WITH LARGE BUFFER POOL
(Note: this a backport of revno:3472 from mysql-trunk)
rb://845
approved by: Marko
When dropping a table (with an .ibd file i.e.: with
innodb_file_per_table set) we scan entire LRU to invalidate pages from
that table. This can be painful in case of large buffer pools as we hold
the buf_pool->mutex for the scan. Note that gravity of the problem does
not depend on the size of the table. Even with an empty table but a
large and filled up buffer pool we'll end up scanning a very long LRU
list.
The fix is to scan flush_list and just remove the blocks belonging to
the table from the flush_list, marking them as non-dirty. The blocks
are left in the LRU list for eventual eviction due to aging. The
flush_list is typically much smaller than the LRU list but for cases
where it is very long we have the solution of releasing the
buf_pool->mutex after scanning 1K pages.
buf_page_[set|unset]_sticky(): Use new IO-state BUF_IO_PIN to ensure
that a block stays in the flush_list and LRU list when we release
buf_pool->mutex. Previously we have been abusing BUF_IO_READ to achieve
this.
