Summary: rocksdb uses a single global lock to protect in memory metadata. We should minimize the mutex protected code section to increase the effective parallelism of the program. See https://our.intern.facebook.com/intern/tasks/?t=2218928
Test Plan:
make check
db_bench
Reviewers: dhruba, heyongqiang
CC: zshao, leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D9705