Summary:
This PR extends the improvements in #3282 to also work when using Direct IO.
We see **4.5X performance improvement** in seekrandom benchmark doing long range scans, when using direct reads, on flash.
**Description:**
This change improves the performance of iterators doing long range scans (e.g. big/full index or table scans in MyRocks) by using readahead and prefetching additional data on each disk IO, and storing in a local buffer. This prefetching is automatically enabled on noticing more than 2 IOs for the same table file during iteration. The readahead size starts with 8KB and is exponentially increased on each additional sequential IO, up to a max of 256 KB. This helps in cutting down the number of IOs needed to complete the range scan.
**Implementation Details:**
- Used `FilePrefetchBuffer` as the underlying buffer to store the readahead data. `FilePrefetchBuffer` can now take file_reader, readahead_size and max_readahead_size as input to the constructor, and automatically do readahead.
- `FilePrefetchBuffer::TryReadFromCache` can now call `FilePrefetchBuffer::Prefetch` if readahead is enabled.
- `AlignedBuffer` (which is the underlying store for `FilePrefetchBuffer`) now takes a few additional args in `AlignedBuffer::AllocateNewBuffer` to allow copying data from the old buffer.
- Made sure not to re-read partial chunks of data that were already available in the buffer, from device again.
- Fixed a couple of cases where `AlignedBuffer::cursize_` was not being properly kept up-to-date.
**Constraints:**
- Similar to #3282, this gets currently enabled only when ReadOptions.readahead_size = 0 (which is the default value).
- Since the prefetched data is stored in a temporary buffer allocated on heap, this could increase the memory usage if you have many iterators doing long range scans simultaneously.
- Enabled only for user reads, and disabled for compactions. Compaction reads are controlled by the options `use_direct_io_for_flush_and_compaction` and `compaction_readahead_size`, and the current feature takes precautions not to mess with them.
**Benchmarks:**
I used the same benchmark as used in #3282.
Data fill:
```
TEST_TMPDIR=/data/users/$USER/benchmarks/iter ./db_bench -benchmarks=fillrandom -num=1000000000 -compression_type="none" -level_compaction_dynamic_level_bytes
```
Do a long range scan: Seekrandom with large number of nexts
```
TEST_TMPDIR=/data/users/$USER/benchmarks/iter ./db_bench -benchmarks=seekrandom -use_direct_reads -duration=60 -num=1000000000 -use_existing_db -seek_nexts=10000 -statistics -histogram
```
```
Before:
seekrandom : 37939.906 micros/op 26 ops/sec; 29.2 MB/s (1636 of 1999 found)
With this change:
seekrandom : 8527.720 micros/op 117 ops/sec; 129.7 MB/s (6530 of 7999 found)
```
~4.5X perf improvement. Taken on an average of 3 runs.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/3884
Differential Revision: D8082143
Pulled By: sagar0
fbshipit-source-id: 4d7a8561cbac03478663713df4d31ad2620253bb
Sagar Vemuri