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Knut Anders Hatlen commented on DERBY-3885:
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The master thesis "Apache Derby SMP scalability" by Anders Morken and Per Ottar
Ribe Pahr describes some interesting ideas. It can be downloaded from
http://daim.idi.ntnu.no/show.php?type=masteroppgave&id=3394. The idea is
basically to introduce the concept of shared latches, so that multiple readers
may access the nodes of the B-tree concurrently. This apparently had a positive
effect on the performance in a multi-threaded environment on multi-core systems.
> Latch contention in B-tree on multi-core systems
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> Key: DERBY-3885
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3885
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Performance, Store
> Affects Versions: 10.4.2.0
> Reporter: Knut Anders Hatlen
> Priority: Minor
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> When you have many concurrent threads accessing rows in the same table via an
> index, the root of the B-tree becomes a hot spot. Since access to a node in
> the B-tree is single-threaded (an exclusive latch is held while a binary
> search is performed on the node) this limits the scalability on multi-core
> systems. We should try to find a way to allow multiple threads to navigate
> the B-tree concurrently without blocking each other.
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