Cancellation in async rust #

At Rust India Conference 2026.

Recording #

YouTube

Slides #

Google Slides

Reach out to us #

• Presenter: me (GitHub, LinkedIn)
• Special thanks to the team: Amit, Aayush, Nimalan, Faiz and Fenil for reviewing the content.

Resources #

• Never snooze a future - Jack O’Connor
• Cancelling async rust by Rain or Oxide RFD 400
• Using Rust async for Query Execution and Cancelling Long-Running Queries - DataFusion Team
• Tokio blog post introducing task budgets and tokio::task::coop docs.
• TODO: Andrew Lamb’s talk on using tokio for CPU heavy tasks for DataFusion.
• Deadlocking a tokio mutex without holding a lock
• Oxide RFD 609 - Futurelock