[Maria-developers] safe patches to backport -- pool-of-threads

One of the features listed here http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB_versus_MySQL as a potential backport is support for pool-of-threads. I am not sure how safe this feature is today. http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/01/no-new-global-mutexes-and-how-to-make.ht... describes some of the problems that might cause a server to hang when pool-of-threads is used. http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=42288 describes the performance overhead of pool-of-threads. The overhead is significant for workloads with fast queries such as sysbench. I think that pool-of-threads needs a lot of work before it can be considered safe. We backported this to our 5.0 branch at work and have begun to search for fixes. -- Mark Callaghan mdcallag@gmail.com