RClusterPool.hxx

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/// \file ROOT/RClusterPool.hxx
/// \author Jakob Blomer <jblomer@cern.ch>
/// \date 2020-03-11
/// \warning This is part of the ROOT 7 prototype! It will change without notice. It might trigger earthquakes. Feedback
/// is welcome!
 
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#ifndef ROOT_RClusterPool
#define ROOT_RClusterPool
 
#include <ROOT/RCluster.hxx>
#include <ROOT/RNTupleMetrics.hxx>
#include <ROOT/RNTupleTypes.hxx>
 
#include <condition_variable>
#include <deque>
#include <memory>
#include <mutex>
#include <future>
#include <thread>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <vector>
 
namespace ROOT {
namespace Internal {
class RPageSource;
}
 
namespace Internal {
 
// clang-format off
/**
\class ROOT::Internal::RClusterPool
\ingroup NTuple
\brief Managed a set of clusters containing compressed and packed pages
 
The cluster pool steers the preloading of (partial) clusters. There is a two-step pipeline: in a first step,
compressed pages are read from clusters into a memory buffer. The second pipeline step decompresses the pages
and pushes them into the page pool. The actual logic of reading and unzipping is implemented by the page source.
The cluster pool only orchestrates the work queues for reading and unzipping. It uses one extra I/O thread for
reading waits for data from storage and generates no CPU load.
 
The unzipping step of the pipeline therefore behaves differently depending on whether or not implicit multi-threading
is turned on. If it is turned off, i.e. in a single-threaded environment, the cluster pool will only read the
compressed pages and the page source has to uncompresses pages at a later point when data from the page is requested.
*/
// clang-format on
class RClusterPool {
private:
   /// Request to load a subset of the columns of a particular cluster.
   /// Work items come in groups and are executed by the page source.
   struct RReadItem {
      /// Items with different bunch ids are scheduled for different vector reads
      std::int64_t fBunchId = -1;
      std::promise<std::unique_ptr<RCluster>> fPromise;
      RCluster::RKey fClusterKey;
   };
 
   /// Clusters that are currently being processed by the pipeline.  Every in-flight cluster has a corresponding
   /// read item.
   struct RInFlightCluster {
      std::future<std::unique_ptr<RCluster>> fFuture;
      RCluster::RKey fClusterKey;
 
      bool operator ==(const RInFlightCluster &other) const {
         return (fClusterKey.fClusterId == other.fClusterKey.fClusterId) &&
                (fClusterKey.fPhysicalColumnSet == other.fClusterKey.fPhysicalColumnSet);
      }
      bool operator !=(const RInFlightCluster &other) const { return !(*this == other); }
      /// First order by cluster id, then by number of columns, than by the column ids in fColumns
      bool operator <(const RInFlightCluster &other) const;
   };
 
   /// Performance counters that get registered in fMetrics
   struct RCounters {
      ROOT::Experimental::Detail::RNTupleAtomicCounter &fNCluster;
   };
   std::unique_ptr<RCounters> fCounters;
 
   /// Every cluster pool is responsible for exactly one page source that triggers loading of the clusters
   /// (GetCluster()) and is used for implementing the I/O and cluster memory allocation (PageSource::LoadClusters()).
   ROOT::Internal::RPageSource &fPageSource;
   /// The number of clusters that are being read in a single vector read.
   unsigned int fClusterBunchSize;
   /// Used as an ever-growing counter in GetCluster() to separate bunches of clusters from each other
   std::int64_t fBunchId = 0;
   /// The cache of active clusters and their successors
   std::unordered_map<ROOT::DescriptorId_t, std::unique_ptr<RCluster>> fPool;
 
   /// Protects the shared state between the main thread and the I/O thread, namely the work queue and the in-flight
   /// clusters vector
   std::mutex fLockWorkQueue;
   /// The clusters that were handed off to the I/O thread
   std::vector<RInFlightCluster> fInFlightClusters;
   /// Signals a non-empty I/O work queue
   std::condition_variable fCvHasReadWork;
   /// The communication channel to the I/O thread
   std::deque<RReadItem> fReadQueue;
 
   /// The I/O thread calls RPageSource::LoadClusters() asynchronously.  The thread is mostly waiting for the
   /// data to arrive (blocked by the kernel) and therefore can safely run in addition to the application
   /// main threads.
   std::thread fThreadIo;
 
   /// The cluster pool counters are observed by the page source
   ROOT::Experimental::Detail::RNTupleMetrics fMetrics;
 
   /// The I/O thread routine, there is exactly one I/O thread in-flight for every cluster pool
   void ExecReadClusters();
   /// Returns the given cluster from the pool, which needs to contain at least the columns `physicalColumns`.
   /// Executed at the end of GetCluster when all missing data pieces have been sent to the load queue.
   /// Ideally, the function returns without blocking if the cluster is already in the pool.
   RCluster *WaitFor(ROOT::DescriptorId_t clusterId, const RCluster::ColumnSet_t &physicalColumns);
 
public:
   static constexpr unsigned int kDefaultClusterBunchSize = 1;
   RClusterPool(ROOT::Internal::RPageSource &pageSource, unsigned int clusterBunchSize);
   explicit RClusterPool(ROOT::Internal::RPageSource &pageSource) : RClusterPool(pageSource, kDefaultClusterBunchSize)
   {
   }
   RClusterPool(const RClusterPool &other) = delete;
   RClusterPool &operator =(const RClusterPool &other) = delete;
   ~RClusterPool();
 
   /// Spawn the I/O background thread. No-op if already started.
   void StartBackgroundThread();
 
   /// Stop the I/O background thread. No-op if already stopped. Called by the destructor.
   void StopBackgroundThread();
 
   /// Returns the requested cluster either from the pool or, in case of a cache miss, lets the I/O thread load
   /// the cluster in the pool, blocks until done, and then returns it.  Triggers along the way the background loading
   /// of the following fClusterBunchSize number of clusters.  The returned cluster has at least all the pages of
   /// `physicalColumns` and possibly pages of other columns, too.  If implicit multi-threading is turned on, the
   /// uncompressed pages of the returned cluster are already pushed into the page pool associated with the page source
   /// upon return. The cluster remains valid until the next call to GetCluster().
   RCluster *GetCluster(ROOT::DescriptorId_t clusterId, const RCluster::ColumnSet_t &physicalColumns);
 
   /// Used by the unit tests to drain the queue of clusters to be preloaded
   void WaitForInFlightClusters();
 
   ROOT::Experimental::Detail::RNTupleMetrics &GetMetrics() { return fMetrics; }
}; // class RClusterPool
 
} // namespace Internal
} // namespace ROOT
 
#endif