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impala/tests/query_test/test_sort.py
Tim Armstrong 89aa6597f4 IMPALA-3354: bad sorter pivot selection on some inputs
Switch to a median of three random tuples that should be very robust to
a range of inputs. It may be slightly worse than the existing pivot
selection on some inputs where the original algorithm is close to
optimal (e.g. already sorted inputs), but should be typically
better overall.

Always recurse on the smaller partition: this prevent the stack
overflow even with bad pivot selection.

The overhead is minimal - in profiles for small sorts I'm seeing pivot
selection take at most 0.5% of CPU time.

The improved pivot selections gives modest improvements of 2-5% on the
targeted perf order by benchmarks on a single node run with TPC-H
scale factor 20.

Change-Id: Iae50112b6deca3d6268e18b6f4daae1af279b452
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/2824
Reviewed-by: Tim Armstrong <tarmstrong@cloudera.com>
Tested-by: Internal Jenkins
2016-05-12 14:17:39 -07:00

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import pytest
import sys
import re
import random
from copy import copy
from tests.beeswax.impala_beeswax import ImpalaBeeswaxException
from tests.common.test_vector import *
from tests.common.impala_test_suite import *
def transpose_results(result):
"""Given a query result (list of strings, each string represents a row), return a list
of columns, where each column is a list of strings."""
split_result = [row.split('\t') for row in result]
return [list(l) for l in zip(*split_result)]
class TestQueryFullSort(ImpalaTestSuite):
"""Test class to do functional validation of sorting when data is spilled to disk."""
@classmethod
def get_workload(self):
return 'tpch'
@classmethod
def add_test_dimensions(cls):
super(TestQueryFullSort, cls).add_test_dimensions()
if cls.exploration_strategy() == 'core':
cls.TestMatrix.add_constraint(lambda v:\
v.get_value('table_format').file_format == 'parquet')
def test_multiple_mem_limits(self, vector):
"""Exercise the dynamic memory scaling functionality."""
"""Using lineitem table forces the multi-phase sort with low mem_limit. This test
takes about a minute"""
query = """select l_comment, l_partkey, l_orderkey, l_suppkey, l_commitdate
from lineitem order by l_comment limit 100000"""
exec_option = vector.get_value('exec_option')
exec_option['disable_outermost_topn'] = 1
table_format = vector.get_value('table_format')
"""The first run should fit in memory, the 300m run is a 2-phase disk sort,
the 150m run is a multi-phase sort (i.e. with an intermediate merge)."""
for mem_limit in ['-1', '300m', '150m']:
exec_option['mem_limit'] = mem_limit
result = transpose_results(self.execute_query(
query, exec_option, table_format=table_format).data)
assert(result[0] == sorted(result[0]))
def test_sort_join(self, vector):
"""With 200m memory limit this should be a 2-phase sort"""
query = """select o1.o_orderdate, o2.o_custkey, o1.o_comment from orders o1 join
orders o2 on (o1.o_orderkey = o2.o_orderkey) order by o1.o_orderdate limit 100000"""
exec_option = vector.get_value('exec_option')
exec_option['disable_outermost_topn'] = 1
exec_option['mem_limit'] = "1200m"
table_format = vector.get_value('table_format')
result = transpose_results(self.execute_query(
query, exec_option, table_format=table_format).data)
assert(result[0] == sorted(result[0]))
def test_sort_union(self, vector):
pytest.xfail(reason="IMPALA-1346")
query = """select o_orderdate, o_custkey, o_comment from (select * from orders union
select * from orders union all select * from orders) as i
order by o_orderdate limit 100000"""
exec_option = vector.get_value('exec_option')
exec_option['disable_outermost_topn'] = 1
exec_option['mem_limit'] = "3000m"
table_format = vector.get_value('table_format')
result = transpose_results(self.execute_query(
query, exec_option, table_format=table_format).data)
assert(result[0] == sorted(result[0]))
def test_pathological_input(self, vector):
""" Regression test for stack overflow and poor performance on certain inputs where
always selecting the middle element as a quicksort pivot caused poor performance. The
trick is to concatenate two equal-size sorted inputs. If the middle element is always
selected as the pivot (the old method), the sorter tends to get stuck selecting the
minimum element as the pivot, which results in almost all of the tuples ending up
in the right partition.
"""
query = """select l_orderkey from (
select * from tpch.lineitem limit 300000
union all
select * from tpch.lineitem limit 300000) t
order by l_orderkey"""
exec_option = vector.get_value('exec_option')
exec_option['disable_outermost_topn'] = 1
# Run with a single scanner thread so that the input doesn't get reordered.
exec_option['num_nodes'] = "1"
exec_option['num_scanner_threads'] = "1"
table_format = vector.get_value('table_format')
result = transpose_results(self.execute_query(
query, exec_option, table_format=table_format).data)
numeric_results = [int(val) for val in result[0]]
assert(numeric_results == sorted(numeric_results))