fix(server): pipeline ordering at --shards >= 2 — inline commands ran ahead of the batch's pending remote writes (#507) - #512
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… ahead of the batch's pending remote writes (#507) Filed as "MGET in the same pipeline batch as its SETs returns nulls". The cause is wider than the symptom, and the symptom is not the worst of it. The sharded pipeline handlers defer a single-key command whose key lives on another shard into `remote_groups`, dispatching each target's group as one `PipelineBatchSlotted` at the END of the batch. Multi-key and keyless commands are not routable that way, so they execute INLINE, mid-loop — against shards whose earlier writes in the same batch have not been sent yet. Measured at --shards 2, 20 trials each, before the fix: SET a, MSET a 7/20 wrong the MSET's value is LOST (SET lands on top) SET, FLUSHALL 10/20 wrong key survives a flush that returned +OK SET, SET, DEL 6/20 wrong keys survive a DEL that returned success SET, SET, MGET 10/20 wrong the reported symptom SET, DBSIZE 12/20 wrong also KEYS/RANDOMKEY/EXISTS/UNLINK/COPY/ BITOP/INFO keyspace SET, TOUCH k 0/20 single-key: always correct So this is not only the stale read it was filed as — same-key write ordering inverts, which is silent data loss. The rate rises with shard count: a key is remote with probability 1 - 1/shards. The issue's own hypothesis (the co-located fast path) was checked and is wrong: co-located keys were 0/20 wrong, uncolocated 15/20. Fix: defer such a command and the unconsumed batch tail to the next iteration, reusing the mechanism #438 already built for early-flush commands. Phase 2 resolves the pending remote replies first, and the tail re-parses at the top of the next batch with `remote_groups` empty — so it cannot loop. Applied to both sharded handlers; `handler_single` has no deferral and was never affected. The predicate is keyed on ROUTABILITY, not a list of command names. A command routed by its own single key needs no wait: a key maps to exactly one shard, so if that shard is local the key cannot be pending, and if it is remote the command is appended behind the pending ones and the slotted batch preserves order. Everything else waits. This matters — a name list written for an MGET bug would not have contained INFO keyspace or RANDOMKEY, and both were wrong. The one case routability cannot see is a command intercepted inline BEFORE routing that still has a key-shaped first argument (EVAL, SWAPDB, FCALL, the FT./GRAPH./CDC./TS. families); those are named explicitly, with a test that fails if an entry is dropped. Deferring is the conservative direction: a command sent down this path unnecessarily is merely executed at the start of the next batch, which is always correct. Wrongly calling something safe is the direction that corrupts. Tests: tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs, 10 cases at --shards 4 x 12 key placements each (a single trial is a coin flip on placement — pco8 passed by luck on its first red run before being restructured). Covers own-batch MGET, single-key ordering as control, MSET-wins-over-SET, multi-key DEL, FLUSHALL, the cross-shard aggregations, INFO keyspace, byte-exact deferred-tail replay, inline commands surviving the defer path, and inline-intercepted commands. Green on both runtimes. The redis-py acceptance pin for this defect (rp7b) is converted from an inverted "known gap" probe into a direct assertion. Two cases are deliberately excluded and filed instead of worked around: MEMORY USAGE mis-routes independently of this bug (#511), and single-key EVAL is rejected CROSSSLOT (#508), which is why pco10 drives SWAPDB alone. Perf: this costs real throughput, and the cost is per INTERLEAVING, not per pipeline. Each deferral is one extra shard dispatch/await boundary (~50us). Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, --shards 2, one connection, 9 reps, alternating leg order, median; "floor" is the worst within-leg spread, so a delta smaller than its floor resolved nothing): shape base head delta floor mixed MGET after every 2 SETs 125,885 59,889 -52.4% 5.8% tail 128 SETs then one MGET 528,764 512,686 -3.0% 22.2% pure SET,SET,GET (guard off) 873,526 867,715 -0.7% 33.9% So: a multi-key or keyless command at the END of a pipeline — the shape #507 was filed from, and the shape redis-py's pipeline() produces — costs nothing measurable. One interleaved after every pair of writes halves throughput. The `pure` control confirms the untouched path is unchanged, and `mixed` reproduced at -52.6% in an independent earlier run against a different noise floor. redis-benchmark cannot express any of this (it sends one command type, so the guard never fires), which is why this is a purpose-built harness; it is pre-flighted against the base binary and refuses to report unless base actually shows the bug (72 lost elements across 64 MGETs), so a vacuous "neutral" is not reachable. Removing that cost means letting multi-key commands participate in the slotted batch instead of executing inline — a cross-shard-coordinator change well outside a correctness fix. Filed separately. Closes #507 Refs #438, #511, #508 author: Tin Dang
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change fixes multi-shard pipeline ordering by deferring commands that depend on pending remote operations. It adds routing-based classification, handler replay logic, and regression coverage for reads, writes, aggregation commands, intercepted commands, and reply ordering. ChangesPipeline ordering
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Some pre-routing commands are still not covered by the ordering fix and may run before pending remote writes, allowing stale results or overwrites; this should be fixed before merge. The pipeline test helper can also truncate slow multi-chunk replies, reducing confidence in the regression coverage. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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The client-compat step's comment still described #507 as pinned as an expected failure. It behaved exactly as the comment promised — the pin started failing the moment the ordering fix landed — so rp7b is now a direct assertion and only #508 remains a pinned gap. Recording that so the comment does not outlive the defect it describes. Verified on moon-dev against the fix binary: 19/19 OK, rp7b green as an assertion, rp14b still red-as-designed for #508. author: Tin Dang
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read_replyends on a read timeout, so a slow reply can be truncated.The loop breaks on the first
Err, and after the first chunk the read timeout is 250 ms. A reply that arrives in two chunks more than 250 ms apart returns only the first chunk. The fix under test adds exactly one extra shard dispatch/await boundary per deferral, so the deferred replies are the ones most likely to arrive in a later chunk.pco8_deferred_tail_is_replayed_intactcompares the full concatenated reply for exact equality across such a boundary, so a slow CI machine can fail it for a reason unrelated to ordering.Terminate on the expected reply count instead of on silence.
♻️ Read until the expected number of top-level replies has arrived
- fn pipeline(&mut self, cmds: &[&[&str]]) -> String { + fn pipeline(&mut self, cmds: &[&[&str]]) -> String { let mut out = Vec::new(); for c in cmds { out.extend_from_slice(&encode(c)); } self.0.write_all(&out).expect("write"); - self.read_reply() + self.read_n_replies(cmds.len()) }Add a counter that walks
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In `@src/server/conn/shared.rs`:
- Around line 1074-1107: Update is_inline_intercepted to recognize VACUUM and
KILL as inline-intercepted commands, and extend the DOTTED prefix list with
TEMPORAL. and TXN. Preserve exact-name matching for MQ and WS without adding
their dotted prefixes.
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In `@tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs`:
- Around line 159-178: Update the multi-reply test path around read_reply to
continue reading with the 5-second timeout until the expected number of complete
top-level RESP frames has been received, counting frames from the accumulated
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| fn is_inline_intercepted(cmd: &[u8]) -> bool { | ||
| // Dotted families first, and deliberately so: a length-keyed match below | ||
| // would swallow `FT.ALIAS` (8 bytes, 'f') into the FCALL_RO/FUNCTION arm | ||
| // and answer false for it. | ||
| const DOTTED: [&[u8]; 4] = [b"FT.", b"GRAPH.", b"CDC.", b"TS."]; | ||
| if DOTTED | ||
| .iter() | ||
| .any(|p| cmd.len() > p.len() && cmd[..p.len()].eq_ignore_ascii_case(p)) | ||
| { | ||
| return true; | ||
| } | ||
| let len = cmd.len(); | ||
| if len == 0 { | ||
| return false; | ||
| } | ||
| let b0 = cmd[0] | 0x20; | ||
| match (len, b0) { | ||
| // Lua and functions read and write real keys through the interceptor, | ||
| // never through routing. | ||
| (4, b'e') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"EVAL"), | ||
| (7, b'e') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"EVALSHA"), | ||
| (5, b'f') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"FCALL"), | ||
| (8, b'f') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"FCALL_RO") || cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"FUNCTION"), | ||
| // SWAPDB exchanges whole databases across every shard. | ||
| // SCRIPT/ACL touch no keyspace data, but they are inline and cost | ||
| // nothing to serialise behind pending writes. | ||
| (6, b's') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"SCRIPT") || cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"SWAPDB"), | ||
| (3, b'a') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"ACL"), | ||
| // Container commands for the message-queue and workspace stores. | ||
| (2, b'm') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"MQ"), | ||
| (2, b'w') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"WS"), | ||
| _ => false, | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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Expand is_inline_intercepted for pre-routing interceptors
Add VACUUM and KILL to the predicate. extract_primary_key treats their first arguments as keys, but both commands execute before routing. Add TEMPORAL. and TXN. to DOTTED for the same reason. MQ and WS are exact command names, so MQ. and WS. prefixes are not needed.
Without these entries, a command after a pending remote write can execute before that write lands and return stale data or overwrite it.
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In `@src/server/conn/shared.rs` around lines 1074 - 1107, Update
is_inline_intercepted to recognize VACUUM and KILL as inline-intercepted
commands, and extend the DOTTED prefix list with TEMPORAL. and TXN. Preserve
exact-name matching for MQ and WS without adding their dotted prefixes.
…#507 suite The harness ended a reply when the socket went quiet for 250ms. That is a timing assumption, and this suite is the wrong place for one: the fix under test ADDS pauses inside a single batch's reply stream, because every deferral is a shard dispatch/await boundary. A pause longer than the window truncated the reply, and a truncated read then surfaced as a wrong VALUE — the suite would have reported the wrong defect. Raised in review on #512. Replaced with an actual RESP framer: read until exactly N top-level replies are complete, where N is the number of commands written. Bulk payloads are consumed by declared length, aggregates push their element count onto a pending counter (so an element is never miscounted as a reply of its own), and nested arrays fall out of the same counter. Bytes beyond the Nth reply are retained per-connection rather than discarded, so an over-read cannot shift the next call. A short read now panics naming the shortfall instead of returning silently. pco0 tests the framer directly, including the property that matters: EVERY proper prefix of a complete reply must be judged incomplete — the exact case the silence-based reader accepted. Verified to have teeth by mutation: dropping the CRLF after a bulk payload fails it, and not counting arrays as replies (the bug the first draft of this framer actually had) fails it. Re-verified the suite is not vacuous after the change: with the guard disabled, 8 of 11 fail, and the 3 that pass are exactly the ones that should — the framer unit test, the single-key control, and the inline-command case. Side effect: the suite runs in 0.9s instead of 31s, since it no longer waits out a silence window per reply. author: Tin Dang
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#512 made a pipelined command that cannot route by its own single key wait for the batch's pending cross-shard commands, which is what stopped the silent write loss of #507. It is also expensive, and nothing said so: the only symptom was throughput that looked bad for no visible reason. The boundary is paid per interleaving, but only while the batch still holds an undispatched cross-shard command -- i.e. when an earlier command in the same batch routed to another shard. A read counts: the E2 read fast path is disabled, so foreign reads are slotted into remote_groups too. An interleaving whose preceding commands all landed locally costs nothing, which is why the first shape below reports 48 deferrals and not 64. Add `total_pipeline_remote_defer` to INFO stats (and the Prometheus counter `moon_pipeline_remote_defer_total`), recorded at the two sites that set `deferred_tail_from` for `must_wait_for_pending_remote` — the monoio and sharded handlers. This is NOT the #438 blocking-command site, which defers for an unrelated reason. Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), one connection, 9 reps alternating leg order, median of 60 flushes: pipeline shape shards=1 shards=2 shards=4 MGET after every 2 SETs 1,296,360 (0) 49,203 (48) 38,856 (55) 128 SETs then one MGET 1,156,693 (0) 659,436 (1) 539,996 (1) SET,SET,GET (own key) 1,700,287 (0) 1,122,573 (0) 993,784 (0) Parenthesised numbers are deferral counts from the new counter. They are the server's own, not inferred: reading the code suggested 64 for the first shape and the counter says 48, which is exactly why it exists. The --shards 1 column is the control -- `remote_groups` is always empty there, so the guard structurally cannot fire. The counter also keeps a #513 fix honest. `pco12` in tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs asserts the interleaved shape triggers the guard at --shards 4 and that a single-key control does not; when #513 lands, that assertion flips from `> 0` to `== 0` rather than being deleted. Verified by mutation: unwiring the recorder fails pco12 and nothing else. Refs #513, #512, #507 author: Tin Dang
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#512 made a pipelined command that cannot route by its own single key wait for the batch's pending cross-shard commands, which is what stopped the silent write loss of #507. It is also expensive, and nothing said so: the only symptom was throughput that looked bad for no visible reason. Two things bound the cost, and the counter is what made both checkable: - A deferral needs an undispatched cross-shard command ALREADY in the batch; the guard is `!remote_groups.is_empty() && must_wait_for_pending_remote(..)`. A shard-spanning MGET on its own never defers -- 64 spread MGETs with no preceding writes measure 0. A preceding foreign READ counts too: the E2 read fast path is disabled, so foreign reads are slotted alongside writes. - At most one deferral per batch pass. The cut re-parses the tail with remote_groups cleared, so the head of the next pass runs inline whatever its shape. Together those explain why 64 interleavings produce fewer than 64 deferrals, and fewer at --shards 2 (48) than --shards 4 (55): with two shards more of the preceding SETs land locally and never reach remote_groups. The counts are shape- and placement-specific, not constants -- the same shape on a different key set gave 59. Add `total_pipeline_remote_defer` to INFO stats (and the Prometheus counter `moon_pipeline_remote_defer_total`), recorded at the two sites that set `deferred_tail_from` for `must_wait_for_pending_remote` — the monoio and sharded handlers. This is NOT the #438 blocking-command site, which defers for an unrelated reason. Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), one connection, 9 reps alternating leg order, median of 60 flushes: pipeline shape shards=1 shards=2 shards=4 MGET after every 2 SETs 1,296,360 (0) 49,203 (48) 38,856 (55) 128 SETs then one MGET 1,156,693 (0) 659,436 (1) 539,996 (1) SET,SET,GET (own key) 1,700,287 (0) 1,122,573 (0) 993,784 (0) Parenthesised numbers are deferral counts from the new counter. They are the server's own, not inferred: reading the code suggested 64 for the first shape and the counter says 48, which is exactly why it exists. The --shards 1 column is the control -- `remote_groups` is always empty there, so the guard structurally cannot fire. The counter also keeps a #513 fix honest. `pco12` in tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs asserts the interleaved shape triggers the guard at --shards 4 and that a single-key control does not; when #513 lands, that assertion flips from `> 0` to `== 0` rather than being deleted. Verified by mutation: unwiring the recorder fails pco12 and nothing else. Refs #513, #512, #507 author: Tin Dang
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…) (#707) #512 made a pipelined command that cannot route by its own single key wait for the batch's pending cross-shard commands, which is what stopped the silent write loss of #507. It is also expensive, and nothing said so: the only symptom was throughput that looked bad for no visible reason. Two things bound the cost, and the counter is what made both checkable: - A deferral needs an undispatched cross-shard command ALREADY in the batch; the guard is `!remote_groups.is_empty() && must_wait_for_pending_remote(..)`. A shard-spanning MGET on its own never defers -- 64 spread MGETs with no preceding writes measure 0. A preceding foreign READ counts too: the E2 read fast path is disabled, so foreign reads are slotted alongside writes. - At most one deferral per batch pass. The cut re-parses the tail with remote_groups cleared, so the head of the next pass runs inline whatever its shape. Together those explain why 64 interleavings produce fewer than 64 deferrals, and fewer at --shards 2 (48) than --shards 4 (55): with two shards more of the preceding SETs land locally and never reach remote_groups. The counts are shape- and placement-specific, not constants -- the same shape on a different key set gave 59. Add `total_pipeline_remote_defer` to INFO stats (and the Prometheus counter `moon_pipeline_remote_defer_total`), recorded at the two sites that set `deferred_tail_from` for `must_wait_for_pending_remote` — the monoio and sharded handlers. This is NOT the #438 blocking-command site, which defers for an unrelated reason. Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), one connection, 9 reps alternating leg order, median of 60 flushes: pipeline shape shards=1 shards=2 shards=4 MGET after every 2 SETs 1,296,360 (0) 49,203 (48) 38,856 (55) 128 SETs then one MGET 1,156,693 (0) 659,436 (1) 539,996 (1) SET,SET,GET (own key) 1,700,287 (0) 1,122,573 (0) 993,784 (0) Parenthesised numbers are deferral counts from the new counter. They are the server's own, not inferred: reading the code suggested 64 for the first shape and the counter says 48, which is exactly why it exists. The --shards 1 column is the control -- `remote_groups` is always empty there, so the guard structurally cannot fire. The counter also keeps a #513 fix honest. `pco12` in tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs asserts the interleaved shape triggers the guard at --shards 4 and that a single-key control does not; when #513 lands, that assertion flips from `> 0` to `== 0` rather than being deleted. Verified by mutation: unwiring the recorder fails pco12 and nothing else. Refs #513, #512, #507 author: Tin Dang
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…513) (#708) * perf(pipeline): defer only for shards the batch has pending work on (#513) `must_wait_for_pending_remote`'s multi-key arm answered "wait" on the command NAME, without asking where its keys were. But `remote_groups` only ever holds FOREIGN shards -- the slotting branch is `else if let Some(target) = target_shard`, and `target_shard` is `None` for a local key -- so the moon#507 hazard (reading state a pending command is about to write, or writing state it then overwrites) requires the two to meet ON THE SAME SHARD. An MGET reading shards the batch has no pending work for was being cut for nothing. The cut is not free: it ends the batch pass, and the phase-2b drain then dispatches one PipelineBatchSlotted per target shard and awaits each reply slot in turn. The guard now takes a `pending` bitmask, maintained beside `remote_groups` at O(1) (set on insert, cleared with the map), and compares it against the shard mask of the command's keys. The mask comes from the shared key-position walker (moon#582) -- the same one ACL, cache invalidation and `cross_shard_multikey_rejection` use -- so layouts like ZUNIONSTORE are enumerated by the code that already knows them rather than a second copy. Only the multi-key arm is refined; the other two still always wait, because neither can be bounded by a key mask. An inline-intercepted command (EVAL, SWAPDB) executes against the LOCAL slice whatever keys it declares, and a keyless command (FLUSHALL, KEYS, SCAN) touches every shard. Every case the mask cannot enumerate -- `SORT ... BY w_*`, a key position holding a non-string, more shards than the mask has bits -- also waits: wrongly waiting costs a batch boundary, wrongly proceeding corrupts data. The two predicates were folded into one. The unmasked form had no callers left and keeping it would have left two answers to the same question. Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), --shards 4, 32 interleavings of SET,SET,MGET, six fresh server starts per side, interleaved: MGET reads shards the writes never touch: 41,600 -> 86,500 ops/s (2.08x), 64 deferrals -> 0 MGET reads the shards being written: 34,300 ops/s, 64 deferrals, both Fresh starts per measurement because SO_REUSEPORT decides which shard the connection lands on, and that changes the shape's cost as much as the code does. The deferral counts are placement-independent: 64/64 before and 0/0 after in every round. A co-located {tag} multi-key command still defers, and must: the coordinator executes it inline rather than slotting it, so skipping the wait would re-open moon#507. Routing a single-owner multi-key command into the slotted batch is tracked separately. Tests: `pco13` drives the disjoint shape and asserts 0 deferrals, with an overlap leg on the same harness that must stay non-zero -- without it a green disjoint leg could just mean the writes never went cross-shard. Both legs pin ONE key per shard rather than "the first n keys in this set", because two keys that both hashed to shard 0 made the overlap leg depend on where SO_REUSEPORT put the connection (caught as a real flake while benchmarking). Four unit tests cover the mask itself, including every fail-closed path. Verified by mutation: reverting the guard to name-only fails pco13 alone; making it never wait fails five of the moon#507 correctness tests. Refs #513, #507, #512 author: Tin Dang * fix(pipeline): judge the ordering guard on the keys a workspace will actually use The shard mask added earlier in this branch hashes the keys visible AT the guard. In a workspace connection those are the RAW keys: `workspace_rewrite_args` rebinds `cmd_args` further down the batch loop, and the guard cannot move below it -- the connection-level intercepts it exists to hold back (AUTH, CLIENT, CONFIG, INFO, SELECT, ...) run in between. The discrepancy is not small. A workspace key is `{<32-hex>}:<key>`, and that prefix is a hash TAG, so every key in a workspace routes to ONE shard however the raw names scatter. A mask read off raw names therefore calls a command disjoint from the very shard its own batch's writes are pending on -- moon#507 reopened for exactly the connections that opted into isolation. Measured on the pre-fix build of this branch: 5 of 12 workspace connections had `SET a; SET b; MGET a b` answer `$-1 $-1` for keys the same batch had already acked `+OK`. The same test is green on the commit this branch forked from, so this was introduced here, not uncovered here. Fix: treat every shard as pending when the connection has a workspace, which makes `must_wait_for_pending_remote` answer exactly as it did before the mask existed. Workspace connections lose the batch-cut saving; they keep their data. Tests: `pco14` drives 12 workspace connections and asserts the MGET observes its own batch's writes. It asserts CORRECTNESS rather than a deferral count because the count is only wrong when the workspace's shard is foreign to the connection and SO_REUSEPORT decides that -- the correctness claim holds for every connection, so twelve make placement moot. Run 8x consecutively, green. Verified by mutation: dropping the workspace arm reproduces 5/12 losses. `pco13` gains a single-shard leg -- the shape the mask is most tempted to wave through -- and its final correctness block is relabelled: those keys span two shards, so calling them "co-located" was wrong. Refs #513, #507, #702 author: Tin Dang
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The S4 commit landed with the acceptance run still in flight and said so. It has now completed -- 120 legs, 0 failures -- so this replaces the "pending" wording everywhere it appears rather than leaving a stale claim in CHANGELOG, the production guide, and the task file. Two-box GCE ARM, same binary toggled only by --cross-shard-fast-path, ABBA-ordered, n=10 reps per cell: s1 p1 -0.05% CI -0.82..+0.72 4/10 p=0.75 0.0% served in place s8 p1 -8.61% CI -11.55..-5.67 10/10 p=0.002 50.5% served in place s8 p16 +6.46% CI -10.05..+22.98 4/10 p=0.75 30.3% served in place The s1 row is the negative control, not a result: every read there is already local, so the path must never fire and must show nothing. It fires 0.0% of the time and its CI straddles zero. That is what makes the s8 p1 row worth believing -- a "win" at s1 would have meant the harness was measuring something other than the flag. The default stays `off` because of s8 p16, NOT because of doubt about s8 p1. At depth 16 the effect is not measurable at this n, and the enabled leg's run-to-run variance roughly doubles (sd 1.24 vs 0.55 us/op, max 7.55 vs 5.23) instead of shifting -- a contention signature rather than a uniform regression. Shipping default-on would hand pipelined deployments an unexplained variance increase for no measured gain. Two open questions are recorded in the task file rather than guessed at here. Capture is only ~58% of eligible reads at p1 (50.5% of all reads where 7/8 are foreign) with no confirmed explanation, and falls to 30.3% at p16 -- plausibly because `pending_mask` declines on any in-flight remote work, so one decline poisons the rest of a pipelined batch for that shard. Narrowing that guard to writes only would raise capture a lot and sits directly on the moon#507/#512 silent-write-loss surface, so it needs its own red test first. Raw data committed alongside the task file as abba_s4_acceptance.csv. Refs: #416, #776 author: Tin Dang
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A2a) (#768) Since #512 closed the #507 write-loss inversion, a multi-key command in the middle of a pipeline forced the batch tail to defer across a dispatch boundary. #721 (A1) took the case where a single shard owns every key. This takes the genuinely SPANNING case, for the two per-key decomposable READS: MGET and EXISTS. The command is split per owner shard and each part is routed exactly like an ordinary single-shard command at the command's own position in the batch -- appended to remote_groups[owner], or run inline against the local slice -- and the parts are folded back into one client reply at the drain. That removes the coordinator's second, immediate SPSC push, which was the #507 inversion, rather than merely declining to wait for it. Ordering is per-key: a key has exactly one owner, every operation on it in the batch lands in that owner's vector in loop order, and one thread executes that vector in order. must_wait_for_pending_remote and the routing side now consult ONE function, multikey_placement, so the guard cannot say "safe" about a command that routing still runs inline. Everything uncertain resolves to Coordinator and keeps waiting: workspace connections, an untrustworthy key mask, anything inside a cross-shard TXN, MSETNX/BITOP/COPY, and MSET/DEL/UNLINK -- those last are decomposable, but splitting a WRITE adds per-part AOF, replication, group-commit and tracking-invalidation work, and are held back to A2b so a durability bug and a throughput change cannot bisect to one commit. The fan-out sits strictly BELOW the #500 txn_multikey_write refusal in both handlers. One-shard behaviour is bit-for-bit unchanged: at --shards 1 every key mask has one bit, so multikey_placement answers Slotted and the branch is unreachable, which respects the handler_sharded/handler_monoio num_shards<=1 asymmetry without a shard-count check of its own. handler_single.rs and src/shard/ are untouched. A part that fails for any reason -- backpressure give-up, reply timeout, the shard's own error, or a slot nothing ever wrote -- fails the whole reply rather than assembling a partial answer. INFO stats gains total_pipeline_multikey_fanout (moon_pipeline_multikey_fanout_total), one increment per fanned-out command. It is load-bearing, not curiosity: the deferral counter alone cannot separate a real fix from a dangerous one, because a change that merely stopped waiting while the command still ran inline would drive deferrals to zero too, and that is #507 reopened. Mutation-tested -- that mutation passes the deferral assertion and is caught only by this counter. Tests: pco16 asserts 0 deferrals AND 32 fan-outs across all six shard pairs at --shards 4, plus an order-sensitive interleaved-key value leg and an EXISTS leg. pco12/pco13/pco15 controls moved off spanning MGET -- the shape this change deliberately stops deferring -- onto spanning MSET or keyless DBSIZE; pco12's subject assertion flips from >0 to ==0 as its own comment instructed. 10 unit tests cover the split/fold machinery directly. Refs: #513, #507, #512, #721, #500, #592 author: Tin Dang
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L4 S4. A read whose key lives on a foreign shard no longer pays an SPSC
round-trip: `try_foreign_db_read` takes the owner's per-(shard, db) lock
with a single CAS and runs `dispatch_read` on the calling thread. It never
parks -- if the owner holds the write lock the call returns `None` and the
command falls through to the existing SPSC path unchanged.
This was previously impossible, and the code said so: "ShardSlice is
thread-local; foreign-shard data can only be read via SPSC hop". The L4
shared-read plane removes that blocker -- `Database` now lives behind a
lock in a process-wide registry and is statically asserted `Send + Sync`.
Every decline condition guards a previously-measured failure, not a
hypothetical one:
* `pending_mask` -- serving here while this connection has in-flight
remote work on the target lets the read overtake the connection's own
earlier write (the moon#507/#512 write-loss class).
* `single_owner_shard` -- a spanning multi-key read executed against one
slice reads the wrong table (moon#592). Read straight off
`multikey_placement` so it cannot drift from the routing it mirrors.
* `!is_multi_key_command` -- conservative for v1; an all-on-one-shard
MGET can still have keys the primary-key hotness probe does not cover.
* `db.is_hot` -- `dispatch_read` does not consult the cold tier (the
moon#610 class), so a non-resident key must take the promoting path.
Post-processing mirrors the local read path exactly -- tracking
registration, RESP3 shaping, workspace prefix stripping -- so the fast
path cannot answer differently from the path it replaces.
Measured, two-box GCE ARM (t2a-standard-8, dedicated load generator),
same binary with the flag off vs on, ABBA-ordered, 9 complete reps at
--shards 8 --pipeline 1:
CPU/op -8.41% (median -8.31%, 95% CI -11.67..-5.15)
throughput +10.65%
sign test 9/9 reps cheaper with the fast path on, p=0.0039
fast path served 51.0% of all reads
The --shards 1 negative control (where every read is already local, so
the flag must show nothing) and the p=16 cell are still in flight; the
default therefore stays `off` until the full acceptance matrix clears.
docs/production-guide.md documented this flag, an `auto` default, and two
metrics for a path that was disabled in code and never took a flag at all
-- the server rejected `--cross-shard-fast-path` outright (moon#776). The
flag and both metric names now exist and match what the docs claimed,
with the section rewritten to the honest default and decline conditions.
tests/xshard_cleanup_shape.rs was a tripwire asserting this surface stays
dead. Its premise changed, so it is narrowed rather than silenced: the
five genuinely-dead symbols still fail the build if they return, and a
new two-sided pin asserts the four live symbols stay wired. Both pins
were mutation-checked. The rationale is recorded in the task file.
Refs: #416, #776
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The S4 commit landed with the acceptance run still in flight and said so. It has now completed -- 120 legs, 0 failures -- so this replaces the "pending" wording everywhere it appears rather than leaving a stale claim in CHANGELOG, the production guide, and the task file. Two-box GCE ARM, same binary toggled only by --cross-shard-fast-path, ABBA-ordered, n=10 reps per cell: s1 p1 -0.05% CI -0.82..+0.72 4/10 p=0.75 0.0% served in place s8 p1 -8.61% CI -11.55..-5.67 10/10 p=0.002 50.5% served in place s8 p16 +6.46% CI -10.05..+22.98 4/10 p=0.75 30.3% served in place The s1 row is the negative control, not a result: every read there is already local, so the path must never fire and must show nothing. It fires 0.0% of the time and its CI straddles zero. That is what makes the s8 p1 row worth believing -- a "win" at s1 would have meant the harness was measuring something other than the flag. The default stays `off` because of s8 p16, NOT because of doubt about s8 p1. At depth 16 the effect is not measurable at this n, and the enabled leg's run-to-run variance roughly doubles (sd 1.24 vs 0.55 us/op, max 7.55 vs 5.23) instead of shifting -- a contention signature rather than a uniform regression. Shipping default-on would hand pipelined deployments an unexplained variance increase for no measured gain. Two open questions are recorded in the task file rather than guessed at here. Capture is only ~58% of eligible reads at p1 (50.5% of all reads where 7/8 are foreign) with no confirmed explanation, and falls to 30.3% at p16 -- plausibly because `pending_mask` declines on any in-flight remote work, so one decline poisons the rest of a pipelined batch for that shard. Narrowing that guard to writes only would raise capture a lot and sits directly on the moon#507/#512 silent-write-loss surface, so it needs its own red test first. Raw data committed alongside the task file as abba_s4_acceptance.csv. Refs: #416, #776 author: Tin Dang
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…777) * perf(shard): add the L4 shared-read-plane registry skeleton (S1) Cross-shard reads cost a park. Fitting per-command CPU against pipeline depth on GCE t2a-standard-8 (aarch64, 8 vCPU) gives cost = 0.413 - 0.046*msgs/cmd + 2.488*parks/cmd (CPU%/kops) 2.49 per park, ~zero per message. At p=1 the park term is 85% of the total. A keyed command whose key lives on another shard takes an SPSC hop and parks awaiting the reply, because `ShardSlice` is deliberately `!Send + !Sync` -- it owns VectorStore, TextStore, GraphStore and the lazy registries, none of which are Sync. This adds the plane that lets a foreign shard serve a READ on the calling thread instead, sharing strictly one thing: `Database`. Nothing calls it yet. Why per-(shard, db) and not a whole-slice lock: - A whole-slice `RwLock<ShardSlice>` cannot exist in a static without unsafe (the `_not_send` marker), and sharing it would silently expose the non-Sync stores cross-thread. `Database` is `Send + Sync` today, so this plane is entirely safe Rust -- no `unsafe` block is introduced. - One lock per (shard, db) means a write to db 0 does not exclude a foreign read of db 3, and never blocks vector/text/graph work. `CachePadded` keeps the words off each other's lines: s8 x 16 dbs = 8KB, and nothing per key. The rule that makes it safe to reason about: foreign readers use `try_read` and NEVER park. One CAS; on failure the command falls through to the SPSC path it takes today. A foreign reader therefore cannot convoy behind the owner -- the failure mode that collapsed the earlier reply-spin experiment 32x -- and owner writes cannot be starved by reader arrival rate, because parking_lot sets WRITER_BIT immediately (even with readers inside) after which every `try_read` refuses and diverts to SPSC. Contents: - `ShardDbSet::{db_count, read, write, try_read, write_pair, write_all}`. `write_pair` and `write_all` acquire in ascending index order -- the single deadlock rule in the module. - `DbReadGuard`/`DbWriteGuard` RAII wrappers. The design returned raw parking_lot guards alongside a manually-released re-entrancy bit; a bit that must be released by hand is a bit that leaks on an early return or an unwind, so the release is Drop-managed and there is a test for the unwind. - Thread-local re-entrancy mask restoring the loud failure the RefCell used to give. Re-acquiring a db inside its own guard would DEADLOCK on a real RwLock where the RefCell merely panicked; the mask panics instead. Foreign `try_read` pays nothing -- a single non-blocking attempt cannot deadlock. - `build_sets` split out from `install_registry` so the construction is testable without poisoning a process-wide OnceLock for every other test in the binary. Every guard here was attacked before being trusted. Four mutants, each caught: 1. re-entrancy assert removed -> 1 test failed 2. DepthToken::drop stops releasing -> 4 tests failed 3. per-db granularity collapsed -> 3 tests failed 4. `Rc<()>` field added to Database -> refused to COMPILE Mutant 4 is the contract the whole design rests on: `static L4_REGISTRY` requires `Database: Send + Sync`, so anyone who later adds a non-Sync field breaks the build instead of silently making the shared plane unsound. Tests: 13 new unit tests, all green; clippy clean; both runtime legs compile. Refs: #513 author: Tin Dang * perf(shard): move shard databases behind the L4 lock plane (S2) Behaviour-preserving and unflagged: every site that had exclusive access to a database before has exclusive access after. This step exists so a later one can let a foreign shard serve a READ of a key this shard owns without the cross-shard hop -- and the park that costs. ShardSlice.databases: Box<[Database]> -> Arc<ShardDbSet> The Databases now live in a registry of per-(shard, db) `CachePadded<RwLock<Database>>`, built by `ShardDatabases::new` on the main thread before any shard thread spawns, so the registry cannot race its readers into existence. Each shard holds an Arc into its own set. Why this is worth doing at all. Fitting per-command CPU against pipeline depth on GCE t2a-standard-8 (aarch64, 8 vCPU): cost = 0.413 - 0.046*msgs/cmd + 2.488*parks/cmd (CPU%/kops) 2.49 per park, ~zero per message; at p=1 the park term is 85% of the total. Cross-shard reads pay one park each. Nothing about sending fewer messages helps. Why per-(shard, db). A write to db 0 must not exclude a read of db 3, and no lock is taken on any per-key path -- one per command, not per key. s8 x 16 dbs costs 8KB of padding and nothing per key. A whole-slice lock was measured (prototype) and is unshippable: it shares the `!Send` ShardSlice, which needs unsafe and exposes non-Sync vector/text/graph stores. Why locks rather than something cleverer. Values are heap-owning (Bytes, HashMap, Listpack) and `get_mut` mutates them in place, so a seqlock can dereference a freed pointer and epoch/RCU needs copy-on-write on the write hot path -- an allocation where allocations are banned. No `unsafe` is introduced. `Database` is Send + Sync, and `static L4_REGISTRY` now pins that as a compile-time contract: a non-Sync field added to `Database` breaks the build rather than silently making the plane unsound. The slice's `!Send` marker is untouched. Two hazards the compiler cannot see, and what handles them: - A guard crossing an `.await` deadlocks. Guards are handed out through FnOnce closures, so a guard cannot escape and cannot cross an await -- the rule is enforced by the type system, not by review. - Re-acquiring a database inside its own guard DEADLOCKS on a real RwLock where the RefCell merely panicked. A thread-local mask restores the loud failure. `tests/l4_db_guard_recursion.rs` covers it over a real socket, and is proven discriminating: injecting a live `read(sel_db)` across the FLUSHALL `with_all` makes it FAIL. It uses HSET and SET..EX, never bare SET, because SET is served by the inline path and never reaches the arm under test. 144 call sites across 20 files. Four multi-db helpers (`flush_every_database`, `rdb::save_to_bytes`, `redis_rdb::load_rdb`, `snapshot::shard_snapshot_load`) became generic over Borrow/BorrowMut<Database>, which left every existing caller unchanged. Cross-db atomicity is preserved where it was observable: SWAPDB, FLUSHALL (moon#677), RDB load, PSYNC capture and DEBUG DIGEST take every guard together rather than looping independent ones. Two defects found on the way, both fixed here: - Replica-side SWAPDB would have become a silent no-op. Under `with_all` the slice is `&mut [&mut Database]`, so the original `mem::swap` would have exchanged the two REFERENCES in a temporary and left the databases untouched -- a replica diverging while replying +OK. `ShardDbSet::swap` exchanges contents under an ascending-ordered pair of write guards. - `handler_sharded/ft.rs:498` was left unconverted and BOTH standing lint legs reported green: `handler_sharded` is cfg(runtime-tokio) so the default leg skips it, and the tokio leg drops `text-index` so it skips that block. Proven by injecting `let _: u8 = "not a u8";` there -- default 0 errors, tokio 0 errors, tokio+text-index 1. A `clippy (tokio+text-index)` leg is added to both `scripts/ci-local.sh` and `ci.yml` to close the hole. Also adds `docs/internal/cross-shard-cost-model.md`: the cost model, the profile breakdown (83% of moon's user time is not Redis work), seven measured dead ends, and five of my own claims that turned out to be wrong -- so none get re-derived. Tests: monoio 6125 passed / 0 failed across 263 binaries; tokio 5331 passed / 0 failed across 262. clippy -D warnings clean on all three feature legs; fmt, audit-unsafe and audit-unwrap clean. Zero new unsafe blocks. Refs: #513 author: Tin Dang * perf(shard): drop the per-command Arc clone from the owner's db lookup `with_shard_db` was doing this on every command: let set = with_shard(|slice| Arc::clone(&slice.databases)); A RefCell borrow plus an Arc INCREMENT and, on drop, a DECREMENT -- two atomic RMWs per command on top of the two the lock itself needs, doubling the cost the design budgeted for the owner path. The registry is a `'static` OnceLock, so a shard's set can be held as `&'static ShardDbSet` with no refcount traffic at all. `init_shard` publishes that handle into a thread-local `Cell`, and the per-command path becomes a thread-local read and nothing else. The handle is published ONLY when the registry holds the very same set the slice does, compared by `Arc::ptr_eq` rather than by trusting the shard id. Unit tests build slices outside the registry; those threads keep the old Arc-cloning path, which is correct, just slower. Getting this wrong in the other direction -- caching a handle to a DIFFERENT shard's locks -- would be silent and catastrophic, so the check is a pointer comparison, not a heuristic. Both directions are tested, and the liveness test is proven discriminating: stubbing out the publish makes `init_shard_publishes_the_refcount_free_handle` FAIL. Without that test a regression here would cost the Arc traffic back and nothing would go red. Honest scope: this is NOT the fix for the owner-tax regression measured on GCE t2a-standard-8. That regression is +3.4% CPU/op at `--shards 8` (paired median, n=8 interleaved, noise floor 0.20%, 7 of 8 reps positive) and it does NOT appear at `--shards 1` (-2.6%, inside a 6.3% noise floor). Since the shards=1 path is where `with_shard_db` dominates, the regression lives on the CROSS-SHARD path, which does not call this function -- `spsc_handler` takes its guards directly. The measured 1764 ns/op is also ~80x more than two uncontended atomics can account for, so the per-command acquire is not a sufficient explanation either. Localising it needs a profile, not another guess. This commit stands on its own merits -- fewer atomics on the owner path, with the safety check and tests to make it maintainable -- and is deliberately not claimed as the regression fix. Refs: #513 author: Tin Dang * perf(shard): take a shared guard on the owner read path (L4 S3) `with_shard_db_read` landed with the L4 plane skeleton and then had zero callers: every owner read still went through `with_shard_db`, taking the database's WRITE lock to serve a GET. This wires up the four owner read sites so a read takes the shared guard the plane was built to provide. Sites converted (each file has a single-key read and the local part of a spanning multi-key read): - src/server/conn/handler_monoio/mod.rs:2517,3444 - src/server/conn/handler_sharded/mod.rs:2034,2818 `dispatch_read` was already written for shared access — its hot-key sketch uses a relaxed fetch_add and a try_lock that drops the sample under contention, with a comment stating this is so "concurrent cross-shard fast-path reads never block here". S3 wires up an intent the read path had already encoded. Correctness is carried by the type system rather than by inspection: the closure parameter goes from `&mut Database` to `&Database`, so any site that needed mutation fails to compile. The plane's own guarantees are already covered in src/shard/db_plane.rs (concurrent_shared_reads_coexist, foreign_try_read_refuses_while_a_writer_holds_the_db, and the re-entrancy panics). No behaviour change, and deliberately no new test: an exclusive holder is replaced by a shared one on a thread that is the sole writer, so nothing previously serialised becomes concurrent yet and no test can distinguish before from after. The win is unlocked by S4, where a foreign shard serves a read of this database instead of hopping to the owner. This does NOT extend to the SPSC batch loop. That loop calls the full `dispatch`, which requires `&mut Database`; switching it to `dispatch_read` to justify a shared guard would reintroduce the moon#610 cold-tier read-bug class. Verified: cargo check --all-targets clean on both runtimes; cargo test monoio 6142 passed / 0 failed (263 binaries), tokio 5348 passed / 0 failed (262 binaries); cargo fmt --check clean. author: Tin Dang * feat(shard): serve cross-shard reads under a shared guard, no SPSC hop L4 S4. A read whose key lives on a foreign shard no longer pays an SPSC round-trip: `try_foreign_db_read` takes the owner's per-(shard, db) lock with a single CAS and runs `dispatch_read` on the calling thread. It never parks -- if the owner holds the write lock the call returns `None` and the command falls through to the existing SPSC path unchanged. This was previously impossible, and the code said so: "ShardSlice is thread-local; foreign-shard data can only be read via SPSC hop". The L4 shared-read plane removes that blocker -- `Database` now lives behind a lock in a process-wide registry and is statically asserted `Send + Sync`. Every decline condition guards a previously-measured failure, not a hypothetical one: * `pending_mask` -- serving here while this connection has in-flight remote work on the target lets the read overtake the connection's own earlier write (the moon#507/#512 write-loss class). * `single_owner_shard` -- a spanning multi-key read executed against one slice reads the wrong table (moon#592). Read straight off `multikey_placement` so it cannot drift from the routing it mirrors. * `!is_multi_key_command` -- conservative for v1; an all-on-one-shard MGET can still have keys the primary-key hotness probe does not cover. * `db.is_hot` -- `dispatch_read` does not consult the cold tier (the moon#610 class), so a non-resident key must take the promoting path. Post-processing mirrors the local read path exactly -- tracking registration, RESP3 shaping, workspace prefix stripping -- so the fast path cannot answer differently from the path it replaces. Measured, two-box GCE ARM (t2a-standard-8, dedicated load generator), same binary with the flag off vs on, ABBA-ordered, 9 complete reps at --shards 8 --pipeline 1: CPU/op -8.41% (median -8.31%, 95% CI -11.67..-5.15) throughput +10.65% sign test 9/9 reps cheaper with the fast path on, p=0.0039 fast path served 51.0% of all reads The --shards 1 negative control (where every read is already local, so the flag must show nothing) and the p=16 cell are still in flight; the default therefore stays `off` until the full acceptance matrix clears. docs/production-guide.md documented this flag, an `auto` default, and two metrics for a path that was disabled in code and never took a flag at all -- the server rejected `--cross-shard-fast-path` outright (moon#776). The flag and both metric names now exist and match what the docs claimed, with the section rewritten to the honest default and decline conditions. tests/xshard_cleanup_shape.rs was a tripwire asserting this surface stays dead. Its premise changed, so it is narrowed rather than silenced: the five genuinely-dead symbols still fail the build if they return, and a new two-sided pin asserts the four live symbols stay wired. Both pins were mutation-checked. The rationale is recorded in the task file. Refs: #416, #776 author: Tin Dang * docs(shard): record the S4 acceptance matrix and keep the default off The S4 commit landed with the acceptance run still in flight and said so. It has now completed -- 120 legs, 0 failures -- so this replaces the "pending" wording everywhere it appears rather than leaving a stale claim in CHANGELOG, the production guide, and the task file. Two-box GCE ARM, same binary toggled only by --cross-shard-fast-path, ABBA-ordered, n=10 reps per cell: s1 p1 -0.05% CI -0.82..+0.72 4/10 p=0.75 0.0% served in place s8 p1 -8.61% CI -11.55..-5.67 10/10 p=0.002 50.5% served in place s8 p16 +6.46% CI -10.05..+22.98 4/10 p=0.75 30.3% served in place The s1 row is the negative control, not a result: every read there is already local, so the path must never fire and must show nothing. It fires 0.0% of the time and its CI straddles zero. That is what makes the s8 p1 row worth believing -- a "win" at s1 would have meant the harness was measuring something other than the flag. The default stays `off` because of s8 p16, NOT because of doubt about s8 p1. At depth 16 the effect is not measurable at this n, and the enabled leg's run-to-run variance roughly doubles (sd 1.24 vs 0.55 us/op, max 7.55 vs 5.23) instead of shifting -- a contention signature rather than a uniform regression. Shipping default-on would hand pipelined deployments an unexplained variance increase for no measured gain. Two open questions are recorded in the task file rather than guessed at here. Capture is only ~58% of eligible reads at p1 (50.5% of all reads where 7/8 are foreign) with no confirmed explanation, and falls to 30.3% at p16 -- plausibly because `pending_mask` declines on any in-flight remote work, so one decline poisons the rest of a pipelined batch for that shard. Narrowing that guard to writes only would raise capture a lot and sits directly on the moon#507/#512 silent-write-loss surface, so it needs its own red test first. Raw data committed alongside the task file as abba_s4_acceptance.csv. Refs: #416, #776 author: Tin Dang * fix(shard): stop the S4 flag from silently doing nothing on the tokio leg `scripts/ci-local.sh --native` caught what the S4 commit's own gate did not: `cross_shard_reads_take_the_fast_path_and_answer_like_the_slow_one` failed 3 of 3 tries on the tokio suite. Not a flake -- a real gap. The fast path is implemented in `handler_monoio`; `handler_sharded`, which the tokio runtime uses, still routes every cross-shard read through SPSC, so `total_dispatch_cross_read_fast` cannot move there and the test's load-bearing "the counter advanced" assertion fails exactly as designed. The S4 gate ran `cargo check` on the tokio leg, not the tokio test suite, so it never compiled or ran that file. `cargo check` does not build tests. Two things were wrong, and the second is the one that mattered: 1. The test file was not runtime-gated. Now `#![cfg(not(feature = "runtime-tokio"))]`. Gating the WHOLE file, not just the failing test: the other two would have passed vacuously on tokio, reporting the read-your-own-writes ordering guard as verified on a runtime where the path it guards never executes. A vacuous pass is worse than a skip. 2. The server accepted `--cross-shard-fast-path on` under runtime-tokio and silently did nothing -- an operator could tune against a no-op and watch the counter sit at 0 with no explanation. That is precisely the moon#776 failure this feature was written to correct, so reproducing it one runtime over would have been indefensible. Startup now warns on that runtime, and the production guide says so in the flag table. Verified both directions rather than assumed: the tokio leg now builds the file to `running 0 tests`, and the monoio leg still runs 3 passed. Refs: #416, #776 author: Tin Dang * feat(shard): count cross-shard parks instead of inferring them docs/internal/cross-shard-cost-model.md puts a park at ~24.9 core-us and 85% of p=1 cost, and every cross-shard decision since has rested on that. But the park count was never measured -- it was FITTED from a pipeline-depth sweep. Before building park-batching on top of that model, count the thing. `ResponseSlotFuture::poll` is where the decision happens: a first poll that finds the slot already filled did not park, one that finds it empty did. Four counters, all Relaxed (diagnostics, never read for control flow): total_remote_awaits every first poll total_remote_awaits_parked first polls that suspended total_remote_await_repolls later polls still pending (spurious wakes) total_remote_park_concurrency_sum sum of in-flight depth at park time The last one is the load-bearing number. `sum / parked` is the mean count of awaits parked at the moment of parking -- i.e. how many parks a single batched wake could have replaced. ~1 means there is nothing to batch. Re-polls are counted apart from parks on purpose: charging a spurious wake as a park would inflate exactly the number the batching decision is judged on. The in-flight gauge is signed so an unbalanced decrement reads as negative rather than wrapping to ~1.8e19 and looking plausible, and `Drop` releases it when a future is abandoned mid-park (shutdown break, panic-unwind) -- leaking there would make the mean climb without bound. First measurement, local, 4 shards, redis-benchmark c=50, GET: p=1 88,629 cmds 88,629 awaits 88,600 parked -> 0.9997 parks/cmd p=16 147,985 cmds 37,070 awaits 12,498 parked -> 0.0844 parks/cmd Parks per command fall 11.8x from p=1 to p=16. The cost model inferred 14x from curve-fitting; a direct count now corroborates it. Every cross-shard command at p=1 is exactly one await and parks 99.97% of the time. Tests are serialised under a mutex because the counters are process-global and cargo test runs them in threads -- an exact delta is the point of a counter test, so serialise rather than loosen the assertion. Refs: #416 author: Tin Dang
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* docs(benchmark): first Moon-vs-Redis matrix since v0.6.0, and what it corrects BENCHMARK.md backed v0.6.0 and its headline KV rows dated from 2026-04-15 on v0.1.6. Eight releases and 112 src/ commits later nothing had re-measured it, so §1 and the README were quoting ratios no one had reproduced in five months. §2.12 re-measures v0.8.7 (d63ffcd) on both GCE arches using §2.11's interleaved method — legs alternate every rep, Redis 7.0.15 is restarted and re-measured every rep as a live drift control, request counts scale with depth, provenance written into the CSV. 266 rows per arch, 0 failures, floors 0.2-3.6%. The peak numbers hold and are in fact better than published (GET 2.40x x86 / 2.29x ARM vs the recorded 1.72x/2.20x). The FRAMING does not: GET and plain SET are the only two commands on the inline byte path, and every other family runs 0.40-0.67x Redis from p=8 up, identically on both architectures. That is not inferred — `SET k v` runs 2.08x Redis and `SET k v EX 100`, the same work with one option that disqualifies it from the fast path, runs 0.87x. §2.13 dates the deficit. v0.6.0 rebuilt on the same host already ran 0.51-0.76x at p>=8, so the report never regressed — it simply never computed those ratios, including in §2.11, which ran this exact grid three weeks ago and reduced it only to Moon-vs-Moon deltas. But a further 9-21% write-path loss did land: ten of twelve rows regressed against floors of 0.4-1.6%, and GET, the only read in the grid, lost nothing. A 9-point rebuild sweep shows three steps rather than one cliff, which is why this was not bisected: bisect assumes a single step change and would have returned the 08-19 drop as the whole cause, missing two thirds of the loss. Four mechanisms were proposed and tested to destruction rather than shipped as plausible-sounding prose — the intercept chain shrank (28->26 gates), the cmd_len==4 guard theory reverses under an INCR-vs-INCRBY probe, the with_shard_db fallback is never taken, and ShardSlice did not grow. What the profile can support is stated; what fat LTO makes unattributable is stated too. README gains the same scope caveat, and the p=1 busy-poll claim now records that 1.65-1.66x needs dedicated cores. Raw data in tmp/: kvab-{x86,arm}.csv, versab-x86.csv, sweep-x86.csv, probe-arm.csv, lenprobe.csv. author: Tin Dang * perf(dispatch): ordinary keyspace commands skip 21 intercept gates BENCHMARK.md 2.12 measured every non-inlined command family at 0.40-0.67x Redis from p=8 upward while GET and plain SET win 1.78-2.40x. Profiling the gap showed +5.5 points of per-command cost sitting in the dispatch/intercept region relative to v0.6.0. Reading the handler explains part of it. Every command walks 26 intercept gates before reaching dispatch. Only six carry a `cmd_len` pre-guard -- added deliberately, per the comment at the call site, because the bodies are "too large for rustc to inline" -- and twelve are `async fn`s, so an INCR builds and polls twelve futures purely to be told "not mine" twelve times. That optimisation was applied to six of twenty-six and never finished. `CommandFlags` is a u16 with bits 0..13 used, so `NO_INTERCEPT` costs a free bit and no memory: it rides in the same COMMAND_META entry the arity check already reads. One lookup and one bit test replace 21 gate calls. The gates and their ORDER are untouched. The ordering comments above them are not decoration -- they record the bugs that fixed each position (ACL above every privileged intercept, workspace rewrite above every key-reader, MULTI queue below ACL, MONITOR below both). Reordering them to save a branch would re-open those, so the chain is guarded, not rearranged. The four STATE gates -- ACL, cluster routing, readonly, disk-full -- apply to every command whatever its name and are deliberately left unguarded. The bit's sense is inverted on purpose. "This command IS intercepted" is fail-open: a new intercept whose command nobody flagged would be silently skipped, and no throughput test would notice. Unmarked means slow path, so adding either a command or an intercept can cost speed and never correctness. 67 plain keyspace commands are marked; everything else keeps the full chain. The drift guard was verified to work rather than assumed: marking WAIT -- which try_handle_wait provably claims -- makes tests/intercept_flag_drift.rs fail with that name, and unmarking it makes it pass again. `is_inline_intercepted` (shared.rs) was considered for collapsing onto this bit and rejected: it answers the narrower "does this intercept touch keys" for moon#507, and !NO_INTERCEPT is a strict superset. Expected recovery is ~3-5% of cycles. It does not close 0.43x -> 1.0x; the larger cost is the ~10.7% of Frame/Bytes lifecycle that the inline GET/SET path skips and every other command pays. Refs #507 author: Tin Dang * perf(command): answer "is this reply an error" from a borrow, not a clone The monoio local write path built `response_frame` by cloning the `DispatchResult`'s `Frame` and then used it for exactly one thing: `matches!(response_frame, Frame::Error(_))`. `response_frame` had those two occurrences in the whole file and no others, so the clone produced nothing but work. For a `Frame::Array` reply that is a deep clone -- a fresh `FrameVec` box plus one `Bytes` refcount bump per element, plus the matching drops -- paid per command on the general write path. Wave 0 measured that path at 0.68x of single-threaded Redis at p8 with ZERO cross-shard hops, so every cycle here is single-thread execution cost. Adds `DispatchResult::is_error()`, a borrow-only `matches!` over both variants, and calls it at the one site. Semantics are unchanged by construction: the old expression and the new one test the same discriminant over the same two variants. Refs: tmp/WAVE1_B_FRAME.md section 2.1 (Wave 2-A, stage 1 of 3) author: Tin Dang * perf(storage): Database::set borrows its key instead of taking it `set(&mut self, key: Bytes, entry: Entry)` never moved the `Bytes` anywhere. Reading the whole body: `spill_inflight_forget(&key)`, `entry_overhead(&key, ..)`, `hash_expiry_index_note_value(&key, ..)`, `CompactKey::from(key.as_ref())` (which copies the bytes either way), `ColdIndex::remove(&key)`, and both expiry-index writers -- every one takes `&[u8]`. The owned parameter existed only as a signature. Its cost was paid at the call sites: `db.set(key.clone(), entry)` in every write command, i.e. one `shared_v_clone` on the way in and one `shared_v_drop` on the way out per command, for a refcount whose value is never read. Wave 0 measured moon `--shards 1` at 0.68x of single-threaded Redis at p8 on exactly these families, on a leg with zero cross-shard hops -- so this is straight single-thread execution cost. `set`, `set_string` and `set_string_with_expiry` now take `&[u8]`. That removes 32 `Some(k) => k.clone()` key extractions across the string, hash, list, set and sorted-set write paths. Six sites genuinely need ownership (the key outlives the borrow) and keep their clone; the compiler identified every one of them rather than a grep. It also deletes a real allocation, not just a refcount, from RESTORE, COPY, RENAME, MOVE, the cold-tier promote, WAL v3 replay and replication apply: each was building a throwaway `Bytes::copy_from_slice(key)` only to satisfy the old signature. Semantics are unchanged -- `set`'s body is byte-for-byte the same work with `&key` rewritten to `key`. Both runtimes check clean; clippy clean on both legs; 5110 lib tests pass. Refs: tmp/WAVE1_B_FRAME.md section 2.3 (Wave 2-A, stage 2 of 3) author: Tin Dang * perf(shard): ship the cross-shard read fast path enabled by default `--cross-shard-fast-path` now defaults to `auto` instead of `off`. At `--shards 8` on a populated keyspace it serves 100% of foreign reads on the calling thread and takes parks/cmd for GET at p=1 from 0.87336 to 0.00023 -- same binary, one flag apart, measured from INFO stats (total_dispatch_cross_read_fast / total_dispatch_cross_spsc / total_remote_awaits_parked). docs/internal/cross-shard-cost-model.md prices a park at ~24.9 core-us and at 85% of p=1 cost, so this is the largest single lever on the cross-shard read path. Against that fit it predicts 2.586 -> 0.413 CPU%/kops for cross-shard reads at p=1. Reads only. A cross-shard write still parks: the gate is `!is_write(cmd)`, and INCR/LPUSH/SADD/HSET/SET were measured unchanged at 0.875 parks/cmd with the flag on. The write side needs its own mechanism and is not addressed here. Why it shipped `off`, and why that reading was wrong. The evidence was moon#768's -8.61% CPU/op, a doubled s8 p16 variance, and the standing puzzle that #768 measured 50.5% of reads served in place where the model predicted 87.5%. All three come from one cause: the path declines a key that is not resident, because dispatch_read cannot consult the cold tier (the moon#610 class), and a declined read falls back to the SPSC hop. So the measured "in-place rate" was tracking the benchmark's key HIT rate, not the mechanism -- and a wandering hit rate is exactly the run-to-run variance that held the default down. Reproduced against DBSIZE: 63,114 keys resident gives 62.9% in place, 86,396 gives 86.2%, 98,169 gives 98.2%, 100,000 gives 100.0%. Populate to saturation before A/B-ing this flag, and report DBSIZE with the result. `auto` is a real policy, not an alias for `on`: it declines where the path cannot fire -- `--shards 1`, where every key is local and the branch is unreachable, and the tokio leg, where handler_sharded has no fast-path site (moon#776). A switch that cannot change behaviour must not read as enabled. `on` forces it regardless and still gets main.rs's tokio no-op warning. The policy is a pure function (`db_plane::resolve_cross_shard_fast_path`) so it is unit-tested rather than asserted at the call site, and it joins xshard_cleanup_shape's LIVE_SYMBOLS -- deleting it would silently revert the default while leaving the flag parsable, which is the defect that surface test exists to catch. `--cross-shard-fast-path off` is the rollback and is pinned by l4_cross_shard_read_fastpath::the_fast_path_stays_dark_when_the_flag_is_off. No gate in the fast path was weakened. In particular the moon#507/#512 `pending_mask` ordering gate is untouched: a foreign read is still served in place only when this connection has no in-flight remote work on that shard. Counter ratios were taken on macOS, which is legitimate for ratios and never for wall time; no throughput number is claimed here. The Linux A/B recipe is in tmp/WAVE2_B_PARALLEL.md. author: Tin Dang * docs(benchmark): measure NO_INTERCEPT on Linux and record the void first attempt The intercept-gate skip landed with an estimate (~3-5% of cycles) and no measurement. This records the real Linux/ARM A/B: INCR +11.5%/+16.8% at p8/p64, HSET +6.5/+12.0/+11.9%, LPUSH +8.7/+10.9%, SADD +7.6/+11.0%, geometric mean +3.9% over 18 cells with base/ni distributions disjoint at p64. Larger than the 3-5% predicted. GET/SET are bimodal in both arms and carry no signal -- the inline byte path serves them. The FIRST run of this A/B was void and the failure is worth recording: nisrv.sh reused `pkill -9 -x moon` from legsrv.sh, but its binaries are moon-base / moon-ni, so the pattern matched nothing and 16 servers accumulated on one SO_REUSEPORT port. Every arm was then load-balanced across a blend of both binaries, presenting as a 26-39% noise floor, a monotonic 83k->30k decay, and a perfectly null result (geomean 1.0023x, 18/18 within noise). Fixing the kill moved the same commit from "no effect" to "+8-17%, distributions disjoint". author: Tin Dang * docs(internal): record an eighth dead end and two measurement traps The cross-shard cost model exists for negative knowledge. Four additions, each from a measurement taken this wave. Dead end 8 -- shared guard for reads on the SPSC execute arms. All four SPSC execute arms take `s.databases.write(db_idx)` for every command, reads included, so an SPSC-routed read holds the owner's database exclusively for its whole execution: exactly the condition under which a foreign reader's try_read declines and diverts to the SPSC path it was avoiding. The argument predicts a self-sustaining loop. Implemented (shared guard + dispatch_read for hot, read-supported commands, exclusive otherwise) and measured: in-place rate 62.7% -> 62.9% at --shards 8 p=1. Premise refuted; the change was reverted rather than shipped, because a hot-path change with no measured effect is cost without evidence. Trap -- redis-benchmark's built-in tests mostly use ONE key, and -r cannot change it. Verified by FLUSHDB + run + DBSIZE against a live server: lpush, rpush, lpop, rpop, sadd, spop, hset and zadd touch a single literal key with or without -r (-r randomises the element, not the key). Only set, get, incr and mset take a randomised key, and only when -r is passed. For a shared-nothing server that is fatal to any scaling claim: one key is owned by one shard, so sN/s1 ~= 1.0 is the architecturally correct answer, not a finding. A 12-family matrix built on `redis-benchmark -t` has 8 families whose answer is fixed before the server starts. Trap -- a p=1 leg that is not CPU-bound measures the network, and its ratios collapse toward 1.0. The tell is a per-family throughput spread far narrower at p=1 than at p=64 on the same server: 1.29x versus 13.7x on one recent ARM matrix, with every p=1 leg 3-4x below what section 7 records for the same configuration at c=200. New section 8 -- the fast path's measured effect (parks/cmd 0.87336 -> 0.00023), why the old 50.5%-in-place puzzle was the benchmark's key hit rate rather than the mechanism, the closed-form model confirmed to four significant figures against INFO counters at three pipeline depths, mean park depth 12-18 at c=50 (so the 24.9 core-us constant is per-park CPU, not a serialized wait), and the finding that the multi-key coordinator path increments NONE of these counters: MSET of 4 uniform keys reads as 0.0016 parks/cmd -- "already optimal" -- while issuing 1.5-1.8 cross-thread notifies per command at every pipeline depth, and gaining only 2.6x from p=1 to p=64 where every other family gains 7-30x. author: Tin Dang * perf(command): format INCR's new value with itoa, not a per-op String `incrby_internal` stored its result as Entry::new_string(Bytes::from(new_val.to_string())) which allocates a `String` on the command hot path -- the allocation CLAUDE.md forbids by name in `src/command/` -- and then hands it to `CompactValue`, which copies the digits out and frees it immediately. A counter of twelve digits or fewer inlines into the 12-byte SSO payload, so the allocation was never even where the value ended up. INCR is the command the campaign profiled. `itoa::Buffer` formats into a stack buffer instead. To take it by reference the storage layer gains `CompactValue::from_slice` and `Entry::new_string_from_slice{,_with_expiry}` -- the same branch `from_redis_value` takes for `RedisValue::String`, minus the owned `Bytes` the caller had to build first. Nothing is lost by borrowing: both arms copy the bytes anyway, and the heap arm's supposed zero-copy `Bytes::into::<Vec<u8>>()` only applies at refcount 1, which a slice of a shared read buffer never is. Tested red first: the constructors are checked against `Entry::new_string` at every length from 0 to 32 bytes and at nine i64 magnitudes, because the 12/13-byte SSO boundary and both i64 extremes sit inside the range an INCR can reach. The guard was then mutated (heap arm truncating one byte) and confirmed to fail, so it is not vacuous. INCR itself is covered end to end on both the plain and the TTL-preserving arm, which use different constructors. Refs: tmp/WAVE1_B_FRAME.md section 2.5 (Wave 2-A, stage 3 of 3) author: Tin Dang * fix(config): resolve --cross-shard-fast-path against the RESOLVED shard count The previous commit sited the resolver call early in `main`, before shard setup, and passed it `config.shards`. That is the raw CLI value, and `--shards 0` -- auto-detect, the default deployment shape -- leaves it at `0` until `num_shards` is computed ~250 lines later. `auto` therefore saw `0`, returned `false`, and the fast path shipped DISABLED on exactly the multi-core hosts it was written for. A `--shards 8` operator got it; an operator who set nothing got nothing, and no log line, counter, or test said so. Move the resolve-and-set block to immediately after `record_shard_count(num_shards)` -- which reads the resolved count for the same reason -- and pass `num_shards`. Nothing between the two points re-execs or spawns a shard: `malloc_respawn` runs at the top of `main`, and the shard threads start after both. Guarded at two levels: - `resolve_cross_shard_fast_path("auto", 0, true) == Ok(false)` pins the pure function's answer for an unresolved count. `0` declining is the safe direction; the contract is that the caller must not hand it one. - A fourth case in the L4 integration suite spawns with `--shards 0` and NO `--cross-shard-fast-path` argument, then asserts `total_dispatch_cross_read_fast` moves. This is the case the existing three could not see: they all pass `--shards 4` plus an explicit flag, and all three stay GREEN with the bug reintroduced -- verified by building the mutated binary and running the suite against it. It skips with a message, rather than passing vacuously, where auto-detect resolves to one shard and there is no foreign read to serve. `stat()` grows a section-aware sibling because `num_shards` is reported in `INFO server`, not `INFO stats`, and reading the wrong section returns 0 -- which in this file would have read as "the fast path never fired". author: Tin Dang * perf(protocol): parse a flat multibulk in one pass, not two `parse()` walked the request bytes twice. `validate_frame` found every CRLF and computed every argument offset in order to return the frame's total length -- and threw all of the offsets away. `parse_frame_zerocopy` then walked the same bytes again to re-derive exactly those offsets. For a top-level `*N` of `$`-bulks, which is the shape of essentially every client command, `scan_flat_multibulk` now records each argument's span into a stack `SmallVec<[(u32,u32); 16]>` as it validates, and `parse_flat_multibulk` builds the `Frame` straight from the spans: one `memchr` walk and one `strict_atoi` per token instead of two, and no recursive non-inlinable call per element. The profile in tmp/CAMPAIGN_S8_CONTEXT.md attributes 3.77% to `parse_frame_zerocopy` alone, with `validate_frame`'s own cost folded into `protocol::parse` under fat LTO and therefore not separable. The fast path DECLINES on anything it does not handle exactly -- incomplete input, a malformed count or length, a negative count, a null bulk, a nested or non-bulk element, an over-limit count or payload, a RESP3 container, an inline command -- and the untouched two-pass path handles all of them with their existing error kinds and offsets. Declining more often than necessary is always safe; answering differently never is. It also mirrors one piece of leniency that looks like a bug and is not: `validate_frame` advances `pos += len + 2` past a bulk payload without checking those two bytes are CRLF, so `*1\r\n$1\r\naXY` parses. The scanner does not check them either. Verifying them would have made the fast path stricter than the path it replaces. Verification, in the order it happened: - The differential test came first and failed for the right reason (`parse_reference_two_pass` and the scanner did not exist). - `parse_reference_two_pass` is the pre-change pipeline, compiled only under `cfg(test)` / `feature = "fuzzing"`. The test compares it against `parse()` on ~50 hand-picked inputs AND every truncation of each, under four `ParseConfig`s including degenerate limits, across argc 0-20 x payload 0-300, draining whole pipelines rather than one frame. Comparison is on the frame, on the `Display` of the error (which carries the wire fault name, message and offset), and on the bytes consumed. - Five deliberate mutations of the scanner were each confirmed to make those tests fail, so the differential is not vacuous. - A new `resp_parse_fused` fuzz target runs the same differential and is registered in BOTH matrices in `.github/workflows/fuzz.yml`. It found a REAL divergence in 90 seconds on its first run (see below), then ran 1,975,081 executions clean after the fix. The bug it found: `strict_atoi` reads a lone `-` (and `-0`) as ZERO, while `parse()`'s `is_null_multibulk` gate keys on the raw byte `buf[1] == b'-'` and not on the parsed count. So `*-\r\n` is silently consumed by the two-pass path with no frame reported, where the scanner's `count < 0` test let it through as an empty array. The scanner now declines on the byte. Nothing released is affected -- the fast path had not shipped -- but the shape is a trap for any future fast path over these bytes, so it is recorded in CHANGELOG and pinned by four corpus entries. Blast radius is `src/protocol/parse.rs` only; no signature changed anywhere else. Refs: tmp/WAVE1_B_FRAME.md section 4 stage 2 / alternative C author: Tin Dang * fix(protocol): bound the fast path's span reserve by the buffer, not the wire `scan_flat_multibulk` reserved `SmallVec::with_capacity(count)` where `count` comes straight off the wire, bounded only by `config.max_array_length` -- 1Mi by default. `*1048576\r\n` is ten bytes and would have reserved 8 MiB before the scan reached the first element and discovered the frame was incomplete. A client can repeat that at line rate. The two-pass path this replaces never had the amplification: it reaches `FrameVec::with_capacity(count)` only inside `parse_frame_zerocopy`, which runs after `validate_frame` has proved the entire frame is present, so the bytes in the buffer bound the count for free. Moving the allocation ahead of the walk is what created the hole, so the scanner has to re-derive the bound itself. `span_capacity` caps the reserve at `buf.len() / 6`. Six bytes is the shortest an element can be -- `$0\r\n` plus the two trailing bytes every bulk is charged -- so the cap can never under-allocate a scan that goes on to succeed, and `SmallVec` grows regardless if it somehow did. Found by reading back the diff of the commit before it, not by a test, which is why the test came second here rather than first. It is pinned now: the attack shape, the degenerate `(usize::MAX, 0)` case, and an assertion that four real commands still get capacity for every argument. Not present in any release -- the fast path landed one commit ago on this branch. author: Tin Dang * docs(storage): separate the two paragraphs of Database::set's doc comment The borrowed-key rationale added in 7e147ff ran straight on from the PERF-08 paragraph with no `///` between them, so rustdoc rendered the two as one. Comment only. author: Tin Dang * test(bench): add the argc>4 parse pair, so the FrameVec spill can be measured `FrameVec` is `Box<SmallVec<[Frame; 4]>>`, so `with_capacity(count)` heap-spills past four elements: a `*5` command pays two allocations where a `*3` pays one. tmp/CAMPAIGN_S8_CONTEXT.md records `SET k v` at 2.08x and `SET k v EX 100` at 0.87x against Redis and attributes the whole step to the inline byte path -- which is certainly the dominant term, since one command qualifies for that path and the other does not. But a second, independent step sits at exactly the same argc boundary and nothing has ever separated the two. `parse_set_ex_5arg` (`*5`) pairs with the existing `parse_set_single` (`*3`). `parse_hset_4arg` and `parse_hset_6arg` are the control the tmp/WAVE1_B_FRAME.md section 2.6 probe asked for: same command, same work per argument, only the argument count differs -- and the inline path never touches HSET, so a step between 4 and 6 cannot be blamed on it or on command identity. No numbers are claimed. These are instruments; they must be run on a Linux host, and this branch was developed on macOS. author: Tin Dang * chore(release): cut v0.8.8 Promote [Unreleased] to [0.8.8] and bump 0.8.7 -> 0.8.8. The train is 63 merged PRs across 80 commits since v0.8.7, touching 23 issues: wire-level parity against a live redis-server, the search-surface correctness wave, and the first end-to-end measurement of --shards 8 against io-threads 8. Adds BENCHMARK.md 2.14, which reports all three dimensions of that comparison including the two where moon does not win, and retracts two earlier claims in-tree with their raw data kept: - "moon gains nothing from eight shards" (s8/s1 = 0.97x) was a harness artifact. redis-benchmark -t lpush|sadd|hset|zadd drives ONE literal key and -r randomises the element, not the key, so eight of twelve families were asked to parallelise a single key. Re-run with explicit __rand_int__ keys behind a DBSIZE >= 50000 guard proven to fire, real scaling is 1.42x / 2.14x / 3.79x. - The "0.90x per-key memory win" measured redis-benchmark's default 3-byte value. Both legs sat below their own arithmetic floor, which is impossible. Re-measured at 8/64/256-byte values under a key+value+24 floor check -- verified to reject both historical numbers before being trusted -- the win is a band, not a trend, and exists only below the 12-byte CompactValue inline cutoff. Measured, on both architectures: throughput 1.26x (ARM) / 1.32x (x86) at p=8 and 2.74x / 2.91x at p=64; a tie at p=1, because the rig is bimodal for Redis as well as for moon; CPU per op a tie at 10.55 vs 11.33 us, inside Redis's own 11.9% spread. Memory is NOT won: 1.16x worse at 64-byte values and 1.26x worse on idle RSS. The executive summary states both losses as losses. Gates: scripts/ci-local.sh --full PASS (13/13 legs, tree fingerprint unchanged, client-compat PASS=368 FAIL=0 WAIVED=50); hosted dispatch matrix green (Check Windows, MSRV 1.94, Memory steady-state); oracle sweep against live redis-server 8.6.1 -- test-consistency.sh 457/458 and test-commands.sh 516/517, the single red row in each being the known #536 ROLE offset divergence, with no new divergence from either the rewritten RESP parser or the changed Database::set. Discloses #536 as a known divergence riding this release. author: Tin Dang * perf(storage): stop reserving 16 segments per empty DashTable An empty `DashTable` reserved a 16-segment first slab to hold ONE segment. `size_of::<Segment<CompactKey, CompactEntry>>()` is 3,456 B, so `DashTable::new()` allocated 55,296 B to store 3,456 B — 93.75% waste. moon builds `--databases` (16) of these PER SHARD at boot, all empty, so every shard reserved 884,736 B for segments that never exist on an idle server. Measured with a counting global allocator (tests/shard_idle_alloc_attribution.rs), for `--shards N --appendonly no --disk-offload disable`, default features: per-shard term before after one empty Database 55,432 B 3,592 B 16 Databases (per shard) 893,976 B 64,536 B ChannelMesh::new (unchanged) 135,984 B 135,984 B MODEL TOTAL per extra shard 1,030,432 B 200,992 B The 16 empty databases were 84% of ALL per-shard heap reservation — four times the entire N(N-1) SPSC mesh, which is the term that had previously been blamed. The first slab is now sized to demand: 1 segment for `new()`, exactly `dir_size` for `with_capacity()` (that path also rounded up to the fixed slab AND spread its segments across ~log2(dir_size) slabs; it is now one right-sized allocation). The doubling growth is unchanged and reaches the old curve by the fifth slab, so a table that fills sees the same amortised behaviour. Slabs are still never reallocated, so segment pointers stay stable across growth — covered by a new 20,000-key test that walks several slab boundaries and re-reads every key. WHAT IS NOT CLAIMED: an RSS number. Reserved bytes are an UPPER BOUND on resident — untouched pages of a fresh mapping never become resident, and this change removes mostly-untouched tail. A directional macOS A/B (3 interleaved reps, same tree, one constant apart) moved idle RSS at `--shards 8` by -1.07/-1.84/-1.82 MiB and showed NO change at `--shards 1`, but macOS has no jemalloc `background_thread` and different retention, so that number is not publishable. The Linux figure must be re-measured on the benchmark host. Red/green: `empty_table_does_not_over_reserve_segment_slots` and `presized_table_does_not_over_reserve_segment_slots` fail on the parent commit (16 slots reserved for 1 live segment). The integration gate was attacked by reverting the constant in place and confirming it reports the exact pre-fix figure (1,030,432 B over a 262,144 B budget) before being restored. Verified: 5,129 lib tests green (monoio, default features); `cargo check --no-default-features --features runtime-tokio,jemalloc --all-targets` green; `cargo clippy --all-targets` zero warnings; `cargo fmt --check` clean; server boots and serves 20,001 keys across dbs 0/1/2/15 at both s1 and s8. No new unsafe in `src/`. author: Tin Dang
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Closes #507.
The bug is wider than filed, and it is not only a stale read
Filed as "MGET in the same pipeline as its SETs returns nulls". Measured, the
MGETis one symptom of a general pipeline-ordering break, and the worst caseis silent write loss.
The sharded pipeline handlers DEFER a single-key command whose key lives on
another shard into
remote_groups, dispatching each target's group as onePipelineBatchSlottedat the end of the batch. Multi-key and keylesscommands are not routable that way, so they execute inline, mid-loop —
against shards whose earlier writes in the same batch have not been sent yet.
Measured at
--shards 2, 20 trials each, before the fix:SET a,MSET aSET,FLUSHALL+OKSET,SET,DELDELthat returned successSET,SET,MGETSET,DBSIZEKEYS,RANDOMKEY,EXISTS,UNLINK,COPY,BITOP,INFO keyspaceSET,TOUCH kThe rate rises with shard count — a key is remote with probability
1 - 1/shards.The issue's own hypothesis was checked and is wrong. It blamed the
co-located fast path and stated uncolocated keys work. Measured the other way
round: co-located 0/20 wrong, uncolocated 15/20.
The fix
Defer such a command and the unconsumed batch tail to the next loop
iteration, reusing the mechanism #438 already built for early-flush commands.
Phase 2 resolves the pending remote replies first, and the tail re-parses at the
top of the next batch with
remote_groupsempty.It cannot loop:
remote_groupsis cleared at the top of every batch, so theguard can never fire on a batch's first frame — every batch therefore consumes
at least one command.
Applied to both sharded handlers (
handler_monoio,handler_sharded).handler_singlehas no deferral and was never affected.Why the predicate is routability, not a list of command names
A command routed by its own single key needs no wait: a key maps to exactly one
shard, so if that shard is local the key cannot be pending, and if it is remote
the command is appended behind the pending ones and the slotted batch
preserves order. Everything else waits.
This distinction is load-bearing — a name list written for an MGET bug would
not have contained
INFO keyspaceorRANDOMKEY, and both were wrong.The one case routability cannot see is a command intercepted inline before
routing that still has a key-shaped first argument (
EVAL,SWAPDB,FCALL,the
FT./GRAPH./CDC./TS.families). Those are named explicitly, with atest that fails if an entry is dropped.
Deferring is the conservative direction: a command sent down this path
unnecessarily is merely executed at the start of the next batch, which is always
correct. Wrongly calling something safe is the direction that corrupts data.
Performance — this costs throughput, per interleaving
Each deferral is one extra shard dispatch/await boundary (~50µs). moon-dev
(aarch64),
--shards 2, one connection, 9 reps, alternating leg order, median."Floor" is the worst within-leg spread — a delta smaller than its floor resolved
nothing.
MGETafter every 2SETsSETs, then oneMGETSET,SET,GET(guard never fires)A multi-key or keyless command at the end of a pipeline — the shape #507 was
filed from, and the shape
redis-py'spipeline()produces — costs nothingmeasurable. One interleaved after every pair of writes halves throughput.
redis-benchmarkcannot express any of these shapes: it sends a single commandtype, so the guard never fires and every configuration comes back "neutral".
The numbers come from a purpose-built harness that is pre-flighted against the
base binary and refuses to report unless base actually reproduces the bug
(72 lost elements across 64 MGETs; head 0), so a vacuous "neutral" is not
reachable. The
mixedregression reproduced independently at −52.6% against adifferent noise floor.
Recovering that cost means letting multi-key commands participate in the slotted
batch instead of executing inline — a cross-shard-coordinator change well
outside a correctness fix. Filed as a follow-up.
Tests
tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs— 10 cases at--shards 4, eachlooping 12 key placements. A single trial is a coin flip on placement: pco8
passed by luck on its first red run, which is why every case loops.
Covers own-batch
MGET; single-key ordering as a control;MSETwinning over anearlier
SET; multi-keyDEL;FLUSHALL; the cross-shard aggregations(
DBSIZE/KEYS/fullSCANiteration/EXISTS);INFO keyspace; byte-exactdeferred-tail replay; inline commands surviving the defer path; and
inline-intercepted commands.
Green on both runtimes. The
redis-pyacceptance pin for this defect (rp7b)is converted from an inverted "known gap" probe into a direct assertion.
Two cases are deliberately excluded and filed rather than worked around:
MEMORY USAGEmis-routes independently of this bug (#511 — it hashes the literalsubcommand
USAGEinstead of the key, so it answers$-1for a key that plainlyexists with no pipelining at all), and single-key
EVALis rejectedCROSSSLOT(#508), which is why
pco10drivesSWAPDBalone.Refs
Refs #438, #511, #508.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Tests