Replace @async with Threads.@spawn

Author: JamesWrigley

src/cluster.jl

@@ -163,10 +163,10 @@ function check_worker_state(w::Worker)
         else
             w.ct_time = time()
             if myid() > w.id
-                t = @async exec_conn_func(w)
+                t = Threads.@spawn exec_conn_func(w)
             else
                 # route request via node 1
-                t = @async remotecall_fetch((p,to_id) -> remotecall_fetch(exec_conn_func, p, to_id), 1, w.id, myid())
+                t = Threads.@spawn remotecall_fetch((p,to_id) -> remotecall_fetch(exec_conn_func, p, to_id), 1, w.id, myid())
             end
             errormonitor(t)
             wait_for_conn(w)
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ function start_worker(out::IO, cookie::AbstractString=readline(stdin); close_std
     else
         sock = listen(interface, LPROC.bind_port)
     end
-    errormonitor(@async while isopen(sock)
+    errormonitor(Threads.@spawn while isopen(sock)
         client = accept(sock)
         process_messages(client, client, true)
     end)
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ end
 
 
 function redirect_worker_output(ident, stream)
-    t = @async while !eof(stream)
+    t = Threads.@spawn while !eof(stream)
         line = readline(stream)
         if startswith(line, "      From worker ")
             # stdout's of "additional" workers started from an initial worker on a host are not available
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ function read_worker_host_port(io::IO)
     leader = String[]
     try
         while ntries > 0
-            readtask = @async readline(io)
+            readtask = Threads.@spawn readline(io)
             yield()
             while !istaskdone(readtask) && ((time_ns() - t0) < timeout)
                 sleep(0.05)
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ if launching workers programmatically, execute `addprocs` in its own task.
 
 ```julia
 # On busy clusters, call `addprocs` asynchronously
-t = @async addprocs(...)
+t = Threads.@spawn addprocs(...)
 ```
 
 ```julia
@@ -496,13 +496,13 @@ function addprocs_locked(manager::ClusterManager; kwargs...)
     # call manager's `launch` is a separate task. This allows the master
     # process initiate the connection setup process as and when workers come
     # online
-    t_launch = @async launch(manager, params, launched, launch_ntfy)
+    t_launch = Threads.@spawn launch(manager, params, launched, launch_ntfy)
 
     @sync begin
         while true
             if isempty(launched)
                 istaskdone(t_launch) && break
-                @async begin
+                Threads.@spawn begin
                     sleep(1)
                     notify(launch_ntfy)
                 end
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ function addprocs_locked(manager::ClusterManager; kwargs...)
             if !isempty(launched)
                 wconfig = popfirst!(launched)
                 let wconfig=wconfig
-                    @async setup_launched_worker(manager, wconfig, launched_q)
+                    Threads.@spawn setup_launched_worker(manager, wconfig, launched_q)
                 end
             end
         end
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ function launch_n_additional_processes(manager, frompid, fromconfig, cnt, launch
             wconfig.port = port
 
             let wconfig=wconfig
-                @async begin
+                Threads.@spawn begin
                     pid = create_worker(manager, wconfig)
                     remote_do(redirect_output_from_additional_worker, frompid, pid, port)
                     push!(launched_q, pid)
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ function check_master_connect()
     end
 
     errormonitor(
-        @async begin
+        Threads.@spawn begin
             start = time_ns()
             while !haskey(map_pid_wrkr, 1) && (time_ns() - start) < timeout
                 sleep(1.0)
@@ -1055,13 +1055,13 @@ function rmprocs(pids...; waitfor=typemax(Int))
 
     pids = vcat(pids...)
     if waitfor == 0
-        t = @async _rmprocs(pids, typemax(Int))
+        t = Threads.@spawn _rmprocs(pids, typemax(Int))
         yield()
         return t
     else
         _rmprocs(pids, waitfor)
         # return a dummy task object that user code can wait on.
-        return @async nothing
+        return Threads.@spawn nothing
     end
 end
 
@@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ function interrupt(pids::AbstractVector=workers())
     @assert myid() == 1
     @sync begin
         for pid in pids
-            @async interrupt(pid)
+            Threads.@spawn interrupt(pid)
         end
     end
 end

src/macros.jl

@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ function remotecall_eval(m::Module, procs, ex)
         # execute locally last as we do not want local execution to block serialization
         # of the request to remote nodes.
         for _ in 1:run_locally
-            @async Core.eval(m, ex)
+            Threads.@spawn Core.eval(m, ex)
         end
     end
     nothing
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ function preduce(reducer, f, R)
 end
 
 function pfor(f, R)
-    t = @async @sync for c in splitrange(Int(firstindex(R)), Int(lastindex(R)), nworkers())
+    t = Threads.@spawn @sync for c in splitrange(Int(firstindex(R)), Int(lastindex(R)), nworkers())
         @spawnat :any f(R, first(c), last(c))
     end
     errormonitor(t)

src/managers.jl

@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ function launch(manager::SSHManager, params::Dict, launched::Array, launch_ntfy:
     # Wait for all launches to complete.
     @sync for (i, (machine, cnt)) in enumerate(manager.machines)
         let machine=machine, cnt=cnt
-            @async try
+            Threads.@spawn try
                 launch_on_machine(manager, $machine, $cnt, params, launched, launch_ntfy)
             catch e
                 print(stderr, "exception launching on machine $(machine) : $(e)\n")
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ function kill(manager::LocalManager, pid::Int, config::WorkerConfig; exit_timeou
     # First, try sending `exit()` to the remote over the usual control channels
     remote_do(exit, pid)
 
-    timer_task = @async begin
+    timer_task = Threads.@spawn begin
         sleep(exit_timeout)
 
         # Check to see if our child exited, and if not, send an actual kill signal

src/messages.jl

@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ function flush_gc_msgs()
         end
     catch e
         bt = catch_backtrace()
-        @async showerror(stderr, e, bt)
+        Threads.@spawn showerror(stderr, e, bt)
     end
 end
 

src/process_messages.jl

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ function schedule_call(rid, thunk)
         rv = RemoteValue(def_rv_channel())
         (PGRP::ProcessGroup).refs[rid] = rv
         push!(rv.clientset, rid.whence)
-        errormonitor(@async run_work_thunk(rv, thunk))
+        errormonitor(Threads.@spawn run_work_thunk(rv, thunk))
         return rv
     end
 end
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ end
 
 ## message event handlers ##
 function process_messages(r_stream::TCPSocket, w_stream::TCPSocket, incoming::Bool=true)
-    errormonitor(@async process_tcp_streams(r_stream, w_stream, incoming))
+    errormonitor(Threads.@spawn process_tcp_streams(r_stream, w_stream, incoming))
 end
 
 function process_tcp_streams(r_stream::TCPSocket, w_stream::TCPSocket, incoming::Bool)
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Julia version number to perform the authentication handshake.
 See also [`cluster_cookie`](@ref).
 """
 function process_messages(r_stream::IO, w_stream::IO, incoming::Bool=true)
-    errormonitor(@async message_handler_loop(r_stream, w_stream, incoming))
+    errormonitor(Threads.@spawn message_handler_loop(r_stream, w_stream, incoming))
 end
 
 function message_handler_loop(r_stream::IO, w_stream::IO, incoming::Bool)
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ function handle_msg(msg::CallMsg{:call}, header, r_stream, w_stream, version)
     schedule_call(header.response_oid, ()->invokelatest(msg.f, msg.args...; msg.kwargs...))
 end
 function handle_msg(msg::CallMsg{:call_fetch}, header, r_stream, w_stream, version)
-    errormonitor(@async begin
+    errormonitor(Threads.@spawn begin
         v = run_work_thunk(()->invokelatest(msg.f, msg.args...; msg.kwargs...), false)
         if isa(v, SyncTake)
             try
@@ -299,15 +299,15 @@ function handle_msg(msg::CallMsg{:call_fetch}, header, r_stream, w_stream, versi
 end
 
 function handle_msg(msg::CallWaitMsg, header, r_stream, w_stream, version)
-    errormonitor(@async begin
+    errormonitor(Threads.@spawn begin
         rv = schedule_call(header.response_oid, ()->invokelatest(msg.f, msg.args...; msg.kwargs...))
         deliver_result(w_stream, :call_wait, header.notify_oid, fetch(rv.c))
         nothing
     end)
 end
 
 function handle_msg(msg::RemoteDoMsg, header, r_stream, w_stream, version)
-    errormonitor(@async run_work_thunk(()->invokelatest(msg.f, msg.args...; msg.kwargs...), true))
+    errormonitor(Threads.@spawn run_work_thunk(()->invokelatest(msg.f, msg.args...; msg.kwargs...), true))
 end
 
 function handle_msg(msg::ResultMsg, header, r_stream, w_stream, version)
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ function handle_msg(msg::JoinPGRPMsg, header, r_stream, w_stream, version)
                 # The constructor registers the object with a global registry.
                 Worker(rpid, ()->connect_to_peer(cluster_manager, rpid, wconfig))
             else
-                @async connect_to_peer(cluster_manager, rpid, wconfig)
+                Threads.@spawn connect_to_peer(cluster_manager, rpid, wconfig)
             end
         end
     end

src/remotecall.jl

@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ or to use a local [`Channel`](@ref) as a proxy:
 ```julia
 p = 1
 f = Future(p)
-errormonitor(@async put!(f, remotecall_fetch(long_computation, p)))
+errormonitor(Threads.@spawn put!(f, remotecall_fetch(long_computation, p)))
 isready(f)  # will not block
 ```
 """