How to use boost::asio::io_service to dispatch jobs between C++11 threads

Question

I need to perform on a multi-core architecture a huge quantity of relatively short tasks. For this I wanted to use a fixed size thread pool and some reliable implementation of an executor.

I was reading about boost::asio and io_service in this post How to create a thread pool using boost in C++? but this uses boost threads, while in many places my code uses the c++11 thread_local modifier for local variables (for performance reasons), hence I suppose I'm forced to use c++11 threads.

Is the boost thread implementation compatible with c++11 thread_local variables?

Is it safe to just use the io_service::run method with c++11 threads, instead that with boost::thread?

Answer 1

Is it safe to just use the io_service::run method with c++11 threads, instead that with boost::thread?

Yes, I use std::thread with boost::asio and it works fine. I also use std::bind instead of boost::bind. You can find an example here

Is the boost thread implementation compatible with c++11 thread_local variables?

I don't know about that, but it should be irrelevant if you use std::thread