Summary:
Memtables are selected for flushing by the flush job. Currently we
have listener which is invoked when memtables for a column family are
flushed. That listener does not indicate which memtable was flushed in
the notification. If clients want to know if particular data in the
memtable was retired, there is no straight forward way to know this.
This method will help users who implement memtablerep factory and extend
interface for memtablerep, to know if the data in the memtable was
retired.
Another option that was tried, was to depend on memtable destructor to
be called after flush to mark that data was persisted. This works all
the time but sometimes there can huge delays between actual flush
happening and memtable getting destroyed. Hence, if anyone who is
waiting for data to persist will have to wait that longer.
It is expected that anyone who is implementing this method to have
return quickly as it blocks RocksDB.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/4304

Reviewed By: riversand963

Differential Revision: D9472312

Pulled By: gdrane

fbshipit-source-id: 8e693308dee749586af3a4c5d4fcf1fa5276ea4d