Innobase Oy gratefully acknowledges the following contributions from Sun Microsystems, Inc. to improve InnoDB performance:
Introducing the PAUSE instruction inside spin loops, as discussed in Section 13.7.7.13, “Using the PAUSE instruction in InnoDB spin loops”. This change increases performance in high concurrency, CPU-bound workloads.
Enabling inlining of functions and prefetch with Sun Studio.
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incorporated in the following source code files:
univ.i, ut0ut.c, and
ut0ut.h.
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