Hi Vlad
On 9/8/10 12:51 PM, Vladislav Vaintroub wrote:
> Marc, just an idea.. With the big group of mutexes or rwocks, each having the same
> code and lock paths (like it is the case of
> Innodb mutexes and rwlocks). The user would not care of each of them individually,
> for someone analyzing performance it is just one
> "page protection lock", he would not think about page protection lock for page 1578.
> So maybe it just makes sense to use the same
> PFS key for the whole group, rather than single key per every single item ?
>
The PFS key is the same already.
What is per mutex instance is the instrumentation of the mutex itself,
which costs 136 bytes per instance.
Look for the entry named MUTEX_INSTANCE.ROW_SIZE in the output of SHOW
ENGINE PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA STATUS.
Attempting to share this memory can only leads to bottlenecks and
performance degradations, since the performance schema implementation
can no longer be lock free, and protected by the mutex itself.
I look at it this way: if code in the server actually made an effort to
have 1 mutex per "page" or record in general, this is because 1 global
mutex for every record does not scale.
In this case, the performance schema using a single lock with a single
memory buffer to keep stats of all the mutexes of the same class would
just destroy all efforts made in the code to scale, and re introduce the
same problem just one layer below.
Regards,
-- Marc
