Client side caching: split invalidation into key / slot.

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/src/tracking.c b/src/tracking.c
index dc2934831..1189e82d5 100644
--- a/src/tracking.c
+++ b/src/tracking.c
@@ -154,37 +154,43 @@ void sendTrackingMessage(client *c, long long hash) {
     }
 }
 
-/* This function is called from signalModifiedKey() or other places in Redis
- * when a key changes value. In the context of keys tracking, our task here is
- * to send a notification to every client that may have keys about such caching
- * slot. */
-void trackingInvalidateKey(robj *keyobj) {
-    if (TrackingTable == NULL || TrackingTableUsedSlots == 0) return;
-
-    sds sdskey = keyobj->ptr;
-    uint64_t hash = crc64(0,
-        (unsigned char*)sdskey,sdslen(sdskey))&(TRACKING_TABLE_SIZE-1);
-    if (TrackingTable[hash] == NULL) return;
+/* Invalidates a caching slot: this is actually the low level implementation
+ * of the API that Redis calls externally, that is trackingInvalidateKey(). */
+void trackingInvalidateSlot(uint64_t slot) {
+    if (TrackingTable == NULL || TrackingTable[slot] == NULL) return;
 
     raxIterator ri;
-    raxStart(&ri,TrackingTable[hash]);
+    raxStart(&ri,TrackingTable[slot]);
     raxSeek(&ri,"^",NULL,0);
     while(raxNext(&ri)) {
         uint64_t id;
         memcpy(&id,ri.key,ri.key_len);
         client *c = lookupClientByID(id);
         if (c == NULL || !(c->flags & CLIENT_TRACKING)) continue;
-        sendTrackingMessage(c,hash);
+        sendTrackingMessage(c,slot);
     }
     raxStop(&ri);
 
     /* Free the tracking table: we'll create the radix tree and populate it
-     * again if more keys will be modified in this hash slot. */
-    raxFree(TrackingTable[hash]);
-    TrackingTable[hash] = NULL;
+     * again if more keys will be modified in this caching slot. */
+    raxFree(TrackingTable[slot]);
+    TrackingTable[slot] = NULL;
     TrackingTableUsedSlots--;
 }
 
+/* This function is called from signalModifiedKey() or other places in Redis
+ * when a key changes value. In the context of keys tracking, our task here is
+ * to send a notification to every client that may have keys about such caching
+ * slot. */
+void trackingInvalidateKey(robj *keyobj) {
+    if (TrackingTable == NULL || TrackingTableUsedSlots == 0) return;
+
+    sds sdskey = keyobj->ptr;
+    uint64_t hash = crc64(0,
+        (unsigned char*)sdskey,sdslen(sdskey))&(TRACKING_TABLE_SIZE-1);
+    trackingInvalidateSlot(hash);
+}
+
 /* This function is called when one or all the Redis databases are flushed
  * (dbid == -1 in case of FLUSHALL). Caching slots are not specific for
  * each DB but are global: currently what we do is sending a special
@@ -235,3 +241,17 @@ void trackingInvalidateKeysOnFlush(int dbid) {
         }
     }
 }
+
+/* Tracking forces Redis to remember information about which client may have
+ * keys about certian caching slots. In workloads where there are a lot of
+ * reads, but keys are hardly modified, the amount of information we have
+ * to remember server side could be a lot: for each 16 millions of caching
+ * slots we may end with a radix tree containing many entries.
+ *
+ * So Redis allows the user to configure a maximum fill rate for the
+ * invalidation table. This function makes sure that we don't go over the
+ * specified fill rate: if we are over, we can just evict informations about
+ * random caching slots, and send invalidation messages to clients like if
+ * the key was modified. */
+void trackingLimitUsedSlots(void) {
+}