Yelp/doloop — pull request #24 by aavdacev (2012-09-26 02:19:27+00:00)
Title: End to stats() starvation on high-load systems.

Ever since stats() was converted to a read-only connection, on systems running close to capacity the write locks from get(), did(), and bump() were starving stats() calls. Moving the WRITE locks to LOW_PRIORITY WRITE locks should alleviate this issue.