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Adds make perf-ir: a per-op instruction count (Ir/op) for each hot path, a committed budget per case, and a gate that fails at +1% and ratchets budgets down. Closes LAB-7802.

Why

Wall clock on a shared machine moves by far more than 1% between identical runs, so it cannot gate a small CPU regression. The Criterion suite (hot_path) also picks its iteration count from wall time, so its total under valgrind cannot be divided by a known count. A fixed iteration count under cachegrind is exact.

What

  • benches/perf_ir.rs runs each case in its own process under valgrind --tool=cachegrind --cache-sim=no. It runs once with 1,000 calls and once with none, after the same setup and one warm-up call, so Ir/op = (Ir[1000] - Ir[0]) / 1000 and process start, setup and exit cancel. The measured process gets an empty environment.
  • The 22 cases are store, retrieve, prescan, encrypt, decrypt, keyring_decrypt and tenant_keyring_decrypt, each at 64 B, 1 KiB and 64 KiB, plus hkdf, which takes no payload.
  • Budgets live in benches/perf_ir_baselines.json, keyed by architecture and OS, with the rustc and valgrind versions they were recorded with. A case fails at +1% and warns from +0.2%. make perf-ir-update only lowers budgets; raising one takes ARGS=--allow-increase.
  • bench = false keeps the target out of a plain cargo bench, so nobody needs valgrind for Criterion. clippy --all-targets still compiles it, so it cannot rot unnoticed.
  • hot_path's realistic msgpack payload generator moves to benches/common, so both targets measure the same bytes.
  • No new dependency. The README gains an "Instruction counts" section.

Evidence

Check Result
A/A: two full runs of one build 0 Ir/op difference on all 22 cases; also 0 with 32 runs in parallel
Same binary from a short vs a long path, empty vs 3 KB environment at most 16 Ir/op (0.007%), on decrypt/65536
Rebuilt from a checkout at a different path encrypt/1024 −0.19%, every other case ≤ 0.02%
11 heap layouts (bytes held before setup) encrypt/1024 is bimodal by alignment (6,420 or 6,432 Ir/op); every other case spreads ≤ 0.022%
Seeded regression: one extra xxHash3 of the input in ByteStorage::store store/64 +0.41% WARN, store/1024 +2.38% FAIL, store/65536 +3.58% FAIL, exit 1; the other 19 cases +0.00%
Gate behaviour LOWER at −4.8%, WARN at +0.5%, FAIL at +2.0% (exit 1); --update keeps a regressed budget (exit 1) and --allow-increase raises it; a missing budget fails; an unknown case, a missing valgrind or a bad flag exits 2

cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy (all features; encryption with all targets; all features with all targets) and cargo test --all-features pass. The hot_path msgpack corpus runs in Criterion --test mode.

$ make perf-ir
cachekit-core Ir/op on x86_64-linux (rustc 1.98.1, valgrind-3.22.0): (Ir[1000] - Ir[0]) / 1000
ok    store/64                         12,277 Ir/op  budget     12,277  +0.00%
ok    store/1024                       29,644 Ir/op  budget     29,644  +0.00%
ok    store/65536                   1,080,278 Ir/op  budget  1,080,278  +0.00%
ok    retrieve/64                       2,722 Ir/op  budget      2,722  +0.00%
ok    retrieve/1024                     7,558 Ir/op  budget      7,558  +0.00%
ok    retrieve/65536                  416,730 Ir/op  budget    416,730  +0.00%
ok    prescan/64                          880 Ir/op  budget        880  +0.00%
ok    prescan/1024                        982 Ir/op  budget        982  +0.00%
ok    prescan/65536                       932 Ir/op  budget        932  +0.00%
ok    encrypt/64                        3,253 Ir/op  budget      3,253  +0.00%
ok    encrypt/1024                      6,432 Ir/op  budget      6,432  +0.00%
ok    encrypt/65536                   301,457 Ir/op  budget    301,457  +0.00%
ok    decrypt/64                        2,600 Ir/op  budget      2,600  +0.00%
ok    decrypt/1024                      5,575 Ir/op  budget      5,575  +0.00%
ok    decrypt/65536                   235,243 Ir/op  budget    235,243  +0.00%
ok    keyring_decrypt/64               31,730 Ir/op  budget     31,730  +0.00%
ok    keyring_decrypt/1024             34,715 Ir/op  budget     34,715  +0.00%
ok    keyring_decrypt/65536           264,373 Ir/op  budget    264,373  +0.00%
ok    tenant_keyring_decrypt/64         2,623 Ir/op  budget      2,623  +0.00%
ok    tenant_keyring_decrypt/1024       5,598 Ir/op  budget      5,598  +0.00%
ok    tenant_keyring_decrypt/65536    235,234 Ir/op  budget    235,234  +0.00%
ok    hkdf                             29,047 Ir/op  budget     29,047  +0.00%
PASS

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CI wiring. The gate is local, like the rest of the Makefile's perf targets.

…7802)

Wall clock cannot gate a 1% CPU regression on a shared machine, and the
Criterion suite picks its iteration count from wall time, so its total
under valgrind cannot be divided by a known count.

benches/perf_ir.rs runs each case in its own process under cachegrind,
once with 1,000 calls and once with none, after the same setup and one
warm-up call: Ir/op = (Ir[1000] - Ir[0]) / 1000. Cases cover ByteStorage
store/retrieve, the envelope pre-scan, AES-256-GCM encrypt/decrypt, the
keyring decrypt (HKDF per call), the tenant keyring decrypt, and HKDF,
at 64 B, 1 KiB and 64 KiB.

`make perf-ir` compares against benches/perf_ir_baselines.json (fail at
+1%, warn from +0.2%); `make perf-ir-update` ratchets budgets down, never
up without --allow-increase. Two runs of one build agree exactly; between
builds, heap alignment moves encrypt/1024 by up to 0.19% and every other
case by at most 0.02%.

The target is `bench = false`, so a plain `cargo bench` does not need
valgrind, and `clippy --all-targets` still compiles it. hot_path's
realistic payload generator moves to benches/common so both targets
measure the same bytes. No new dependency.
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  • New Features
    • Added an instruction-count benchmark for encryption operations, with selectable cases and architecture-specific performance budgets.
    • Added Makefile targets to run the benchmark and update its budgets.
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    • Expanded performance documentation with benchmark coverage, measurement details, reproducibility limits and budget update guidance.

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The pull request adds a Cachegrind instruction-count benchmark with platform-specific budgets and commands to run or update them. It also adds shared deterministic benchmark helpers and updates the README with benchmark details.

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Performance benchmarks

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared benchmark fixtures
benches/common/mod.rs, benches/hot_path.rs
The hot-path benchmark now uses shared xorshift and MessagePack payload helpers. The helpers generate deterministic payloads at the requested size.
Instruction measurement
benches/perf_ir.rs
The new benchmark measures eight operation types. It runs each case in a separate Cachegrind process, warms up once, and subtracts setup instructions from the full-run count.
Budget comparison and updates
benches/perf_ir.rs, benches/perf_ir_baselines.json
The gate compares counts with platform budgets, reports pass, warning, or regression results, and supports budget updates. The initial baseline contains x86_64 Linux budgets.
Benchmark commands and documentation
Cargo.toml, Makefile, README.md
Cargo registers the benchmark with the encryption feature. Make targets run it or update budgets. The README describes cases, measurement, thresholds, and update rules.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Gate as perf_ir gate
  participant Cachegrind
  participant Runner as Measured-process runner
  Gate->>Cachegrind: Measure case with N_OPS and zero operations
  Cachegrind->>Runner: Run case with operation count
  Runner-->>Cachegrind: Return after warm-up and requested operations
  Cachegrind-->>Gate: Return instruction counts
  Gate->>Gate: Subtract setup count
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Partial budget updates can hide a toolchain mismatch for unmeasured cases. The local gate remains usable, but its metadata should be corrected before relying on those comparisons.

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Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a1d0d

The gate uses deterministic benchmark inputs and explicitly requested budget updates. No material security risk was identified. Update failures and concurrent invocations can affect local benchmark budgets, but the inspected flow does not change production authorization, tenant state, or deployment configuration.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected execution affects local benchmark processes and repository budget state. No new production identity, tenant, authorization, or deployment-state sink is established by this flow.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Normal gate invocation restricts cases to known identifiers and launches the same benchmark executable through Cachegrind with an empty environment. Environment clearing reduces inherited configuration; it is not a filesystem or privilege sandbox.
  • observed — Budget mutation requires explicit update mode. Sequential ratcheting permits increases only with --allow-increase, which is rejected without --update; this is a local workflow guard, not an authorization boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The baseline-write weaknesses can corrupt or weaken performance-gate results, but the inspected sink does not persist insecure production configuration or alter a demonstrated security guarantee.
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Stale toolchain stamp in gate(): `platform.rustc` and `platform.valgrind` are overwritten with the current toolchain on every `--update`, even when compare() reports a regression that `--allow-increase` did not accept or when only a `--case` subset was re-measured. After a rustc bump that raises some cases by 1% or more, `make perf-ir-update` keeps the old budgets for those cases but labels them with the new rustc, so the 'budgets were recorded with rustc X' note never appears and the toolchain-driven FAIL looks like a code regression. Fix: stamp the toolchain only when `update && ok` and the full case set was measured, or skip writing the file when `ok` is false.
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let full_run = cases.len() == case_ids().len();
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A budget set gates only the instrument that recorded it. Two ways let
`--update` mix instruments:

- Budgets were keyed by architecture and OS only. A build with
  `-C target-cpu=x86-64-v3` measures hkdf at 23,913 Ir/op against the
  default build's 29,047, so ratcheting from it lowered the shared set and
  then failed every default build of unchanged code. The key now appends any
  compiled-in CPU features, so such a build records its own set.
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