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Run folds in DataFusion with FoldNode and EinFoldExec on einfold-kernels - #46
Fourth pull request of the restacked M1 (design v17, #42), stacked on #45. It replaces #37's and #38's DataFusion code with a thin layer over einfold-kernels, and fixes the operator problems the review of #37 and #38 found.
What's here
FoldNode: a fold in a logical plan. Its inputs are the two operands, then the domain, and its schema is einfold_kernels::schema's.
EinFoldExec: runs the kernels, with HOST (DataFusion 55's key equality, pinned by tests/datafusion_behaviors.rs). EinFoldPlanner and EinFoldQueryPlanner plan the node.
Behaving like a DataFusion operator (the review's findings):
Memory: it reserves its inputs' memory from the session's memory pool, then the concatenated operands' and the output's, releasing the parts as they're concatenated. It fails with DataFusion's "Resources exhausted" when the pool can't give it the memory, rather than overrunning.
Off the async runtime: the kernels run in a blocking task (SpawnedTask::spawn_blocking). Before, the dense kernel's scoped threads blocked a Tokio worker.
Metrics:dense_folds, hash_folds, elapsed_compute and output_rows.
Still to come: streaming operands into the dense arrays as they arrive. The operator still holds its inputs whole, now counted against the pool.
Speed.examples/matmul_gradient.rs runs ddx's two matmul gradients as a fold with a domain, plus the CASE that gives NULL where the domain's value is NULL, against the SQL ddx writes. Best of 5, 12 threads, i7-8700, DataFusion 55.2:
n
gradient
SQL
Fold
speedup
50,000
Ā = Ȳ·Wᵀ
86–88 ms
10.7–11.0 ms
8×
50,000
W̄ = Aᵀ·Ȳ
27 ms
14.3 ms
2×
Run back to back, #38's operator took 9.6–10.0 ms and 13.2–14.8 ms on the same shapes. The extra millisecond buys the reservation, the blocking task, and the CASE, which is now a projection rather than part of the fold.
Tests. The kernels' property test (#44, #45) carries the semantics. tests/operator.rs adds hand tests of what the operator does:
ddx's gradient through FoldNode plus the projection equals ddx's SQL exactly (integer values, so every sum is exact), with 1, 3 or 5 input partitions, 1, 2 or 6 threads, and batch sizes of 5, 64 and 8,192;
EXPLAIN ANALYZE shows the fold and dense_folds=1;
a 4 KiB memory pool fails cleanly.
Writing that SQL turned up a parser quirk: a IS NOT DISTINCT FROM b AND c parses as a IS NOT DISTINCT FROM (b AND c), where PostgreSQL binds IS DISTINCT FROM tighter than AND. The test parenthesizes it. I'll draft it for upstream separately.
This change adds DataFusion logical and physical planning for folds. The physical operator collects input partitions, invokes einfold-kernels, tracks memory and execution metrics, and emits bounded batches. Operator tests compare results with SQL, and an example benchmarks matrix-gradient plans.
Changes: Fold execution in DataFusion
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Summary
Logical fold node and public API crates/einfold-datafusion/src/node.rs, crates/einfold-datafusion/src/lib.rs
FoldNode represents a fold over operand plans and an optional domain plan. It derives the output schema, implements DataFusion logical-plan behavior, and formats fold details for explain output. The crate exports the node and planner types.
EinFoldExec collects and combines input batches, invokes the fold kernel, tracks memory and metrics, and emits batches within the configured size. The extension and query planners connect FoldNode to the operator.
Operator validation and benchmark crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/operator.rs, crates/einfold-datafusion/examples/matmul_gradient.rs
Tests compare fold output with SQL and check behavior across partition counts, thread counts, batch sizes, and memory limits. The example benchmarks SQL and Fold plans for two matrix-gradient calculations.
xqlsystems/einfold#39 — Adds the DataFusion fold node, execution operator, and planner integration for an EinFold-enabled DataFusion host.
xqlsystems/einfold#50 — Adds a FoldNode and fold execution path; this change does not implement the proposed fusion rules.
xqlsystems/xarray-sql#285 — Implements DataFusion fold execution and benchmarks matrix-gradient plans.
Possibly related PRs
xqlsystems/einfold#37 — Adds an earlier FoldNode and EinFoldExec implementation that this change extends.
xqlsystems/einfold#44 — Adds the einfold-kernels schema and fold APIs used by this DataFusion integration.
xqlsystems/einfold#45 — Adds dense execution and kernel options that this change supplies and reports through DataFusion.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 0f5ea
Large folds can exceed configured memory limits, and streaming inputs may never produce output. Address these issues before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 0f5ea
The new operator checks memory limits after collecting inputs and allocating computation results. Large or expansion-heavy folds can therefore consume memory beyond the configured limit before returning an error. This could affect other workloads in the same process, although exposure to untrusted callers is not established.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Session-pool admission occurs after materialization: all input batches are collected before charging them, concatenated operands are allocated before reservation growth, and kernel intermediates and complete results are constructed before output charging. A caller able to influence an executed fold or its data can induce allocations beyond the configured pool, potentially exhausting the shared process before the eventual resource error. Hash grouping can amplify memory use through distinct matching output-key pairs. This is a newly introduced execution path, not a newly introduced kernel algorithm.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — If a host exposes fold execution over untrusted data, the affected resource boundary extends beyond the requesting query to memory availability in the executing process and any colocated workloads. Exploitation requires influence over an executed fold or its operand data; neither remote reachability nor cross-tenant deployment is established by the supplied evidence.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The resource-exhaustion path is input influence, followed by whole-input materialization or expansion into distinct hash groups, followed by ordinary allocations before pool admission. Reservation rejection occurs too late to prevent those allocation peaks. The supplied security review retained no findings; this concern follows from the inspected execution and kernel paths and has not been demonstrated through a deployed service.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The executor registers a per-execution consumer with the supplied session memory pool and propagates reservation errors. However, the kernel call receives inputs, schema, host semantics, and thread options without a reservation or budget, leaving kernel allocations outside admission control. The small-pool test confirms eventual rejection rather than enforcement before allocation.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The blocking closure owns its operands and a cloned reservation until the kernel returns, preventing query cancellation from prematurely releasing the input charge while computation continues. Successful execution releases input charges and retains the output reservation in the stream. Cancellation is explicitly not a stop mechanism for an already-running kernel.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Make resource admission precede growth: charge retained input batches as they arrive, budget concatenation peaks before construction, and give kernels a budget-aware allocation or bounded-growth mechanism covering intermediates and results. Validate the resulting bound under expansion-heavy inputs, concurrent executions, errors, and cancellation rather than checking only the final resource error.
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🪭 Claude (einfold): a code review found that EinFoldExec kept its inputs counted in the session's memory pool until its output had been read, on top of the output. On the default path with a fallback, that held while the host's own plan ran, so a query near the pool's limit could fail with einfold installed and succeed without it. a361e53 frees them once the kernel returns. The new hand test holds_only_its_output_in_the_memory_pool runs the operator directly and checks that, while its output is read, the pool holds no more than that output. It fails without the fix (10.1 MB reserved for 5.1 MB of output). #45 and #49 also lost two comments that cited the design.
No bugs found in EinFoldExec as this PR has it. The one bug I found in the operator comes with the fallback, which #48 adds: #62, where the fallback isn't a child, so reset_plan_states can't reach it.
Without a fallback, #65's [rerun] property (reset the physical plan with reset_plan_states, run it again, compare) passed on every case where only the dense or hash path ran. So did [threads]: identical bits across partition counts 1 to 6 and batch sizes 1, 3 and 8192, wherever einfold computed every sum itself, including inexact sums. The output schema matched the planned schema in every case, field metadata included.
A finding about memory, not a correctness bug.#65's simulation now sometimes gives the host and einfold the same small memory pool (FairSpillPool of 8 KB, 32 KB or 256 KB). Over 1,500 cases, 240 had a pool. einfold alone ran out of memory in 36 of them, the host alone in 19.EinFoldExec holds its inputs whole and can't spill, so under a budget it fails queries DataFusion's own spilling operators answer about twice as often as the reverse.
The pools are tiny, but the ratio is the point. With a fallback in hand, a failed try_grow while reading the inputs could release the reservation and run the host's plan, which can spill, instead of failing the query. That keeps the "never worse than the host" promise under memory pressure too. Not urgent for M1's gate; worth an issue if you agree. The simulation tallies these rather than failing on them (memory pools: … out of memory in einfold only N, in the host only M in its summary).
🪭 Claude (einfold) Agreed, and filed as #74, with three options. It matters more now that #68 makes discrimination the default where the dense algorithm declines, so most nodes no longer carry the host's plan to retreat to. It isn't a correctness bug in this PR, so it doesn't hold the merge.
FoldNode stands for a fold in a logical plan, with its schema from
einfold-kernels; EinFoldExec runs the kernels as a DataFusion operator. It
reserves the memory its inputs take from the session's pool and fails
cleanly when the pool can't give it, runs the kernels on a blocking thread
off the async runtime, emits batches of the session's size, and reports
which algorithm ran, its compute time and its output rows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The operator counted its inputs in the pool until its output was read, on
top of the output, and while the host's own plan ran as the fallback. It
now frees them when the kernel returns, so the fallback has the memory it
would have had without einfold.
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- Around line 177-255: Keep the MemoryReservation registered in execute alive
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EinFoldExec::new always advertises Boundedness::Bounded, and DataFusion 55.2.0 does not validate this property against child plans. EinFoldPlanner therefore accepts an unbounded child. collect_partitioned collects all batches in memory, while execute waits for that collection to finish. An unbounded child can therefore prevent output indefinitely and retain batches until memory is exhausted.
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pub fn new(fold: Fold, inputs: Vec<Arc<dyn ExecutionPlan>>, schema: SchemaRef) -> Self {
+ let boundedness = if inputs+ .iter()+ .any(|input| input.properties().boundedness.is_unbounded())+ {+ Boundedness::Unbounded {+ requires_infinite_memory: true,+ }+ } else {+ Boundedness::Bounded+ };
let properties = PlanProperties::new(
EquivalenceProperties::new(schema),
Partitioning::UnknownPartitioning(1),
EmissionType::Final,
- Boundedness::Bounded,+ boundedness,
);
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if inputs.len() != 2 + usize::from(fold.domain().is_some()) {
return internal_err!("EinFoldExec was given {} inputs", inputs.len());
}
+ if inputs+ .iter()+ .any(|input| input.properties().boundedness.is_unbounded())+ {+ return internal_err!("EinFoldExec does not support unbounded inputs");+ }
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Review comment at @crates/einfold-datafusion/src/exec.rs around lines 64 - 92:
Update EinFoldExec::new so its PlanProperties derive boundedness from the child
plans instead of always declaring the operator bounded; mark it unbounded when
any input is unbounded, with infinite memory required. Also reject unbounded
inputs in EinFoldPlanner before collecting them.
Major · Account for input batches before collecting the complete operand. · exec.rs:94-123
crates/einfold-datafusion/src/exec.rs:94-123 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Account for input batches before collecting the complete operand.
collect calls collect_partitioned(plan, ctx) and only then grows the session-pool reservation. A reachable FoldNode input can therefore retain all operand or domain batches without pool accounting. If the input exceeds the pool, the process can exceed the configured memory limit before try_grow returns the resource-exhaustion error. This occurs before kernel execution and is independent of kernel output allocation or cancellation.
Use a collection path that enforces the input reservation while batches are produced, or an enclosing boundary that provides equivalent accounting.
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Review comment at @crates/einfold-datafusion/src/exec.rs around lines 94 - 123:
Update collect to account for each input batch against reservation as
collect_partitioned produces it, rather than growing the reservation only after
all batches have been retained. Use a collection path or enclosing boundary that
enforces the pool limit during collection and preserves the existing error
propagation.
Major · Reserve the concatenation peak before calling concat_batches. · exec.rs:112-120
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Reserve the concatenation peak before calling concat_batches.
collect already charges every input batch. concat then calls concat_batches before charging the combined batch. Arrow documents that input batches and output arrays coexist during construction, with peak usage approaching twice the input size. This allocation can exceed the session pool before the later try_grow returns an exhaustion error.
Incremental input reservation does not fix this path. Account for the concatenation peak before calling concat_batches, then reconcile the reservation after the input batches are released.
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Update `concat` to reserve the estimated output allocation using `parts` before
calling `concat_batches`, so the reservation accounts for inputs and output
coexisting during construction. After dropping `batches`, reconcile the
reservation with the actual concatenated batch size, preserving the existing
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Review comments at @crates/einfold-datafusion/src/exec.rs:
- Around line 218-228: Update the EinFoldExec-to-einfold_kernels::fold
memory-accounting design so hash-path output-sized intermediates are covered by
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Review comments at @crates/einfold-datafusion/src/exec.rs:
- Around line 64-92: Update EinFoldExec::new so its PlanProperties derive
boundedness from the child plans instead of always declaring the operator
bounded; mark it unbounded when any input is unbounded, with infinite memory
required. Also reject unbounded inputs in EinFoldPlanner before collecting them.
- Around line 94-123: Update collect to account for each input batch against
reservation as collect_partitioned produces it, rather than growing the
reservation only after all batches have been retained. Use a collection path or
enclosing boundary that enforces the pool limit during collection and preserves
the existing error propagation.
- Around line 112-120: Update `concat` to reserve the estimated output
allocation using `parts` before calling `concat_batches`, so the reservation
accounts for inputs and output coexisting during construction. After dropping
`batches`, reconcile the reservation with the actual concatenated batch size,
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Account for hash-kernel output before the operator reserves it.
EinFoldExec reserves input memory before it calls the kernel, but it reserves output memory only after the kernel returns. In the hash path, the kernel builds output-sized structures before that reservation. With a small session pool, a fold whose output exceeds the pool can allocate far beyond the pool limit before try_grow rejects it.
The hash path creates groups: Vec<Group> and a HashMap<(u32, u32), usize> index. Its comment says that each group is a pair of output keys, interned to ids. The number of groups therefore grows with the number of distinct output key pairs, which is the fold's output size. These structures are not reserved against the session pool.
The operator checks output size only after einfold_kernels::fold returns. A query whose inputs fit under the pool can therefore allocate output-sized intermediates before the output reservation fails. The operator then returns the resource error, but the process has already exceeded the pool limit.
Suggested direction: reserve an output-size estimate before the kernel runs, or pass a memory budget into the kernel. Either change crosses the operator and kernel crates, so it needs its own design.
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Update the EinFoldExec-to-einfold_kernels::fold memory-accounting design so
hash-path output-sized intermediates are covered by the session pool before they
are allocated. Reserve a sound output-size estimate before invoking fold, or
pass a memory budget into the kernel and account for its groups and index as
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🪭 Claude (einfold) Agreed, and as you say it crosses the operator and kernel crates, so it's tracked with the other memory-budget work in #74, under option 2: reserve what the kernels build before they build it. It applies to the discrimination algorithm that replaces the hash one (#68) as well: its ranks and groups are output-sized too. It isn't a regression in this PR, which adds the input accounting.
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@alxmrs Understood. This is a memory-budget limitation tracked in #74, not a regression introduced by this PR. The follow-up must cover output-sized allocations in both the hash algorithm and its discrimination replacement.
No additional change is needed in this PR for this finding. The limitation remains unfixed here.
🪭 Claude (einfold)
Fifth pull request of the restacked M1 (design v17, #42), stacked on
#46. This is M1's detection. einfold finds the folds in the plans ddx,
an XQL Systems project for automatic differentiation of SQL queries,
already writes, with no change to ddx, as spike S28 found possible.
**`DetectFolds`** replaces two shapes, and leaves everything else alone.
Its name is a verb phrase, as DataFusion's own rules' are
(`PushDownFilter`), since EinFold names the operator, not the detector:
1. **A fold:** an `Aggregate` with one `SUM(l · r)` of `DOUBLE`s (no
`DISTINCT`, `FILTER` or ordering), grouped by at least one column, over
projections of an inner equi-join with no other condition, where each
factor and group key reads one side. `SUM` is matched by type, not by
name, as DataFusion asks of rules. The rule builds a `FoldNode` with one
operand per side, naming its columns itself (a fold names none), plus a
projection that restores the aggregate's exact schema: names,
qualifiers, types and nullability.
2. **A fold from a domain:** a projection over `d LEFT JOIN f`, where
`f` is a fold found by shape 1, possibly under aliases and renaming
projections. The join matches every one of `f`'s keys, and the
projection reads only `d`'s columns and `f`'s sum. The fold gets `d` as
its domain, and the projection, ddx's `CASE`, stays above it.
Declined on purpose: a join with a condition that isn't an equality (a
mask, M2), no `GROUP BY` (SQL returns a row even when nothing joined),
any other aggregate, a sum that isn't a product, and folds from a domain
whose projection reads the fold's keys or use another kind of join.
**The host's plan is the fallback.** Each node keeps the plan it
replaced. Where the dense algorithm doesn't apply, `EinFoldExec` runs
that plan, counted in `host_plans`, instead of the hash algorithm, whose
speed against DataFusion has never been shown. So a detected fold costs
at most one extra read of its inputs over the host's own plan.
`DetectFolds::without_fallback()` uses the hash path instead, for tests.
**Why detection runs in the query planner.** My first version put the
rule among DataFusion's optimizer rules, and the M1 gate benchmark
failed at once: ddx's `ad::grad` optimizes the loss query with the
session's optimizer, then turns it into Substrait to differentiate it,
and Substrait can't encode a `Fold`.
`EinFoldQueryPlanner::detecting(rule)` now applies the rule to each
optimized plan just before planning it, so optimized logical plans stay
standard and only the plan that runs has `Fold` nodes. datafusion-python
takes a query planner at the same point, through FFI, so the demos' host
can use the same code (#39). `install(builder)` sets it up.
About 400 non-test lines.
**Invariants tested** (`tests/detect_vs_host.rs`). Random tables:
`BIGINT` keys (dense, negative, or too large for positions) or `VARCHAR`
keys, with NULL keys, duplicate tuples and missing rows, and values that
are NULL, NaN, ±inf, `-0.0` or small integers, so every sum is exact in
any order. They're split across partitions and run on 1–6 threads.
Random queries come in several spellings: factors that are expressions,
group keys from either side or the join key, `=` or `IS NOT DISTINCT
FROM`, one or two join keys, select lists in a different order from
`GROUP BY`, ddx's left joins from a domain, and every look-alike above.
Half the cases run without the fallback, so the folds the rule describes
are checked through einfold's own kernels. Each case checks:
1. the same rows as DataFusion without einfold, as a multiset, bit for
bit (every NaN alike, since even the host's NaN signs depend on
partitioning);
2. no `Fold` in the optimized logical plan;
3. exactly one `EinFoldExec` for each fold, with a domain for each fold
from a domain, and none for a look-alike;
4. that the dense path and the host's plan both ran in at least 2% of
cases.
<!--
- [x] 300 default cases; 3,000-case sweeps from seeds 900000, 1200000
and 1500000 (in 1,500000's: the rule fired in 1,874, dense 139, host
plan 876)
- [x] mutations, each caught: the fold's key equality swapped; masks
accepted; no GROUP BY accepted; a domain join that reads the fold's
keys; domain keys always NULL-safe; any aggregate taken as SUM; any join
type taken as a domain join; the domain join ignoring the column mapping
- [x] fmt, clippy -D warnings, doc -D warnings, reuse lint
-->
**M1's gate,** measured with the benchmark in the next pull request:
ddx's `matmul` gradient program at n = 50,000, end to end, on a
multi-threaded runtime, takes 368 ms with einfold off and 224 ms with it
on, **1.6×**, with the same gradients. That's short of the 4× gate. As
S28 found, the rest of `grad_0_a` is ddx's join back and second `GROUP
BY` around the fold (about 120 ms), which einfold can't remove without
knowing the table's keys are unique. The change suggested on
xqlsystems/ddx#208 (write the transpose as a plain left join) would let
einfold take the table as the fold's domain too. S28 estimated that at
about 4.8×.
**Fixes from the fuzz soak (#65).** Detection computes each operand's
keys and factor on every row of the join's inputs, where the host's plan
computes factors on joined rows only. So it now moves an expression
below the join only if it can't fail and isn't volatile: columns,
literals, `+ - *`, comparisons, `CASE`, `COALESCE`, casts that widen,
and `abs`, `exp`, `ln`, `tanh` and `signum` on `DOUBLE`s. `sqrt` isn't
on that list: DataFusion 55 raises an error on a negative argument.
`EinFoldExec` now resets its fallback in `reset_state`, so
`reset_plan_states`, which a recursive query runs before each iteration,
resets it too. The fallback stays out of the operator's children: as a
child, the session's physical optimizer optimized it a second time
whenever a query was planned, which cost ddx's gradient program about 2
ms. So `EXPLAIN ANALYZE` still shows only its `host_plans` count, not
its operators. Tests: the issues' reproductions, plus a check that every
allowed function evaluates without error on NaN, ±inf, ±0, negatives and
NULL. Fixes#61. Fixes#62.
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* **New Features**
* Eligible grouped joins and aggregations can now be automatically
optimized for fold-based execution, including certain queries involving
a domain table.
* Queries retain their results when optimized execution does not apply,
by running the original plan instead.
* Fold detection can be configured in the query planner, with a setup
helper that enables it by default.
* The optimized path handles supported cases while falling back to
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🪭 Claude (einfold)
Fixes#74: `EinFoldExec` failed under a memory budget where the host's
spilling plan answers.
**Before.**
- `EinFoldExec` read its inputs whole, reserving them from the session's
memory pool, and failed where the pool couldn't give them.
- Its kernels' working arrays weren't reserved at all, as CodeRabbit
noted on #46.
- The host's hash aggregates and sorts spill to disk instead.
- So under a small pool, einfold alone ran out of memory about twice as
often as the host alone. #65's simulation found 36 cases against 19, and
the new test below finds 98 against 50.
**What changed.** This is #74's option 1, with the reservations of
option 2.
- **Every detected fold keeps the host's plan.** Since #87 a fallback is
planned only when it runs, so keeping one costs nothing until then.
Under `DetectFolds::default`, a fold still runs the discrimination
algorithm where the dense one declines
(`FoldNode::with_memory_fallback`). The host's plan runs only where
memory runs short.
- **`EinFoldExec` runs that plan wherever the pool refuses it:**
- while it reads its inputs;
- when the kernels ask for their working arrays;
- when it reserves its output.
It counts these runs in a new metric, `memory_fallbacks`. Without a
fallback it fails, as an operator that can't spill does.
- **The kernels ask before they allocate.** `Options` gains a `budget`,
a `Budget` that answers whether some bytes more may be taken. A kernel
stops with `ArrowError::MemoryError` where it says no.
- The dense algorithm asks for its key casts, then for its matrices and
output once it knows their extents.
- The discrimination algorithm asks for its copies of the operands, its
ranks and orders, and its groups. It bounds the groups by the joined
pairs it counts first.
These are estimates within a small factor, and are written down where
they are made. `EinFoldExec` answers them from the session's pool.
- **The host's plan streams its rows through,** as it would in the
host's own plan. Before, it was collected whole and counted again.
- **einfold's own output gives back its reservation slice by slice** as
it is emitted. Whatever reads the output counts it if it keeps it, so
the output is no longer counted twice.
Fused pipelines don't ask a budget yet: their working tiles are small,
and their inputs are reserved as they are read.
**Measured** by the new property test, 2,000 cases from two seeds, under
pools of 2 KB to 256 KB:
| | before | after |
|---|---:|---:|
| out of memory in einfold only | 98, 98 | 13, 12 |
| out of memory in the host only | 50, 51 | 18, 19 |
| out of memory in both | 368, 388 | 400, 421 |
| einfold ran the host's plan for memory | 0 | 322, 330 |
The cases einfold alone still loses come from the plan above einfold's
operator, which differs from the host's. `EinFoldExec` reports no size
estimate, so for example a hash join above it builds on the other,
larger side. The next pull request gives it statistics.
On the GPT of xarray-sql's ML demos, planning and execution times are
unchanged, and the Python extension's tests pass.
**Tests, and the invariants they check.**
- `fold_matches_sql`, the kernels' property test against SQL, gains
invariant 5: given a budget of exactly the bytes they asked for, the
kernels give the same rows by the same algorithm, bit for bit; given one
byte fewer, they stop with a memory error. So a kernel asks before it
allocates, and asks the same for the same rows. It holds over the test's
400 default cases.
- `einfold_runs_short_of_memory_only_where_the_host_does` runs random
queries in the spellings of the detection sweep, with einfold and
without, each under its own pool of the same size. Where both answer,
they give the same rows. Neither fails but for memory. Einfold alone
runs short no more often than the host alone. And the host's plan runs
for memory in some cases.
## After CodeRabbit's review
- **A batch's reservation is released with its last slice,** not a share
with each, since its slices share its buffers.
- **The dense algorithm declines non-integer keys before reserving
anything,** so a fold it can't take leaves the budget to the
discrimination algorithm.
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🪭 Claude (einfold)
Fourth pull request of the restacked M1 (design v17, #42), stacked on #45. It replaces #37's and #38's DataFusion code with a thin layer over
einfold-kernels, and fixes the operator problems the review of #37 and #38 found.What's here
FoldNode: a fold in a logical plan. Its inputs are the two operands, then the domain, and its schema iseinfold_kernels::schema's.EinFoldExec: runs the kernels, withHOST(DataFusion 55's key equality, pinned bytests/datafusion_behaviors.rs).EinFoldPlannerandEinFoldQueryPlannerplan the node.Behaving like a DataFusion operator (the review's findings):
SpawnedTask::spawn_blocking). Before, the dense kernel's scoped threads blocked a Tokio worker.dense_folds,hash_folds,elapsed_computeandoutput_rows.Speed.
examples/matmul_gradient.rsruns ddx's twomatmulgradients as a fold with a domain, plus theCASEthat gives NULL where the domain's value is NULL, against the SQL ddx writes. Best of 5, 12 threads, i7-8700, DataFusion 55.2:FoldRun back to back, #38's operator took 9.6–10.0 ms and 13.2–14.8 ms on the same shapes. The extra millisecond buys the reservation, the blocking task, and the
CASE, which is now a projection rather than part of the fold.Tests. The kernels' property test (#44, #45) carries the semantics.
tests/operator.rsadds hand tests of what the operator does:FoldNodeplus the projection equals ddx's SQL exactly (integer values, so every sum is exact), with 1, 3 or 5 input partitions, 1, 2 or 6 threads, and batch sizes of 5, 64 and 8,192;EXPLAIN ANALYZEshows the fold anddense_folds=1;Writing that SQL turned up a parser quirk:
a IS NOT DISTINCT FROM b AND cparses asa IS NOT DISTINCT FROM (b AND c), where PostgreSQL bindsIS DISTINCT FROMtighter thanAND. The test parenthesizes it. I'll draft it for upstream separately.About 330 non-test lines.
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