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commit 617aef9f911d825e9053f3d611d0389e02031225
Author: Inaam Rana <irana@twitter.com>
Date: Thu Mar 6 09:51:27 2014 -0500

Buffer pool list scan optimization

Summary:
Feature: Optimize Buffer Pool List Scans and Fix Reporting

This patch includes:
– backport of upstream work around buffer pool list scan.
revno: 6228
revision-id: sunny.bains@oracle.com-20130808223745-7lzp6h40vx1ndc7k
parent: marc.alff@oracle.com-20130808135008-p5irewph4fm1yu19
committer: Sunny Bains <Sunny.Bains@Oracle.Com>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Fri 2013-08-09 08:37:45 +1000
message:
WL#7047 - Optimize buffer pool list scans and related batch processin

Reduce excessive scanning of pages when doing flush list batches. The
fix is to introduce the concept of "Hazard Pointer", this reduces the
time complexity of the scan from O(n*n) to O(n).

The concept of hazard pointer is reversed in this work. Academically
hazard pointer is a pointer that the thread working on it will declar
such and as long as that thread is not done no other thread is allowe
do anything with it.

In this WL we declare the pointer as a hazard pointer and then if any
thread attempts to work on it, it is allowed to do so but it has to a
the hazard pointer to the next valid value. We use hazard pointer sol
reverse traversal of lists within a buffer pool instance.

Add an event to control the background flush thread. The background f
thread wait has been converted to an os event timed wait so that it c
signalled by threads that want to kick start a background flush when
buffer pool is running low on free/dirty pages.