Can someone help me understand context switching in Tokio for spawn_blocking? Spawning a regular task limits context switching to await points, but how does this translate when also using spawn_blocking? The spawn_blocking code runs on another thread. Does this mean context switching vs other tas…

Tokio context switching for spawn vs spawn_blocking?

alice August 13, 2021, 9:16pm 5

Kernel context switching always happens and is unrelated to .await points.

Tokio context switching happens only at .await points, but happens for both types of schedulers.

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