napi_get_persistent_value ▒
3.29% node node [.] napi_get_global ▒
3.13% node node [.] napi_close_handle_scope ▒
3.02% node node_nanomsg.node [.] Recv(napi_env__, napi_callback_info__) ▒
2.90% node node [.] napi_buffer_copy ▒
2.62% node node [.] napi_open_escapable_handle_scope ▒
2.62% node node [.] napi_buffer_has_instance ▒
2.29% node node [.] v8impl::FunctionCallbackWrapper::SetReturnValue(napi▒
2.01% node node [.] napi_close_escapable_handle_scope ▒
1.12% node node [.] napi_buffer_data ▒
0.89% node node_nanomsg.node [.] PollSendSocket(napi_env__, napi_callback_info__) ▒
0.89% node node [.] napi_create_persistent ▒
0.67% node node [.] napi_buffer_new ▒
0.61% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_get_current_env@plt ▒
0.61% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_set_return_value@plt ▒
0.61% node node [.] napi_buffer_length ▒
0.56% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_create_number@plt ▒
0.56% node node [.] napi_create_object ▒
0.45% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_get_cb_args@plt ▒
0.34% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_close_handle_scope@plt ▒
0.34% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_get_value_int32@plt ▒
0.34% node node_nanomsg.node [.] PollStop(napi_env__, napi_callback_info__) ▒
0.28% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_make_callback@plt ▒
0.28% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_buffer_has_instance@plt ▒
0.28% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_open_escapable_handle_scope@plt ▒
0.28% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_close_escapable_handle_scope@plt ▒
0.28% node node [.] napi_set_element ▒
0.11% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_buffer_copy@plt ▒
0.11% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_buffer_data@plt ▒
0.11% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_get_global@plt ▒
0.11% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_open_handle_scope@plt ▒
0.11% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_create_object@plt ▒
0.06% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_get_element@plt ▒
0.06% node node_nanomsg.node [.] napi_create_persistent@plt
sampsongao commentedon Feb 10, 2017
System Info
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-55-generic x86_64)
CPU Info
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 2
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 45
Stepping: 7
CPU MHz: 2400.000
BogoMIPS: 4800.00
Hypervisor vendor: VMware
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 256K
L3 cache: 20480K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1
sampsongao commentedon Feb 28, 2017
Performance update after fixing the GC from Napi::Callback #120
jasongin commentedon Feb 28, 2017
@sampsongao What was the fix?
digitalinfinity commentedon Feb 28, 2017
Also, what was the workload here? Same as before, 10 byte messages?
sampsongao commentedon Mar 1, 2017
This is using 1 byte message.
aruneshchandra commentedon Mar 1, 2017
Data from @sampsongao using 1 byte message size
sampsongao commentedon Mar 6, 2017
Update: investigated further about the reason of this GC difference. The conclusion is that nanomsg code itself is introducing a leak by not freeing Napi::Callback allocated and thus the extra object we allocate in Napi::Callback is taking extra space. By freeing Napi::Callback, Nan implementation and Napi implementation of Callback are both ok. But not sure if we want to be different from nan in this case?
So the fix is as following
Which is already resolved in original node-nanomsg repo. So my next step is to pull in update from original repo and remeasure the performance based on the most updated nanomsg code.
jasongin commentedon Mar 6, 2017
Different in what way?
In general we should not be too concerned with doing things exactly like nan. First, Nan is very V8-specific. Second, Nan is basically unable to make breaking changes to fix any issues in its API, because its entire purpose is to provide a more stable API. Since we are introducing an entirely new API, now is our chance to make improvements. See this comment from the Nan maintainer.
sampsongao commentedon Mar 6, 2017
So in Nan::Callback, it put the callback directly under the persistent value; in Napi::Callback, we have first store callback under object, and then put the object under the persistent value. Not sure if this is necessary or bringing us any improvement.
jasongin commentedon Mar 6, 2017
That indirection serves no purpose as far as I can see.
Note the
Callbackclass along with everything else innode_api_helpers.his obsolete and will not be included in the PR to node that we make soon. We need to update all our ported modules to use the new C++ wrappers instead. There, there is noCallbackclass; you should useNapi::Reference<Napi::Function>instead. (Maybe there should be a typedef?) And then what you get is aPersistentreference to aFunction, without the extraObjectindirection.sampsongao commentedon Mar 7, 2017
Port nanomsg on their current master at napi-port-3.2.4.
New measurement on message size of 1 byte.