Summary:
1. Add changes so that max_background_flushes can be set dynamically.
2. Add a testcase DBOptionsTest.SetBackgroundFlushThreads which set the
max_background_flushes dynamically using SetDBOptions.
TestPlan: 1. make -j64 check
2. Using new testcase DBOptionsTest.SetBackgroundFlushThreads
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/6701
Reviewed By: ajkr
Differential Revision: D21028010
Pulled By: akankshamahajan15
fbshipit-source-id: 5f949e4a8fd3c32537b637947b7ee09a69cfc7c1
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Akanksha Mahajan5 years agocommitted byFacebook GitHub Bot
* Added support for pipelined & parallel compression optimization for `BlockBasedTableBuilder`. This optimization makes block building, block compression and block appending a pipeline, and uses multiple threads to accelerate block compression. Users can set `CompressionOptions::parallel_threads` greater than 1 to enable compression parallelism.
* Provide an allocator for memkind to be used with block cache. This is to work with memory technologies (Intel DCPMM is one such technology currently available) that require different libraries for allocation and management (such as PMDK and memkind). The high capacities available make it possible to provision large caches (up to several TBs in size) beyond what is achievable with DRAM.
* Option `max_background_flushes` can be set dynamically using DB::SetDBOptions().
### Bug Fixes
* Fix a bug when making options.bottommost_compression, options.compression_opts and options.bottommost_compression_opts dynamically changeable: the modified values are not written to option files or returned back to users when being queried.