[openstack-dev] [all][oslo][clients] Let's speed up start of OpenStack libs and clients by optimizing imports with profimp

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 14:54:44 UTC 2015


On 04/06/2015 07:02 AM, Brant Knudson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Boris Pavlovic <boris at pavlovic.me
> <mailto:boris at pavlovic.me>> wrote:
>
>     Brant,
>
>     I run profimp with and without patch
>     https://review.openstack.org/#/c/164066/:
>     And it really works well:
>
>     before 170ms:
>     http://boris-42.github.io/keystone/before.html
>
>     after 76ms:
>     http://boris-42.github.io/keystone/after.html
>
> Looks like now the issue is that keystoneclient imports pbr.version so
> that it can get pbr to generate the __version__ value. Maybe pbr could
> be more efficient about the work it does on import, or we could figure
> out a different / lazy way to generate the version string.
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-keystoneclient/tree/keystoneclient/__init__.py#n35
>
> How far do we need to go with this?

Not far, IMHO. 100ms difference in startup time isn't something we 
should spend much time optimizing. There's bigger fish to fry.

Best,
-jay

p.s. Boris, please don't hate me :)



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