perf(mutableautoselect): cut per-dial allocs and per-packet timer churn - #299
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Reduce the group's steady-state CPU/memory cost, with memory the priority.
- snapshot returns the user-failure count instead of allocating and
copying a []UserFailure slice; rankLocked, the only hot-path caller,
needs only the length, so every dial dropped a throwaway allocation.
- The data-plane stall watchdog no longer arms a timer per connection or
resets it per packet:
- The timer is created lazily on the transition to proven. Unproven
conns (handshake-only, keepalive-only, short-lived) could never pass
fireStall's proven gate, so they now allocate no runtime timer at all.
- noteIO stamps a monotonic activity timestamp instead of resetting the
timer; fireStall debounces off it, re-arming while activity is fresh
and firing only once the idle window has genuinely elapsed. Steady
traffic costs one timer op per idle window instead of one per packet.
- The activity timestamp is anchored to a monotonic epoch, so wall-clock
(NTP) steps can't delay a stall or demote a healthy conn early.
- The timestamp and write flag are packed into one atomic word so
fireStall reads them as a single consistent snapshot; stored
separately, a fresh write flag could be observed against a stale
timestamp and stall a conn that had just written.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change replaces copied user-failure slices with counts and updates the data-plane watchdog to use packed atomic activity state, lazy timer management, synchronized rearming, terminal claims, and concurrency tests. ChangesMutable autoselect behavior
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The watchdog changes can still classify a connection as stalled using outdated activity after fresh I/O, potentially demoting healthy connections and disrupting selection. This concrete correctness and availability risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant noteIO
participant watchdogTimer
participant fireStall
participant connection
noteIO->>watchdogTimer: Publish activity timestamp and I/O direction
watchdogTimer->>fireStall: Invoke after the idle interval
fireStall->>watchdogTimer: Rearm for recent or read-only activity
fireStall->>connection: Claim and report an unanswered write stall
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In `@protocol/group/mutableautoselect_dataplane.go`:
- Around line 159-161: Protect activity publication in the write path and the
activity validation plus stalled transition in fireStall with the same shared
mutex, ensuring a timer cannot commit a stale stall after fresh activity is
published. Add an interleaving test that changes activity between fireStall’s
snapshot and transition and verifies no incorrect UserFailureStall demotion
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Pull request overview
This PR reduces MutableAutoSelect’s steady-state allocation and runtime overhead by removing per-dial allocation in the ranking path and by restructuring the data-plane stall watchdog to avoid per-packet timer resets and unnecessary timers for unproven connections.
Changes:
- Updated
localHistory.snapshotto return a user-failure count (after pruning) instead of allocating/copying a[]UserFailure, and updated ranking/tests accordingly. - Reworked the data-plane watchdog to (a) lazily allocate timers only after a connection becomes proven, and (b) debounce timer re-arming using a packed atomic
(timestamp, wasWrite)activity word. - Added/updated watchdog unit tests to cover activity packing and “read-idle then later unanswered write” behavior.
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| File | Description |
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| protocol/group/mutableautoselect.go | Ranking path now consumes user-failure count from history snapshots to avoid per-dial allocations. |
| protocol/group/mutableautoselect_history.go | snapshot prunes in place and returns user-failure count instead of copying the failure slice. |
| protocol/group/mutableautoselect_dataplane.go | Stall watchdog now uses lazy timers + packed atomic activity to reduce per-connection timers and per-packet timer resets. |
| protocol/group/mutableautoselect_test.go | Tests updated for the new snapshot signature and packed activity watchdog behavior, with new coverage added. |
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Address review feedback on the data-plane stall watchdog. Collapse the watchdog's terminal state (previously separate stalled and fired atomics) into the activity word, with activityTerminal as the reserved sentinel. Every terminal path now claims that single transition: - fireStall claims via CAS from the activity value it sampled, so a concurrent Read/Write that republished activity fails the claim and the conn is re-armed instead of demoted on a stale sample. - fireResetFailure and closeWatchdog claim unconditionally via swap. Because one atomic transition decides the winner, the stall/reset failure kind can no longer be resolved by a downstream race, and noteIO stops republishing activity once terminal (publishActivity refuses to overwrite the sentinel). sinceEpoch uses Nanoseconds() to make the unit explicit. Also fix a test-only data race: the makeHooks stall/reset tests read localHistory.userFailures without holding h.mu while the background runLadder the hook kicks mutates it. Read the recorded failure through a locked helper. Production was already correctly guarded by h.mu.
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protocol/group/mutableautoselect_dataplane.go:109
activityis documented as a packed (timestamp, wasWrite) value, but init seeds it with the rawidleForeverconstant. This currently works only becauseidleForeverhappens to have a 0 low bit; usingpackActivity(...)here keeps the representation invariant and avoids subtle bugs ifidleForeverever changes.
// Direct fireStall calls in tests should evaluate the gates instead
// of treating the missing IO stamp as fresh activity.
w.activity.Store(idleForever)
// Timer is armed lazily on the proven transition; see armTimer.
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Summary
Reduce MutableAutoSelect's steady-state CPU and memory cost — memory the priority — while preserving selection and stall-detection behavior. Two independent hot paths are addressed: the per-dial ranking allocation, and the per-connection / per-packet stall-timer machinery.
Changes
perf(mutableautoselect): cut per-dial allocs and per-packet timer churn
Ranking hot path (
snapshot/rankLocked):snapshotnow returns the live user-failure count instead of allocating and copying a[]UserFailureslice.rankLocked— the only hot-path caller, run once per member on every dial — uses only the length, so each dial drops a throwaway allocation proportional to a member's failure history.Data-plane stall watchdog (
mutableautoselect_dataplane.go):fireStall's proven gate, so they no longer allocate a runtime timer at all (~147 B each). Live-timer count drops from "all conns" to "proven, open conns".noteIOstamps a monotonic activity timestamp instead of callingtimer.Reseton every non-empty Read/Write (which took the runtime timer-heap lock per packet).fireStalldebounces off the stamp: it re-arms while activity is fresh and fires only once the idle window has genuinely elapsed. Steady traffic now costs one timer op per idle window instead of one per packet.atomic.Int64.fireStallreads a consistent(timestamp, wasWrite)snapshot from one load (separate stores could pair a fresh write flag with a stale timestamp and stall a just-written conn), and stall / reset / close each claim the conn by moving that word to a terminal sentinel — stall via CAS from its sampled value, reset/close unconditionally. Exactly one claim wins, so the failure kind is never decided by a downstream race,fireStallcan't demote a conn whose activity was republished after it sampled, andnoteIOstops republishing activity once terminal.Tests: added
TestPackActivity_RoundTrip(packing invariant),TestDataPlaneStream_StallAfterReadIdleThenWrite(the timer keeps watching a later unanswered Write after a read-idle window), andTestClaimStall_AbortsOnConcurrentActivity(a stall aborts when activity was republished since it was sampled); updated existing watchdog tests to the unified activity word. Also fixed a test-only data race in themakeHooksfailure-kind tests, which readlocalHistoryfields withouth.muwhile the backgroundrunLaddermutated them.Summary by CodeRabbit
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