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author | Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io> | 2020-11-01 10:48:44 -0800 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-11-01 10:48:44 -0800 |
commit | fede3db76aef95c010c3e0c3da3b732380285097 (patch) | |
tree | 0aa934da682d7f31cf093e69e420ba88601acb6e /tokio/src/loom | |
parent | 2b23aa7389686f341e564c8da565a3b4c8b1188f (diff) |
tracing: replace future names with spawn locations in task spans (#3074)
## Motivation
Currently, the per-task `tracing` spans generated by tokio's `tracing`
feature flag include the `std::any::type_name` of the future that was
spawned. When future combinators and/or libraries like Tower are in use,
these future names can get _quite_ long. Furthermore, when formatting
the `tracing` spans with their parent spans as context, any other task
spans in the span context where the future was spawned from can _also_
include extremely long future names.
In some cases, this can result in extremely high memory use just to
store the future names. For example, in Linkerd, when we enable
`tokio=trace` to enable the task spans, there's a spawned task whose
future name is _232990 characters long_. A proxy with only 14 spawned
tasks generates a task list that's over 690 KB. Enabling task spans
under load results in the process getting OOM killed very quickly.
## Solution
This branch removes future type names from the spans generated by
`spawn`. As a replacement, to allow identifying which `spawn` call a
span corresponds to, the task span now contains the source code location
where `spawn` was called, when the compiler supports the
`#[track_caller]` attribute. Since `track_caller` was stabilized in Rust
1.46.0, and our minimum supported Rust version is 1.45.0, we can't
assume that `#[track_caller]` is always available. Instead, we have a
RUSTFLAGS cfg, `tokio_track_caller`, that guards whether or not we use
it. I've also added a `build.rs` that detects the compiler minor
version, and sets the cfg flag automatically if the current compiler
version is >= 1.46. This means users shouldn't have to enable
`tokio_track_caller` manually.
Here's the trace output from the `chat` example, before this change:
![Screenshot_20201030_110157](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2796466/97741071-6d408800-1a9f-11eb-9ed6-b25e72f58c7b.png)
...and after:
![Screenshot_20201030_110303](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2796466/97741112-7e899480-1a9f-11eb-9197-c5a3f9ea1c05.png)
Closes #3073
Signed-off-by: Eliza Weisman <eliza@buoyant.io>
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