perf(sort)!: cut the Phase 1 ingest thread's per-record cost - #829
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Phase 1 sort diagnostics and record handling
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change can produce different mate-coordinate results for non-UTF-8 MC tags depending on the record-processing path, which may affect sorting or grouping for that input class. Merge should wait for this inconsistency to be fixed or explicitly accepted; a separate documentation-only issue also remains. Sequence Diagram(s)Raw MC byte parsingsequenceDiagram
participant BAMRecord
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BAMRecord->>RawTagsView: locate MC tag and return raw bytes
RawTagsView->>parse_cigar_bytes: parse MC byte slice
parse_cigar_bytes-->>RawTagsView: return CIGAR operations
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SortWorkerPool->>PooledInputStream: pass Phase1IngestStats
PooledInputStream->>PooledInputStream: classify and time input waits
PooledInputStream-->>SortWorkerPool: record wait statistics
SortWorkerPool->>SortPhaseTimer: pass Phase1FloorInputs before Phase 2
SortPhaseTimer-->>SortWorkerPool: report Phase 1 timing summary
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365-407: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRemove the remaining
RecordBufUTF-8 gate.
parse_mate_cigarat Line 171 still callsstd::str::from_utf8. Therefore,mate_unclipped_startandmate_unclipped_endreject an MC value such asb"10S40M\xff". The raw variants at Lines 758 and 791 now parse the valid prefix.Call
parse_cigar_bytesdirectly onValue::Stringbytes. Add aRecordBuftest that pins the same mate coordinate as the raw path.As per path instructions, check “guard-set parity between typed and raw ... sibling implementations.”
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In `@crates/fgumi-sort/src/worker_pool.rs`:
- Around line 1414-1419: Move the “Next serial for input block reading (atomic
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- Around line 365-407: Update parse_mate_cigar to pass Value::String bytes
directly to parse_cigar_bytes instead of validating with std::str::from_utf8, so
mate_unclipped_start and mate_unclipped_end accept valid CIGAR prefixes with
non-UTF-8 trailing bytes. Add a RecordBuf test asserting the mate coordinates
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Phase 1 of a spill-heavy sort is bound by its serial main thread. On `1kg-wgs-HG00096` at 16 threads that thread is busy 219.5s of a 240.7s phase while all 16 cores average 5.3 busy, and `perf` on the thread puts 39.5% in `extract_template_key_inline` with a further 12.3% in the slice-iterator `next()` its aux-tag scan walks bytes with. A profile share is not a prize, though: it says where the time is, not how much of it a change can remove. This bench measures the function itself so that question is answered in seconds rather than in a seven-minute whole-genome run. Two details make it representative rather than decorative: - The records carry the aux layout the measured sample actually has (`PG:Z AS:i XS:i MD:Z NM:i RG:Z MQ:i MC:Z`, ~118 bytes). The scan's cost is per aux byte, so a two-tag record would report a number with no relation to the workload. - The `aux-with-xa` arm adds the long `XA:Z` alt-hit tag, which roughly doubles the aux data. Two points a known distance apart give the per-aux-byte slope directly, which is the quantity a scan change moves. Baseline on an M2 Max: 77.9 ns/record at 118 bytes and 126.3 ns at 239, so 0.400 ns per aux byte. The c7g profile share implies 111 ns/record for the same function, a 1.43x ratio that is the expected gap between these two cores -- so the synthetic record reproduces the real per-record cost.
Both changes are on the same hot loop: the single-pass aux-tag extraction that `fgumi sort`'s template-coordinate key runs once per record, on the serial thread that sets 60% of a spill-heavy sort's wall clock. The terminator search. Every `Z`- and `H`-typed value is NUL-terminated, and finding that NUL is how the scan advances to the next tag, so it runs once per such tag. It was a scalar `iter().position(|&b| b == 0)`, which `perf` put at 12.3% of the ingest thread -- the largest single entry after key extraction itself and the record memcpy. `nul_offset` wraps `memchr` and replaces all eleven sites, so the vectorized search is used uniformly rather than only where someone remembered. Measured on the ingest bench: the per-aux-byte scan cost falls from 0.400 to 0.061 ns, a 6.5x reduction. Whole-function effect depends on the value lengths a record carries, because memchr's per-call setup is not free on a short value: -9.2% on the sample's usual 118-byte aux (four short `Z` values) and -38.1% on a record carrying the long `XA:Z` alt-hit tag. On the measured sample `XA` is on 1.2-2.0% of records, so weight the first number, not the second. MC as bytes. `TemplateAuxTags::mc` and `AuxStringTags::mc` were `Option<&str>`, produced by `str::from_utf8(value).ok()` per record and consumed by parsers whose first act was `mc_cigar.as_bytes()`. The validation was 2.1% of the same thread and bought nothing. The four `cigar` entry points now take `&[u8]` and the fields carry the raw value. This is a deliberate behavior change at one edge, and the observable difference is narrow. A non-UTF-8 `MC` used to become `None`, leaving the mate position unadjusted; it now reaches the clip parsers, which read a leading run of ASCII digits and stop at the first byte they cannot interpret. A value that is garbage from its first byte therefore still yields zero clips -- the same answer discarding it gave. Only a value with a valid CIGAR prefix followed by invalid bytes changes, and it changes toward parsing the prefix, which is what samtools does. `test_extract_aux_string_tags_keeps_a_non_utf8_mc_as_bytes` pins both halves of that, and the "never panics" property is now stronger: it was gated on `str::from_utf8` succeeding, which excluded exactly the byte strings most likely to break a parser. `find_mc_tag` and `find_mc_tag_in_record` drop the gate too, and return bytes. They are the byte-level siblings of the batch extractors, and `src/lib/grouper.rs` cross-checks the two against each other: its `test_mc_presence_matches_key_shape` table and the `validate_mc_tag` doc both state that duplicate `MC` entries are the *only* case where the byte scan and the decoded key shape may disagree. Gating one path and not the other would have made a non-UTF-8 `MC` a second, undocumented divergence, and would have changed `fgumi group`'s key for that record class while the byte scan still reported the tag absent. Their only consumers are `mate_unclipped_start_raw` / `mate_unclipped_end_raw` in `fgumi-sam`, which feed `parse_cigar_string`; that gains a `parse_cigar_bytes` sibling and delegates to it. CIGAR operators are ASCII, so a non-ASCII byte lands in the same "unknown operator" arm a non-ASCII `char` did and the two agree on every input.
Two more per-record costs on the ingest thread, both measured on `1kg-wgs-HG00096` at 16 threads. `rg_to_ordinal` was a `HashMap<Vec<u8>, u32>` with std's default hasher, so `ordinal_from_rg` ran SipHash over a ~40-byte RG id once per record. `perf` put `core::hash::sip::Hasher::write` at 6.1% of the thread, third behind key extraction and the record memcpy. The keys come from the header of a BAM the caller chose to sort, so there is no adversarial-input exposure that would argue for SipHash's collision resistance here. Switching the map to `ahash::RandomState` is -9.7% on the ingest bench. The progress counter was `log_if_needed(1)` per record, a relaxed `fetch_add` that on aarch64 is an outline-atomics call into `__aarch64_ldadd8_relax`. It was 3.4% of the thread. `BatchedProgress` already exists for exactly this and the merge loops already use it -- the merge profile had the same helper at 28% of its consumer before it was applied there. All three ingest loops now batch, and each flushes before its final log so the "complete" count is not short by a partial batch. Ingest-bench total across this commit and the previous one: 77.9 -> 61.2 ns/record (-21.4%) at the sample's usual 118-byte aux, and 126.3 -> 71.4 ns (-44.8%) on a record carrying `XA:Z`. The batching is not covered by a new test: a missed flush under-reports a progress line and changes nothing else, and `BatchedProgress` carries its own unit tests from the merge work. The call sites were verified by count (three declarations, four ticks, three flushes, no remaining per-record `log_if_needed`).
`winner_record_bytes` incremented two process-wide atomics per record to record the borrowed/reassembled split. It runs on the merge consumer -- the one serial thread that touches every record -- and that thread is the merge's binding floor on the measured cell: `consumer serial 112.9s` against `worker capacity 89.4s` inside a 157.1s loop. A relaxed `fetch_add` there is not free. On aarch64 it is an outline-atomics call into `__aarch64_ldadd8_relax`, which is the same helper `progress_batch.rs` was written for after profiling put it at 28% of this thread's cycles while the progress counter used it per record. The site's own comment reasoned about the cost of *timing* here and concluded a clock read would exceed the step; it never considered the atomic's own cost. `RecordFetchCounts` tallies into two locals and folds them into the statics once, when the loop ends. Both merge loops publish before the delta they report is read, so every number in the reports is unchanged -- they consume the statics as a before/after pair around the loop, which is exactly what this preserves. The existing borrow/reassemble split test asserts on that delta, so a missed publish fails the suite rather than silently reporting zero.
`sort_coordinate_with_index`'s ingest loop drove `RecordSource`'s `Iterator` impl, which yields an owned `RawRecord`: a heap allocation plus a full-record memcpy per record, freed again as soon as `push_coordinate` has copied the bytes into the arena. Its own sibling 200 lines up (`sort_coordinate_optimized`) borrows straight out of the decompressed block and says why in a comment; this path just never got the same treatment. Nothing here needs the record to outlive the push. The BAI is built by the writer from BGZF offsets during the merge, not from this loop -- the iterator was simply the older shape. `take_error()` after the loop is retained: it covers the `ReadAhead` and `Stream` sources, which defer errors rather than returning them inline. This is the serial Phase 1 thread, which is 91% busy through a phase that is 60% of a spill-heavy sort's wall clock, so a per-record allocation on it is not free. `--write-index` is opt-in rather than the default, but every XL coordinate benchmark cell passes it, which means the arm we measure coordinate sorts on was running the slower of the two ingests.
…ts for Phase 2 has had a floor line since #823, because its three limits -- serial consumer, worker capacity, coordination -- imply unrelated fixes and are routinely confused. Phase 1 had none, and it is the larger half: external `/proc` sampling of a 16-thread whole-genome sort puts it at **60% of total wall clock with its main thread 91% busy** while all 16 cores average 5.3. Nothing in-process could say that. Its report was four wall-clock spans with no way to tell a thread that is busy from one that is waiting. Two waits were invisible, and they are different problems: - **Waiting for a decompressed block.** `PooledInputStream` parks when the serial it needs next has not arrived. Blocks are consumed in serial order through a reorder buffer, so this fires in two distinct situations: nothing is available (the pool is behind), or blocks *are* available and just not the one required. The second is head-of-line blocking, which more decompression capacity cannot fix, so the cause is captured before parking -- it is not recoverable afterwards. - **Waiting for the previous spill.** `drain_pending_spill` waits on the prior chunk's write handle between the read span ending and the sort starting, so that time lands in *no* phase bucket and showed up only as an unexplained residual against total wall clock. Both are timed exactly rather than sampled: a park is microseconds to milliseconds against a ~30 ns clock read, so the clock is orders of magnitude below the quantity, the same argument `merge_trace` makes for the merge's block pull. The floor line is scoped to the **read span**, not the whole phase. The in-memory sort is parallel and the spill write overlaps the next read; folding them in would put parallel work on the same side of the comparison as one thread's serial CPU and report the difference as "coordination", naming a limit that is not there. The read span is one thread reading every record while the pool feeds it, which is exactly the shape `merge_headroom` models, so that model is reused rather than copied. Output, on any sort with `--sort-stats`: ``` Phase 1 ingest floor: worker capacity is the limit ingest serial 0.0s | worker capacity 0.0s (4 threads) | read span 0.0s recoverable without doing less work: 0.0s (0% of the read span) ingest parked 0.0s over 391 parks (15 us each): 377 starved, 14 head-of-line waited 0.0s over 13 spill handoffs (outside every phase bucket) ``` The counters are snapshotted at the phase boundary rather than read at report time, so they describe the phase that has just ended and cannot fold in Phase 2's work.
The Phase 1 floor line says this thread *is* the phase's limit -- 137.2s of a 145.7s read span on a 16-thread whole-genome sort, against a worker-capacity floor of 22.4s -- so the only question left is what the 137.2s is made of. Nothing in the phase could answer it: worker counters describe the pool, phase spans describe the phase, and neither looks inside the loop. Six segments, each exactly one bracketed region of the template-coordinate ingest loop: fetching the next record from the pool's stream, extracting the key, verifying the dropped lanes, pushing into the arena, the progress tick, and the probe plus memory-limit check. Three things carried over from the merge's partition, each because it failed there first: - **Sampled, not per-record.** The loop runs at ~175 ns/record and an `Instant::now()` pair costs 15-35 ns on aarch64, so timing six segments on every record would cost more than several of the segments measure. One record in 1021 -- prime, so the sample cannot align with periodic structure in the input and bias toward whichever records are cheap. - **Clock-corrected, at the sampled scale.** One pair per segment per sample is subtracted before scaling up. Correcting after scaling would understate it by the scale factor, which is three orders of magnitude here. This is why each field is exactly one timed region: a field spanning two brackets would be under-corrected by a whole pair, and that is what the field split between `tick` and `probe` is for. - **A signed residual against the measured span.** The merge's first partition summed to 321.5s of a 189.3s loop; only the sign made that visible. A clamped residual would have reported zero and the numbers would have been believed. The sampling decision is taken before the fetch so every segment is timed on the same records or on none -- timing a subset biases the partition toward whichever step was measured, and the partition's whole value is that its segments sum to the span. Only the template-coordinate loop is instrumented, which is the order the production sort cell uses. The other three orders pass the report's default and print nothing rather than printing zeros.
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Stacked on #826. Four per-record costs removed from
fgumi sort's serial Phase 1 ingest thread, measured end to end on a whole-genome sort.Why this thread
Phase 1 (read → in-memory sort → spill) is 60% of a spill-heavy sort's wall clock, and 91% of it is one thread. Measured on
1kg-wgs-HG00096(43.1 GB, 779,820,469 records) at 16 threads on ac7g.4xlarge, caches dropped, with a per-thread/procsampler:The other 15 cores average 4.4 busy.
perfon that thread put 39.5% inextract_template_key_inline, 28.2% in the record memcpy, 6.1% incore::hash::sip::Hasher::write, 3.4% in__aarch64_ldadd8_relax, and 2.1% incore::str::converts::from_utf8.What changed
memchrfor aux value terminators. EveryZ/Haux value is NUL-terminated and finding that NUL is how the scan advances, so it runs once per such tag. It was a scalariter().position(|&b| b == 0); a newnul_offsethelper wrapsmemchrand replaces all 11 sites. Per-aux-byte scan cost falls 0.400 → 0.061 ns.ahashfor the RG lookup.LibraryLookup::rg_to_ordinalwas aHashMap<Vec<u8>, u32>on std's default hasher, so every record paid SipHash over a ~40-byte RG id. The keys come from the header of a BAM the caller chose to sort, so there is no adversarial-input exposure that argues for SipHash here.MCcarried as bytes.TemplateAuxTags::mcandAuxStringTags::mcwereOption<&str>built withstr::from_utf8(value).ok()per record, and every consumer's first act was.as_bytes(). Thecigarentry points now take&[u8]. Breaking — see the behavior note below.log_if_needed(1)per record is a relaxedfetch_add, which on aarch64 is an outline-atomics call.BatchedProgressalready existed for exactly this and the merge loops already used it; all three ingest loops now do.Measured
399.0 → 385.2s (−13.8s, −3.5%) on the cell above, both arms in one boot with caches dropped before each.
From the per-thread sampler, which is where the mechanism is: main-thread CPU 218.8 → 197.7s (−21.1s), main-thread busy share 91% → 87%, merge wall unchanged to a tenth of a second — a clean control that the changes are confined to Phase 1.
Two boots agree to 0.15% on total wall (399.6 / 399.0s), so the delta is ~23× the run-to-run spread.
Only 64% of the removed CPU converts to wall, and the reason is worth knowing for whoever picks this up next.
try_read_input_blockstakesinput_file.try_lock(), so exactly one worker reads at a time. That step is a fixed 125.9s over 319,651 batches, unchanged by this PR, so inside a shrinking ingest span its duty cycle rises from 79% to 86%. The next tranche of serial CPU would convert at a worse rate than this one did. Its per-block cost (24.3 µs to frame an 8.4 KB block) is not explained by transfer — 43.1 GB at the measured 605 MB/s single-stream ceiling is ~71s against 125.9s of occupancy — and is the next thing to measure.Correctness
fgumi compare bams --command sorton the two 48 GB outputs: IDENTICAL, 779,820,469 records, zero sort-order violations in either arm, zero run-multiset mismatches. Record counts, spill volume (52,614.5 MB) and spill-run count (44) are identical across every arm. The comparison binary was built from the pre-change tree so it cannot be biased toward these changes.cargo ci-fmt,cargo ci-lint,cargo ci-test: 7754 passed, 30 skipped.Behavior change (one, deliberate)
A non-UTF-8
MCtag used to be discarded, leaving the mate position unadjusted; it now reaches the clip parsers. The observable difference is narrow: the parsers read a leading run of ASCII digits and stop at the first byte they cannot interpret, so a value that is garbage from its first byte still yields zero clips — the same answer discarding it gave. Only a value with a valid CIGAR prefix followed by invalid bytes changes, and it changes toward parsing the prefix, which is what samtools does.Both byte-level accessors (
find_mc_tag,find_mc_tag_in_record) drop the gate as well, so the two extraction paths stay in step. That matters becausesrc/lib/grouper.rscross-checks them:test_mc_presence_matches_key_shapeand thevalidate_mc_tagdoc both state that duplicateMCentries are the only case where the byte scan and the decoded key shape may disagree. Gating one path and not the other would have made a non-UTF-8MCa second, undocumented divergence and changedfgumi group's key for that record class.New tests pin all of it:
test_extract_template_key_mate_lane_comes_from_mcasserts the MC-derived mate lane equals the key of a record whose mate is already reported at the unclipped position, andtest_extract_template_key_mate_lane_parses_a_non_utf8_mc_prefixpins the new behavior at the key level, with anassert_ne!against what discarding the tag would have produced.How to reproduce
cargo bench -p fgumi-sort --bench template_keysizes the key path alone. The bench builds records to the aux layout the measured sample actually carries, with a second arm carrying the longXA:Ztag so the per-aux-byte slope falls out of the pair — the reason its numbers are trustworthy is that the baseline it reports (77.9 ns/record on an M2 Max) sits at the expected microarchitectural ratio to the 111 ns/record thec7gprofile implies. It is also what stopped the memchr change being oversold: the profile share implied ~25 ns/record, the bench measured 7.7 ns weighted, because memchr's per-call setup eats most of the gain on four shortZvalues andXAis on only 1.2–2.0% of real records.Risk: output changes: none for grouping, consensus, sort order, corrected UMIs, or metrics;
unsafechanges: none, and CLAUDE.md allowlist changes: none; memory bounds, queue capacity, and thread/backpressure policy changes: none.Reduced serial Phase 1 ingest cost with
memchr,ahash, byte-basedMChandling, batched progress updates, and borrowed indexed records.Added Phase 1 timing diagnostics and a template-key benchmark. Removed per-record merge-consumer atomic updates.
Valid CIGAR prefixes in non-UTF-8
MCtags now parse without UTF-8 validation. Formatting, linting, and tests passed.