On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 09:37:29 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> UUID is the very important class that is used to track identities of objects
>> in large scale systems. On some of our systems, `UUID.randomUUID` takes >1%
>> of total CPU time, and is frequently a scalability bottleneck due to
>> `SecureRandom` synchronization.
>>
>> The major issue with UUID code itself is that it reads from the single
>> `SecureRandom` instance by 16 bytes. So the heavily contended `SecureRandom`
>> is bashed with very small requests. This also has a chilling effect on other
>> users of `SecureRandom`, when there is a heavy UUID generation traffic.
>>
>> We can improve this by doing the bulk reads from the backing SecureRandom
>> and possibly striping the reads across many instances of it.
>>
>>
>> Benchmark Mode Cnt Score Error Units
>>
>> ### AArch64 (m6g.4xlarge, Graviton, 16 cores)
>>
>> # Before
>> UUIDRandomBench.single thrpt 15 3.545 ± 0.058 ops/us
>> UUIDRandomBench.max thrpt 15 1.832 ± 0.059 ops/us ; negative scaling
>>
>> # After
>> UUIDRandomBench.single thrpt 15 4.823 ± 0.023 ops/us
>> UUIDRandomBench.max thrpt 15 6.561 ± 0.054 ops/us ; positive
>> scaling, ~1.5x
>>
>> ### x86_64 (c6.8xlarge, Xeon, 18 cores)
>>
>> # Before
>> UUIDRandomBench.single thrpt 15 2.710 ± 0.038 ops/us
>> UUIDRandomBench.max thrpt 15 1.880 ± 0.029 ops/us ; negative
>> scaling
>>
>> # After
>> Benchmark Mode Cnt Score Error Units
>> UUIDRandomBench.single thrpt 15 3.109 ± 0.026 ops/us
>> UUIDRandomBench.max thrpt 15 3.561 ± 0.071 ops/us ; positive
>> scaling, ~1.2x
>>
>>
>> Note that there is still a scalability bottleneck in current default random
>> (`NativePRNG`), because it synchronizes over a singleton instance for SHA1
>> mixer, then the engine itself, etc. -- it is quite a whack-a-mole to figure
>> out the synchronization story there. The scalability fix in current default
>> `SecureRandom` would be much more intrusive and risky, since it would change
>> a core crypto class with unknown bug fanout.
>>
>> Using the bulk reads even when the underlying PRNG is heavily synchronized
>> is still a win. A more scalable PRNG would benefit from this as well. This
>> PR adds a system property to select the PRNG implementation, and there we
>> can clearly see the benefit with more scalable PRNG sources:
>>
>>
>> Benchmark Mode Cnt Score Error Units
>>
>> ### x86_64 (c6.8xlarge, Xeon, 18 cores)
>>
>> # Before, hacked `new SecureRandom()` to
>> `SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG")`
>> UUIDRandomBench.single thrpt ...
>
> Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a
> merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 13 commits:
>
> - Revert test changes
> - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8308804-uuid-buffers
> - Simplify clinit
> - Remove the properties
> - Swap lsb/msb
> - Fine-tune exceptions
> - Handle privileged properties
> - Use ByteArray to convert. Do version/variant preparations straight on
> locals. Move init out of optimistic lock section.
> - More touchups
> - Comment updates
> - ... and 3 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/4460429d...fd7eaa1a
I see this PR was closed out as stale and not integrated. I am curious if there
is anything I could do to help push this over the line. As highlighted by
@shipilev in the PR description, UUID generation is often a critical component
of some systems and contention on SecureRandom can become a scalability
bottleneck that I would love to reduce.
Thanks!
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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14135#issuecomment-1705192263
