There was several changes in InnoDB to fix scalabilty problems, so I ran benchmark to check new results and also compare overall performance of InnoDB in 5.0 and 5.1 before and after fixes. Problems in InnoDB that were fixed: Thread trashing issues with count of theads 100+. In this case performance of InnoDB degraded dramatically. [...]
Internals of InnoDB mutexes
September 7, 2006 By 4 Comments
InnoDB uses its own mutexes and read-write locks instead of POSIX-mutexes pthread_mutex*, the main reason for that is performance, but InnoDB’s implementation isn’t ideal and on modern SMP boxes can cause serious performance problems. Let’s look on InnoDB mutex (schematic for simplification):
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