Introduce a transaction option to skip memtable write during commit #13144
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Summary: add a new transaction option
TransactionOptions::commit_bypass_memtable
that will ingest the transaction into a DB as an immutable memtables, skipping memtable writes during transaction commit. This helps to reduce the blocking time of committing a large transaction, which is mostly spent on memtable writes. The ingestion is done by creating WBWIMemTable using transaction's underlying WBWI, and ingest it as the latest immutable memtable. The feature will be experimental.Major changes are:
Some intended follow ups:
Test plan: