Summary:
Since read threads do not coordinate on loading data into block
cache, two threads between Lookup and Insert can end up loading and
inserting the same data. This is particularly concerning with
cache_index_and_filter_blocks since those are hot and more likely to
be race targets if ejected from (or not pre-populated in) the cache.
Particularly with moves toward disaggregated / network storage, the cost
of redundant retrieval might be high, and we should at least have some
hard statistics from which we can estimate impact.
Example with full filter thrashing "cliff":
$ ./db_bench --benchmarks=fillrandom --num=15000000 --cache_index_and_filter_blocks -bloom_bits=10
...
$ ./db_bench --db=/tmp/rocksdbtest-172704/dbbench --use_existing_db --benchmarks=readrandom,stats --num=200000 --cache_index_and_filter_blocks --cache_size=$((130 * 1024 * 1024)) --bloom_bits=10 --threads=16 -statistics 2>&1 | egrep '^rocksdb.block.cache.(.*add|.*redundant)' | grep -v compress | sort
rocksdb.block.cache.add COUNT : 14181
rocksdb.block.cache.add.failures COUNT : 0
rocksdb.block.cache.add.redundant COUNT : 476
rocksdb.block.cache.data.add COUNT : 12749
rocksdb.block.cache.data.add.redundant COUNT : 18
rocksdb.block.cache.filter.add COUNT : 1003
rocksdb.block.cache.filter.add.redundant COUNT : 217
rocksdb.block.cache.index.add COUNT : 429
rocksdb.block.cache.index.add.redundant COUNT : 241
$ ./db_bench --db=/tmp/rocksdbtest-172704/dbbench --use_existing_db --benchmarks=readrandom,stats --num=200000 --cache_index_and_filter_blocks --cache_size=$((120 * 1024 * 1024)) --bloom_bits=10 --threads=16 -statistics 2>&1 | egrep '^rocksdb.block.cache.(.*add|.*redundant)' | grep -v compress | sort
rocksdb.block.cache.add COUNT : 1182223
rocksdb.block.cache.add.failures COUNT : 0
rocksdb.block.cache.add.redundant COUNT : 302728
rocksdb.block.cache.data.add COUNT : 31425
rocksdb.block.cache.data.add.redundant COUNT : 12
rocksdb.block.cache.filter.add COUNT : 795455
rocksdb.block.cache.filter.add.redundant COUNT : 130238
rocksdb.block.cache.index.add COUNT : 355343
rocksdb.block.cache.index.add.redundant COUNT : 172478
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/6681
Test Plan: Some manual testing (above) and unit test covering key metrics is included
Reviewed By: ltamasi
Differential Revision: D21134113
Pulled By: pdillinger
fbshipit-source-id: c11497b5f00f4ffdfe919823904e52d0a1a91d87
Peter Dillinger