Summary: That line used to dereference `column_family_data`, which is nullptr if we're creating a column family.
Test Plan: `make -j check`
Reviewers: sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D52881
Summary: It's usually hard for users to set a value of options.delayed_write_rate. With this diff, after slowdown condition triggers, we greedily reduce write rate if estimated pending compaction bytes increase. If estimated compaction pending bytes drop, we increase the write rate.
Test Plan:
Add a unit test
Test with db_bench setting:
TEST_TMPDIR=/dev/shm/ ./db_bench --benchmarks=fillrandom -num=10000000 --soft_pending_compaction_bytes_limit=1000000000 --hard_pending_compaction_bytes_limit=3000000000 --delayed_write_rate=100000000
and make sure without the commit, write stop will happen, but with the commit, it will not happen.
Reviewers: igor, anthony, rven, yhchiang, kradhakrishnan, IslamAbdelRahman
Reviewed By: IslamAbdelRahman
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D52131
Summary:
When Get() or NewIterator() trigger file loads, skip caching the filter block if
(1) optimize_filters_for_hits is set and (2) the file is on the bottommost
level. Also skip checking filters under the same conditions, which means that
for a preloaded file or a file that was trivially-moved to the bottom level, its
filter block will eventually expire from the cache.
- added parameters/instance variables in various places in order to propagate the config ("skip_filters") from version_set to block_based_table_reader
- in BlockBasedTable::Rep, this optimization prevents filter from being loaded when the file is opened simply by setting filter_policy = nullptr
- in BlockBasedTable::Get/BlockBasedTable::NewIterator, this optimization prevents filter from being used (even if it was loaded already) by setting filter = nullptr
Test Plan:
updated unit test:
$ ./db_test --gtest_filter=DBTest.OptimizeFiltersForHits
will also run 'make check'
Reviewers: sdong, igor, paultuckfield, anthony, rven, kradhakrishnan, IslamAbdelRahman, yhchiang
Reviewed By: yhchiang
Subscribers: leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D51633
Summary:
List of changes:
1) Fix the snprintf() usage in cases where wrong variable was used to determine the output buffer size.
2) Remove unnecessary checks before calling delete operator.
3) Increase code correctness by using size_t type when getting vector's size.
4) Unify the coding style by removing namespace::std usage at the top of the file to confirm to the majority usage.
5) Fix various lint errors pointed out by 'arc lint'.
Test Plan:
Code review and build:
git diff
make clean
make -j 32 commit-prereq
arc lint
Reviewers: kradhakrishnan, sdong, rven, anthony, yhchiang, igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D51849
Summary:
Currently, transactions can fail even if there is no actual write conflict. This is due to relying on only the memtables to check for write-conflicts. Users have to tune memtable settings to try to avoid this, but it's hard to figure out exactly how to tune these settings.
With this diff, TransactionDB will use both memtables and SST files to determine if there are any write conflicts. This relies on the fact that BlockBasedTable stores sequence numbers for all writes that happen after any open snapshot. Also, D50295 is needed to prevent SingleDelete from disappearing writes (the TODOs in this test code will be fixed once the other diff is approved and merged).
Note that Optimistic transactions will still rely on tuning memtable settings as we do not want to read from SST while on the write thread. Also, memtable settings can still be used to reduce how often TransactionDB needs to read SST files.
Test Plan: unit tests, db bench
Reviewers: rven, yhchiang, kradhakrishnan, IslamAbdelRahman, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb, yoshinorim
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D50475
Summary: Deprecate options.soft_rate_limit, which is hard to tune, with options.soft_pending_compaction_bytes_limit, which would trigger the slowdown if estimated pending compaction bytes exceeds the threshold. The hope is to make it more striaght-forward to tune.
Test Plan: Modify DBTest.SoftLimit to cover options.soft_pending_compaction_bytes_limit instead; run all unit tests.
Reviewers: IslamAbdelRahman, yhchiang, rven, kradhakrishnan, igor, anthony
Reviewed By: anthony
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D51117
Summary: Introduce a compaction picking priority that picks files who contains the oldest rows to compact. This is a mode that slightly improves write amplification for random update cases.
Test Plan: Add a unit test and run it in valgrind too.
Reviewers: yhchiang, anthony, IslamAbdelRahman, rven, kradhakrishnan, MarkCallaghan, igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D51459
Summary: crash_test sometimes fails, hitting the add file overlapping assert. Add information in info logs help us to find the bug.
Test Plan: Run all test suites. Do some manual tests to make sure printing is correct.
Reviewers: kradhakrishnan, yhchiang, anthony, IslamAbdelRahman, rven, igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D49017
Summary: We don't yet have a CI build for iOS, so our iOS compile gets broken sometimes. Most of the errors are from assumption that size_t is 64-bit, while it's actually 32-bit on some (all?) iOS platforms. This diff fixes the compile.
Test Plan:
TARGET_OS=IOS make static_lib
Observe there are no warnings
Reviewers: sdong, anthony, IslamAbdelRahman, kradhakrishnan, yhchiang
Reviewed By: yhchiang
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D49029
Summary: As above.
Test Plan: USE_CLANG=1 make check -j
Reviewers: igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D48981
We will need the log number to validate the recycle-style CRCs. The log
is helpful for debugging, but optional, as not all callers have it.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
When we recycle log files, we need to mix the log number into the CRC
for each record. Note that for logs that don't get recycled (like the
manifest), we always pass a log_number of 0 and false.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
Summary: In MyRocks, it is sometimes important to get propeties only for the subset of the database. This diff implements the API in RocksDB.
Test Plan: ran the GetPropertiesOfTablesInRange
Reviewers: rven, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D48651
Summary:
Add kill points in:
1. after creating a file
2. before writing a manifest record
3. before syncing manifest
4. before creating a new current file
5. after creating a new current file
Test Plan: Run all current tests.
Reviewers: yhchiang, igor, anthony, IslamAbdelRahman, rven, kradhakrishnan
Reviewed By: kradhakrishnan
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D48855
Summary:
Separate a new class InternalIterator from class Iterator, when the look-up is done internally, which also means they operate on key with sequence ID and type.
This change will enable potential future optimizations but for now InternalIterator's functions are still the same as Iterator's.
At the same time, separate the cleanup function to a separate class and let both of InternalIterator and Iterator inherit from it.
Test Plan: Run all existing tests.
Reviewers: igor, yhchiang, anthony, kradhakrishnan, IslamAbdelRahman, rven
Reviewed By: rven
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D48549
Summary:
Add options.compaction_pri, which specifies the policy about which file to compact first.
kCompactionPriByLargestSeq will compact oldest files first.
Verified the behavior in db_bench but did not write unit tests yet. Also need to make it settable through option string and dynamically changeable.
Test Plan: Will write unit tests
Reviewers: igor, rven, anthony, kradhakrishnan, IslamAbdelRahman, yhchiang, MarkCallaghan
Reviewed By: yhchiang
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D45951
Summary:
This patch finally fixes the ColumnFamilyTest.ReadDroppedColumnFamily test. The test has been failing very sporadically and it was hard to repro. However, I managed to write a new tests that reproes the failure deterministically.
Here's what happens:
1. We start the flush for the column family
2. We check if the column family was dropped here: a3fc49bfdd/db/flush_job.cc (L149)
3. This check goes through, ends up in InstallMemtableFlushResults() and it goes into LogAndApply()
4. At about this time, we start dropping the column family. Dropping the column family process gets to LogAndApply() at about the same time as LogAndApply() from flush process
5. Drop column family goes through LogAndApply() first, marking the column family as dropped.
6. Flush process gets woken up and gets a chance to write to the MANIFEST. However, this is where it gets stuck: a3fc49bfdd/db/version_set.cc (L1975)
7. We see that the column family was dropped, so there is no need to write to the MANIFEST. We return OK.
8. Flush gets OK back from LogAndApply() and it deletes the memtable, thinking that the data is now safely persisted to sst file.
The fix is pretty simple. Instead of OK, we return ShutdownInProgress. This is not really true, but we have been using this status code to also mean "this operation was canceled because the column family has been dropped".
The fix is only one LOC. All other code is related to tests. I added a new test that reproes the failure. I also moved SleepingBackgroundTask to util/testutil.h (because I needed it in column_family_test for my new test). There's plenty of other places where we reimplement SleepingBackgroundTask, but I'll address that in a separate commit.
Test Plan:
1. new test
2. make check
3. Make sure the ColumnFamilyTest.ReadDroppedColumnFamily doesn't fail on Travis: https://travis-ci.org/facebook/rocksdb/jobs/79952386
Reviewers: yhchiang, anthony, IslamAbdelRahman, kradhakrishnan, rven, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D46773
Summary:
Up to this point, the subcompactions that make up a compaction
job have been divided based on the key range of the L1 files, and each
subcompaction has handled the key range of only one file. However
DBOption.max_subcompactions allows the user to designate how many
subcompactions at most to perform. This patch updates the
CompactionJob::GetSubcompactionBoundaries() to determine these
divisions accordingly based on that option and other input/system factors.
The current approach orders the starting and/or ending keys of certain
compaction input files and then generates a histogram to approximate the
size covered by the key range between each consecutive pair of keys. Then
it groups these ranges into groups so that the sizes are approximately equal
to one another. The approach has also been adapted to work for universal
compaction as well instead of just for level-based compaction as it was before.
These subcompactions are then executed in parallel by locally spawning
threads, one for each. The results are then aggregated and the compaction
completed.
Test Plan: make all && make check
Reviewers: yhchiang, anthony, igor, noetzli, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: MarkCallaghan, dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D43269
Summary:
In some cases, equality comparisons can be done more efficiently than three-way
comparisons. There are quite a few places in the code where we only care about
equality. This patch adds an Equal() method that defaults to using the
Compare() method.
Test Plan: make clean all check
Reviewers: rven, anthony, yhchiang, igor, sdong
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D46233
Summary: TableCache::Get() puts parameters in the wrong places so that table readers created by Get() will not have the histogram updated.
Test Plan: Will write a unit test for that.
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D46035
Summary:
This patch adds "rocksdb.aggregated-table-properties"
and "rocksdb.aggregated-table-properties-at-levelN", the former
returns the aggreated table properties of a column family,
while the later returns the aggregated table properties
of the specified level N.
Test Plan: Added tests in db_test
Reviewers: igor, sdong, IslamAbdelRahman, anthony
Reviewed By: anthony
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D45087
Summary:
Add a counter of estimated bytes the DB needs to compact for all the compactions to finish. Expose it as a DB Property.
In the future, we can use threshold of this counter to replace soft rate limit and hard rate limit. A single threshold of estimated compaction debt in bytes will be easier for users to reason about when should slow down and stopping than more abstract soft and hard rate limits.
Test Plan: Add unit tests
Reviewers: IslamAbdelRahman, yhchiang, rven, kradhakrishnan, anthony, igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D44205
Summary: Add a new DB property that calculate the total size of files used by all RocksDB Versions
Test Plan: Unittests for the new property
Reviewers: igor, yhchiang, anthony, rven, kradhakrishnan, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D44799
Summary: In internal stats, remember read latency histogram, if statistics is enabled. It can be retrieved from DB::GetProperty() with "rocksdb.dbstats" property, if it is enabled.
Test Plan: Manually run db_bench and prints out "rocksdb.dbstats" by hand and make sure it prints out as expected
Reviewers: igor, IslamAbdelRahman, rven, kradhakrishnan, anthony, yhchiang
Reviewed By: yhchiang
Subscribers: MarkCallaghan, leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D44193
Summary: Add a new option that all LoadTableHandlers to use multiple threads to load files on DB Open and Recover
Test Plan:
make check -j64
COMPILE_WITH_TSAN=1 make check -j64
DISABLE_JEMALLOC=1 make all valgrind_check -j64 (still running)
Reviewers: yhchiang, anthony, rven, kradhakrishnan, igor, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D43755
Summary:
Changed compaction_job_test to support better/more thorough
tests and added two tests. Also changed MockFileContents
to order using InternalKeyComparator.
Test Plan: make compaction_job_test && ./compaction_job_test; make all && make check
Reviewers: sdong, rven, igor, yhchiang, anthony
Reviewed By: anthony
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D42837
Summary:
UpdateAccumulatedStats() is used to optimize compaction decision
esp. when the number of deletion entries are high, but this function
can slowdown DBOpen esp. in disk environment.
This patch adds DBOptions::skip_sats_update_on_db_open, which skips
UpdateAccumulatedStats() in DB::Open() time when it's set to true.
Test Plan: Add DBCompactionTest.SkipStatsUpdateTest
Reviewers: igor, anthony, IslamAbdelRahman, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: tnovak, dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D42843
Summary:
As of now compactions involving files from Level 0 and Level 1 are single
threaded because the files in L0, although sorted, are not range partitioned like
the other levels. This means that during L0-L1 compaction each file from L1
needs to be merged with potentially all the files from L0.
This attempt to parallelize the L0-L1 compaction assigns a thread and a
corresponding iterator to each L1 file that then considers only the key range
found in that L1 file and only the L0 files that have those keys (and only the
specific portion of those L0 files in which those keys are found). In this way
the overlap is minimized and potentially eliminated between different iterators
focusing on the same files.
The first step is to restructure the compaction logic to break L0-L1 compactions
into multiple, smaller, sequential compactions. Eventually each of these smaller
jobs will be run simultaneously. Areas to pay extra attention to are
# Correct aggregation of compaction job statistics across multiple threads
# Proper opening/closing of output files (make sure each thread's is unique)
# Keys that span multiple L1 files
# Skewed distributions of keys within L0 files
Test Plan: Make and run db_test (newer version has separate compaction tests) and compaction_job_stats_test
Reviewers: igor, noetzli, anthony, sdong, yhchiang
Reviewed By: yhchiang
Subscribers: MarkCallaghan, dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D42699
Summary:
Fixes T6548822. Added a new function for estimating the size of the live data
as proposed in the task. The value can be accessed through the property
rocksdb.estimate-live-data-size.
Test Plan:
There are two unit tests in version_set_test and a simple test in db_test.
make version_set_test && ./version_set_test;
make db_test && ./db_test gtest_filter=GetProperty
Reviewers: rven, igor, yhchiang, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D41493
Summary: We want to keep Env a think layer for better portability. Less platform dependent codes should be moved out of Env. In this patch, I create a wrapper of file readers and writers, and put rate limiting, write buffering, as well as most perf context instrumentation and random kill out of Env. It will make it easier to maintain multiple Env in the future.
Test Plan: Run all existing unit tests.
Reviewers: anthony, kradhakrishnan, IslamAbdelRahman, yhchiang, igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D42321
Summary:
When we first started, max_background_flushes was 0 by default and compaction thread was executing flushes (since there was no flush thread). Then, we switched the default max_background_flushes to 1. However, we still support the case where there is no flush thread and flushes are done in compaction. This is making our code a bit more complicated. By not supporting this use-case we can make our code simpler.
We have a special case that when you set max_background_flushes to 0, we
schedule the flush to execute on the compaction thread.
Test Plan: make check (there might be some unit tests that depend on this behavior)
Reviewers: IslamAbdelRahman, yhchiang, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D41931
Summary: Try to allocate LevelFileIteratorState and LevelFileNumIterator from DB iterator's arena, instead of calling malloc and free.
Test Plan: valgrind check
Reviewers: rven, yhchiang, anthony, kradhakrishnan, igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D40929
Summary:
We slow down data into the database to the rate of options.delayed_write_rate (a new option) with this patch.
The thread synchronization approach I take is to still synchronize write controller by DB mutex and GetDelay() is inside DB mutex. Try to minimize the frequency of getting time in GetDelay(). I verified it through db_bench and it seems to work
hard_rate_limit is deprecated.
options.delayed_write_rate is still not dynamically changeable. Need to work on it as a follow-up.
Test Plan: Add new unit tests in db_test
Reviewers: yhchiang, rven, kradhakrishnan, anthony, MarkCallaghan, igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: ikabiljo, leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D36351
Summary:
When there are files marked for compaction after compactions, print extra messages to help debugging. Example:
2015/06/08-23:12:55.212855 7ff5013ff700 [default] [JOB 121] Generated table #75: 54 keys, 4807 bytes (need compaction)
2015/06/08-23:12:55.556194 7ff5013ff700 (Original Log Time 2015/06/08-23:12:55.556160) [default] compacted to: base level 1 max bytes base
10240 files[0 1 9 32 12 0 0 0] max score 0.96 (2 files need compaction), MB/sec: 0.0 rd, 0.1 wr, level 2, files in(1, 3) out(5) MB in(0.0,
0.0) out(0.0), read-write-amplify(11.3) write-amplify(5.7) OK, records in: 40, records dropped: 0
Test Plan:
Run test and see LOG files.
valgrind test DBTest.TablePropertiesNeedCompactTest
Reviewers: rven, yhchiang, kradhakrishnan, IslamAbdelRahman, igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: yoshinorim, maykov, leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D39771
Summary:
It is experimental. Allow users to return from a call back function TablePropertiesCollector::NeedCompact(), based on the data in the file.
It can be used to allow users to suggest DB to clear up delete tombstones faster.
Test Plan: Add a unit test.
Reviewers: igor, yhchiang, kradhakrishnan, rven
Reviewed By: rven
Subscribers: yoshinorim, MarkCallaghan, maykov, leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D39585
Summary:
This diff updates the logic of how we do trivial move, now trivial move can run on any number of files in input level as long as they are not overlapping
The conditions for trivial move have been updated
Introduced conditions:
- Trivial move cannot happen if we have a compaction filter (except if the compaction is not manual)
- Input level files cannot be overlapping
Removed conditions:
- Trivial move only run when the compaction is not manual
- Input level should can contain only 1 file
More context on what tests failed because of Trivial move
```
DBTest.CompactionsGenerateMultipleFiles
This test is expecting compaction on a file in L0 to generate multiple files in L1, this test will fail with trivial move because we end up with one file in L1
```
```
DBTest.NoSpaceCompactRange
This test expect compaction to fail when we force environment to report running out of space, of course this is not valid in trivial move situation
because trivial move does not need any extra space, and did not check for that
```
```
DBTest.DropWrites
Similar to DBTest.NoSpaceCompactRange
```
```
DBTest.DeleteObsoleteFilesPendingOutputs
This test expect that a file in L2 is deleted after it's moved to L3, this is not valid with trivial move because although the file was moved it is now used by L3
```
```
CuckooTableDBTest.CompactionIntoMultipleFiles
Same as DBTest.CompactionsGenerateMultipleFiles
```
This diff is based on a work by @sdonghttps://reviews.facebook.net/D34149
Test Plan: make -j64 check
Reviewers: rven, sdong, igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: yhchiang, ott, march, dhruba, sdong
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D34797
Summary: In DB::CompactRange(), change parameter "reduce_level" to "change_level". Users can compact all data to the last level if needed. By doing it, users can migrate the DB to options.level_compaction_dynamic_level_bytes=true.
Test Plan: Add a unit test for it.
Reviewers: yhchiang, anthony, kradhakrishnan, igor, rven
Reviewed By: rven
Subscribers: leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D39099
Summary: Optimistic transactions supporting begin/commit/rollback semantics. Currently relies on checking the memtable to determine if there are any collisions at commit time. Not yet implemented would be a way of enuring the memtable has some minimum amount of history so that we won't fail to commit when the memtable is empty. You should probably start with transaction.h to get an overview of what is currently supported.
Test Plan: Added a new test, but still need to look into stress testing.
Reviewers: yhchiang, igor, rven, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: adamretter, MarkCallaghan, leveldb, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D33435
Summary:
Compaction now boosts the size of deletion entries of a file only when
the number of deletion entries is greater than the number of non-deletion
entries in the file. The motivation here is that in a stable workload,
the number of deletion entries should be roughly equal to the number of
non-deletion entries. If we compensate the size of deletion entries in a
stable workload, the deletion compensation logic might introduce unwanted
effet which changes the shape of LSM tree.
Test Plan: db_test --gtest_filter="*Deletion*"
Reviewers: sdong, igor
Reviewed By: igor
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D38703
Summary:
This turns out to be pretty bad because if we prioritize L0->L1 then L1 can grow artificially large, which makes L0->L1 more and more expensive. For example:
256MB @ L0 + 256MB @ L1 --> 512MB @ L1
256MB @ L0 + 512MB @ L1 --> 768MB @ L1
256MB @ L0 + 768MB @ L1 --> 1GB @ L1
....
256MB @ L0 + 10GB @ L1 --> 10.2GB @ L1
At some point we need to start compacting L1->L2 to speed up L0->L1.
Test Plan:
The performance improvement is massive for heavy write workload. This is the benchmark I ran: https://phabricator.fb.com/P19842671. Before this change, the benchmark took 47 minutes to complete. After, the benchmark finished in 2minutes. You can see full results here: https://phabricator.fb.com/P19842674
Also, we ran this diff on MongoDB on RocksDB on one replicaset. Before the change, our initial sync was so slow that it couldn't keep up with primary writes. After the change, the import finished without any issues
Reviewers: dynamike, MarkCallaghan, rven, yhchiang, sdong
Reviewed By: sdong
Subscribers: dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D38637
Summary:
CPU profiling reveals GetApproximateSizes as a bottleneck for performance. The current implementation is sub-optimal, it scans every file in every level to compute the result.
We can take advantage of the fact that all levels above 0 are sorted in the increasing order of key ranges and use binary search to locate the starting index. This can reduce the number of comparisons required to compute the result.
Test Plan: We have good test coverage. Run the tests.
Reviewers: sdong, igor, rven, dynamike
Subscribers: dynamike, maykov, dhruba, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D37755
Mike Kolupaev