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Raja SubramanianandClaude Opus 4.8 6ed445bad1 sfu: report forwarding latency as p90 instead of the mean (#4920)
* sfu: report forwarding latency as p90 instead of the mean

The forwarding-latency metric was the mean transit over all forwarded
packets. A mean is dominated by a few slow outliers, so a handful of
packets stalled on the forward path (e.g. goroutine scheduling latency)
inflated the whole node's reported latency even when nearly every packet
was forwarded promptly.

Report p90 instead: p90 rising means roughly a tenth of forwarded packets
are slow, a broad signal of systemic forwarding load rather than a sparse
tail. To read a percentile over the report window, the mergeable
per-interval summary now keeps a small power-of-two-bucket histogram of
transit instead of running moments (sum, sum-of-squares).

Drop the jitter (transit std dev) gauge: nothing consumed it, and any
spread is derivable from the forward-latency histogram. The protobuf
ForwardJitter field is left in place, now unset, to deprecate separately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* sfu: clamp forwarding percentile to the observed [min, max]

Bucket interpolation assumes a uniform fill, so a single 20ms packet (or
uniform traffic) could report a p90 above every observed sample. Clamp the
interpolated value to the summary's already-tracked min/max, so a quantile
never falls outside the data. Exact for single samples and repeated
identical latencies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* sfu: fix stale p50 comment in the percentile test

The reported metric is p90; the test comment still said p50 replaced the
mean. Reword it to reflect that a percentile, not the mean, is reported.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* sfu: quarter-octave forwarding-latency buckets for threshold resolution

Octave buckets are too coarse near the overload thresholds: 300us falls in
[256,512), so a p90 clustered at ~265us and one at ~500us interpolate to the
same value and would trip (or not) identically. Split each octave into four
linear sub-buckets so the two land in different buckets, on the correct side
of the threshold. Min/max clamping alone does not fix this once a node has a
high tail, since its max no longer bounds the interpolation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* sfu: interpolate percentiles within each bucket's observed range

Replace the quarter-octave split with plain octave buckets that also carry
the observed [min, max] of their samples, and interpolate a percentile
within that range instead of the bucket's nominal edges. This is exact when
a bucket's samples cluster, so a p90 near an overload threshold that falls
mid-bucket lands on the correct side of it regardless of bucket width -- no
threshold-aware boundaries needed. It subsumes the min/max clamp, since an
estimate can no longer leave the observed samples.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* sfu: cover the 500us cluster in the threshold test

Assert milos's full review example exactly: 265us and 500us clusters that
octave-nominal interpolation both read as ~341us now read 265us and 500us.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* sfu: make forwardSummary.addSample a pointer receiver

The summary grew from a small moments struct into a per-bucket histogram
(~700 bytes), so the value-receiver addSample copied the whole summary on
every drained sample in the flush loop. Mutate in place instead: ~28ns ->
~2ns per sample in the background fold, no behavior change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* sfu: eighth-octave buckets for accuracy near thresholds

Split each octave into 8 linear sub-buckets (was plain octaves). With the
per-bucket min/max interpolation this reports a tight p90 cluster exactly
even when it sits mid-octave: 850x265us + 150x410us now reads 410us (above a
400us threshold) instead of 395.5us, and a lognormal p90 lands within ~0.2us
of exact. Per-sample add cost is unchanged (~2ns); cost is ~5KB per summary
and a larger but per-report merge.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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