Lock contention in LoggerFactory.CreateLogger

[davidfowl]

Description

There's lock contention when trying to create a logger using LoggerFactory.CreateLogger. The global lock protects mutating filters and logger providers. This shows up under heavy load.

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Issue Details

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Description

There's lock contention when trying to create a logger using LoggerFactory.CreateLogger. The global lock protects mutating filters and logger providers. This shows up under heavy load.

Will fill in more details later, filing this as a reminder.

Author:	davidfowl
Assignees:	-
Labels:	tenet-performance, untriaged, area-Extensions-Logging
Milestone:	-

[brantburnett]

I was curious about this and did a bit of playing around (in advance of the details). ConcurrentDictionary doesn't seem to work because of the other reasons for locking the collection.

I tried ReaderWriterLockSlim since, in theory, the locks would be almost entirely reader locks. While I believe this eliminated a lot of the contention (untested) in the single-threaded read path it increased time by about 40%.

Method	Job	Mean	Error	StdDev	Median	Min	Max	Ratio	RatioSD
CreateLogger	Monitor	31.21 ns	0.784 ns	0.872 ns	31.47 ns	28.91 ns	32.17 ns	1.00	0.00
CreateLogger	RWLockSlim	43.63 ns	1.171 ns	1.349 ns	43.35 ns	42.16 ns	46.33 ns	1.40	0.05

Then I tried this approach using a delayed build of a FrozenDictionary: 05d5c63

The (unproven) theory here is:

• Consumers using DI-only will get the same path as before because they never call CreateLogger for the same name more than once (cached in DI container as a singleton)
• Loggers tend to be mostly initialized early in the life of the application from a limited list of names and then stabilize to a read-only scenario
• Consumers using LoggerFactory.CreateLogger directly will eventually hit the optimized path, based on a threshold (which would need to be tuned with heuristics)

Because it uses the (more expensive) path to build a read-optimized FrozenDictionary, this actually improves the speed of dictionary reads after the threshold is passed, even before considering the elimination of lock contention. If the assumptions above hold this would mean an amortized overall improvement in exchange for a bit more up-front computation building the optimized dictionary.

Method	Job	NumLoggers	Mean	Error	StdDev	Median	Min	Max	Ratio	RatioSD
CreateLogger	Monitor	128	33.30 ns	0.841 ns	0.864 ns	33.54 ns	31.37 ns	34.63 ns	1.00	0.00
CreateLogger	FrozenDict	128	17.82 ns	0.486 ns	0.559 ns	17.91 ns	16.70 ns	18.84 ns	0.54	0.02
CreateLogger	Monitor	1024	33.14 ns	0.997 ns	1.148 ns	33.30 ns	30.79 ns	34.73 ns	1.00	0.00
CreateLogger	FrozenDict	1024	19.02 ns	0.466 ns	0.499 ns	19.05 ns	18.22 ns	20.04 ns	0.58	0.03

I guess we'll see if this makes sense once the problem is explained fully.