It was my fault to misunderstood apr pool.
My ill design was "each thread will create a condition variable with a global 
pool".
Temporarily I put my apr_thread_cond_create into mutex lock, and my server has 
been running well for hours.
Next I prepare to let each thread create its own pool.

Thanks for your explanation.


-----邮件原件-----
发件人: Graham Leggett [mailto:[email protected]]
发送时间: 2013年5月31日 19:07
收件人: TROY.LIU 劉春偉
抄送: Philip Martin; [email protected]; [email protected]
主题: Re: apr_palloc is not thread safe

On 31 May 2013, at 6:15 AM, TROY.LIU 劉春偉 <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for reply, I got it.  Now the problem is my APIs does not expose 
> apr_pool_t to user like apr,  so my APIs are not thread safe.

The typical way you use a pool is that pools are arranged logically in a 
hierarchy. So a process would have a pool, then one subpool of the process pool 
for each thread, and then one subpool per unit of work (for example a 
connection handled by the thread).

It is not the job of pools to dictate to you how you should arrange your pools, 
that is your job. Trying to add mutexes to an API that doesn't need to be 
threadsafe is a waste of resources, so it is left up to you to decide how your 
pool usage remains threadsafe.

In the above example, there is no need for any locks, because the per thread 
pool would only be used by that thread. You might have a pool representing a 
connection, and you might allow that connection to be handled by any thread, 
but as long as just one thread handles that connection at any given time you 
get away with not needing locks still.

It is only when the pool is attached to something that does span threads, such 
as a database connection pool, that you start needing locks, in which case use 
the mutex APIs to use the locks you need.

Again, APR gives you choice: do you use an in-process thread lock, or a machine 
wide process lock, which you choose is up to your application's needs.

Regards,
Graham
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