featurebase/rbf/db.go
2022-12-12 09:01:20 -08:00

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// Copyright 2022 Molecula Corp. (DBA FeatureBase).
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
package rbf
import (
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"sort"
"sync"
"syscall"
"unsafe"
"github.com/pkg/errors"
"github.com/benbjohnson/immutable"
"github.com/featurebasedb/featurebase/v3/logger"
rbfcfg "github.com/featurebasedb/featurebase/v3/rbf/cfg"
"github.com/featurebasedb/featurebase/v3/syswrap"
)
var ErrClosed = errors.New("rbf: database closed")
// shared cursor pool across all DB instances.
// Cursors are returned on Cursor.Close().
var cursorSyncPool = &sync.Pool{
New: func() interface{} {
return &Cursor{}
},
}
// txWaiter is a representation of "i need to wait for txs to complete".
// it is created with a function, and will run that function, with the db
// lock held, at some point after every Tx that was open when it was created
// has closed. WARNING: A txWaiter may hold db.rwmu.
type txWaiter struct {
ready chan struct{}
waitingOn map[*Tx]struct{}
callback func()
}
// DB options like MaxSize, FsyncEnabled, DoAllocZero
// can be set before calling DB.Open().
type DB struct {
cfg rbfcfg.Config
data []byte // database mmap
file *os.File // database file descriptor
rootRecords *immutable.SortedMap[string, uint32] // cached root records
pageMap *PageMap // pgno-to-WALID mapping
txs map[*Tx]struct{} // active transactions
opened bool // true if open
logger logger.Logger // for diagnostics from async things
wal []byte // wal mmap
walFile *os.File // wal file descriptor
walPageN int // wal page count
baseWALID int64 // WAL ID of first page
mu sync.RWMutex // general mutex
rwmu sync.Mutex // mutex for restricting single writer
haltCond *sync.Cond // condition for resuming txs after checkpoint
txWaiters []*txWaiter // things waiting for Txs to close
isDead error // this database died in an unrecoverable way, error out opens
// Path represents the path to the database file.
Path string
freelistCursor Cursor // cursor to reuse for freelist operations
}
// NewDB returns a new instance of DB.
// If cfg is nil we will use the rbfcfg.DefaultConfig().
func NewDB(path string, cfg *rbfcfg.Config) *DB {
if cfg == nil {
cfg = rbfcfg.NewDefaultConfig()
}
db := &DB{
cfg: *cfg,
txs: make(map[*Tx]struct{}),
pageMap: NewPageMap(),
Path: path,
logger: cfg.Logger,
}
if db.logger == nil {
// default to writing to stdout if not told otherwise
db.logger = logger.NewStandardLogger(os.Stderr)
}
db.haltCond = sync.NewCond(&db.mu)
return db
}
// DataPath returns the path to the data file for the DB.
func (db *DB) DataPath() string {
return filepath.Join(db.Path, "data")
}
// WALPath returns the path to the WAL file.
func (db *DB) WALPath() string {
return filepath.Join(db.Path, "wal")
}
// TxN returns the number of active transactions.
func (db *DB) TxN() int {
db.mu.RLock()
defer db.mu.RUnlock()
return len(db.txs)
}
// Open opens a database with the file specified in Path.
// Creates a new file if one does not already exist.
func (db *DB) Open() (err error) {
db.mu.Lock()
defer db.mu.Unlock()
if err := os.MkdirAll(db.Path, 0o755); err != nil {
return err
} else if db.file, err = os.OpenFile(db.DataPath(), os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE, 0o600); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("open file: %w", err)
}
// Open read-only database mmap.
if f, err := os.OpenFile(db.DataPath(), os.O_RDONLY, 0o600); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("open mmap file: %w", err)
} else if db.data, err = syswrap.Mmap(int(f.Fd()), 0, int(db.cfg.MaxSize), syscall.PROT_READ, syscall.MAP_SHARED); err != nil {
f.Close()
return fmt.Errorf("open mmap file: %w", err)
} else if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot close mmap file: %w", err)
}
// Initialize file if it is too small.
if fi, err := db.file.Stat(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("stat: %w", err)
} else if fi.Size() < PageSize {
if err := db.init(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("init: %w", err)
}
}
// TODO(BBJ): Obtain advisory lock on file.
db.opened = true
// Open write-ahead log & checkpoint to the end since no transactions are open.
if err := db.openWAL(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("wal open: %w", err)
} else {
// checkpoint wants to hold the rwmu lock.
db.rwmu.Lock()
if err := db.checkpoint(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("startup checkpoint: %w", err)
}
}
return nil
}
func (db *DB) openWAL() (err error) {
// Open WAL file writer.
if db.walFile, err = os.OpenFile(db.WALPath(), os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE, 0o600); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("open wal file: %w", err)
}
// Open read-only mmap.
if f, err := os.OpenFile(db.WALPath(), os.O_RDONLY, 0o600); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("open wal mmap file: %w", err)
} else if db.wal, err = syswrap.Mmap(int(f.Fd()), 0, int(db.cfg.MaxWALSize), syscall.PROT_READ, syscall.MAP_SHARED); err != nil {
f.Close()
return fmt.Errorf("map wal mmap file: %w", err)
} else if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot close wal mmap file: %w", err)
}
// Determine the number of whole pages in the WAL.
var pageN int
var fileSize int64
if fi, err := db.walFile.Stat(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("wal stat: %w", err)
} else {
fileSize = fi.Size()
pageN = int(fileSize / PageSize)
}
// Read backwards through the WAL to find the last valid meta page.
for ; pageN > 0; pageN-- {
if page, err := db.readWALPageAt(pageN - 1); err != nil {
return err
} else if IsMetaPage(page) {
// We now face a challenge. Probably this is a meta page.
// But consider a sequence of pages written which gets
// interrupted right before the meta page is written.
// If the last page is a bitmap page, it could LOOK LIKE a meta
// page. So we have to check the page before it. If that page
// is a bitmap header, then actually this is a bitmap page, right?
// If that page doesn't exist, of course, we're fine, except
// for the philosophical question of why we wrote a meta page
// when no pages had changed.
if pageN > 1 {
if page, err = db.readWALPageAt(pageN - 2); err != nil {
return err
}
if IsBitmapHeader(page) {
// But wait!
// What if this *is* a meta page, and the page before it is
// actually a *bitmap page* that looks like a bitmap header? And
// so on.
//
// Rather than try to resolve this, in this insanely unlikely
// situation, we read from the beginning which allows us to
// always know what we're seeing, because every bitmap page
// comes *after* a bitmap header page, and thus, we know when
// we might be seeing one.
pageN, err = db.methodicalWALPageN(pageN)
if err != nil {
return err
}
}
}
break
}
}
if fileSize != int64(pageN*PageSize) {
if err := db.walFile.Truncate(int64(pageN) * PageSize); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("wal truncate: %w", err)
}
}
if _, err := db.walFile.Seek(int64(pageN)*PageSize, io.SeekStart); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("wal seek: %w", err)
}
db.walPageN = pageN
db.baseWALID = readMetaWALID(db.data)
return nil
}
// methodicalWALPageN tries to determine the last meta page in a very reliable
// but slow way. This handles the theoretical but hard to imagine creating
// edge case where we have a bitmap page which happens to look like a meta
// page, and the write got interrupted before the meta page got written.
func (db *DB) methodicalWALPageN(pageN int) (lastMeta int, err error) {
for i := 0; i < pageN; i++ {
var page []byte
if page, err = db.readWALPageAt(i); err != nil {
return -1, err
}
switch {
case IsMetaPage(page):
lastMeta = i + 1
case IsBitmapHeader(page):
// skip the bitmap page, which we can't usefully evaluate
i++
}
}
return lastMeta, nil
}
// Checkpoint performs a manual checkpoint. This is not necessary except for tests.
func (db *DB) Checkpoint() error {
db.mu.Lock()
defer db.mu.Unlock()
db.rwmu.Lock()
return db.checkpoint()
}
// checkpoint moves all WAL pages to the main DB file. Must be called
// while holding both db.mu and db.rwmu. Should release db.rwmu, but not
// db.mu.
func (db *DB) checkpoint() (err error) {
// if we don't spin off a possible async waiter, we should release the
// write lock, if we do, that will release it.
releaseLock := true
defer func() {
if releaseLock {
db.rwmu.Unlock()
}
}()
if !db.opened {
return nil
}
// Check if there are any WAL pages, if not do nothing as
// checkpointing and calling fsync can be very expensive even if
// there are no writes.
if db.walPageN == 0 {
return nil
}
// wake up things waiting on haltCond when we're done, even if we fail.
// Otherwise, we deadlock with them all stuck waiting on that forever.
defer func() {
if err != nil && db.isDead == nil {
db.isDead = err
}
db.haltCond.Broadcast()
}()
// Copy the pages from the WAL back to the database outside of the lock.
var pageN uint32
if err := func() error {
db.mu.Unlock() // This is intentionally reversed so run w/o lock
defer db.mu.Lock()
var page []byte
// We might have either a *PageMap or just the file. If we have the file,
// building the PageMap is fairly expensive because it's fancy and immutable.
// If we have the PageMap *or* some other map, that's two different things
// to iterate. If we have the PageMap, building a map from it is relatively
// cheap, so we'll do it that way.
pages := make(map[uint32]int)
if db.pageMap.size == 0 {
// you'd think we're done, but actually this PROBABLY means that
// this is initial startup, and we haven't read the file yet. We scan
// the file for pages, because it turns out most of them probably
// got overwritten.
for i := 0; i < db.walPageN; i++ {
page, err = db.readWALPageAt(i)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("reading WAL page %d: %w", i, err)
}
// Determine page number. Meta pages are always on zero & bitmap
// headers specify the page number of the next page in the WAL.
// All other pages have their page number in the page data.
var pgno uint32
if IsBitmapHeader(page) {
pgno = readPageNo(page)
if i+1 < db.walPageN {
if _, err = db.readWALPageAt(i + 1); err != nil {
return err
}
} else {
return fmt.Errorf("last page of WAL file (%d) is bitmap header", i)
}
i++ // bitmaps in WAL are two pages
} else if !IsMetaPage(page) {
pgno = readPageNo(page)
}
// record where in the file we have this page
pages[pgno] = i
}
} else {
itr := db.pageMap.Iterator()
itr.First()
for k, v, ok := itr.Next(); ok; k, v, ok = itr.Next() {
pages[k] = int(v - db.baseWALID - 1)
}
}
for pgno, walID := range pages {
page, err = db.readWALPageAt(walID)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("reading page %d [page number %d]: %v", walID, pgno, err)
}
// Determine new database size from the page size in meta page.
if pgno == 0 {
pageN = readMetaPageN(page)
}
// Write data to the data file.
if err = db.writeDBPage(pgno, page); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("writing page %d: %v", pgno, err)
}
}
// Ensure database file is synced and then truncate the WAL file.
if err = db.fsync(db.file); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("db file sync: %w", err)
}
return nil
}(); err != nil {
return err
}
// now we've updated the file. There are existing transactions that are still
// using the WAL, though. So we wait for them to terminate before we unlock
// the rwmu and update the metadata about the WAL.
releaseLock = false
db.walPageN = 0
db.pageMap = NewPageMap()
db.afterCurrentTx(func() {
defer db.rwmu.Unlock()
db.baseWALID = readMetaWALID(db.data)
db.mu.Unlock()
defer db.mu.Lock()
if err = db.walFile.Truncate(0); err != nil {
db.logger.Errorf("truncate wal file: %w", err)
} else if err = db.fsync(db.walFile); err != nil {
db.logger.Errorf("wal file sync: %w", err)
} else if _, err = db.walFile.Seek(0, io.SeekStart); err != nil {
db.logger.Errorf("seek wal file: %w", err)
}
// Truncate data file if it has shrunk.
if fi, err := db.file.Stat(); err != nil {
db.logger.Errorf("stat db file: %w", err)
} else if sz := int64(pageN) * PageSize; sz > 0 && fi.Size() > sz {
if err := db.file.Truncate(sz); err != nil {
db.logger.Errorf("truncate db file: %w", err)
}
}
})
return nil
}
// Close closes the database.
func (db *DB) Close() (err error) {
// mark db as closed, spawn a thing to wait for existing tx to drain, then
// release the lock so they CAN drain. We do this before getting the
// write lock, so if something else is waiting on rwmu.Lock, and will be
// competing with us, we can ensure that it'll exit out quickly.
db.mu.Lock()
db.opened = false
// wait for transactions to complete
ch := make(chan struct{})
db.afterCurrentTx(func() {
close(ch)
})
db.mu.Unlock()
<-ch
// Wait for writer lock.
db.rwmu.Lock()
defer db.rwmu.Unlock()
// and main DB lock.
db.mu.Lock()
defer db.mu.Unlock()
// Close mmap handle.
if db.data != nil {
if e := syswrap.Munmap(db.data); e != nil && err == nil {
err = e
}
db.data = nil
}
// Close writer handler.
if db.file != nil {
err = db.fsync(db.file)
if err != nil {
return
}
if e := db.file.Close(); e != nil && err == nil {
err = e
}
db.file = nil
}
// Close WAL mmap handle.
if db.wal != nil {
if e := syswrap.Munmap(db.wal); e != nil && err == nil {
err = e
}
db.wal = nil
}
// Close wal writer handler.
if db.walFile != nil {
if e := db.walFile.Close(); e != nil && err == nil {
err = e
}
db.walFile = nil
}
return err
}
// HasData with requireOneHotBit=false returns
// hasAnyRecords true if any record has been stored,
// even if the value for that bitmap record turned out to have
// no bits hot (be all zeroes).
//
// In this case, we are taking the attempted storage
// of any named bitmap into the database as evidence
// that the db is in use, and we return hasAnyRecords true.
//
// Conversely, if requireOneHotBit is true, then a
// database consisting of only a named bitmap with
// an all zeroes (no bits hot)
// will return hasAnyRecords false. We must find at
// least a single hot bit inside the db
// in order to return hasAnyRecords true.
//
// HasData is used by backend migration.
//
// If there is a disk error we return (false, error), so always
// check the error before deciding if hasAnyRecords is valid.
//
// We will internally create and rollback a read-only
// transaction to answer this query.
func (db *DB) HasData(requireOneHotBit bool) (hasAnyRecords bool, err error) {
// Read a list of all bitmaps in Tx.
tx, err := db.Begin(false)
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
defer tx.Rollback()
records, err := tx.RootRecords()
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
// Loop over each bitmap and attempt to move to the first cell.
// If we can move to a cell then we have at least one record.
for itr := records.Iterator(); !itr.Done(); {
name, _, _ := itr.Next()
// Fetch cursor for bitmap.
cur, err := tx.Cursor(name)
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
defer cur.Close()
if !requireOneHotBit {
return true, nil
}
// INVAR: requireOneHotBit true
// Check if we can move to the first cell.
if err := cur.First(); err == io.EOF {
continue // no data in bitmap
} else if err != nil {
return false, err
}
return true, nil
}
return false, nil
}
// Size returns the size of the database & WAL, in bytes.
func (db *DB) Size() (int64, error) {
db.mu.RLock()
defer db.mu.RUnlock()
fi, err := os.Stat(db.Path)
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
return db.walSize() + fi.Size(), nil
}
// WALSize returns the size of the WAL, in bytes.
func (db *DB) WALSize() int64 {
db.mu.RLock()
defer db.mu.RUnlock()
return db.walSize()
}
func (db *DB) walSize() int64 {
return int64(db.walPageN) * PageSize
}
// init initializes a new database file.
func (db *DB) init() error {
if err := db.initMetaPage(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("meta: %w", err)
} else if err := db.initRootRecordPage(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("root record page: %w", err)
} else if err := db.initFreelistPage(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("freelist page: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
// initMetaPage initializes the meta page.
func (db *DB) initMetaPage() error {
page := allocPage()
writeMetaMagic(page)
writeMetaPageN(page, 3)
writeMetaRootRecordPageNo(page, 1)
writeMetaFreelistPageNo(page, 2)
_, err := db.file.WriteAt(page, 0*PageSize)
return err
}
// initRootRecordPage initializes the initial root record page.
func (db *DB) initRootRecordPage() error {
page := allocPage()
writePageNo(page, 1)
writeFlags(page, PageTypeRootRecord)
_, err := db.file.WriteAt(page, 1*PageSize)
return err
}
// initFreelistPage initializes the initial freelist btree page.
func (db *DB) initFreelistPage() error {
page := allocPage()
writePageNo(page, 2)
writeFlags(page, PageTypeLeaf)
_, err := db.file.WriteAt(page, 2*PageSize)
return err
}
// Begin starts a new transaction.
func (db *DB) Begin(writable bool) (_ *Tx, err error) {
// Ensure only one writable transaction at a time.
if writable {
db.rwmu.Lock()
}
// This local function is called at exit points that occur before we can
// call Rollback() which would normally release these locks.
cleanup := func() {
if writable {
db.rwmu.Unlock()
}
}
db.mu.Lock()
defer db.mu.Unlock()
if !db.opened {
cleanup()
return nil, ErrClosed
}
if db.isDead != nil {
err := db.isDead
cleanup()
return nil, err
}
// Wait for WAL size to be below threshold, if we're going to write.
// Reads don't care.
if writable {
for int64(db.walPageN)*PageSize > db.cfg.MaxWALCheckpointSize {
if db.isDead != nil {
err := db.isDead
cleanup()
return nil, err
}
// This implicitly releases db.mu.Lock and comes back with it
// held again.
db.haltCond.Wait()
}
}
tx := &Tx{
db: db,
rootRecords: db.rootRecords,
pageMap: db.pageMap,
walPageN: db.walPageN,
writable: writable,
DeleteEmptyContainer: true,
}
defer func() {
if err != nil {
tx.rollback(true)
}
}()
if writable {
tx.dirtyPages = make(map[uint32][]byte)
tx.dirtyBitmapPages = make(map[uint32][]byte)
}
// Copy meta page into transaction's buffer.
// This page is only written at the end of a dirty transaction.
page, err := db.readMetaPage()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
copy(tx.meta[:], page)
// Attach starting WAL ID to transaction.
tx.walID = readMetaWALID(tx.meta[:])
// Track transaction with the DB.
db.txs[tx] = struct{}{}
// If no root records are cached, build the cache the first time.
// Normally the cache is updated by successful write transactions but
// this avoids recomputing the cache if there are no write txs for a while.
if db.rootRecords == nil {
if db.rootRecords, err = tx.RootRecords(); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
}
return tx, nil
}
// afterCurrentTx runs the provided callback, with the db lock
// held, after all current Tx terminate. It should be called with the db
// lock held.
func (db *DB) afterCurrentTx(callback func()) {
if len(db.txs) == 0 {
callback()
return
}
txw := &txWaiter{}
txw.ready = make(chan struct{})
txw.callback = callback
txw.waitingOn = make(map[*Tx]struct{}, len(db.txs))
for k := range db.txs {
txw.waitingOn[k] = struct{}{}
}
db.txWaiters = append(db.txWaiters, txw)
go func() {
<-txw.ready
db.mu.Lock()
defer db.mu.Unlock()
txw.callback()
}()
}
// removeTx removes an active transaction from the database. it obtains
// the db lock, and currently drops it, but will later possibly be leaving
// it retained by an asynchronous op that wants to happen before we start
// running new tx.
func (db *DB) removeTx(tx *Tx) error {
// We might want to trigger a checkpoint. Only for writable
// transactions, and only when either there's nothing else open or we
// really need to.
checkpoint := false
if tx.writable {
walSize := db.walSize()
if walSize > db.cfg.MinWALCheckpointSize {
// Might be a good time for a checkpoint. We'll do a checkpoint
// if we're the only transaction, or if we have to.
if len(db.txs) == 1 || walSize > db.cfg.MaxWALCheckpointSize {
checkpoint = true
}
}
// During checkpointing, we'll be preventing writes, but allowing reads.
if !checkpoint {
tx.db.rwmu.Unlock()
}
}
// remove ourselves from the list of transactions the db is keeping.
delete(tx.db.txs, tx)
for i := 0; i < len(tx.db.txWaiters); i++ {
txw := tx.db.txWaiters[i]
// in practice this probably never matters, but theoretically the
// goroutine that's waiting on the condition variable may
// not have performed its first test on len(txw.waitingOn) yet.
delete(txw.waitingOn, tx)
// let it know we're done. we've still got db.mu.lock, so it won't
// happen just yet, but it'll be able to continue.
if len(txw.waitingOn) == 0 {
// remove us from the db's list
copy(db.txWaiters[i:], db.txWaiters[i+1:])
db.txWaiters = db.txWaiters[:len(db.txWaiters)-1]
close(txw.ready)
// decrement i so we don't skip an entry we just copied in to [i]
i--
}
}
// Disassociate from db.
tx.db = nil
if checkpoint {
// We need to run a checkpoint. This can be semi-asynchronous.
// It needs to wait until every existing transaction has finished,
// because every existing transaction could want to look up pages
// which are in the database before our operations, but which should
// now be in the WAL. We want them to use the WAL instead.
db.afterCurrentTx(func() {
// We still hold db.rwmu here. checkpoint unlocks it when it's
// ready.
if err := db.checkpoint(); err != nil {
db.logger.Errorf("async checkpoint: %v", err)
}
})
}
return nil
}
// Check performs an integrity check.
func (db *DB) Check() error {
tx, err := db.Begin(false)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer tx.Rollback()
return tx.Check()
}
// writeDBPage writes a page to the data file.
func (db *DB) writeDBPage(pgno uint32, page []byte) error {
_, err := db.file.WriteAt(page, int64(pgno)*PageSize)
return err
}
func (db *DB) readDBPage(pgno uint32) ([]byte, error) {
offset := int64(pgno) * PageSize
// FB-1381
// Verify page number requested is within the current size of database.
bound := offset + PageSize
if sz := int64(len(db.data)); bound >= sz {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("rbf: page read out of bounds, pgno=%d upper-bound=%d file-size=%d", pgno, bound, sz)
}
return db.data[offset:bound], nil
}
// readWALPageByID reads a WAL page by WAL ID.
func (db *DB) readWALPageByID(id int64) ([]byte, error) {
return db.readWALPageAt(int(id - db.baseWALID - 1))
}
// readWALPageAt reads the i-th page in the WAL file.
func (db *DB) readWALPageAt(i int) ([]byte, error) {
offset := int64(i) * PageSize
return db.wal[offset : offset+PageSize], nil
}
func (db *DB) readMetaPage() ([]byte, error) {
if walID, ok := db.pageMap.Get(uint32(0)); ok {
return db.readWALPageByID(walID)
}
return db.readDBPage(0)
}
// getCursor returns a cursor which has not been zeroed. The only thing
// a caller should need to do is set c.stack's top correctly (it should be
// 0, and the [0] elem should be the root page to start on).
//
// TODO: Should this do anything about c.buffered?
func (db *DB) getCursor(tx *Tx) *Cursor {
c := cursorSyncPool.Get().(*Cursor)
c.tx = tx
return c
}
func (db *DB) DebugInfo() *DebugInfo {
info := &DebugInfo{Path: db.Path}
for tx := range db.txs {
info.Txs = append(info.Txs, tx.DebugInfo())
}
sort.Slice(info.Txs, func(i, j int) bool { return info.Txs[i].Ptr < info.Txs[j].Ptr })
return info
}
type DebugInfo struct {
Path string `json:"path"`
Txs []*TxDebugInfo `json:"txs"`
}
// when we want a cursor to access a free list, we are always doing this in
// a context specific to a write transaction, of which any DB can only have
// one at a time, and the operations modifying the free list don't recurse,
// because that would corrupt the list (see tx.freelistCleanup for the hairy
// details), which means that there is only ever one cursor being used for the
// free list, but also we use that cursor very often, and if we have to allocate
// it or zero it we end up with a lot of excess allocations and zeroing.
func (db *DB) getFreelistCursor(tx *Tx) *Cursor {
c := &db.freelistCursor
c.tx = tx
c.stack.elems[0] = stackElem{pgno: readMetaFreelistPageNo(tx.meta[:])}
c.stack.top = 0
c.buffered = false
return c
}
// Shared pool for in-memory database pages.
// These are used before being flushed to disk.
var pagePool = &sync.Pool{}
func allocPage() []byte {
existing := pagePool.Get()
if existing == nil {
return make([]byte, PageSize)
}
// zero the existing page before returning it
page := existing.(*[PageSize]byte)[:]
for i := range page {
page[i] = 0
}
return page
}
func freePage(page []byte) {
data := (*[PageSize]byte)(unsafe.Pointer(&page[0]))
pagePool.Put(data)
}