Spurious innodb_io_capacity-sized flush list flushes on a loaded server

Bug #1238039 reported by Laurynas Biveinis
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MySQL Server
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Percona Server moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PS
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Laurynas Biveinis
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5.6
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Laurynas Biveinis

Bug Description

The furious flushing, implemented by skipping page cleaner thread sleeps, in combination with short-duration LRU and flush list flushes, means that server activity might be not updated by the next page cleaner thread iteration.

This has an effect of spuriously issuing innodb_io_capacity-sized flush list flush request instead of flushing as loaded server is supposed to, which in turn causes performance instabilities.

The fix is to maintain server activity accounting based on 1 second granularity. That is, an active server may only be considered inactive if no server activity bump in the last 1 second, as opposed to last cleaner thread iteration. An inactive server may be considered active immediately after the server activity bump.

Related branches

tags: added: xtradb
tags: added: innodb upstream
removed: xtradb
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Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar) wrote :

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-1437

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