4 This file is part of DRBD by Philipp Reisner and Lars Ellenberg.
6 Copyright (C) 2001-2008, LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH.
7 Copyright (C) 1999-2008, Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>.
8 Copyright (C) 2002-2008, Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>.
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29 * At a granularity of 4KiB storage represented per bit,
30 * and stroage sizes of several TiB,
31 * and possibly small-bandwidth replication,
32 * the bitmap transfer time can take much too long,
33 * if transmitted in plain text.
35 * We try to reduce the transferred bitmap information
36 * by encoding runlengths of bit polarity.
38 * We never actually need to encode a "zero" (runlengths are positive).
39 * But then we have to store the value of the first bit.
40 * The first bit of information thus shall encode if the first runlength
41 * gives the number of set or unset bits.
43 * We assume that large areas are either completely set or unset,
44 * which gives good compression with any runlength method,
45 * even when encoding the runlength as fixed size 32bit/64bit integers.
47 * Still, there may be areas where the polarity flips every few bits,
48 * and encoding the runlength sequence of those areas with fix size
49 * integers would be much worse than plaintext.
51 * We want to encode small runlength values with minimum code length,
52 * while still being able to encode a Huge run of all zeros.
54 * Thus we need a Variable Length Integer encoding, VLI.
56 * For some cases, we produce more code bits than plaintext input.
57 * We need to send incompressible chunks as plaintext, skip over them
58 * and then see if the next chunk compresses better.
60 * We don't care too much about "excellent" compression ratio for large
61 * runlengths (all set/all clear): whether we achieve a factor of 100
62 * or 1000 is not that much of an issue.
63 * We do not want to waste too much on short runlengths in the "noisy"
64 * parts of the bitmap, though.
66 * There are endless variants of VLI, we experimented with:
68 * * various bit based with different code word length.
70 * To avoid yet an other configuration parameter (choice of bitmap compression
71 * algorithm) which was difficult to explain and tune, we just chose the one
72 * variant that turned out best in all test cases.
73 * Based on real world usage patterns, with device sizes ranging from a few GiB
74 * to several TiB, file server/mailserver/webserver/mysql/postgress,
75 * mostly idle to really busy, the all time winner (though sometimes only
76 * marginally better) is:
80 * encoding is "visualised" as
81 * __little endian__ bitstream, least significant bit first (left most)
83 * this particular encoding is chosen so that the prefix code
84 * starts as unary encoding the level, then modified so that
85 * 10 levels can be described in 8bit, with minimal overhead
86 * for the smaller levels.
88 * Number of data bits follow fibonacci sequence, with the exception of the
89 * last level (+1 data bit, so it makes 64bit total). The only worse code when
90 * encoding bit polarity runlength is 1 plain bits => 2 code bits.
91 prefix data bits max val NÂș data bits
97 111110 xx xxxxxx 0x130 8
98 11111100 xxxxxxxx xxxxx 0x2130 13
99 11111110 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx 0x202130 21
100 11111101 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xx 0x400202130 34
101 11111111 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx 56
102 * maximum encodable value: 0x100000400202130 == 2**56 + some */
104 /* compression "table":
106 as plaintext x ........................
107 x ........................
108 x ........................
109 x 0.59 0.21........................
110 x ........................................................
111 x .. c ...................................................
112 x 0.44.. o ...................................................
113 x .......... d ...................................................
114 x .......... e ...................................................
115 X............. ...................................................
116 x.............. b ...................................................
117 2.0x............... i ...................................................
118 #X................ t ...................................................
119 #................. s ........................... plain bits ..........
120 -+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
124 /* LEVEL: (total bits, prefix bits, prefix value),
125 * sorted ascending by number of total bits.
126 * The rest of the code table is calculated at compiletime from this. */
128 /* fibonacci data 1, 1, ... */
129 #define VLI_L_1_1() do { \
130 LEVEL( 2, 1, 0x00); \
131 LEVEL( 3, 2, 0x01); \
132 LEVEL( 5, 3, 0x03); \
133 LEVEL( 7, 4, 0x07); \
134 LEVEL(10, 5, 0x0f); \
135 LEVEL(14, 6, 0x1f); \
136 LEVEL(21, 8, 0x3f); \
137 LEVEL(29, 8, 0x7f); \
138 LEVEL(42, 8, 0xbf); \
139 LEVEL(64, 8, 0xff); \
142 /* finds a suitable level to decode the least significant part of in.
143 * returns number of bits consumed.
145 * BUG() for bad input, as that would mean a buggy code table. */
146 static inline int vli_decode_bits(u64
*out
, const u64 in
)
150 #define LEVEL(t,b,v) \
152 if ((in & ((1 << b) -1)) == v) { \
153 *out = ((in & ((~0ULL) >> (64-t))) >> b) + adj; \
156 adj += 1ULL << (t - b); \
161 /* NOT REACHED, if VLI_LEVELS code table is defined properly */
166 /* return number of code bits needed,
167 * or negative error number */
168 static inline int __vli_encode_bits(u64
*out
, const u64 in
)
176 #define LEVEL(t,b,v) do { \
177 max += 1ULL << (t - b); \
180 *out = ((in - adj) << b) | v; \
194 /* code from here down is independend of actually used bit code */
197 * Code length is determined by some unique (e.g. unary) prefix.
198 * This encodes arbitrary bit length, not whole bytes: we have a bit-stream,
202 /* for the bitstream, we need a cursor */
203 struct bitstream_cursor
{
204 /* the current byte */
206 /* the current bit within *b, nomalized: 0..7 */
210 /* initialize cursor to point to first bit of stream */
211 static inline void bitstream_cursor_reset(struct bitstream_cursor
*cur
, void *s
)
217 /* advance cursor by that many bits; maximum expected input value: 64,
218 * but depending on VLI implementation, it may be more. */
219 static inline void bitstream_cursor_advance(struct bitstream_cursor
*cur
, unsigned int bits
)
222 cur
->b
= cur
->b
+ (bits
>> 3);
226 /* the bitstream itself knows its length */
228 struct bitstream_cursor cur
;
230 size_t buf_len
; /* in bytes */
233 * number of trailing 0 bits for padding
234 * total number of valid bits in stream: buf_len * 8 - pad_bits */
235 unsigned int pad_bits
;
238 static inline void bitstream_init(struct bitstream
*bs
, void *s
, size_t len
, unsigned int pad_bits
)
242 bs
->pad_bits
= pad_bits
;
243 bitstream_cursor_reset(&bs
->cur
, bs
->buf
);
246 static inline void bitstream_rewind(struct bitstream
*bs
)
248 bitstream_cursor_reset(&bs
->cur
, bs
->buf
);
249 memset(bs
->buf
, 0, bs
->buf_len
);
252 /* Put (at most 64) least significant bits of val into bitstream, and advance cursor.
253 * Ignores "pad_bits".
254 * Returns zero if bits == 0 (nothing to do).
255 * Returns number of bits used if successful.
257 * If there is not enough room left in bitstream,
258 * leaves bitstream unchanged and returns -ENOBUFS.
260 static inline int bitstream_put_bits(struct bitstream
*bs
, u64 val
, const unsigned int bits
)
262 unsigned char *b
= bs
->cur
.b
;
268 if ((bs
->cur
.b
+ ((bs
->cur
.bit
+ bits
-1) >> 3)) - bs
->buf
>= bs
->buf_len
)
271 /* paranoia: strip off hi bits; they should not be set anyways. */
273 val
&= ~0ULL >> (64 - bits
);
275 *b
++ |= (val
& 0xff) << bs
->cur
.bit
;
277 for (tmp
= 8 - bs
->cur
.bit
; tmp
< bits
; tmp
+= 8)
278 *b
++ |= (val
>> tmp
) & 0xff;
280 bitstream_cursor_advance(&bs
->cur
, bits
);
284 /* Fetch (at most 64) bits from bitstream into *out, and advance cursor.
286 * If more than 64 bits are requested, returns -EINVAL and leave *out unchanged.
288 * If there are less than the requested number of valid bits left in the
289 * bitstream, still fetches all available bits.
291 * Returns number of actually fetched bits.
293 static inline int bitstream_get_bits(struct bitstream
*bs
, u64
*out
, int bits
)
301 if (bs
->cur
.b
+ ((bs
->cur
.bit
+ bs
->pad_bits
+ bits
-1) >> 3) - bs
->buf
>= bs
->buf_len
)
302 bits
= ((bs
->buf_len
- (bs
->cur
.b
- bs
->buf
)) << 3)
303 - bs
->cur
.bit
- bs
->pad_bits
;
310 /* get the high bits */
312 n
= (bs
->cur
.bit
+ bits
+ 7) >> 3;
313 /* n may be at most 9, if cur.bit + bits > 64 */
314 /* which means this copies at most 8 byte */
316 memcpy(&val
, bs
->cur
.b
+1, n
- 1);
317 val
= le64_to_cpu(val
) << (8 - bs
->cur
.bit
);
320 /* we still need the low bits */
321 val
|= bs
->cur
.b
[0] >> bs
->cur
.bit
;
323 /* and mask out bits we don't want */
324 val
&= ~0ULL >> (64 - bits
);
326 bitstream_cursor_advance(&bs
->cur
, bits
);
332 /* encodes @in as vli into @bs;
335 * > 0: number of bits successfully stored in bitstream
336 * -ENOBUFS @bs is full
337 * -EINVAL input zero (invalid)
338 * -EOVERFLOW input too large for this vli code (invalid)
340 static inline int vli_encode_bits(struct bitstream
*bs
, u64 in
)
343 int bits
= __vli_encode_bits(&code
, in
);
348 return bitstream_put_bits(bs
, code
, bits
);