
Due to Python's GIL [1], we can't use multiple threads for running OpenStack services without a performance penalty, since the execution ends up serialized, which defeats the purpose. Instead, we should use several processes, since this approach doesn't have this limitation. [1] https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock Change-Id: I18c1e796e43a168042900b8202ad3ce8488d3908