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timestamp: Thu 2011-12-01 15:12:10 +0100 Fix for Bug#13430436 PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION IN SYSBENCH ON INNODB DUE TO ICP When running sysbench on InnoDB there is a performance degradation due to index condition pushdown (ICP). Several of the queries in sysbench have a WHERE condition that the optimizer uses for executing these queries as range scans. The upper and lower limit of the range scan will ensure that the WHERE condition is fulfilled. Still, the WHERE condition is part of the queries' condition and if ICP is enabled the condition will be pushed down to InnoDB as an index condition. Due to the range scan's upper and lower limits ensure that the WHERE condition is fulfilled, the pushed index condition will not filter out any records. As a result the use of ICP for these queries results in a performance overhead for sysbench. This overhead comes from using resources for determining the part of the condition that can be pushed down to InnoDB and overhead in InnoDB for executing the pushed index condition. With the default configuration for sysbench the range scans will use the primary key. This is a clustered index in InnoDB. Using ICP on a clustered index provides the lowest performance benefit since the entire record is part of the clustered index and in InnoDB it has the highest relative overhead for executing the pushed index condition. The fix for removing the overhead ICP introduces when running sysbench is to disable use of ICP when the index used by the query is a clustered index. When WL#6061 is implemented this change should be re-evaluated.
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