test(kio): pin the waiter-list footprint, and retire the waiter-slots quest - #3376
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WalkthroughThe changes add allocation tests for Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change documents waiter storage and adds allocation and size regression guards. The documented heap-allocation behavior needs qualification, and the allocation-counting tests can be flaky when run concurrently, but no production behavior change is indicated. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@rs/kio/src/waiter.rs`:
- Around line 239-241: Update the documentation for WaiterList’s empty-list
allocation claim to scope it specifically to list storage: state that
inline-capacity registration avoids list-storage growth allocations, or qualify
the statement for an already initialized Waiter, without claiming the first
register call performs no heap allocation.
In `@rs/kio/tests/waiter_allocs.rs`:
- Line 18: Serialize the allocator-counting tests that use the process-global
ALLOCS counter by holding a shared Mutex across waiter construction and
allocation measurement, or combine both cases into a single test. Ensure
cycle_allocs assertions remain isolated from allocations made by the other test.
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… quest The quest asked to swap `WaiterList`'s `SmallVec<[Weak<Waker>; 32]>` for one inline slot plus a spill `Vec`. It was filed from notes that predate the tree it landed in: #2989 had already cut the inline count to 32 -> 4, and #3194 had added the lazy id and epoch fields, so both rows of its table describe a struct that no longer exists. Measured against the current tree with a counting allocator, the proposed shape is dominated. It reaches the same 56 B as `SmallVec<[_; 2]>` while allocating from the second parked waiter rather than the third, because `take()` hands its spilled buffer to the snapshot that wakes it and the snapshot frees it. So 48 B per state cell would cost one malloc/free per notification on every track with two or more subscribers. Abandon the quest and keep the finding instead: assert the alloc-free window and the struct sizes, so the drift that produced the quest is visible in review. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…-local The size assertion pasted one build's number. `size_of::<WaiterList>()` is 64 B or 72 B depending on whether anything else in the build graph enables `smallvec/union` (glib and wgpu-hal both do), which is a property of the dependency set rather than of kio, so assert an upper bound instead. The allocation counter was global, and the harness runs the two tests concurrently, so each folded the other's allocations into its measurement. Count per thread. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Waiter registration can allocate a shared identity even while the list's entry storage remains inline. Scope the public guarantee to list-storage growth so it does not promise that registration never touches the heap.\n\nCo-Authored-By: GPT-5.6 Sol <noreply@openai.com>
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Summary
quest/m2/relay-memory/waiters.mdasked to replaceWaiterList'sSmallVec<[Weak<Waker>; 32]>with one inline slot plus a spillVec, so thatevery kio channel stops paying 840 B of empty waker slots. The quest was filed on
2026-08-31 from notes that predate the tree it landed in:
#2989 had already cut
INLINE_WAITERSfrom 32 to 4 on 2026-08-21, and#3194 had since added the lazy id and
epoch fields. Both the baseline and the candidate rows of its table describe a
struct that no longer exists.
I implemented the proposed shape and measured it against the current tree. It is
dominated, so the quest is abandoned rather than completed, and what lands
instead is the evidence plus guards against the same drift.
Measurements
Sizes are
size_of. Allocation counts come from a counting global allocator over100 steady-state take/wake cycles, so they are exact rather than timed.
WaiterListState<()>SmallVec, 32SmallVec, 8SmallVec, 4 (today)SmallVec, 2Option+Vec(proposed)SmallVec, 1size_of::<State<()>>()is three lists plus theclosedflag; the 224 B and176 B rows were measured directly and the rest follow that arithmetic.
Every size above is the layout without
smallvec/union. That feature is aproperty of the dependency set rather than of kio:
glib(viamoq-gst) andwgpu-hal(viamoq-video) both enable it, so a build containing either storesthe inline array in a union instead of a tagged enum and every list is 8 B
smaller.
cargo test -p kiosees 72 B; CI'sjust test, which builds the wholechanged set at once, sees 64 B. The relative ordering is unaffected, which is
what the comparison rests on.
The quest's risk note said "
Vecdoes not shrink back, so there is noallocate/free thrash". That is false in this code.
WaiterList::take()moves thebuffer out into the snapshot that gets woken outside the lock, and the snapshot
frees it, so a spilled list re-allocates on every wake rather than keeping
capacity. That is why the inline count cannot go to zero, and it is why
Option+VectiesSmallVec<[_; 2]>on size while allocating one waiterearlier than it does.
So the proposal buys 16 B per list (48 B per state cell) and pays one extra
malloc/free per notification on every track with two or more subscribers, which
is the fan-out hot path the quest itself flagged as the risk.
SmallVec<[_; 2]>is the same size for strictly fewer allocations, and #2989 already declined it in
favour of 4.
The remaining 48 B is not unreachable, it is just gated on the right change
first:
quest/m1/perf/kio-wake.mdalready owns"reuse wake buffers: swap between two owned buffers on
takeinstead of handingthe allocation away". Once a spilled list keeps its capacity, a smaller inline
count is free. Shrinking the slots before that only moves cost from memory to the
fan-out path.
What lands instead
rs/kio/tests/waiter_allocs.rs: asserts that a list up to the inline capacitycycles without allocating, and that one past it allocates exactly once per wake.
The constant's whole justification is now a test instead of a table in a
comment. A counting allocator needs the binary to itself, hence an integration
test.
the_list_stays_small: boundssize_of::<WaiterList>()andsize_of::<State<()>>(), so growing either has to be argued for in review.Invisible drift in exactly these numbers is what produced the quest. A bound
and not an equality, because of the
smallvec/unionswing above: an equalitypasses locally and fails in CI, or the reverse.
WaiterList::new's doc claimed it allocates "nothing until the firstregister", which describes the spill and not the inline array. Corrected, asthe quest asked.
INLINE_WAITERSnow records whyOption+Vecis not an improvement, so theidea does not get re-filed from the same reasoning.
Quests
quest/m2/relay-memory/waiters.mddeleted (abandoned, per the reasoning above).quest/m2/relay-memory/README.md: root cause and expected result restatedagainst the current tree, and pointed at kio-wake for the remaining lever.
quest/m0/group-charge.mdis unblocked: its## Requiredsection is gone,which is the point of this PR. Its own figures were stale for the same reason
(it assumed a 896 B state cell and a pending shrink that had already landed), so
its plan now says to remeasure before setting
ENTRY_OVERHEAD.I kept group-charge as a separate PR. It changes relay cache accounting and
eviction behaviour, which is a different thing for a reviewer to weigh than a
footprint assertion, and it needs a measurement pass of its own now that its
"after" row has evaporated.
Benchmarks
cargo benchwas not usable on this machine: load average was over 120 fromconcurrent builds, and
waiter_register_firstcame back as[572 ns 679 ns 797 ns]for an operation that should be tens of nanoseconds. Ikilled the run rather than report numbers I do not trust.
The allocation counts above stand in, and they are the better instrument here:
exact, deterministic, and measuring precisely what was at risk. There is no
throughput claim left to defend either way, because no code on the delivery path
changes in this PR.
Public API changes
None.
WaiterListispubinkio, but its fields are private and this PRchanges no field, method, or signature. Doc comments and tests only.
Branch targeting
main. Nothing published is renamed, removed, or signature-changed, so there isno semver break that would send this to
dev. (kiois 0.5.7, so the0.0.xexemption would not have applied had there been one.)
Test plan
cargo test -p kio(54 lib + 2 allocation + 1 doc), run repeatedly to confirmthe allocation counts are deterministic rather than luck
cargo test -p moq-net(931)just fixclean.just checkandjust testwere killed twice by contentionon this box before finishing, so CI is the gate that actually ran them, and it
is what caught both bugs in the first revision: a pasted size that only held
on one build graph, and a global allocation counter that two concurrently
scheduled tests were both writing to.
Cross-Package Sync
No row applies. There is no
moq-ffi,moq-netwire/API, catalog, token, stats,relay config, CLI, or C ABI change;
kiois not in the table, and nothing outsideit observes
WaiterList's layout.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
(Written by Claude Opus 5)