Shipilev: improve comments (#692)

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@ -31,19 +31,32 @@ import java.util.function.Supplier;
public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
// This might not be the fastest implementation one can do.
// When working on this implementation, I set the bar as follows.
// Detour: This implementation tries to balance the speed and readability.
//
// This implementation uses vanilla and standard Java as much as possible,
// without relying on Unsafe tricks and preview features. If and when
// those are used, they should be guarded by a feature flag. This would
// allow running vanilla implementation if anything goes off the rails.
// While the original contest suggests we pull off every trick in the
// book to get the peak performance, here we set a more pragmatic goal:
// how fast we can get without going too far into hacks. Or, putting it
// in another way, what would be the reasonably fast implementation that
// would *also* pass a code review in a reasonable project, would be usable
// in production without waking people up in the middle of the night, and
// would work through JDK updates, upgrades, and migrations.
//
// To that end, this implementation uses vanilla and standard Java as much
// as possible, without relying on Unsafe tricks and preview features.
// When any non-standard things are used, they are guarded by a feature flag,
// which allows to cleanly turn them off when anything goes off the rails.
//
// For performance reasons, the implementation takes more care to be reliably
// parallel to survive I/O stalls and scheduling oddities. This would not
// show up in laboratory conditions, but it is a necessary thing for a reliable
// code in production. It also tries not to miss simple optimizations without
// going too far into the woods.
//
// Note that some of the magic to run this workload fast in evaluation
// conditions is done separately in the invocation script. Most of that
// is only needed for the short-running scenarios. In real life, this code
// would likely run well without any of that.
//
// This implementation also covers the realistic scenario: the I/O is
// actually slow and jittery. To that end, making sure we can feed
// the parsing code under slow I/O is as important as getting the
// parsing fast. Current evaluation env keeps the input data on RAM disk,
// which hides this important part.
// ========================= Tunables =========================
@ -57,17 +70,19 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
// Fixed size of the measurements map. Must be the power of two. Should
// be large enough to accomodate all the station names. Rules say there are
// 10K station names max, so anything >> 16K works well.
// 10K station names max, so anything more than 16K works well.
private static final int MAP_SIZE = 1 << 15;
// The largest mmap-ed chunk. This can be be Integer.MAX_VALUE, but
// it is normally tuned down to seed the workers with smaller mmap regions
// more efficiently.
// more efficiently. This also allows to incrementally unmap chunks as we
// complete working on them.
private static final int MMAP_CHUNK_SIZE = Integer.MAX_VALUE / 32;
// The largest slice as unit of work, processed serially by a worker.
// Set it too low and there would be more tasks and less batching, but
// more parallelism. Set it too high, and the reverse would be true.
// Something around a large page would likely hit the right balance.
private static final int UNIT_SLICE_SIZE = 4 * 1024 * 1024;
// Employ direct unmapping techniques to alleviate the cost of system
@ -80,6 +95,7 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
// ========================= Storage =========================
// Thread-local measurement maps, each thread gets one.
// This allows workers to work nearly unimpeded without synchronization.
// Even though crude, avoid lambdas here to alleviate startup costs.
private static final ThreadLocal<MeasurementsMap> MAPS = ThreadLocal.withInitial(new Supplier<>() {
@Override
@ -90,20 +106,21 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
}
});
// After worker threads finish, the data is available here. One just needs
// to merge it a little.
// After worker threads finish, the data is available here. The reporting
// code would pull the maps from here, once all workers finish.
private static final ConcurrentLinkedQueue<MeasurementsMap> ALL_MAPS = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<>();
// Releasable mmaped buffers that workers are done with. These can be un-mapped
// in background. Part of the protocol to shutdown the background activity is to
// issue the poison pill.
// in background. Main thread would wait on this queue, until it gets the poison
// pill from the root task.
private static final LinkedBlockingQueue<ByteBuffer> RELEASABLE_BUFFERS = new LinkedBlockingQueue<>();
private static final ByteBuffer RELEASABLE_BUFFER_POISON_PILL = ByteBuffer.allocate(1);
// ========================= MEATY GRITTY PARTS: PARSE AND AGGREGATE =========================
public static final class Bucket {
// Raw station name, its hash, and prefixes.
// Raw station name, encoded as two prefixes and the name tail,
// its total length, and hash.
public final byte[] nameTail;
public final int len;
public final int hash;
@ -118,7 +135,8 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
public Bucket(ByteBuffer slice, int begin, int end, int hash, int temp) {
len = end - begin;
// Also pick up any prefixes to simplify future matches.
// Decode the station name. It is handy to have a few prefixes
// available to simplify matches later.
int tailStart = 0;
if (len >= 8) {
prefix1 = slice.getInt(begin + 0);
@ -135,12 +153,15 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
prefix2 = 0;
}
// The rest goes to tail byte array. We are checking it names on hot-path.
// The rest goes to tail byte array. We are checking reading it on hot-path.
// Therefore, it is convenient to keep allocation for names near the buckets.
// One can avoid this by carefully recording the tail in a separate field,
// like the prefixes above, but this is simple enough to gain enough perf.
int tailLen = len - tailStart;
nameTail = new byte[tailLen];
slice.get(begin + tailStart, nameTail, 0, tailLen);
// Seed the bucket with initial value.
this.hash = hash;
this.sum = temp;
this.count = 1;
@ -148,7 +169,7 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
this.max = temp;
}
// Little helper method to compare the array with given bytebuffer range.
// Little helper method to compare the array with given ByteBuffer range.
public boolean matches(ByteBuffer cand, int begin, int end) {
int origLen = len;
int candLen = end - begin;
@ -156,7 +177,7 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
return false;
}
// Check the prefixes first, to simplify the matches.
// Check the prefixes first, if we can.
int tailStart = 0;
if (origLen >= 8) {
if (prefix1 != cand.getInt(begin)) {
@ -183,6 +204,7 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
return true;
}
// Check if current Bucket matches another.
public boolean matches(Bucket other) {
return len == other.len &&
prefix1 == other.prefix1 &&
@ -190,9 +212,14 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
Arrays.equals(nameTail, other.nameTail);
}
// Merge the temp value. Hot-path, should be fairly efficient.
public void merge(int value) {
sum += value;
count++;
// We rarely do the updates, so these branches are almost
// never taken. Writing them as explicit branches instead of
// Math.{min,max} improves performance a bit.
if (value < min) {
min = value;
}
@ -201,6 +228,7 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
}
}
// Merge the buckets. Called during reporting, not a hot path.
public void merge(Bucket s) {
sum += s.sum;
count += s.count;
@ -209,7 +237,8 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
}
public Row toRow() {
// Reconstruct the name
// Reconstruct the name first. The prefixes and the tail were copied
// from the little-endian slice, so we need to match the endianness here.
ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.allocate(len);
bb.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
if (len >= 4) {
@ -231,7 +260,7 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
// Quick and dirty linear-probing hash map. YOLO.
public static final class MeasurementsMap {
// Individual map buckets. Inlining these straight into map complicates
// the implementation without the sensible performance improvement.
// the implementation without much of the performance improvement.
// The map is likely sparse, so whatever footprint loss we have due to
// Bucket headers we gain by allocating the buckets lazily. The memory
// dereference costs are still high in both cases. The additional benefit
@ -240,14 +269,14 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
private final Bucket[] buckets = new Bucket[MAP_SIZE];
// Fast path is inlined in seqCompute. This is a slow-path that is taken
// when something is off. We normally do not enter here.
// rarely, usually when there is a hash collision. We normally do not enter here.
private void updateSlow(ByteBuffer name, int begin, int end, int hash, int temp) {
int idx = hash & (MAP_SIZE - 1);
while (true) {
Bucket cur = buckets[idx];
if (cur == null) {
// No bucket yet, lucky us. Create the bucket with it.
// No bucket yet, lucky us. Create the bucket and be done.
buckets[idx] = new Bucket(name, begin, end, hash, temp);
return;
}
@ -287,9 +316,9 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
}
}
// Convert from internal representation to the rows.
// This does several major things: filters away null-s, instantates full Strings,
// and computes stats.
// Convert from internal representation to the rows. This does several
// major things: filters away null-s, instantates full Strings, and
// computes the final rows.
public int fill(Row[] rows) {
int idx = 0;
for (Bucket bucket : buckets) {
@ -308,12 +337,15 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
private final MappedByteBuffer mappedBuf;
private final ByteBuffer buf;
// Entered from the root task, records the original mmap-ed slice
// for later cleanup.
public ParsingTask(CountedCompleter<Void> p, MappedByteBuffer mappedBuf) {
super(p);
this.mappedBuf = mappedBuf;
this.buf = mappedBuf;
}
// Entered from the other parsing tasks.
public ParsingTask(CountedCompleter<Void> p, ByteBuffer buf) {
super(p);
this.mappedBuf = null;
@ -334,6 +366,10 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
@Override
public void onCompletion(CountedCompleter<?> caller) {
// FJP API: Would be called when this task completes. At that point,
// we know the mmap-ed slice is not needed anymore, and can give it
// out for unmmaps. We do not do unmmap here, let the main thread
// handle it for us, as we go on doing other hot work.
if (DIRECT_UNMMAPS && (mappedBuf != null)) {
RELEASABLE_BUFFERS.offer(mappedBuf);
}
@ -342,7 +378,7 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
private void internalCompute() throws Exception {
int len = buf.limit();
if (len > UNIT_SLICE_SIZE) {
// Split in half.
// Still a large chunk, let's split it in half.
int mid = len / 2;
// Figure out the boundary that does not split the line.
@ -363,13 +399,17 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
new ParsingTask(this, buf.slice(mid, len - mid)).compute();
}
else {
// Small enough chunk, time to process it.
// The call to seqCompute would normally be non-inlined.
// Do setup stuff here to save inlining budget.
MeasurementsMap map = MAPS.get();
// Force the order we need for bit extraction to work. This fits
// most of the hardware very well without introducing platform
// dependencies.
// dependencies. Note that it would be wrong to use nativeOrder()
// here, because we _need_ a particular byte ordering for our
// computations to work. It just so happens that most hardware
// we have is LE.
buf.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
// Go!
@ -387,10 +427,12 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
// object, which allows compiler to trust its fields more thoroughly.
ByteBuffer slice = origSlice.slice();
// Do the same endianness as the original slice.
// New slice lost the endianness setting, set it up as the original slice.
slice.order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
// Touch the buffer once to let the common checks to fire once for this slice.
// Touch the buffer once to let the compiler eject the common checks
// for this slice from the loop here. This is an odd, flaky, and sometimes
// desperate, but a safe thing to do.
slice.get(0);
int idx = 0;
@ -418,47 +460,46 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
int nameEnd = idx - 1;
// Parse out the temperature. The rules specify temperatures
// are within -99.9..99.9. We implicitly look ahead for
// negative sign and carry the negative multiplier, if found.
// After that, we just need to reconstruct the temperature from
// two or three digits. The aggregation code expects temperatures
// at 10x scale.
// are within -99.9..99.9. This means even in the shortest case of
// "0.0<EOL>", we are not out of bounds for the int-sized read.
int intTemp = slice.getInt(idx);
int neg = 1;
if ((intTemp & 0xFF) == '-') {
// Unlucky, there is a sign. Record it, shift one byte and read
// the remaining digit again. Surprisingly, doing a second read
// is not worse than reading into long and trying to do bit
// shifts on it.
// is not significantly worse than reading into long and trying
// to do bit shifts on it. But it is significantly simpler.
neg = -1;
intTemp >>>= 8;
intTemp |= slice.get(idx + 4) << 24;
idx++;
}
// Since the sign is consumed, we are only left with two cases:
// Since the sign is consumed, we are only left with two cases,
// which means we can trivially extract the number from int.
int temp = 0;
if ((intTemp >>> 24) == '\n') {
// EOL-digitL-point-digitH
// Case 1: EOL-digitL-point-digitH
temp = (((intTemp & 0xFF)) - '0') * 10 +
((intTemp >> 16) & 0xFF) - '0';
idx += 4;
}
else {
// digitL-point-digitH-digitHH
// Case 2: digitL-point-digitH-digitHH
temp = (((intTemp & 0xFF)) - '0') * 100 +
(((intTemp >> 8) & 0xFF) - '0') * 10 +
(((intTemp >>> 24)) - '0');
idx += 5;
}
// All done, just flip the sign, if needed.
temp *= neg;
// Time to update!
Bucket bucket = buckets[nameHash & (MAP_SIZE - 1)];
if ((bucket != null) && (nameHash == bucket.hash) && bucket.matches(slice, nameBegin, nameEnd)) {
// Lucky fast path, existing bucket hit. Most of the time we complete here.
// Lucky fast path: matching bucket hit. Most of the time we complete here.
bucket.merge(temp);
}
else {
@ -475,9 +516,8 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
// task and let it split, but unfortunately buffer API does not allow us
// "long" start-s and length-s. So we have to chunk at least by mmap-ed
// size first. It is a CountedCompleter for the same reason ParsingTask is.
// This also gives us a very nice opportunity to complete the work on
// a given mmap slice, while there is still other work to do. This allows
// us to unmap slices on the go.
// This also gives us a very nice opportunity to process mmap-ed chunks
// one by one, thus allowing incremental unmmaps.
public static final class RootTask extends CountedCompleter<Void> {
public RootTask() {
super(null);
@ -516,7 +556,7 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
}
end = minEnd + w;
// Fork out the large slice
// Fork out the large slice.
long len = end - start;
MappedByteBuffer slice = fc.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, start, len);
start += len;
@ -524,7 +564,7 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
// FJP API: Announce we have a pending task before forking.
addToPendingCount(1);
// ...and fork it
// ...and fork it!
new ParsingTask(this, slice).fork();
}
@ -537,6 +577,9 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
@Override
public void onCompletion(CountedCompleter<?> caller) {
// FJP API: This would be called when root task completes along with
// all subtasks. This means the processing is done, we can go and
// tell main thread about that.
try {
RELEASABLE_BUFFERS.put(RELEASABLE_BUFFER_POISON_PILL);
}
@ -558,7 +601,8 @@ public class CalculateAverage_shipilev {
// While the root task is working, prepare what we need for the
// end of the run. Go and try to report something to prepare the
// reporting code for execution.
// reporting code for execution. This prepares classes, storage,
// and some profiles for eventual execution.
MeasurementsMap map = new MeasurementsMap();
Row[] rows = new Row[MAP_SIZE];
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(16384);