Scott Baker | e7144bc | 2019-10-01 14:16:47 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | package metrics |
| 2 | |
| 3 | import ( |
| 4 | "math" |
| 5 | "sync" |
| 6 | "sync/atomic" |
| 7 | ) |
| 8 | |
| 9 | // EWMAs continuously calculate an exponentially-weighted moving average |
| 10 | // based on an outside source of clock ticks. |
| 11 | type EWMA interface { |
| 12 | Rate() float64 |
| 13 | Snapshot() EWMA |
| 14 | Tick() |
| 15 | Update(int64) |
| 16 | } |
| 17 | |
| 18 | // NewEWMA constructs a new EWMA with the given alpha. |
| 19 | func NewEWMA(alpha float64) EWMA { |
| 20 | if UseNilMetrics { |
| 21 | return NilEWMA{} |
| 22 | } |
| 23 | return &StandardEWMA{alpha: alpha} |
| 24 | } |
| 25 | |
| 26 | // NewEWMA1 constructs a new EWMA for a one-minute moving average. |
| 27 | func NewEWMA1() EWMA { |
| 28 | return NewEWMA(1 - math.Exp(-5.0/60.0/1)) |
| 29 | } |
| 30 | |
| 31 | // NewEWMA5 constructs a new EWMA for a five-minute moving average. |
| 32 | func NewEWMA5() EWMA { |
| 33 | return NewEWMA(1 - math.Exp(-5.0/60.0/5)) |
| 34 | } |
| 35 | |
| 36 | // NewEWMA15 constructs a new EWMA for a fifteen-minute moving average. |
| 37 | func NewEWMA15() EWMA { |
| 38 | return NewEWMA(1 - math.Exp(-5.0/60.0/15)) |
| 39 | } |
| 40 | |
| 41 | // EWMASnapshot is a read-only copy of another EWMA. |
| 42 | type EWMASnapshot float64 |
| 43 | |
| 44 | // Rate returns the rate of events per second at the time the snapshot was |
| 45 | // taken. |
| 46 | func (a EWMASnapshot) Rate() float64 { return float64(a) } |
| 47 | |
| 48 | // Snapshot returns the snapshot. |
| 49 | func (a EWMASnapshot) Snapshot() EWMA { return a } |
| 50 | |
| 51 | // Tick panics. |
| 52 | func (EWMASnapshot) Tick() { |
| 53 | panic("Tick called on an EWMASnapshot") |
| 54 | } |
| 55 | |
| 56 | // Update panics. |
| 57 | func (EWMASnapshot) Update(int64) { |
| 58 | panic("Update called on an EWMASnapshot") |
| 59 | } |
| 60 | |
| 61 | // NilEWMA is a no-op EWMA. |
| 62 | type NilEWMA struct{} |
| 63 | |
| 64 | // Rate is a no-op. |
| 65 | func (NilEWMA) Rate() float64 { return 0.0 } |
| 66 | |
| 67 | // Snapshot is a no-op. |
| 68 | func (NilEWMA) Snapshot() EWMA { return NilEWMA{} } |
| 69 | |
| 70 | // Tick is a no-op. |
| 71 | func (NilEWMA) Tick() {} |
| 72 | |
| 73 | // Update is a no-op. |
| 74 | func (NilEWMA) Update(n int64) {} |
| 75 | |
| 76 | // StandardEWMA is the standard implementation of an EWMA and tracks the number |
| 77 | // of uncounted events and processes them on each tick. It uses the |
| 78 | // sync/atomic package to manage uncounted events. |
| 79 | type StandardEWMA struct { |
| 80 | uncounted int64 // /!\ this should be the first member to ensure 64-bit alignment |
| 81 | alpha float64 |
| 82 | rate uint64 |
| 83 | init uint32 |
| 84 | mutex sync.Mutex |
| 85 | } |
| 86 | |
| 87 | // Rate returns the moving average rate of events per second. |
| 88 | func (a *StandardEWMA) Rate() float64 { |
| 89 | currentRate := math.Float64frombits(atomic.LoadUint64(&a.rate)) * float64(1e9) |
| 90 | return currentRate |
| 91 | } |
| 92 | |
| 93 | // Snapshot returns a read-only copy of the EWMA. |
| 94 | func (a *StandardEWMA) Snapshot() EWMA { |
| 95 | return EWMASnapshot(a.Rate()) |
| 96 | } |
| 97 | |
| 98 | // Tick ticks the clock to update the moving average. It assumes it is called |
| 99 | // every five seconds. |
| 100 | func (a *StandardEWMA) Tick() { |
| 101 | // Optimization to avoid mutex locking in the hot-path. |
| 102 | if atomic.LoadUint32(&a.init) == 1 { |
| 103 | a.updateRate(a.fetchInstantRate()) |
| 104 | } else { |
| 105 | // Slow-path: this is only needed on the first Tick() and preserves transactional updating |
| 106 | // of init and rate in the else block. The first conditional is needed below because |
| 107 | // a different thread could have set a.init = 1 between the time of the first atomic load and when |
| 108 | // the lock was acquired. |
| 109 | a.mutex.Lock() |
| 110 | if atomic.LoadUint32(&a.init) == 1 { |
| 111 | // The fetchInstantRate() uses atomic loading, which is unecessary in this critical section |
| 112 | // but again, this section is only invoked on the first successful Tick() operation. |
| 113 | a.updateRate(a.fetchInstantRate()) |
| 114 | } else { |
| 115 | atomic.StoreUint32(&a.init, 1) |
| 116 | atomic.StoreUint64(&a.rate, math.Float64bits(a.fetchInstantRate())) |
| 117 | } |
| 118 | a.mutex.Unlock() |
| 119 | } |
| 120 | } |
| 121 | |
| 122 | func (a *StandardEWMA) fetchInstantRate() float64 { |
| 123 | count := atomic.LoadInt64(&a.uncounted) |
| 124 | atomic.AddInt64(&a.uncounted, -count) |
| 125 | instantRate := float64(count) / float64(5e9) |
| 126 | return instantRate |
| 127 | } |
| 128 | |
| 129 | func (a *StandardEWMA) updateRate(instantRate float64) { |
| 130 | currentRate := math.Float64frombits(atomic.LoadUint64(&a.rate)) |
| 131 | currentRate += a.alpha * (instantRate - currentRate) |
| 132 | atomic.StoreUint64(&a.rate, math.Float64bits(currentRate)) |
| 133 | } |
| 134 | |
| 135 | // Update adds n uncounted events. |
| 136 | func (a *StandardEWMA) Update(n int64) { |
| 137 | atomic.AddInt64(&a.uncounted, n) |
| 138 | } |