The helper is used to walk the tree key-by-key destroying it
in the mean time. Current implementation of this method just
uses the "regular" erasing code which actually rebalances the
tree despite the name.
The biggest problem with removing the rebalancing is that at
some point non-balanced tree may have the left-most key on an
inner node, so to make 100% rebalance-less unlink every other
method of the tree would have to be prepared for that. However,
there's an option to make "light rebalance" (as it's called in
this patch) that only maintains this crucial property of the
tree -- the left-most key is on the leaf.
Some more tech details. Current rebalancer starts when the
node population falls below 1/2 of its capacity and tries to
- grab a key from one of the siblings if it's balanced
- merge two siblings together if they are small enough
The light rebalance is lighter in two ways. First, it leaves
the node unbalanced until it becomes empty. And then it goes
ahead and replaces it with the next sibling.
This change removes ~60% of the keys movements on random test.
Keys still move when the sibling replace happens because in
this case the separation key needs to be placed at the right
sibling 0 position which means shifting all its keys right.
tests: unit(debug)
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20210623083836.27491-1-xemul@scylladb.com>
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