Interval map is very susceptible to quadratic space behavior when
it's flooded with many entries overlapping all (or most of)
intervals, since each such entry will have presence on all
intervals it overlaps with.
A trigger we observed was memtable flush storm, which creates many
small "L0" sstables that spans roughly the entire token range.
Since we cannot rely on insertion order, solution will be about
storing sstables with such wide ranges in a vector (unleveled).
There should be no consequence for single-key reads, since upper
layer applies an additional filtering based on token of key being
queried.
And for range scans, there can be an increase in memory usage,
but not significant because the sstables span an wide range and
would have been selected in the combined reader if the range of
scan overlaps with them.
Anyway, this is a protection against storm of memtable flushes
and shouldn't be the common scenario.
It works both with tablets and vnodes, by adjusting the token
range spanned by compaction group accordingly.
Fixes#23634.
Signed-off-by: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphaelsc@scylladb.com>
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