perf(vpn): reduce CPU and resident memory in connection paths - #604
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Cut steady-state allocations and copying across the VPN connection and telemetry paths, favoring resident-footprint wins on the memory- constrained mobile daemon. - vpn/conntrack: prejoin inbound/outbound labels once at record creation instead of rebuilding them on every IPC poll; drop the unused ConnAttrs.ID field; size Connections/activeConnections slices from the live count. - vpn/memmon: replace ConnectionsOldestFirst (full sort + full copy) with a bounded oldest-first top-k selection driven by the eviction batch max. - vpn/session_history: preallocate the retention window and shift in place rather than prepending onto a fresh slice. - vpn/boxoptions: drop the per-build span event carrying the marshaled options and the debug-options indentation pass. - telemetry/connections: size the ConnClose buffer smaller on mobile, trading counted drops for lower resident footprint. - account/datacap: shrink the long-lived SSE scanner buffer to normal event size.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR reduces scanner and telemetry buffer sizes, stores prejoined connection labels, bounds oldest-connection selection during memory reclamation, optimizes session-history updates, and simplifies box-option serialization. ChangesRuntime and VPN updates
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change currently limits SSE events to 64 KiB instead of the previously supported 1 MiB, so larger valid events may be rejected and disrupt data-cap updates; restore the 1 MiB maximum before merging. A negative-limit test helper panic is a secondary follow-up. Possibly related PRs
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Pull request overview
This PR focuses on reducing CPU and resident-memory usage in VPN connection tracking, session history retention, memmon eviction selection, and telemetry/event buffering—primarily to improve footprint on mobile daemon builds.
Changes:
- Precomputes inbound/outbound connection labels at record creation and removes an unused
ConnAttrs.IDfield; preallocates active connection result slices using active count. - Replaces full “sort all connections” eviction selection with a bounded oldest-first selection (
OldestConnections(limit)), and updates executor/tests accordingly. - Reduces allocations in session history finalization (in-place shift) and trims option-building overhead (removes span event + indentation pass); adjusts mobile telemetry buffer sizing.
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| File | Description |
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| vpn/types.go | Uses prejoined inbound/outbound labels when synthesizing IPC Connection values. |
| vpn/session_history.go | Preallocates retention capacity and shifts stored sessions in place on finalize. |
| vpn/memmon/reclaimer.go | Updates reclaimer interface to bounded oldest-first selection with total count. |
| vpn/memmon/executor.go | Requests bounded oldest-first refs and computes eviction batch from total. |
| vpn/memmon/executor_test.go | Adapts fake reclaimer/tests to new OldestConnections API. |
| vpn/memmon.go | Implements bounded oldest-first selection over tracked connections. |
| vpn/memmon_test.go | Adds coverage for OldestConnections ordering, limits, and total counting. |
| vpn/conntrack.go | Prejoins labels and removes ConnAttrs.ID; preallocates connection slices by live count. |
| vpn/conntrack_test.go | Updates close-observer test to populate the new label fields. |
| vpn/clash.go | Populates prejoined inbound/outbound labels when creating records. |
| vpn/boxoptions.go | Removes per-build span event and JSON indentation; writes raw options JSON to file. |
| telemetry/connections.go | Sizes buffered close-event channel smaller on mobile via common.IsMobile(). |
| account/datacap.go | Adjusts SSE scanner buffer sizing/max token size (currently changes max). |
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vpn/conntrack.go (1)
39-43: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse identifier-prefixed field comments.
outboundLabelandinboundLabelhave non-obvious cached-label contracts. Add separate comments that start with each field name.As per coding guidelines, “Use Go doc comments (
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Inline comments:
In `@account/datacap.go`:
- Around line 95-97: Update the scanner.Buffer call in the SSE scanning logic to
retain the 4 KiB initial buffer while restoring the maximum token size to 1 MiB;
change only the maximum limit argument and preserve the surrounding scanner
behavior.
In `@vpn/memmon/executor_test.go`:
- Around line 23-24: Update fakeReclaimer.OldestConnections to return no
connection references for any non-positive limit, while preserving the existing
bounded slice and total-count behavior for positive limits.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@vpn/conntrack.go`:
- Around line 39-43: Add separate Go doc comments immediately above
outboundLabel and inboundLabel, with each comment beginning with its
corresponding field name and documenting its cached-label contract; preserve the
existing alignment context without combining both field descriptions into one
comment.
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account/datacap.gotelemetry/connections.govpn/boxoptions.govpn/clash.govpn/conntrack.govpn/conntrack_test.govpn/memmon.govpn/memmon/executor.govpn/memmon/executor_test.govpn/memmon/reclaimer.govpn/memmon_test.govpn/session_history.govpn/types.go
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Summary
CPU and resident-memory optimizations across the VPN connection and telemetry paths, favoring footprint wins on the memory-constrained mobile daemon. No behavioral change to routing or metrics semantics; drops on the telemetry buffer remain counted and surfaced.
Changes
ConnAttrs.IDfield; sizeConnections/activeConnectionsresult slices from the live connection count.ConnectionsOldestFirst(full sort + full copy of all connections) with a bounded oldest-first top-k selection sized to the eviction batch max, returning the total live count alongside the selected refs.ConnClosechannel smaller on mobile (256 vs 4096), trading counted overflow drops for lower resident footprint; desktop retains the larger buffer for burst absorption.Summary by CodeRabbit
Performance Improvements
Bug Fixes