from __future__ import annotations import random from contextlib import closing from typing import TYPE_CHECKING from fixtures.benchmark_fixture import MetricReport from fixtures.utils import query_scalar if TYPE_CHECKING: from fixtures.compare_fixtures import PgCompare # This is a clear-box test that demonstrates the worst case scenario for the # "1 segment per layer" implementation of the pageserver. It writes to random # rows, while almost never writing to the same segment twice before flushing. # A naive pageserver implementation would create a full image layer for each # dirty segment, leading to write_amplification = segment_size / page_size, # when compared to vanilla postgres. With segment_size = 10MB, that's 1250. def test_random_writes(neon_with_baseline: PgCompare): env = neon_with_baseline # Number of rows in the test database. 1M rows runs quickly, but implies # a small effective_checkpoint_distance, which makes the test less realistic. # Using a 300 TB database would imply a 250 MB effective_checkpoint_distance, # but it will take a very long time to run. From what I've seen so far, # increasing n_rows doesn't have impact on the (neon_runtime / vanilla_runtime) # performance ratio. n_rows = 1 * 1000 * 1000 # around 36 MB table # Number of writes per 3 segments. A value of 1 should produce a random # workload where we almost never write to the same segment twice. Larger # values of load_factor produce a larger effective_checkpoint_distance, # making the test more realistic, but less effective. If you want a realistic # worst case scenario and you have time to wait you should increase n_rows instead. load_factor = 1 # Not sure why but this matters in a weird way (up to 2x difference in perf). # TODO look into it n_iterations = 1 with closing(env.pg.connect()) as conn: with conn.cursor() as cur: # Create the test table with env.record_duration("init"): cur.execute( """ CREATE TABLE Big( pk integer primary key, count integer default 0 ); """ ) # Insert n_rows in batches to avoid query timeouts rows_inserted = 0 while rows_inserted < n_rows: rows_to_insert = min(1000 * 1000, n_rows - rows_inserted) low = rows_inserted + 1 high = rows_inserted + rows_to_insert cur.execute(f"INSERT INTO Big (pk) values (generate_series({low},{high}))") rows_inserted += rows_to_insert # Get table size (can't be predicted because padding and alignment) table_size = query_scalar(cur, "SELECT pg_relation_size('Big')") env.zenbenchmark.record("table_size", table_size, "bytes", MetricReport.TEST_PARAM) # Decide how much to write, based on knowledge of pageserver implementation. # Avoiding segment collisions maximizes (neon_runtime / vanilla_runtime). segment_size = 10 * 1024 * 1024 n_segments = table_size // segment_size n_writes = load_factor * n_segments // 3 # The closer this is to 250 MB, the more realistic the test is. effective_checkpoint_distance = table_size * n_writes // n_rows env.zenbenchmark.record( "effective_checkpoint_distance", effective_checkpoint_distance, "bytes", MetricReport.TEST_PARAM, ) # Update random keys with env.record_duration("run"): for _ in range(n_iterations): for _ in range(n_writes): key = random.randint(1, n_rows) cur.execute(f"update Big set count=count+1 where pk={key}") env.flush()