Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >Can't we just add in the extra mutex check to worker and move on? >(i.e. don't call accept() when the worker queue is empty). >
+1 Adding the mutex check will fix one of the three problems in worker that I know of. The other two--the large-grained overhead of forking a new process to add concurrency, and the mutex contention on the queue--will require more radical solutions, so they're better explored in a new MPM. --Brian
