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    Teach gitlab-workhorse to serve requests to get raw blobs · 1b274d0d
    Kirill Smelkov authored
    Currently GitLab serves requests to get raw blobs via Ruby-on-Rails code and
    Unicorn. Because RoR/Unicorn is relatively heavyweight, in environment where
    there are a lot of simultaneous requests to get raw blobs, this works very slow
    and server is constantly overloaded.
    
    On the other hand, to get raw blob content, we do not need anything from RoR
    framework - we only need to have access to project git repository on filesystem,
    and knowing whether access for getting data from there should be granted or
    not. That means it is possible to adjust Nginx frontend to route '.../raw/....'
    request to more lightweight and performant program which does this particular
    task and that will be a net win.
    
    As gitlab-workhorse is written in Go, and Go has good concurrency/parallelism
    support and is generally much faster than Ruby, adding raw blob serving task to
    it makes sense.
    
    In this patch: we add infrastructure to process GET request for '/raw/...':
    
    - extract project / ref and path from URL
    - query auth backend for whether download access should be granted or not
    - emit blob content via spawning external `git cat-file`
    
    I've tried to mimic the output to be as close as the one emitted by RoR code,
    with the idea that for users the change should be transparent.
    
    As in this patch we do auth backend query for every request to get a blob, RoR
    code is still loaded very much, so essentially there is no speedup yet:
    
      (on a 8-CPU i7-3770S with 16GB of RAM)
    
      # request goes to unicorn  (9 unicorn workers)
      $ ./wrk -c40 -d10 -t1 --latency https://[2001:67c:1254:e:8b::c776]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
      Running 10s test @ https://[2001:67c:1254:e:8b::c776]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
        1 threads and 40 connections
        Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
          Latency   553.06ms  166.39ms   1.29s    80.06%
          Req/Sec    69.53     23.12   140.00     71.72%
        Latency Distribution
           50%  525.41ms
           75%  615.63ms
           90%  774.48ms
           99%    1.05s
        695 requests in 10.02s, 1.38MB read
      Requests/sec:     69.38
      Transfer/sec:    141.47KB
    
      # request goes to gitlab-workhorse with the following added to nginx conf
      # location ~ ^/[\w\.-]+/[\w\.-]+/raw/ {
      #   error_page 418 = @gitlab-workhorse;
      #   return 418;
      # }
      $ ./wrk -c40 -d10 -t1 --latency https://[2001:67c:1254:e:8b::c776]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
      Running 10s test @ https://[2001:67c:1254:e:8b::c776]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
        1 threads and 40 connections
        Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
          Latency   549.37ms  220.53ms   1.69s    84.74%
          Req/Sec    71.01     25.49   160.00     70.71%
        Latency Distribution
           50%  514.66ms
           75%  584.32ms
           90%  767.46ms
           99%    1.37s
        709 requests in 10.01s, 1.26MB read
      Requests/sec:     70.83
      Transfer/sec:    128.79KB
    
    In the next patch we'll cache requests to auth backend and that will improve
    performance dramatically.
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