Re: [PATCH] convert worker MPM to leader/followers design

[Bill Stoddard]

> Right, the problem is that the listener needs to avoid doing the
> accept if the queue is full.
>
> That part is easy: add a "block_if_queue_full()" method on the
> fd_queue class, and have the listener call it before doing an
> accept.
>

I am not an expert on the worker MPM but I don't think that is an accurate statement of
the problem.  The accept thread uses ap_queue_push() to enqueue a socket for the worker
threads. ap_queue_push() will block if the queue is full.

The problem is that the queue can be EMPTY even when all the worker threads are busy
handling connections.  The way the code is today, the queue can hold 
ap_threads_per_child
elements. Now consider 2 x ap_threads_per_child connections comming into the server at
once.. The first 1 x ap_threads_per_child connections will be accepted and handled by 
the
worker threads. The next ap_threads_per_child connections will get queued and this is
precisely the problem...

Bill