Summary:
Added an option for readrandom benchmark to run with tailing iterator instead of Get. Benefit of tailing iterator is that it doesn't require locking DB mutex on access.
I also have some results when running on my machine. The results highly depend on number of cache shards. With our current benchmark setting of 4 table cache shards and 6 block cache shards, I don't see much improvements of using tailing iterator. In that case, we're probably seeing cache mutex contention.
Here are the results for different number of shards
cache shards tailing iterator get
6 1.38M 1.16M
10 1.58M 1.15M
As soon as we get rid of cache mutex contention, we're seeing big improvements in using tailing iterator vs. ordinary get.
Test Plan: ran regression test
Reviewers: dhruba, haobo, ljin, kailiu, sding
Reviewed By: haobo
CC: tnovak
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D15867
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