Stream: git-wasmtime

Topic: wasmtime / issue #5037 Wasmtime traps are 300x slower in ...

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Oct 10 2022 at 05:36):

Stebalien labeled issue #5037:

When wasm_backtrace is enabled, wasmtime is 300x slower in a specific stack-heavy test-case that:

  1. Pushes slightly less than 2048 stack elements (~300 recursive rust calls).
  2. Calls back out into the host, which recurses back into a new instance of the same module (about 1k times).
  3. Eventually traps and rewinds through all 1k recursive calls.

While I'll admit that this is an unusual load, it can cause wasmtime to basically just sit there for ~20 seconds while bailing out, when it should take milliseconds at most.

Proposed resolution: Keep the option to disable backtraces. While _very_ useful for debugging, the ability to disable them is still pretty useful.

Test Case

It's not quite as simple as a single wasm file. My guess is that there's some form of non-linear cost to keeping track of stack traces.

Steps to Reproduce

I can provide a reduced test-case that would help, it just might take a bit of time.

Non-reduced test-case:

  1. Checkout https://github.com/filecoin-project/ref-fvm/pull/943
  2. Disable https://github.com/filecoin-project/ref-fvm/pull/943/files#diff-f6ca4a1c384bf9a1f911827c3974f3f2b25357d937ce1d529732c09404ed6c92R129
  3. In testing/integration/tests, run cargo test --release native_stack_overflow.

Expected Results

With backtraces disabled, it runs in 0.06 seconds.

Actual Results

With backtraces enabled, it runs in 20 seconds.

Versions and Environment

Wasmtime: 1.0.1

Operating system: Linux (5.19.14)

Architecture: x86_64 (i7-1185G7)

Extra Info

Anything else you'd like to add?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Oct 10 2022 at 05:36):

Stebalien opened issue #5037:

When wasm_backtrace is enabled, wasmtime is 300x slower in a specific stack-heavy test-case that:

  1. Pushes slightly less than 2048 stack elements (~300 recursive rust calls).
  2. Calls back out into the host, which recurses back into a new instance of the same module (about 1k times).
  3. Eventually traps and rewinds through all 1k recursive calls.

While I'll admit that this is an unusual load, it can cause wasmtime to basically just sit there for ~20 seconds while bailing out, when it should take milliseconds at most.

Proposed resolution: Keep the option to disable backtraces. While _very_ useful for debugging, the ability to disable them is still pretty useful.

Test Case

It's not quite as simple as a single wasm file. My guess is that there's some form of non-linear cost to keeping track of stack traces.

Steps to Reproduce

I can provide a reduced test-case that would help, it just might take a bit of time.

Non-reduced test-case:

  1. Checkout https://github.com/filecoin-project/ref-fvm/pull/943
  2. Disable https://github.com/filecoin-project/ref-fvm/pull/943/files#diff-f6ca4a1c384bf9a1f911827c3974f3f2b25357d937ce1d529732c09404ed6c92R129
  3. In testing/integration/tests, run cargo test --release native_stack_overflow.

Expected Results

With backtraces disabled, it runs in 0.06 seconds.

Actual Results

With backtraces enabled, it runs in 20 seconds.

Versions and Environment

Wasmtime: 1.0.1

Operating system: Linux (5.19.14)

Architecture: x86_64 (i7-1185G7)

Extra Info

Anything else you'd like to add?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Oct 10 2022 at 14:36):

alexcrichton commented on issue #5037:

Thanks for reporting this! Digging in a bit here one aspect I believe is that we have quadratic behavior capturing the backtraces with interleavings of host and wasm frames, specifically each time Wasmtime returns with a trap back to wasm a backtrace is recaptured only to get thrown away later, meaning that with N sequences of host stack frames we'll capture a backtrace N times (hence the quadratic behavior). That may be one of the contributing factors to this and would probably be best to fix. @fitzgen would you be up for taking a look at this?

In the meantime @Stebalien would you be able to produce a more standalone example of what's going on? I made a simple reproduction myself but was unable to get more than 600 ish interleavings of host/wasm deep so I'm not sure how to get up to the multiple thousands you describe.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Oct 10 2022 at 16:12):

Stebalien commented on issue #5037:

I made a simple reproduction myself but was unable to get more than 600 ish interleavings of host/wasm deep so I'm not sure how to get up to the multiple thousands you describe.

Ah, we run wasmtime on a 64MiB stack to support cases like this. But I'll cobble together a reproducer.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Oct 11 2022 at 20:14):

fitzgen commented on issue #5037:

Looking into this.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Oct 13 2022 at 14:22):

fitzgen closed issue #5037:

When wasm_backtrace is enabled, wasmtime is 300x slower in a specific stack-heavy test-case that:

  1. Pushes slightly less than 2048 stack elements (~300 recursive rust calls).
  2. Calls back out into the host, which recurses back into a new instance of the same module (about 1k times).
  3. Eventually traps and rewinds through all 1k recursive calls.

While I'll admit that this is an unusual load, it can cause wasmtime to basically just sit there for ~20 seconds while bailing out, when it should take milliseconds at most.

Proposed resolution: Keep the option to disable backtraces. While _very_ useful for debugging, the ability to disable them is still pretty useful.

Test Case

It's not quite as simple as a single wasm file. My guess is that there's some form of non-linear cost to keeping track of stack traces.

Steps to Reproduce

I can provide a reduced test-case that would help, it just might take a bit of time.

Non-reduced test-case:

  1. Checkout https://github.com/filecoin-project/ref-fvm/pull/943
  2. Disable https://github.com/filecoin-project/ref-fvm/pull/943/files#diff-f6ca4a1c384bf9a1f911827c3974f3f2b25357d937ce1d529732c09404ed6c92R129
  3. In testing/integration/tests, run cargo test --release native_stack_overflow.

Expected Results

With backtraces disabled, it runs in 0.06 seconds.

Actual Results

With backtraces enabled, it runs in 20 seconds.

Versions and Environment

Wasmtime: 1.0.1

Operating system: Linux (5.19.14)

Architecture: x86_64 (i7-1185G7)

Extra Info

Anything else you'd like to add?

Last updated: Dec 23 2024 at 13:07 UTC