Summary:
This commit introduces incremental compaction in univeral style for space amplification. This follows the first improvement mentioned in https://rocksdb.org/blog/2021/04/12/universal-improvements.html . The implemention simply picks up files about size of max_compaction_bytes to compact and execute if the penalty is not too big. More optimizations can be done in the future, e.g. prioritizing between this compaction and other types. But for now, the feature is supposed to be functional and can often reduce frequency of full compactions, although it can introduce penalty.
In order to add cut files more efficiently so that more files from upper levels can be included, SST file cutting threshold (for current file + overlapping parent level files) is set to 1.5X of target file size. A 2MB target file size will generate files like this: https://gist.github.com/siying/29d2676fba417404f3c95e6c013c7de8 Number of files indeed increases but it is not out of control.
Two set of write benchmarks are run:
1. For ingestion rate limited scenario, we can see full compaction is mostly eliminated: https://gist.github.com/siying/959bc1186066906831cf4c808d6e0a19 . The write amp increased from 7.7 to 9.4, as expected. After applying file cutting, the number is improved to 8.9. In another benchmark, the write amp is even better with the incremental approach: https://gist.github.com/siying/d1c16c286d7c59c4d7bba718ca198163
2. For ingestion rate unlimited scenario, incremental compaction turns out to be too expensive most of the time and is not executed, as expected.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8655
Test Plan: Add unit tests to the functionality.
Reviewed By: ajkr
Differential Revision: D31787034
fbshipit-source-id: ce813e63b15a61d5a56e97bf8902a1b28e011beb
* Add `file_temperature` to `IngestExternalFileArg` such that when ingesting SST files, we are able to indicate the temperature of the this batch of files.
* If `DB::Close()` failed with a non aborted status, calling `DB::Close()` again will return the original status instead of Status::OK.
* Add CacheTier to advanced_options.h to describe the cache tier we used. Add a `lowest_used_cache_tier` option to `DBOptions` (immutable) and pass it to BlockBasedTableReader. By default it is `CacheTier::kNonVolatileBlockTier`, which means, we always use both block cache (kVolatileTier) and secondary cache (kNonVolatileBlockTier). By set it to `CacheTier::kVolatileTier`, the DB will not use the secondary cache.
* Even when options.max_compaction_bytes is hit, compaction output files are only cut when it aligns with grandparent files' boundaries. options.max_compaction_bytes could be slightly violated with the change, but the violation is no more than one target SST file size, which is usually much smaller.
### Performance Improvements
* Improved CPU efficiency of building block-based table (SST) files (#9039 and #9040).
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