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Undo introduction of OperationCounters.should_sample
Cost of sampling was unexpectedly high in benchmarks; reverting performance regression. ----Release Notes---- [] ------------- Created by MOE: https://github.com/google/moe MOE_MIGRATED_REVID=124365485
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google/cloud/dataflow/worker/opcounters.pxd

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google/cloud/dataflow/worker/opcounters.py

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# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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# limitations under the License.
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# cython: profile=True
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"""Counters collect the progress of the Worker for reporting to the service."""
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from __future__ import absolute_import
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import math
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import random
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from google.cloud.dataflow.coders import WindowedValueCoder
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from google.cloud.dataflow.transforms.window import WindowedValue
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from google.cloud.dataflow.utils.counters import Counter
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class OperationCounters(object):
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"""The set of basic counters to attach to an Operation."""
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def __init__(self, counter_factory, step_name, coder, output_index):
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self._counter_factory = counter_factory
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self.element_counter = counter_factory.get_counter(
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'%s-out%d-ElementCount' % (step_name, output_index), Counter.SUM)
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self.mean_byte_counter = counter_factory.get_counter(
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'%s-out%d-MeanByteCount' % (step_name, output_index), Counter.MEAN)
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self.coder = coder
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self._active_accumulators = []
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self._sample_counter = 0
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self._next_sample = 0
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def update_from(self, windowed_value, coder=None):
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def update_from(self, windowed_value, coder=None): # pylint: disable=unused-argument
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"""Add one value to this counter."""
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self.element_counter.update(1)
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if self.should_sample():
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byte_size_accumulator = self._counter_factory.get_counter(
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'%s-temp%d' % (self.mean_byte_counter.name, self._sample_counter),
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Counter.SUM)
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self._active_accumulators.append(byte_size_accumulator)
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# Shuffle operations may pass in their own coder
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if coder is None:
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coder = self.coder
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# Some Readers and Writers return windowed values even
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# though their output encoding does not claim to be windowed.
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# TODO(ccy): fix output encodings to be consistent here.
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if (isinstance(windowed_value, WindowedValue)
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and not isinstance(coder, WindowedValueCoder)):
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coder = WindowedValueCoder(coder)
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# TODO(gildea):
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# Actually compute the encoded size of this value:
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# coder.store_estimated_size(windowed_value, byte_size_accumulator)
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# TODO(silviuc): Implement estimated size sampling.
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# TODO(gildea):
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# Actually compute the encoded size of this value.
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# In spirit, something like this:
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# if coder is None:
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# coder = self.coder
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# coder.store_estimated_size(windowed_value, byte_size_accumulator)
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# but will need to do sampling.
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def update_collect(self):
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"""Collects the accumulated size estimates.
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Now that the element has been processed, we ask our accumulator
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for the total and store the result in a counter.
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"""
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for pending in self._active_accumulators:
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self.mean_byte_counter.update(pending.value())
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self._active_accumulators = []
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def _compute_next_sample(self, i):
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# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling#Fast_Approximation
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gap = math.log(1.0 - random.random()) / math.log(1.0 - 10.0/i)
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return i + math.floor(gap)
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def should_sample(self):
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"""Determines whether to sample the next element.
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Size calculation can be expensive, so we don't do it for each element.
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Because we need only an estimate of average size, we sample.
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We always sample the first 10 elements, then the sampling rate
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is approximately 10/N. After reading N elements, of the next N,
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we will sample approximately 10*ln(2) (about 7) elements.
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This algorithm samples at the same rate as Reservoir Sampling, but
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it never throws away early results. (Because we keep only a
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running accumulation, storage is not a problem, so there is no
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need to discard earlier calculations.)
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Because we accumulate and do not replace, our statistics are
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biased toward early data. If the data are distributed uniformly,
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this is not a problem. If the data change over time (i.e., the
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element size tends to grow or shrink over time), our estimate will
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show the bias. We could correct this by giving weight N to each
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sample, since each sample is a stand-in for the N/(10*ln(2))
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samples around it, which is proportional to N. Since we do not
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expect biased data, for efficiency we omit the extra multiplication.
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We could reduce the early-data bias by putting a lower bound on
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the sampling rate.
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Computing random.randint(1, self._sample_counter) for each element
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is too slow, so when the sample size is big enough (we estimate 30
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is big enough), we estimate the size of the gap after each sample.
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This estimation allows us to call random much less often.
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Returns:
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True if it is time to compute another element's size.
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"""
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self._sample_counter += 1
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if self._next_sample == 0:
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if random.randint(1, self._sample_counter) <= 10:
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if self._sample_counter > 30:
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self._next_sample = self._compute_next_sample(self._sample_counter)
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return True
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return False
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elif self._sample_counter >= self._next_sample:
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self._next_sample = self._compute_next_sample(self._sample_counter)
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return True
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return False
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# TODO(silviuc): Implement estimated size sampling.
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pass
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def __str__(self):
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return '<%s [%s]>' % (self.__class__.__name__,

google/cloud/dataflow/worker/opcounters_test.py

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"""Tests for worker counters."""
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import logging
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import random
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import unittest
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from google.cloud.dataflow import coders
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opcounts.update_collect()
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self.verify_counters(opcounts, 3)
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def test_should_sample(self):
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# Order of magnitude more buckets than highest constant in code under test.
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buckets = [0] * 300
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# The seed is arbitrary and exists just to ensure this test is robust.
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# If you don't like this seed, try your own; the test should still pass.
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random.seed(1717)
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# Do enough runs that the expected hits even in the last buckets
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# is big enough to expect some statistical smoothing.
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total_runs = 10 * len(buckets)
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# Fill the buckets.
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for _ in xrange(total_runs):
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opcounts = OperationCounters(CounterFactory(), 'some-name',
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coders.PickleCoder(), 0)
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for i in xrange(len(buckets)):
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if opcounts.should_sample():
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buckets[i] += 1
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# Look at the buckets to see if they are likely.
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for i in xrange(10):
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self.assertEqual(total_runs, buckets[i])
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for i in xrange(10, len(buckets)):
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self.assertTrue(buckets[i] > 7 * total_runs / i,
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'i=%d, buckets[i]=%d, expected=%d, ratio=%f' % (
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i, buckets[i],
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10 * total_runs / i,
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buckets[i] / (10.0 * total_runs / i)))
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self.assertTrue(buckets[i] < 14 * total_runs / i,
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'i=%d, buckets[i]=%d, expected=%d, ratio=%f' % (
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i, buckets[i],
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10 * total_runs / i,
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buckets[i] / (10.0 * total_runs / i)))
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if __name__ == '__main__':
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logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.INFO)

setup.py

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'google/cloud/dataflow/coders/coder_impl.py',
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'google/cloud/dataflow/runners/common.py',
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'google/cloud/dataflow/worker/executor.py',
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'google/cloud/dataflow/worker/opcounters.py',
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'google/cloud/dataflow/utils/counters.py',
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]),
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setup_requires=['nose>=1.0'],

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