A simple benchmark to measure WAL append latency

Summary: A simple benchmark that simulates WAL append. It can be used to test different platform/file system's performance on WAL.

Test Plan: run it.

Reviewers: haobo, kailiu

Reviewed By: haobo

CC: igor, dhruba, i.am.jin.lei, yhchiang, leveldb, nkg-

Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D16239

Makefile

@@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ crc32c_test: util/crc32c_test.o $(LIBOBJECTS) $(TESTHARNESS)
 db_test: db/db_test.o $(LIBOBJECTS) $(TESTHARNESS)
 	$(CXX) db/db_test.o $(LIBOBJECTS) $(TESTHARNESS) $(EXEC_LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS) $(COVERAGEFLAGS)
 
+log_write_bench: util/log_write_bench.o $(LIBOBJECTS) $(TESTHARNESS)
+	$(CXX) util/log_write_bench.o $(LIBOBJECTS) $(TESTHARNESS) $(EXEC_LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS) $(COVERAGEFLAGS) -pg
+
 plain_table_db_test: db/plain_table_db_test.o $(LIBOBJECTS) $(TESTHARNESS)
 	$(CXX) db/plain_table_db_test.o $(LIBOBJECTS) $(TESTHARNESS) $(EXEC_LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS) $(COVERAGEFLAGS)
 

util/log_write_bench.cc

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+//  Copyright (c) 2013, Facebook, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+//  This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+//  LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+//  of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+
+#include <gflags/gflags.h>
+
+#include "rocksdb/env.h"
+#include "util/histogram.h"
+#include "util/testharness.h"
+#include "util/testutil.h"
+
+// A simple benchmark to simulate transactional logs
+
+DEFINE_int32(num_records, 6000, "Size of each record.");
+DEFINE_int32(record_size, 249, "Size of each record.");
+DEFINE_int32(record_interval, 10000, "Interval between records (microSec)");
+DEFINE_int32(bytes_per_sync, 0, "bytes_per_sync parameter in EnvOptions");
+DEFINE_bool(enable_sync, false, "sync after each write.");
+
+namespace rocksdb {
+void RunBenchmark() {
+  std::string file_name = test::TmpDir() + "/log_write_bench.log";
+  Env* env = Env::Default();
+  EnvOptions env_options;
+  env_options.use_mmap_writes = false;
+  env_options.bytes_per_sync = FLAGS_bytes_per_sync;
+  unique_ptr<WritableFile> file;
+  env->NewWritableFile(file_name, &file, env_options);
+
+  std::string record;
+  record.assign('X', FLAGS_record_size);
+
+  HistogramImpl hist;
+
+  uint64_t start_time = env->NowMicros();
+  for (int i = 0; i < FLAGS_num_records; i++) {
+    uint64_t start_nanos = env->NowNanos();
+    file->Append(record);
+    file->Flush();
+    if (FLAGS_enable_sync) {
+      file->Sync();
+    }
+    hist.Add(env->NowNanos() - start_nanos);
+
+    if (i % 1000 == 1) {
+      fprintf(stderr, "Wrote %d records...\n", i);
+    }
+
+    int time_to_sleep =
+        (i + 1) * FLAGS_record_interval - (env->NowMicros() - start_time);
+    if (time_to_sleep > 0) {
+      env->SleepForMicroseconds(time_to_sleep);
+    }
+  }
+
+  fprintf(stderr, "Distribution of latency of append+flush: \n%s",
+          hist.ToString().c_str());
+}
+}  // namespace rocksdb
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv) {
+  google::SetUsageMessage(std::string("\nUSAGE:\n") + std::string(argv[0]) +
+                          " [OPTIONS]...");
+  google::ParseCommandLineFlags(&argc, &argv, true);
+
+  rocksdb::RunBenchmark();
+  return 0;
+}