=== modified file 'storage/innobase/buf/buf0buf.cc'
--- storage/innobase/buf/buf0buf.cc	2013-08-14 11:34:09 +0000
+++ storage/innobase/buf/buf0buf.cc	2013-11-04 16:50:39 +0000
@@ -1558,6 +1558,8 @@
 
 	btr_search_sys_create(buf_pool_get_curr_size() / sizeof(void*) / 64);
 
+	buf_flush_event = os_event_create("buf_flush_event");
+
 	return(DB_SUCCESS);
 }
 

=== modified file 'storage/innobase/buf/buf0flu.cc'
--- storage/innobase/buf/buf0flu.cc	2013-08-11 10:13:22 +0000
+++ storage/innobase/buf/buf0flu.cc	2013-11-04 17:00:03 +0000
@@ -2305,8 +2305,6 @@
 
 	buf_page_cleaner_is_active = TRUE;
 
-	buf_flush_event = os_event_create("buf_flush_event");
-
 	while (srv_shutdown_state == SRV_SHUTDOWN_NONE) {
 
 		/* The page_cleaner skips sleep if the server is

=== modified file 'storage/innobase/buf/buf0lru.cc'
--- storage/innobase/buf/buf0lru.cc	2013-08-14 11:34:09 +0000
+++ storage/innobase/buf/buf0lru.cc	2013-11-04 16:58:26 +0000
@@ -1296,6 +1296,10 @@
 			TRUE again when we flush a batch from this
 			buffer pool. */
 			buf_pool->try_LRU_scan = FALSE;
+
+			/* Also tell the page_cleaner thread that
+			there is work for it to do. */
+			os_event_set(buf_flush_event);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -1339,8 +1343,6 @@
 	page_cleaner do an LRU batch for us. */
 
 	if (n_iterations > 1) {
-		os_event_set(buf_flush_event);
-
 		os_thread_sleep(10000);
 	}
 

=== modified file 'storage/innobase/log/log0recv.cc'
--- storage/innobase/log/log0recv.cc	2013-08-14 11:34:09 +0000
+++ storage/innobase/log/log0recv.cc	2013-11-04 16:54:43 +0000
@@ -322,7 +322,10 @@
 
 	while (srv_shutdown_state == SRV_SHUTDOWN_NONE) {
 
-		os_thread_sleep(100000);
+                /* Wait till we get a signal to clean the LRU list.
+		Bounded by max wait time of 100ms. */
+                ib_int64_t      sig_count = os_event_reset(buf_flush_event);
+                os_event_wait_time_low(buf_flush_event, 100000, sig_count);
 
 		mutex_enter(&recv_sys->writer_mutex);