Summary:
Given that index value is a BlockHandle, which is basically an <offset, size> pair we can apply delta encoding on the values. The first value at each index restart interval encoded the full BlockHandle but the rest encode only the size. Refer to IndexBlockIter::DecodeCurrentValue for the detail of the encoding. This reduces the index size which helps using the block cache more efficiently. The feature is enabled with using format_version 4.
The feature comes with a bit of cpu overhead which should be paid back by the higher cache hits due to smaller index block size.
Results with sysbench read-only using 4k blocks and using 16 index restart interval:
Format 2:
19585 rocksdb read-only range=100
Format 3:
19569 rocksdb read-only range=100
Format 4:
19352 rocksdb read-only range=100
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/3983
Differential Revision: D8361343
Pulled By: maysamyabandeh
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