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Botond Dénes 3ed6925673 Merge 'Major compaction: flush commitlog by forcing new active segment and flushing all tables' from Benny Halevy
Major compaction already flushes each table to make
sure it considers any mutations that are present in the
memtable for the purpose of tombstone purging.
See 64ec1c6ec6

However, tombstone purging may be inhibited by data
in commitlog segments based on `gc_time_min` in the
`tombstone_gc_state` (See f42eb4d1ce).

Flushing all sstables in the database release
all references to commitlog segments and there
it maximizes the potential for tombstone purging,
which is typically the reason for running major compaction.

However, flushing all tables too frequently might
result in tiny sstables.  Since when flushing all
keyspaces using `nodetool flush` the `force_keyspace_compaction`
api is invoked for keyspace successively, we need a mechanism
to prevent too frequent flushes by major compaction.

Hence a `compaction_flush_all_tables_before_major_seconds` interval
configuration option is added (defaults to 24 hours).

In the case that not all tables are flushed prior
to major compaction, we revert to the old behavior of
flushing each table in the keyspace before major-compacting it.

Fixes scylladb/scylladb#15777

Closes scylladb/scylladb#15820

* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
  docs: nodetool: flush: enrich examples
  docs: nodetool: compact: fix example
  api: add /storage_service/compact
  api: add /storage_service/flush
  compaction_manager: flush_all_tables before major compaction
  database: add flush_all_tables
  api: compaction: add flush_memtables option
  test/nodetool: jmx: fix path to scripts/scylla-jmx
  scylla-nodetool, docs: improve optional params documentation
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ScyllaDB Documentation

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