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perf(tck): lease Compose stacks from a warmed pool - #1953
Lets a TCK suite lease a backend from a warmed pool instead of starting one per thread, and
un-pins the parallelism that made that impossible. Off by default — with no openfeature.tck.pool.size, every object factory starts one backend and keeps it for its thread's
life, exactly as today.
Independent of the flagd TCK adoption: only tools/tck and the three legacy flagd e2e suites, all
already on main.
The finding that mattered
Parallel execution was pinned off, and a @ConfigurationParameter is part of the discovery
request, so it outranks both -D and junit-platform.properties — nobody running a TCK suite could
turn parallelism back on. The pin existed because junit-platform.properties sat in flagd's test
resources and so reached every suite in the module, including the TCK ones, which then had to defend
themselves from settings written for the legacy e2e suites.
So the settings move onto RunRpcTest, RunInProcessTest and RunFileTest, the suites that asked
for them, and the pin goes. What is left is Cucumber's default, which is sequential: nothing changes
unless asked. Those three declare only parallel.enabled, not the strategy or the factor, so the
same -D override the TCK suites just regained is not taken away from them. It is also why the pool
lost on first measurement — four stacks feeding a sequential suite is three extra startups and no
concurrency.
The pool
TckObjectFactory.start() and stop() already bracket every scenario, so a lease needs no
indirection: start() takes a warmed backend and binds its harness and control into the container
the steps resolve from, stop() gives it back. prepareScenario() still runs on the leased backend,
so a scenario still starts from the baseline — that contract only widens who it protects, now that a
backend moves between features instead of staying on one thread.
The size is a cap on how many backends stand at once, not a thread count: fixed.parallelism is
a target rather than a limit, and a suite whose steps block has been seen growing to eighteen
threads, each of which would otherwise start a backend. Surplus threads queue on acquire().
Backends warm concurrently, and one whose own preparation fails is dropped rather than passed on, so
the pool shrinks loudly instead of quietly handing out broken backends.
Measured, since it decides the ceiling: a stack is ~40–100MB and ~17% of a core, and startups
serialise through the Docker daemon. The size is bounded by cores and by startup, not by memory.
What it is worth
main has no provider TCK suites, so the timings come from the flagd conformance suites on #1847,
where there is enough work to parallelise:
The shape, not a benchmark: single runs, and RpcTest was seen between 161s and 271s on identical
code in one day. The third row matters most — the testbed restarted flagd under a streaming provider
on every /start, which made pooling a correctness problem before it was a speed one, so the payoff
depends on flagd-testbed#396 landing.
What main can verify today is the mechanism, not the speed: tools/tck's own containerised suites
report Tests run: 290, Failures: 0 both with the pool off and at -Dopenfeature.tck.pool.size=2, and a bogus size fails loudly.
Also here
fix(tck): the teardown hook swapped in a NoOpProvider without awaiting it, so the provider
under test was still shutting down against its backend after the hook returned. Harmless while a
backend belongs to one thread for life; wrong the moment it is handed on.
fix(flagd): scoping the settings initially dropped the @env-var lock, on the reasoning that
only ConfigCucumberTest selects config.feature. It is not the only one — three of that file's
env-var scenarios also carry @in-process or @file, and two of these suites select by exactly
those tags. They mutate process-wide variables that every config scenario reads, so under the
parallelism these suites now declare they need the lock back.
From review:
fix(tck): drop a pooled backend from the count, not just from the queue — release() left size alone when dropping a backend whose preparation had failed, so with a pool of one every
later scenario waited out the ten-minute acquire deadline and then blamed an unreturned lease. A live count now falls with the backend and acquire() fails as soon as nothing is left.
fix(tck): release a pooled backend after the container is disposed — the release ran before
Pico teardown. Latent rather than live, since nothing here implements Startable or Disposable; but extension glue is adopter code. The release moves into a finally.
fix(flagd): keep the e2e parallelism tunable from the command line — scoping the settings had
pinned the strategy and factor in a @ConfigurationParameter, which is this branch's own finding
applied in reverse. Only the switch stays; JUnit's defaults are the values the annotations named.
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- Line 88: Create and assign the Pico container in TckObjectFactory.start only
after lifecycle acquisition succeeds. This ensures a failed StackPool.acquire
does not leave an unstarted container for stop() to stop; preserve the existing
lifecycle selection and component registration behavior.
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The flagd end-to-end runners enable Cucumber parallel execution and configure resource locks. The TCK adds an optional pool of warmed lifecycles, leases them to scenarios, drops leases marked broken, and waits for NoOpProvider installation during teardown.
Changes: Flagd end-to-end parallel execution
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Runner parallel execution and resource locks providers/flagd/src/test/java/.../Run*Test.java, providers/flagd/src/test/resources/junit-platform.properties
The three runners enable parallel execution without overriding Cucumber’s strategy or factor. They configure resource locks for container restarts and environment variables. The removed JUnit Platform properties file contained parallel and resource-lock settings.
TCK lifecycle pooling
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Summary
Pool configuration and lifecycle leases tools/tck/src/main/java/.../internal/steps/StackPool.java
StackPool parses the optional pool size, warms backends concurrently, supplies leases with a timeout, drops broken leases, and drains its state.
Suite and scenario pool integration tools/tck/src/main/java/.../ProviderTck.java, tools/tck/src/main/java/.../ProviderTckTest.java, tools/tck/src/main/java/.../internal/steps/{TckLifecycle,TckObjectFactory,ProviderSteps}.java
Suite setup warms the pool, and suite teardown drains it. The object factory acquires and releases scenario leases. Provider steps mark failed preparations as broken and wait for NoOpProvider installation. The TCK removes its explicit parallel-execution setting.
The pool and parallel-execution fixes appear ready to merge with a bounded teardown concern: if lease acquisition fails, cleanup may obscure the useful failure message.
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- Around line 46-47: Remove the parallel strategy and dynamic-factor
configuration annotations from RunFileTest and the other two runners so
Cucumber’s defaults remain in effect and system properties can override
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- Around line 116-119: Update StackPool’s release and acquire flow so dropping a
broken lease reduces the usable capacity and waiting scenarios fail promptly
when no backend remains, rather than waiting for the timeout based on the
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releasing the leased backend. Put the release and leased/lifecycle cleanup in a
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Off by default. With no openfeature.tck.pool.size set, every object factory
starts one backend and keeps it for as long as its thread lives, exactly as
before. Set it and the suite warms that many backends up front, hands one to
each scenario, and takes it back afterwards.
The object factory is where this fits with no indirection: Cucumber calls
start() and stop() around every scenario, so the lease brackets the scenario
already, and the leased harness and control go straight into the container the
steps resolve from. prepareScenario then runs on the leased backend in
@before(order = 10), which keeps the contract that a scenario starts from the
baseline -- it only widens who that protects, since a backend now moves between
features and suites rather than staying on one thread.
The size is a cap on how many backends stand at once, which is the reason to
prefer it over a thread count: fixed.parallelism is a target rather than a
limit, and a suite whose steps block has been seen growing to eighteen threads,
each of which would otherwise start a backend. Surplus threads queue on
acquire() instead.
Backends warm concurrently, because four Compose startups in sequence would be
spent before the first scenario. A backend whose own preparation fails is
dropped rather than passed on: the pool shrinks loudly instead of quietly
becoming a set of broken backends that fail everything that draws them.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
junit-platform.properties sat in test resources and so applied to every suite
in the module. Every setting in it was about the legacy e2e suites -- their
ContainerPool, their @env-var and @Grace tags -- but the Provider TCK suites
inherited it too, which is why ProviderTckTest had to pin parallelism off to
defend itself. A @ConfigurationParameter is part of the discovery request and
outranks both -D and the properties file, so that pin also made parallelism
unreachable for anyone running a TCK suite.
Moving the settings onto RunRpcTest, RunInProcessTest and RunFileTest gives
each suite the configuration it asked for and lets the TCK suites be driven
from the command line.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
The teardown hook swapped in a NoOpProvider without waiting, so the provider
under test was still shutting down against its backend after the hook
returned. That is harmless while every scenario keeps its own backend for the
life of a thread, and wrong as soon as a backend is handed to the next
scenario, which then prepares a backend someone else is still talking to.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
The rationale for the pool and for the moved parallel settings belongs in the
pull request, not in every file it touches.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
…enarios
Scoping the parallel settings carried @Grace onto the three e2e suites but left
@env-var behind, reasoning that only ConfigCucumberTest selects config.feature.
It is not the only one: three of that file's env-var scenarios also carry
@In-Process or @file, and RunInProcessTest and RunFileTest select by exactly
those tags and exclude nothing that would filter them out. They mutate
process-wide environment variables that every config scenario reads while
building FlagdOptions defaults, so under the parallelism these suites now
declare they need the global lock the properties file used to give them.
On all three rather than the two that need it today: an exclusive-resources
entry binds only the scenarios carrying its tag, so it is inert on RunRpcTest
until the test-harness tags an env-var scenario @rpc, and then it is already
right.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
ProviderTckTest no longer pins parallelism off, so the constant behind that pin
has no reader.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
The pool's class javadoc argued for the size the way the PR description does, and three
methods carried an @PARAM and a @return for a one-line fact. The e2e suites no longer
explain why the parallelism settings moved; that the code sits on the suite says it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
release() left `size` alone when it dropped a backend whose preparation had
failed, so with a pool of one the queue stayed empty for the rest of the run and
every later scenario waited out the ten-minute acquire deadline before failing --
with a message blaming an unreturned lease, which was not what happened.
A `live` count now falls with the backend, and acquire() polls in steps so it can
fail as soon as nothing is left, naming the drop.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
stop() returned the backend before disposing the Pico container, so anything the
container tears down ran after the backend had been handed to the next scenario.
Nothing in the suite implements Startable or Disposable today, but extension glue
is adopter code and a step class that implements either would hit it.
The release moves into a finally, so a throwing teardown cannot leak the lease.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
Scoping the settings onto the three suites pinned the strategy and the dynamic
factor in a @ConfigurationParameter, which outranks -D -- the same trap this
branch removes from the Provider TCK suites. junit-platform.properties did not
outrank it, so the move quietly took the override away.
Only the switch stays. JUnit falls back to the dynamic strategy with a factor of
1 when neither is set, which is what the annotations said, so nothing changes
except that -Dcucumber.execution.parallel.config.* works again.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schrottner <simon.schrottner@flagsmith.com>
org.picocontainer picocontainer 2.15.2 org.picocontainer.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleState stopping source Cannot stop current container state
Result:
Sources consulted:
- https://picocontainer.com/javadoc/core/src-html/org/picocontainer/lifecycle/DefaultLifecycleState.html
- PicoContainer - Downloads — https://picocontainer.com/downloads.html
- PicoContainer - Component Lifecycle — https://picocontainer.com/lifecycle.html
- picocontainer - cucumber (with pico-container): IllegalStateException: Cannot stop. Current container state was: CONSTRUCTED - Stack Overflow — https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74925885/cucumber-with-pico-container-illegalstateexception-cannot-stop-current-cont
- Index of /repositories/public/org/picocontainer/picocontainer-parent — https://repository-cdn.liferay.com/nexus/content/repositories/public/org/picocontainer/picocontainer-parent/
- …and 32 more
Create the Pico container after acquiring the lifecycle.
If StackPool.acquire() fails, pico remains non-null but unstarted. Cucumber can then call stop(), and Pico can throw from pico.stop() and mask the original acquisition failure.
Suggested fix
@Override
public void start() {
- pico = new PicoBuilder().withCaching().build();
if (StackPool.enabled()) {
// the pool's size, not this thread's existence, decides how many stand at once
leased = StackPool.acquire();
lifecycle = leased;
} else if (lifecycle == null) {
// empty when a launcher selects only the extension glue and never reaches @BeforeAll
lifecycle = TckLifecycle.startForExecutingSuite().orElse(null);
}
+ pico = new PicoBuilder().withCaching().build();
if (lifecycle != null) {
pico.addComponent(ProviderTckHarness.class, lifecycle.harness());
pico.addComponent(BackendControl.class, lifecycle.backendControl());
}
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Create and assign the Pico container in TckObjectFactory.start only after
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Lets a TCK suite lease a backend from a warmed pool instead of starting one per thread, and
un-pins the parallelism that made that impossible. Off by default — with no
openfeature.tck.pool.size, every object factory starts one backend and keeps it for its thread'slife, exactly as today.
Independent of the flagd TCK adoption: only
tools/tckand the three legacy flagd e2e suites, allalready on
main.The finding that mattered
Parallel execution was pinned off, and a
@ConfigurationParameteris part of the discoveryrequest, so it outranks both
-Dandjunit-platform.properties— nobody running a TCK suite couldturn parallelism back on. The pin existed because
junit-platform.propertiessat in flagd's testresources and so reached every suite in the module, including the TCK ones, which then had to defend
themselves from settings written for the legacy e2e suites.
So the settings move onto
RunRpcTest,RunInProcessTestandRunFileTest, the suites that askedfor them, and the pin goes. What is left is Cucumber's default, which is sequential: nothing changes
unless asked. Those three declare only
parallel.enabled, not the strategy or the factor, so thesame
-Doverride the TCK suites just regained is not taken away from them. It is also why the poollost on first measurement — four stacks feeding a sequential suite is three extra startups and no
concurrency.
The pool
TckObjectFactory.start()andstop()already bracket every scenario, so a lease needs noindirection:
start()takes a warmed backend and binds its harness and control into the containerthe steps resolve from,
stop()gives it back.prepareScenario()still runs on the leased backend,so a scenario still starts from the baseline — that contract only widens who it protects, now that a
backend moves between features instead of staying on one thread.
The size is a cap on how many backends stand at once, not a thread count:
fixed.parallelismisa target rather than a limit, and a suite whose steps block has been seen growing to eighteen
threads, each of which would otherwise start a backend. Surplus threads queue on
acquire().Backends warm concurrently, and one whose own preparation fails is dropped rather than passed on, so
the pool shrinks loudly instead of quietly handing out broken backends.
Measured, since it decides the ceiling: a stack is ~40–100MB and ~17% of a core, and startups
serialise through the Docker daemon. The size is bounded by cores and by startup, not by memory.
What it is worth
mainhas no provider TCK suites, so the timings come from the flagd conformance suites on #1847,where there is enough work to parallelise:
RpcTest, 353 scenariosThe shape, not a benchmark: single runs, and
RpcTestwas seen between 161s and 271s on identicalcode in one day. The third row matters most — the testbed restarted flagd under a streaming provider
on every
/start, which made pooling a correctness problem before it was a speed one, so the payoffdepends on flagd-testbed#396 landing.
What
maincan verify today is the mechanism, not the speed:tools/tck's own containerised suitesreport
Tests run: 290, Failures: 0both with the pool off and at-Dopenfeature.tck.pool.size=2, and a bogus size fails loudly.Also here
fix(tck): the teardown hook swapped in aNoOpProviderwithout awaiting it, so the providerunder test was still shutting down against its backend after the hook returned. Harmless while a
backend belongs to one thread for life; wrong the moment it is handed on.
fix(flagd): scoping the settings initially dropped the@env-varlock, on the reasoning thatonly
ConfigCucumberTestselectsconfig.feature. It is not the only one — three of that file'senv-var scenarios also carry
@in-processor@file, and two of these suites select by exactlythose tags. They mutate process-wide variables that every config scenario reads, so under the
parallelism these suites now declare they need the lock back.
From review:
fix(tck): drop a pooled backend from the count, not just from the queue—release()leftsizealone when dropping a backend whose preparation had failed, so with a pool of one everylater scenario waited out the ten-minute acquire deadline and then blamed an unreturned lease. A
livecount now falls with the backend andacquire()fails as soon as nothing is left.fix(tck): release a pooled backend after the container is disposed— the release ran beforePico teardown. Latent rather than live, since nothing here implements
StartableorDisposable; but extension glue is adopter code. The release moves into afinally.fix(flagd): keep the e2e parallelism tunable from the command line— scoping the settings hadpinned the strategy and factor in a
@ConfigurationParameter, which is this branch's own findingapplied in reverse. Only the switch stays; JUnit's defaults are the values the annotations named.