fix(iouring): stop a ring SEND completion parking the worker on a running async handler's detachMu (celeris#750)

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Summary

This is the fifth worker-thread site of the #704 class. With AsyncHandlers, runAsyncHandler holds cs.detachMu across ProcessH1, so for the whole user handler. handleSend applied every ring SEND completion of a conn that has a detachMu under a blocking Lock: the SEND_ZC notification branch (twice: once to clear zcNotifPending, once in completeSend), the F_MORE branch, the SEND_ZC-fallback branch, the error branch, and the whole of completeSend. So a SEND that completed while the conn's next handler ran parked the LockOSThread'd worker, and every connection of its ring, until the handler returned.

The common shape is a pipelining client on an async route. The rest of a large response goes out as a ring SEND, the next request's handler starts, and then the client reads.

#745 fixed the four sites #704 named. This one could not be skipped the same way, because a completion's result must be applied. So the completion is held and replayed.

Round 2 (f8f51fd) fixes the review's blocking finding. While a completion was held, the conn stayed on the dirty list, so the worker waited with a zero timeout (a spin) for as long as the handler ran, where main parks. The dirty pass now gives a held conn up. See "The fix" and "Round 2" below.

Fixes #750

Failing-first

• Unit arms (TestIouringSendCompletionDoesNotWaitForARunningAsyncHandler: send, partial, zc, error). io_uring: four worker-thread sites block on cs.detachMu while an async handler holds it, parking the whole ring (io_uring twin of #669) #704's stallRig704 holds detachMu the way a running handler does, with a ring SEND in flight and the handler's next response already in writeBuf. The test then delivers the completion (for zc, both of its completions). handleSend must return while the lock is held. The completion must not be applied under the handler. It must then be applied, exactly as before, when the REAL dispatch loop hands the conn back.
• Order (TestIouringSendCompletionsAreAppliedInOrder). A SEND_ZC's first completion is held. Its notification arrives after the handler returned, with the lock free, before the hand-back is drained. It must wait behind the held one.
• Close (TestIouringCloseAppliesAHeldSendCompletion: send, error). A close runs after the handler returned but before the hand-back is drained (the timeout sweep, a FIN). It must apply the held completion and close now, once. It must not defer itself behind cs.sending for a completion that has already arrived. In arm error the held completion is a failure: applying it closes the conn (OnError once), and the close that applied it must not tear the conn down a second time.
• No polling while held (TestIouringHeldSendCompletionDoesNotKeepTheRingPolling: held, held_again; round 2). While the completion is held, the worker's per-iteration passes (drainDetachQueue, flushDirty) must leave the conn off the dirty list, and the hand-back must list it again with the handler's response sent next.
  • held: the dirty pass itself submitted the SEND, so the conn is listed while the SEND is in flight.
  • held_again: the goroutine hands the conn back at its loop top and enters the next pipelined request's handler before the worker drains the hand-back. The drain's entry then holds the completion again and lists the conn, as every entry does.
• Control (TestIouringSendCompletionStillWaitsForABoundedHolder: parked, after_detach). It plays the role for this fix that io_uring: four worker-thread sites block on cs.detachMu while an async handler holds it, parking the whole ring (io_uring twin of #669) #704's TestIouringCloseStillWaitsForABoundedHolder plays for the close. The goroutine is parked, or past a Detach, so whoever holds the lock is a guarded writeFn doing one write. The completion must wait for that holder and then be applied. If it were held instead, it would wait for a hand-back that nothing owes. It passes on main and must keep passing.
• End to end (TestIouringSendCompletionDuringASlowAsyncHandlerDoesNotStallItsWorker, the issue's measurement). A client with a 4 KiB SO_RCVBUF pipelines /big (3 MiB) and, 150 ms later, /slow (an 800 ms async handler). 50 ms into /slow the client reads, so the SEND of /big's tail completes while the handler runs. A fast keep-alive conn on the same worker is pinged throughout, with io_uring: four worker-thread sites block on cs.detachMu while an async handler holds it, parking the whole ring (io_uring twin of #669) #704's budget of 300 ms per request.

main dfd044f has no heldSends. The failing-first run therefore adds the test file and a STUB accessor by -overlay (heldSends750 returns 0, since main never holds a completion). The test file is byte-identical to this PR's (sha256 dc349f46…, 750/round2/logs/ff-test.sha256). All runs use -race -v in Docker linux/arm64 with 4 CPUs. m8 is CI's shape (8 MiB memlock, one io_uring worker). unl has unlimited memlock (the e2e engine got 2 workers).

test	main m8 (-count=3)	main unl (-count=3)	this PR m8 (-count=10)	this PR unl (-count=10)
…DoesNotWaitForARunningAsyncHandler/send	FAIL 3/3	FAIL 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
…/partial	FAIL 3/3	FAIL 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
…/zc	FAIL 3/3	FAIL 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
…/error	FAIL 3/3	FAIL 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
TestIouringSendCompletionsAreAppliedInOrder	FAIL 3/3	FAIL 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
TestIouringCloseAppliesAHeldSendCompletion/send	FAIL 3/3	FAIL 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
…/error	FAIL 3/3	FAIL 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
TestIouringHeldSendCompletionDoesNotKeepTheRingPolling/held	FAIL 3/3	FAIL 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
…/held_again	FAIL 3/3	FAIL 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
…StillWaitsForABoundedHolder/parked (control)	PASS 3/3	PASS 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
…/after_detach (control)	PASS 3/3	PASS 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10
…DuringASlowAsyncHandlerDoesNotStallItsWorker	FAIL 3/3	FAIL 3/3	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10

The logs show 0 data races in all four runs. On main every unit arm, including both round-2 arms, failed the same way: handleSend waited the full 2 s stallWait704 on detachMu. The fast conn's worst request, end to end:

head	m8 (1 worker)	unl (2 workers)
main dfd044f	751.4, 752.1, 754.3 ms	747.1, 753.2, 755.2 ms
this PR (10 runs each)	0.4 to 9.5 ms	0.8 to 10.2 ms

The p50 was 0.03 to 0.12 ms on every run. The e2e test also logs whether /big arrived intact. It did not on either head (big_ok=false): that is #751, the interleaved pipelined responses, which #800 fixes separately. This test does not judge it.

Logs: 750/round2/logs/{ff-dfd044f,fix-f8f51fd}-{m8,unl}.log. Round 1's logs, at test sha256 effdab22… and fix head 2e575b4, are in 750/logs/. They agree on every test they had.

Round 2: the held conn kept the worker polling

At 2e575b4 a held completion left cs.sending set until the hand-back, and flushDirty keeps a sending conn listed. baseTimeout returns 0 while dirtyHead != nil, so the worker waited with a zero timeout for as long as the handler ran. On main, the worker parks on detachMu in that state.

• Failing-first on the round-1 head. Round 1's worker.go (M7 below, byte-identical to 2e575b4's) under this head's tests, -race -count=3: both arms of the new test FAIL 3/3 in m8 and in unl, with dirty=true baseTimeout=0s listed_passes=3/3. Everything after the hand-back already passed there.
• The review's suggested control misses the second arm. The review suggested unlinking where the completion is held (removeDirty after the append in holdOrLockSend), which is M8. In m8 and unl, -count=3, held passes 3/3 but held_again FAILs 3/3 (listed_passes=3/3). The hand-back's drain entry holds the completion again, then lists the conn, and nothing unlinks it until the next hand-back. So the check sits in the pass. Logs: 750/round2/logs/r2ff-{M7,M8}-{m8,unl}.log.
• CPU, end to end. The probe (750/round2/probe/, -overlay, not committed, no -race, -count=3 per shape, m8 and unl) measures process CPU over 1 s while a completion is held, after an idle second (idle: 2.0 to 13.6 ms in every run).
  • one_slow: /big, then /slow (1.6 s); the client reads 50 ms into it.
  • two_slow: the same, plus a second /slow sent in its own recv 100 ms later, measured inside that second handler. There the goroutine has handed the conn back and entered its next handler.

tree	one_slow (6 runs)	two_slow (6 runs)
M7 (2e575b4's worker.go)	372.6 to 380.5 ms	372.4 to 380.5 ms
M8 (the review's control)	3.2 to 8.2 ms	369.7 to 376.5 ms in 5 of 6, 5.4 ms in one
this head f8f51fd	5.4 to 8.4 ms	5.2 to 7.6 ms

Logs: 750/round2/logs/cpu-{M7,M8,head}-{m8,unl}.log. The probe's first version wrote both /slow requests in one write. One ProcessH1 then served both under one hold, so two_slow never reached a hand-back; its logs are kept in 750/round2/logs/cpu-v1-one-recv/.

This state was new with this PR. It is not #811, which is a SEND waiting for a client that does not read; #811's comment now says so.

The fix

The fix has the shape of #745, for a site whose work cannot be dropped.

• One lock per completion. handleSend takes detachMu once, at its top, and every branch releases it; completeSend runs under its caller's lock. The notification branch used to take it twice.

• Hold, don't wait. holdOrLockSend does a TryLock. The completion is appended to cs.heldSends when the lock is held and dispatchBusy says the conn's goroutine is running outside its park loop. dispatchBusy sets relinkOwed in the same asyncInMu section, so the goroutine owes the conn back. It hands the conn back at the top of its next loop or on its way out, as io_uring: four worker-thread sites block on cs.detachMu while an async handler holds it, parking the whole ring (io_uring twin of #669) #704's relink does. Any other holder is bounded and is waited out, as before.

• In order. While any completion of the conn is held, a later one is held behind it, whatever the state of the lock. A SEND_ZC's notification never overtakes its first completion.

• Replay. replayHeldSends applies the held completions through handleSend, in order. It runs where the conn is next acted on:

  • at the top of drainDetachQueue's entry, for any entry of the conn, before the entry's own branches (the close, the claimed hand-off, the h2c finish, the relink);
  • at the top of closeConn, so a close deferred behind cs.sending does not wait for a completion that has already arrived.

  If the goroutine is inside a handler again, the remaining completions stay held and the hand-back is owed again. A conn that has left its slot has nothing to apply them to, so they are dropped.

• Nothing else moves while held. cs.sending (or zcNotifPending) stays set, so no other SEND starts and a hand-off refuses the conn. kernelInflight was settled when the CQE was dispatched, so the replay calls handleSend directly, not the dispatch.

• The dirty pass gives a held conn up (round 2). flushDirty unlinks a conn with held completions before anything else, as the io_uring: four worker-thread sites block on cs.detachMu while an async handler holds it, parking the whole ring (io_uring twin of #669) #704 give-up does. It passes over the conn only while it owes nothing, and the hand-back's drain entry lists it again (markDirty at the end of the entry). Once applied, completeSend sends what the handler wrote and re-lists the conn itself if the SQ ring is full or a recv arm fails. The check is in the pass rather than where the completion is held because the pass also catches the listing that the hand-back's own entry makes after holding the completion again (held_again).

Deadlock check. The lock order is unchanged: detachMu → asyncInMu is the only nesting (the goroutine's Detach path). The worker never holds detachMu while it takes asyncInMu: dispatchBusy runs only after a failed TryLock, holding nothing, and the replays run holding nothing. closeConn is called only after the branch has released detachMu, as before. Round 2 adds no lock: removeDirty touches only worker-thread fields. The unit arms are the tests that would hang if the order were wrong. They hold detachMu from the test goroutine and require handleSend to return, under -race.

Controls

Run by 750/round2/suite.sh (stage ctl), m8, -race. Each control is an -overlay of this head's worker.go (750/round2/make_mutants.sh; the tree is never edited). NEG is main's worker.go and conn.go, copied from the pristine main worktree, plus the stub accessor. The failing assertions are in the log.

control	what it removes	verdict	what fails
NEG	the whole fix	KILLED	every test but the bounded-holder control (13 FAIL lines; the control's 3 PASS); e2e 747.1 ms
M1	the hold: the completion waits on the lock	KILLED	the same 13; e2e 758.3 ms
M2	the replay at the hand-back	KILLED	the 4 unit arms ("1 completion(s) still held after the hand-back"), the order test, and both round-2 arms
M3	the replay in closeConn	KILLED	both close arms only ("the close did not complete exactly once": deferred behind the held completion)
M4	the order rule	KILLED	the order test only (sending=true zcNotifPending=true held=0: the notification applied first, and the conn stuck sending)
M5	the owed hand-back (dispatchBusy(cs, nil))	KILLED	the 4 unit arms ("held without a hand-back owed"), the order test ("parked without handing the conn back") and both round-2 arms
M6	the bounded-holder wait: every failed TryLock holds	KILLED	the bounded-holder control only (both arms: "the completion was held, and nothing owes it back")
M7	round 2's give-up (= 2e575b4's worker.go)	KILLED	both round-2 arms only ("stayed on the dirty list after 3 of 3 passes")
M8	M7 plus the review's control: unlink where the completion is held	KILLED	held_again only

Log: 750/round2/logs/controls-m8.log.

Suites

Docker linux/arm64, 4 CPUs, seccomp=unconfined; logs in 750/round2/logs/.

suite	shape	PASS	FAIL	SKIP	data races	rc
./engine/iouring -race -v	m8 (1 worker), quiet host	355	0	5	0	0
./engine/iouring -race -v	unl	358	0	2	0	0
./adaptive/... -race -v	unl	115	0	0	0	0
root package -race -v	m8	544	0	4	0	0

The m8 package run is from a quiet host: the laptop timing lock was held, so no other lane's container ran (containers_at_start=[] and containers_at_end=[]). Round 1 showed why that matters: ring memory is charged per UID, every container runs as root, and beside another lane's io_uring container, engine starts fail at 8 MiB with io_uring_setup: cannot allocate memory.

Every skip comes from the environment:

• At m8, the three TestListenCloses… init-failure tests need two workers' memlock.

• In both shapes, the two TestPauseAccept…SynackRetriesZero tests need net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries=0; the VM reads 5.

• In the root package, the three io_uring TestAdaptiveSettledRouteRetime592 subtests skip at 8 MiB (CI: two test groups have never run — the epoll sendfile e2e tests (Workers: 1 fails validation, the helper skips) and the #592 settled-route io_uring subtests (skip at 8 MiB) #709), and TestRouteAdaptive_SettleReopenCost is opt-in.

• amd64: go vet passes, and the io_uring: a ring SEND completing while an async handler holds cs.detachMu parks the worker (handleSend/completeSend, a fifth #704 site) #750 tests were run under --platform linux/amd64 (qemu). Every one of them SKIPs there (io_uring_setup: function not implemented under emulation): there are 12 SKIP lines, and the 4 PASS lines are parents whose subtests all skipped. So this is a compile-and-vet check only, and the SKIPs count as absent (750/round2/logs/amd64-new-m8.log). The amd64 verdicts are CI's, below.

• Static: go build ./..., go vet ./engine/... ., go test -c ./engine/iouring/ and golangci-lint run ./engine/... (the repo's .golangci.yml), with GOOS=linux for amd64 and arm64. All are clean, with 0 issues (750/round2/logs/lint-f8f51fd.txt).

• CI at f8f51fd: 17 of 17 checks green on the first attempt (750/round2/ci.sh, logs 750/round2/logs/ci-*).

  • The Unit job's native amd64 engine/iouring step ran the io_uring: a ring SEND completing while an async handler holds cs.detachMu parks the worker (handleSend/completeSend, a fifth #704 site) #750 tests: 16 --- PASS lines, 0 FAIL or SKIP, both round-2 arms at listed_passes=0/3, and the e2e at max_ms=2.5.
  • The io_uring SEND_ZC window under -race job (celeris#587) passed on both arches. Arms fixed and zcoff passed 3/3 with no race report, and arm mutant failed 3/3 with DATA_RACE=1 race_detected=1. So the re-targeted mutant script (2423242) still detects the race.

• Combined with the lane's other two PRs and with main. fix(iouring): leave a conn whose dispatch goroutine exited to close it, or upgraded it to h2c, to its queued exit (celeris#780) #799 (a83e045), fix(iouring): an async handler's direct write waits for a ring SEND of the conn's earlier bytes (celeris#751) #800 (b340cbe) and fix(iouring): stop a ring SEND completion parking the worker on a running async handler's detachMu (celeris#750) #801 (f8f51fd) merge cleanly onto main 3e7abba, which has fix(iouring): never release a descriptor number while an op can still resolve it: close paths, hijack, shutdown (celeris#685) #793 (io_uring close paths close the fd while a linked RECV can still resolve its number (the #657 fd-lifetime rule, not yet applied to close/hijack/shutdown) #685's close paths); the merged tree is 1b82782 (combined/logs/merge-1b82782.txt). On that tree, -race -count=3:

  • the three PRs' new tests, io_uring: four worker-thread sites block on cs.detachMu while an async handler holds it, parking the whole ring (io_uring twin of #669) #704's stall tests and EP-1's end-to-end probe: 126 PASS, 0 FAIL, 0 SKIP and 0 races in m8 and in unl. Both fix(iouring): stop a ring SEND completion parking the worker on a running async handler's detachMu (celeris#750) #801 round-2 arms read listed_passes=0/3, and both celeris751 ORDER arms read tail=829419 early=0 sends=2. With io_uring: a ring SEND completing while an async handler holds cs.detachMu parks the worker (handleSend/completeSend, a fifth #704 site) #750 and io_uring: an async handler's direct write goes out while a ring SEND of the previous response is still in flight, interleaving pipelined responses #751 both in, every e2e run reads big_ok=true slow_body="slow" (/big intact, then /slow), and the fast conn's worst request is 2.0 to 8.8 ms.
  • the whole ./engine/iouring package, -count=1, unl: 387 PASS, 0 FAIL, 2 SKIP (the two SynackRetriesZero tests) and 0 races.

  Script combined/run.sh (HEAD=1b82782 PKG=1); logs combined/logs/{new,pkg-iouring}-1b82782-*.log. The round-1 merge (4c5a0cc, on main 67fdb78) is in combined/logs/new-4c5a0cc-*.log.

Cost

No new lock and no new atomic.

• On an async conn (round 1): handleSend now does a TryLock (a load and the same CAS) instead of a Lock, after a length check of heldSends; completeSend loses its defer; the notification branch takes the lock once instead of twice.
• On a sync conn (no detachMu): only the nil check it already did, inside the branches.
• Round 2: one length check of heldSends per conn on the dirty list, per pass. That list is empty in the steady state; a conn is on it only while a SEND is outstanding or the SQ ring was full. The check is not on the per-request path, and handleSend is unchanged since 8011f40.

BenchmarkSendCompletion750 (750/bench/) applies one full SEND completion of a 100-byte response through handleSend, in the per-request steady state, for a promoted async conn (goroutine parked) and a sync conn. It is added by -overlay to main dfd044f and to 8011f40, and is not committed. All runs used the laptop's timing lock, linux/arm64, with containers_at_start=[] and containers_at_end=[] in every log:

pass	order	conn=async main → this PR	conn=sync main → this PR
1 (bench.sh)	A B A B, -count=5 each	8.748 ns ± 19% → 8.215 ns ± 42%, ~ (p=0.072)	6.747 ns ± 1% → 8.272 ns ± 28%, ~ (p=0.579)
2 (bench750b.sh)	5 rounds A B / B A, -count=2 each	8.753 ns ± 36% → 8.228 ns ± 1% (p=0.001)	6.880 ns ± 113% → 6.079 ns ± 2% (p=0.000)

Neither pass shows a regression. Both passes are noisy:

• Pass 1's second pair had a level shift that moved both trees. For example, main's async samples went from 8.69 to 10.4 ns within one run.
• In pass 2, main's column has outliers in its last two rounds: async up to 18.15 ns, and sync 8.61 and 14.7 ns against 6.7 to 6.9 ns in the first three rounds, hence its ± 113%.
• Pass 1 moved the sync column the other way.

So pass 2's percentages are not a speedup this PR can claim. What both passes support is that there is no regression: the clean samples read async 8.2 vs 8.7 ns and sync 5.9 to 6.2 vs 6.7 to 6.9 ns. 0 B/op and 0 allocs/op everywhere.

The end-to-end bound is a perf-checkpoint row in the cluster queue (the io_uring async columns, both arches). Logs: bench-logs/750-{main,fix}-run{1,2}.log, bench-logs/750b/, bench-logs/benchstat-750{,b}.txt.

Cluster

Queued, not dispatched (evidence/_queue/cluster.tsv, lane EP-3, row re-pinned to f8f51fd). The run: the new tests plus #704's closeConn and dirty-pass arms on bare metal, both arches, -race, 2 shards x 10, several workers. PASS iff all of these hold:

• every test passes 20x per arch, with 0 FAIL, SKIP or race;
• every celeris750 HELDLIST line before the hand-back reads listed_passes=0/3;
• every celeris750 SENDSTALL line has max_ms under 300 and big_ok=false.

The e2e has no held-completion witness yet (#814 item 1). Until it does, big_ok=false on this head (without #800) shows that the window was entered: /big is corrupted only when its tail is still queued as /slow writes. A big_ok=true line judges nothing and is re-run. The perf-checkpoint row above is also queued.

Follow-ups

The review's minor findings and nits are in #814:

• an end-to-end held-completion witness;
• a test that pins the replay at every hand-back entry;
• tests for the two defensive paths (releaseConnState's reset, the replay's slot and generation guard);
• a short read deadline so the e2e does not wait 15 s without fix(iouring): an async handler's direct write waits for a ring SEND of the conn's earlier bytes (celeris#751) #800.

Reproduce

Round 2's numbers come from evidence/lanes-20260927/EP-3/750/round2/: suite.sh (stages r2ff fix ff ctl cpu pkg amd64), make_mutants.sh, pkg-quiet.sh and ci.sh. The combined tree's numbers come from combined/run.sh, the cost from bench.sh and bench750b.sh, and the helpers are in tools/, all in the probatorium evidence tree. Round 1's scripts and logs are in 750/. The fix commits are 8011f40 and f8f51fd. On top of 8011f40:

• 85314d0 changes only comments in completeSend;
• 2423242 changes only the Measure: exercise the SEND_ZC branch in the race tier (64 KiB WebSocket echo walker) so the v1.5.7 send-state audit is judged by the race detector #587 mutant script and a comment in ci.yml;
• 2e575b4 changes only this PR's test file.

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Walkthrough

The io_uring worker now queues SEND completions when an async handler holds detachMu. It replays them in order during hand-back or close. Linux tests cover completion handling and shared-worker latency.

Changes

SEND Completion Handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Queue SEND completions under detachMu engine/iouring/conn.go, engine/iouring/worker.go	connState stores held completions. handleSend queues a completion when dispatch is busy or earlier completions await replay. Completion handling uses the caller-held lock and unlocks before closing.
Replay completions during hand-back and teardown engine/iouring/worker.go, engine/iouring/conn.go	closeConn and drainDetachQueue replay held completions before further connection processing. flushDirty removes connections with held completions until hand-back. Pooled connection state clears the held queue.
Validate held completion behavior engine/iouring/send_completion_stall_fields_linux_test.go, engine/iouring/send_completion_stall_linux_test.go, .github/scripts/mutant-587-unlock-zc-first-cqe.py, .github/workflows/ci.yml	Linux tests cover completion types, ordering, close, dirty-list handling, bounded lock holders, and shared-worker latency. The mutant script and CI description now target releasing detachMu before CQE_F_MORE writes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested labels: performance

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0324e

The worker-stall fix still needs a test that proves the intended handler/completion overlap and an accepted SEND hot-path measurement before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0324e

The change addresses a way one slow connection could delay other connections on the same worker. The reviewed hand-back and cleanup paths contain safeguards, and no new security issue was established. Risk remains low rather than minimal because runtime behavior and some affected surfaces are not fully evidenced.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Peer-controlled read and request timing can place a SEND completion alongside a running async handler. Blocking the worker in that situation affects other connections on its ring; retaining the completion is intended to contain that pre-existing availability exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The worker rejects stale connection CQEs before SEND handling, and retained completions are checked again against the connection slot and generation before replay. These checks constrain fd-reuse misapplication.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Close replays already-arrived completions before teardown, while the hand-back path replays them before other queued connection actions. The dirty-list and pool-release paths respectively avoid polling held work and carrying it into reused state.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The pull request adds unrelated issue work. engine/iouring/async_cancel_floor_test.go and async_cancel_floor_gate_test.go test #682. engine/iouring/async_write_order_test.go tests #751. `.github…	Remove the unrelated #682, #685, #711, #733, and #798 tests, mutant, and CI changes from this pull request, or move them to separate pull requests.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the required Conventional Commit format, describes the SEND completion worker-stall fix, and ends with the issue reference (celeris#750).
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the detachMu contention, held completion replay, dirty-list fix, tests, and validation results for this changeset.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #750 is implemented. engine/iouring/worker.go queues SEND CQEs when detachMu is held, preserves arrival order, replays them before other hand-back work, avoids repeated dispatch accounting, …

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Explanation

The pull request adds unrelated issue work. engine/iouring/async_cancel_floor_test.go and async_cancel_floor_gate_test.go test #682. engine/iouring/async_write_order_test.go tests #751. .github/workflows/ci.yml adds validation for #685, #711, #733, and #798. .github/scripts/mutant-685-release-owed-fd.py adds a #685 mutant. These changes do not implement or validate the #750 SEND-completion hand-back requirement.

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Round 2 is at f8f51fd (a fast-forward of 2e575b4). The blocking finding is fixed: the worker no longer busy-polls while a completion is held.

The unlink is in flushDirty, not after the append in holdOrLockSend as the review suggested. The reason is a second case the suggested line misses. The goroutine hands the conn back at its loop top and goes straight into the next pipelined request's handler. The hand-back's drain entry then holds the completion again and lists the conn at its end (markDirty), and nothing unlinks it until the next hand-back. flushDirty now gives up any listed conn with held completions, as the #704 give-up does, so it catches both cases.

Evidence, all in evidence/lanes-20260927/EP-3/750/round2/:

• New test. TestIouringHeldSendCompletionDoesNotKeepTheRingPolling has two arms, held and held_again. -race -count=3, in m8 and in unl:

  • on 2e575b4's worker.go, both arms FAIL 3/3;
  • with the suggested line instead (mutant M8), held passes and held_again FAILs 3/3;
  • this head passes 10/10 in each shape.

• CPU probe (process CPU over 1 s while a completion is held, -count=3 in m8 and in unl, 6 runs per arm):

  tree	single /slow	second /slow in its own recv
  2e575b4	372.6 to 380.5 ms	372.4 to 380.5 ms
  M8 (the suggested line)	3.2 to 8.2 ms	369.7 to 376.5 ms in 5 of 6 runs
  f8f51fd	5.4 to 8.4 ms	5.2 to 7.6 ms

• Controls. NEG and M1 to M8 were all KILLED, each on its own arms.

• Suites.

  • ./engine/iouring: m8 (quiet) 355/0/5; unl 358/0/2.
  • ./adaptive unl: 115/0/0.
  • Root package m8: 544/0/4.

• Merged tree. The three PRs merged onto main 3e7abba (which has fix(iouring): never release a descriptor number while an op can still resolve it: close paths, hijack, shutdown (celeris#685) #793) pass 126/0/0 in both shapes, and the whole package passes 387/0/2 in unl.

• CI at f8f51fd: 17/17 green.

The PR body is updated to match. The minor findings and nits are filed as #814. #811 has a correcting comment: this held-state spin was new with this PR, and it was not #811's case.

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Review comments at @engine/iouring/send_completion_stall_linux_test.go:
- Around line 389-394: Update the negative-control test using holdAsHandler704
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