Re: Terminating threads in a process, WAS: RE: [PATCH] Problems withMPM threaded

[dean gaudet]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Aaron Bannert wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:29:47AM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Sander Striker wrote:
> >
> > > Why are we so desperate in opting out the child-pool creation?
> > > I don't really have problems with a child pool for each thread. Actually,
> > > it will make the dynamic locking a lot easier to implement if it stays.
> >
> > all threads MUST have their own private pool root.
> >
> > otherwise you're just throwing scalability away in locks.  (which is
> > proved by the claim i saw that ian got better performance by defining
> > ALLOC_USE_MALLOC on an 8-way.)
>
> I totally agree, but only as a solution in httpd.

no, everywhere.

> I also believe that we should provide this [application-specific requirement]
> outside of the basic thread support in APR.
>
> Please allow me to use pseudocode:
>
> void * worker_function(void * opaque_application_data) {
>
>    apr_pool_t *thread_pool;
>
>    create_child_pool(&thread_pool, global_root_pool);

now you've got mutexes in global_root_pool.  see my performance comment
above.

-dean