[RFC PATCH 20/23] vinyl: use cbus for communication between scheduler and worker threads

[Konstantin Osipov]

* Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev at gmail.com> [18/07/08 22:53]:
> We need cbus for forwarding deferred DELETE statements generated in a
> worker thread during primary index compaction to the tx thread where
> they can be inserted into secondary indexes. Since pthread mutex/cond
> and cbus are incompatible by their nature, let's rework communication
> channel between the tx and worker threads using cbus.

OK to push.

> +	/**
> +	 * Fiber that is currently executing this task in
> +	 * a worker thread.
> +	 */
> +	struct fiber *fiber;

You could consider using a fiber pool rather than starting a fiber
for each task, but I guess it's minor.

Have you benched the performance of this patch? I would expect it
to have some positive impact on performance.


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