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Innodb scalibility issue found in Mariadb code for complex 'select' queries in Arm platform

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      Hi Sergey,

      While testing the performance of complex queries I see huge degradation in performance as we increase the number of client threads. I used the benchamark mysqlslap to evalaute the complex queries.

      Background of tables: Two tables populated with 4096 records populated and a common column is populated which helps in joining the two tables.

      Sample mysqslap command uses:

      mysqlslap -uroot --concurrency=24  --create-schema=test --no-drop --number-of-queries=500 --iterations=10 --query='select count(*), category from task inner join incident on task.sys_id=incident.sys_id group by incident.category' –p
      

      Sample output : The above command runs for 24 threads for the total number of queries of 500 .It runs 10 times the same operation . Number of clients running queries: 24 Average number of queries per client: 20
      Attached is the time take for each combination of threads tested in secs. Example 1 ,8 16 threads etc

      On profiling I see atomic operations such as cmpxchg is the hottest function

      Arm platform :

         │                                                           MY_MEMORY_ORDER_RELAXED);                                          
             │             while (lock_copy > threshold) {                                                                                 
        0.00 │     ↓ b.le   a0cf14 <pfs_rw_lock_s_lock_func(rw_lock_t*, unsigned long, char const*, unsigned int) [clone .constprop.112]+0x1
             │                     if (my_atomic_cas32_strong_explicit(&lock->lock_word,                                                    
        0.04 │       ldr    w2, [x29,#80]                                                                                                   
        8.68 │ f0:   ldaxr  w0, [x19]                                                                                                       
        0.00 │       cmp    w0, w2                                                                                                          
        0.01 │     ↓ b.ne   a0cefc <pfs_rw_lock_s_lock_func(rw_lock_t*, unsigned long, char const*, unsigned int) [clone .constprop.112]+0x1
      88.19 │       stxr   w3, w1, [x19]                                                                                                   
        0.00 │     ↑ cbnz   f0                                                                                                              
        2.29 │104: ↑ b.ne   a0ced4 <pfs_rw_lock_s_lock_func(rw_lock_t*, unsigned long, char const*, unsigned int) [clone .constprop.112]+0xd
             │     rw_lock_s_lock_low():                    
       
      Samples: 15M of event 'cycles:ppp', Event count (approx.): 9845312975908
      Overhead  Command  Shared Object        Symbol                                                                                        ◆
        32.58%  mysqld   mysqld               [.] pfs_rw_lock_s_lock_func                                                                   ▒
        26.85%  mysqld   mysqld               [.] row_search_mvcc                                                                           ▒
        18.42%  mysqld   mysqld               [.] pfs_rw_lock_s_unlock_func                                                                 ▒
        11.13%  mysqld   mysqld               [.] pfs_rw_lock_s_unlock_func   
      

      I tired to relax the memory orderfrom seq_cst to acq_/relaxed caused a ldaxr/stlxr => ldaxr/stxr but not much benefit availed

      Basically these are Low-level function which tries to lock an rw-lock in s-mode. Performs no
      spinning.

      In Intel I don’t see the function very hot

      0.02%  mysqld   mysqld               [.] pfs_rw_lock_s_lock_func                                                                                                                         ▒
         0.02%  mysqld   mysqld               [.] buf_page_get_gen                                                                                                                                ▒
         0.02%  mysqld   mysqld               [.] page_cur_search_with_match_bytes                                                                                                                ▒
         0.02%  mysqld   mysqld               [.] row_search_mvcc                                                                                                                                 ▒
         0.02%  mysqld   mysqld               [.] pfs_rw_lock_s_lock_fun
      

      Can we do away with atomic operation since this being select queries?If not why cant we include spinning/pause in every lock function we try to acquire?

      Sample code path

      rw_lock_lock_word_decr(
      	/*===================*/
      	        rw_lock_t*     lock,          /*!< in/out: rw-lock */
      	        ulint          amount,        /*!< in: amount to decrement */
      	        lint           threshold)     /*!< in: threshold of judgement */
      	{
      	#ifdef INNODB_RW_LOCKS_USE_ATOMICS
      	        lint local_lock_word;
      	
      	        os_rmb;
      	        local_lock_word = lock->lock_word;
      	        while (local_lock_word > threshold) {
      	               if (os_compare_and_swap_lint(&lock->lock_word,
      	                                           local_lock_word,
      	                                           local_lock_word - amount)) {
      	                       return(true);
      	               }
      	               local_lock_word = lock->lock_word;
      	        }
      	        return(false);
      

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