runtime: only use CPU time from the current window in the GC CPU limiter
Currently the GC CPU limiter consumes CPU time from a few pools, but
because the events that flush to those pools may overlap, rather than be
strictly contained within, the update window for the GC CPU limiter, the
limiter's accounting is ultimately sloppy.
This sloppiness complicates accounting for idle time more completely,
and makes reasoning about the transient behavior of the GC CPU limiter
much more difficult.
To remedy this, this CL adds a field to the P struct that tracks the
start time of any in-flight event the limiter might care about, along
with information about the nature of that event. This timestamp is
managed atomically so that the GC CPU limiter can come in and perform a
read of the partial CPU time consumed by a given event. The limiter also
updates the timestamp so that only what's left over is flushed by the
event itself when it completes.
The end result of this change is that, since the GC CPU limiter is aware
of all past completed events, and all in-flight events, it can much more
accurately collect the CPU time of events since the last update. There's
still the possibility for skew, but any leftover time will be captured
in the following update, and the magnitude of this leftover time is
effectively bounded by the update period of the GC CPU limiter, which is
much easier to consider.
One caveat of managing this timestamp-type combo atomically is that they
need to be packed in 64 bits. So, this CL gives up the top 3 bits of the
timestamp and places the type information there. What this means is we
effectively have only a 61-bit resolution timestamp. This is fine when
the top 3 bits are the same between calls to nanotime, but becomes a
problem on boundaries when those 3 bits change. These cases may cause
hiccups in the GC CPU limiter by not accounting for some source of CPU
time correctly, but with 61 bits of resolution this should be extremely
rare. The rate of update is on the order of milliseconds, so at worst
the runtime will be off of any given measurement by only a few
CPU-milliseconds (and this is directly bounded by the rate of update).
We're probably more inaccurate from the fact that we don't measure real
CPU time but only approximate it.
For #52890.
Change-Id: I347f30ac9e2ba6061806c21dfe0193ef2ab3bbe9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/410120 Reviewed-by: Michael Pratt <mpratt@google.com>
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