From: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 20:11:58 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Change NTUP_PER_BUCKET to 1 to improve hash join lookup speed.
X-Git-Tag: REL9_5_ALPHA1~1468
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8cce08f168481c5fc5be4e7e29b968e314f1b41e;p=postgresql

Change NTUP_PER_BUCKET to 1 to improve hash join lookup speed.

Since this makes the bucket headers use ~10x as much memory, properly
account for that memory when we figure out whether everything fits
in work_mem.  This might result in some cases that previously used
only a single batch getting split into multiple batches, but it's
unclear as yet whether we need defenses against that case, and if so,
what the shape of those defenses should be.

It's worth noting that even in these edge cases, users should still be
no worse off than they would have been last week, because commit
45f6240a8fa9d35548eb2ef23dba2c11540aa02a saved a big pile of memory
on exactly the same workloads.

Tomas Vondra, reviewed and somewhat revised by me.
---

diff --git a/src/backend/executor/nodeHash.c b/src/backend/executor/nodeHash.c
index 3ef7cfbb5b..b3203ba7fa 100644
--- a/src/backend/executor/nodeHash.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/nodeHash.c
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ ExecHashTableCreate(Hash *node, List *hashOperators, bool keepNulls)
  */
 
 /* Target bucket loading (tuples per bucket) */
-#define NTUP_PER_BUCKET			10
+#define NTUP_PER_BUCKET			1
 
 void
 ExecChooseHashTableSize(double ntuples, int tupwidth, bool useskew,
@@ -396,12 +396,13 @@ ExecChooseHashTableSize(double ntuples, int tupwidth, bool useskew,
 {
 	int			tupsize;
 	double		inner_rel_bytes;
+	long		bucket_bytes;
 	long		hash_table_bytes;
 	long		skew_table_bytes;
 	long		max_pointers;
-	int			nbatch;
+	int			nbatch = 1;
 	int			nbuckets;
-	int			i;
+	double		dbuckets;
 
 	/* Force a plausible relation size if no info */
 	if (ntuples <= 0.0)
@@ -460,56 +461,61 @@ ExecChooseHashTableSize(double ntuples, int tupwidth, bool useskew,
 
 	/*
 	 * Set nbuckets to achieve an average bucket load of NTUP_PER_BUCKET when
-	 * memory is filled.  Set nbatch to the smallest power of 2 that appears
-	 * sufficient.  The Min() steps limit the results so that the pointer
-	 * arrays we'll try to allocate do not exceed work_mem.
+	 * memory is filled, assuming a single batch.  The Min() step limits the
+	 * results so that the pointer arrays we'll try to allocate do not exceed
+	 * work_mem.
 	 */
 	max_pointers = (work_mem * 1024L) / sizeof(void *);
 	/* also ensure we avoid integer overflow in nbatch and nbuckets */
 	max_pointers = Min(max_pointers, INT_MAX / 2);
+	dbuckets = ceil(ntuples / NTUP_PER_BUCKET);
+	dbuckets = Min(dbuckets, max_pointers);
+	nbuckets = Max((int) dbuckets, 1024);
+	nbuckets = 1 << my_log2(nbuckets);
+	bucket_bytes = sizeof(HashJoinTuple) * nbuckets;
 
-	if (inner_rel_bytes > hash_table_bytes)
+	/*
+	 * If there's not enough space to store the projected number of tuples
+	 * and the required bucket headers, we will need multiple batches.
+	 */
+	if (inner_rel_bytes + bucket_bytes > hash_table_bytes)
 	{
 		/* We'll need multiple batches */
 		long		lbuckets;
 		double		dbatch;
 		int			minbatch;
+		long		bucket_size;
 
-		lbuckets = (hash_table_bytes / tupsize) / NTUP_PER_BUCKET;
+		/*
+		 * Estimate the number of buckets we'll want to have when work_mem
+		 * is entirely full.  Each bucket will contain a bucket pointer plus
+		 * NTUP_PER_BUCKET tuples, whose projected size already includes
+		 * overhead for the hash code, pointer to the next tuple, etc.
+		 */
+		bucket_size = (tupsize * NTUP_PER_BUCKET + sizeof(HashJoinTuple));
+		lbuckets = 1 << my_log2(hash_table_bytes / bucket_size);
 		lbuckets = Min(lbuckets, max_pointers);
 		nbuckets = (int) lbuckets;
+		bucket_bytes = nbuckets * sizeof(HashJoinTuple);
+
+		/*
+		 * Buckets are simple pointers to hashjoin tuples, while tupsize
+		 * includes the pointer, hash code, and MinimalTupleData.  So buckets
+		 * should never really exceed 25% of work_mem (even for
+		 * NTUP_PER_BUCKET=1); except maybe * for work_mem values that are
+		 * not 2^N bytes, where we might get more * because of doubling.
+		 * So let's look for 50% here.
+		 */
+		Assert(bucket_bytes <= hash_table_bytes / 2);
 
-		dbatch = ceil(inner_rel_bytes / hash_table_bytes);
+		/* Calculate required number of batches. */
+		dbatch = ceil(inner_rel_bytes / (hash_table_bytes - bucket_bytes));
 		dbatch = Min(dbatch, max_pointers);
 		minbatch = (int) dbatch;
 		nbatch = 2;
 		while (nbatch < minbatch)
 			nbatch <<= 1;
 	}
-	else
-	{
-		/* We expect the hashtable to fit in memory */
-		double		dbuckets;
-
-		dbuckets = ceil(ntuples / NTUP_PER_BUCKET);
-		dbuckets = Min(dbuckets, max_pointers);
-		nbuckets = (int) dbuckets;
-
-		nbatch = 1;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Both nbuckets and nbatch must be powers of 2 to make
-	 * ExecHashGetBucketAndBatch fast.  We already fixed nbatch; now inflate
-	 * nbuckets to the next larger power of 2.  We also force nbuckets to not
-	 * be real small, by starting the search at 2^10.  (Note: above we made
-	 * sure that nbuckets is not more than INT_MAX / 2, so this loop cannot
-	 * overflow, nor can the final shift to recalculate nbuckets.)
-	 */
-	i = 10;
-	while ((1 << i) < nbuckets)
-		i++;
-	nbuckets = (1 << i);
 
 	*numbuckets = nbuckets;
 	*numbatches = nbatch;
@@ -754,7 +760,8 @@ ExecHashTableInsert(HashJoinTable hashtable,
 		hashtable->spaceUsed += hashTupleSize;
 		if (hashtable->spaceUsed > hashtable->spacePeak)
 			hashtable->spacePeak = hashtable->spaceUsed;
-		if (hashtable->spaceUsed > hashtable->spaceAllowed)
+		if (hashtable->spaceUsed + hashtable->nbuckets * sizeof(HashJoinTuple)
+			> hashtable->spaceAllowed)
 			ExecHashIncreaseNumBatches(hashtable);
 	}
 	else