Summary:
Motivation
A WriteBufferManager can be shared by many RocksDB instances and column families. Under the existing policy, the DB whose writer first observes memory pressure flushes its own oldest mutable memtable. That DB might own only a small fraction of the reclaimable memory, so workloads with many DBs or CFs can generate many small flushes while the largest memory consumer remains untouched. Scanning every registered DB while holding process-wide or DB mutexes would improve selection accuracy but would serialize unrelated write paths and is not viable for deployments with thousands of DBs.
Previous behavior
kFlushOldest was the only behavior: the write-group leader that noticed WBM pressure synchronously selected the oldest eligible mutable memtable in its own DB. The WBM had no per-DB view of reclaimable memory and could not direct reclamation to another DB sharing the same budget.
New behavior
This change adds configurable WriteBufferFlushPolicy modes:
- kFlushOldest preserves the existing behavior and remains the default.
- kFlushLargest selects the largest eligible flushable column family in the writing DB.
- kFlushLargestAcrossDBs selects the DB advertising the most reclaimable memory across all DBs sharing the WBM, then flushes its largest eligible CF. Atomic-flush DBs advertise and flush the aggregate eligible memory across their CFs.
High-level implementation
Each writable DB registers a lightweight FlushInitiator with the shared WBM. Per-DB accounting publishes two approximate values using atomics: total mutable memory and the largest flushable CF contribution, including eligible immutable memtables waiting for flush. Allocator reporting is batched, so the allocation hot path avoids registry scans and DB mutexes.
A dedicated WBM coordinator thread maintains an approximate ranked snapshot of registered DBs. Refreshes are driven by accounting changes, threshold crossings, and periodic pressure checks. Ranking and O(number of DBs) work happen on that coordinator thread; writers only update counters and signal the coordinator. Registration lifetime is protected independently so DB close can safely drain an in-flight handoff.
Threading and flush handoff
The coordinator reserves and pins one ranked candidate at a time, without holding a registry lock while invoking the DB. The target DB uses TryLock on its DB mutex and rejects the handoff if it is closing, paused, stopped, stalled, already handling a WBM job, or no longer has flushable memory. Rejected candidates do not block consideration of the next DB.
An accepted handoff queues one LOW-priority WBM job. The LOW worker joins the target DB write thread and revalidates eligibility before switching the memtable. The resulting ordinary flush is then scheduled through RocksDB's existing flush machinery on the HIGH-priority flush pool. Keeping the write-thread join off the requesting writer avoids making one DB's write path wait on another DB's mutex or write queue.
Only one manager-wide remote handoff is active at a time. Completion or cancellation clears the handoff and requests a rerank. If memory reaches the hard limit while remote coordination is delayed, a rate-limited local fallback lets a writer seal a local memtable to preserve forward progress. Write stalls, shutdown, WaitForCompact, policy changes, and DB deregistration explicitly drain or reject outstanding handoffs.
Compatibility
The legacy constructor and kFlushOldest behavior remain unchanged unless a new policy is explicitly selected. There are no on-disk format changes.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/15047
Reviewed By: xingbowang
Differential Revision: D112396106
fbshipit-source-id: 3049adc7034dd4e00d74d7d86e1d19004292d299
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:
WriteBufferManger is not invoked when allocating memory for memtable if the limit is not set even if a cache is passed. It is inconsistent from the comment syas. Fix it.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/4695
Differential Revision: D13112722
Pulled By: siying
fbshipit-source-id: 0b27eef63867f679cd06033ea56907c0569597f4
Summary:
Improve write buffer manager in several ways:
1. Size is tracked when arena block is allocated, rather than every allocation, so that it can better track actual memory usage and the tracking overhead is slightly lower.
2. We start to trigger memtable flush when 7/8 of the memory cap hits, instead of 100%, and make 100% much harder to hit.
3. Allow a cache object to be passed into buffer manager and the size allocated by memtable can be costed there. This can help users have one single memory cap across block cache and memtable.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/2350
Differential Revision: D5110648
Pulled By: siying
fbshipit-source-id: b4238113094bf22574001e446b5d88523ba00017
