Native threads (tpool.execute) not working on child process

Bug #1983949 reported by Gorka Eguileor
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
oslo.service
In Progress
High
Gorka Eguileor

Bug Description

When the parent process used eventlet tpool to run code in native threads then anything the child tries to run in a native thread will hang forever.

The reason for that is that the parent has initialize the pool of threads and use a flag to mark that it has been initialized, and when the child is forked then it will have the flag saying that it has been initialized and expects the threads to be running, but they are not. So there is no thread to pick up the job when a greenlet queues the job, so the greenthread waits forever to get the result of the operation.

After forking the child needs to tell eventlet's tpool that it is not really initialized.

Gorka Eguileor (gorka)
Changed in oslo.service:
assignee: nobody → Gorka Eguileor (gorka)
Revision history for this message
OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix proposed to oslo.service (master)
Changed in oslo.service:
status: New → In Progress
Changed in oslo.service:
importance: Undecided → High
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