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perf(ir): make measured startup the same in every run and re-record every budget (LAB-12297) - #699
The instruction-budget gate (make perf-ir) subtracts two runs of each path so that interpreter startup cancels. Startup did not cost the same in every run, so it did not cancel. Three sources made it vary, and this PR takes each out of the measured process. Every path then repeats within 3,500 instructions at one heap layout, so the three cheapest paths no longer need 300,000 calls and the orjson round trip loses its 2% exception. Every budget is re-recorded on one reference machine under the new setup.
The three sources
pyarrow's jemalloc background thread. Every measured process imports pandas, which loads pyarrow. pyarrow's bundled jemalloc is compiled with background_thread:true, so a jemalloc_bg_thd thread starts at import. How it is scheduled against the main thread puts a run in one of two startup states. measure() now sets JE_ARROW_MALLOC_CONF=background_thread:false,dirty_decay_ms:-1,muzzy_decay_ms:-1. The decay settings stop jemalloc from purging on a real-time deadline on the allocating thread instead.
mimalloc's delayed purge. pyarrow 26's default pool is mimalloc, not jemalloc (pa.default_memory_pool().backend_name). mimalloc purges freed memory after a real-time delay, which the freeing thread checks with clock_gettime: 10 reads per real-data round trip on the main thread (_mi_arenas_collect, _mi_arenas_free). MIMALLOC_PURGE_DELAY=-1 stops it purging. With it, the main thread makes the same number of clock reads at both loop sizes, all of them at startup.
numpy's OS-entropy seed. Importing pandas imports numpy.random, which seeds its global generator from secrets.randbits(128). The bits drawn change the cost of the seeding arithmetic and the sizes of what it allocates, and the heap layout everything after it runs in. On CPython 3.14, 16 runs of serializer_default spread over 56,874 instructions; with ir_workload.pin_os_entropy(), which replaces Python's os.urandom with a seeded stream before pandas is imported, they spread over 557. A unit test checks that numpy's global generator starts in the same state in two pinned processes and in different states in two unpinned ones. It skips where numpy is not installed, as on the free-threaded lanes.
Evidence
16 callgrind runs per path and loop size at layout 0, main's measured process and environment against this PR's, interleaved in one batch per interpreter so both saw the same load. The figure is the largest spread (max minus min main-thread instructions) at either loop size:
Path
3.12 main
3.12 this PR
3.14 main
3.14 this PR
byte_storage_store_40b
394,155
722
55,727
655
byte_storage_store_64k
380,438
824
55,463
700
file_set
127,862
125,909
206,254
113,833
l1_hit
113,190
3,278
53,462
2,071
l1_hit_backed
448,346
3,022
66,521
2,327
l2_hit
663,964
947
52,492
994
l2_hit_async_metrics
45,711
3,319
49,142
2,061
minimal_l1_hit
196,597
3,459
35,585
726
miss
944,996
688
38,634
656
object_cache_put_full
4,955,424
668
53,056
829
secure_l1_hit
370,395
3,199
51,705
3,443
serializer_arrow
13,524,505
2,784,071
3,013,136
1,779,703
serializer_arrow_usgs
3,304,083
1,849,431
579,771
1,761,534
serializer_auto
185,325
706
64,730
1,063
serializer_auto_usgs
3,650,091
1,848,370
578,681
1,892,676
serializer_default
88,312
742
51,677
827
serializer_default_records
1,177,369
711
48,309
674
serializer_encrypted
295,121
860
63,467
879
serializer_orjson
302,583
805
52,201
859
The cheap paths are compared at 1,000 and 3,000 calls on both sides. Fifteen paths now repeat within 3,500 instructions. Four do not, and the docs say so:
The three Arrow round trips run part of each call on pyarrow's thread pool. The main thread's count then varies with how that work interleaves with its own allocations, in proportion to the number of calls, with or without these settings. That is at most 0.1% of one layout's figure for serializer_arrow and 0.25% for the two real-data paths.
file_set's startup still varies by up to 126,000 instructions, from a source this PR did not identify. That is at most 0.15% of one layout's figure.
Loop sizes. Over 1,000 and 3,000 calls, l1_hit, minimal_l1_hit and byte_storage_store_40b held their gate figures within 1 instruction per call in 6 full gate runs per interpreter. They agree with the 1,000/300,000-call figures within 3.2 instructions per call, so they go back to the default loop sizes.
orjson. Over 20 full gate runs, serializer_orjson read 22,025 every time on 3.12, and 22,594 to 22,595 on 3.14. Eight copies of ir_workload.py that differ only in a comment's length gave it the same figure. It is now gated at 1% like every other path.
Re-record. Every budget is re-recorded on CPython 3.12.12 and 3.14.3 from this branch. The re-record also clears budgets left stale by earlier changes that were never ratcheted down: serializer_default_records −29%, serializer_default −17%, serializer_encrypted −10%, secure_l1_hit −7%, l2_hit and l2_hit_async_metrics −6%, l1_hit_backed −4%. Paths no earlier change touched moved by under 1%.
Docs
docs/performance.md "Instruction Budgets": the threshold line, Method (loop sizes, the three sources and their settings, the four paths that keep noise), the Budgets table, the reference machine's build, and Limits. The Makefile, CONTRIBUTING.md and tests/performance/README.md drop "orjson 2%". The CI comment footnote (ir_report.py) drops its orjson exception. The gate's docstring, comments and the JSON's method string match the loop sizes and environment it runs.
Test plan
tests/unit/test_ir_budget.py and tests/unit/test_ir_report.py on CPython 3.12.12 and 3.14.3 (91 passed each), ruff check, ruff format --check
Spread batches above, on both interpreters
Non-base gate run at head a3d9b15 on the reference machine, both interpreters: PASS, all 19 paths ok (no FAIL, WARN or LOWER), every figure within 0.08% of its new budget
Non-slow unit suite on 3.14.3: 6,860 passed; the 21 failures and errors are the Redis-backed cases, which need a redis-server this machine does not run
The Instruction budget check compares this PR against its base, and every path's measured process changed. At 112ee71 it passed, with six paths at WARN (+0.20% to +0.40%) because of that change.
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- Line 246: Update the comparison flow around pin_os_entropy so comparisons
against older base workloads are repeated near the 1% threshold to reduce
startup-entropy noise; apply the same repeated comparisons to release-please
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Performance
Standardised instruction-count regression limits to 1% across all measured paths.
Updated performance budgets and measurement guidance, including controls to reduce variability and refreshed reference-machine details.
Removed the separate tolerance for serializer round trips.
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The performance measurement setup now controls allocator activity and OS entropy. The instruction budgets are updated, and the perf-ir gate applies a shared 1% regression threshold to all paths.
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Instruction-budget measurements
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Stabilise measurements and update budgets tests/performance/ir_workload.py, tests/performance/ir_budget.py, tests/performance/ir_baselines.json, tests/unit/test_ir_budget.py, docs/performance.md
The workload pins OS entropy, and the measured process disables allocator background activity. The measurement method and recorded budgets are updated. A unit test checks reproducibility of NumPy’s initial random state across separate pinned processes.
cachekit-io/cachekit-py#697: Both PRs change instruction-budget measurement repeatability. PR #697 increases loop sizes for short paths; this PR controls allocator activity and OS entropy.
cachekit-io/cachekit-py#635: PR #635 adds the judging and report pipeline. This PR changes the shared threshold used by that pipeline.
cachekit-io/cachekit-py#657: PR #657 changes the comparison base for release PRs. This PR changes the threshold used by the comparison.
Suggested reviewers: kodus-27b
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Issue identified during code review:
Missing dependency skip in test_pinned_os_entropy_starts_numpy_in_the_same_state_in_every_run: the subprocess probe runs `import numpy.random` with `check=True`, but numpy is only in the `dev` dependency group and the test has no `pytest.importorskip("numpy")`. In the free-threaded CI lane, which installs only the `test` group (`uv sync --no-default-groups --group test`, ci.yml:339) and runs `pytest tests/unit/` (ci.yml:359), the child process raises ModuleNotFoundError, `subprocess.run(..., check=True)` raises CalledProcessError, and the test fails. Fix: call `pytest.importorskip("numpy")` at the top of the test, as the sibling tests in this file do for pandas.
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// tests/unit/test_ir_budget.py:519
def test_pinned_os_entropy_starts_numpy_in_the_same_state_in_every_run() -> None:
"""numpy.random seeds its global generator from OS entropy at import, which moved every path's count."""
pytest.importorskip("numpy") # the probe imports numpy.random; the free-threaded lane installs only the test group
probe = (
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Head a3d9b15dd7edaf0c60fe8e6af0709070b7dfc043 measured against base 185888252dd0c002b3c81ba6789882b494d4c800 on the same runner, on cpython-3.12-x86_64 (3.12.3). Workflow run
Verdict
Path
Head Ir/op
Base Ir/op
Delta
WARN
file_set
86,729
86,498
+0.27%
WARN
l1_hit
2,889
2,879
+0.35%
WARN
serializer_auto
72,515
72,345
+0.23%
WARN
serializer_default
52,712
52,599
+0.21%
WARN
serializer_encrypted
97,626
97,347
+0.29%
WARN
serializer_orjson
24,891
24,788
+0.42%
ok
byte_storage_store_40b
2,748
2,748
+0.00%
ok
byte_storage_store_64k
724,663
724,631
+0.00%
ok
l1_hit_backed
88,111
88,096
+0.02%
ok
l2_hit
184,527
184,451
+0.04%
ok
l2_hit_async_metrics
184,460
184,677
-0.12%
ok
minimal_l1_hit
2,888
2,889
-0.03%
ok
miss
242,377
242,147
+0.09%
ok
object_cache_put_full
198,739
198,924
-0.09%
ok
secure_l1_hit
138,127
137,954
+0.13%
ok
serializer_arrow
2,217,026
2,213,115
+0.18%
ok
serializer_default_records
1,041,626
1,041,254
+0.04%
A path fails at +1% or more against the base. This check is not required: a deliberate cost increase is accepted at merge. Method: docs/performance.md, Instruction budgets.
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The instruction-budget gate (
make perf-ir) subtracts two runs of each path so that interpreter startup cancels. Startup did not cost the same in every run, so it did not cancel. Three sources made it vary, and this PR takes each out of the measured process. Every path then repeats within 3,500 instructions at one heap layout, so the three cheapest paths no longer need 300,000 calls and the orjson round trip loses its 2% exception. Every budget is re-recorded on one reference machine under the new setup.The three sources
background_thread:true, so ajemalloc_bg_thdthread starts at import. How it is scheduled against the main thread puts a run in one of two startup states.measure()now setsJE_ARROW_MALLOC_CONF=background_thread:false,dirty_decay_ms:-1,muzzy_decay_ms:-1. The decay settings stop jemalloc from purging on a real-time deadline on the allocating thread instead.pa.default_memory_pool().backend_name). mimalloc purges freed memory after a real-time delay, which the freeing thread checks withclock_gettime: 10 reads per real-data round trip on the main thread (_mi_arenas_collect,_mi_arenas_free).MIMALLOC_PURGE_DELAY=-1stops it purging. With it, the main thread makes the same number of clock reads at both loop sizes, all of them at startup.numpy.random, which seeds its global generator fromsecrets.randbits(128). The bits drawn change the cost of the seeding arithmetic and the sizes of what it allocates, and the heap layout everything after it runs in. On CPython 3.14, 16 runs ofserializer_defaultspread over 56,874 instructions; withir_workload.pin_os_entropy(), which replaces Python'sos.urandomwith a seeded stream before pandas is imported, they spread over 557. A unit test checks that numpy's global generator starts in the same state in two pinned processes and in different states in two unpinned ones. It skips where numpy is not installed, as on the free-threaded lanes.Evidence
16 callgrind runs per path and loop size at layout 0,
main's measured process and environment against this PR's, interleaved in one batch per interpreter so both saw the same load. The figure is the largest spread (max minus min main-thread instructions) at either loop size:mainmainbyte_storage_store_40bbyte_storage_store_64kfile_setl1_hitl1_hit_backedl2_hitl2_hit_async_metricsminimal_l1_hitmissobject_cache_put_fullsecure_l1_hitserializer_arrowserializer_arrow_usgsserializer_autoserializer_auto_usgsserializer_defaultserializer_default_recordsserializer_encryptedserializer_orjsonThe cheap paths are compared at 1,000 and 3,000 calls on both sides. Fifteen paths now repeat within 3,500 instructions. Four do not, and the docs say so:
serializer_arrowand 0.25% for the two real-data paths.file_set's startup still varies by up to 126,000 instructions, from a source this PR did not identify. That is at most 0.15% of one layout's figure.Loop sizes. Over 1,000 and 3,000 calls,
l1_hit,minimal_l1_hitandbyte_storage_store_40bheld their gate figures within 1 instruction per call in 6 full gate runs per interpreter. They agree with the 1,000/300,000-call figures within 3.2 instructions per call, so they go back to the default loop sizes.orjson. Over 20 full gate runs,
serializer_orjsonread 22,025 every time on 3.12, and 22,594 to 22,595 on 3.14. Eight copies ofir_workload.pythat differ only in a comment's length gave it the same figure. It is now gated at 1% like every other path.Re-record. Every budget is re-recorded on CPython 3.12.12 and 3.14.3 from this branch. The re-record also clears budgets left stale by earlier changes that were never ratcheted down:
serializer_default_records−29%,serializer_default−17%,serializer_encrypted−10%,secure_l1_hit−7%,l2_hitandl2_hit_async_metrics−6%,l1_hit_backed−4%. Paths no earlier change touched moved by under 1%.Docs
docs/performance.md"Instruction Budgets": the threshold line, Method (loop sizes, the three sources and their settings, the four paths that keep noise), the Budgets table, the reference machine's build, and Limits. TheMakefile,CONTRIBUTING.mdandtests/performance/README.mddrop "orjson 2%". The CI comment footnote (ir_report.py) drops its orjson exception. The gate's docstring, comments and the JSON'smethodstring match the loop sizes and environment it runs.Test plan
tests/unit/test_ir_budget.pyandtests/unit/test_ir_report.pyon CPython 3.12.12 and 3.14.3 (91 passed each),ruff check,ruff format --checka3d9b15on the reference machine, both interpreters:PASS, all 19 pathsok(noFAIL,WARNorLOWER), every figure within 0.08% of its new budgetredis-serverthis machine does not runThe
Instruction budgetcheck compares this PR against its base, and every path's measured process changed. At112ee71it passed, with six paths atWARN(+0.20% to +0.40%) because of that change.Closes LAB-12297