The symptoms were: take a server with no activity and a table that's
not in the buffer pool. Run a query that reads the whole table and
observe that r_engine_stats.pages_read_count shows about 2% of the table
was read. Who reads the rest?
The cause was that page prefetching done inside InnoDB was not counted.
This counts page prefetch requests made in buf_read_ahead_random() and
buf_read_ahead_linear() and makes them visible in:
- ANALYZE: r_engine_stats.pages_prefetch_read_count
- Slow Query Log: Pages_prefetched:
This patch intentionally doesn't attempt to count the time to read the
prefetched pages:
* there's no obvious place where one can do it
* prefetch reads may be done in parallel (right?), it is not clear how
to count the time in this case.
