Before this patch the load balancer was equalizing tablet count per
shard, so it achieved balance assuming that:
1) tablets have the same size
2) shards have the same capacity
That can cause imbalance of utilization if shards have different
capacity, which can happen in heterogenous clusters with different
instance types. One of the causes for capacity difference is that
larger instances run with fewer shards due to vCPUs being dedicated to
IRQ handling. This makes those shards have more disk capacity, and
more CPU power.
After this patch, the load balancer equalizes shard's storage
utilization, so it no longer assumes that shards have the same
capacity. It still assummes that each tablet has equal size. So it's a
middle step towards full size-aware balancing.
One consequence is that to be able to balance, the load balancer need
to know about every node's capacity, which is collected with the same
RPC which collects load_stats for average tablet size. This is not a
significant set back because migrations cannot proceed anyway if nodes
are down due to barriers. We could make intra-node migration
scheduling work without capacity information, but it's pointless due
to above, so not implemented.