[FEA] Drop Obsolete cudf::filter API - #23934
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WalkthroughThe PR removes deprecated and JIT filter APIs and their dedicated tests. Parquet filtering and the min-max benchmark now generate boolean masks with expression evaluation or ChangesFilter API migration
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In `@cpp/src/io/parquet/reader_impl.cpp`:
- Around line 1028-1040: Add a Parquet reader regression test covering both
use_jit_filter settings with nullable predicate input and a filter-only
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| if (!use_jit) { | ||
| auto predicate = | ||
| predicate = | ||
| cudf::detail::compute_column(*read_table, final_filter_expr.value().get(), _stream, _mr); | ||
| CUDF_EXPECTS(predicate->view().type().id() == type_id::BOOL8, | ||
| "Predicate filter should return a boolean"); | ||
| // Exclude columns present in filter only in output | ||
| auto output_table = cudf::detail::apply_mask( | ||
| only_output, *predicate, cudf::detail::mask_type::RETENTION, _stream, _mr); | ||
| return {encode_output_dict_columns(std::move(output_table)), std::move(out_metadata)}; | ||
| } else { | ||
| auto output_table = cudf::filter( | ||
| read_table->view(), final_filter_expr.value().get(), only_output, _stream, _mr); | ||
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| return {encode_output_dict_columns(std::move(output_table)), std::move(out_metadata)}; | ||
| predicate = | ||
| cudf::compute_column_jit(*read_table, final_filter_expr.value().get(), _stream, _mr); | ||
| } | ||
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| CUDF_EXPECTS(predicate->view().type().id() == type_id::BOOL8, | ||
| "Predicate filter should return a boolean"); | ||
| // Exclude columns present in filter only in output | ||
| auto output_table = cudf::detail::apply_mask( | ||
| only_output, *predicate, cudf::detail::mask_type::RETENTION, _stream, _mr); |
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Add a Parquet reader regression test for the unified JIT path.
Test both use_jit_filter values with nullable predicate input and a filter-only projected column. Verify that both paths return the same retained rows and omit filter-only columns.
As per coding guidelines, “Add unit tests and unit benchmarks.”
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In `@cpp/src/io/parquet/reader_impl.cpp` around lines 1028 - 1040, Add a Parquet
reader regression test covering both use_jit_filter settings with nullable
predicate input and a filter-only projected column. Verify both execution paths
retain identical rows and exclude columns used only by the filter, and include
the corresponding unit benchmark if required by the existing test conventions.
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the transform tests already cover this
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@lamarrr, the first search was too broad to verify the relevant coverage. I will restrict the search to Parquet reader tests.
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In `@cpp/benchmarks/filter/minmax_filter.cpp`:
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| * @param mr Device memory resource used to allocate the returned column's device memory | ||
| * @return The filtered target columns | ||
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| [[deprecated("Use filter_extended instead")]] std::vector<std::unique_ptr<column>> filter( |
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This is deprecated, but filter_extended is not. Before deleting public APIs, we need a deprecation period.
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Agreed. I can hold off on the full deletion changes
Although I doubt this API has any adoption, as no results show up in GitHub search
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This PR removes the now-redundant cudf::filter API family and migrates its remaining internal callers to cudf::transform followed by mask application.
cudf::filter was introduced in #19070 as a dedicated JIT filtering path. It evaluated the predicate into a full-length selection stencil that could be consumed directly by
copy_if, avoiding the separate Boolean-mask and compacted gather-map materialization used byapply_boolean_mask.Follow-up benchmarking in #20222 exposed a performance tradeoff. Although the stencil-based implementation was faster at moderate and high selectivities, it became slower at very low selectivity, particularly for wide tables, because
copy_ifscanned the entire stencil for every output column. The associated memory-bandwidth costs compounded as more columns were filtered. That PR replaced the stencil-copy implementation with a Boolean predicate mask followed byapply_boolean_mask.The dedicated filter predicate kernel was subsequently removed in #21443, which implemented
cudf::filterusingtransform_extendedandapply_boolean_mask. The transform APIs were later consolidated intocudf::transformin #23489.Consequently,
cudf::filterno longer provides a distinct implementation or performance optimization. Its behavior can be expressed directly using:cudf::apply_deletion_maskAPI #22144, for deletion-mask semantics.This PR removes
cudf::filter,cudf::filter_extended, and their supporting API types and implementation, and updates existing internal callers to use those underlying operations directly.Checklist