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Table definition hash is protected by pthread rwlock, which doesn't scale very well. Replacing it with lock-free hash solves this bottleneck.
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Sergei Golubchik please review patch for this task. At the moment of writing the patch for some reason didn't hit commits@, but it was pushed to bb-power:
commit b2f45ba8280c97f8dc8b1adb3234cf2e28e48982 Author: Sergey Vojtovich <svoj@mariadb.org> Date: Mon Dec 22 19:56:48 2014 +0400 MDEV-7324 - Lock-free hash for table definition cache commit ea8862aa9ffa1cfac9a99bbe0fe9b539f12b9a19 Author: Sergey Vojtovich <svoj@mariadb.org> Date: Wed Dec 3 13:56:22 2014 +0400 MDEV-6089 - MySQL WL#7305 "Improve MDL scalability by using lock-free hash" This is prerequisite for MDEV-6089. Added lf_hash_search_using_hash_value(), which can reuse previously calculated hash value.