save and load functions for the large_bitset were introduced by Avi with
d590e327c0.
In that commit, Avi says:
"... providing iterator-based load() and save() methods. The methods
support partial load/save so that access to very large bitmaps can be
split over multiple tasks."
The only user of this interface is SSTables. And turns out we don't really
split the access like that. What we do instead is to create a chunked vector
and then pass its begin() method with position = 0 and let it write everything.
The problem here is that this require the chunked vector to be fully
initialized, not just reserved. If the bitmap is large enough that in itself
can take a long time without yielding (up to 16ms seen in my setup).
We can simplify things considerably by moving the large_bitset to use a
chunked vector internally: it already uses a poor man's version of it
by allocating chunks internally (it predates the chunked_vector).
By doing that, we can turn save() into a simple copy operation, and do
away with load altogether by adding a new constructor that will just
copy an existing chunked_vector.
Fixes#3341
Tests: unit (release)
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20180409234726.28219-1-glauber@scylladb.com>
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