The aim of the InnoDB change buffer is to avoid delays when a leaf page
of a secondary index is not present in the buffer pool, and a record needs
to be inserted, delete-marked, or purged. Instead of reading the page into
the buffer pool for making such a modification, we may insert a record to
the change buffer (a special index tree in the InnoDB system tablespace).
The buffered changes are guaranteed to be merged if the index page
actually needs to be read later.
The change buffer could be useful when the database is stored on a
rotational medium (hard disk) where random seeks are slower than
sequential reads or writes.
Obviously, the change buffer will cause write amplification, due to
potentially large amount of metadata that is being written to the
change buffer. We will have to write redo log records for modifying
the change buffer tree as well as the user tablespace. Furthermore,
in the user tablespace, we must maintain a change buffer bitmap page
that uses 2 bits for estimating the amount of free space in pages,
and 1 bit to specify whether buffered changes exist. This bitmap needs
to be updated on every operation, which could reduce performance.
Even if the change buffer were free of bugs such as MDEV-24449
(potentially causing the corruption of any page in the system tablespace)
or MDEV-26977 (corruption of secondary indexes due to a currently
unknown reason), it will make diagnosis of other data corruption harder.
Because of all this, it is best to disable the change buffer by default.
.. to be the same as startup.
In resolving MDEV-27461, BUF_LRU_MIN_LEN (256) is the minimum number of
pages for the innodb buffer pool size. Obviously we need more than just
flushing pages. Taking the 16k page size and its default minimum, an
extra 25% is needed on top of the flushing pages to make a workable buffer
pool.
The minimum innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size (1M) restricts the minimum
otherwise we'd have a pool made up of different chunk sizes.
The resulting minimum innodb buffer pool sizes are:
Page Size, Previously minimum (startup), with change.
4k 5M 2M
8k 5M 3M
16k 5M 5M
32k 24M 10M
64k 24M 20M
With this patch, SET GLOBAL innodb_buffer_pool_size minimums are
enforced.
The evident minimum system variable size for innodb_buffer_pool_size
is 2M, however this is only setable if using 4k page size. As
the order of the page_size and buffer_pool_size aren't fixed, we can't
hide this change.
Subsequent changes:
* innodb_buffer_pool_resize_with_chunks.test - raised of pool resize due to new
minimums. Chunk size also needed increase as the test was for
pool_size < chunk_size to generate a warning.
* Removed srv_buf_pool_min_size and replaced use with MYSQL_SYSVAR_NAME(buffer_pool_size).min_val
* Removed srv_buf_pool_def_size and replaced constant defination in
MYSQL_SYSVAR_LONGLONG(buffer_pool_size)
* Reordered ha_innodb to allow for direct use of MYSQL_SYSVAR_NAME(buffer_pool_size).min_val
* Moved buf_pool_size_align into ha_innodb to access to MYSQL_SYSVAR_NAME(buffer_pool_size).min_val
* loose-innodb_disable_resize_buffer_pool_debug is needed in the
innodb.restart.opt test so that under debug mode, resizing of the
innodb buffer pool can occur.
innodb_debug_sync was introduced in commit
b393e2cb0c and reverted in
commit fc58c17216 due to memory leak reported
by valgrind, see MDEV-21336.
The leak is now fixed by adding `rw_lock_free(&slot->debug_sync_lock)`
after background thread working loop is finished, and the patch is
reapplied, with respect to c++98 fixes by Marko.
The missing DEBUG_SYNC for MDEV-18546 in row0vers.cc is also reapplied.
As suggested by Vladislav Vaintroub, let us remove misleading
and malformatted startup messages.
Even if the global variable srv_use_atomic_writes were set, we would
still invoke my_test_if_atomic_write() to check if writes are atomic
with a particular page size.
When using the default innodb_page_size=16k, page writes should be
atomic on NTFS when using ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED and KEY_BLOCK_SIZE<=4.
Disabling srv_use_atomic_writes when innodb_file_per_table=OFF does
not make sense, because that is a dynamic parameter.
We also correct the documentation string of innodb_use_atomic_writes
and remove the duplicate variable innobase_use_atomic_writes.
The debug parameter innodb_simulate_comp_failures injected compression
failures for ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED tables, breaking the pre-existing
logic that I had implemented in the InnoDB Plugin for MySQL 5.1 to prevent
compressed page overflows. A much better check is already achieved by
defining UNIV_ZIP_COPY at the compilation time.
(Only UNIV_ZIP_DEBUG is part of cmake -DWITH_INNODB_EXTRA_DEBUG=ON.)
The parameter innodb_idle_flush_pct that was introduced in
MariaDB Server 10.1.2 by MDEV-6932 has no effect ever since
the InnoDB changes from MySQL 5.7.9 were applied in
commit 2e814d4702.
Let us declare the parameter as MARIADB_REMOVED_OPTION.
For earlier versions, commit ea9cd97f85
declared the parameter deprecated.
The parameter innodb_idle_flush_pct that was introduced in
MariaDB Server 10.1.2 by MDEV-6932 has no effect ever since
the InnoDB changes from MySQL 5.7.9 were applied in
commit 2e814d4702.
Let us declare the parameter as deprecated and having no effect.
In commit 3a9a3be1c6 (MDEV-23855)
some previous logic was replaced with the condition
dirty_pct < srv_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm, which caused
the default value of the parameter innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm=0
to lose its special meaning: 'refer to innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct instead'.
This implicit special meaning was visible in the function
af_get_pct_for_dirty(), which was removed in
commit f0c295e2de (MDEV-24369).
page_cleaner_flush_pages_recommendation(): Restore the special
meaning that was removed in MDEV-24369.
buf_flush_page_cleaner(): If srv_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm==0.0,
refer to srv_max_buf_pool_modified_pct. This fixes the observed
performance regression due to excessive page flushing.
buf_pool_t::page_cleaner_wakeup(): Revise the wakeup condition.
innodb_init(): Do initialize srv_max_io_capacity in Mariabackup.
It was previously constantly 0, which caused mariadb-backup --prepare
to hang in buf_flush_sync(), making no progress.
In commit 5e62b6a5e0 (MDEV-16264)
the logic of os_aio_init() was changed so that it will never fail,
but instead automatically disable innodb_use_native_aio (which is
enabled by default) if the io_setup() system call would fail due
to resource limits being exceeded. This is questionable, especially
because falling back to simulated AIO may lead to significantly
reduced performance.
srv_n_file_io_threads, srv_n_read_io_threads, srv_n_write_io_threads:
Change the data type from ulong to uint.
os_aio_init(): Remove the parameters, and actually return an error code.
thread_pool::configure_aio(): Do not silently fall back to simulated AIO.
Reviewed by: Vladislav Vaintroub
After commit a5a2ef079c (part of MDEV-23855)
implemented asynchronous doublewrite, it is possible that the server will
hang when the following parametes are in effect:
innodb_doublewrite=1 (default)
innodb_write_io_threads=1
innodb_use_native_aio=0
Note: In commit 5e62b6a5e0 (MDEV-16264)
the logic of os_aio_init() was changed so that it will never fail,
but instead automatically disable innodb_use_native_aio (which is
enabled by default) if the io_setup() system call would fail due
to resource limits being exceeded.
Before commit a5a2ef079c, we used
a synchronous write for the doublewrite buffer batches, always at
most 64 pages at a time. So, upon completing a doublewrite batch,
a single thread would submit at most 64 page writes (for the
individual pages that were first written to the doublewrite buffer).
With that commit, we may submit up to 128 page writes at a time.
The maximum number of outstanding requests per thread is 256.
Because the maximum number of asynchronous write submissions per
thread was roughly doubled, it is now possible that
buf_dblwr_t::flush_buffered_writes_completed() will hang in
io_slots::acquire(), called via os_aio() and fil_space_t::io(),
when submitting writes of the individual blocks.
We will prevent this type of hang by increasing the minimum number
of innodb_write_io_threads from 1 to 2, so that this type of hang
would only become possible when 512 outstanding write requests
are exceeded.
Let us introduce a dummy variable innodb_max_purge_lag_wait
for waiting that the InnoDB history list length is below
the user-specified limit. Specifically,
SET GLOBAL innodb_max_purge_lag_wait=0;
should wait for all history to be purged. This could be useful
when upgrading from an older version to MariaDB 10.3 or later,
to avoid hitting MDEV-15912.
Note: the history cannot be purged if there exist transactions
that may see old versions.
Reviewed by: Vladislav Vaintroub
After MDEV-15053, MDEV-22871, MDEV-23399 shifted the scalability
bottleneck, log checkpoints became a new bottleneck.
If innodb_io_capacity is set low or innodb_max_dirty_pct_lwm is
set high and the workload fits in the buffer pool, the page cleaner
thread will perform very little flushing. When we reach the capacity
of the circular redo log file ib_logfile0 and must initiate a checkpoint,
some 'furious flushing' will be necessary. (If innodb_flush_sync=OFF,
then flushing would continue at the innodb_io_capacity rate, and
writers would be throttled.)
We have the best chance of advancing the checkpoint LSN immediately
after a page flush batch has been completed. Hence, it is best to
perform checkpoints after every batch in the page cleaner thread,
attempting to run once per second.
By initiating high-priority flushing in the page cleaner as early
as possible, we aim to make the throughput more stable.
The function buf_flush_wait_flushed() used to sleep for 10ms, hoping
that the page cleaner thread would do something during that time.
The observed end result was that a large number of threads that call
log_free_check() would end up sleeping while nothing useful is happening.
We will revise the design so that in the default innodb_flush_sync=ON
mode, buf_flush_wait_flushed() will wake up the page cleaner thread
to perform the necessary flushing, and it will wait for a signal from
the page cleaner thread.
If innodb_io_capacity is set to a low value (causing the page cleaner to
throttle its work), a write workload would initially perform well, until
the capacity of the circular ib_logfile0 is reached and log_free_check()
will trigger checkpoints. At that point, the extra waiting in
buf_flush_wait_flushed() will start reducing throughput.
The page cleaner thread will also initiate log checkpoints after each
buf_flush_lists() call, because that is the best point of time for
the checkpoint LSN to advance by the maximum amount.
Even in 'furious flushing' mode we invoke buf_flush_lists() with
innodb_io_capacity_max pages at a time, and at the start of each
batch (in the log_flush() callback function that runs in a separate
task) we will invoke os_aio_wait_until_no_pending_writes(). This
tweak allows the checkpoint to advance in smaller steps and
significantly reduces the maximum latency. On an Intel Optane 960
NVMe SSD on Linux, it reduced from 4.6 seconds to 74 milliseconds.
On Microsoft Windows with a slower SSD, it reduced from more than
180 seconds to 0.6 seconds.
We will make innodb_adaptive_flushing=OFF simply flush innodb_io_capacity
per second whenever the dirty proportion of buffer pool pages exceeds
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm. For innodb_adaptive_flushing=ON we try
to make page_cleaner_flush_pages_recommendation() more consistent and
predictable: if we are below innodb_adaptive_flushing_lwm, let us flush
pages according to the return value of af_get_pct_for_dirty().
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm: Revert the change of the default value
that was made in MDEV-23399. The value innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm=0
guarantees that a shutdown of an idle server will be fast. Users might
be surprised if normal shutdown suddenly became slower when upgrading
within a GA release series.
innodb_checkpoint_usec: Remove. The master task will no longer perform
periodic log checkpoints. It is the duty of the page cleaner thread.
log_sys.max_modified_age: Remove. The current span of the
buf_pool.flush_list expressed in LSN only matters for adaptive
flushing (outside the 'furious flushing' condition).
For the correctness of checkpoints, the only thing that matters is
the checkpoint age (log_sys.lsn - log_sys.last_checkpoint_lsn).
This run-time constant was also reported as log_max_modified_age_sync.
log_sys.max_checkpoint_age_async: Remove. This does not serve any
purpose, because the checkpoints will now be triggered by the page
cleaner thread. We will retain the log_sys.max_checkpoint_age limit
for engaging 'furious flushing'.
page_cleaner.slot: Remove. It turns out that
page_cleaner_slot.flush_list_time was duplicating
page_cleaner.slot.flush_time and page_cleaner.slot.flush_list_pass
was duplicating page_cleaner.flush_pass.
Likewise, there were some redundant monitor counters, because the
page cleaner thread no longer performs any buf_pool.LRU flushing, and
because there only is one buf_flush_page_cleaner thread.
buf_flush_sync_lsn: Protect writes by buf_pool.flush_list_mutex.
buf_pool_t::get_oldest_modification(): Add a parameter to specify the
return value when no persistent data pages are dirty. Require the
caller to hold buf_pool.flush_list_mutex.
log_buf_pool_get_oldest_modification(): Take the fall-back LSN
as a parameter. All callers will also invoke log_sys.get_lsn().
log_preflush_pool_modified_pages(): Replaced with buf_flush_wait_flushed().
buf_flush_wait_flushed(): Implement two limits. If not enough buffer pool
has been flushed, signal the page cleaner (unless innodb_flush_sync=OFF)
and wait for the page cleaner to complete. If the page cleaner
thread is not running (which can be the case durign shutdown),
initiate the flush and wait for it directly.
buf_flush_ahead(): If innodb_flush_sync=ON (the default),
submit a new buf_flush_sync_lsn target for the page cleaner
but do not wait for the flushing to finish.
log_get_capacity(), log_get_max_modified_age_async(): Remove, to make
it easier to see that af_get_pct_for_lsn() is not acquiring any mutexes.
page_cleaner_flush_pages_recommendation(): Protect all access to
buf_pool.flush_list with buf_pool.flush_list_mutex. Previously there
were some race conditions in the calculation.
buf_flush_sync_for_checkpoint(): New function to process
buf_flush_sync_lsn in the page cleaner thread. At the end of
each batch, we try to wake up any blocked buf_flush_wait_flushed().
If everything up to buf_flush_sync_lsn has been flushed, we will
reset buf_flush_sync_lsn=0. The page cleaner thread will keep
'furious flushing' until the limit is reached. Any threads that
are waiting in buf_flush_wait_flushed() will be able to resume
as soon as their own limit has been satisfied.
buf_flush_page_cleaner: Prioritize buf_flush_sync_lsn and do not
sleep as long as it is set. Do not update any page_cleaner statistics
for this special mode of operation. In the normal mode
(buf_flush_sync_lsn is not set for innodb_flush_sync=ON),
try to wake up once per second. No longer check whether
srv_inc_activity_count() has been called. After each batch,
try to perform a log checkpoint, because the best chances for
the checkpoint LSN to advance by the maximum amount are upon
completing a flushing batch.
log_t: Move buf_free, max_buf_free possibly to the same cache line
with log_sys.mutex.
log_margin_checkpoint_age(): Simplify the logic, and replace
a 0.1-second sleep with a call to buf_flush_wait_flushed() to
initiate flushing. Moved to the same compilation unit
with the only caller.
log_close(): Clean up the calculations. (Should be no functional
change.) Return whether flush-ahead is needed. Moved to the same
compilation unit with the only caller.
mtr_t::finish_write(): Return whether flush-ahead is needed.
mtr_t::commit(): Invoke buf_flush_ahead() when needed. Let us avoid
external calls in mtr_t::commit() and make the logic easier to follow
by having related code in a single compilation unit. Also, we will
invoke srv_stats.log_write_requests.inc() only once per
mini-transaction commit, while not holding mutexes.
log_checkpoint_margin(): Only care about log_sys.max_checkpoint_age.
Upon reaching log_sys.max_checkpoint_age where we must wait to prevent
the log from getting corrupted, let us wait for at most 1MiB of LSN
at a time, before rechecking the condition. This should allow writers
to proceed even if the redo log capacity has been reached and
'furious flushing' is in progress. We no longer care about
log_sys.max_modified_age_sync or log_sys.max_modified_age_async.
The log_sys.max_modified_age_sync could be a relic from the time when
there was a srv_master_thread that wrote dirty pages to data files.
Also, we no longer have any log_sys.max_checkpoint_age_async limit,
because log checkpoints will now be triggered by the page cleaner
thread upon completing buf_flush_lists().
log_set_capacity(): Simplify the calculations of the limit
(no functional change).
log_checkpoint_low(): Split from log_checkpoint(). Moved to the
same compilation unit with the caller.
log_make_checkpoint(): Only wait for everything to be flushed until
the current LSN.
create_log_file(): After checkpoint, invoke log_write_up_to()
to ensure that the FILE_CHECKPOINT record has been written.
This avoids ut_ad(!srv_log_file_created) in create_log_file_rename().
srv_start(): Do not call recv_recovery_from_checkpoint_start()
if the log has just been created. Set fil_system.space_id_reuse_warned
before dict_boot() has been executed, and clear it after recovery
has finished.
dict_boot(): Initialize fil_system.max_assigned_id.
srv_check_activity(): Remove. The activity count is counting transaction
commits and therefore mostly interesting for the purge of history.
BtrBulk::insert(): Do not explicitly wake up the page cleaner,
but do invoke srv_inc_activity_count(), because that counter is
still being used in buf_load_throttle_if_needed() for some
heuristics. (It might be cleaner to execute buf_load() in the
page cleaner thread!)
Reviewed by: Vladislav Vaintroub
MariaDB 10.2.2 inherited from MySQL 5.7 a perceived optimization
of ALTER TABLE, which skips the writing of redo log records.
In MDEV-16809 we introduced a parameter that allows the redo log to
be written, so that Mariabackup would not be impacted, but we kept
the MySQL 5.7 behaviour enabled by default (innodb_log_optimize_ddl=ON).
As noted in MDEV-19747 (Deprecate and ignore innodb_log_optimize_ddl,
implemented in MariaDB 10.5.1), omitting the redo log writes can
actually reduce performance, because we will have to wait for the data
pages to be written out. When the redo log file is configured to be
large enough, it actually can be much faster to write the redo log and
avoid the extra page flushing.
When the redo log is omitted (innodb_log_optimize_ddl=ON), also
Mariabackup may have to perform a lot of extra work, to re-copy the
entire data file if it is possible that any log was omitted during
the backup.
Starting with MariaDB 10.5.1, the parameter innodb_log_optimize_ddl
is deprecated and ignored. We hereby deprecate (but will not ignore)
the parameter in earlier versions as well.
InnoDB stores a 32-bit page number in page headers and in some
data structures, such as FIL_ADDR (consisting of a 32-bit page number
and a 16-bit byte offset within a page). For better compile-time
error detection and to reduce the memory footprint in some data
structures, let us use a uint32_t for the page number, instead
of ulint (size_t) which can be 64 bits.
The buffer pool refactoring in MDEV-15053 and MDEV-22871 shifted
the performance bottleneck to the page flushing.
The configuration parameters will be changed as follows:
innodb_lru_flush_size=32 (new: how many pages to flush on LRU eviction)
innodb_lru_scan_depth=1536 (old: 1024)
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct=90 (old: 75)
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm=75 (old: 0)
Note: The parameter innodb_lru_scan_depth will only affect LRU
eviction of buffer pool pages when a new page is being allocated. The
page cleaner thread will no longer evict any pages. It used to
guarantee that some pages will remain free in the buffer pool. Now, we
perform that eviction 'on demand' in buf_LRU_get_free_block().
The parameter innodb_lru_scan_depth(srv_LRU_scan_depth) is used as follows:
* When the buffer pool is being shrunk in buf_pool_t::withdraw_blocks()
* As a buf_pool.free limit in buf_LRU_list_batch() for terminating
the flushing that is initiated e.g., by buf_LRU_get_free_block()
The parameter also used to serve as an initial limit for unzip_LRU
eviction (evicting uncompressed page frames while retaining
ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED pages), but now we will use a hard-coded limit
of 100 or unlimited for invoking buf_LRU_scan_and_free_block().
The status variables will be changed as follows:
innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed: This includes also the count of
innodb_buffer_pool_pages_LRU_flushed and should work reliably,
updated one by one in buf_flush_page() to give more real-time
statistics. The function buf_flush_stats(), which we are removing,
was not called in every code path. For both counters, we will use
regular variables that are incremented in a critical section of
buf_pool.mutex. Note that show_innodb_vars() directly links to the
variables, and reads of the counters will *not* be protected by
buf_pool.mutex, so you cannot get a consistent snapshot of both variables.
The following INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_METRICS counters will be
removed, because the page cleaner no longer deals with writing or
evicting least recently used pages, and because the single-page writes
have been removed:
* buffer_LRU_batch_flush_avg_time_slot
* buffer_LRU_batch_flush_avg_time_thread
* buffer_LRU_batch_flush_avg_time_est
* buffer_LRU_batch_flush_avg_pass
* buffer_LRU_single_flush_scanned
* buffer_LRU_single_flush_num_scan
* buffer_LRU_single_flush_scanned_per_call
When moving to a single buffer pool instance in MDEV-15058, we missed
some opportunity to simplify the buf_flush_page_cleaner thread. It was
unnecessarily using a mutex and some complex data structures, even
though we always have a single page cleaner thread.
Furthermore, the buf_flush_page_cleaner thread had separate 'recovery'
and 'shutdown' modes where it was waiting to be triggered by some
other thread, adding unnecessary latency and potential for hangs in
relatively rarely executed startup or shutdown code.
The page cleaner was also running two kinds of batches in an
interleaved fashion: "LRU flush" (writing out some least recently used
pages and evicting them on write completion) and the normal batches
that aim to increase the MIN(oldest_modification) in the buffer pool,
to help the log checkpoint advance.
The buf_pool.flush_list flushing was being blocked by
buf_block_t::lock for no good reason. Furthermore, if the FIL_PAGE_LSN
of a page is ahead of log_sys.get_flushed_lsn(), that is, what has
been persistently written to the redo log, we would trigger a log
flush and then resume the page flushing. This would unnecessarily
limit the performance of the page cleaner thread and trigger the
infamous messages "InnoDB: page_cleaner: 1000ms intended loop took 4450ms.
The settings might not be optimal" that were suppressed in
commit d1ab89037a unless log_warnings>2.
Our revised algorithm will make log_sys.get_flushed_lsn() advance at
the start of buf_flush_lists(), and then execute a 'best effort' to
write out all pages. The flush batches will skip pages that were modified
since the log was written, or are are currently exclusively locked.
The MDEV-13670 message "page_cleaner: 1000ms intended loop took" message
will be removed, because by design, the buf_flush_page_cleaner() should
not be blocked during a batch for extended periods of time.
We will remove the single-page flushing altogether. Related to this,
the debug parameter innodb_doublewrite_batch_size will be removed,
because all of the doublewrite buffer will be used for flushing
batches. If a page needs to be evicted from the buffer pool and all
100 least recently used pages in the buffer pool have unflushed
changes, buf_LRU_get_free_block() will execute buf_flush_lists() to
write out and evict innodb_lru_flush_size pages. At most one thread
will execute buf_flush_lists() in buf_LRU_get_free_block(); other
threads will wait for that LRU flushing batch to finish.
To improve concurrency, we will replace the InnoDB ib_mutex_t and
os_event_t native mutexes and condition variables in this area of code.
Most notably, this means that the buffer pool mutex (buf_pool.mutex)
is no longer instrumented via any InnoDB interfaces. It will continue
to be instrumented via PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA.
For now, both buf_pool.flush_list_mutex and buf_pool.mutex will be
declared with MY_MUTEX_INIT_FAST (PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP). The critical
sections of buf_pool.flush_list_mutex should be shorter than those for
buf_pool.mutex, because in the worst case, they cover a linear scan of
buf_pool.flush_list, while the worst case of a critical section of
buf_pool.mutex covers a linear scan of the potentially much longer
buf_pool.LRU list.
mysql_mutex_is_owner(), safe_mutex_is_owner(): New predicate, usable
with SAFE_MUTEX. Some InnoDB debug assertions need this predicate
instead of mysql_mutex_assert_owner() or mysql_mutex_assert_not_owner().
buf_pool_t::n_flush_LRU, buf_pool_t::n_flush_list:
Replaces buf_pool_t::init_flush[] and buf_pool_t::n_flush[].
The number of active flush operations.
buf_pool_t::mutex, buf_pool_t::flush_list_mutex: Use mysql_mutex_t
instead of ib_mutex_t, to have native mutexes with PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA
and SAFE_MUTEX instrumentation.
buf_pool_t::done_flush_LRU: Condition variable for !n_flush_LRU.
buf_pool_t::done_flush_list: Condition variable for !n_flush_list.
buf_pool_t::do_flush_list: Condition variable to wake up the
buf_flush_page_cleaner when a log checkpoint needs to be written
or the server is being shut down. Replaces buf_flush_event.
We will keep using timed waits (the page cleaner thread will wake
_at least_ once per second), because the calculations for
innodb_adaptive_flushing depend on fixed time intervals.
buf_dblwr: Allocate statically, and move all code to member functions.
Use a native mutex and condition variable. Remove code to deal with
single-page flushing.
buf_dblwr_check_block(): Make the check debug-only. We were spending
a significant amount of execution time in page_simple_validate_new().
flush_counters_t::unzip_LRU_evicted: Remove.
IORequest: Make more members const. FIXME: m_fil_node should be removed.
buf_flush_sync_lsn: Protect by std::atomic, not page_cleaner.mutex
(which we are removing).
page_cleaner_slot_t, page_cleaner_t: Remove many redundant members.
pc_request_flush_slot(): Replaces pc_request() and pc_flush_slot().
recv_writer_thread: Remove. Recovery works just fine without it, if we
simply invoke buf_flush_sync() at the end of each batch in
recv_sys_t::apply().
recv_recovery_from_checkpoint_finish(): Remove. We can simply call
recv_sys.debug_free() directly.
srv_started_redo: Replaces srv_start_state.
SRV_SHUTDOWN_FLUSH_PHASE: Remove. logs_empty_and_mark_files_at_shutdown()
can communicate with the normal page cleaner loop via the new function
flush_buffer_pool().
buf_flush_remove(): Assert that the calling thread is holding
buf_pool.flush_list_mutex. This removes unnecessary mutex operations
from buf_flush_remove_pages() and buf_flush_dirty_pages(),
which replace buf_LRU_flush_or_remove_pages().
buf_flush_lists(): Renamed from buf_flush_batch(), with simplified
interface. Return the number of flushed pages. Clarified comments and
renamed min_n to max_n. Identify LRU batch by lsn=0. Merge all the functions
buf_flush_start(), buf_flush_batch(), buf_flush_end() directly to this
function, which was their only caller, and remove 2 unnecessary
buf_pool.mutex release/re-acquisition that we used to perform around
the buf_flush_batch() call. At the start, if not all log has been
durably written, wait for a background task to do it, or start a new
task to do it. This allows the log write to run concurrently with our
page flushing batch. Any pages that were skipped due to too recent
FIL_PAGE_LSN or due to them being latched by a writer should be flushed
during the next batch, unless there are further modifications to those
pages. It is possible that a page that we must flush due to small
oldest_modification also carries a recent FIL_PAGE_LSN or is being
constantly modified. In the worst case, all writers would then end up
waiting in log_free_check() to allow the flushing and the checkpoint
to complete.
buf_do_flush_list_batch(): Clarify comments, and rename min_n to max_n.
Cache the last looked up tablespace. If neighbor flushing is not applicable,
invoke buf_flush_page() directly, avoiding a page lookup in between.
buf_flush_space(): Auxiliary function to look up a tablespace for
page flushing.
buf_flush_page(): Defer the computation of space->full_crc32(). Never
call log_write_up_to(), but instead skip persistent pages whose latest
modification (FIL_PAGE_LSN) is newer than the redo log. Also skip
pages on which we cannot acquire a shared latch without waiting.
buf_flush_try_neighbors(): Do not bother checking buf_fix_count
because buf_flush_page() will no longer wait for the page latch.
Take the tablespace as a parameter, and only execute this function
when innodb_flush_neighbors>0. Avoid repeated calls of page_id_t::fold().
buf_flush_relocate_on_flush_list(): Declare as cold, and push down
a condition from the callers.
buf_flush_check_neighbor(): Take id.fold() as a parameter.
buf_flush_sync(): Ensure that the buf_pool.flush_list is empty,
because the flushing batch will skip pages whose modifications have
not yet been written to the log or were latched for modification.
buf_free_from_unzip_LRU_list_batch(): Remove redundant local variables.
buf_flush_LRU_list_batch(): Let the caller buf_do_LRU_batch() initialize
the counters, and report n->evicted.
Cache the last looked up tablespace. If neighbor flushing is not applicable,
invoke buf_flush_page() directly, avoiding a page lookup in between.
buf_do_LRU_batch(): Return the number of pages flushed.
buf_LRU_free_page(): Only release and re-acquire buf_pool.mutex if
adaptive hash index entries are pointing to the block.
buf_LRU_get_free_block(): Do not wake up the page cleaner, because it
will no longer perform any useful work for us, and we do not want it
to compete for I/O while buf_flush_lists(innodb_lru_flush_size, 0)
writes out and evicts at most innodb_lru_flush_size pages. (The
function buf_do_LRU_batch() may complete after writing fewer pages if
more than innodb_lru_scan_depth pages end up in buf_pool.free list.)
Eliminate some mutex release-acquire cycles, and wait for the LRU
flush batch to complete before rescanning.
buf_LRU_check_size_of_non_data_objects(): Simplify the code.
buf_page_write_complete(): Remove the parameter evict, and always
evict pages that were part of an LRU flush.
buf_page_create(): Take a pre-allocated page as a parameter.
buf_pool_t::free_block(): Free a pre-allocated block.
recv_sys_t::recover_low(), recv_sys_t::apply(): Preallocate the block
while not holding recv_sys.mutex. During page allocation, we may
initiate a page flush, which in turn may initiate a log flush, which
would require acquiring log_sys.mutex, which should always be acquired
before recv_sys.mutex in order to avoid deadlocks. Therefore, we must
not be holding recv_sys.mutex while allocating a buffer pool block.
BtrBulk::logFreeCheck(): Skip a redundant condition.
row_undo_step(): Do not invoke srv_inc_activity_count() for every row
that is being rolled back. It should suffice to invoke the function in
trx_flush_log_if_needed() during trx_t::commit_in_memory() when the
rollback completes.
sync_check_enable(): Remove. We will enable innodb_sync_debug from the
very beginning.
Reviewed by: Vladislav Vaintroub
Regretfully, the parameter innodb_log_checksums was introduced
in MySQL 5.7.9 (the first GA release of that series) by
mysql/mysql-server@af0acedd88
which partly replaced a parameter that had been introduced in 5.7.8
mysql/mysql-server@22ba38218e
as innodb_log_checksum_algorithm.
Given that the CRC-32C operations are accelerated on many processor
implementations (AMD64 with SSE4.2; since MDEV-22669 also on IA-32
with SSE4.2, POWER 8 and later, ARMv8 with some extensions)
and by lookup tables when only generic SISD instructions are available,
there should be no valid reason to disable checksums.
In MariaDB 10.5.2, as a preparation for MDEV-12353, MDEV-19543 deprecated
and ignored the parameter innodb_log_checksums altogether. This should
imply that after a clean shutdown with innodb_log_checksums=OFF one
cannot upgrade to MariaDB Server 10.5 at all.
Due to these problems, let us deprecate the parameter innodb_log_checksums
and honor it only during server startup.
The command SET GLOBAL innodb_log_checksums will always set the
parameter to ON.
The usage message for the innodb_compression_algorithm system variable
did not list snappy, which was added as an optional compression algorithm
in MariaDB 10.1.3 and might actually work since
commit 90c52e5291 (MDEV-12615)
in MariaDB 10.1.24.
Unfortunately, we will include also unavailable compression algorithms
in the list, because ENUM parameters allow numeric values, and we do
not want innodb_compression_algorithm=3 to change meaning depending on
the way how the source code was compiled.
The parameters innodb_thread_concurrency and innodb_commit_concurrency
were useful years ago when both computing resources and the implementation
of some shared data structures were limited. MySQL 5.0 or 5.1 had trouble
scaling beyond 8 concurrent connections. Most of the scalability bottlenecks
have been removed since then, and the transactions per second delivered
by MariaDB Server 10.5 should not dramatically drop upon exceeding the
'optimal' number of connections.
Hence, enabling any concurrency throttling for InnoDB actually makes
things worse. We have seen many customers mistakenly setting this to a
small value like 16 or 64 and then complaining the server was slow.
Ignoring the parameters allows us to remove some normally unused code
and data structures, which could slightly improve performance.
innodb_thread_concurrency, innodb_commit_concurrency,
innodb_replication_delay, innodb_concurrency_tickets,
innodb_thread_sleep_delay, innodb_adaptive_max_sleep_delay:
Deprecate and ignore; hard-wire to 0.
The column INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_TRX.trx_concurrency_tickets
will always report 0.
The rw_lock_s_lock() calls for the buf_pool.page_hash became a
clear bottleneck after MDEV-15053 reduced the contention on
buf_pool.mutex. We will replace that use of rw_lock_t with a
special implementation that is optimized for memory bus traffic.
The hash_table_locks instrumentation will be removed.
buf_pool_t::page_hash: Use a special implementation whose API is
compatible with hash_table_t, and store the custom rw-locks
directly in buf_pool.page_hash.array, intentionally sharing
cache lines with the hash table pointers.
rw_lock: A low-level rw-lock implementation based on std::atomic<uint32_t>
where read_trylock() becomes a simple fetch_add(1).
buf_pool_t::page_hash_latch: The special of rw_lock for the page_hash.
buf_pool_t::page_hash_latch::read_lock(): Assert that buf_pool.mutex
is not being held by the caller.
buf_pool_t::page_hash_latch::write_lock() may be called while not holding
buf_pool.mutex. buf_pool_t::watch_set() is such a caller.
buf_pool_t::page_hash_latch::read_lock_wait(),
page_hash_latch::write_lock_wait(): The spin loops.
These will obey the global parameters innodb_sync_spin_loops and
innodb_sync_spin_wait_delay.
buf_pool_t::freed_page_hash: A singly linked list of copies of
buf_pool.page_hash that ever existed. The fact that we never
free any buf_pool.page_hash.array guarantees that all
page_hash_latch that ever existed will remain valid until shutdown.
buf_pool_t::resize_hash(): Replaces buf_pool_resize_hash().
Prepend a shallow copy of the old page_hash to freed_page_hash.
buf_pool_t::page_hash_table::n_cells: Declare as Atomic_relaxed.
buf_pool_t::page_hash_table::lock(): Explain what prevents a
race condition with buf_pool_t::resize_hash().
For no good reason, innodb_encryption_threads was limited to
4,294,967,295. Expectedly, the server would crash if such an
insane value was specified. Let us limit the maximum to 255.
The encryption threads are not doing much useful work.
They are basically only dirtying pages by performing
dummy writes via the redo log. The encryption key rotation
or the in-place addition or removal of encryption
will take place in the page cleaner.
In a quick test on a 20-core CPU (40 threads in total),
the sweet spot on an otherwise idle server seemed to be
innodb_encryption_threads=16 for the test
encryption.encrypt_and_grep. The new limit 255 should be
more than enough for even bigger servers.
