1173039 - Write a script to generate runtimes files via ActiveData

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

We should create a script to make it easy to generate runtimes.json files.

I have such a script locally, and am testing out the resulting chunk times on this try job:

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=5e4615a5d9ce

Comment 1

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Attachment: Write script to generate runtimes data,

Try run with a complete set of mochitest-bc files generated by it:  https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=99e5b945559c

Comment 2

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

btw Kyle, the data ActiveData generates is very easy to consume for this use case.

Comment 3

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

Comment on attachment 8620416 [details] [diff] [review]
Write script to generate runtimes data,

Review of attachment 8620416 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Any idea why some files seemed to shrink so much and others grow? Afaict, it looks like the algorithm you used is more or less the same one I used in runtime-accumulator. Or are these all replacing the ones that you generated manually? Anyway, looks good with some nits below.

::: testing/runtimes/writeruntimes.py
@@ +8,5 @@
> +
> +here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
> +
> +ACTIVE_DATA_URL = "http://activedata.allizom.org/query"
> +THRESHOLD = 0.9 # ignore the bottom THRESHOLD*100% of numbers

nit: in stats parlance, I think this is a percentile. Can we call it PERCENTILE?

@@ +38,5 @@
> +    testdata = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(list))
> +    for result in data:
> +        platform = result[0]
> +        buildtype = result[2]
> +        if not buildtype in testdata[platform]:

nit: buildtype not in

@@ +39,5 @@
> +    for result in data:
> +        platform = result[0]
> +        buildtype = result[2]
> +        if not buildtype in testdata[platform]:
> +            testdata[platform][buildtype] = []

You could avoid this with `defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(list)))` (just kidding :p)

@@ +40,5 @@
> +        platform = result[0]
> +        buildtype = result[2]
> +        if not buildtype in testdata[platform]:
> +            testdata[platform][buildtype] = []
> +        testdata[platform][buildtype].append([result[1], result[3]])

It would be nice to have a comment that explains what we expect each column in the result to be

@@ +58,5 @@
> +
> +            # split the durations into two groups; excluded and specified
> +            ommitted = []
> +            specified = {}
> +            for result in testdata[platform][buildtype]:

nit: for test, duration in testdata...

Comment 4

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

I noticed some of the original mochitest-browser-chrome files included runtimes for devtools tests.  These shouldn't, so that would explain cases of shrinkage.

Some of the files I manually created earlier didn't use a threshold of "top 10%", they used a threshold of > 10s, so that may also explain some of the size changes.

Comment 5

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

(In reply to Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin) from comment #4)
> I noticed some of the original mochitest-browser-chrome files included
> runtimes for devtools tests.  These shouldn't, so that would explain cases
> of shrinkage.
 
I confirmed this as the primary cause of shrinkage.  The original file for linux-opt contained 262 entries, but only 150 of those were actually for mbc...the rest were for devtools.  The new file contains just 125 entries, all for mbc.

> Some of the files I manually created earlier didn't use a threshold of "top 10%", they used a 
> threshold of > 10s, so that may also explain some of the size changes.

I confirmed this as the primary cause of file growth.  The linux64-pgo file I manually created using a treshold of 10s only contained 29 runtimes; the new files which has a 10% threshold contains 125.

Comment 6

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Nits addressed.  For kicks, here's a try run which uses an 80% percentile, instead of 90%.  I want to compare the chunk normalizations against the try run in comment #1.

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=258af41b7b58

Comment 7

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

(In reply to Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin) from comment #6)
> Nits addressed.  For kicks, here's a try run which uses an 80% percentile,
> instead of 90%.  I want to compare the chunk normalizations against the try
> run in comment #1.
> 
> https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=258af41b7b58

This does, not surprisingly, improve the chunking.  It's noticeable mostly on the very slow linux-debug runs, but otherwise not particularly worthwhile.  Perhaps I can add an option for percentile, which will default to .9, but which can be overriden for specific platforms.

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/a16fce3c2d59

Comment 9

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a16fce3c2d59

Comment 10

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I wonder if there's any value in making the script pretty-print the JSON file and sort the keys so that diffs are usable? Are we just going to wind up changing the entire file with every commit anyway?

Comment 11

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

(In reply to Ted Mielczarek [:ted.mielczarek] from comment #10)
> I wonder if there's any value in making the script pretty-print the JSON
> file and sort the keys so that diffs are usable? Are we just going to wind
> up changing the entire file with every commit anyway?

Almost certainly, since the chances of the average duration of a test being exactly the same week after week are next to zero.

I guess we could modify this script to read the original file as input, and only write a new value if the new value is sufficiently different from the old.  This would reduce a lot of churn, and in this case, using pretty print would make sense.  I'll file this as a follow-up.