Re: [Boost-users] [asio] schedule work on all threads of a single io_service::run() pool?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [asio] schedule work on all threads of a single io_service::run() pool?
From: Igor R (boost.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-18 17:07:08

> I want to set up an io_service-per-thread, with each io_service having
> a deadline_timer to handle the heartbeat.  The only other complicated
> bit is selecting an io_service to handle an incoming request.

Can't you just "round-robin" them?

> It's a bit irksome to have to trade off the scalability to get this
> extra feature.

Why io_service-per-core would give worse scalability than thread-per-core?