Set tmpdir on RAM (tmpfs)?

MySQL & MariaDB Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.x
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I manage a PXC 5.6 cluster and noticed that the tmpdir variable in /etc/my.cnf isn’t set.
I was thinking to set it to /tmp (which is tmpfs) to explicitly make the cluster store temporary files in RAM. Without this setting, MySQL could choose /var/tmp or /usr/tmp (which on my system, RHEL7, are on-disk) to store temporary files.

  1. Is there any drawback to do this on PXC? I ask because on a MySQL replication slave one must not use a RAM disk to store temporary files, since the slave will need some of the files when the machine restarts.

  2. Is this really going to improve performances, or it looks like a unnecessary twiddling? The InnoDB buffer size is already large enough, and 95% of temporary tables are stocked in memory.

Thanks in advance.