Range tombstones are kept in memory (cache/memtable) in
range_tombstone_list. It keeps them deoverlapped, so applying a range
tombstone which covers many range tombstones will erase existing range
tombstones from the list. This operation needs to be exception-safe,
so range_tombstone_list maintains an undo log. This undo log will
receive a record for each range tombstone which is removed. For
exception safety reasons, before pushing an undo log entry, we reserve
space in the log by calling std::vector::reserve(size() + 1). This is
O(N) where N is the number of undo log entries. Therefore, the whole
application is O(N^2).
This can cause reactor stalls and availability issues when replicas
apply such deletions.
This patch avoids the problem by reserving exponentially increasing
amount of space. Also, to avoid large allocations, switches the
container to chunked_vector.
Fixes#11211Closes#11215
(cherry picked from commit 7f80602b01)
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