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Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Dillinger
d5a46c40e5 Pin CacheEntryStatsCollector to fix performance bug (#8385)
Summary:
If the block Cache is full with strict_capacity_limit=false,
then our CacheEntryStatsCollector could be immediately evicted on
release, so iterating through column families with shared block cache
could trigger re-scan for each CF. This change fixes that problem by
pinning the CacheEntryStatsCollector from InternalStats so that it's not
evicted.

I had originally thought that this object could participate in LRU like
everything else, but even though a re-load+re-scan only touches memory,
it can be orders of magnitude more expensive than other cache misses.
One service in Facebook has scans that take ~20s over 100GB block cache
that is mostly 4KB entries. (The up-side of this bug and https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/8369 is that
we had a natural experiment on the effect on some service metrics even
with block cache scans running continuously in the background--a kind
of worst case scenario. Metrics like latency were not affected enough
to trigger warnings.)

Other smaller fixes:

20s is already a sizable portion of 600s stats dump period, or 180s
default max age to force re-scan, so added logic to ensure that (for
each block cache) we don't spend more than 0.2% of our background thread
time scanning it. Nevertheless, "foreground" requests for cache entry
stats (calls to `db->GetMapProperty(DB::Properties::kBlockCacheEntryStats)`)
are permitted to consume more CPU.

Renamed field to cache_entry_stats_ to match code style.

This change is intended for patching in 6.21 release.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8385

Test Plan:
unit test expanded to cover new logic (detect regression),
some manual testing with db_bench

Reviewed By: ajkr

Differential Revision: D29042759

Pulled By: pdillinger

fbshipit-source-id: 236faa902397f50038c618f50fbc8cf3f277308c
2021-06-14 08:15:11 -07:00
Peter Dillinger
2f93a3b809 Fix a major performance bug in 6.21 for cache entry stats (#8369)
Summary:
In final polishing of https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/8297 (after most manual testing), I
broke my own caching layer by sanitizing an input parameter with
std::min(0, x) instead of std::max(0, x). I resisted unit testing the
timing part of the result caching because historically, these test
are either flaky or difficult to write, and this was not a correctness
issue. This bug is essentially unnoticeable with a small number
of column families but can explode background work with a
large number of column families.

This change fixes the logical error, removes some unnecessary related
optimization, and adds mock time/sleeps to the unit test to ensure we
can cache hit within the age limit.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8369

Test Plan: added time testing logic to existing unit test

Reviewed By: ajkr

Differential Revision: D28950892

Pulled By: pdillinger

fbshipit-source-id: e79cd4ff3eec68fd0119d994f1ed468c38026c3b
2021-06-08 05:03:32 -07:00
Peter Dillinger
311a544c2a Use deleters to label cache entries and collect stats (#8297)
Summary:
This change gathers and publishes statistics about the
kinds of items in block cache. This is especially important for
profiling relative usage of cache by index vs. filter vs. data blocks.
It works by iterating over the cache during periodic stats dump
(InternalStats, stats_dump_period_sec) or on demand when
DB::Get(Map)Property(kBlockCacheEntryStats), except that for
efficiency and sharing among column families, saved data from
the last scan is used when the data is not considered too old.

The new information can be seen in info LOG, for example:

    Block cache LRUCache@0x7fca62229330 capacity: 95.37 MB collections: 8 last_copies: 0 last_secs: 0.00178 secs_since: 0
    Block cache entry stats(count,size,portion): DataBlock(7092,28.24 MB,29.6136%) FilterBlock(215,867.90 KB,0.888728%) FilterMetaBlock(2,5.31 KB,0.00544%) IndexBlock(217,180.11 KB,0.184432%) WriteBuffer(1,256.00 KB,0.262144%) Misc(1,0.00 KB,0%)

And also through DB::GetProperty and GetMapProperty (here using
ldb just for demonstration):

    $ ./ldb --db=/dev/shm/dbbench/ get_property rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.bytes.data-block: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.bytes.deprecated-filter-block: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.bytes.filter-block: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.bytes.filter-meta-block: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.bytes.index-block: 178992
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.bytes.misc: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.bytes.other-block: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.bytes.write-buffer: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.capacity: 8388608
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.count.data-block: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.count.deprecated-filter-block: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.count.filter-block: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.count.filter-meta-block: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.count.index-block: 215
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.count.misc: 1
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.count.other-block: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.count.write-buffer: 0
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.id: LRUCache@0x7f3636661290
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.percent.data-block: 0.000000
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.percent.deprecated-filter-block: 0.000000
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.percent.filter-block: 0.000000
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.percent.filter-meta-block: 0.000000
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.percent.index-block: 2.133751
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.percent.misc: 0.000000
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.percent.other-block: 0.000000
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.percent.write-buffer: 0.000000
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.secs_for_last_collection: 0.000052
    rocksdb.block-cache-entry-stats.secs_since_last_collection: 0

Solution detail - We need some way to flag what kind of blocks each
entry belongs to, preferably without changing the Cache API.
One of the complications is that Cache is a general interface that could
have other users that don't adhere to whichever convention we decide
on for keys and values. Or we would pay for an extra field in the Handle
that would only be used for this purpose.

This change uses a back-door approach, the deleter, to indicate the
"role" of a Cache entry (in addition to the value type, implicitly).
This has the added benefit of ensuring proper code origin whenever we
recognize a particular role for a cache entry; if the entry came from
some other part of the code, it will use an unrecognized deleter, which
we simply attribute to the "Misc" role.

An internal API makes for simple instantiation and automatic
registration of Cache deleters for a given value type and "role".

Another internal API, CacheEntryStatsCollector, solves the problem of
caching the results of a scan and sharing them, to ensure scans are
neither excessive nor redundant so as not to harm Cache performance.

Because code is added to BlocklikeTraits, it is pulled out of
block_based_table_reader.cc into its own file.

This is a reformulation of https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/8276, without the type checking option
(could still be added), and with actual stat gathering.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8297

Test Plan: manual testing with db_bench, and a couple of basic unit tests

Reviewed By: ltamasi

Differential Revision: D28488721

Pulled By: pdillinger

fbshipit-source-id: 472f524a9691b5afb107934be2d41d84f2b129fb
2021-05-19 16:51:13 -07:00