A region being merged can still be in use; but after merging, compaction_lock
and the reclaim counter will no longer work. This can lead to
use-after-compact-without-re-lookup errors.
Fix by making the source region be the same as the target region; they
will share compaction locks and reclaim counters, so lookup avoidance
will still work correctly.
Fixes#286.
In some cases region may be in a state where it is not empty and
nothing could be evicted from it. For example when creating the first
entry, reclaimer may get invoked during creation before it gets
linked. We therefore can't rely on emptiness as a stop condition for
reclamation, the evction function shall signal us if it made forward
progress.
Related to #259. In some cases we need to allocate memory and hold
reclaim lock at the same time. If that region holds most of the
reclaimable memory, allocations inside that code section may
fail. allocating_section is a work-around of the problem. It learns
how big reserves shold be from past execution of critical section and
tries to ensure proper reserves before entering the section.
Disabling compaction of a region is currently done in order to keep
the references valid. But disabling only compaction is not enough, we
also need to disable eviction, as it also invalidates
references. Rather than introducing another type of lock, compaction
and eviction are controlled together, generalized as "reclaiming"
(hence the reclaim_lock).
The goal is to make allocation less likely to fail. With async
reclaimer there is an implicit bound on the amount of memory that can
be allocated between deferring points. This bound is difficult to
enforce though. Sync reclaimer lifts this limitation off.
Also, allocations which could not be satisfied before because of
fragmentation now will have higher chances of succeeding, although
depending on how much memory is fragmented, that could involve
evicting a lot of segments from cache, so we should still avoid them.
Downside of sync reclaiming is that now references into regions may be
invalidated not only across deferring points but at any allocation
site. compaction_lock can be used to pin data, preferably just
temporarily.
When LSA reclaimer cannot reclaim more space by compaction, it
will reclaim data by evicting from evictable regions.
Currently the only evictable region is the one owned by the row cache.
