gevent monkey patch before any other imports

docs/source/settings.rst

@@ -1168,11 +1168,11 @@ libraries may be installed using setuptools' ``extra_require`` feature.
 A string referring to one of the following bundled classes:
 
 * ``sync``
-* ``eventlet`` - Requires eventlet >= 0.9.7 (or install it via 
+* ``eventlet`` - Requires eventlet >= 0.9.7 (or install it via
   ``pip install gunicorn[eventlet]``)
-* ``gevent``   - Requires gevent >= 0.13 (or install it via 
+* ``gevent``   - Requires gevent >= 1.0 (or install it via
   ``pip install gunicorn[gevent]``)
-* ``tornado``  - Requires tornado >= 0.2 (or install it via 
+* ``tornado``  - Requires tornado >= 0.2 (or install it via
   ``pip install gunicorn[tornado]``)
 * ``gthread``  - Python 2 requires the futures package to be installed
   (or install it via ``pip install gunicorn[gthread]``)

gunicorn/config.py

@@ -611,11 +611,11 @@ class WorkerClass(Setting):
         A string referring to one of the following bundled classes:
 
         * ``sync``
-        * ``eventlet`` - Requires eventlet >= 0.9.7 (or install it via 
+        * ``eventlet`` - Requires eventlet >= 0.9.7 (or install it via
           ``pip install gunicorn[eventlet]``)
-        * ``gevent``   - Requires gevent >= 0.13 (or install it via 
+        * ``gevent``   - Requires gevent >= 1.0 (or install it via
           ``pip install gunicorn[gevent]``)
-        * ``tornado``  - Requires tornado >= 0.2 (or install it via 
+        * ``tornado``  - Requires tornado >= 0.2 (or install it via
           ``pip install gunicorn[tornado]``)
         * ``gthread``  - Python 2 requires the futures package to be installed
           (or install it via ``pip install gunicorn[gthread]``)
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ class WorkerThreads(Setting):
         If it is not defined, the default is ``1``.
 
         This setting only affects the Gthread worker type.
-        
+
         .. note::
            If you try to use the ``sync`` worker type and set the ``threads``
            setting to more than 1, the ``gthread`` worker type will be used

gunicorn/workers/ggevent.py

@@ -17,9 +17,13 @@
     os.environ['EVENT_NOKQUEUE'] = "1"
 
 try:
-    import gevent
+    from gevent import monkey
+
+    monkey.patch_all(subprocess=True)
 except ImportError:
     raise RuntimeError("You need gevent installed to use this worker.")
+
+import gevent
 from gevent.pool import Pool
 from gevent.server import StreamServer
 from gevent.socket import wait_write, socket
@@ -55,15 +59,6 @@ class GeventWorker(AsyncWorker):
     wsgi_handler = None
 
     def patch(self):
-        from gevent import monkey
-        monkey.noisy = False
-
-        # if the new version is used make sure to patch subprocess
-        if gevent.version_info[0] == 0:
-            monkey.patch_all()
-        else:
-            monkey.patch_all(subprocess=True)
-
         # monkey patch sendfile to make it none blocking
         patch_sendfile()
 
@@ -121,10 +116,7 @@ def run(self):
         try:
             # Stop accepting requests
             for server in servers:
-                if hasattr(server, 'close'):  # gevent 1.0
-                    server.close()
-                if hasattr(server, 'kill'):  # gevent < 1.0
-                    server.kill()
+                server.close()
 
             # Handle current requests until graceful_timeout
             ts = time.time()

setup.py

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
 
 
 extra_require = {
-    'gevent':  ['gevent>=0.13'],
+    'gevent':  ['gevent>=1.0'],
     'eventlet': ['eventlet>=0.9.7'],
     'tornado': ['tornado>=0.2'],
     'gthread': [],