Implementing a Dynamic QPS Load‑Testing Model in Go Using a Goroutine Pool

When the author previously wrote a Kafka client in Go and discussed channel versus Java thread performance with a follower, the need for a systematic way to benchmark the two arose, leading to the development of a dynamic QPS load‑testing model as a foundational capability.

The article references an existing Go goroutine‑pool implementation and adds a method that can execute a given task a specified number of times (QPS) by batching the executions, typically in groups of ten (the default SingleTimes ), to reduce context‑switch overhead.

func (pool *GorotinesPool) ExecuteQps(t func(), qps int) { mutiple := qps / pool.SingleTimes remainder := qps % pool.SingleTimes for i := 0; i < pool.SingleTimes; i++ { pool.Execute(func() { for i := 0; i < mutiple; i++ { t() } }) } pool.Execute(func() { for i := 0; i < remainder; i++ { t() } }) }

The SingleTimes parameter defaults to 10 but can be tuned based on task execution speed, although the author has not yet performed comparative tests.

Control commands are read from the console using a simple loop that reads lines, trims the newline, and passes the input to a handler function.

func HandleInput(handle func(input string) bool) { reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin) for { text, _ := reader.ReadString('\n') text = strings.Replace(text, "\n", "", -1) if handle(text) { break } } }

A demonstration program creates a pool, reads the desired QPS from the console, repeatedly calls ExecuteQps with a logging task, sleeps for a second between iterations, and finally waits for all goroutines to finish.

func main() { pool := execute.GetPool(1000, 2, 200, 1) var qps int = 1 go ftool.HandleInput(func(input string) bool { put, err := strconv.Atoi(input) if err == nil { log.Printf("input content: %d", put) qps = put } return false }) for { pool.ExecuteQps(func() { log.Println(ftool.Date()) }, qps) ftool.Sleep(1000) } pool.Wait() }

The author notes that using main is necessary because Go unit tests cannot handle interactive console input, and observes that Go’s ability to pass functions as parameters feels smoother than Java’s multiple function objects or Groovy’s closures.