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Vladislav Vaintroub authored
detector". This patch addresses performance regression in OLTP_RO/MyISAM test on Windows introduced by the fix for bug #56405. Thus it makes original patch acceptable as a solution for bug #56585 "Slowdown of readonly sysbench benchmarks (e.g point_select) on Windows 5.5". With this patch, MySQL will use native Windows condition variables and reader-writer locks if they are supported by the OS. This speeds up MyISAM and the effect comes mostly from using native rwlocks. Native conditions improve scalability with higher number of concurrent users in other situations, e.g for prlocks. Benchmark numbers for this patch as measured on Win2008R2 quad core machine are attached to the bug report. ( direct link http://bugs.mysql.com/file.php?id=15883 ) Note that currently we require at least Windows7/WS2008R2 for reader-writer locks, even though native rwlock is available also on Vista. Reason is that "trylock" APIs are missing on Vista, and trylock is used in the server (in a single place in query cache). While this patch could have been written differently, to enable the native rwlock optimization also on Vista/WS2008 (e.g using native locks everywhere but portable implementation in query cache), this would come at the expense of the code clarity, as it would introduce a new "try-able" rwlock type, to handle Vista case. Another way to improve performance for the special case (OLTP_RO/MYISAM/Vista) would be to eliminate "trylock" usage from server, but this is outside of the scope here. Native conditions variables are used beginning with Vista though the effect of using condition variables alone is not measurable in this benchmark. But when used together with native rwlocks on Win7, native conditions improve performance in high-concurrency OLTP_RO/MyISAM (128 and more sysbench users).
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