[MESOS-8914] Migrate pull gauges to push gauges.

• Type: Epic
• Status: Accepted
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: agent, master
• Labels: performance
• Epic Name: Push-Gauge Migration
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Benjamin Mahler
• Created: 14/May/18 21:27
• Updated: 24/Jun/19 22:50

Description

Currently, the master / allocator / agent make use of several expensive pull-gauges. Not only do these cost CPU time on these actors, they also impose a latency penalty due to the trip through the event queue (see MESOS-8851).

We should ban pull-gauges on any actors that do non-trivial work and migrate all existing pull-gauges to push-gauges.

Issue Links

• is related to: MESOS-9235 Add per-Process event queue counters in libprocess.
• is related to: MESOS-9072 Improve performance of metrics snapshot.
• relates to: MESOS-8851 Introduce a push-based gauge.