Summary:
The following are risks associated with pointer-to-pointer reinterpret_cast:
* Can produce the "wrong result" (crash or memory corruption). IIRC, in theory this can happen for any up-cast or down-cast for a non-standard-layout type, though in practice would only happen for multiple inheritance cases (where the base class pointer might be "inside" the derived object). We don't use multiple inheritance a lot, but we do.
* Can mask useful compiler errors upon code change, including converting between unrelated pointer types that you are expecting to be related, and converting between pointer and scalar types unintentionally.
I can only think of some obscure cases where static_cast could be troublesome when it compiles as a replacement:
* Going through `void*` could plausibly cause unnecessary or broken pointer arithmetic. Suppose we have
`struct Derived: public Base1, public Base2`. If we have `Derived*` -> `void*` -> `Base2*` -> `Derived*` through reinterpret casts, this could plausibly work (though technical UB) assuming the `Base2*` is not dereferenced. Changing to static cast could introduce breaking pointer arithmetic.
* Unnecessary (but safe) pointer arithmetic could arise in a case like `Derived*` -> `Base2*` -> `Derived*` where before the Base2 pointer might not have been dereferenced. This could potentially affect performance.
With some light scripting, I tried replacing pointer-to-pointer reinterpret_casts with static_cast and kept the cases that still compile. Most occurrences of reinterpret_cast have successfully been changed (except for java/ and third-party/). 294 changed, 257 remain.
A couple of related interventions included here:
* Previously Cache::Handle was not actually derived from in the implementations and just used as a `void*` stand-in with reinterpret_cast. Now there is a relationship to allow static_cast. In theory, this could introduce pointer arithmetic (as described above) but is unlikely without multiple inheritance AND non-empty Cache::Handle.
* Remove some unnecessary casts to void* as this is allowed to be implicit (for better or worse).
Most of the remaining reinterpret_casts are for converting to/from raw bytes of objects. We could consider better idioms for these patterns in follow-up work.
I wish there were a way to implement a template variant of static_cast that would only compile if no pointer arithmetic is generated, but best I can tell, this is not possible. AFAIK the best you could do is a dynamic check that the void* conversion after the static cast is unchanged.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/12308
Test Plan: existing tests, CI
Reviewed By: ltamasi
Differential Revision: D53204947
Pulled By: pdillinger
fbshipit-source-id: 9de23e618263b0d5b9820f4e15966876888a16e2
Summary:
Moved linux builds to using docker to avoid CI instability caused by dependency installation site down.
Added the `Dockerfile` which is used to build the image.
The build time is also significantly reduced, because no dependencies installation and with using 2xlarge+ instance for slow build (like tsan test).
Also fixed a few issues detected while building this:
* `DestoryDB()` Status not checked for a few tests
* nullptr might be used in `inlineskiplist.cc`
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/10496
Test Plan: CI
Reviewed By: ajkr
Differential Revision: D38554200
Pulled By: jay-zhuang
fbshipit-source-id: 16e8fb2bf07b9c84bb27fb18421c4d54f2f248fd
Summary:
Changes the API of the MemPurge process: the `bool experimental_allow_mempurge` and `experimental_mempurge_policy` flags have been replaced by a `double experimental_mempurge_threshold` option.
This change of API reflects another major change introduced in this PR: the MemPurgeDecider() function now works by sampling the memtables being flushed to estimate the overall amount of useful payload (payload minus the garbage), and then compare this useful payload estimate with the `double experimental_mempurge_threshold` value.
Therefore, when the value of this flag is `0.0` (default value), mempurge is simply deactivated. On the other hand, a value of `DBL_MAX` would be equivalent to always going through a mempurge regardless of the garbage ratio estimate.
At the moment, a `double experimental_mempurge_threshold` value else than 0.0 or `DBL_MAX` is opnly supported`with the `SkipList` memtable representation.
Regarding the sampling, this PR includes the introduction of a `MemTable::UniqueRandomSample` function that collects (approximately) random entries from the memtable by using the new `SkipList::Iterator::RandomSeek()` under the hood, or by iterating through each memtable entry, depending on the target sample size and the total number of entries.
The unit tests have been readapted to support this new API.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8628
Reviewed By: pdillinger
Differential Revision: D30149315
Pulled By: bjlemaire
fbshipit-source-id: 1feef5390c95db6f4480ab4434716533d3947f27
Summary:
When dynamically linking two binaries together, different builds of RocksDB from two sources might cause errors. To provide a tool for user to solve the problem, the RocksDB namespace is changed to a flag which can be overridden in build time.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/6433
Test Plan: Build release, all and jtest. Try to build with ROCKSDB_NAMESPACE with another flag.
Differential Revision: D19977691
fbshipit-source-id: aa7f2d0972e1c31d75339ac48478f34f6cfcfb3e
Summary:
Use delete to disable automatic generated methods instead of private, and put the constructor together for more clear.This modification cause the unused field warning, so add unused attribute to disable this warning.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/5009
Differential Revision: D17288733
fbshipit-source-id: 8a767ce096f185f1db01bd28fc88fef1cdd921f3
Summary:
Fix the following gcc-8 warnings:
- conflicting C language linkage declaration [-Werror]
- writing to an object with no trivial copy-assignment [-Werror=class-memaccess]
- array subscript -1 is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
Solves https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/3716
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/3736
Differential Revision: D7684161
Pulled By: yiwu-arbug
fbshipit-source-id: 47c0423d26b74add251f1d3595211eee1e41e54a
Summary:
Summary
========
`InlineSkipList<>::Insert` takes the `key` parameter as a C-string. Then, it performs multiple comparisons with it requiring the `GetLengthPrefixedSlice()` to be spawn in `MemTable::KeyComparator::operator()(const char* prefix_len_key1, const char* prefix_len_key2)` on the same data over and over. The patch tries to optimize that.
Rough performance comparison
=====
Big keys, no compression.
```
$ ./db_bench --writes 20000000 --benchmarks="fillrandom" --compression_type none -key_size 256
(...)
fillrandom : 4.222 micros/op 236836 ops/sec; 80.4 MB/s
```
```
$ ./db_bench --writes 20000000 --benchmarks="fillrandom" --compression_type none -key_size 256
(...)
fillrandom : 4.064 micros/op 246059 ops/sec; 83.5 MB/s
```
TODO
======
In ~~a separated~~ this PR:
- [x] Go outside the write path. Maybe even eradicate the C-string-taking variant of `KeyIsAfterNode` entirely.
- [x] Try to cache the transformations applied by `KeyComparator` & friends in situations where we havy many comparisons with the same key.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/3516
Differential Revision: D7059300
Pulled By: ajkr
fbshipit-source-id: 6f027dbb619a488129f79f79b5f7dbe566fb2dbb
Summary:
Currently DB does not accept duplicate keys (keys with the same user key and the same sequence number). If Memtable returns false when receiving such keys, we can benefit from this signal to properly increase the sequence number in the rare cases when we have a duplicate key in the write batch written to DB under WritePrepared transactions.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/3418
Differential Revision: D6822412
Pulled By: maysamyabandeh
fbshipit-source-id: adea3ce5073131cd38ed52b16bea0673b1a19e77
Peter Dillinger