fix(epoll, iouring): send a large response whole, keep pipelined responses in order, never send a body the handler has given back (celeris#761, celeris#802, celeris#817) - #805
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… close on a refused write, keep pipelined responses in order (celeris#761, celeris#802) The per-connection write back-pressure cap (4 MiB: epoll maxPendingBytes, io_uring maxSendQueueBytes) was held against a single response. The write hook that stages a zero-copy body counted the body itself, so an HTTP/1.1 response whose headers and body passed the cap went out as its headers only: the body was dropped without an error and the connection left open, and a keep-alive client waited for the declared Content-Length until its own timeout. The check after the handler closed any connection whose backlog was over the cap, which cut off whatever that path let through (a copied body, a sendfile body, an HTTP/2 stream's flow-control window), and every refused write was silent. Now the cap bounds the backlog a write finds, not the write: a write is refused only when the bytes still queued before it are over the cap (a peer that stopped reading while it keeps sending requests), and a refused write sets writeRefused, on which the site that ran the handler closes the connection. An HTTP/2 connection gets a 64 MiB cap, as a detached one has: its DATA is already bounded by the windows the peer grants, and net/http's client keeps 4 MiB of frames queued per stream as a matter of course. epoll closes a connection once what it has queued has gone out (closeWhenFlushed: EPOLLIN off, EPOLLOUT armed, the close deferred as for EPOLLRDHUP), where it used to close at once after Connection: close, a request error or a refused write, cutting off the tail of a response larger than the socket buffers. The zero-copy body receive path and the HTTP/2 write-queue flush now resync pendingBytes as every other flush point does; left alone it grew by each response until the hooks refused the writes of a connection with nothing queued (the 64th 64 KiB response to split-body POSTs on one connection). celeris#802: the write buffer is sent before a staged zero-copy body (and, on epoll, a staged sendfile), so a response pipelined behind one went out ahead of it. A write that follows staged output first moves it into the write buffer (epoll unstage; io_uring copies bodyBuf), a copy paid only by the next pipelined response. Tests (large_response_linux_test.go, every engine): bodies of 4 MiB - 4 KiB, 4 MiB - 1, 4 MiB, 4 MiB + 1 and 64 MiB, sync, async-loop and async-route handlers, keep-alive (then a next request on the connection) and Connection: close; c.File of 4 MiB + 1 and 64 MiB; HTTP/2 bodies; 96 split-body POSTs on one connection; pipelined requests mixing large and small bodies and files, compared in order; and a peer that pipelines four 3 MiB requests without reading, which must get whole responses and then the close. BenchmarkWriteHooks (both engines) measures the hooks. Fixes #761 Fixes #802
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…se it, hold the H1 cap per request, give a closing io_uring conn WriteTimeout (celeris#817, celeris#761) Round 2 of #805, from its review. - The H1 zero-copy body writer kept a reference to the handler's slice past the write: c.JSON puts its buffer back in a pool at once, and a buffered response's body lives on a reused Context, so a response went out with the next pipelined request's body or another connection's (celeris#817). epoll's writer now makes the writev in the call and copies what the kernel did not take; io_uring installs none (its kernel reads a WRITEV's iovec at the next submit), so the adapter copies the body. SetWriteBodyFn's contract says so. - The 4 MiB H1 cap is held per request, not per write (H1State.WriteBacklogged): a request that finds the unsent responses over it is not served (ErrWriteBacklog) and the conn is closed once they have gone out; a response, however large and in however many writes (a StreamWriter's chunks), is staged whole. writeCap/sendCap keep a per-write limit for HTTP/2 and detached conns only. - io_uring's closing drain gives a conn the longer of 5 s and WriteTimeout without progress, restamped on every send that makes some: a response larger than the socket buffers answering Connection: close was cut 5 s after the close. - A failed read of a staged file closes the conn instead of leaving a header block with no body. - Tests: pipelined and concurrent c.JSON bodies (their own, not another connection's), an 8 MiB StreamWriter response, the closing drain's bound and restamp; TestBackloggedPeerIsClosed now fails if the cap is gone; the HTTP/2 and c.File sizes shrink to 16 MiB for CI time; the gated backpressure test asserts the server's close.
…o be the small one's, now that the body is copied (celeris#817)
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Round 2, from the round-1 review. Every blocking finding is fixed on this head (052b5cc); the description is updated, and every number in it is from this head's runs.
Found on the way: #822 (a data race in Minor and nit findings: #818 (two of them are fixed here: a failed read of a staged file now closes the conn; the gated backpressure test asserts the server's close). |
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large_response_linux_test.go (1)
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skipIouringAsyncPipelined751skips io_uring/async-route inTestPipelinedResponsesKeepTheirOrderandTestBackloggedPeerIsClosed. No tally orCELERIS_REQUIRE_*switch fails when these cases do not run. After#800merges, the skip can stay in place and nothing will report it. Gate the skip on a switch that CI can flip, or add the case to the CI tally with the expected skip.As per path instructions: "Flag a new skip that CI would not notice."
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135-141: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winThe error message says 3.5s, but the poll limit is 3s.
Line 139 reports "3.5s after the request". The poll deadline at Line 137 starts after the 500 ms sleep and waits 3s, so the total is about 3.5s. The message is correct. The test is still gated by
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- Around line 2242-2248: Add before-and-after -benchmem results for the
zero-copy-body case in BenchmarkWriteHooks, comparing the PR branch with its
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Review comments at @large_response_linux_test.go:
- Line 418: Replace the 300 ms synchronization sleep in the server-staging test
with polling for a server-side readiness condition, such as the send queue
reaching its cap, bounded by a generous deadline. Apply the same approach to the
other sleep-based synchronization points mentioned in this test flow, including
response_body_ownership, so the client does not begin reading before the server
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Review comments at @response_body_ownership_linux_test.go:
- Around line 96-150: Add evidence that TestPipelinedResponsesOwnTheirBodies
fails on the parent commit for an affected epoll or io_uring fast or encjson
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Review comments at @engine/epoll/backpressure_test.go:
- Around line 135-141: Update the GOTEST_BACKPRESSURE gating for the epoll
backpressure-close test so CI can require it to run or tally its execution and
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Fixes #761, #802 and #817 in one PR because all three live in the same write hooks of both engines (
makeWriteFn,makeWriteBodyFn): #802's and #817's fixes rewrite the lines #761's changes, so apart they would conflict hunk by hunk. Round 2 (from the round-1 review) adds #817, the per-request cap, io_uring's closing drain, and #822, a data race in the HTTP/2 processor that this PR's HTTP/2 test finds.Defects
#761. The per-connection write back-pressure cap (4 MiB: epoll
maxPendingBytes, io_uringmaxSendQueueBytes) was held against a single response.makeWriteBodyFn(both engines), which stages a body of 8 KiB or more as a zero-copy slice, counted the body itself: when headers and body passed 4 MiB the body was dropped, no error, the connection left open. The threshold is the cap minus the header block, so4 MiB - 1was dropped too.drainRead, io_uringrespondAndArm). It cut off whatever the other paths let through: a body copied into the write buffer (async handlers), a sendfile body (epollc.File), an HTTP/2 stream's flow-control window (io_uring cut every HTTP/2 response at exactly 4 MiB), and closed a keep-alive connection after a response it had sent whole (io_uring async).StreamWriterused withoutDetachbuffers every chunk until the handler returns, so everything after 4 MiB was dropped (round 1 turned the drop into a close; the review found it).Connection: close, a request error, the cap's close) with the rest unsent. io_uring's deferred close was reaped 5 s after the close whatever the send's progress (closingDrainTimeoutNanos), where the same response on a keep-alive connection hadWriteTimeout(60 s): a client that paused reading a largeConnection: closeresponse for more than 5 s lost its tail (review).pendingBytesback down, so the hooks came to refuse the writes of a connection with nothing queued.#802. The flush sends the write buffer before a staged zero-copy body (and, on epoll, a staged sendfile), so a response pipelined behind one went out ahead of it.
#817 (security, filed from the review). The zero-copy body writer kept a reference to the handler's slice past the write, and sent it later: epoll at the flush after the handler (or on
EPOLLOUT), io_uring when the ring was next entered. The body belongs to the handler, which may reuse it as soon as its write returns:c.JSONputs its encode buffer back in a pool at once, and a buffered response's body lives on a reused Context. So a response went out carrying the next pipelined request's body, or another connection's. On main a73afb6, 64 connections x 200 non-pipelined 16 KiBc.JSONrequests: io_uring 8189 of 12800 bodies were another connection's, epoll 1, adaptive 2, std 0; 4 KiB bodies (copied by the adapter) 0 everywhere (#817's comment).#822 (found by this PR's HTTP/2 test).
executeHandlerread a stream'sOutboundBufferwithout the stream's lock after the handler returned, while the event loop resets it on a WINDOW_UPDATE:-raceflagged it inTestLargeResponseIsDeliveredH2/adaptive/async-route/16777216(761/suites/m8-...-head98ba46d.log).Fix
makeWriteBodyFnmakes thewritevof [write buffer, body] in the call and copies what the kernel did not take intowriteBufbefore it returns; the syscall is the one the flush after the handler would have made. io_uring installs no zero-copy writer (its kernel reads a WRITEV's iovec at the next submit, which the call cannot wait for), so the adapter copies every body into the write buffer.SetWriteBodyFn's doc states the contract.H1State.WriteBacklogged, installed by both engines, is asked before each request's handler runs: a request that finds the connection's unsent responses over 4 MiB is not served (ErrWriteBacklog), and the connection is closed once what is queued has gone out. A response, however large and in however many writes, is staged whole.writeCap/sendCapkeep a per-write limit only for HTTP/2 (64 MiB: its DATA is bounded by the peer's windows, and net/http's client queues up to a 4 MiB window as a matter of course) and for detached connections (64 MiB, as before).writeRefused(a refused HTTP/2 frame or detached write, a failed zero-copy write, a staged file that cannot be read), and the site that ran the handler closes the connection.closeWhenFlushed): reading stops,EPOLLOUTis armed, and the close is deferred as forEPOLLRDHUPuntil the connection has drained. io_uring's closing drain gives a connection the longer of 5 s andWriteTimeoutwithout progress (closingDrainBound), restamped by every send that makes some.pendingBytesis resynced after the zero-copy body receive flush and the HTTP/2 queue flush.unstage), in flush order.Failing first and controls
scripts/controls.sh 761 052b5cc 1 <the tests> '. ./engine/iouring/' 761/variants-r2 unl(variant files built by761/r2-variants.sh, copied over this PR's tree withcp; one container, linux/arm64, 4 CPUs, unlimited memlock;scripts/controls-table.pycounts failing leaf subtests; log761/controls/052b5cc-variants-r2-unl.log):Cells are failing leaf subtests over leaves run (a skip is counted apart, never as a pass). The one skip in two columns is io_uring/async-route, skipped while #751 is open (see Remaining).
main: main a73afb6's six engine and H1 files (the negative control).r1head: this PR's round-1 head c71d564 merged with main (the round-2 defects).Per size on main (rows of round 1's table: the round-1 test on dfd044f,
761/logs/dfd044f-unlimited-labeled.log,761/table.pyprints all of them): the body bytes the client got for one keep-alive request (then/ping) or oneConnection: closerequest. Every std row was whole.Round 2's reproductions: the review's probes, and this PR's tests on
r1head(table above).TestStreamedResponseIsDeliveredonr1head: "received 4194304 of 8388608 body bytes, then EOF" on every native engine and route; the io_uring closing drain:TestCheckTimeoutsGivesClosingConnItsWriteTimeout/6s-idle-writetimeout-60sreaps the connection onr1headand main.Suites
scripts/suites.sh 761 unl '<pkgs>' base:a73afb6 head:052b5cc:go test -race -count=1 -v, base (main a73afb6, which this branch merged) and head in one container, linux/arm64, 4 CPUs, unlimited memlock (several io_uring workers). Counts are--- PASS/FAIL/SKIPlines, top-level | subtests (scripts/suites-table.py; logs761/suites/unl-*-head052b5cc.log):./engine/epoll/ ./engine/iouring/ ./internal/conn/ ../adaptive/The head adds 11 top-level tests (9 root, 2 io_uring) and 218 subtests; the 2 subtest skips are the #751 cases, and the 6 top-level skips are the same tests in both arms (the io_uring worker-init-failure tests, the
tcp_synack_retries=0pause tests,TestRouteAdaptive_SettleReopenCost, the gated backpressure test).The CI shape (8 MiB memlock, one io_uring worker) is this PR's CI (below). On this laptop its runs are VOID for io_uring: other lanes' root containers share the memlock charge, and the head arm of
761/suites/m8-engine_epoll_engine_iouring_internal_conn-basea73afb6-head621372a.logcould not start io_uring ("io_uring_setup: cannot allocate memory") in 6 tests. That run's one other failure,TestPipelinedResponsesKeepTheirOrder/io_uring/async-route(response 1 arrived as the third response), is the #751 class; see Remaining.The gated
TestWriteBufBackpressureClosesSlowConsumer(GOTEST_BACKPRESSURE=1,-count=3, CI shape;761/suites/m8-engine_epoll-basea73afb6-head052b5cc.log): 3/3 PASS on the head and on main (main passes because it drops the 50 MiB body, #761 itself). linux/amd64 (emulated, no-race, the root tests): every std, epoll and adaptive leaf passes; every io_uring case fails with "io_uring not available on this system", the emulator (761/suites/amd64-root-head052b5cc.log).go vetand golangci-lint (the repo config) are clean for GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 and arm64.CI
CI on 052b5cc: 19/19 checks pass, one benchmark job skipped (CI run 36409925185, Coverage run 36409925229). The root package took 129.5 s (Unit) and 151.6 s (Coverage) of its 300 s timeout there, and 104.1 s / 109.1 s on 9b84a69, whose tests under
-raceare the same but for the two #751 skips: the spread is the runners'. Round 1's head took 242.9 s / 236.7 s; main 71.1 s (dbbaaee, CI run 36406691708) to 80.7 s (the review's main runs). The CI time came from bytes moved under-raceon the runners (several times the laptop's cost), so under-raceor coverage the largest bodies shrink (lean761: 64 MiB H1 to 16 MiB, 16 MiB file and HTTP/2 to 8 MiB, the concurrent test to 2 rounds); the sizes around 4 MiB are the same in every run, and the full sizes run without-race(the controls above, and the cluster row).Cost
The hooks are on the request path. Under the laptop timing lock (
scripts/bench-r2.sh a73afb6 98ba46d 85be79f 10andscripts/bench-r2b.sh a73afb6 621372a 10: one container, 4 CPUs, no-race, 10 rounds interleaved base, head, head, base;bench/benchstat-r2-20260928T095129Z.txt,bench/benchstat-r2b-20260928T100350Z.txt; 98ba46d's and 621372a's engine and H1 code are this head's):BenchmarkWriteHooks/small(header + 64 B, flush to /dev/null)BenchmarkWriteHooks/zero-copy-body(header + 16 KiB, one writev to /dev/null in both)BenchmarkWriteHooks/smallBenchmarkWriteHooks/large-body(header + 16 KiB)BenchmarkProcessH1(one GET: the per-request back-pressure hook)BenchmarkPoolDispatchResponded(#822's lock, async HTTP/2)0 allocations in every arm. So io_uring pays one body-sized memcpy per HTTP/1 response of 8 KiB or more (~130-160 ns for 16 KiB here), the price of #817: the kernel copies from the engine's buffer, not the handler's; epoll pays ~3 ns per such response, and every request one indirect call that the benchmark does not resolve. That is micro-benchmark evidence only: the end-to-end effect is cluster row 62 (benchmark-tier, folded into the next perf checkpoint; PASS iff no regression beyond the floor on bodies under 8 KiB, and io_uring's on bodies of 8 KiB or more reported with its size). It has not run, and this PR claims no end-to-end number. The HTTP/2 queue loop's per-turn
pendingBytesresync (round 1) is not measured.Memory: a response is staged whole however large it is (a non-detached
StreamWriteris buffered until its handler returns); an HTTP/2 connection may hold 64 MiB before a write is refused (#818).Remaining
761/probe-751/run-probe.sh a73afb6 052b5cc 40,761/probe-751/probe-a73afb6-052b5cc.log). That route writes no zero-copy body.StreamWriteris buffered whole on the native engines; the docs' streaming page saysFlushputs the bytes on the wire, which is not true there), epoll reaping a closing connection by read time, a deterministic HTTP/2 refusal test, io_uring's now dormant WRITEV path.Fixes #761
Fixes #802
Fixes #817
Fixes #822