http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=72123

lock_timeout thread works in a tight loop waking up every second
and checking for lock_wait_timeout. In addition, when a mysql
thread is forced to wait on a lock, it signals the lock_timeout thread
as well. This call is not required. In a heavily contended workload
each thread going to wait will signal the lock_timeout thread making
it work all the time. As lock_timeout thread scans the array of
waiting threads under lock_sys::wait_mutex which is already very
hot in contneded loads, these extra scans can cause significanct
performance regression.

Also, in various codepaths lock_timeout thread is signalled where
actual intention was to signal the innodb monitor thread.