Crate actix_rt

Tokio-based single-threaded async runtime for the Actix ecosystem.

In most parts of the the Actix ecosystem, it has been chosen to use !Send futures. For this reason, a single-threaded runtime is appropriate since it is guaranteed that futures will not be moved between threads. This can result in small performance improvements over cases where atomics would otherwise be needed.

To achieve similar performance to multi-threaded, work-stealing runtimes, applications using actix-rt will create multiple, mostly disconnected, single-threaded runtimes. This approach has good performance characteristics for workloads where the majority of tasks have similar runtime expense.

The disadvantage is that idle threads will not steal work from very busy, stuck or otherwise backlogged threads. Tasks that are disproportionately expensive should be offloaded to the blocking task thread-pool using task::spawn_blocking.

Examples

use std::sync::mpsc;
use actix_rt::{Arbiter, System};

let _ = System::new();

let (tx, rx) = mpsc::channel::<u32>();

let arbiter = Arbiter::new();
arbiter.spawn_fn(move || tx.send(42).unwrap());

let num = rx.recv().unwrap();
assert_eq!(num, 42);

arbiter.stop();
arbiter.join().unwrap();

io-uring Support

There is experimental support for using io-uring with this crate by enabling the io-uring feature. For now, it is semver exempt.

Note that there are currently some unimplemented parts of using actix-rt with io-uring. In particular, when running a System, only System::block_on is supported.

Modules

• net
  TCP/UDP/Unix bindings (mostly Tokio re-exports).
• signal
  Asynchronous signal handling (Tokio re-exports).
• task
  Task management (Tokio re-exports).
• time
  Utilities for tracking time (Tokio re-exports).

Macros

• pin
  Pins a value on the stack.

Structs

• Arbiter
  An Arbiter represents a thread that provides an asynchronous execution environment for futures and functions.
• ArbiterHandle
  A handle for sending spawn and stop messages to an Arbiter.
• Runtime
  A Tokio-based runtime proxy.
• System
  A manager for a per-thread distributed async runtime.
• SystemRunner
  Runner that keeps a System’s event loop alive until stop message is received.

Functions

• spawn
  Spawns a future on the current thread as a new task.

Attribute Macros

• main
  Marks async entry-point function to be executed by Actix system.
• test
  Marks async test function to be executed in an Actix system.