Mechanisms are provided for distributing work requests to worker devices. The mechanisms generate a cycle table data structure which segments a set of work request allocations into a plurality of cycles in which, for each cycle, a subset of worker devices, from a set of worker devices, are eligible to receive allocations of work requests. The mechanisms receive a work request from a computing device and select a worker device to receive the work request, from a first subset of worker devices that are eligible to receive allocations of work requests for a current cycle in the cycle table data structure, based on both of entries in the cycle table data structure corresponding to a current cycle, and execution of weighted round robin scheduling logic. The mechanisms distribute the work request to the selected worker device which performs an operation on the work request.