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grpc-go/codec.go
Adhityaa Chandrasekar 642675125e codec/proto: reuse of marshal byte buffers (#3167)
Performance benchmarks can be found below. Obviously, a 8 KiB
request/response is tailored to showcase this improvement as this is
where codec buffer reuse shines, but I've run other benchmarks too (like
1-byte requests and responses) and there's no discernable impact on
performance.

We do not allow reuse of buffers when stat handlers or binlogs are
turned on. This is because those two may need access to the data and
payload even after the data has been written to the wire. In such cases,
we never return the data back to the pool.

A buffer reuse threshold of 1 KiB was determined after several
experiments. There's diminished returns when buffer reuse is enabled for
smaller messages (actually, a negative impact).

unary-networkMode_none-bufConn_false-keepalive_false-benchTime_40s-trace_false-latency_0s-kbps_0-MTU_0-maxConcurrentCalls_6-reqSize_8192B-respSize_8192B-compressor_off-channelz_false-preloader_false
               Title       Before        After Percentage
            TotalOps       839638       906223     7.93%
             SendOps            0            0      NaN%
             RecvOps            0            0      NaN%
            Bytes/op    103788.29     80592.47   -22.35%
           Allocs/op       183.33       189.30     3.27%
             ReqT/op 1375662899.20 1484755763.20     7.93%
            RespT/op 1375662899.20 1484755763.20     7.93%
            50th-Lat    238.746µs    225.019µs    -5.75%
            90th-Lat    514.253µs    456.439µs   -11.24%
            99th-Lat    711.083µs    702.466µs    -1.21%
             Avg-Lat     285.45µs    264.456µs    -7.35%
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/*
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package grpc
import (
"google.golang.org/grpc/encoding"
_ "google.golang.org/grpc/encoding/proto" // to register the Codec for "proto"
)
// baseCodec contains the functionality of both Codec and encoding.Codec, but
// omits the name/string, which vary between the two and are not needed for
// anything besides the registry in the encoding package.
type baseCodec interface {
Marshal(v interface{}) ([]byte, error)
Unmarshal(data []byte, v interface{}) error
}
// A bufferReturner requires a ReturnBuffer method to be implemented. Once a
// Marshal caller is done with the returned byte buffer, they can choose to
// return it back to the encoding library for re-use using this method.
type bufferReturner interface {
// If implemented in a codec, this function may be called with the byte
// buffer returned by Marshal after gRPC is done with the buffer.
//
// gRPC will not call ReturnBuffer after it's done with the buffer if any of
// the following is true:
// 1. Stats handlers are used.
// 2. Binlogs are enabled.
ReturnBuffer(buf []byte)
}
var _ baseCodec = Codec(nil)
var _ baseCodec = encoding.Codec(nil)
// Codec defines the interface gRPC uses to encode and decode messages.
// Note that implementations of this interface must be thread safe;
// a Codec's methods can be called from concurrent goroutines.
//
// Deprecated: use encoding.Codec instead.
type Codec interface {
// Marshal returns the wire format of v.
Marshal(v interface{}) ([]byte, error)
// Unmarshal parses the wire format into v.
Unmarshal(data []byte, v interface{}) error
// String returns the name of the Codec implementation. This is unused by
// gRPC.
String() string
}