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3.9.1 Semisynchronous Replication Administrative Interface

The administrative interface to semisynchronous replication has several components:

  • Two plugins implement semisynchronous capability. There is one plugin for the source side and one for the replica side.

  • System variables control plugin behavior. Some examples:

    All rpl_semi_sync_xxx system variables are described at Section 2.6.2, “Replication Source Options and Variables” and Section 2.6.3, “Replica Server Options and Variables”.

  • From MySQL 5.7.33, you can improve the performance of semisynchronous replication by enabling the system variables replication_sender_observe_commit_only, which limits callbacks, and replication_optimize_for_static_plugin_config, which adds shared locks and avoids unnecessary lock acquisitions. These settings help as the number of replicas increases, because contention for locks can slow down performance. Semisynchronous replication source servers can also get performance benefits from enabling these system variables, because they use the same locking mechanisms as the replicas.

  • Status variables enable semisynchronous replication monitoring. Some examples:

    • Rpl_semi_sync_master_clients

      The number of semisynchronous replicas.

    • Rpl_semi_sync_master_status

      Whether semisynchronous replication currently is operational on the source. The value is 1 if the plugin has been enabled and a commit acknowledgment has not occurred. It is 0 if the plugin is not enabled or the source has fallen back to asynchronous replication due to commit acknowledgment timeout.

    • Rpl_semi_sync_master_no_tx

      The number of commits that were not acknowledged successfully by a replica.

    • Rpl_semi_sync_master_yes_tx

      The number of commits that were acknowledged successfully by a replica.

    • Rpl_semi_sync_slave_status

      Whether semisynchronous replication currently is operational on the replica. This is 1 if the plugin has been enabled and the replication I/O thread is running, 0 otherwise.

    All Rpl_semi_sync_xxx status variables are described at Server Status Variables.

The system and status variables are available only if the appropriate source or replica plugin has been installed with INSTALL PLUGIN.