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Dmitry Lenev authored
locks for DML statements and changes the way MDL locks are acquired/granted in contended case. Instead of backing-off when a lock conflict is encountered and waiting for it to go away before restarting open_tables() process we now wait for lock to be released without releasing any previously acquired locks. If conflicting lock goes away we resume opening tables. If waiting leads to a deadlock we try to resolve it by backing-off and restarting open_tables() immediately. As result both waiting for possibility to acquire and acquiring of a metadata lock now always happen within the same MDL API call. This has allowed to make release of a lock and granting it to the most appropriate pending request an atomic operation. Thanks to this it became possible to wake up during release of lock only those waiters which requests can be satisfied at the moment as well as wake up only one waiter in case when granting its request would prevent all other requests from being satisfied. This solves thundering herd problem which occured in cases when we were releasing some lock and woke up many waiters for SNRW or X locks (this was the issue in bug#52289 "performance regression for MyISAM in sysbench OLTP_RW test". This also allowed to implement more fair (FIFO) scheduling among waiters with the same priority. It also opens the door for introducing new types of requests for metadata locks such as low-prio SNRW lock which is necessary in order to support LOCK TABLES LOW_PRIORITY WRITE. Notice that after this sometimes can report ER_LOCK_DEADLOCK error in cases in which it has not happened before. Particularly we will always report this error if waiting for conflicting lock has happened in the middle of transaction and resulted in a deadlock. Before this patch the error was not reported if deadlock could have been resolved by backing off all metadata locks acquired by the current statement.
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