On Jun 12, 10:32 am, Jaime Medrano <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been doing a little lock profiling on memcached and I have > found that cache_lock has a lot of contention in machines with more > than 4 processors. > > Mutex contention is very bad when using libevent because it means that > all connections assigned to the thread that is waiting are frozen. > > Is there any plan on improving that?
Yes, work has been done in this area. It's a bit slow to move forward (so it's actually been done a few times now), but I do imagine there will be much less lock contention after 1.4.
