/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * bloomfilter.c * Space-efficient set membership testing * * A Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure that is used to test an * element's membership of a set. False positives are possible, but false * negatives are not; a test of membership of the set returns either "possibly * in set" or "definitely not in set". This is typically very space efficient, * which can be a decisive advantage. * * Elements can be added to the set, but not removed. The more elements that * are added, the larger the probability of false positives. Caller must hint * an estimated total size of the set when the Bloom filter is initialized. * This is used to balance the use of memory against the final false positive * rate. * * The implementation is well suited to data synchronization problems between * unordered sets, especially where predictable performance is important and * some false positives are acceptable. It's also well suited to cache * filtering problems where a relatively small and/or low cardinality set is * fingerprinted, especially when many subsequent membership tests end up * indicating that values of interest are not present. That should save the * caller many authoritative lookups, such as expensive probes of a much larger * on-disk structure. * * Copyright (c) 2018-2022, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * * IDENTIFICATION * src/backend/lib/bloomfilter.c * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #include "postgres.h" #include #include "common/hashfn.h" #include "lib/bloomfilter.h" #include "port/pg_bitutils.h" #define MAX_HASH_FUNCS 10 struct bloom_filter { /* K hash functions are used, seeded by caller's seed */ int k_hash_funcs; uint64 seed; /* m is bitset size, in bits. Must be a power of two <= 2^32. */ uint64 m; unsigned char bitset[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER]; }; static int my_bloom_power(uint64 target_bitset_bits); static int optimal_k(uint64 bitset_bits, int64 total_elems); static void k_hashes(bloom_filter *filter, uint32 *hashes, unsigned char *elem, size_t len); static inline uint32 mod_m(uint32 a, uint64 m); /* * Create Bloom filter in caller's memory context. We aim for a false positive * rate of between 1% and 2% when bitset size is not constrained by memory * availability. * * total_elems is an estimate of the final size of the set. It should be * approximately correct, but the implementation can cope well with it being * off by perhaps a factor of five or more. See "Bloom Filters in * Probabilistic Verification" (Dillinger & Manolios, 2004) for details of why * this is the case. * * bloom_work_mem is sized in KB, in line with the general work_mem convention. * This determines the size of the underlying bitset (trivial bookkeeping space * isn't counted). The bitset is always sized as a power of two number of * bits, and the largest possible bitset is 512MB (2^32 bits). The * implementation allocates only enough memory to target its standard false * positive rate, using a simple formula with caller's total_elems estimate as * an input. The bitset might be as small as 1MB, even when bloom_work_mem is * much higher. * * The Bloom filter is seeded using a value provided by the caller. Using a * distinct seed value on every call makes it unlikely that the same false * positives will reoccur when the same set is fingerprinted a second time. * Callers that don't care about this pass a constant as their seed, typically * 0. Callers can also use a pseudo-random seed, eg from pg_prng_uint64(). */ bloom_filter * bloom_create(int64 total_elems, int bloom_work_mem, uint64 seed) { bloom_filter *filter; int bloom_power; uint64 bitset_bytes; uint64 bitset_bits; /* * Aim for two bytes per element; this is sufficient to get a false * positive rate below 1%, independent of the size of the bitset or total * number of elements. Also, if rounding down the size of the bitset to * the next lowest power of two turns out to be a significant drop, the * false positive rate still won't exceed 2% in almost all cases. */ bitset_bytes = Min(bloom_work_mem * UINT64CONST(1024), total_elems * 2); bitset_bytes = Max(1024 * 1024, bitset_bytes); /* * Size in bits should be the highest power of two <= target. bitset_bits * is uint64 because PG_UINT32_MAX is 2^32 - 1, not 2^32 */ bloom_power = my_bloom_power(bitset_bytes * BITS_PER_BYTE); bitset_bits = UINT64CONST(1) << bloom_power; bitset_bytes = bitset_bits / BITS_PER_BYTE; /* Allocate bloom filter with unset bitset */ filter = palloc0(offsetof(bloom_filter, bitset) + sizeof(unsigned char) * bitset_bytes); filter->k_hash_funcs = optimal_k(bitset_bits, total_elems); filter->seed = seed; filter->m = bitset_bits; return filter; } /* * Free Bloom filter */ void bloom_free(bloom_filter *filter) { pfree(filter); } /* * Add element to Bloom filter */ void bloom_add_element(bloom_filter *filter, unsigned char *elem, size_t len) { uint32 hashes[MAX_HASH_FUNCS]; int i; k_hashes(filter, hashes, elem, len); /* Map a bit-wise address to a byte-wise address + bit offset */ for (i = 0; i < filter->k_hash_funcs; i++) { filter->bitset[hashes[i] >> 3] |= 1 << (hashes[i] & 7); } } /* * Test if Bloom filter definitely lacks element. * * Returns true if the element is definitely not in the set of elements * observed by bloom_add_element(). Otherwise, returns false, indicating that * element is probably present in set. */ bool bloom_lacks_element(bloom_filter *filter, unsigned char *elem, size_t len) { uint32 hashes[MAX_HASH_FUNCS]; int i; k_hashes(filter, hashes, elem, len); /* Map a bit-wise address to a byte-wise address + bit offset */ for (i = 0; i < filter->k_hash_funcs; i++) { if (!(filter->bitset[hashes[i] >> 3] & (1 << (hashes[i] & 7)))) return true; } return false; } /* * What proportion of bits are currently set? * * Returns proportion, expressed as a multiplier of filter size. That should * generally be close to 0.5, even when we have more than enough memory to * ensure a false positive rate within target 1% to 2% band, since more hash * functions are used as more memory is available per element. * * This is the only instrumentation that is low overhead enough to appear in * debug traces. When debugging Bloom filter code, it's likely to be far more * interesting to directly test the false positive rate. */ double bloom_prop_bits_set(bloom_filter *filter) { int bitset_bytes = filter->m / BITS_PER_BYTE; uint64 bits_set = pg_popcount((char *) filter->bitset, bitset_bytes); return bits_set / (double) filter->m; } /* * Which element in the sequence of powers of two is less than or equal to * target_bitset_bits? * * Value returned here must be generally safe as the basis for actual bitset * size. * * Bitset is never allowed to exceed 2 ^ 32 bits (512MB). This is sufficient * for the needs of all current callers, and allows us to use 32-bit hash * functions. It also makes it easy to stay under the MaxAllocSize restriction * (caller needs to leave room for non-bitset fields that appear before * flexible array member, so a 1GB bitset would use an allocation that just * exceeds MaxAllocSize). */ static int my_bloom_power(uint64 target_bitset_bits) { int bloom_power = -1; while (target_bitset_bits > 0 && bloom_power < 32) { bloom_power++; target_bitset_bits >>= 1; } return bloom_power; } /* * Determine optimal number of hash functions based on size of filter in bits, * and projected total number of elements. The optimal number is the number * that minimizes the false positive rate. */ static int optimal_k(uint64 bitset_bits, int64 total_elems) { int k = rint(log(2.0) * bitset_bits / total_elems); return Max(1, Min(k, MAX_HASH_FUNCS)); } /* * Generate k hash values for element. * * Caller passes array, which is filled-in with k values determined by hashing * caller's element. * * Only 2 real independent hash functions are actually used to support an * interface of up to MAX_HASH_FUNCS hash functions; enhanced double hashing is * used to make this work. The main reason we prefer enhanced double hashing * to classic double hashing is that the latter has an issue with collisions * when using power of two sized bitsets. See Dillinger & Manolios for full * details. */ static void k_hashes(bloom_filter *filter, uint32 *hashes, unsigned char *elem, size_t len) { uint64 hash; uint32 x, y; uint64 m; int i; /* Use 64-bit hashing to get two independent 32-bit hashes */ hash = DatumGetUInt64(hash_any_extended(elem, len, filter->seed)); x = (uint32) hash; y = (uint32) (hash >> 32); m = filter->m; x = mod_m(x, m); y = mod_m(y, m); /* Accumulate hashes */ hashes[0] = x; for (i = 1; i < filter->k_hash_funcs; i++) { x = mod_m(x + y, m); y = mod_m(y + i, m); hashes[i] = x; } } /* * Calculate "val MOD m" inexpensively. * * Assumes that m (which is bitset size) is a power of two. * * Using a power of two number of bits for bitset size allows us to use bitwise * AND operations to calculate the modulo of a hash value. It's also a simple * way of avoiding the modulo bias effect. */ static inline uint32 mod_m(uint32 val, uint64 m) { Assert(m <= PG_UINT32_MAX + UINT64CONST(1)); Assert(((m - 1) & m) == 0); return val & (m - 1); }