Stop deployment resyncs from reviving idle apps - #1150
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This draft fixes a real and well-understood production problem: the minutely resync was cold-starting every idle (scale-to-zero) auto-mode app, which blocked the launcher's single worker while it waited for readiness, and in turn saturated the reconcile queue. The two-part fix is sound:
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versionChangedgate inensurePoolForService— only floor the pool'sDesiredInstancesback to 1 when the pool's sandboxSpec version actually differs from the incoming version ID. A same-version resync now leaves a drained pool drained. The logic is easy to follow and the intent is captured well in the comment. -
AddonAssociationHandlerdelegates toReconcile— instead of callingreconcileAppVersiondirectly (bypassing the per-app mutex), it now callsl.Reconcile(ctx, &core_v1alpha.App{ID: assoc.App}, nil), which re-reads the app from the store, checks addon readiness, and holds the per-app lock for the full duration. This closes the race the old code had between an addon event and a concurrent main reconcile for the same app. -
Worker count 1 → 2 — the comment accurately explains the invariant: same-app work is still serialized by the per-app mutex, so two workers give parallelism across different apps without opening any per-app race.
The test suite is strong: TestAutoModeDrainedPoolOnlyRevivesForNewVersion exercises the idle-pool behaviour directly (same-version resync leaves DesiredInstances=0; new-version resync raises it to 1), and TestAddonAssociationHandlerUsesPerAppLock concurrently blocks on a held mutex and verifies that a different app isn't affected — exactly the two properties the change is staking correctness on.
One concrete concern worth calling out before merge:
AddonAssociationHandler now calls l.Reconcile, which tries to acquire appMu for assoc.App. The addon handler runs in the controller framework's goroutine — the same goroutines that can also be dispatching main Reconcile calls for the same app. sync.Mutex is not reentrant in Go, so if the addon handler and the main reconciler both try to acquire the mutex for the same app at the same time, they simply block on each other (no deadlock — one wins, one waits). That part is fine. The concern is the other direction: if the main Reconcile for app A is already holding the lock and — through some path within reconcileAppVersion — triggers a synchronous operation that also dispatches back through the controller framework for app A and ends up calling the addon handler for that same app, you'd have a deadlock. I don't see that path in the code today, but with 2 workers and the addon handler now going through the full Reconcile + EAC round-trips, it's worth confirming that the controller framework's dispatch is always async (never a synchronous re-entrant call into the same goroutine while a lock is held).
The TestAddonAssociationHandlerUsesPerAppLock test does validate the mutual exclusion property by holding the mutex externally and asserting the handler goroutine blocks. It also verifies that releasing the lock lets the handler complete. That's the right test. What it doesn't (and can't easily) test is the re-entrant-deadlock scenario above — worth a quick audit of the controller framework's dispatch path to rule it out before graduating to full review.
Minor nit: the assoc.Encode call in the test at line 4263 is passed but assocEntity is constructed only to satisfy the event — the assoc.App used inside the handler is decoded from the entity, so it's implicitly testing the encode/decode round-trip too. Not a problem, just worth being aware of.
This is solid work and nearly ready. Confirm the no-reentrant-deadlock property in the controller dispatch layer and it's good to go.
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components/coordinate/coordinate.go (1)
1268-1268: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winUse multiple workers for addon-association events.
controllers/deployment/launcher.goline 212 now callsReconcilesynchronously. Line 1268 leavesdeploymentlauncher-addonswith one worker. A slow reconcile blocks addon events for unrelated applications. The two workers at line 1256 apply only to App events.Set this controller to two workers. The per-app lock still serializes work for the same application.
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The launcher treated any reused pool at desired_instances=0 as a fresh deploy. Its minutely resync therefore cold-started every idle autoscale app, and the single worker could spend up to 60 seconds waiting on each one while duplicate resync events filled the queue. Only revive a drained pool when its baked version changes. Route addon events through the same per-app lock, then use two workers so a real slow deploy no longer stalls unrelated apps.
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🍪 biscuit: ✅ ready to merge — auto-review, non-blocking
I've re-reviewed the PR in full, including the controller framework source and the new tests. My earlier concern has been addressed.
On the re-entrant deadlock question: I read through pkg/controller/controller.go and can confirm the claim in the new comment at lines 208–213 is accurate. The watch callback does c.workQueue <- ev (a buffered channel send) and returns immediately. The handler is invoked only from runWorker → processItem, running in a distinct goroutine. There is no synchronous re-entrant path from inside reconcileAppVersion back to any handler — any store write that triggers a new watch event just enqueues to the work queue and gets picked up by a worker later. The deadlock scenario I flagged is structurally impossible.
The two-part fix holds up:
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versionChangedgate inensurePoolForServicecorrectly limits the "revive drained pool" path to actual deploys, not steady-state resyncs. The newTestAutoModeDrainedPoolOnlyRevivesForNewVersiontest exercises both halves — same-version resync leavesDesiredInstances=0, new version raises it to 1 — and that's exactly what matters. -
AddonAssociationHandlernow callsl.Reconcile, pulling the handler under the per-app mutex.TestAddonAssociationHandlerUsesPerAppLockvalidates mutual exclusion by externally holding the mutex, confirming the handler blocks, and then confirming it completes once the lock is released. It also confirms that a different app reconciles freely on the same call. -
Worker count 1 → 2 is safe: the per-app mutex in
ReconcileandCreatePoolForVersionserializes same-app work, and the controller framework'sinFlightmap additionally serializes same-entity dispatch within a controller.
The comment documenting the framework's async-only dispatch is a clear, permanent answer to the concern, and the code backs it up. Ready to graduate to human review.
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The deployment launcher treated any reused pool at
desired_instances=0as a fresh deploy. Its minutely resync kept cold-starting idle autoscale apps and waiting for readiness while duplicate events piled up until the controller queue filled.This keeps scale-to-zero pools drained unless the pool is actually moving to a new version, preserving deploy verification without manufacturing work on every resync. Addon-triggered reconciles now use the same per-app lock, which lets the launcher safely run two workers so one slow deploy does not stall unrelated apps.
The deployment and coordinator packages pass, the locking coverage is clean under the race detector, and the addon integration packages pass serially.
Part of MIR-1391