timestamp: Thu 2011-12-01 15:12:10 +0100
Fix for Bug#13430436 PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION IN SYSBENCH ON INNODB DUE TO ICP
When running sysbench on InnoDB there is a performance degradation due
to index condition pushdown (ICP). Several of the queries in sysbench
have a WHERE condition that the optimizer uses for executing these
queries as range scans. The upper and lower limit of the range scan
will ensure that the WHERE condition is fulfilled. Still, the WHERE
condition is part of the queries' condition and if ICP is enabled the
condition will be pushed down to InnoDB as an index condition.
Due to the range scan's upper and lower limits ensure that the WHERE
condition is fulfilled, the pushed index condition will not filter out
any records. As a result the use of ICP for these queries results in a
performance overhead for sysbench. This overhead comes from using
resources for determining the part of the condition that can be pushed
down to InnoDB and overhead in InnoDB for executing the pushed index
condition.
With the default configuration for sysbench the range scans will use
the primary key. This is a clustered index in InnoDB. Using ICP on a
clustered index provides the lowest performance benefit since the
entire record is part of the clustered index and in InnoDB it has the
highest relative overhead for executing the pushed index condition.
The fix for removing the overhead ICP introduces when running sysbench
is to disable use of ICP when the index used by the query is a
clustered index.
When WL#6061 is implemented this change should be re-evaluated.
The bug happened because in some cases the function JOIN::exec
did not save the value of TABLE::pre_idx_push_select_cond in
TABLE::select->pre_idx_push_select_cond for the sort table.
Noticed and fixed a bug in the function make_cond_remainder
that builds the remainder condition after extraction of an index
pushdown condition from the where condition. The code
erroneously assumed that the function make_cond_for_table left
the value of ICP_COND_USES_INDEX_ONLY in sub-condition markers.
Adjusted many result files from the regression test suite
after this fix .
In some cases the function make_cond_for_index() was mistaken
when detecting index only pushdown conditions for a table:
a pushdown condition that was not index only could be marked
as such.
It happened because the procedure erroneously used the markers
for index only conditions that remained from the calls of
this function that extracted the index conditions for other
tables.
Fixed by erasing index only markers as soon as they are need
anymore.
The pushdown condition for the sorted table in a query can be complemented
by the conditions from HAVING. This transformation is done in JOIN::exec
pretty late after the original pushdown condition have been saved in the
field pre_idx_push_select_cond for the sorted table. So this field must
be updated after the inclusion of the condition from HAVING.
Added a possibility not to factor out the condition pushed to
the access index out of the condition pushed to a joined table.
This is useful for the condition pushed to the index when a hashed
join buffer for BKA is employed. In this case the index condition
may be false for some, but for all records with the same key.
So the condition must be checked not only after index lookup,
but after fetching row data as well, and it makes sense not to
factor out the condition from the condition checked after reading
row data,
The bug happened because the condition pushed to an index always
was factor out from the condition pushed to the accessed table.
- When find_all_keys() checks which table columns are needed for table scan
that is done before the sorting, it should also analyze pushed index condition.
This is achieved by remembering/checking pre-index-pushed condition.
- Make index condition pushdown be controlled by an @@optimizer_switch flag,
not by @@engine_condition_pushdown
- Make MRR buffer size be controlled by @@mrr_buffer_size, not
by @@read_rnd_buffer_size
- Move parts of code to separate files
- Code cleanup
- Add --sorted_result to some SELECTs in tests.
