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core(driver): reduce required traceCategories again #6271

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@paulirish paulirish commented Oct 14, 2018

After #6117 allowed us to remove toplevel, I had a feeling we could remove more, like loading or benchmark trace categories.

Tried some things and... we can! It knocks another 20% off the trace size. :)

Details follow..


What trace events do we need?

I started by auditing all the trace events I can tell we care about. And I grabbed the category they're currently traced with in Chromium:

Trace events required by Lighthouse and their assigned categories

trace event name categories
ActivateLayerTree disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline.frame
Animation blink.animations,devtools.timeline,benchmark,rail
BlinkGCMarking (not used anymore, removing)
CompositeLayers disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline
domContentLoadedEventEnd blink.user_timing,rail
DrawFrame disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline.frame
EvaluateScript disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline
EventDispatch devtools.timeline
FireAnimationFrame devtools.timeline
FireIdleCallback devtools.timeline
firstContentfulPaint loading,rail,devtools.timeline
firstMeaningfulPaint loading,rail,devtools.timeline
firstMeaningfulPaintCandidate loading,rail,devtools.timeline
firstPaint loading,rail,devtools.timeline
FunctionCall devtools.timeline
GCEvent (not used anymore, removing)
HitTest blink,devtools.timeline
InvalidateLayout disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline
Layout devtools.timeline
loadEventEnd blink.user_timing
MajorGC devtools.timeline,v8
MessageLoop::RunTask toplevel
MinorGC devtools.timeline,v8
navigationStart blink.user_timing
Paint devtools.timeline,rail
PaintImage disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline
PaintSetup (not used anymore)
ParseAuthorStyleSheet blink,devtools.timeline
ParseHTML devtools.timeline
PlatformResourceSendRequest devtools.timeline
Rasterize (not used anymore, removing)
RasterTask cc,disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline
RecalculateStyles (not used anymore, removing)
RequestMainThreadFrame disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline.frame
ResourceFinish devtools.timeline
ResourceReceivedData devtools.timeline
ResourceReceiveResponse devtools.timeline
ResourceSendRequest devtools.timeline
RunMicrotasks v8.execute
RunTask disabled-by-default-lighthouse
ScheduleStyleRecalculation disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline
Screenshot disabled-by-default-devtools.screenshot
ScrollLayer devtools.timeline
TaskQueueManager:: ProcessTaskFromWorkQueue (not a thing anymore)
ThreadControllerImpl::DoWork (not a thing anymore)
ThreadControllerImpl::RunTask toplevel (swapped, you know)
ThreadState::completeSweep (not a thing anymore, removed)
ThreadState::performIdleLazySweep (not a thing anymore, removed)
TimerFire devtools.timeline
TimerInstall devtools.timeline
TracingStartedInBrowser disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline
TracingStartedInPage (not emitted anymore, we synthesize it ourselves)
UpdateLayer disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline
UpdateLayerTree devtools.timeline
UpdateLayoutTree blink,devtools.timeline
v8.compile v8,devtools.timeline
v8.compileModule v8,devtools.timeline
v8.evaluateModule v8,devtools.timeline
V8.Execute v8
v8.parseOnBackground v8,devtools.timeline
XHRReadyStateChange devtools.timeline

Then, what trace categories do we need?

If you then take all the required categories and list em out, you get:

  • disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline
  • disabled-by-default-devtools.screenshot
  • disabled-by-default-lighthouse
  • devtools.timeline
  • v8.execute
  • blink.user_timing
  • blink,devtools.timeline
  • blink.animations,devtools.timeline,benchmark,rail
  • blink.user_timing,rail
  • devtools.timeline,rail
  • devtools.timeline,v8
  • loading,rail,devtools.timeline
  • v8,devtools.timeline

And turns out all the non-bold items all include either 'devtools.timeline' or 'blink.user_timing'.

This means we can stop tracing the following categories:

❌ benchmark
❌ loading
❌ latencyInfo

💣 BOOM! These account for ~20% of some of our larger traces.


Also disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline.frame only is used for three trace events. And we've only been collecting them to sum up our mainthread-work-breakdown numbers. However these 3 events are INSTANT events with zero duration, so.. they don't add to the numbers.

Lastly I cleaned up some of the trace events mentioned in task-groups, since I now know these events like best friends. :)


Addendum: What's _still_ taking up space in the trace?

First, top events, then top categories:
image

Basically:

  • screenshots are big. This trace has 398 screenshots. That'll do it. Next is throttling the screenshot capture, i think.
  • the UpdateLayer event from disabled-by-default-devtools.timeline is SUPER chatty. It's worth hunting down why devtools cares about it. perhaps there's a parent task we can use instead? ALL of them are under 0.3ms long, though 15,000 of them do add up to 376ms. But still....
    image
  • that's all that stands out to me, the next biggest things don't seem worth it to deal with.

ref #3596

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🔍 👨‍🔬 awesome findings! yay for 20% less trace 🎉:D

I think screenshot throttling next is a good call, IMO we could very aggressively throttle changes in a _.debounce(takeScreenshot, 500, {leading: true, trailing: true, maxWait: 1000})-style

@paulirish paulirish merged commit 94d8e30 into adjusttracecats Oct 15, 2018
@paulirish paulirish deleted the cleantracecategoriesMORE branch October 15, 2018 17:33
@paulirish paulirish restored the cleantracecategoriesMORE branch October 15, 2018 17:33
@brendankenny brendankenny deleted the cleantracecategoriesMORE branch October 15, 2018 18:27
@brendankenny brendankenny restored the cleantracecategoriesMORE branch October 15, 2018 18:27
@paulirish paulirish deleted the cleantracecategoriesMORE branch June 10, 2019 17:29
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