milvus/internal
Buqian Zheng d367770649
enhance: greatly reduce the loading memory overhead - by up to 25% (#43533)
issue: #43088
issue: #43038

The current loading process:

* When loading an index, we first download the index files into a list
of buffers, say A
* then constructing(copying) them into a vector of FieldDatas(each file
is a FieldData), say B
* assembles them together as a huge BinarySet, say C
* lastly, copy into the actual index data structure, say D

The problem:

* We can see that, after each step, we don't need the data in previous
step.
* But currently, we release the memory of A, B, C only after we have
finished constructing D
* This leads to a up to 4x peak memory usage comparing with the raw
index size, during the loading process
* This PR allows timely releasing of B after we assembled C. So after
this PR, the peak memory usage during loading will be up to 3x of the
raw index size.

I will create another PR to release A after we created B, that seems
more complicated and need more work.

Signed-off-by: Buqian Zheng <zhengbuqian@gmail.com>
2025-07-24 11:26:54 +08:00
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