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revno: 2877
committer: Davi Arnaut <Davi.Arnaut@Sun.COM>
branch nick: 35164-6.0
timestamp: Wed 2008-10-15 19:53:18 -0300
message:
Bug#35164: Large number of invalid pthread_attr_setschedparam calls
Bug#37536: Thread scheduling causes performance degradation at low thread count
Bug#12702: Long queries take 100% of CPU and freeze other applications under Windows
The problem is that although having threads with different priorities
yields marginal improvements [1] in some platforms [2], relying on some
statically defined priorities (QUERY_PRIOR and WAIT_PRIOR) to play well
(or to work at all) with different scheduling practices and disciplines
is, at best, a shot in the dark as the meaning of priority values may
change depending on the scheduling policy set for the process.
Another problem is that increasing priorities can hurt other concurrent
(running on the same hardware) applications (such as AMP) by causing
starvation problems as MySQL threads will successively preempt lower
priority processes. This can be evidenced by Bug#12702.
The solution is to not change the threads priorities and rely on the
system scheduler to perform its job. This also enables a system admin
to increase or decrease the scheduling priority of the MySQL process,
if intended.
Furthermore, the internal wrappers and code for changing the priority
of threads is being removed as they are now unused and ancient.
1. Due to unintentional side effects. On Solaris this could artificially
help benchmarks as calling the priority changing syscall millions of
times is more beneficial than the actual setting of the priority.
2. Where it actually works. It has never worked on Linux as the default
scheduling policy SCHED_OTHER only accepts the static priority 0.
A build "--without-server" fails if using "--with-ssl" (YaSSL)
The problem was the lack of directory "extra" in a build
which did not include the server.
"have_profiling"
1) Renamed have_community_features server system variable to
have_profiling.
2) Removed eable-community-features configure option and
ENABLE_COMMUNITY_FEATURES macro.
3) Removed COMMUNITY_SERVER macro and replaced its usage by
ENABLED_PROFILING.
Only --enable-profiling is now needed to enable profiling.
It was the only existing "community feature", so there was
no need for both configure options.
Using --enable-community-features will give a warning message
since it no longer exists.
Backport from 6.0 to 5.1.
Only those sync points are included, which are used in debug_sync.test.
The Debug Sync Facility allows to place synchronization points
in the code:
open_tables(...)
DEBUG_SYNC(thd, "after_open_tables");
lock_tables(...)
When activated, a sync point can
- Send a signal and/or
- Wait for a signal
Nomenclature:
- signal: A value of a global variable that persists
until overwritten by a new signal. The global
variable can also be seen as a "signal post"
or "flag mast". Then the signal is what is
attached to the "signal post" or "flag mast".
- send a signal: Assign the value (the signal) to the global
variable ("set a flag") and broadcast a
global condition to wake those waiting for
a signal.
- wait for a signal: Loop over waiting for the global condition until
the global value matches the wait-for signal.
Please find more information in the top comment in debug_sync.cc
or in the worklog entry.
Solaris binary packages should be compiled with '-g0', not '-g'
The main fix for this is done in the build tools,
but in the sources it affects "configure.in"
which sets "DEBUG_CXXFLAGS" to be used in all debug builds.
Option "--without-server" still not working in 5.1
The general approach is to make sure that source files
which require thread support are only compiled if the build
really needs thread support,
which means when the server is built or a thread-safe client
library.
This required several changes:
- Make sure the subdirectories "storage/" and "plugin/" are
only processed if the server is built, not ifclient-only.
- Make the compilation of some modules which inherently
require threading depend on thread supportin the build.
- Separate the handling of threading in "configure.in" from
that of server issues, threading is also needed in a
non-server build of a thread-safe client library.
Also, "libdbug" must get built even in a client-only build,
so "dbug/" must be in the list of client directories.
In addition, calls to thread functions in source files which
can be built without thread support must use the wrapper
functions which handle the non-threaded build.
So the modules "client/mysqlimport.c" and "client/mysqlslap.c"
must call "my_thread_end()" only via "mysql_thread_end()".
bzr branch mysql-5.1-performance-version mysql-trunk # Summit
cd mysql-trunk
bzr merge mysql-5.1-innodb_plugin # which is 5.1 + Innodb plugin
bzr rm innobase # remove the builtin
Next step: build, test fixes.
