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Path Hash RDB loading starts each payload as a Listpack, even when its saved field count already exceeds hash-max-listpack-entries. A large payload therefore incurs repeated Listpack field lookups before converting to a HashTable.
This change selects HashTable encoding before reading fields when the saved count exceeds the configured threshold, matching ordinary Hash loading's initial encoding choice. It keeps the existing hashTypeSet insertion path and lets the table grow as fields are actually read, without reserving capacity from the unvalidated RDB count. After loading each payload, it calls lpShrinkToFit() if the payload remains a Listpack and stores the returned pointer.
This addresses the loading follow-up in #4706 and the original review discussion. The capacity tradeoff is deliberate: this patch selects encoding upfront but does not call hashtableTryExpand with the full declared field count. A bounded reservation policy remains a possible follow-up for review. It does not address the broader tracker's other items or the save-side iteration work in #4878.
Duplicate-field/path rejection, cleanup after malformed input, and absolute key expiration are preserved. The updated branch integrates unstable at f9262571d74f3f796584ee38d74e9c2d835cf55f: tests use PHPATHCOUNT, retain the current PHPATHDEL behavior, and preserve the new lifecycle in which final deletion removes the key and legacy empty Path Hash RDB keys are skipped during file loading. Empty Path Hash DUMP payloads remain invalid for RESTORE. This is an internal loading optimization; the RDB format is unchanged.
Current compatibility validation (2026-11-04)
Validated head: dec9cae6c27317182dea867005f8f1b477cf7040, integrating unstable at f9262571d74f3f796584ee38d74e9c2d835cf55f through history-preserving merges. Remote refs were rechecked immediately before publication. This section describes that fixed tested tree, not future upstream changes.
Ran make distclean, then make -j4 MALLOC=libc on Darwin 27.2 arm64, Apple clang 16, O3/LTO, static Lua. The server reports sha=dec9cae6:0, malloc=libc. A missing-googletest error in a clean substep was ignored by the Makefile; gtest was not validated. The server and Lua module were recompiled and linked successfully.
Each Tcl invocation below used --clients 1 --config unixsocket '""' to avoid the long temporary directory's Unix socket path limit.
./runtest --single integration/valkey-check-rdb: 22 passed, 0 failed; 2 zstd cases skipped because this build has no zstd support.
./runtest --single integration/rdb --only '/forkless-policy': 7 passed, 0 failed; 57 other cases excluded by the filter.
After building pathhash_notifications.so and misc.so, ./runtest --single unit/moduleapi/pathhash_notifications: 5 passed, 0 failed.
./runtest --single unit/functions --only '/LIBRARIES - (named arguments|deleting a function frees)': 9 passed, 0 failed; 111 other cases excluded by the filter.
Total: 129 passing entries, including 9 framework memory-check entries; these are not 129 independent assertions or a complete test matrix. The Darwin framework memory checks do not replace sanitizer validation.
Repeated six deliberate failures using the current test bodies and real cleanup helpers; all six same-server configuration/checksum-restoration checks passed, with zero unexpected failures. The injected fixtures are local validation inputs and are not committed.
git diff --check and clang-format 18.1.8 --dry-run --Werror passed. Independent read-only review found no confirmed blocking compatibility defect and verified the final source/binary/log fingerprints.
This run did not verify the full test matrix, cluster/Sentinel, gtest, cross-binary upgrades or mixed-RC replication, Linux/jemalloc, TLS, zstd builds, sanitizers, Valgrind, or cold-disk startup. No performance benchmark was rerun on this updated baseline. The historical figures and limitations below remain historical evidence only. Hosted CI must be evaluated for this head; checks on the previous PR head do not validate this integration.
Historical validation on the original baseline
Baseline and patched binaries built with make -j4 MALLOC=libc on Darwin 27.2.0 arm64, Apple clang 16, with -O3/LTO. The baseline was a clean build of b3b5ab983fec5511b1248fed39c566ae65b3ef0d; the patched binary was rebuilt incrementally using the same settings and dependencies.
./runtest --single unit/type/path_hash --clients 1: 48 passed, 0 failed. Coverage includes thresholds 0/4/512 and adjacent payload sizes, mixed payloads, root/empty/binary/long fields and values, RESTORE ABSTTL and RDB reload with exact expiration checks, duplicate paths/fields, truncation, and an oversized field count with insufficient data.
Test-cleanup follow-up validated on 2026-11-04: test_config_set restores both Listpack settings and test_defer resets the malformed-input test's checksum-validation override on failure. Six deliberately injected failures (thresholds 0/4/512, early/late malformed input, and a Tcl error) were followed by six successful same-server restoration checks; the unmodified test bodies leaked settings at those injection points. The production unit/type/path_hash scope was rerun: 48 passed, 0 failed, using the previously built patched binary after verifying its SHA-256 and unchanged production source. The injected fixtures are local validation inputs, not part of this PR.
unit/dump: all 33 checks passed against the same production code.
Independent cross-binary/threshold restore checks and malformed-input checks passed.
git diff --check passed. clang-format 18.1.8 passed --dry-run --Werror for the final src/rdb.c.
The full integration suite, cluster/Sentinel/module suites, gtest, TLS, Linux/jemalloc, sanitizers, Valgrind, and cold-disk startup were not run.
Historical local benchmark (original b3b5ab9 baseline; not rerun)
Median reload time in milliseconds:
Dataset
Baseline
Patched
300 paths × 600 fields
380.442
44.614
20,000 paths × 3 fields
30.971
32.125
1,200 mixed paths / 309,000 fields
718.268
380.306
Each result is the median of five measurements of the client round trip for DEBUG RELOAD NOSAVE after one warm-up in a fresh process. Both versions read the same baseline-generated RDB for each dataset, with hash-max-listpack-entries=512, hash-max-listpack-value=64, AOF disabled, scheduled saves disabled, and libc malloc. Binary order alternated between repetitions. Each run verified DEBUG DIGEST and path count. The mixed dataset cycles through 3/512/513/2 fields per path and includes binary paths and long binary fields/values.
The small-payload workload was slightly slower. Median key MEMORY USAGE in bytes was 8,475,456 → 8,494,656 for large, 4,384,096 → 4,384,096 for small, and 12,829,536 → 12,848,736 for mixed. These measurements did not establish memory savings from shrinking Listpacks. HashTable seeds/bucket layout and other activity on the shared development machine were not controlled; no statistical significance, memory reduction, or speedup across all workloads/platforms is claimed. This measures warm reload, not cold-disk startup.
An independent threshold intervention used the same large RDB and original binaries, with three repetitions per combination. At threshold 512, medians were 376.559 ms (baseline) and 45.572 ms (patched); at threshold 0, they were 45.245 ms and 45.521 ms. Threshold 0 makes the baseline convert after its first insertion, largely removing the timing gap. This supports avoiding the initial Listpack-loading phase as the main explanation for the local large-payload improvement. It is not a full ablation of both source changes or a platform-wide performance guarantee.
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Path-hash RDB loading selects an encoding based on the field count and shrinks payloads that remain listpacks. Tests cover reload and RESTORE across listpack-entry limits, expiration timestamps, and malformed payloads.
Changes: Path-hash RDB loading
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Select and size the payload encoding src/rdb.c
The loader selects HashTable encoding when the field count exceeds the configured limit. It shrinks the payload after loading when it remains a listpack.
Validate reload and RESTORE behavior tests/unit/type/path_hash.tcl
Tests cover payloads across listpack-entry limits and verify payload contents and expiration timestamps. Malformed RESTORE tests check truncated and oversized-count payloads, destination absence, and server responsiveness.
Path Hash follow-ups from #4506 #4706: The issue describes selecting HashTable encoding above the Listpack threshold and shrinking listpack allocations during RDB loading. This PR implements those behaviors.
Possibly related PRs
valkey-io/valkey#5193: Both changes affect Path Hash RDB loading and cover zero-path payload behavior.
valkey-io/valkey#5068: Both changes affect zero-path Path Hash loading and malformed empty-payload RESTORE behavior.
No merge-blocking risk was identified in the encoding and test changes.
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These restores only run if every assertion above passes. The test proc catches an assertion failure and moves on to the next case, so a failure during the limit 0 or 4 pass leaves hash-max-listpack-entries at 0 or 4 for the rest of this start_server block ("RESTORE rejects malformed...", "Large per-path payload promotes...", and so on). The later failures would then have nothing to do with their own tests. The hash-max-listpack-entries 0 override added to the malformed-input test below has the same problem.
with_config in tests/support/util.tcl restores the old value even when the body fails, and tests/unit/sort.tcl already uses it:
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Since the last review (d7d284c), the only new commits merge unstable, and the PR's own diff is unchanged. The loader hunk still fits the current RDB_TYPE_PATH_HASH load loop. The earlier test-hygiene finding stays fixed through test_config_set and test_defer.
Risk: Low. Only the starting encoding of Path Hash payloads during RDB and RESTORE load changes, and it goes through the existing hashTypeConvert and hashTypeSet paths, so a bug would only affect loading Path Hash keys.
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(minor) tests/unit/type/path_hash.tcl:868 Config overrides in the new threshold test and the malformed-input test were restored after the assertions, so a failure leaked hash-max-listpack-entries into later tests.
Backport: Not needed. This is a load-time performance change for the Path Hash type, not a bug fix.
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Add a check that detects a missing listpack shrink after Path Hash load.
The new reload and RESTORE assertions check expiration, field counts, and field values. None checks allocation size. Removing the lpShrinkToFit call at src/rdb.c:2641 would leave these assertions passing. Over-allocated listpack payloads would then go unnoticed.
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Review comment at @tests/unit/type/path_hash.tcl around lines 859 - 863:
Extend the Path Hash reload and RESTORE assertions around `r phgetall` to verify
the loaded listpack’s allocation size is shrunk to fit, using the existing test
facilities to inspect allocation size. Keep the expiration, field-count, and
field-value checks, and ensure the new assertion fails if `lpShrinkToFit` is
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Use test_config_set for Listpack thresholds and defer resetting checksum validation so assertion failures and Tcl errors cannot leak test state.
Signed-off-by: lnw <951448078@qq.com>
Add a check that distinguishes upfront HashTable selection from insertion-time promotion.
The threshold test checks only the final pexpiretime, phcard, phgetall, and field values. Upfront conversion in src/rdb.c and promotion in hashTypeSet produce the same final state. Removing the upfront conversion does not fail this test, so a regression to the slower path would go unnoticed.
A check would need to observe the payload encoding or a conversion at load time. The inspected code exposes neither for path payloads. If the test suite can reach an encoding or counter, add an assertion at this point in the threshold test. Otherwise, the gap is limited to this optimization path.
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Update the threshold test to distinguish upfront HashTable selection from
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encoding or load-time conversion signal; first confirm such a signal is
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Preserve PHPATHCOUNT and final-path deletion semantics while retaining exact TTL assertions and failure-safe test configuration cleanup.
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Add a regression check for the upfront HashTable selection in the path hash loader.
The threshold test checks contents, path counts, and expiry. A final-encoding assertion would not catch a regression here. hashTypeSet promotes a listpack payload once its field count exceeds hash-max-listpack-entries (src/t_hash.c:569). Removing the upfront conversion therefore still ends with a HashTable payload, and the test would pass.
Detecting this change needs a way to read a path payload's internal encoding. The debug and test helpers in the inspected paths only report the top-level key. A check would need a new introspection hook, or a memory or timing measurement. Timing and memory checks are unreliable in this test suite.
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Add regression coverage to “Path Hash reload and RESTORE preserve mixed payloads
around Listpack thresholds” for the path hash loader’s upfront HashTable
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Not a maintainer, just re-ran this on Linux with jemalloc since the description's numbers are macOS/libc. Same RDB loaded by both binaries, DEBUG RELOAD median of 7 alternating runs, wall and INFO CPU agree:
dataset
base
this PR
300 paths x 600 fields
892 ms
143 ms
1200 mixed paths (3/512/513/2 fields)
1546 ms
843 ms
2000 paths x 520 fields
6377 ms
869 ms
50000 paths x 1 field
89 ms
95 ms (noise)
With hash-max-listpack-entries 0 base and PR are equal on every set, which matches the ablation in the description. DEBUG DIGEST, per-key DIGEST-VALUE, PHGETALL, PEXPIRETIME are identical across 15 entries/value threshold combinations, cross-binary DUMP/RESTORE ABSTTL in both directions and cross-threshold loads; malformed payloads with declared counts of 2^32 and 2^62 fail with "Bad data format" and zero used_memory delta, and 10k failing RESTOREs at threshold 0 show no growth. MEMORY USAGE is +0.1 to 0.3% on hashtable-heavy sets and unchanged on listpack-only ones (lpShrinkToFit is a no-op under jemalloc size classes, as the description suspects). The new tests also pass unchanged against the base binary, so they are regression coverage rather than a demonstration of the change, which is fine.
Two small things:
"as for ordinary Hash loading" slightly overclaims: the ordinary loader also pre-sizes with hashtableTryExpand(len) (rdb.c:2499). Something like "select the encoding upfront as ordinary Hash loading does, but grow the table as fields are read instead of pre-sizing from the unvalidated count" would match the behaviour. I could not measure a cost for not pre-sizing.
Follow-up rather than this PR: payloads that stay listpack still pay an lpFind per field through hashTypeSet(), so with the default threshold the 512-field payloads are now about two thirds of the mixed set's load time (843 ms vs 257 ms at threshold 0). The ordinary loader uses lpAppend plus a duplicate-check hashtable for that case (rdb.c:2390, 2466). Might be worth a line in the Path Hash follow-ups from #4506 #4706 checklist.
Also noting that only DCO and the bots have run on dec9cae; the CI matrix has not executed on this head yet.
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Thanks for re-running this on Linux/jemalloc and checking compatibility. 32fcc5d narrows the comment to upfront encoding selection and explicitly distinguishes growing the table as fields are read from pre-sizing it using the unvalidated count.
Agreed that the remaining Listpack lpFind cost belongs in a separate follow-up under #4706. The existing tests stay as behavior-preservation coverage; they do not demonstrate the performance improvement. This commit changes only the comment. git diff --check passed; I did not rerun runtime tests or benchmarks.
@madolson KIvanow approved this today, but the CI workflows on the current head (e204d9d) are still "awaiting approval". Could you approve them and take a look when you have a moment? Thanks!
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The External Server Tests failure (CROSSSLOT in unit/type/path_hash) comes from the new threshold test: r del threshold-tree threshold-restored is a multi-key DEL with no hash tag, which fails with CROSSSLOT against a cluster-mode server. I split it into two single-key DELs; nothing else changed in that file.
The failover2 failure in the same run is the known flake (#4310, #3889) and is unrelated to this PR.
Thanks for the quick CROSSSLOT fix, the two single-key DELs look right and test-external-cluster is green on the latest run now.
One small thing: the last commit ("Avoid CROSSSLOT in the path hash threshold test") has no Signed-off-by: trailer, so the DCO check is now failing on the PR. A git commit --amend -s and force-push (or a new signed-off commit if you prefer) should clear it.
The threshold test deleted two keys with one DEL, and the keys have no
common hash tag. Against an external cluster-mode server this fails
with CROSSSLOT. Delete them with two single-key DELs instead.
Signed-off-by: 李凝炜 <951448078@qq.com>
@KIvanow since your earlier review, the follow-up pushes you commented on are all in and CI is green at the current head (68e7b97, 28 checks passing). When you have a moment, could you take another look? Happy to address anything further.
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Problem and change
Path Hash RDB loading starts each payload as a Listpack, even when its saved field count already exceeds
hash-max-listpack-entries. A large payload therefore incurs repeated Listpack field lookups before converting to a HashTable.This change selects HashTable encoding before reading fields when the saved count exceeds the configured threshold, matching ordinary Hash loading's initial encoding choice. It keeps the existing
hashTypeSetinsertion path and lets the table grow as fields are actually read, without reserving capacity from the unvalidated RDB count. After loading each payload, it callslpShrinkToFit()if the payload remains a Listpack and stores the returned pointer.This addresses the loading follow-up in #4706 and the original review discussion. The capacity tradeoff is deliberate: this patch selects encoding upfront but does not call
hashtableTryExpandwith the full declared field count. A bounded reservation policy remains a possible follow-up for review. It does not address the broader tracker's other items or the save-side iteration work in #4878.Duplicate-field/path rejection, cleanup after malformed input, and absolute key expiration are preserved. The updated branch integrates unstable at
f9262571d74f3f796584ee38d74e9c2d835cf55f: tests usePHPATHCOUNT, retain the currentPHPATHDELbehavior, and preserve the new lifecycle in which final deletion removes the key and legacy empty Path Hash RDB keys are skipped during file loading. Empty Path Hash DUMP payloads remain invalid for RESTORE. This is an internal loading optimization; the RDB format is unchanged.Current compatibility validation (2026-11-04)
Validated head:
dec9cae6c27317182dea867005f8f1b477cf7040, integrating unstable atf9262571d74f3f796584ee38d74e9c2d835cf55fthrough history-preserving merges. Remote refs were rechecked immediately before publication. This section describes that fixed tested tree, not future upstream changes.make distclean, thenmake -j4 MALLOC=libcon Darwin 27.2 arm64, Apple clang 16, O3/LTO, static Lua. The server reportssha=dec9cae6:0,malloc=libc. A missing-googletest error in a clean substep was ignored by the Makefile; gtest was not validated. The server and Lua module were recompiled and linked successfully.--clients 1 --config unixsocket '""'to avoid the long temporary directory's Unix socket path limit../runtest --single unit/type/path_hash: 53 passed, 0 failed../runtest --single unit/dump: 33 passed, 0 failed../runtest --single integration/valkey-check-rdb: 22 passed, 0 failed; 2 zstd cases skipped because this build has no zstd support../runtest --single integration/rdb --only '/forkless-policy': 7 passed, 0 failed; 57 other cases excluded by the filter.pathhash_notifications.soandmisc.so,./runtest --single unit/moduleapi/pathhash_notifications: 5 passed, 0 failed../runtest --single unit/functions --only '/LIBRARIES - (named arguments|deleting a function frees)': 9 passed, 0 failed; 111 other cases excluded by the filter.git diff --checkand clang-format 18.1.8--dry-run --Werrorpassed. Independent read-only review found no confirmed blocking compatibility defect and verified the final source/binary/log fingerprints.This run did not verify the full test matrix, cluster/Sentinel, gtest, cross-binary upgrades or mixed-RC replication, Linux/jemalloc, TLS, zstd builds, sanitizers, Valgrind, or cold-disk startup. No performance benchmark was rerun on this updated baseline. The historical figures and limitations below remain historical evidence only. Hosted CI must be evaluated for this head; checks on the previous PR head do not validate this integration.
Historical validation on the original baseline
make -j4 MALLOC=libcon Darwin 27.2.0 arm64, Apple clang 16, with-O3/LTO. The baseline was a clean build ofb3b5ab983fec5511b1248fed39c566ae65b3ef0d; the patched binary was rebuilt incrementally using the same settings and dependencies../runtest --single unit/type/path_hash --clients 1: 48 passed, 0 failed. Coverage includes thresholds 0/4/512 and adjacent payload sizes, mixed payloads, root/empty/binary/long fields and values,RESTORE ABSTTLand RDB reload with exact expiration checks, duplicate paths/fields, truncation, and an oversized field count with insufficient data.test_config_setrestores both Listpack settings andtest_deferresets the malformed-input test's checksum-validation override on failure. Six deliberately injected failures (thresholds 0/4/512, early/late malformed input, and a Tcl error) were followed by six successful same-server restoration checks; the unmodified test bodies leaked settings at those injection points. The productionunit/type/path_hashscope was rerun: 48 passed, 0 failed, using the previously built patched binary after verifying its SHA-256 and unchanged production source. The injected fixtures are local validation inputs, not part of this PR.unit/dump: all 33 checks passed against the same production code.git diff --checkpassed.clang-format18.1.8 passed--dry-run --Werrorfor the finalsrc/rdb.c.The full integration suite, cluster/Sentinel/module suites, gtest, TLS, Linux/jemalloc, sanitizers, Valgrind, and cold-disk startup were not run.
Historical local benchmark (original b3b5ab9 baseline; not rerun)
Median reload time in milliseconds:
Each result is the median of five measurements of the client round trip for
DEBUG RELOAD NOSAVEafter one warm-up in a fresh process. Both versions read the same baseline-generated RDB for each dataset, withhash-max-listpack-entries=512,hash-max-listpack-value=64, AOF disabled, scheduled saves disabled, and libc malloc. Binary order alternated between repetitions. Each run verifiedDEBUG DIGESTand path count. The mixed dataset cycles through 3/512/513/2 fields per path and includes binary paths and long binary fields/values.The small-payload workload was slightly slower. Median key
MEMORY USAGEin bytes was 8,475,456 → 8,494,656 for large, 4,384,096 → 4,384,096 for small, and 12,829,536 → 12,848,736 for mixed. These measurements did not establish memory savings from shrinking Listpacks. HashTable seeds/bucket layout and other activity on the shared development machine were not controlled; no statistical significance, memory reduction, or speedup across all workloads/platforms is claimed. This measures warm reload, not cold-disk startup.An independent threshold intervention used the same large RDB and original binaries, with three repetitions per combination. At threshold 512, medians were 376.559 ms (baseline) and 45.572 ms (patched); at threshold 0, they were 45.245 ms and 45.521 ms. Threshold 0 makes the baseline convert after its first insertion, largely removing the timing gap. This supports avoiding the initial Listpack-loading phase as the main explanation for the local large-payload improvement. It is not a full ablation of both source changes or a platform-wide performance guarantee.
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