Summary:
CachableEntry is used in a variety of contexts: it may refer to a cached
object (i.e. an object in the block cache), an owned object, or an
unowned object; also, in some cases (most notably with iterators), the
responsibility of managing the pointed-to object gets handed off to
another object. Each of the above scenarios have different implications
for the lifecycle of the referenced object. For the most part, the patch
does not change the lifecycle of managed objects; however, it makes
these relationships explicit, and it also enables us to eliminate some
hacks and accident-prone code around releasing cache handles and
deleting/cleaning up objects. (The only places where the patch changes
how an objects are managed are the partitions of partitioned indexes and
filters.)
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/5252
Differential Revision: D15101358
Pulled By: ltamasi
fbshipit-source-id: 9eb59e9ae5a7230e3345789762d0ba1f189485be
Vijay Nadimpalli