rocksdb/unreleased_history/behavior_changes
Andrew Kryczka a43481b3d0 Decouple RateLimiter burst size and refill period (#12379)
Summary:
When the rate limiter does not have any waiting requests, the first request to arrive may consume all of the available bandwidth, despite potentially having lower priority than requests that arrive later in the same refill interval. Then, those higher priority requests must wait for a refill. So even in scenarios in which we have an overall bandwidth surplus, the highest priority requests can be sporadically delayed up to a whole refill period.

Alone, this isn't necessarily problematic as the refill period is configurable via `refill_period_us` and can be tuned down as needed until the max sporadic delay is tolerable. However, tuning down `refill_period_us` had a side effect of reducing burst size. Some users require a certain burst size to issue optimal I/O sizes to the underlying storage system.

To satisfy those users, this PR decouples the refill period from the burst size. That way, the max sporadic delay can be limited without impacting I/O sizes issued to the underlying storage system.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/12379

Test Plan:
The goal is to show we can now limit the max sporadic delay without impacting compaction's I/O size.

The benchmark runs compaction with a large I/O size, while user reads simultaneously run at a low rate that does not consume all of the available bandwidth. The max sporadic delay is measured using the P100 of rocksdb.file.read.get.micros. I just used strace to verify the compaction reads follow `rate_limiter_single_burst_bytes`

Setup: `./db_bench -benchmarks=fillrandom,flush -write_buffer_size=67108864 -disable_auto_compactions=true -value_size=256 -num=1048576`

Benchmark: `./db_bench -benchmarks=readrandom -use_existing_db=true -num=1048576 -duration=10 -benchmark_read_rate_limit=4096 -rate_limiter_bytes_per_sec=67108864 -rate_limiter_refill_period_us=$refill_micros -rate_limiter_single_burst_bytes=16777216 -rate_limit_bg_reads=true -rate_limit_user_ops=true -statistics=true -cache_size=0 -stats_level=5 -compaction_readahead_size=16777216 -use_direct_reads=true`

Results:

refill_micros | rocksdb.file.read.get.micros (P100)
-- | --
10000 | 10802
100000 | 100240
1000000 | 922061

For verifying compaction read sizes: `strace -fye pread64 ./db_bench -benchmarks=compact -use_existing_db=true -rate_limiter_bytes_per_sec=67108864 -rate_limiter_refill_period_us=$refill_micros -rate_limiter_single_burst_bytes=16777216 -rate_limit_bg_reads=true -compaction_readahead_size=16777216 -use_direct_reads=true`

Reviewed By: hx235

Differential Revision: D54165675

Pulled By: ajkr

fbshipit-source-id: c5968486316cbfb7ff8e5b7d75d3589883dd1105
2024-02-26 16:55:13 -08:00
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generic_rate_limiter_burst.md Decouple RateLimiter burst size and refill period (#12379) 2024-02-26 16:55:13 -08:00
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