So I spent several hours over the last few days on the Secondary index bug. Out of frustration I decided to try and bypass the LRU concept all together and try going to a true secondary page cache. In standard Waffle a page is written to memcached only when it is expunged ( or LRU’d ) from the main buffer pool. This means anything in the BP should not be in memcached. Obviously with this approach we missed something, as Heikii pointed out in a comment to a previous post, it seems likely we are getting an old version of a page. Logically this could happen if we do not correctly expire a page on get or we bypass a push/lru leaving an old page in memcached to be retrieved later on.
So I was thinking why not bypass the LRU process? While I feel this is the most efficient way to do this, its not the only way. I modified innodb to use the default LRU code and then modified the page get to push to memcached on any disk read. Additionally I added …
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