Summary:
There is a bug in the `TieredSecondaryCache` that can result in a false negative. This can happen when a MultiGet does a cache lookup that gets a hit in the `TieredSecondaryCache` local nvm cache tier, and the result is available before MultiGet calls `WaitAll` (i.e the nvm cache `SecondaryCacheResultHandle` `IsReady` returns true).
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/12134
Test Plan: Add a new unit test in tiered_secondary_cache_test
Reviewed By: akankshamahajan15
Differential Revision: D52023309
Pulled By: anand1976
fbshipit-source-id: e5ae681226a0f12753fecb2f6acc7e5f254ae72b
Summary:
This PR implements support for a three tier cache - primary block cache, compressed secondary cache, and a nvm (local flash) secondary cache. This allows more effective utilization of the nvm cache, and minimizes the number of reads from local flash by caching compressed blocks in the compressed secondary cache.
The basic design is as follows -
1. A new secondary cache implementation, ```TieredSecondaryCache```, is introduced. It keeps the compressed and nvm secondary caches and manages the movement of blocks between them and the primary block cache. To setup a three tier cache, we allocate a ```CacheWithSecondaryAdapter```, with a ```TieredSecondaryCache``` instance as the secondary cache.
2. The table reader passes both the uncompressed and compressed block to ```FullTypedCacheInterface::InsertFull```, allowing the block cache to optionally store the compressed block.
3. When there's a miss, the block object is constructed and inserted in the primary cache, and the compressed block is inserted into the nvm cache by calling ```InsertSaved```. This avoids the overhead of recompressing the block, as well as avoiding putting more memory pressure on the compressed secondary cache.
4. When there's a hit in the nvm cache, we attempt to insert the block in the compressed secondary cache and the primary cache, subject to the admission policy of those caches (i.e admit on second access). Blocks/items evicted from any tier are simply discarded.
We can easily implement additional admission policies if desired.
Todo (In a subsequent PR):
1. Add to db_bench and run benchmarks
2. Add to db_stress
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/11812
Reviewed By: pdillinger
Differential Revision: D49461842
Pulled By: anand1976
fbshipit-source-id: b40ac1330ef7cd8c12efa0a3ca75128e602e3a0b
Peter Dillinger