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dsnet opened this issue Aug 16, 2019 · 4 comments
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time: Time.Sub regression #33677

dsnet opened this issue Aug 16, 2019 · 4 comments
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dsnet commented Aug 16, 2019 •
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Consider the following:

func main() {
	t := time.Date(2311, 11, 26, 02, 16, 47, 63535996, time.UTC)
	u := time.Date(2019, 8, 16, 02, 29, 30, 268436582, time.UTC)

	fmt.Println(int(time.Second) + t.Nanosecond() - u.Nanosecond())
	fmt.Println(t.Sub(u))
}

On go1.12, this prints:

795099414
2562047h47m16.795099414s

On go1.13beta1, this prints:

795099414
2562047h47m16.854775807s

Notice how the nanoseconds are off? On 1.12, it is correctly .795099414, while on 1.13, it is incorrectly .854775807. This regression causes the calculation of timeouts for network connections to go wonky in RPC implementations.

The culprit for this regression is https://golang.org/cl/131196

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@dsnet dsnet added release-blocker Soon This needs action soon. (recent regressions, service outages, unusual time-sensitive situations) labels Aug 16, 2019
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Change https://golang.org/cl/190497 mentions this issue: Revert "time: optimize Sub"

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Change https://golang.org/cl/190524 mentions this issue: time: add TestSub test case to avoid future regressions

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Change https://golang.org/cl/190524 mentions this issue: time: update TestSub to avoid future regressions

gopherbot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Aug 16, 2019
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time: update TestSub to avoid future regressions
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CL 131196 optimized Time.Sub, but was reverted because
it incorrectly computed the nanoseconds in some edge cases.
This CL adds a test case to enforce the correct behavior
so that a future optimization does not break this again.

Updates #17858
Updates #33677

Change-Id: I596d8302ca6bf721cf7ca11cc6f939639fcbdd43
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/190524
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Reviewed-by: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
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t4n6a1ka pushed a commit to t4n6a1ka/go that referenced this issue Sep 5, 2019
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Revert "time: optimize Sub"

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This reverts commit CL 131196 because there is a bug
in the calculation of nanoseconds.

Fixes golang#33677

Change-Id: Ic8e94c547ee29b8aeda1b9a5cb9764dbf47b14b4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/190497
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Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
t4n6a1ka pushed a commit to t4n6a1ka/go that referenced this issue Sep 5, 2019
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time: update TestSub to avoid future regressions
d640a0b 
CL 131196 optimized Time.Sub, but was reverted because
it incorrectly computed the nanoseconds in some edge cases.
This CL adds a test case to enforce the correct behavior
so that a future optimization does not break this again.

Updates golang#17858
Updates golang#33677

Change-Id: I596d8302ca6bf721cf7ca11cc6f939639fcbdd43
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/190524
Run-TryBot: Joe Tsai <thebrokentoaster@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
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pongad commented Nov 25, 2019

Wanted to give a little update on this. (Apologies if this should be written elsewhere.)

There is a fix for this that passes all tests by checking t.Before(u) against the sign of the computed duration. At least on my laptop, the performance benefit of this is rather small at ~20% in an already-fast function. I'm not sure if this is actually worth doing. Unless someone can think of a better algorithm for this?

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