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:
This PR avoids allocations and copies for the result of `GetMergeOperands()` when the average operand size is at least 256 bytes and the total operands size is at least 32KB. The `GetMergeOperands()` already included `PinnableSlice` but was calling `PinSelf()` (i.e., allocating and copying) for each operand. When this optimization takes effect, we instead call `PinSlice()` to skip that allocation and copy. Resources are pinned in order for the `PinnableSlice` to point to valid memory even after `GetMergeOperands()` returns.
The pinned resources include a referenced `SuperVersion`, a `MergingContext`, and a `PinnedIteratorsManager`. They are bundled into a `GetMergeOperandsState`. We use `SharedCleanablePtr` to share that bundle among all `PinnableSlice`s populated by `GetMergeOperands()`. That way, the last `PinnableSlice` to be `Reset()` will cleanup the bundle, including unreferencing the `SuperVersion`.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/10458
Test Plan:
- new DB level test
- measured benefit/regression in a number of memtable scenarios
Setup command:
```
$ ./db_bench -benchmarks=mergerandom -merge_operator=StringAppendOperator -num=$num -writes=16384 -key_size=16 -value_size=$value_sz -compression_type=none -write_buffer_size=1048576000
```
Benchmark command:
```
./db_bench -threads=$threads -use_existing_db=true -avoid_flush_during_recovery=true -write_buffer_size=1048576000 -benchmarks=readrandomoperands -merge_operator=StringAppendOperator -num=$num -duration=10
```
Worst regression is when a key has many tiny operands:
- Parameters: num=1 (implying 16384 operands per key), value_sz=8, threads=1
- `GetMergeOperands()` latency increases 682 micros -> 800 micros (+17%)
The regression disappears into the noise (<1% difference) if we remove the `Reset()` loop and the size counting loop. The former is arguably needed regardless of this PR as the convention in `Get()` and `MultiGet()` is to `Reset()` the input `PinnableSlice`s at the start. The latter could be optimized to count the size as we accumulate operands rather than after the fact.
Best improvement is when a key has large operands and high concurrency:
- Parameters: num=4 (implying 4096 operands per key), value_sz=2KB, threads=32
- `GetMergeOperands()` latency decreases 11492 micros -> 437 micros (-96%).
Reviewed By: cbi42
Differential Revision: D38336578
Pulled By: ajkr
fbshipit-source-id: 48146d127e04cb7f2d4d2939a2b9dff3aba18258
Summary:
Old typedef syntax is confusing
Most but not all changes with
perl -pi -e 's/typedef (.*) ([a-zA-Z0-9_]+);/using $2 = $1;/g' list_of_files
make format
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8751
Test Plan: existing
Reviewed By: zhichao-cao
Differential Revision: D30745277
Pulled By: pdillinger
fbshipit-source-id: 6f65f0631c3563382d43347896020413cc2366d9
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:
Cleanable objects will perform the registered cleanups when
they are destructed. We however rather to delay this cleaning like when
we are gathering the merge operands. Current approach is to create the
Cleanable object on heap (instead of on stack) and delay deleting it.
By allowing Cleanables to delegate their cleanups to another cleanable
object we can delay the cleaning without however the need to craete the
cleanable object on heap and keeping it around. This patch applies this
technique for the cleanups of BlockIter and shows improved performance
for some in-memory benchmarks:
+1.8% for merge worklaod, +6.4% for non-merge workload when the merge
operator is specified.
https://our.intern.facebook.com/intern/tasks?t=15168163
Non-merge benchmark:
TEST_TMPDIR=/dev/shm/v100nocomp/ ./db_bench --benchmarks=fillrandom
--num=1000000 -value_size=100 -compression_type=none
Reading random with no merge operator specified:
TEST_TMPDIR=/dev/shm/v100nocomp/ ./db_bench
--benchmarks="read
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/1711
Differential Revision: D4361163
Pulled By: maysamyabandeh
fbshipit-source-id: 9801e07
Summary:
std::unique(beg, end) returns an iterator of unique_end, data behind unique_end should not be accessed.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/1726
Differential Revision: D4371076
Pulled By: IslamAbdelRahman
fbshipit-source-id: 5564450
Summary:
This diff include these simple change
- Rename ReleasePinnedIterators to ReleasePinnedData
- Rename PinIteratorIfNeeded to PinIterator
- Use std::vector directly in PinnedIteratorsManager instead of std::unique_ptr<std::vector>
- Generalize PinnedIteratorsManager by adding PinPtr which can pin any pointer
Test Plan: existing tests
Reviewers: sdong, yiwu, andrewkr
Reviewed By: andrewkr
Subscribers: andrewkr, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D61305
Summary:
While trying to reuse PinData() / ReleasePinnedData() .. to optimize away some memcpys I realized that there is a significant overhead for using PinData() / ReleasePinnedData if they were called many times.
This diff refactor the pinning logic by introducing PinnedIteratorsManager a centralized component that will be created once and will be notified whenever we need to Pin an Iterator. This implementation have much less overhead than the original implementation
Test Plan:
make check -j64
COMPILE_WITH_ASAN=1 make check -j64
Reviewers: yhchiang, sdong, andrewkr
Reviewed By: andrewkr
Subscribers: andrewkr, dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D56493
Peter Dillinger