We have a commented code snippet from Origin with cleanup and a FIXME to
implement it. Origin flushes the memtables and kicks a compaction. We
only implement the flush here -- the flush will trigger a compaction
check and we leave it up to the compaction manager to decide when a
compaction is worthwhile.
This method used to be called only from unbootstrap, so a cleanup was
not really needed. Now it is also called at the end of repair, if the
table is using repair-based tombstone-gc. If the memtable is filled with
tombstones, this can add a lot of time to the runtime of each repair. So
flush the memtable at the end, so the tombstones can be purged (they
aren't purged from memtables yet).
(cherry picked from commit 2dd057c96d)
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