beorn7 c0879d64cf promql: Separate Point into FPoint and HPoint ... In other words: Instead of having a “polymorphous” `Point` that can either contain a float value or a histogram value, use an `FPoint` for floats and an `HPoint` for histograms. This seemingly small change has a _lot_ of repercussions throughout the codebase. The idea here is to avoid the increase in size of `Point` arrays that happened after native histograms had been added. The higher-level data structures (`Sample`, `Series`, etc.) are still “polymorphous”. The same idea could be applied to them, but at each step the trade-offs needed to be evaluated. The idea with this change is to do the minimum necessary to get back to pre-histogram performance for functions that do not touch histograms. Here are comparisons for the `changes` function. The test data doesn't include histograms yet. Ideally, there would be no change in the benchmark result at all. First runtime v2.39 compared to directly prior to this commit: ``` name old time/op new time/op delta RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=1-16 391µs ± 2% 542µs ± 1% +38.58% (p=0.000 n=9+8) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=10-16 452µs ± 2% 617µs ± 2% +36.48% (p=0.000 n=10+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=100-16 1.12ms ± 1% 1.36ms ± 2% +21.58% (p=0.000 n=8+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=1000-16 7.83ms ± 1% 8.94ms ± 1% +14.21% (p=0.000 n=10+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=1-16 2.98ms ± 0% 3.30ms ± 1% +10.67% (p=0.000 n=9+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=10-16 3.66ms ± 1% 4.10ms ± 1% +11.82% (p=0.000 n=10+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=100-16 10.5ms ± 0% 11.8ms ± 1% +12.50% (p=0.000 n=8+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=1000-16 77.6ms ± 1% 87.4ms ± 1% +12.63% (p=0.000 n=9+9) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=1-16 30.4ms ± 2% 32.8ms ± 1% +8.01% (p=0.000 n=10+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=10-16 37.1ms ± 2% 40.6ms ± 2% +9.64% (p=0.000 n=10+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=100-16 105ms ± 1% 117ms ± 1% +11.69% (p=0.000 n=10+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=1000-16 783ms ± 3% 876ms ± 1% +11.83% (p=0.000 n=9+10) ``` And then runtime v2.39 compared to after this commit: ``` name old time/op new time/op delta RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=1-16 391µs ± 2% 547µs ± 1% +39.84% (p=0.000 n=9+8) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=10-16 452µs ± 2% 616µs ± 2% +36.15% (p=0.000 n=10+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=100-16 1.12ms ± 1% 1.26ms ± 1% +12.20% (p=0.000 n=8+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_one[1d]),steps=1000-16 7.83ms ± 1% 7.95ms ± 1% +1.59% (p=0.000 n=10+8) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=1-16 2.98ms ± 0% 3.38ms ± 2% +13.49% (p=0.000 n=9+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=10-16 3.66ms ± 1% 4.02ms ± 1% +9.80% (p=0.000 n=10+9) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=100-16 10.5ms ± 0% 10.8ms ± 1% +3.08% (p=0.000 n=8+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_ten[1d]),steps=1000-16 77.6ms ± 1% 78.1ms ± 1% +0.58% (p=0.035 n=9+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=1-16 30.4ms ± 2% 33.5ms ± 4% +10.18% (p=0.000 n=10+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=10-16 37.1ms ± 2% 40.0ms ± 1% +7.98% (p=0.000 n=10+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=100-16 105ms ± 1% 107ms ± 1% +1.92% (p=0.000 n=10+10) RangeQuery/expr=changes(a_hundred[1d]),steps=1000-16 783ms ± 3% 775ms ± 1% -1.02% (p=0.019 n=9+9) ``` In summary, the runtime doesn't really improve with this change for queries with just a few steps. For queries with many steps, this commit essentially reinstates the old performance. This is good because the many-step queries are the one that matter most (longest absolute runtime). In terms of allocations, though, this commit doesn't make a dent at all (numbers not shown). The reason is that most of the allocations happen in the sampleRingIterator (in the storage package), which has to be addressed in a separate commit. Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>		2023-04-13 19:25:16 +02:00
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api.md	Correct statement in docs about query results returning either floats or histograms but not both. (#11880)	2023-01-31 13:34:17 +05:30
basics.md	docs: Clarify that range selectors use a closed interval	2023-03-16 13:55:57 +01:00
examples.md	Examples: explain what the duration in brackets means (#10589)	2022-04-27 11:31:01 +02:00
functions.md	promql: Separate Point into FPoint and HPoint	2023-04-13 19:25:16 +02:00
index.md	Import querying documentation from prometheus/docs	2017-10-26 22:36:47 +02:00
operators.md	Document the native histogram feature flag and PromQL (#11446)	2022-10-14 18:16:12 +05:30
remote_read_api.md	Fixed typo in the Remote Read API docs	2022-12-21 12:44:25 +01:00