diff --git a/workerpool.go b/workerpool.go
index 9ecd9481df..bc3a3c5bb4 100644
--- a/workerpool.go
+++ b/workerpool.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 )
 
@@ -21,29 +22,57 @@ type workerPool struct {
 
 	// Function for serving server connections.
 	// It must leave c unclosed.
+	ready      workerChanStack
 	WorkerFunc ServeHandler
 
 	stopCh chan struct{}
 
 	connState func(net.Conn, ConnState)
 
-	ready []*workerChan
-
 	MaxWorkersCount int
 
 	MaxIdleWorkerDuration time.Duration
 
-	workersCount int
+	workersCount int32
 
-	lock sync.Mutex
+	mustStop atomic.Bool
 
 	LogAllErrors bool
-	mustStop     bool
 }
 
 type workerChan struct {
-	lastUseTime time.Time
-	ch          chan net.Conn
+	next *workerChan
+
+	ch chan net.Conn
+
+	lastUseTime int64
+}
+
+type workerChanStack struct {
+	head atomic.Pointer[workerChan]
+}
+
+func (s *workerChanStack) push(ch *workerChan) {
+	for {
+		oldHead := s.head.Load()
+		ch.next = oldHead
+		if s.head.CompareAndSwap(oldHead, ch) {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (s *workerChanStack) pop() *workerChan {
+	for {
+		oldHead := s.head.Load()
+		if oldHead == nil {
+			return nil
+		}
+
+		if s.head.CompareAndSwap(oldHead, oldHead.next) {
+			return oldHead
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 func (wp *workerPool) Start() {
@@ -58,9 +87,8 @@ func (wp *workerPool) Start() {
 		}
 	}
 	go func() {
-		var scratch []*workerChan
 		for {
-			wp.clean(&scratch)
+			wp.clean()
 			select {
 			case <-stopCh:
 				return
@@ -81,15 +109,15 @@ func (wp *workerPool) Stop() {
 	// Stop all the workers waiting for incoming connections.
 	// Do not wait for busy workers - they will stop after
 	// serving the connection and noticing wp.mustStop = true.
-	wp.lock.Lock()
-	ready := wp.ready
-	for i := range ready {
-		ready[i].ch <- nil
-		ready[i] = nil
+
+	for {
+		ch := wp.ready.pop()
+		if ch == nil {
+			break
+		}
+		ch.ch <- nil
 	}
-	wp.ready = ready[:0]
-	wp.mustStop = true
-	wp.lock.Unlock()
+	wp.mustStop.Store(true)
 }
 
 func (wp *workerPool) getMaxIdleWorkerDuration() time.Duration {
@@ -99,49 +127,21 @@ func (wp *workerPool) getMaxIdleWorkerDuration() time.Duration {
 	return wp.MaxIdleWorkerDuration
 }
 
-func (wp *workerPool) clean(scratch *[]*workerChan) {
+func (wp *workerPool) clean() {
 	maxIdleWorkerDuration := wp.getMaxIdleWorkerDuration()
+	criticalTime := time.Now().Add(-maxIdleWorkerDuration).UnixNano()
 
-	// Clean least recently used workers if they didn't serve connections
-	// for more than maxIdleWorkerDuration.
-	criticalTime := time.Now().Add(-maxIdleWorkerDuration)
-
-	wp.lock.Lock()
-	ready := wp.ready
-	n := len(ready)
-
-	// Use binary-search algorithm to find out the index of the least recently worker which can be cleaned up.
-	l, r := 0, n-1
-	for l <= r {
-		mid := (l + r) / 2
-		if criticalTime.After(wp.ready[mid].lastUseTime) {
-			l = mid + 1
-		} else {
-			r = mid - 1
+	for {
+		current := wp.ready.head.Load()
+		if current == nil || atomic.LoadInt64(&current.lastUseTime) >= criticalTime {
+			break
 		}
-	}
-	i := r
-	if i == -1 {
-		wp.lock.Unlock()
-		return
-	}
 
-	*scratch = append((*scratch)[:0], ready[:i+1]...)
-	m := copy(ready, ready[i+1:])
-	for i = m; i < n; i++ {
-		ready[i] = nil
-	}
-	wp.ready = ready[:m]
-	wp.lock.Unlock()
-
-	// Notify obsolete workers to stop.
-	// This notification must be outside the wp.lock, since ch.ch
-	// may be blocking and may consume a lot of time if many workers
-	// are located on non-local CPUs.
-	tmp := *scratch
-	for i := range tmp {
-		tmp[i].ch <- nil
-		tmp[i] = nil
+		next := current.next
+		if wp.ready.head.CompareAndSwap(current, next) {
+			current.ch <- nil
+			wp.workerChanPool.Put(current)
+		}
 	}
 }
 
@@ -169,47 +169,32 @@ var workerChanCap = func() int {
 }()
 
 func (wp *workerPool) getCh() *workerChan {
-	var ch *workerChan
-	createWorker := false
-
-	wp.lock.Lock()
-	ready := wp.ready
-	n := len(ready) - 1
-	if n < 0 {
-		if wp.workersCount < wp.MaxWorkersCount {
-			createWorker = true
-			wp.workersCount++
+	for {
+		ch := wp.ready.pop()
+		if ch != nil {
+			return ch
 		}
-	} else {
-		ch = ready[n]
-		ready[n] = nil
-		wp.ready = ready[:n]
-	}
-	wp.lock.Unlock()
 
-	if ch == nil {
-		if !createWorker {
-			return nil
+		currentWorkers := atomic.LoadInt32(&wp.workersCount)
+		if currentWorkers < int32(wp.MaxWorkersCount) {
+			if atomic.CompareAndSwapInt32(&wp.workersCount, currentWorkers, currentWorkers+1) {
+				ch = wp.workerChanPool.Get().(*workerChan)
+				go wp.workerFunc(ch)
+				return ch
+			}
+		} else {
+			break
 		}
-		vch := wp.workerChanPool.Get()
-		ch = vch.(*workerChan)
-		go func() {
-			wp.workerFunc(ch)
-			wp.workerChanPool.Put(vch)
-		}()
 	}
-	return ch
+	return nil
 }
 
 func (wp *workerPool) release(ch *workerChan) bool {
-	ch.lastUseTime = time.Now()
-	wp.lock.Lock()
-	if wp.mustStop {
-		wp.lock.Unlock()
+	atomic.StoreInt64(&ch.lastUseTime, time.Now().UnixNano())
+	if wp.mustStop.Load() {
 		return false
 	}
-	wp.ready = append(wp.ready, ch)
-	wp.lock.Unlock()
+	wp.ready.push(ch)
 	return true
 }
 
@@ -245,7 +230,5 @@ func (wp *workerPool) workerFunc(ch *workerChan) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	wp.lock.Lock()
-	wp.workersCount--
-	wp.lock.Unlock()
+	atomic.AddInt32(&wp.workersCount, -1)
 }