The log-structured allocator (LSA) reserves memory when performing
operations, since its operations are performed with reclaiming disabled
and if it runs out, it cannot evict cache to gain more. The amount of
memory to reserve is remembered across calls so that it does not have
to repeat the fail/increase-reserve/retry cycle for every operation.
However, we currently lack decaying the amount to reserve. This means
that if a single operation increased the reserve in the distant past,
all current operations also require this large reserve. Large reserves
are expensive since they can cause large amounts of cache to be evicted.
This patch adds reserve decay. The time-to-decay is inversely proportional
to reserve size: 10GB/reserve. This means that a 20MB reserve is halved
after 500 operations (10GB/20MB) while a 20kB reserve is halved after
500,000 operations (10GB/20kB). So large, expensive reserves are decayed
quickly while small, inexpensive reserves are decayed slowly to reduce
the risk of allocation failures and exceptions.
A unit test is added.
Fixes#325.
test_compaction_with_multiple_regions() has two calls to std::shuffle(),
one using std::default_random_engine() has the PRNG, but the other, later
on, using the std::random_device directly. This can cause failures due to
entropy pool exhaustion.
Fix by making the `random` variable refer to the PRNG, not the random_device,
and adjust the first std::shuffle() call. This hides the random_device so
it can't be used more than once.
Message-Id: <20200527124247.2187364-1-avi@scylladb.com>
We use boost test logging primarily to generate nice XML xunit
files used in Jenkins. These XML files can be bloated
with messages from BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE(), hundreds of megabytes
of build archives, on every build.
Let's use seastar logger for test logging instead, reserving
the use of boost log facilities for boost test markup information.
1. Move tests to test (using singular seems to be a convention
in the rest of the code base)
2. Move boost tests to test/boost, other
(non-boost) unit tests to test/unit, tests which are
expected to be run manually to test/manual.
Update configure.py and test.py with new paths to tests.
