MDEV-23855: Improve InnoDB log checkpoint performance

After MDEV-15053, MDEV-22871, MDEV-23399 shifted the scalability
bottleneck, log checkpoints became a new bottleneck.

If innodb_io_capacity is set low or innodb_max_dirty_pct_lwm is
set high and the workload fits in the buffer pool, the page cleaner
thread will perform very little flushing. When we reach the capacity
of the circular redo log file ib_logfile0 and must initiate a checkpoint,
some 'furious flushing' will be necessary. (If innodb_flush_sync=OFF,
then flushing would continue at the innodb_io_capacity rate, and
writers would be throttled.)

We have the best chance of advancing the checkpoint LSN immediately
after a page flush batch has been completed. Hence, it is best to
perform checkpoints after every batch in the page cleaner thread,
attempting to run once per second.

By initiating high-priority flushing in the page cleaner as early
as possible, we aim to make the throughput more stable.

The function buf_flush_wait_flushed() used to sleep for 10ms, hoping
that the page cleaner thread would do something during that time.
The observed end result was that a large number of threads that call
log_free_check() would end up sleeping while nothing useful is happening.

We will revise the design so that in the default innodb_flush_sync=ON
mode, buf_flush_wait_flushed() will wake up the page cleaner thread
to perform the necessary flushing, and it will wait for a signal from
the page cleaner thread.

If innodb_io_capacity is set to a low value (causing the page cleaner to
throttle its work), a write workload would initially perform well, until
the capacity of the circular ib_logfile0 is reached and log_free_check()
will trigger checkpoints. At that point, the extra waiting in
buf_flush_wait_flushed() will start reducing throughput.

The page cleaner thread will also initiate log checkpoints after each
buf_flush_lists() call, because that is the best point of time for
the checkpoint LSN to advance by the maximum amount.

Even in 'furious flushing' mode we invoke buf_flush_lists() with
innodb_io_capacity_max pages at a time, and at the start of each
batch (in the log_flush() callback function that runs in a separate
task) we will invoke os_aio_wait_until_no_pending_writes(). This
tweak allows the checkpoint to advance in smaller steps and
significantly reduces the maximum latency. On an Intel Optane 960
NVMe SSD on Linux, it reduced from 4.6 seconds to 74 milliseconds.
On Microsoft Windows with a slower SSD, it reduced from more than
180 seconds to 0.6 seconds.

We will make innodb_adaptive_flushing=OFF simply flush innodb_io_capacity
per second whenever the dirty proportion of buffer pool pages exceeds
innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm. For innodb_adaptive_flushing=ON we try
to make page_cleaner_flush_pages_recommendation() more consistent and
predictable: if we are below innodb_adaptive_flushing_lwm, let us flush
pages according to the return value of af_get_pct_for_dirty().

innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm: Revert the change of the default value
that was made in MDEV-23399. The value innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct_lwm=0
guarantees that a shutdown of an idle server will be fast. Users might
be surprised if normal shutdown suddenly became slower when upgrading
within a GA release series.

innodb_checkpoint_usec: Remove. The master task will no longer perform
periodic log checkpoints. It is the duty of the page cleaner thread.

log_sys.max_modified_age: Remove. The current span of the
buf_pool.flush_list expressed in LSN only matters for adaptive
flushing (outside the 'furious flushing' condition).
For the correctness of checkpoints, the only thing that matters is
the checkpoint age (log_sys.lsn - log_sys.last_checkpoint_lsn).
This run-time constant was also reported as log_max_modified_age_sync.

log_sys.max_checkpoint_age_async: Remove. This does not serve any
purpose, because the checkpoints will now be triggered by the page
cleaner thread. We will retain the log_sys.max_checkpoint_age limit
for engaging 'furious flushing'.

page_cleaner.slot: Remove. It turns out that
page_cleaner_slot.flush_list_time was duplicating
page_cleaner.slot.flush_time and page_cleaner.slot.flush_list_pass
was duplicating page_cleaner.flush_pass.
Likewise, there were some redundant monitor counters, because the
page cleaner thread no longer performs any buf_pool.LRU flushing, and
because there only is one buf_flush_page_cleaner thread.

buf_flush_sync_lsn: Protect writes by buf_pool.flush_list_mutex.

buf_pool_t::get_oldest_modification(): Add a parameter to specify the
return value when no persistent data pages are dirty. Require the
caller to hold buf_pool.flush_list_mutex.

log_buf_pool_get_oldest_modification(): Take the fall-back LSN
as a parameter. All callers will also invoke log_sys.get_lsn().

log_preflush_pool_modified_pages(): Replaced with buf_flush_wait_flushed().

buf_flush_wait_flushed(): Implement two limits. If not enough buffer pool
has been flushed, signal the page cleaner (unless innodb_flush_sync=OFF)
and wait for the page cleaner to complete. If the page cleaner
thread is not running (which can be the case durign shutdown),
initiate the flush and wait for it directly.

buf_flush_ahead(): If innodb_flush_sync=ON (the default),
submit a new buf_flush_sync_lsn target for the page cleaner
but do not wait for the flushing to finish.

log_get_capacity(), log_get_max_modified_age_async(): Remove, to make
it easier to see that af_get_pct_for_lsn() is not acquiring any mutexes.

page_cleaner_flush_pages_recommendation(): Protect all access to
buf_pool.flush_list with buf_pool.flush_list_mutex. Previously there
were some race conditions in the calculation.

buf_flush_sync_for_checkpoint(): New function to process
buf_flush_sync_lsn in the page cleaner thread. At the end of
each batch, we try to wake up any blocked buf_flush_wait_flushed().
If everything up to buf_flush_sync_lsn has been flushed, we will
reset buf_flush_sync_lsn=0. The page cleaner thread will keep
'furious flushing' until the limit is reached. Any threads that
are waiting in buf_flush_wait_flushed() will be able to resume
as soon as their own limit has been satisfied.

buf_flush_page_cleaner: Prioritize buf_flush_sync_lsn and do not
sleep as long as it is set. Do not update any page_cleaner statistics
for this special mode of operation. In the normal mode
(buf_flush_sync_lsn is not set for innodb_flush_sync=ON),
try to wake up once per second. No longer check whether
srv_inc_activity_count() has been called. After each batch,
try to perform a log checkpoint, because the best chances for
the checkpoint LSN to advance by the maximum amount are upon
completing a flushing batch.

log_t: Move buf_free, max_buf_free possibly to the same cache line
with log_sys.mutex.

log_margin_checkpoint_age(): Simplify the logic, and replace
a 0.1-second sleep with a call to buf_flush_wait_flushed() to
initiate flushing. Moved to the same compilation unit
with the only caller.

log_close(): Clean up the calculations. (Should be no functional
change.) Return whether flush-ahead is needed. Moved to the same
compilation unit with the only caller.

mtr_t::finish_write(): Return whether flush-ahead is needed.

mtr_t::commit(): Invoke buf_flush_ahead() when needed. Let us avoid
external calls in mtr_t::commit() and make the logic easier to follow
by having related code in a single compilation unit. Also, we will
invoke srv_stats.log_write_requests.inc() only once per
mini-transaction commit, while not holding mutexes.

log_checkpoint_margin(): Only care about log_sys.max_checkpoint_age.
Upon reaching log_sys.max_checkpoint_age where we must wait to prevent
the log from getting corrupted, let us wait for at most 1MiB of LSN
at a time, before rechecking the condition. This should allow writers
to proceed even if the redo log capacity has been reached and
'furious flushing' is in progress. We no longer care about
log_sys.max_modified_age_sync or log_sys.max_modified_age_async.
The log_sys.max_modified_age_sync could be a relic from the time when
there was a srv_master_thread that wrote dirty pages to data files.
Also, we no longer have any log_sys.max_checkpoint_age_async limit,
because log checkpoints will now be triggered by the page cleaner
thread upon completing buf_flush_lists().

log_set_capacity(): Simplify the calculations of the limit
(no functional change).

log_checkpoint_low(): Split from log_checkpoint(). Moved to the
same compilation unit with the caller.

log_make_checkpoint(): Only wait for everything to be flushed until
the current LSN.

create_log_file(): After checkpoint, invoke log_write_up_to()
to ensure that the FILE_CHECKPOINT record has been written.
This avoids ut_ad(!srv_log_file_created) in create_log_file_rename().

srv_start(): Do not call recv_recovery_from_checkpoint_start()
if the log has just been created. Set fil_system.space_id_reuse_warned
before dict_boot() has been executed, and clear it after recovery
has finished.

dict_boot(): Initialize fil_system.max_assigned_id.

srv_check_activity(): Remove. The activity count is counting transaction
commits and therefore mostly interesting for the purge of history.

BtrBulk::insert(): Do not explicitly wake up the page cleaner,
but do invoke srv_inc_activity_count(), because that counter is
still being used in buf_load_throttle_if_needed() for some
heuristics. (It might be cleaner to execute buf_load() in the
page cleaner thread!)

Reviewed by: Vladislav Vaintroub

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/storage/innobase/buf/buf0dump.cc b/storage/innobase/buf/buf0dump.cc
index ee9be7e47d2..b66f5e39744 100644
--- a/storage/innobase/buf/buf0dump.cc
+++ b/storage/innobase/buf/buf0dump.cc
@@ -665,6 +665,12 @@ buf_load()
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		if (space->is_stopping()) {
+			space->release_for_io();
+			space = nullptr;
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		buf_read_page_background(dump[i], zip_size, true);
 
 		if (buf_load_abort_flag) {