Block::Iter::PrefixSeek() to have an extra check to filter out some f…

…alse matches

Summary:
In block based table's hash index checking, when looking for a key that doesn't exist, there is a high chance that a false block is returned because of hash bucket conflicts. In this revision, another check is done to filter out some of those cases: comparing previous key of the block boundary to see whether the target block is what we are looking for.

In a favored test setting (bloom filter disabled, 8 L0 files), I saw about 80% improvements. In a non-favored test setting (bloom filter enabled, files are all in L1, files are all cached), I see the performance penalty is less than 3%.

Test Plan: make all check

Reviewers: haobo, ljin

Reviewed By: ljin

Subscribers: wuj, leveldb, zagfox, yhchiang

Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D20595

table/block.cc

@@ -284,26 +284,36 @@ class Block::Iter : public Iterator {
     return true;
   }
 
+  // Compare target key and the block key of the block of `block_index`.
+  // Return -1 if error.
+  int CompareBlockKey(uint32_t block_index, const Slice& target) {
+    uint32_t region_offset = GetRestartPoint(block_index);
+    uint32_t shared, non_shared, value_length;
+    const char* key_ptr = DecodeEntry(data_ + region_offset, data_ + restarts_,
+                                      &shared, &non_shared, &value_length);
+    if (key_ptr == nullptr || (shared != 0)) {
+      CorruptionError();
+      return 1;  // Return target is smaller
+    }
+    Slice block_key(key_ptr, non_shared);
+    return Compare(block_key, target);
+  }
+
   // Binary search in block_ids to find the first block
   // with a key >= target
   bool BinaryBlockIndexSeek(const Slice& target, uint32_t* block_ids,
                             uint32_t left, uint32_t right,
                             uint32_t* index) {
     assert(left <= right);
+    uint32_t left_bound = left;
 
     while (left <= right) {
       uint32_t mid = (left + right) / 2;
-      uint32_t region_offset = GetRestartPoint(block_ids[mid]);
-      uint32_t shared, non_shared, value_length;
-      const char* key_ptr =
-          DecodeEntry(data_ + region_offset, data_ + restarts_, &shared,
-                      &non_shared, &value_length);
-      if (key_ptr == nullptr || (shared != 0)) {
-        CorruptionError();
+
+      int cmp = CompareBlockKey(block_ids[mid], target);
+      if (!status_.ok()) {
         return false;
       }
-      Slice mid_key(key_ptr, non_shared);
-      int cmp = Compare(mid_key, target);
       if (cmp < 0) {
         // Key at "target" is larger than "mid". Therefore all
         // blocks before or at "mid" are uninteresting.
@@ -318,6 +328,19 @@ class Block::Iter : public Iterator {
     }
 
     if (left == right) {
+      // In one of the two following cases:
+      // (1) left is the first one of block_ids
+      // (2) there is a gap of blocks between block of `left` and `left-1`.
+      // we can further distinguish the case of key in the block or key not
+      // existing, by comparing the target key and the key of the previous
+      // block to the left of the block found.
+      if (block_ids[left] > 0 &&
+          (left == left_bound || block_ids[left - 1] != block_ids[left] - 1) &&
+          CompareBlockKey(block_ids[left] - 1, target) > 0) {
+        current_ = restarts_;
+        return false;
+      }
+
       *index = block_ids[left];
       return true;
     } else {