Cap eviction effort (CPU under stress) in HyperClockCache (#12141)
Summary:
HyperClockCache is intended to mitigate performance problems under stress conditions (as well as optimizing average-case parallel performance). In LRUCache, the biggest such problem is lock contention when one or a small number of cache entries becomes particularly hot. Regardless of cache sharding, accesses to any particular cache entry are linearized against a single mutex, which is held while each access updates the LRU list. All HCC variants are fully lock/wait-free for accessing blocks already in the cache, which fully mitigates this contention problem.
However, HCC (and CLOCK in general) can exhibit extremely degraded performance under a different stress condition: when no (or almost no) entries in a cache shard are evictable (they are pinned). Unlike LRU which can find any evictable entries immediately (at the cost of more coordination / synchronization on each access), CLOCK has to search for evictable entries. Under the right conditions (almost exclusively MB-scale caches not GB-scale), the CPU cost of each cache miss could fall off a cliff and bog down the whole system.
To effectively mitigate this problem (IMHO), I'm introducing a new default behavior and tuning parameter for HCC, `eviction_effort_cap`. See the comments on the new config parameter in the public API.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/12141
Test Plan:
unit test included
## Performance test
We can use cache_bench to validate no regression (CPU and memory) in normal operation, and to measure change in behavior when cache is almost entirely pinned. (TODO: I'm not sure why I had to get the pinned ratio parameter well over 1.0 to see truly bad performance, but the behavior is there.) Build with `make DEBUG_LEVEL=0 USE_CLANG=1 PORTABLE=0 cache_bench`. We also set MALLOC_CONF="narenas:1" for all these runs to essentially remove jemalloc variances from the results, so that the max RSS given by /usr/bin/time is essentially ideal (assuming the allocator minimizes fragmentation and other memory overheads well). Base command reproducing bad behavior:
```
./cache_bench -cache_type=auto_hyper_clock_cache -threads=12 -histograms=0 -pinned_ratio=1.7
```
```
Before, LRU (alternate baseline not exhibiting bad behavior):
Rough parallel ops/sec =
2290997
1088060 maxresident
Before, AutoHCC (bad behavior):
Rough parallel ops/sec = 141011 <- Yes, more than 10x slower
1083932 maxresident
```
Now let us sample a range of values in the solution space:
```
After, AutoHCC, eviction_effort_cap = 1:
Rough parallel ops/sec =
3212586
2402216 maxresident
After, AutoHCC, eviction_effort_cap = 10:
Rough parallel ops/sec =
2371639
1248884 maxresident
After, AutoHCC, eviction_effort_cap = 30:
Rough parallel ops/sec =
1981092
1131596 maxresident
After, AutoHCC, eviction_effort_cap = 100:
Rough parallel ops/sec =
1446188
1090976 maxresident
After, AutoHCC, eviction_effort_cap = 1000:
Rough parallel ops/sec = 549568
1084064 maxresident
```
I looks like `cap=30` is a sweet spot balancing acceptable CPU and memory overheads, so is chosen as the default.
```
Change to -pinned_ratio=0.85
Before, LRU:
Rough parallel ops/sec =
2108373
1078232 maxresident
Before, AutoHCC, averaged over ~20 runs:
Rough parallel ops/sec =
2164910
1077312 maxresident
After, AutoHCC, eviction_effort_cap = 30, averaged over ~20 runs:
Rough parallel ops/sec =
2145542
1077216 maxresident
```
The slight CPU improvement above is consistent with the cap, with no measurable memory overhead under moderate stress.
```
Change to -pinned_ratio=0.25 (low stress)
Before, AutoHCC, averaged over ~20 runs:
Rough parallel ops/sec =
2221149
1076540 maxresident
After, AutoHCC, eviction_effort_cap = 30, averaged over ~20 runs:
Rough parallel ops/sec =
2224521
1076664 maxresident
```
No measurable difference under normal circumstances.
Some tests repeated with FixedHCC, with similar results.
Reviewed By: anand1976
Differential Revision:
D52174755
Pulled By: pdillinger
fbshipit-source-id:
d278108031b1220c1fa4c89c5a9d34b7cf4ef1b8