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Threadpool Benchmarks

OLTP_RO
OLTP_RW
POINT_SELECT
UPDATE_NOKEY

Here are some benchmarks of some development threadpool code (the 5.5 threadpool).

The benchmarks were run on three machines:

facebook-maria1 (Linux, 16 cores)
pitbull (Linux, 24 cores)
windows (Windows, 8 cores)

Sysbench 0.4 was used to run some "unit" OLTP tests (point-select and update-nokey), as well as the "classic" OLTP-readonly and OLTP-readwrite. All tests were run with the number of concurrent clients ranging from 16 to 4096, with warm cache, with the sysbench table having 1M records.

The results are quite different on all of the machines tested (the machines are very different, in terms of cores, IO etc), yet threadpool has a positive effect on all 3 machines, and the positive effect seems to grow with the number of cores.

Some notes on how the benchmarks were run:

The benchmark client and server used different CPUs - ('taskset' (Linux), or 'start /affinity' (Windows) were used to run the benchmark client on #CPUs/4, the rest of CPUs were used by the server). On the Linux boxes, --thread_pool_size=<N> (where N is number of cores dedicated to the server) was used.
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=0 and innodb_flush_method=ALL_O_DIRECT was used to avoid extensive fsyncing, which is ok for the purposes of the testing for this.
Every "write" benchmark (oltp_rw and update_nokey) started with a new server (i.e. kill mysqld, remove innodb files, and restart mysqld for each test). Every "read" benchmark, on the other hand, reused the same running server instance. Starting afresh with a new server on write benchmarks is done mainly to eliminate the effects of the purge lag.
The results are in queries-per-second (QPS).

OLTP_RO

OLTP_RO facebook-maria1

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	3944	4725	4878	4863	4732	4554	4345	4103	1670
threadpool	3822	4955	4991	5017	4908	4716	4610	4307	2962

OLTP_RO pitbull

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	6754	7905	8152	7948	7924	7587	5313	3827	208
threadpool	6566	7725	8108	8079	7976	7793	7429	6523	4456

oltp_ro-pitbull

OLTP_RO Windows

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	1822	1831	1825	1829	1816	1879	1866	1783	987
threadpool	2019	2049	2024	1992	1924	1897	1855	1825	1403

oltp_ro-windows

OLTP_RW

OLTP_RW facebook-maria1

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	2833	3510	3545	3420	3259	2818	1788	820	113
threadpool	3163	3590	3498	3459	3354	3117	2190	1064	506

OLTP_RW pitbull

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	4561	5316	5332	3512	2874	2476	1380	265	53
threadpool	4504	5382	5694	5567	5302	4514	2548	1186	484

oltp_rw-pitbull

OLTP_RW Windows

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	1480	1498	1472	1477	1456	1371	731	328	82
threadpool	1449	1523	1527	1492	1443	1409	1365	1240	862

oltp_rw-windows

POINT_SELECT

POINT_SELECT facebook-maria1

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	91322	113116	115418	114484	111169	104612	26902	12843	5038
threadpool	100359	115618	118115	120136	119165	113931	110787	109970	104985

POINT_SELECT pitbull

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	148673	161547	169747	172083	69036	42041	21775	4368	282
threadpool	143222	167069	167270	165977	164983	158410	148690	147107	143934

point_select-pitbull

POINT_SELECT Windows

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	39734	42885	44448	44478	41720	38196	36844	35404	23306
threadpool	42143	45679	47066	47753	46720	44215	43677	43093	44364

point_select-windows

UPDATE_NOKEY

UPDATE_NOKEY facebook-maria1

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	60165	65761	67727	57232	47612	26341	8981	3265	389
threadpool	65092	68683	67053	64141	64815	63047	63346	63638	62843

UPDATE_NOKEY pitbull

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	65213	71680	19418	13008	11155	8742	5645	635	332
threadpool	64902	70236	70037	68926	69930	69929	67099	62376	17766

update_nokey-pitbull

UPDATE_NOKEY Windows

concurrent clients	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024	2048	4096
thread per connection	24790	25634	25639	25309	24754	19420	5249	2361	824
threadpool	25251	25259	25406	25327	24850	23818	23137	23003	22047

update_nokey-windows

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