rocksdb/unreleased_history
Changyu Bi d1ff401472 Delay bottommost level single file compactions (#11701)
Summary:
For leveled compaction, RocksDB has a special kind of compaction with reason "kBottommmostFiles" that compacts bottommost level files to clear data held by snapshots (more detail in https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/3009). Such compactions can happen soon after a relevant snapshot is released. For some use cases, a bottommost file may contain only a small amount of keys that can be cleared, so compacting such a file has a high write amp. In addition, these bottommost files may be compacted in compactions with reason other than "kBottommmostFiles" if we wait for some time (so that enough data is ingested to trigger such a compaction). This PR introduces an option `bottommost_file_compaction_delay` to specify the delay of these bottommost level single file compactions.

* The main change is in `VersionStorageInfo::ComputeBottommostFilesMarkedForCompaction()` where we only add a file to `bottommost_files_marked_for_compaction_` if it oldest_snapshot is larger than its non-zero largest_seqno **and** the file is old enough. Note that if a file is not old enough but its largest_seqno is less than oldest_snapshot, we exclude it from the calculation of `bottommost_files_mark_threshold_`. This makes the change simpler, but such a file's eligibility for compaction will only be checked the next time `ComputeBottommostFilesMarkedForCompaction()` is called. This happens when a new Version is created (compaction, flush, SetOptions()...), a new enough snapshot is released (`VersionStorageInfo::UpdateOldestSnapshot()`) or when a compaction is picked and compaction score has to be re-calculated.

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/11701

Test Plan:
* Add two unit tests to test when bottommost_file_compaction_delay > 0.
* Ran crash test with the new option.

Reviewed By: jaykorean, ajkr

Differential Revision: D48331564

Pulled By: cbi42

fbshipit-source-id: c584f3dc5f6354fce3ed65f4c6366dc450b15ba8
2023-08-16 17:45:44 -07:00
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behavior_changes Group rocksdb.sst.read.micros stat by different user read IOActivity + misc (#11444) 2023-08-08 17:26:50 -07:00
bug_fixes Avoid shifting component too large error in FileTtlBooster (#11673) 2023-08-04 14:29:50 -07:00
new_features Delay bottommost level single file compactions (#11701) 2023-08-16 17:45:44 -07:00
performance_improvements Update for 8.5.fb branch cut (#11642) 2023-08-02 12:34:11 -07:00
public_api_changes Prepare for deprecation of Options::access_hint_on_compaction_start (#11658) 2023-08-03 17:23:02 -07:00
add.sh Some fixes to unreleased_history/ (#11504) 2023-06-02 15:55:02 -07:00
README.txt Better management of unreleased HISTORY (#11481) 2023-05-30 16:42:49 -07:00
release.sh Update for 8.5.fb branch cut (#11642) 2023-08-02 12:34:11 -07:00

Adding release notes
--------------------

When adding release notes for the next release, add a file to one of these
directories:

unreleased_history/new_features
unreleased_history/behavior_changes
unreleased_history/public_api_changes
unreleased_history/bug_fixes

with a unique name that makes sense for your change, preferably using the .md
extension for syntax highlighting.

There is a script to help, as in

$ unreleased_history/add.sh unreleased_history/bug_fixes/crash_in_feature.md

or simply

$ unreleased_history/add.sh

will take you through some prompts.

The file should usually contain one line of markdown, and "* " is not
required, as it will automatically be inserted later if not included at the
start of the first line in the file. Extra newlines or missing trailing
newlines will also be corrected.

The only times release notes should be added directly to HISTORY are if
* A release is being amended or corrected after it is already "cut" but not
tagged, which should be rare.
* A single commit contains a noteworthy change and a patch release version bump


Ordering of entries
-------------------

Within each group, entries will be included using ls sort order, so important
entries could start their file name with a small three digit number like
100pretty_important.md.

The ordering of groups such as new_features vs. public_api_changes is
hard-coded in unreleased_history/release.sh


Updating HISTORY.md with release notes
--------------------------------------

The script unreleased_history/release.sh does this. Run the script before
updating version.h to the next develpment release, so that the script will pick
up the version being released. You might want to start with

$ DRY_RUN=1 unreleased_history/release.sh | less

to check for problems and preview the output. Then run

$ unreleased_history/release.sh

which will git rm some files and modify HISTORY.md. You still need to commit the
changes, or revert with the command reported in the output.


Why not update HISTORY.md directly?
-----------------------------------

First, it was common to hit unnecessary merge conflicts when adding entries to
HISTORY.md, which slowed development. Second, when a PR was opened before a
release cut and landed after the release cut, it was easy to add the HISTORY
entry to the wrong version's history. This new setup completely fixes both of
those issues, with perhaps slighly more initial work to create each entry.
There is also now an extra step in using `git blame` to map a release note
to its source code implementation, but that is a relatively rare operation.