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asyncio: set TCP_NODELAY flag by default #71643

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jimfulton mannequin opened this issue Jul 5, 2016 · 22 comments
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asyncio: set TCP_NODELAY flag by default #71643

jimfulton mannequin opened this issue Jul 5, 2016 · 22 comments
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jimfulton mannequin commented Jul 5, 2016

BPO 27456
Nosy @vstinner, @jimfulton, @vmagamedov, @socketpair, @1st1
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  • bpo-27456: Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on linux #4231
  • bpo-27456: asyncio: Fix _set_nodelay() for non-blocking socket #4233
  • Backport bpo-27456: Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on linux 3.6 #4897
  • [3.6] bpo-27456: Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on linux (GH-4231) #4898
  • bpo-27456: Simplify sock type checks #4922
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    title = 'asyncio: set TCP_NODELAY flag by default'
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    jimfulton mannequin commented Jul 5, 2016

    tl;dr TCP_NODELAY should be set by default and/or there should be a
    proper way to set it.

    I've ported ZEO, ZODB's client-server networking layer to asyncio.
    Things were going pretty well. I've been developing on a
    Mac. Yesterday, I ran some performance measurements on Linux and found
    some tests ran 30x slower.

    After some digging, I came across this:

    python/asyncio#311

    Then led me to try setting TCP_NODELAY, which provided Linux
    performance comparable to Mac OS performance.

    Issue 311 suggested that this was a kernal-version issue. I think
    this is a failure to set, or at least provide a way to set a "don't be
    stupid" option.

    I originally tried this on Ubuntu 14.04, with kernal
    3.13.0-74-generic. I then tried Ubuntu 16.04, in a docker image, with
    kernal 4.4.12-boot2docker. For both of these, performance for the
    write tests were 30x slower unless I set TCP_NODELAY.

    Finally, I tried an Amazon standard AMI, which runs some version of
    RedHat, with kernal 4.4.11-23.53.amzn1.x86_64. On that system,
    performance of the tests was similar to Mac OS X without setting
    TCP_NODELAY.

    Note that the non-slow kernal version was lower than the slow (Ubuntu)
    one. I don't think this is mearly a kernal version issue, nor do I
    think this should have been dismissed as one.

    I couldn't find a way to set TCP_NODELAY cleanly. Did I miss something?
    python/asyncio#286 suggests there isn't one.

    I ended up having to set the option on _sock transport attributes,
    which is dirty and, I assume, won't work with uvloop. (BTW, uvloop was
    only ~15x slower on linux systems with this problem.)

    I think TCP_NODELAY should be set by default. Perhaps it shouldn't be
    set on mobile, by everywhere else, I think it's a "don't be stupid"
    option.

    I also think there should be a way to set it cleanly.

    IMO, this is extremely important. Linux is a wildly important platform
    for networking applications and Python, and, for better or worse,
    Ubuntu is a very commonly used distribution. Having asyncio, perform
    so poorly on these platforms is a big deal.

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    jimfulton mannequin commented Jul 5, 2016

    Gaaa, forgot to set meta data.

    @jimfulton jimfulton mannequin added topic-asyncio performance Performance or resource usage labels Jul 5, 2016
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    1st1 commented Jul 5, 2016

    See also python/asyncio#286

    I also wanted to raise this question. I think transports should set NODELAY by default (as Golang, for instance). I've been hit by this thing a few times already -- performance of protocols over TCP is terrible because somebody forgot to set this flag.

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    jimfulton mannequin commented Jul 5, 2016

    I forgot to switch to the asyncio branch of ZEO when testing on the Amazon/RedHat linux. When I do, the tests run slow there too. Asyncio is dog slow on every linux I've tried.

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    Fine with me -- I have no idea what this flag does (nor the desire to learn :-).

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    1st1 commented Jul 5, 2016

    Jim, I can make a PR, unless you want to do that.

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    jimfulton mannequin commented Jul 5, 2016

    Yury, I'd be fine with you making a PR. :)

    Is there a similar update that can be made to uvloop?

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    1st1 commented Jul 5, 2016

    Is there a similar update that can be made to uvloop?

    Yes. Once it's committed to asyncio, I'll add it to uvloop immediately. That's one benefit of using uvloop -- it gets updates faster ;)

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    1st1 commented Jul 5, 2016

    PR: python/asyncio#373

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    jimfulton mannequin commented Jul 7, 2016

    I missed the point that you can get a transport's socket using get_extra_info. IMO, this provides an adequate escape from the default and qualifies as a "proper way to set it".

    I still think the default should be to enable TCP_NODELAY.

    @vstinner vstinner changed the title TCP_NODELAY asyncio: set TCP_NODELAY flag by default Sep 2, 2016
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    socketpair mannequin commented Sep 2, 2016

    vote +10 for that

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    python-dev mannequin commented Sep 12, 2016

    New changeset 3f7e4ae9eba3 by Yury Selivanov in branch '3.5':
    Issue bpo-27456: asyncio: Set TCP_NODELAY by default.
    https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3f7e4ae9eba3

    New changeset 10384c5c18f5 by Yury Selivanov in branch 'default':
    Merge 3.5 (issue bpo-27456)
    https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/10384c5c18f5

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    1st1 commented Sep 12, 2016

    Committed, should be in 3.6 b1.

    @1st1 1st1 closed this as completed Sep 12, 2016
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    vmagamedov mannequin commented Nov 2, 2017

    Seems like this fix is incomplete. It contains this check:

    sock.type == socket.SOCK_STREAM
    

    But sock.type is not only a type (at least in Linux and FreeBSD), it also may contain SOCK_NONBLOCK and SOCK_CLOEXEC flags. So I'm hitting the same problem: on the Linux in asyncio I have:

    > sock.type == socket.SOCK_STREAM | socket.SOCK_NONBLOCK == 2049
    True
    

    So this check isn't working and TCP_NODELAY still disabled by default.

    Links:

    Linux has SOCK_TYPE_MASK definition equal to 0xf, but I can't find such definition in the FreeBSD sources. And I don't know how to reliably and with forward compatibility check sock.type without calling getsockopt() syscall.

    Currently I have a fix in my project, where:

        _sock_type_mask = 0xf if hasattr(socket, 'SOCK_NONBLOCK') else 0xffffffff

    And then in my own _set_nodelay(sock) function:

    sock.type & _sock_type_mask == socket.SOCK_STREAM
    

    Should I make a pull request or someone knows more reliable check? Or it is ok to add one more syscall?

    sock.getsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_TYPE) == socket.SOCK_STREAM
    

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    1st1 commented Nov 2, 2017

    Seems like this fix is incomplete. It contains this check:

    sock.type == socket.SOCK_STREAM

    But sock.type is not only a type

    Good catch. I made a PR to fix this.

    @1st1 1st1 reopened this Nov 2, 2017
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    vstinner commented Nov 2, 2017

    sock.type == socket.SOCK_STREAM

    Oh, right. I wrote PR 4233 to fix the code.

    Yury: "Good catch. I made a PR to fix this."

    Oops. If you wrote a PR, would it mind to compare it with mine, please?

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    vstinner commented Nov 2, 2017

    _ipaddr_info() also uses "type == socket.SOCK_STREAM". Is it ok?

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    1st1 commented Dec 16, 2017

    New changeset e796b2f by Yury Selivanov in branch 'master':
    bpo-27456: Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on linux (bpo-4231)
    e796b2f

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    1st1 commented Dec 16, 2017

    New changeset 572636d by Yury Selivanov in branch '3.6':
    bpo-27456: Ensure TCP_NODELAY is set on linux (bpo-4231) (bpo-4898)
    572636d

    @1st1 1st1 closed this as completed Dec 16, 2017
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    1st1 commented Dec 19, 2017

    New changeset a7bd64c by Yury Selivanov in branch 'master':
    bpo-27456: Simplify sock type checks (bpo-4922)
    a7bd64c

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    Yury: thanks for fixing socket.socket.type. asyncio code now looks simpler and easier to follow without the helper functions just to test the socket type for equality.

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    socketpair mannequin commented Dec 20, 2017

    Note, TCP_NODELAY can not be set on UNIX streaming socket. Do you have corresponding tests for UNIX sockets ?

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