Summary:
Currently the garbage collection of items in old_commit_map_ was done upon ::ReleaseSnapshot. The assumption behind this method was that the sequence number of snapshots are unique, which is incorrect. In the very rare cases that two consecutive snapshot have the same sequence number this could lead the release of the first snapshot affect the old_commit_map_ that is necessary to service the reads of the second snapshot. The bug would be triggered only if i) two snapshot have the same seq, ii) both of them are very old (older than the last ~4m transactions), and iii) there is commit entry overlapping with the snapshot seq number.
It is fixed by doing the cleanup of old_commit_map_ in UpdateSnapshot: the new list of snapshots are compared with the old one and the missing sequence numbers are concluded released. If two snapshots have the same seq number, after the release of one of them, the seq number still appears in the snapshot least and thus not cleaned up prematurely.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/4727
Differential Revision: D13246495
Pulled By: maysamyabandeh
fbshipit-source-id: 93b87a5042afd8060889df245526d3f5d29de9fe
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