Wojciech Mitros

https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/17364 got merged so I excluded it from this series and rebased. While the review of the new test idea is underway, I'll try exploring how to improve the described...

Looks like this also happens in the [use_endpoint] variant: https://jenkins.scylladb.com/job/scylla-master/job/scylla-ci/8777/testReport/junit/replace_address_test/TestReplaceAddress/Tests___dtest_with_topology_changes___test_serve_writes_during_bootstrap_use_endpoint_rbo_disabled_/

> > This patch should be backported to both 5.4 and 6.0 as it reduces correctness and there should be no conflicts > > As far as I know (?),...

The build is failing with https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-dtest/issues/3686 (build https://jenkins.scylladb.com/job/scylla-master/job/gating-dtest-release/9573/), restarting

> #### 🔴 CI State: FAILURE > ✅ - [Build](https://jenkins.scylladb.com/job/scylla-master/job/scylla-ci/8777/) ✅ - [Container Test](https://jenkins.scylladb.com/job/scylla-master/job/scylla-ci/8777/) ❌ - [dtest with topology changes](https://jenkins.scylladb.com/job/scylla-master/job/gating-dtest-release-with-consistent-topology-changes/1566/) ✅ - [dtest](https://jenkins.scylladb.com/job/scylla-master/job/gating-dtest-release/9589/) ✅ - [Unit Tests](https://jenkins.scylladb.com/job/scylla-master/job/scylla-ci/8777/) > > ####...

> So although I share you puzzlement on why there is this weird maxint corner-case, I'm afraid I don't understand what is the actual problem you are reporting here. Is...

> I had a vague recollection that we had sort of expiration time on backlogs, so if we remember some old value from a minute ago and never got a...

> About the `ULLONG_MAX`: apparently, it can be returned by `std::strtoull` if the number it tries to parse is out of range, ref: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/strtoul . I think the code is...

I rebased on master and fixed the last few comments in the last rebases

I created this as a draft for now, as I still need to run a performance test for it (this affects the common write path). I'm also not entirely content...