Summary:
The file tree structure in Version is prebuilt and the range of each file is known.
On the Get() code path, we do binary search in FindFile() by comparing
target key with each file's largest key and also check the range for each L0 file.
With some pre-calculated knowledge, each key comparision that has been done can serve
as a hint to narrow down further searches:
(1) If a key falls within a L0 file's range, we can safely skip the next
file if its range does not overlap with the current one.
(2) If a key falls within a file's range in level L0 - Ln-1, we should only
need to binary search in the next level for files that overlap with the current one.
(1) will be able to skip some files depending one the key distribution.
(2) can greatly reduce the range of binary search, especially for bottom
levels, given that one file most likely only overlaps with N files from
the level below (where N is max_bytes_for_level_multiplier). So on level
L, we will only look at ~N files instead of N^L files.
Some inital results: measured with 500M key DB, when write is light (10k/s = 1.2M/s), this
improves QPS ~7% on top of blocked bloom. When write is heavier (80k/s =
9.6M/s), it gives us ~13% improvement.
Test Plan: make all check
Reviewers: haobo, igor, dhruba, sdong, yhchiang
Reviewed By: haobo
CC: leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D17205
Igor Canadi