Summary:
This is the initial step in the development of a lock-free clock cache. This PR includes the base hash table design (which we mostly ported over from FastLRUCache) and the clock eviction algorithm. Importantly, it's still _not_ lock-free---all operations use a shard lock. Besides the locking, there are other features left as future work:
- Remove keys from the handles. Instead, use 128-bit bijective hashes of them for handle comparisons, probing (we need two 32-bit hashes of the key for double hashing) and sharding (we need one 6-bit hash).
- Remove the clock_usage_ field, which is updated on every lookup. Even if it were atomically updated, it could cause memory invalidations across cores.
- Middle insertions into the clock list.
- A test that exercises the clock eviction policy.
- Update the Java API of ClockCache and Java calls to C++.
Along the way, we improved the code and comments quality of FastLRUCache. These changes are relatively minor.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/10273
Test Plan: ``make -j24 check``
Reviewed By: pdillinger
Differential Revision: D37522461
Pulled By: guidotag
fbshipit-source-id: 3d70b737dbb70dcf662f00cef8c609750f083943
Guido Tagliavini Ponce
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