[tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH 6/9] vinyl: set range size automatically

Vladimir Davydov vdavydov.dev at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 12:23:31 MSK 2019


On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 08:09:09PM +0300, Konstantin Osipov wrote:
> * Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev at gmail.com> [19/01/21 06:58]:
> > +int64_t
> > +vy_lsm_range_size(struct vy_lsm *lsm)
> > +{
> > +	/* Use the configured range size if available. */
> > +	if (lsm->opts.range_size > 0)
> > +		return lsm->opts.range_size;
> > +	/*
> > +	 * It doesn't make much sense to create too small ranges.
> > +	 * Limit the max number of ranges per index to 1000 and
> > +	 * never create ranges smaller than 16 MB.
> > +	 */
> > +	enum { MIN_RANGE_SIZE = 16 * 1024 * 1024 };
> > +	enum { MAX_RANGE_COUNT = 1000 };
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Ideally, we want to compact roughly the same amount of
> > +	 * data after each dump so as to avoid IO bursts caused by
> > +	 * simultaneous major compaction of a bunch of ranges,
> > +	 * because such IO bursts can lead to a deviation of the
> > +	 * LSM tree from the configured shape and, as a result,
> > +	 * increased read amplification.  To achieve that, we need
> > +	 * to have at least as many ranges as the number of dumps
> > +	 * it takes to trigger major compaction in a range.
> > +	 */
> > +	int range_count = vy_lsm_dumps_per_compaction(lsm);
> > +	range_count = MIN(range_count, MAX_RANGE_COUNT);
> > +	int64_t range_size = lsm->stat.disk.last_level_count.bytes /
> > +						(range_count + 1);
> > +	range_size = MAX(range_size, MIN_RANGE_SIZE);
> > +	return range_size;
> > +}
> 
> OK, you could say the value is rarely used, so can be calculated
> each time it is used, but why instead not recalculate it on each
> major compaction? This would spare us from technical debt and
> having to think about potential performance bottleneck in the
> future.

Well, okay, I think we can do that, too.



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