Summary:
Basically at the moment it seems it's possible to cause write stall by calling flush (either manually vis DB::Flush(), or from Backup Engine directly calling FlushMemTable() while background flush may be already happening.
One of the ways to fix it is that in DBImpl::CompactRange() we already check for possible stall and delay flush if needed before we actually proceed to call FlushMemTable(). We can simply move this delay logic to separate method and call it from FlushMemTable.
This is draft patch, for first look; need to check tests/update SyncPoints and most certainly would need to add allow_write_stall method to FlushOptions().
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/4297
Differential Revision: D9420705
Pulled By: mikhail-antonov
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