Summary:
This commit introduces incremental compaction in univeral style for space amplification. This follows the first improvement mentioned in https://rocksdb.org/blog/2021/04/12/universal-improvements.html . The implemention simply picks up files about size of max_compaction_bytes to compact and execute if the penalty is not too big. More optimizations can be done in the future, e.g. prioritizing between this compaction and other types. But for now, the feature is supposed to be functional and can often reduce frequency of full compactions, although it can introduce penalty.
In order to add cut files more efficiently so that more files from upper levels can be included, SST file cutting threshold (for current file + overlapping parent level files) is set to 1.5X of target file size. A 2MB target file size will generate files like this: https://gist.github.com/siying/29d2676fba417404f3c95e6c013c7de8 Number of files indeed increases but it is not out of control.
Two set of write benchmarks are run:
1. For ingestion rate limited scenario, we can see full compaction is mostly eliminated: https://gist.github.com/siying/959bc1186066906831cf4c808d6e0a19 . The write amp increased from 7.7 to 9.4, as expected. After applying file cutting, the number is improved to 8.9. In another benchmark, the write amp is even better with the incremental approach: https://gist.github.com/siying/d1c16c286d7c59c4d7bba718ca198163
2. For ingestion rate unlimited scenario, incremental compaction turns out to be too expensive most of the time and is not executed, as expected.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8655
Test Plan: Add unit tests to the functionality.
Reviewed By: ajkr
Differential Revision: D31787034
fbshipit-source-id: ce813e63b15a61d5a56e97bf8902a1b28e011beb
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