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Vladislav Shpilevoy authored
An instance is writable if box.cfg.read_only is false, and it is
not orphan. Update of the final read-only state of the instance
needs to fire read-only update triggers, and notify the engines.
These 2 flags were easy and cheap to check on each operation, and
the triggers were easy to use since both flags are stored and
updated inside box.cc.

That is going to change when Raft is introduced. Raft will add 2
more checks:

  - A flag if Raft is enabled on the node. If it is not, then Raft
    state won't affect whether the instance is writable;

  - When Raft is enabled, it will allow writes on a leader only.

It means a check for being read-only would look like this:

    is_ro || is_orphan || (raft_is_enabled() && !raft_is_leader())

This is significantly slower. Besides, Raft somehow needs to
access the read-only triggers and engine API - this looks wrong.

The patch introduces a new flag is_ro_summary. The flag
incorporates all the read-only conditions into one flag. When some
subsystem may change read-only state of the instance, it needs to
call box_update_ro_summary(), and the function takes care of
updating the summary flag, running the triggers, and notifying the
engines.

Raft will use this function when its state or config will change.

Needed for #1146
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