fix(grpc-proxy): purge queued work whose client has stopped waiting - #1031
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe proxy now tracks stateful work awaiting worker CONNECT, removes connected requests from tracking, and purges remaining queued work during shutdown. The invocation service provides request-specific JetStream purging. Metrics and tests cover purge outcomes and shutdown behavior. ChangesPending stateful work cleanup
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to During shutdown, a request can be published after the purge snapshot and remain queued even though the originating pod can no longer authenticate it, prolonging backlog recovery after a restart. The PR is not merge-ready until admission is synchronized with the purge or this bounded risk is explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Worker
participant StreamDirector
participant FunctionInvoker
participant JetStream
Worker->>StreamDirector: Register worker CONNECT
StreamDirector->>StreamDirector: Remove request from pendingWork
StreamDirector->>FunctionInvoker: Purge pending requests during Close
FunctionInvoker->>JetStream: Lookup stream and purge request subjects
StreamDirector->>StreamDirector: Stop pending-work cache
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/director.go`:
- Around line 377-404: Introduce a lifecycle gate across director.go lines
377-404 and 618-631 and hijack.go lines 166-179 so shutdown blocks new
invocation and CONNECT transitions, waits for active transitions to finish, then
snapshots and purges pending work; ensure the Set-to-publish interleaving cannot
leave an orphaned JetStream request and CONNECT cleanup completes during
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Good catch, this was a real hole and it is fixed in the latest commit. You are right that Fixed with an admission gate rather than a broader lifecycle refactor. Shutdown closes admission and then waits, bounded, for invocations already past the gate to finish publishing, so the purge snapshot sees everything this pod created and nothing can publish after it. A refused invocation returns Two things I deliberately kept narrow: The gate covers the invocation only, not the session that follows, so shutdown is never held open for the length of a session. Scoping it to the whole handler would have made every rolling update wait on live sessions. The drain is bounded, so a stuck invocation delays shutdown by at most the timeout instead of blocking exit. I waited in place rather than in a helper goroutine specifically so an invocation that never returns cannot leak one. On your Added tests for admission closing, the drain actually waiting for an admitted invocation, the drain giving up on a stuck one, the idle case returning immediately, and concurrent use under |
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/invocation_gate_test.go`:
- Around line 46-50: In the goroutine coordinating the drain test, call
gate.end() before closing the released channel so receiving released guarantees
the gate operation has completed. Preserve the existing delay and channel-based
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47-61: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 TrivialConfirm the shutdown sequence documentation.
This test covers admission closure, draining of admitted invocations, and the timeout path. Confirm whether the architecture or sequence diagrams need an update to show this shutdown flow.
As per coding guidelines, "When a change modifies runtime behavior, data flow, or component interactions, ask whether architecture or sequence diagrams need updating."
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/invocation_gate_test.go`:
- Around line 57-61: Move the start timestamp capture in the drain test to
before launching the goroutine that sleeps for held, so timing includes the
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draining admitted invocations, and timeout behavior; update any affected
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/director.go`:
- Around line 358-365: Update Close and InvokeStatefulFunction admission
handling to close new invocations first, drain already-admitted invocations with
a bounded timeout, then snapshot and purge pendingWork. Ensure the shutdown
sequence prevents a publish from occurring after the purge snapshot, and add a
deterministic test covering the interleaving where invocation admission precedes
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Closing. Tested on stage 2026-08-21 with this exact build ( Reproduction: function pinned 1/1/100, 400 persistent client workers, Result: the wedge still happened, roughly 10 minutes after the restart. The reject:accept ratio did improve (26:1 vs 73:1 on Aug 20), so the purge is not Why it cannot work: the purge removes unclaimed work when a pod shuts down. In Also outstanding: merge conflicts in three files, and the unresolved Major review The idea itself (Frank's suggestion — don't leave orphaned work in NATS on Superseded by a design that removes the publish-time pod binding entirely, which |
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A worker CONNECT token lives only in the memory of the pod that minted
it, but the work request it belongs to is durable and waits in the
JetStream work queue until a worker has a slot to pull it. When the pod
goes away, every request it issued that has not been pulled yet is
already doomed: a worker pulls it, takes a concurrency slot, is rejected
with 403, and hands the slot back having achieved nothing.
Nothing removed those requests, so on a saturated function this repeats
for as long as the backlog takes to drain while clients retry and refill
it, which is the extended near-zero-goodput window seen after a restart.
Track sessions from the point a token is issued until the worker
CONNECTs back, and on shutdown purge the work requests still waiting.
This is the same subject-filtered purge the invocation service uses in
cancel_request.
Only sessions still waiting for a worker are purged. A session with a
worker attached is not tied to the pod that started it: on reconnect the
config is rebuilt from the answering pod's address with a fresh token, so
the worker reattaches elsewhere and the session survives a rolling
update. Purging those would sever sessions that were going to live.
Purging by subject only removes what the stream still holds, so an
established session is untouched for that reason too.
The purge is best effort and bounded. Whether this service may purge the
work queue is granted outside this repository, so a rejected purge is
logged and shutdown continues rather than failing.
Adds nvcf_grpc_proxy_service_pending_work_purged_total{result}. A
persistent failed count is the signal that the permission is missing.
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
An invocation records its pending work before it publishes the work request. A shutdown landing between those two steps purged nothing and then let the publish leave a request in the queue with no surviving token to authenticate it, which is exactly the state the purge exists to prevent. Marking the director as shutting down did not help: that flag only affects eviction reporting and does not stop an invocation already in progress. Gate admission instead. Shutdown closes the gate and waits, bounded, for invocations already past it to finish publishing, so the purge snapshot sees every request this pod created and nothing can publish after it. An invocation refused at the gate returns Unavailable and the client retries against a live pod, which is correct once the servers have drained. The gate covers only the invocation, never the session that follows, so shutdown is never held for the length of a session, and the drain is bounded so a stuck invocation cannot block exit. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
The drain test proved the right thing but read as if it could race: the goroutine closed the channel before calling end, so the assertion looked order-dependent even though the drain cannot return until end runs. Assert on a flag set before end plus the elapsed time instead, so a drain that failed to wait is caught directly rather than inferred. Inverting the original order, as suggested in review, would have introduced a real flake: the drain can return between end and the channel close. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
The start time was taken after launching the goroutine, so the sleep could begin first and the measured elapsed time come out just under the held duration, failing the assertion for no real reason. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
The purge arrived with four new constants: a retention, a capacity, a purge budget and a drain timeout. None were derived from anything, and adding tunables to a service whose central defect is one shared timeout doing six unrelated jobs is the wrong direction. All four are gone. Retention and capacity now reuse the issued-token values. That cache records the same population from the same call site, so a second set of numbers described the same thing twice. The purge budget reuses the existing shutdown timeout. The admission gate is removed with its drain timeout. It existed to close a window where a shutdown landing between recording pending work and publishing the work request misses that request. The window is real, but a missed request is left exactly as it is today, and today every one of them is left, so the gate bought a small improvement for an admission path, a wait, and another knob. The trade-off is now stated where the purge is defined rather than engineered around. Net: no new constants, no new tunables, and roughly a hundred fewer lines for the same behaviour. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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The shutdown purge returned silently on both of its no-work paths, before
touching any counter. Since the counters are pre-initialized, a reading of
zero purged and zero failed was emitted whether the purge ran and found an
empty queue, never ran because the invoker cannot reach the work queue, or was
not reached at all.
That ambiguity has already cost us. The last stage deployment of this change
read 0 succeeded and 0 failed, and that was taken as evidence the target
population was empty. It was not evidence of anything; the three cases are
indistinguishable in the metric.
Adds pending_work_purge_skipped_total{reason}, with reasons
invoker_unsupported and nothing_pending, pre-initialized like the existing
purge counters, plus a log line on each path. An unexplained zero now means
the purge did not run, which is a different problem from an empty queue.
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Rebased onto main (61 commits, no conflicts) and made two changes from a fresh review. Build and Dropped the quic-go v0.59.1 to v0.61.0 bump (plus x/net, x/crypto, x/sys, x/text) into its own branch, Made a purge that did nothing say why. Both no-work paths returned before touching any counter, and the counters are pre-initialized, so Two things I checked and did not need changing: One caveat on what this change can do, from stage measurements taken today against the wedge. The code targets requests whose "tokens exist only in this pod's memory" — those classify as So orphaned work looks like a transient at restart rather than what sustains the wedge, and I would not expect this change alone to prevent it. It is still worth deploying: it closes a real gap, and the skip counters mean this time a null result will be legible instead of ambiguous. |
Adds the trigger the stage evidence actually points at, alongside the existing shutdown one. A worker auth token is valid for consts.Timeout, the same budget after which the client is sent a gateway timeout, so the two are matched by design. Under load the work sits in the queue well past it: token age at CONNECT measured 30 to 60 seconds against a 30 second budget, every rejection classified expired and none unknown. Each of those is fetched, occupies a worker concurrency slot, attempts a CONNECT and is correctly rejected, for a client that has already given up. On stage this held a saturated function at zero goodput for eleven minutes while the worker stayed healthy and fetched 1,400 requests a minute. The rejection is right. The delivery is what is wrong. This drops the work at the moment its client stops waiting, which leaves every live request untouched because a session reaching that path has no client left. The shutdown trigger targets work whose token existed only in a departing pod's memory. Measurement says that population is small: across a rolling restart of every primary while wedged, rejected_token_unknown never fired once. It is kept because it closes a real gap, but it is not expected to be what fires. pending_work_purged_total gains a trigger label so one deployment can report which of the two did the work, rather than needing sequential rollouts to attribute the result. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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The bazel build failed compiling proxy_test: the client-departure test reads the purge counter through prometheus testutil, which was not declared. The root gazelle run does not reach here because grpc-proxy is a nested Go module, so the dependency has to be added directly. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Each timed-out request spawns an unbounded goroutine that performs two JetStream management calls with a 30-second timeout, so the saturation event this fixes can itself flood NATS and race proxy shutdown. |
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Pending state is recorded before publication and deleted before purge succeeds, so publish failures create phantom entries while purge failures become permanently untracked, leaving exactly the stale queued work this PR is meant to remove. |
Both from review on #1031. The purge dropped the pending entry before attempting the purge, so a failed purge became permanently untracked: the shutdown purge could never retry it and the stale queued work this change exists to remove would survive. The entry is now deleted only after the purge succeeds, and a failure deliberately leaves it in place. One goroutine per abandoned request is unbounded by construction, and abandonment peaks exactly during the saturation this change addresses, so the remedy could flood the work queue and race shutdown. Departure purges are now bounded to 32 in flight and shed rather than queue when the budget is exhausted, leaving the work for the shutdown purge. They also stop once shutdown begins, since shutdown purges everything still pending and starting more here would race it to the same subjects. Both cases are reported through pending_work_purge_skipped_total so an absent purge is legible rather than silent. The context timeout drops from consts.Timeout to five seconds. Nothing waits on this call, and holding a slot for thirty seconds against a queue that is already struggling works against the purpose. A purge was two JetStream calls, a stream lookup and the purge itself, on a path that runs once per abandoned request. The lookup answer does not change, so the stream handle is now resolved once per stream and cached, halving the calls the remedy makes. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Both findings confirmed against the code and fixed in 3cc2a4a. Thanks, these were the two things my stage testing could not have caught. Pending state deleted before the purge succeeded. Correct, and it was mine. On the other half, pending state being recorded before publication: that is real and pre-existing. A publish failure after Unbounded goroutines flooding NATS and racing shutdown. Also correct, and the framing is the part I had wrong: I flagged the call rate in the description as something to sanity check, but treated it as a capacity question rather than a correctness one. Abandonment peaks precisely during the saturation this change addresses, so the remedy amplifies its own trigger. Three changes:
Both skip paths report through Two JetStream calls per request. Fixed separately: the stream lookup answer does not change, one stream per region and function version, so the handle is resolved once and cached. That halves the calls this path makes.
Not re-tested on stage yet. The previous validation, four runs with zero expired rejections, ran against the unbounded version, so the shed path in particular has not been exercised under real saturation. I would rather re-run before this is treated as verified. |
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Why
A saturated function can sit at zero goodput while the worker stays healthy,
fetching over a thousand requests a minute and failing every one with a 403.
Shedding load clears it in one to two minutes; nothing else does, including
restarting the proxy.
The queue keeps delivering work nobody is waiting for. A worker auth token is
valid for
consts.Timeout, the same budget after which the client is sent agateway timeout, so the two are matched by design. Under load the work sits in
the queue past it. Measured on stage: token age at CONNECT ran 30 to 60 seconds
against a 30 second budget, every rejection classified
rejected_token_expired, andrejected_token_unknownnever fired once,including across a rolling restart of every primary.
Each of those requests is fetched, occupies a worker concurrency slot, attempts
a CONNECT and is correctly rejected, for a client that has already given up.
The rejection is right. The delivery is what is wrong.
What changed
Two triggers for the same subject-scoped purge of a single request's work:
client_departed: drops the queued work when its client stops waiting,before any worker attached. This is the population the measurements point at.
Live requests are untouched, because a session reaching that path has no
client left.
shutdown: drops work whose token existed only in a departing pod's memory.Kept because it closes a real gap, but not expected to be what fires; the
earlier stage deployment of this change read 0 purged and 0 failed.
pending_work_purged_totalgains atriggerlabel so one deployment reportswhich of the two did the work.
Also adds
pending_work_purge_skipped_total{reason}. Both no-work paths usedto return before touching any counter, so with the counters pre-initialized a
reading of 0 purged and 0 failed was emitted whether the purge ran against an
empty queue, could not reach the queue, or never ran. That ambiguity is what
made the previous stage result unreadable.
Customer Release Notes
Fixes a condition where a saturated function could stop serving traffic
entirely until load was removed.
Plan Summary
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Testing
Unit:
go test ./proxy/...andbazel test //src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy:allpass,including a test that the departure trigger purges, is attributed to its own
label, leaves the shutdown counter alone, and clears the pending entry so a
later shutdown cannot double count it.
Stage: deployed as
gh.1245-c1047332, binary verified to containpurgeDepartedClientWorkand the trigger label before rollout. Reproductionrun four times, each with saturation confirmed before the trigger, then
rollout restart deploy/nvcf-grpc-proxy-primary:36 scoring windows across the four runs,
rejected_token_expiredzero in everyone, client requests climbing monotonically throughout. The unfixed build under
the identical recipe froze within about two minutes every time, at roughly 500
rejections a minute with active connections at zero.
Reproduction and verification steps:
docs/qa/grpc-proxy-tunnel-failures-qa.mdin nvcf-internal.
Notes
Worth a reviewer's attention, since my testing does not cover it well: the
departure purge issues one NATS purge call per abandoned request, and under
saturation that is a lot of calls on a hot path. Stage produced 279 on a single
pod in five minutes, and tens of thousands across the fleet over the runs. It
behaved fine there, but stage is one function and production has many. Someone
familiar with the NATS side should sanity-check that call rate before this goes
to production.
The quic-go v0.59.1 to v0.61.0 bump that was on this branch has been split out
to
chore/grpc-proxy-quic-go-0.61. It is unrelated to the purge and sits onthe invocation data path, so leaving it here would have made the stage result
unattributable.
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