WL#4968: Apply Google IO thread and max merged IO patch to Server
Affects: Server-5.4
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Status: Complete
MySQL 5.4.0:
To improve the InnoDB I/O subsystem's ability to make more effective
use of available I/O capacity, apply the Google IO thread and max
merged IO patches from the launchpad tree 5.1-patches maintained by
Mark Callaghan:
http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/wiki/InnodbAsyncIo
Applied to MySQL 5.4.0.
Community contribution; for details, follow the link to launchpad:
http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/wiki/InnodbAsyncIo
and the MySQL 5.4.0 description:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-5.4-features/en/innodb-io-changes.html
Patch adds:
* innodb_max_merged_io - Max number of IO requests merged to issue large IO from
background IO threads
* innodb_read_io_threads - the number of background IO threads for read prefetch
requests
* innodb_write_io_threads - the number of background IO threads for writing
dirty pages from the buffer cache
Community contribution; no further LLD needed.
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