Page the slot tables so a capacity ceiling costs nothing idle - #76
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`Config::max_handles` read like a ceiling and behaved like a preallocation: `Table::new` built every slot and the whole free list up front, and so did the timer index and every backend array addressed by a slot index. A loop cost what it might ever hold, which forced the ceiling to stay small, and a small ceiling refused connections. Slots now live in fixed-size pages built on demand: page zero with the loop, another when the high-water mark crosses into it. Substituting pages for a flat vector is safe because a slot is named by its index and reused under a generation, so adding a page moves no existing slot and invalidates no handle or operation id; pages are separately allocated, so a slot's address is stable too, which the backends that hand a slot's address to the kernel rely on. An idle loop's cost is now identical from 1K to 1M handles: 784 allocations and 4,999 KB either way, against 22,843/15.1 MB and 2,117,947/1,323 MB before. On an HTTP fixture holding 5,000 connections at `max_handles: 16384`, peak RSS falls from 56.3 MB to 12.3 MB, and loop construction from 52 MB to 6.2 MB. Reaching the ceiling is now backpressure rather than refusal. An operation whose completion creates a handle reserves its slot when it is submitted, and `new_handle` will not spend a slot another operation is holding, so an accept the kernel has been asked to perform always has somewhere to put its connection. At the ceiling the submission is refused instead, before the kernel is asked, and the pending connection stays in the listener's backlog. Measured at `max_handles: 512`: before, two accepts completed with `ResourceLimit` after the kernel had already handed the connections over, and they were destroyed; after, one submission is refused and no accept completes with an error. Two structures stay contiguous and sized by their ceiling, and say why: the Windows OVERLAPPED slab, whose reverse map from a completion packet's pointer to an operation index needs one allocation, and the lock-free cross-thread result rings, whose capacity is also their backpressure bound. `pooled_buffers` is the remaining per-loop cost that scales with configuration, tracked in #43. Every existing allocation gate passes unmodified, which is the evidence that steady-state behaviour is unchanged. New gates pin that a loop built with a 1024x larger ceiling makes the same allocations and requests the same bytes, and that a loop pinned 500 handles above page zero turns 1000 times without allocating; both weigh bytes as well as counting, because one oversized reservation is a single allocation, which is how the cost used to hide. New contract tests cover handles surviving growth and the accept reservation on every backend. Closes #75
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change replaces full-capacity slot allocations with paged storage, updates backends and services to use it, reserves handle capacity before accept-like submissions, and adds allocation and cross-platform contract tests. ChangesPaged capacity and backpressure
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Application
participant Driver
participant Backend
participant Kernel
participant HandleTable
Application->>Driver: submit accept
Driver->>HandleTable: reserve handle slot
Driver->>Backend: arm accept
Backend->>Kernel: submit accept
Kernel-->>Backend: accepted connection
Backend-->>Driver: accept event
Driver->>HandleTable: attach reserved slot
Driver-->>Application: accepted handle
Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Under capacity pressure, connections may be accepted and dropped instead of remaining queued, while file-service paths can violate the intended demand-driven allocation behavior. These issues should be resolved before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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wasi_p2 sized four poll-batch arrays at max_handles * 2 + max_operations + 1 and reserved all of it up front, which the new ceiling gate caught: a 1024x larger ceiling reserved 80,261,208 bytes against 4,837,464, or 72 bytes per handle of ceiling. Three of them are scratch cleared and refilled per poll, so they reserve a page and grow with the pollables actually subscribed. The fourth, poll_storage, is the canonical return arena that wasi:io/poll lowers its result into, and the arena asserts rather than reallocating, so it is resized to one u32 per subscribed pollable before the call — the exact bound the import can produce. The worst-case count is still computed, because an overflow there is a configuration this backend cannot serve.
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In `@crates/turnloop/src/backend/files.rs`:
- Line 133: Initialize the file-job slots with empty storage by replacing the
Slots::filled construction with Slots::new using config.max_operations. Keep the
existing slot() lazy allocation behavior unchanged so slots are built and
pre-locked only when first used.
In `@crates/turnloop/src/driver.rs`:
- Line 1062: Update the multishot accept handling around the
terminal/held/reserved-handles condition to disarm or stop the backend accept
when restoring its reservation fails, then deliver the terminal acknowledgement.
Ensure no accept remains armed with held == 0 and preserve listener-backlog
backpressure at the handle ceiling.
In `@crates/turnloop/src/fs/service.rs`:
- Line 352: Update the completion logic around the metadata access to use a
non-materializing lookup instead of self.slot(i), so cancelled queued requests
without a job Slot do not allocate page, Slot, or mutex storage. Preserve taking
existing metadata when the slot is already present and keep terminal
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| .map_or(0, |op| std::mem::take(&mut op.reserved_handles)); | ||
| self.reserved_handles -= held; | ||
| let attached = self.attach(transport, token); | ||
| if !terminal && held != 0 && self.handles.remaining() > self.reserved_handles { |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Disarm the multishot accept when its reservation cannot be restored.
After this branch attaches the last free handle, the condition is false and the operation stays armed without a reservation. The next connection can be accepted by the kernel, reach attach_reserved with held == 0, fail in attach with ResourceLimit, and drop the detached transport.
Cancel or stop the backend accept when re-reservation fails, then deliver its terminal acknowledgement. This preserves listener-backlog backpressure at the handle ceiling.
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In `@crates/turnloop/src/driver.rs` at line 1062, Update the multishot accept
handling around the terminal/held/reserved-handles condition to disarm or stop
the backend accept when restoring its reservation fails, then deliver the
terminal acknowledgement. Ensure no accept remains armed with held == 0 and
preserve listener-backlog backpressure at the handle ceiling.
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| } | ||
| let metadata = lock(&self.slots[i].metadata).take(); | ||
| let metadata = lock(&self.slot(i).metadata).take(); |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Do not materialize an unused job slot during completion.
If cancellation withdraws a queued request before start, the request has no job Slot. self.slot(i) then allocates the page, Arc<Slot>, and mutex storage only to read empty metadata.
Use a non-materializing lookup. This keeps terminal cancellation completion allocation-free.
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- let metadata = lock(&self.slot(i).metadata).take();
+ let metadata = self
+ .slots
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| let metadata = lock(&self.slot(i).metadata).take(); | |
| let metadata = self | |
| .slots | |
| .get(i) | |
| .and_then(Option::as_ref) | |
| .and_then(|slot| lock(&slot.metadata).take()); |
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In `@crates/turnloop/src/fs/service.rs` at line 352, Update the completion logic
around the metadata access to use a non-materializing lookup instead of
self.slot(i), so cancelled queued requests without a job Slot do not allocate
page, Slot, or mutex storage. Preserve taking existing metadata when the slot is
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The accept reservation is only worth something if the two counters cannot drift: a slot promised to an armed accept has to still be free when the connection arrives. Every path that moves either side already keeps that -- a reserving submission checks before promising, new_handle refuses to spend a promised slot, and a delivery releases its promise before taking the slot -- but drift would be silent until a connection was destroyed for it, which is the failure this mechanism exists to remove. Checked in debug at the three points that move a counter.
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Closes #75.
Config::max_handlesread like a ceiling and behaved like a preallocation.Table::newbuilt every slot and the whole free list up front — and so, it turns out, did the timer index, the completion queue's reserve, and every backend array addressed by a slot index. A loop cost what it might ever hold rather than what it held, which forced the ceiling to stay small, and a small ceiling refused connections.Slots now live in fixed-size pages built on demand: page zero with the loop, another when the high-water mark crosses into it.
What the cost actually was
The issue names
Table,TimerQueueand three IOCP vectors. Measuring first (macOS,max_operations: 4096) showed those are a small part of it — a single idle loop made 22,843 allocations at the default ceiling, with 1,249 bytes and 2 allocations per handle of ceiling, spread across ten structures:resources, watch/service entries, ready queues)fs::Service::objects— oneArc<Mutex<..>>per handle, plus Darwin's lazily-allocated mutex storageSo the fix had to be a mechanism applied everywhere, not three call sites.
The mechanism
Slots<T>(crates/turnloop/src/slots.rs) is a paged, index-addressed container that is a drop-in forVec<Option<T>>at the call site —Index,IndexMut,get,get_mut,len,iter,iter_mut. That is why ~330 call sites are untouched and the diff is essentially the constructors: the conversion is a field type and aSlots::new(ceiling).Two properties make the substitution safe, and both are what the issue identified:
Vecthat reallocates does not have this, and the backends that hand a slot's address to the kernel need it.Pages are a dense prefix and indices are handed out lowest-free-first, so the materialised prefix tracks the high-water mark, not the ceiling.
len()still reports the ceiling (matching the vector it replaces);materialised()is what the twofor i in 0..len()scan loops now use, so they no longer walk the whole ceiling — on WASI 0.3 that loop runs per event.Results
An idle loop's cost is now identical from 1K to 1M handles:
max_handles64 loops (the per-agent case) at
max_handles: 65536: 4,473 MB → 310 MB. Atmax_handles: 1024it is still 894 MB → 310 MB, because the paging also removed the per-handleArcs.Holding 5,000 concurrent connections at
max_handles: 16384: peak RSS 56.3 MB → 12.3 MB, loop construction 52 MB → 6.2 MB.Of the 5,000 KB that remains, 4 MB is
pooled_buffers(256 × 16 KiB), which #43 owns.Backpressure, not refusal
An operation whose completion creates a handle — accept, handle receive — reserves its handle slot when it is submitted, and
new_handlewill not spend a slot another operation is holding. So an accept the kernel has been asked to perform always has somewhere to put its connection; at the ceiling the submission is refused instead, before the kernel is asked, and the pending connection stays in the listener's backlog.Measured at
max_handles: 512, asking for 1,000 connections:Before, the kernel handed connections over and the driver destroyed them — the client's
connect"succeeded" 1,000 times and 489 of those connections silently died. After, no accept ever completes with an error; the backlog holds what the loop cannot serve.A multishot accept holds one such reservation, so it is protected one connection at a time. Bounding a whole batch needs a per-turn native event budget on
Backend::poll, because one turn can deliverevents_per_turnconnections from a single armed operation. That is a separate change and I did not want to reshape the turn budget across six backends inside this one — I will file it.What I did not page, and why
OVERLAPPEDslab (kernel, andbridgesparallel to it). It maps a completion packet's pointer back to an operation index by pointer arithmetic over one contiguous allocation. Paging it needs a different reverse map — its own change, as anticipated. The other three IOCP vectors named in the issue (resources,workers,watch::entries) are paged.pooled_buffers— A loop's Config cannot grow in place; recreating the loop drops in-flight pool completions #43.Evidence
Every existing allocation gate passes unmodified. That is the main evidence that steady-state behaviour is unchanged: I first had page zero lazy, five gates went red, and building page zero with the loop (as the issue proposed) made all five pass again with no test edits.
New gates, each sabotage-checked to confirm it can fail:
an_idle_loop_costs_the_same_at_any_ceiling— a 1024× larger ceiling must make the same allocations and request the same bytes. The byte check matters: one oversizedVec::with_capacityis a single allocation, which is exactly how the cost used to hide from a counting allocator. (Planting eager page allocation:2,282,521 allocations instead of 23,637.)a_loop_at_its_high_water_mark_allocates_nothing_per_turn— 500 handles above page zero, 1,000 turns, zero allocations and zero bytes.paged_growth_preserves_handles(contract, all backends) — 600 handles taken across ten page boundaries all still name their own timer and deliver their ownClosed, and it asserts the high-water mark actually reached 600 so it cannot pass on an ungrown table. (Planting a generation bump during growth: fails.)accept_reserves_its_handle_slotandan_armed_accept_keeps_its_slot(contract) — the second is the discriminating one: the host must not be able to create handles out from under an armed accept. (Removing thenew_handleguard: fails.)Slotsunit tests are added tomiri-filters; one asserts slot addresses are byte-identical across seven page allocations.The ceiling gate then earned its keep on CI: WASI 0.2 was still reserving 72 bytes per handle of ceiling in four poll-batch arrays sized
max_handles * 2 + max_operations + 1—80,261,208 bytes instead of 4,837,464at the 1024x ceiling. Three of those are scratch cleared and refilled per poll, so they reserve a page and grow with the pollables actually subscribed; the fourth is the canonical return arenawasi:io/polllowers into, and it asserts rather than reallocating, so it is resized to oneu32per subscribed pollable before the call. Fixed in the second commit, with the full WASI 0.2 suite re-run locally under wasmtime.Run locally on macOS arm64:
run-tests.py native(36 suites),loom,miri,soak,check-paths,feature_modes,no-tokio, the CI script unit tests, rustdoc, stable, MSRV 1.97.1, and-D warningsclippy for native,x86_64-pc-windows-msvc,wasm32-wasip2andwasm32-unknown-unknown. Cross-target checking earned its keep: it caught the IOCPbridges/kernelcoupling, and animpl Iteratorreturn type whose assumed drop glue held a borrow of the whole backend across a loop that a slice iterator allows.Summary by CodeRabbit
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