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Thank you for implementing this excellent project to provide a consolidated way of executing async grpc command and send/receive tcp packages asynchronously with boost asio library. I just begin to use boost asio recently and have a couple of quesions when using this library.
According to this link: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_78_0/doc/html/boost_asio/overview/core/threads.html, multiple threads may call io_context::run() to set up a threads pool and the io_context may distribute work across them. Dose asio-grpc's execution_context also guarantee thread safety if threads pool is enabled on it? I am using C++20 coroutines and assuming that each co_spawn will locate a thread from the threads pool and run the composed asynchronous operations. Correct me if my understanding is wrong. What if the composed asynchronous operations contains a blocking operation, it may block the running thread and how can I prevent the other co_spawn call to use the blocked thread for execution? In additional, co_spawn could spawn from both execution_context and excutor. I am guessing that if spawn from execution_context it will locate a new thread and run while from excutor, it will just run on the thread that the excutor is running. Is my guessing correct?
Meanwhile #8 mentions that if co_spawn non-grpc async operation like steady_timer from grpc_context, it will automatically spawns a 2nd io_context thread. So it seems that asio-grpc internally maintain two threads for both grpc execution_context and io_context to run async grpc operations and other async non-grpc operations. And the last comments says version 1.4 would also support ask io_context for a agrpc::GrpcContext. Considering my application would serve many clients and for each client's requst issue one single composed asynchronous operations containing one async grpc call and several async tcp read&write to the server call and response back to the client, will asio-grpc guarantee there won't have interleave between the grpc operation and the tcp operations when the single composed asynchronous operation is co_spawned from either grpc_context or io_context since they are from two context on two thread? Also does asio-grpc support the mode of having threads pool for io_context and single thread for grpc_context or both have threads pool enabled?
one single composed asynchronous operations
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client1 --> { co_wait async grpc operation, co_wait async tcp operations } --> server
client2 --> { co_wait async grpc operation, co_wait async tcp operations } --> server
clientN ...
Hope to get some guidence from you. Thanks.