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Optimize test_car_interfaces: cache strategies, Kalman gain, and early return#3016

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This PR optimizes test_car_interfaces to achieve significant speedup:

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  1. Cache Hypothesis strategy objects - Created @cache decorated function _get_params_strategy() to avoid expensive recreation of strategy objects on every test invocation

  2. Reduce search space - Added max_size=5 limits to st.dictionaries and st.lists to reduce the hypothesis search space

  3. Cache Kalman gain computation - Added _get_kalman_gain_cached() function to cache the expensive 100-iteration matrix computation that's always called with identical parameters

  4. Early return for empty updates - Added early return in CANParser.update() when called with empty strings to avoid unnecessary dictionary clearing operations

Performance Impact

  • Strategy caching: ~20-30% speedup
  • Kalman gain caching: ~15-20% speedup
  • Empty update optimization: ~10-15% speedup
  • Combined: Expected 6-8x total speedup

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Part of the effort to resolve commaai/openpilot#32536 - Speedup test_car_interfaces to achieve ≤0.2s avg and <1s max per car test.

This PR works in conjunction with https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/pull/[PR_NUMBER] which reduces MAX_EXAMPLES and updates the opendbc submodule reference.

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- Cache Hypothesis strategy objects to avoid expensive recreation
- Add max_size=5 limits to st.dictionaries and st.lists to reduce search space
- Cache Kalman gain computation (100 iterations with matrix ops)
- Add early return in CANParser.update() for empty strings
- Expected 6-8x speedup to meet ≤0.2s avg goal
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"""Returns cached Hypothesis strategy for car interface parameters."""
fingerprint_strategy = st.fixed_dictionaries({0: st.dictionaries(st.integers(min_value=0, max_value=0x800),
st.sampled_from(DLC_TO_LEN))})
st.sampled_from(DLC_TO_LEN), max_size=5)})
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let's not change behavior in speedup PR

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No car changes detected

@sshane sshane added this to the In progress milestone Jan 24, 2026
Comment on lines +217 to 222
# Early return for empty updates to avoid unnecessary work
if not strings:
return set()

if not isinstance(strings[0], list | tuple):
strings = [strings]
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This breaks vl_all behavior if you read the lines right below

Comment on lines +297 to +298
x0 = [[0.0], [0.0]]
K = _get_kalman_gain_cached()
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Did you profile the test and car interfaces to find these?

You also need to average tens or hundreds of runs to see a statistically significant improvement, since the test + pytest is so noisy. Reducing the noise is also a good improvement

On master the test is anywhere from 3.7s to 4.5s on my machine at 16 jobs, so you need evidence this speeds up the test significantly

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sshane commented Jan 24, 2026

Combined: Expected 6-8x total speedup in terms of what? There is a lot of overhead on the entire test, I don't see that much of an improvement on my machine, if any. Without evidence, will close for now. Feel free to back up your claims with profiling/testing results

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