Currently, the sstable_set in a table is copied before every change
to allow accessing the unchanged version by existing sstable readers.
This patch changes the sstable_set to a structure that keeps all its
versions that are referenced somewhere and provides a way of getting
a reference to an immutable version of the set.
Each sstable in the set is associated with the versions it is alive in,
and is removed when all such versions don't have references anymore.
To avoid copying, the object holding all sstables in the set version is
changed to a new structure, sstable_list, which was previously an alias
for std::unordered_set<shared_sstable>, and which implements most of the
methods of an unordered_set, but its iterator uses the actual set with
all sstables from all referenced versions and iterates over those
sstables that belong to the captured version.
The methods that modify the sets contents give strong exception guarantee
by trying to insert new sstables to its containers, and erasing them in
the case of an caught exception.
To release shared_sstables as soon as possible (i.e. when all references
to versions that contain them die), each time a version is removed, all
sstables that were referenced exclusively by this version are erased. We
are able to find these sstables efficiently by storing, for each version,
all sstables that were added and erased in it, and, when a version is
removed, merging it with the next one. When a version that adds an sstable
gets merged with a version that removes it, this sstable is erased.
Fixes#2622
Signed-off-by: Wojciech Mitros wojciech.mitros@scylladb.comCloses#8111
* github.com:scylladb/scylla:
sstables: add test for checking the latency of updating the sstable_set in a table
sstables: move column_family_test class from test/boost to test/lib
sstables: use fast copying of the sstable_set instead of rebuilding it
sstables: replace the sstable_set with a versioned structure
sstables: remove potential ub
sstables: make sstable_set constructor less error-prone
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