Summary:
The first version of filter_bench has selectable key size
but that size does not vary throughout a test run. This artificially
favors "branchy" hash functions like the existing BloomHash,
MurmurHash1, probably because of optimal return for branch prediction.
This change primarily varies those key sizes from -2 to +2 bytes vs.
the average selected size. We also set the default key size at 24 to
better reflect our best guess of typical key size.
But steadily random key sizes may not be realistic either. So this
change introduces a new filter_bench option:
-vary_key_size_log2_interval=n where the same key size is used 2^n
times and then changes to another size. I've set the default at 5
(32 times same size) as a compromise between deployments with
rather consistent vs. rather variable key sizes. On my Skylake
system, the performance boost to MurmurHash1 largely lies between
n=10 and n=15.
Also added -vary_key_alignment (bool, now default=true), though this
doesn't currently seem to matter in hash functions under
consideration.
This change also does a "dry run" for each testing scenario, to improve
the accuracy of those numbers, as there was more difference between
scenarios than expected. Subtracting gross test run times from dry run
times is now also embedded in the output, because these "net" times are
generally the most useful.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/5933
Differential Revision: D18121683
Pulled By: pdillinger
fbshipit-source-id: 3c7efee1c5661a5fe43de555e786754ddf80dc1e
Peter Dillinger