plugeth/metrics/meter.go
Martin Holst Swende 8b6cf128af
metrics: refactor metrics (#28035)
This change includes a lot of things, listed below. 

### Split up interfaces, write vs read

The interfaces have been split up into one write-interface and one read-interface, with `Snapshot` being the gateway from write to read. This simplifies the semantics _a lot_. 

Example of splitting up an interface into one readonly 'snapshot' part, and one updatable writeonly part: 

```golang
type MeterSnapshot interface {
	Count() int64
	Rate1() float64
	Rate5() float64
	Rate15() float64
	RateMean() float64
}

// Meters count events to produce exponentially-weighted moving average rates
// at one-, five-, and fifteen-minutes and a mean rate.
type Meter interface {
	Mark(int64)
	Snapshot() MeterSnapshot
	Stop()
}
```

### A note about concurrency

This PR makes the concurrency model clearer. We have actual meters and snapshot of meters. The `meter` is the thing which can be accessed from the registry, and updates can be made to it. 

- For all `meters`, (`Gauge`, `Timer` etc), it is assumed that they are accessed by different threads, making updates. Therefore, all `meters` update-methods (`Inc`, `Add`, `Update`, `Clear` etc) need to be concurrency-safe. 
- All `meters` have a `Snapshot()` method. This method is _usually_ called from one thread, a backend-exporter. But it's fully possible to have several exporters simultaneously: therefore this method should also be concurrency-safe. 

TLDR: `meter`s are accessible via registry, all their methods must be concurrency-safe. 

For all `Snapshot`s, it is assumed that an individual exporter-thread has obtained a `meter` from the registry, and called the `Snapshot` method to obtain a readonly snapshot. This snapshot is _not_ guaranteed to be concurrency-safe. There's no need for a snapshot to be concurrency-safe, since exporters should not share snapshots. 

Note, though: that by happenstance a lot of the snapshots _are_ concurrency-safe, being unmutable minimal representations of a value. Only the more complex ones are _not_ threadsafe, those that lazily calculate things like `Variance()`, `Mean()`.

Example of how a background exporter typically works, obtaining the snapshot and sequentially accessing the non-threadsafe methods in it: 
```golang
		ms := metric.Snapshot()
                ...
		fields := map[string]interface{}{
			"count":    ms.Count(),
			"max":      ms.Max(),
			"mean":     ms.Mean(),
			"min":      ms.Min(),
			"stddev":   ms.StdDev(),
			"variance": ms.Variance(),
```

TLDR: `snapshots` are not guaranteed to be concurrency-safe (but often are).

### Sample changes

I also changed the `Sample` type: previously, it iterated the samples fully every time `Mean()`,`Sum()`, `Min()` or `Max()` was invoked. Since we now have readonly base data, we can just iterate it once, in the constructor, and set all four values at once. 

The same thing has been done for runtimehistogram. 

### ResettingTimer API

Back when ResettingTImer was implemented, as part of https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/15910, Anton implemented a `Percentiles` on the new type. However, the method did not conform to the other existing types which also had a `Percentiles`. 

1. The existing ones, on input, took `0.5` to mean `50%`. Anton used `50` to mean `50%`. 
2. The existing ones returned `float64` outputs, thus interpolating between values. A value-set of `0, 10`, at `50%` would return `5`, whereas Anton's would return either `0` or `10`. 

This PR removes the 'new' version, and uses only the 'legacy' percentiles, also for the ResettingTimer type. 

The resetting timer snapshot was also defined so that it would expose the internal values. This has been removed, and getters for `Max, Min, Mean` have been added instead. 

### Unexport types

A lot of types were exported, but do not need to be. This PR unexports quite a lot of them.
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package metrics
import (
"math"
"sync"
"sync/atomic"
"time"
)
type MeterSnapshot interface {
Count() int64
Rate1() float64
Rate5() float64
Rate15() float64
RateMean() float64
}
// Meters count events to produce exponentially-weighted moving average rates
// at one-, five-, and fifteen-minutes and a mean rate.
type Meter interface {
Mark(int64)
Snapshot() MeterSnapshot
Stop()
}
// GetOrRegisterMeter returns an existing Meter or constructs and registers a
// new StandardMeter.
// Be sure to unregister the meter from the registry once it is of no use to
// allow for garbage collection.
func GetOrRegisterMeter(name string, r Registry) Meter {
if nil == r {
r = DefaultRegistry
}
return r.GetOrRegister(name, NewMeter).(Meter)
}
// NewMeter constructs a new StandardMeter and launches a goroutine.
// Be sure to call Stop() once the meter is of no use to allow for garbage collection.
func NewMeter() Meter {
if !Enabled {
return NilMeter{}
}
m := newStandardMeter()
arbiter.Lock()
defer arbiter.Unlock()
arbiter.meters[m] = struct{}{}
if !arbiter.started {
arbiter.started = true
go arbiter.tick()
}
return m
}
// NewInactiveMeter returns a meter but does not start any goroutines. This
// method is mainly intended for testing.
func NewInactiveMeter() Meter {
if !Enabled {
return NilMeter{}
}
m := newStandardMeter()
return m
}
// NewRegisteredMeter constructs and registers a new StandardMeter
// and launches a goroutine.
// Be sure to unregister the meter from the registry once it is of no use to
// allow for garbage collection.
func NewRegisteredMeter(name string, r Registry) Meter {
return GetOrRegisterMeter(name, r)
}
// meterSnapshot is a read-only copy of the meter's internal values.
type meterSnapshot struct {
count int64
rate1, rate5, rate15, rateMean float64
}
// Count returns the count of events at the time the snapshot was taken.
func (m *meterSnapshot) Count() int64 { return m.count }
// Rate1 returns the one-minute moving average rate of events per second at the
// time the snapshot was taken.
func (m *meterSnapshot) Rate1() float64 { return m.rate1 }
// Rate5 returns the five-minute moving average rate of events per second at
// the time the snapshot was taken.
func (m *meterSnapshot) Rate5() float64 { return m.rate5 }
// Rate15 returns the fifteen-minute moving average rate of events per second
// at the time the snapshot was taken.
func (m *meterSnapshot) Rate15() float64 { return m.rate15 }
// RateMean returns the meter's mean rate of events per second at the time the
// snapshot was taken.
func (m *meterSnapshot) RateMean() float64 { return m.rateMean }
// NilMeter is a no-op Meter.
type NilMeter struct{}
func (NilMeter) Count() int64 { return 0 }
func (NilMeter) Mark(n int64) {}
func (NilMeter) Snapshot() MeterSnapshot { return (*emptySnapshot)(nil) }
func (NilMeter) Stop() {}
// StandardMeter is the standard implementation of a Meter.
type StandardMeter struct {
count atomic.Int64
uncounted atomic.Int64 // not yet added to the EWMAs
rateMean atomic.Uint64
a1, a5, a15 EWMA
startTime time.Time
stopped atomic.Bool
}
func newStandardMeter() *StandardMeter {
return &StandardMeter{
a1: NewEWMA1(),
a5: NewEWMA5(),
a15: NewEWMA15(),
startTime: time.Now(),
}
}
// Stop stops the meter, Mark() will be a no-op if you use it after being stopped.
func (m *StandardMeter) Stop() {
if stopped := m.stopped.Swap(true); !stopped {
arbiter.Lock()
delete(arbiter.meters, m)
arbiter.Unlock()
}
}
// Mark records the occurrence of n events.
func (m *StandardMeter) Mark(n int64) {
m.uncounted.Add(n)
}
// Snapshot returns a read-only copy of the meter.
func (m *StandardMeter) Snapshot() MeterSnapshot {
return &meterSnapshot{
count: m.count.Load() + m.uncounted.Load(),
rate1: m.a1.Snapshot().Rate(),
rate5: m.a5.Snapshot().Rate(),
rate15: m.a15.Snapshot().Rate(),
rateMean: math.Float64frombits(m.rateMean.Load()),
}
}
func (m *StandardMeter) tick() {
// Take the uncounted values, add to count
n := m.uncounted.Swap(0)
count := m.count.Add(n)
m.rateMean.Store(math.Float64bits(float64(count) / time.Since(m.startTime).Seconds()))
// Update the EWMA's internal state
m.a1.Update(n)
m.a5.Update(n)
m.a15.Update(n)
// And trigger them to calculate the rates
m.a1.Tick()
m.a5.Tick()
m.a15.Tick()
}
// meterArbiter ticks meters every 5s from a single goroutine.
// meters are references in a set for future stopping.
type meterArbiter struct {
sync.RWMutex
started bool
meters map[*StandardMeter]struct{}
ticker *time.Ticker
}
var arbiter = meterArbiter{ticker: time.NewTicker(5 * time.Second), meters: make(map[*StandardMeter]struct{})}
// Ticks meters on the scheduled interval
func (ma *meterArbiter) tick() {
for range ma.ticker.C {
ma.tickMeters()
}
}
func (ma *meterArbiter) tickMeters() {
ma.RLock()
defer ma.RUnlock()
for meter := range ma.meters {
meter.tick()
}
}