Summary:
As title. No locking/atomic is needed due to thread local. There is also no need to modify the existing client interface, in order to expose related counters.
perf_context_test shows a simple example of retrieving the number of user key comparison done for each put and get call. More counters could be added later.
Sample output
./perf_context_test 1000000
==== Test PerfContextTest.KeyComparisonCount
Inserting 1000000 key/value pairs
...
total user key comparison get: 43446523
total user key comparison put: 8017877
max user key comparison get: 88939
avg user key comparison get:43
Basically, the current skiplist does well on average, but could perform poorly in extreme cases.
Test Plan: run perf_context_test <total number of entries to put/get>
Reviewers: dhruba
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D12225
Haobo Xu