Struct faiss::BlockInvertedLists

struct faiss::BlockInvertedLists : public faiss::InvertedLists

Inverted Lists that are organized by blocks.

Different from the regular inverted lists, the codes are organized by blocks of size block_size bytes that reprsent a set of n_per_block. Therefore, code allocations are always rounded up to block_size bytes. The codes are also aligned on 32-byte boundaries for use with SIMD.

To avoid misinterpretations, the code_size is set to (size_t)(-1), even if arguably the amount of memory consumed by code is block_size / n_per_block.

The writing functions add_entries and update_entries operate on block-aligned data.

Public Types

typedef Index::idx_t idx_t

Public Functions

BlockInvertedLists(size_t nlist, size_t vec_per_block, size_t block_size)

BlockInvertedLists()

virtual size_t list_size(size_t list_no) const override

get the size of a list

virtual const uint8_t *get_codes(size_t list_no) const override

get the codes for an inverted list must be released by release_codes

Returns

codes size list_size * code_size

virtual const idx_t *get_ids(size_t list_no) const override

get the ids for an inverted list must be released by release_ids

Returns

ids size list_size

virtual size_t add_entries(size_t list_no, size_t n_entry, const idx_t *ids, const uint8_t *code) override

virtual void update_entries(size_t list_no, size_t offset, size_t n_entry, const idx_t *ids, const uint8_t *code) override

not implemented

virtual void resize(size_t list_no, size_t new_size) override

~BlockInvertedLists() override

virtual void release_codes(size_t list_no, const uint8_t *codes) const

release codes returned by get_codes (default implementation is nop

virtual void release_ids(size_t list_no, const idx_t *ids) const

release ids returned by get_ids

virtual idx_t get_single_id(size_t list_no, size_t offset) const

Returns

a single id in an inverted list

virtual const uint8_t *get_single_code(size_t list_no, size_t offset) const

Returns

a single code in an inverted list (should be deallocated with release_codes)

virtual void prefetch_lists(const idx_t *list_nos, int nlist) const

prepare the following lists (default does nothing) a list can be -1 hence the signed long

virtual size_t add_entry(size_t list_no, idx_t theid, const uint8_t *code)

add one entry to an inverted list

virtual void update_entry(size_t list_no, size_t offset, idx_t id, const uint8_t *code)

virtual void reset()

void merge_from(InvertedLists *oivf, size_t add_id)

move all entries from oivf (empty on output)

double imbalance_factor() const

1= perfectly balanced, >1: imbalanced

void print_stats() const

display some stats about the inverted lists

size_t compute_ntotal() const

sum up list sizes

Public Members

size_t n_per_block

size_t block_size

std::vector<AlignedTable<uint8_t>> codes

std::vector<std::vector<idx_t>> ids

size_t nlist

number of possible key values

size_t code_size

code size per vector in bytes

Public Static Attributes

static const size_t INVALID_CODE_SIZE = static_cast<size_t>(-1)

used for BlockInvertedLists, where the codes are packed into groups and the individual code size is meaningless