Re: PerlInterpScope removed, the compatibility with threaded MPMs fixed

On 29 May 2015 at 06:45, Jan Kaluža <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as discussed in the thread about commit r1676417, I've removed
> PerlInterpScope directive. The reasoning is described in the
> http://svn.apache.org/r1682369 commit message, but I will paste it here too:
>
> ~~~
> Remove PerlInterpScope directive as discussed on mailing list.
> PerlInterpScope did not work correctly with httpd-2.4.x threaded MPMs.
> For example when using 'PerlInterpScope connection' and multiple
> requests are handled using the single connection, every request tries
> to fetch new interpreter. This leads to deadlock soon, because we can always
> have more requests than interpreters.
>
> There are more situations like the one described above and the fix is quite
> hard with the way how the usage of PerlInterpeters is designed currently.
> ~~~
>
> This and other changes I've done in trunk today should fix the
> modperl-2.0.9-RC1 freeze seen with threaded MPMs on httpd-2.4.x. Could you
> please test it?
>
> If things will look OK, maybe we could release RC2 to let more people to
> test it.
>

Fantastic! Thanks for this. I will test it this evening/tomorrow and
roll out an RC2 after that if all is looking well.