Summary:
The implementation of GetApproximateSizes was inconsistent in
its treatment of the size of non-data blocks of SST files, sometimes
including and sometimes now. This was at its worst with large portion
of table file used by filters and querying a small range that crossed
a table boundary: the size estimate would include large filter size.
It's conceivable that someone might want only to know the size in terms
of data blocks, but I believe that's unlikely enough to ignore for now.
Similarly, there's no evidence the internal function AppoximateOffsetOf
is used for anything other than a one-sided ApproximateSize, so I intend
to refactor to remove redundancy in a follow-up commit.
So to fix this, GetApproximateSizes (and implementation details
ApproximateSize and ApproximateOffsetOf) now consistently include in
their returned sizes a portion of table file metadata (incl filters
and indexes) based on the size portion of the data blocks in range. In
other words, if a key range covers data blocks that are X% by size of all
the table's data blocks, returned approximate size is X% of the total
file size. It would technically be more accurate to attribute metadata
based on number of keys, but that's not computationally efficient with
data available and rarely a meaningful difference.
Also includes miscellaneous comment improvements / clarifications.
Also included is a new approximatesizerandom benchmark for db_bench.
No significant performance difference seen with this change, whether ~700 ops/sec with cache_index_and_filter_blocks and small cache or ~150k ops/sec without cache_index_and_filter_blocks.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/6784
Test Plan:
Test added to DBTest.ApproximateSizesFilesWithErrorMargin.
Old code running new test...
[ RUN ] DBTest.ApproximateSizesFilesWithErrorMargin
db/db_test.cc:1562: Failure
Expected: (size) <= (11 * 100), actual: 9478 vs 1100
Other tests updated to reflect consistent accounting of metadata.
Reviewed By: siying
Differential Revision: D21334706
Pulled By: pdillinger
fbshipit-source-id: 6f86870e45213334fedbe9c73b4ebb1d8d611185
Peter Dillinger