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Improving Istio Propagation Delay

8 min readMar 23, 2023

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Introduction

Background

The Symptom: Increased Propagation Delay

Data Gathering: Propagation Delay Metrics

A high level graph to help understand the metrics related to propagation delay.

Investigation

xDS Lock Contention

A table of results² for the perfomance testing.

Debounce

A high level diagram of the life of a change event.
A CPU profile of Istiod.
A CPU profile of Istiod after DeepCopy improvement.

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

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Ying Zhu
Ying Zhu

Written by Ying Zhu

Infrastructure Engineer @ Airbnb

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