perf(storage): SADD reaches its listpack encoding — small string sets stop being hashtables - #791
perf(storage): SADD reaches its listpack encoding — small string sets stop being hashtables#791TinDang97 wants to merge 2 commits into
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… stop being hashtables
`SetListpack` was wired end to end but nothing ever produced one that survived,
so every string set was a `hashtable` from its first member. Redis keeps a set
in a listpack until it exceeds set-max-listpack-entries (128) or
set-max-listpack-value (64). Verified against a redis 8.6.1 oracle:
SADD s a b c d e -> moon: hashtable redis: listpack
The intset path was fine (`SADD s 1 2 3` reports `intset` on both), which is
what made this easy to miss.
## Root cause
The listpack guard does not live in `OwnedKind::upgrade` — all four impls are
unconditional. It lives one level up, in a per-type accessor the command layer
calls INSTEAD of the owned accessor. Three of the four existed:
get_or_create_intset EXISTS <- SADD, integer members
get_or_create_hash_listpack EXISTS <- HSET
get_or_create_list_listpack EXISTS <- RPUSH
get_or_create_set_listpack MISSING
Without it, SADD went straight to `get_or_create_set`, whose `SetKind::upgrade`
converts a `SetListpack` to a `HashSet` in the same call — creating and
destroying the compact encoding before anyone could observe it.
## Change
Adds `get_or_create_set_listpack` / `upgrade_set_listpack_to_set`, modelled
exactly on the hash pair including the cold-tier rule (cold storage never
persists a compact encoding, so a promoted value decodes as `RedisValue::Set`
and lands in the `Ok(None)` fall-through arm rather than being fabricated over).
Routes SADD through it, promoting past either threshold with the same
one-time cost-model handoff `hset` and the intset path already perform.
Reads needed nothing: `SetKind::classify_hot` already answers
`SetRef::Listpack`, a path that until now was unreachable at runtime.
## Tests
Red/green, and both threshold guards mutation-tested (forcing the entry
threshold to `usize::MAX`, and ignoring the oversized-member check, each fail
their own test; restoring goes green):
- `sadd_small_string_set_stays_listpack` — the RED test, asserted through the
real `OBJECT ENCODING` handler rather than a private field
- `sadd_promotes_past_the_entry_threshold`
- `sadd_promotes_on_an_oversized_member`
- `listpack_set_answers_reads_identically`
`test_object_encoding_set_hashtable` ASSERTED THE BUG ("SADD with non-integer
members should create hashtable") and is corrected to expect `listpack`; a new
`test_object_encoding_set_hashtable_past_threshold` keeps the hashtable
encoding covered. That assertion is why the divergence survived, so six
OBJECT ENCODING parity rows are added to scripts/test-consistency.sh — no row
there probed encoding at all.
Full lib suite 5113 passed / 0 failed; clippy clean on both runtimes.
## Known limitation — SADD only
SREM, SPOP and SMOVE still call `get_or_create_set`, so they promote a listpack
set to a hashtable. Measured against a redis 8.6.1 oracle after `SADD s a b c d e`:
after SREM moon: hashtable redis: listpack
after SPOP moon: hashtable redis: listpack
after SMOVE moon: hashtable redis: listpack
after SADD moon: listpack redis: listpack
So a set that is only ever added to stays compact — the common case, and the one
the RSS harness measures — while a set touched by a removal reverts. That is a
strict improvement over "always a hashtable", but it is NOT full parity, and the
encoding now depends on command history.
No consistency row is added for the reverting cases: a row asserting the current
divergent answer would codify the bug, which is precisely the mistake
`test_object_encoding_set_hashtable` made and this commit corrects. The three
remaining commands are the follow-up, 6 call sites in the same file, on the same
template.
Refs #787
author: Tin Dang
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The commit landed without a CHANGELOG entry and the per-PR Lint gate failed on it. Records the root cause (the missing per-type accessor, not a missing upgrade arm), the unit test that had pinned the defect in its own name, and the measured 978.2 -> 404.5 B/key on Linux against both Redis oracles. Refs #787 author: Tin Dang
⛔ BLOCKER — do not merge yet: this introduces data corruption (#795)Found while reviewing a related agent's work, then verified directly against a live The underlying defect (#795) is pre-existing — That makes #795 a prerequisite for this PR, exactly as #794 already is. The measured numbers are unaffectedTo be explicit, since this could look like it undermines the 978.2 → 404.5 B/key result: it does not. Main's Merge order now
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesSADD listpack encoding
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The new compact set encoding can change integer-shaped string members such as 000000012345 into 12345, corrupting set-member identity and causing incorrect reads. Merge should be blocked until member bytes are preserved and exact mixed-string round-trip tests pass. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant SADD
participant Database
participant SetListpack
participant HashSet
Client->>SADD: SADD key members
SADD->>Database: get_or_create_set_listpack
Database->>SetListpack: create or return listpack
SADD->>SetListpack: insert distinct members
SADD->>Database: upgrade_set_listpack_to_set when threshold is exceeded
Database->>HashSet: convert listpack
SADD-->>Client: return added-member count
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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 19: Update the opening fenced code block in CHANGELOG.md to specify the
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In `@src/command/set/mod.rs`:
- Around line 702-705: Add exact round-trip assertions for mixed-string set
members 000000012345 and abcdefgh in src/command/set/mod.rs lines 702-705,
including membership/content validation; extend the listpack encoding test in
src/command/mod.rs lines 2089-2094 with exact mixed-string member checks; update
scripts/test-consistency.sh lines 520-527 to compare those exact mixed-string
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In `@src/command/set/set_write.rs`:
- Line 132: In the set write path around lp.push_back(member), preserve original
member bytes by routing any batch containing an integer-shaped member to HashSet
instead of SetListpack; only use SetListpack when all members can retain their
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| sadd(&mut db, &[bs(b"s"), bs(b"a"), bs(b"b"), bs(b"c")]); | ||
| assert_eq!(scard(&mut db, &[bs(b"s")]), Frame::Integer(3)); | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
The new encoding checks do not cover the known mixed-string corruption.
src/command/set/mod.rs#L702-L705: add an exact round-trip assertion for000000012345withabcdefgh.src/command/mod.rs#L2089-L2094: extend the listpack encoding test with exact mixed-string member validation.scripts/test-consistency.sh#L520-L527: compare exact mixed-string contents between Redis and Moon.
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In `@src/command/set/mod.rs` around lines 702 - 705, Add exact round-trip
assertions for mixed-string set members 000000012345 and abcdefgh in
src/command/set/mod.rs lines 702-705, including membership/content validation;
extend the listpack encoding test in src/command/mod.rs lines 2089-2094 with
exact mixed-string member checks; update scripts/test-consistency.sh lines
520-527 to compare those exact mixed-string contents between Redis and Moon.
| // same shape `hset` uses over `iter_pairs`. Bounded by | ||
| // LISTPACK_MAX_ENTRIES, so this stays O(128) worst case. | ||
| if !lp.iter().any(|m| m.as_bytes() == member.as_ref()) { | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Preserve the original member bytes before using SetListpack.
For SADD s 000000012345 abcdefgh, this new path reaches Line 132 and stores the first member as an integer. Later reads return 12345 instead of 000000012345. This corrupts binary-safe set-member identity.
Land the integer round-trip fix before enabling this path. Until then, route any batch containing an integer-shaped member to HashSet instead of SetListpack.
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In `@src/command/set/set_write.rs` at line 132, In the set write path around
lp.push_back(member), preserve original member bytes by routing any batch
containing an integer-shaped member to HashSet instead of SetListpack; only use
SetListpack when all members can retain their exact byte representation.
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Root cause
moon had
SetListpackas a storage encoding and anINTSETpath inSADD, but nopath that ever created a string-set listpack — a small string set went straight to
hashtable. The listpack guard does not live inOwnedKind::upgrade(all four impls areunconditional); it lives one level up, in a per-type accessor the command layer calls
instead of the owned accessor:
A unit test in
src/command/mod.rshad pinned the defect in its own name —test_object_encoding_set_hashtable, asserting "SADD with non-integer members shouldcreate hashtable". It is corrected here, with a new test keeping the past-threshold
hashtable case covered.
Change
get_or_create_set_listpack/upgrade_set_listpack_to_set, modelled on the hash pair,plus the
SADDlistpack path with the same credit/charge handoff the intset path alreadyperformed. Promotion past
LISTPACK_MAX_ENTRIES(128) orLISTPACK_MAX_ELEMENT_SIZE(64) is one-way, matching Redis.
Measured on Linux — 2.42x less memory per set key
GCE
c3-standard-8,--shards 1, fresh server per row, 200k distinct keys, 3 interleavedreps, 60/60 rows valid. Two oracles reported, leading with the newer 7.4.2 (7.0.15
predates listpack sets entirely, so quoting it alone would flatter moon):
The set row is disjoint from its control; the other four move by 0.01–0.05% against
per-cell CVs of 0.02–1.32%, i.e. they sit inside their own noise floor — which is what a
change scoped to one type should look like.
Dependency: this win does not survive a restart on its own
RDB decode rebuilds every container in its full form, so the new listpack came back as
a
hashtableon the first reload and the set row reverted to 1.85x/4.48x. Redis preservesthese across
DEBUG RELOAD. The fix is on a separate branch(
fix/restart-preserves-compact-encoding, decode-side re-derivation, no wire-formatchange). That branch should land with or before this one, or the measured win is
lost on the first restart.
Tests
Red/green, mutation-tested. Consistency suite 464 rows vs a 458-row baseline — exactly the
6 new
OBJECT ENCODINGparity rows, no other row moved. Lib suite 5113/0; tokio leg4276/0.
Gates: LOCAL ONLY — not at the merge bar
scripts/ci-local.shlegs and the tokio leg were run on the macOS host. Not run: theLinux VM suite and the hosted dispatch matrix. This PR is opened for review; it needs a
GCE + hosted gate before it can merge.
author: Tin Dang
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