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… corrects BENCHMARK.md backed v0.6.0 and its headline KV rows dated from 2026-04-15 on v0.1.6. Eight releases and 112 src/ commits later nothing had re-measured it, so §1 and the README were quoting ratios no one had reproduced in five months. §2.12 re-measures v0.8.7 (d63ffcd) on both GCE arches using §2.11's interleaved method — legs alternate every rep, Redis 7.0.15 is restarted and re-measured every rep as a live drift control, request counts scale with depth, provenance written into the CSV. 266 rows per arch, 0 failures, floors 0.2-3.6%. The peak numbers hold and are in fact better than published (GET 2.40x x86 / 2.29x ARM vs the recorded 1.72x/2.20x). The FRAMING does not: GET and plain SET are the only two commands on the inline byte path, and every other family runs 0.40-0.67x Redis from p=8 up, identically on both architectures. That is not inferred — `SET k v` runs 2.08x Redis and `SET k v EX 100`, the same work with one option that disqualifies it from the fast path, runs 0.87x. §2.13 dates the deficit. v0.6.0 rebuilt on the same host already ran 0.51-0.76x at p>=8, so the report never regressed — it simply never computed those ratios, including in §2.11, which ran this exact grid three weeks ago and reduced it only to Moon-vs-Moon deltas. But a further 9-21% write-path loss did land: ten of twelve rows regressed against floors of 0.4-1.6%, and GET, the only read in the grid, lost nothing. A 9-point rebuild sweep shows three steps rather than one cliff, which is why this was not bisected: bisect assumes a single step change and would have returned the 08-19 drop as the whole cause, missing two thirds of the loss. Four mechanisms were proposed and tested to destruction rather than shipped as plausible-sounding prose — the intercept chain shrank (28->26 gates), the cmd_len==4 guard theory reverses under an INCR-vs-INCRBY probe, the with_shard_db fallback is never taken, and ShardSlice did not grow. What the profile can support is stated; what fat LTO makes unattributable is stated too. README gains the same scope caveat, and the p=1 busy-poll claim now records that 1.65-1.66x needs dedicated cores. Raw data in tmp/: kvab-{x86,arm}.csv, versab-x86.csv, sweep-x86.csv, probe-arm.csv, lenprobe.csv. author: Tin Dang
BENCHMARK.md 2.12 measured every non-inlined command family at 0.40-0.67x Redis from p=8 upward while GET and plain SET win 1.78-2.40x. Profiling the gap showed +5.5 points of per-command cost sitting in the dispatch/intercept region relative to v0.6.0. Reading the handler explains part of it. Every command walks 26 intercept gates before reaching dispatch. Only six carry a `cmd_len` pre-guard -- added deliberately, per the comment at the call site, because the bodies are "too large for rustc to inline" -- and twelve are `async fn`s, so an INCR builds and polls twelve futures purely to be told "not mine" twelve times. That optimisation was applied to six of twenty-six and never finished. `CommandFlags` is a u16 with bits 0..13 used, so `NO_INTERCEPT` costs a free bit and no memory: it rides in the same COMMAND_META entry the arity check already reads. One lookup and one bit test replace 21 gate calls. The gates and their ORDER are untouched. The ordering comments above them are not decoration -- they record the bugs that fixed each position (ACL above every privileged intercept, workspace rewrite above every key-reader, MULTI queue below ACL, MONITOR below both). Reordering them to save a branch would re-open those, so the chain is guarded, not rearranged. The four STATE gates -- ACL, cluster routing, readonly, disk-full -- apply to every command whatever its name and are deliberately left unguarded. The bit's sense is inverted on purpose. "This command IS intercepted" is fail-open: a new intercept whose command nobody flagged would be silently skipped, and no throughput test would notice. Unmarked means slow path, so adding either a command or an intercept can cost speed and never correctness. 67 plain keyspace commands are marked; everything else keeps the full chain. The drift guard was verified to work rather than assumed: marking WAIT -- which try_handle_wait provably claims -- makes tests/intercept_flag_drift.rs fail with that name, and unmarking it makes it pass again. `is_inline_intercepted` (shared.rs) was considered for collapsing onto this bit and rejected: it answers the narrower "does this intercept touch keys" for moon#507, and !NO_INTERCEPT is a strict superset. Expected recovery is ~3-5% of cycles. It does not close 0.43x -> 1.0x; the larger cost is the ~10.7% of Frame/Bytes lifecycle that the inline GET/SET path skips and every other command pays. Refs #507 author: Tin Dang
…lone The monoio local write path built `response_frame` by cloning the `DispatchResult`'s `Frame` and then used it for exactly one thing: `matches!(response_frame, Frame::Error(_))`. `response_frame` had those two occurrences in the whole file and no others, so the clone produced nothing but work. For a `Frame::Array` reply that is a deep clone -- a fresh `FrameVec` box plus one `Bytes` refcount bump per element, plus the matching drops -- paid per command on the general write path. Wave 0 measured that path at 0.68x of single-threaded Redis at p8 with ZERO cross-shard hops, so every cycle here is single-thread execution cost. Adds `DispatchResult::is_error()`, a borrow-only `matches!` over both variants, and calls it at the one site. Semantics are unchanged by construction: the old expression and the new one test the same discriminant over the same two variants. Refs: tmp/WAVE1_B_FRAME.md section 2.1 (Wave 2-A, stage 1 of 3) author: Tin Dang
`set(&mut self, key: Bytes, entry: Entry)` never moved the `Bytes` anywhere. Reading the whole body: `spill_inflight_forget(&key)`, `entry_overhead(&key, ..)`, `hash_expiry_index_note_value(&key, ..)`, `CompactKey::from(key.as_ref())` (which copies the bytes either way), `ColdIndex::remove(&key)`, and both expiry-index writers -- every one takes `&[u8]`. The owned parameter existed only as a signature. Its cost was paid at the call sites: `db.set(key.clone(), entry)` in every write command, i.e. one `shared_v_clone` on the way in and one `shared_v_drop` on the way out per command, for a refcount whose value is never read. Wave 0 measured moon `--shards 1` at 0.68x of single-threaded Redis at p8 on exactly these families, on a leg with zero cross-shard hops -- so this is straight single-thread execution cost. `set`, `set_string` and `set_string_with_expiry` now take `&[u8]`. That removes 32 `Some(k) => k.clone()` key extractions across the string, hash, list, set and sorted-set write paths. Six sites genuinely need ownership (the key outlives the borrow) and keep their clone; the compiler identified every one of them rather than a grep. It also deletes a real allocation, not just a refcount, from RESTORE, COPY, RENAME, MOVE, the cold-tier promote, WAL v3 replay and replication apply: each was building a throwaway `Bytes::copy_from_slice(key)` only to satisfy the old signature. Semantics are unchanged -- `set`'s body is byte-for-byte the same work with `&key` rewritten to `key`. Both runtimes check clean; clippy clean on both legs; 5110 lib tests pass. Refs: tmp/WAVE1_B_FRAME.md section 2.3 (Wave 2-A, stage 2 of 3) author: Tin Dang
`--cross-shard-fast-path` now defaults to `auto` instead of `off`. At `--shards 8` on a populated keyspace it serves 100% of foreign reads on the calling thread and takes parks/cmd for GET at p=1 from 0.87336 to 0.00023 -- same binary, one flag apart, measured from INFO stats (total_dispatch_cross_read_fast / total_dispatch_cross_spsc / total_remote_awaits_parked). docs/internal/cross-shard-cost-model.md prices a park at ~24.9 core-us and at 85% of p=1 cost, so this is the largest single lever on the cross-shard read path. Against that fit it predicts 2.586 -> 0.413 CPU%/kops for cross-shard reads at p=1. Reads only. A cross-shard write still parks: the gate is `!is_write(cmd)`, and INCR/LPUSH/SADD/HSET/SET were measured unchanged at 0.875 parks/cmd with the flag on. The write side needs its own mechanism and is not addressed here. Why it shipped `off`, and why that reading was wrong. The evidence was moon#768's -8.61% CPU/op, a doubled s8 p16 variance, and the standing puzzle that #768 measured 50.5% of reads served in place where the model predicted 87.5%. All three come from one cause: the path declines a key that is not resident, because dispatch_read cannot consult the cold tier (the moon#610 class), and a declined read falls back to the SPSC hop. So the measured "in-place rate" was tracking the benchmark's key HIT rate, not the mechanism -- and a wandering hit rate is exactly the run-to-run variance that held the default down. Reproduced against DBSIZE: 63,114 keys resident gives 62.9% in place, 86,396 gives 86.2%, 98,169 gives 98.2%, 100,000 gives 100.0%. Populate to saturation before A/B-ing this flag, and report DBSIZE with the result. `auto` is a real policy, not an alias for `on`: it declines where the path cannot fire -- `--shards 1`, where every key is local and the branch is unreachable, and the tokio leg, where handler_sharded has no fast-path site (moon#776). A switch that cannot change behaviour must not read as enabled. `on` forces it regardless and still gets main.rs's tokio no-op warning. The policy is a pure function (`db_plane::resolve_cross_shard_fast_path`) so it is unit-tested rather than asserted at the call site, and it joins xshard_cleanup_shape's LIVE_SYMBOLS -- deleting it would silently revert the default while leaving the flag parsable, which is the defect that surface test exists to catch. `--cross-shard-fast-path off` is the rollback and is pinned by l4_cross_shard_read_fastpath::the_fast_path_stays_dark_when_the_flag_is_off. No gate in the fast path was weakened. In particular the moon#507/#512 `pending_mask` ordering gate is untouched: a foreign read is still served in place only when this connection has no in-flight remote work on that shard. Counter ratios were taken on macOS, which is legitimate for ratios and never for wall time; no throughput number is claimed here. The Linux A/B recipe is in tmp/WAVE2_B_PARALLEL.md. author: Tin Dang
…rst attempt The intercept-gate skip landed with an estimate (~3-5% of cycles) and no measurement. This records the real Linux/ARM A/B: INCR +11.5%/+16.8% at p8/p64, HSET +6.5/+12.0/+11.9%, LPUSH +8.7/+10.9%, SADD +7.6/+11.0%, geometric mean +3.9% over 18 cells with base/ni distributions disjoint at p64. Larger than the 3-5% predicted. GET/SET are bimodal in both arms and carry no signal -- the inline byte path serves them. The FIRST run of this A/B was void and the failure is worth recording: nisrv.sh reused `pkill -9 -x moon` from legsrv.sh, but its binaries are moon-base / moon-ni, so the pattern matched nothing and 16 servers accumulated on one SO_REUSEPORT port. Every arm was then load-balanced across a blend of both binaries, presenting as a 26-39% noise floor, a monotonic 83k->30k decay, and a perfectly null result (geomean 1.0023x, 18/18 within noise). Fixing the kill moved the same commit from "no effect" to "+8-17%, distributions disjoint". author: Tin Dang
The cross-shard cost model exists for negative knowledge. Four additions, each from a measurement taken this wave. Dead end 8 -- shared guard for reads on the SPSC execute arms. All four SPSC execute arms take `s.databases.write(db_idx)` for every command, reads included, so an SPSC-routed read holds the owner's database exclusively for its whole execution: exactly the condition under which a foreign reader's try_read declines and diverts to the SPSC path it was avoiding. The argument predicts a self-sustaining loop. Implemented (shared guard + dispatch_read for hot, read-supported commands, exclusive otherwise) and measured: in-place rate 62.7% -> 62.9% at --shards 8 p=1. Premise refuted; the change was reverted rather than shipped, because a hot-path change with no measured effect is cost without evidence. Trap -- redis-benchmark's built-in tests mostly use ONE key, and -r cannot change it. Verified by FLUSHDB + run + DBSIZE against a live server: lpush, rpush, lpop, rpop, sadd, spop, hset and zadd touch a single literal key with or without -r (-r randomises the element, not the key). Only set, get, incr and mset take a randomised key, and only when -r is passed. For a shared-nothing server that is fatal to any scaling claim: one key is owned by one shard, so sN/s1 ~= 1.0 is the architecturally correct answer, not a finding. A 12-family matrix built on `redis-benchmark -t` has 8 families whose answer is fixed before the server starts. Trap -- a p=1 leg that is not CPU-bound measures the network, and its ratios collapse toward 1.0. The tell is a per-family throughput spread far narrower at p=1 than at p=64 on the same server: 1.29x versus 13.7x on one recent ARM matrix, with every p=1 leg 3-4x below what section 7 records for the same configuration at c=200. New section 8 -- the fast path's measured effect (parks/cmd 0.87336 -> 0.00023), why the old 50.5%-in-place puzzle was the benchmark's key hit rate rather than the mechanism, the closed-form model confirmed to four significant figures against INFO counters at three pipeline depths, mean park depth 12-18 at c=50 (so the 24.9 core-us constant is per-park CPU, not a serialized wait), and the finding that the multi-key coordinator path increments NONE of these counters: MSET of 4 uniform keys reads as 0.0016 parks/cmd -- "already optimal" -- while issuing 1.5-1.8 cross-thread notifies per command at every pipeline depth, and gaining only 2.6x from p=1 to p=64 where every other family gains 7-30x. author: Tin Dang
`incrby_internal` stored its result as
Entry::new_string(Bytes::from(new_val.to_string()))
which allocates a `String` on the command hot path -- the allocation
CLAUDE.md forbids by name in `src/command/` -- and then hands it to
`CompactValue`, which copies the digits out and frees it immediately. A
counter of twelve digits or fewer inlines into the 12-byte SSO payload,
so the allocation was never even where the value ended up. INCR is the
command the campaign profiled.
`itoa::Buffer` formats into a stack buffer instead. To take it by
reference the storage layer gains `CompactValue::from_slice` and
`Entry::new_string_from_slice{,_with_expiry}` -- the same branch
`from_redis_value` takes for `RedisValue::String`, minus the owned
`Bytes` the caller had to build first. Nothing is lost by borrowing:
both arms copy the bytes anyway, and the heap arm's supposed zero-copy
`Bytes::into::<Vec<u8>>()` only applies at refcount 1, which a slice of
a shared read buffer never is.
Tested red first: the constructors are checked against
`Entry::new_string` at every length from 0 to 32 bytes and at nine i64
magnitudes, because the 12/13-byte SSO boundary and both i64 extremes
sit inside the range an INCR can reach. The guard was then mutated (heap
arm truncating one byte) and confirmed to fail, so it is not vacuous.
INCR itself is covered end to end on both the plain and the
TTL-preserving arm, which use different constructors.
Refs: tmp/WAVE1_B_FRAME.md section 2.5 (Wave 2-A, stage 3 of 3)
author: Tin Dang
…rd count
The previous commit sited the resolver call early in `main`, before shard
setup, and passed it `config.shards`. That is the raw CLI value, and
`--shards 0` -- auto-detect, the default deployment shape -- leaves it at
`0` until `num_shards` is computed ~250 lines later. `auto` therefore saw
`0`, returned `false`, and the fast path shipped DISABLED on exactly the
multi-core hosts it was written for. A `--shards 8` operator got it; an
operator who set nothing got nothing, and no log line, counter, or test
said so.
Move the resolve-and-set block to immediately after
`record_shard_count(num_shards)` -- which reads the resolved count for the
same reason -- and pass `num_shards`. Nothing between the two points
re-execs or spawns a shard: `malloc_respawn` runs at the top of `main`,
and the shard threads start after both.
Guarded at two levels:
- `resolve_cross_shard_fast_path("auto", 0, true) == Ok(false)` pins the
pure function's answer for an unresolved count. `0` declining is the
safe direction; the contract is that the caller must not hand it one.
- A fourth case in the L4 integration suite spawns with `--shards 0` and
NO `--cross-shard-fast-path` argument, then asserts
`total_dispatch_cross_read_fast` moves. This is the case the existing
three could not see: they all pass `--shards 4` plus an explicit flag,
and all three stay GREEN with the bug reintroduced -- verified by
building the mutated binary and running the suite against it. It skips
with a message, rather than passing vacuously, where auto-detect
resolves to one shard and there is no foreign read to serve.
`stat()` grows a section-aware sibling because `num_shards` is reported in
`INFO server`, not `INFO stats`, and reading the wrong section returns 0 --
which in this file would have read as "the fast path never fired".
author: Tin Dang
`parse()` walked the request bytes twice. `validate_frame` found every CRLF and computed every argument offset in order to return the frame's total length -- and threw all of the offsets away. `parse_frame_zerocopy` then walked the same bytes again to re-derive exactly those offsets. For a top-level `*N` of `$`-bulks, which is the shape of essentially every client command, `scan_flat_multibulk` now records each argument's span into a stack `SmallVec<[(u32,u32); 16]>` as it validates, and `parse_flat_multibulk` builds the `Frame` straight from the spans: one `memchr` walk and one `strict_atoi` per token instead of two, and no recursive non-inlinable call per element. The profile in tmp/CAMPAIGN_S8_CONTEXT.md attributes 3.77% to `parse_frame_zerocopy` alone, with `validate_frame`'s own cost folded into `protocol::parse` under fat LTO and therefore not separable. The fast path DECLINES on anything it does not handle exactly -- incomplete input, a malformed count or length, a negative count, a null bulk, a nested or non-bulk element, an over-limit count or payload, a RESP3 container, an inline command -- and the untouched two-pass path handles all of them with their existing error kinds and offsets. Declining more often than necessary is always safe; answering differently never is. It also mirrors one piece of leniency that looks like a bug and is not: `validate_frame` advances `pos += len + 2` past a bulk payload without checking those two bytes are CRLF, so `*1\r\n$1\r\naXY` parses. The scanner does not check them either. Verifying them would have made the fast path stricter than the path it replaces. Verification, in the order it happened: - The differential test came first and failed for the right reason (`parse_reference_two_pass` and the scanner did not exist). - `parse_reference_two_pass` is the pre-change pipeline, compiled only under `cfg(test)` / `feature = "fuzzing"`. The test compares it against `parse()` on ~50 hand-picked inputs AND every truncation of each, under four `ParseConfig`s including degenerate limits, across argc 0-20 x payload 0-300, draining whole pipelines rather than one frame. Comparison is on the frame, on the `Display` of the error (which carries the wire fault name, message and offset), and on the bytes consumed. - Five deliberate mutations of the scanner were each confirmed to make those tests fail, so the differential is not vacuous. - A new `resp_parse_fused` fuzz target runs the same differential and is registered in BOTH matrices in `.github/workflows/fuzz.yml`. It found a REAL divergence in 90 seconds on its first run (see below), then ran 1,975,081 executions clean after the fix. The bug it found: `strict_atoi` reads a lone `-` (and `-0`) as ZERO, while `parse()`'s `is_null_multibulk` gate keys on the raw byte `buf[1] == b'-'` and not on the parsed count. So `*-\r\n` is silently consumed by the two-pass path with no frame reported, where the scanner's `count < 0` test let it through as an empty array. The scanner now declines on the byte. Nothing released is affected -- the fast path had not shipped -- but the shape is a trap for any future fast path over these bytes, so it is recorded in CHANGELOG and pinned by four corpus entries. Blast radius is `src/protocol/parse.rs` only; no signature changed anywhere else. Refs: tmp/WAVE1_B_FRAME.md section 4 stage 2 / alternative C author: Tin Dang
…the wire `scan_flat_multibulk` reserved `SmallVec::with_capacity(count)` where `count` comes straight off the wire, bounded only by `config.max_array_length` -- 1Mi by default. `*1048576\r\n` is ten bytes and would have reserved 8 MiB before the scan reached the first element and discovered the frame was incomplete. A client can repeat that at line rate. The two-pass path this replaces never had the amplification: it reaches `FrameVec::with_capacity(count)` only inside `parse_frame_zerocopy`, which runs after `validate_frame` has proved the entire frame is present, so the bytes in the buffer bound the count for free. Moving the allocation ahead of the walk is what created the hole, so the scanner has to re-derive the bound itself. `span_capacity` caps the reserve at `buf.len() / 6`. Six bytes is the shortest an element can be -- `$0\r\n` plus the two trailing bytes every bulk is charged -- so the cap can never under-allocate a scan that goes on to succeed, and `SmallVec` grows regardless if it somehow did. Found by reading back the diff of the commit before it, not by a test, which is why the test came second here rather than first. It is pinned now: the attack shape, the degenerate `(usize::MAX, 0)` case, and an assertion that four real commands still get capacity for every argument. Not present in any release -- the fast path landed one commit ago on this branch. author: Tin Dang
…ment The borrowed-key rationale added in 7e147ff ran straight on from the PERF-08 paragraph with no `///` between them, so rustdoc rendered the two as one. Comment only. author: Tin Dang
…measured `FrameVec` is `Box<SmallVec<[Frame; 4]>>`, so `with_capacity(count)` heap-spills past four elements: a `*5` command pays two allocations where a `*3` pays one. tmp/CAMPAIGN_S8_CONTEXT.md records `SET k v` at 2.08x and `SET k v EX 100` at 0.87x against Redis and attributes the whole step to the inline byte path -- which is certainly the dominant term, since one command qualifies for that path and the other does not. But a second, independent step sits at exactly the same argc boundary and nothing has ever separated the two. `parse_set_ex_5arg` (`*5`) pairs with the existing `parse_set_single` (`*3`). `parse_hset_4arg` and `parse_hset_6arg` are the control the tmp/WAVE1_B_FRAME.md section 2.6 probe asked for: same command, same work per argument, only the argument count differs -- and the inline path never touches HSET, so a step between 4 and 6 cannot be blamed on it or on command identity. No numbers are claimed. These are instruments; they must be run on a Linux host, and this branch was developed on macOS. author: Tin Dang
Promote [Unreleased] to [0.8.8] and bump 0.8.7 -> 0.8.8. The train is 63
merged PRs across 80 commits since v0.8.7, touching 23 issues: wire-level
parity against a live redis-server, the search-surface correctness wave, and
the first end-to-end measurement of --shards 8 against io-threads 8.
Adds BENCHMARK.md 2.14, which reports all three dimensions of that comparison
including the two where moon does not win, and retracts two earlier claims
in-tree with their raw data kept:
- "moon gains nothing from eight shards" (s8/s1 = 0.97x) was a harness
artifact. redis-benchmark -t lpush|sadd|hset|zadd drives ONE literal key
and -r randomises the element, not the key, so eight of twelve families
were asked to parallelise a single key. Re-run with explicit __rand_int__
keys behind a DBSIZE >= 50000 guard proven to fire, real scaling is
1.42x / 2.14x / 3.79x.
- The "0.90x per-key memory win" measured redis-benchmark's default 3-byte
value. Both legs sat below their own arithmetic floor, which is
impossible. Re-measured at 8/64/256-byte values under a key+value+24 floor
check -- verified to reject both historical numbers before being trusted --
the win is a band, not a trend, and exists only below the 12-byte
CompactValue inline cutoff.
Measured, on both architectures: throughput 1.26x (ARM) / 1.32x (x86) at p=8
and 2.74x / 2.91x at p=64; a tie at p=1, because the rig is bimodal for Redis
as well as for moon; CPU per op a tie at 10.55 vs 11.33 us, inside Redis's own
11.9% spread. Memory is NOT won: 1.16x worse at 64-byte values and 1.26x worse
on idle RSS. The executive summary states both losses as losses.
Gates: scripts/ci-local.sh --full PASS (13/13 legs, tree fingerprint
unchanged, client-compat PASS=368 FAIL=0 WAIVED=50); hosted dispatch matrix
green (Check Windows, MSRV 1.94, Memory steady-state); oracle sweep against
live redis-server 8.6.1 -- test-consistency.sh 457/458 and test-commands.sh
516/517, the single red row in each being the known #536 ROLE offset
divergence, with no new divergence from either the rewritten RESP parser or
the changed Database::set.
Discloses #536 as a known divergence riding this release.
author: Tin Dang
An empty `DashTable` reserved a 16-segment first slab to hold ONE segment. `size_of::<Segment<CompactKey, CompactEntry>>()` is 3,456 B, so `DashTable::new()` allocated 55,296 B to store 3,456 B — 93.75% waste. moon builds `--databases` (16) of these PER SHARD at boot, all empty, so every shard reserved 884,736 B for segments that never exist on an idle server. Measured with a counting global allocator (tests/shard_idle_alloc_attribution.rs), for `--shards N --appendonly no --disk-offload disable`, default features: per-shard term before after one empty Database 55,432 B 3,592 B 16 Databases (per shard) 893,976 B 64,536 B ChannelMesh::new (unchanged) 135,984 B 135,984 B MODEL TOTAL per extra shard 1,030,432 B 200,992 B The 16 empty databases were 84% of ALL per-shard heap reservation — four times the entire N(N-1) SPSC mesh, which is the term that had previously been blamed. The first slab is now sized to demand: 1 segment for `new()`, exactly `dir_size` for `with_capacity()` (that path also rounded up to the fixed slab AND spread its segments across ~log2(dir_size) slabs; it is now one right-sized allocation). The doubling growth is unchanged and reaches the old curve by the fifth slab, so a table that fills sees the same amortised behaviour. Slabs are still never reallocated, so segment pointers stay stable across growth — covered by a new 20,000-key test that walks several slab boundaries and re-reads every key. WHAT IS NOT CLAIMED: an RSS number. Reserved bytes are an UPPER BOUND on resident — untouched pages of a fresh mapping never become resident, and this change removes mostly-untouched tail. A directional macOS A/B (3 interleaved reps, same tree, one constant apart) moved idle RSS at `--shards 8` by -1.07/-1.84/-1.82 MiB and showed NO change at `--shards 1`, but macOS has no jemalloc `background_thread` and different retention, so that number is not publishable. The Linux figure must be re-measured on the benchmark host. Red/green: `empty_table_does_not_over_reserve_segment_slots` and `presized_table_does_not_over_reserve_segment_slots` fail on the parent commit (16 slots reserved for 1 live segment). The integration gate was attacked by reverting the constant in place and confirming it reports the exact pre-fix figure (1,030,432 B over a 262,144 B budget) before being restored. Verified: 5,129 lib tests green (monoio, default features); `cargo check --no-default-features --features runtime-tokio,jemalloc --all-targets` green; `cargo clippy --all-targets` zero warnings; `cargo fmt --check` clean; server boots and serves 20,001 keys across dbs 0/1/2/15 at both s1 and s8. No new unsafe in `src/`. author: Tin Dang
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In `@BENCHMARK.md`:
- Around line 3-5: Update the BENCHMARK.md release marker and Last Updated
metadata to include the September 1, 2026 v0.8.8 measurements from §2.14, while
preserving the existing v0.8.7 and v0.6.0 scope descriptions.
In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 43: Remove the duplicate ### Documentation heading in the 0.8.8 changelog
section by merging its entries with the existing Documentation group or renaming
this heading, ensuring markdownlint MD024 passes.
In `@docs/production-guide.md`:
- Around line 717-719: Update the production-guide mode table and related prose
to use the effective default defined later in the document, and consistently
state that tokio ignores the mode flag. Remove the conflicting claim that auto
is the default and that on applies regardless of runtime, while preserving the
documented monoio and shard-count behavior.
In `@src/storage/dashtable/mod.rs`:
- Around line 99-124: Update SegmentSlab::with_first_slab to preserve capacities
above MAX_SLAB_SEGMENTS by replacing the upper clamp with a minimum-of-one
normalization; retain the MAX_SLAB_SEGMENTS cap in push for organically grown
slabs.
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| **Release marker:** §2.12–§2.13 are measured on **v0.8.7** (`d63ffcd8`). Everything | ||
| else below is still the record backing **v0.6.0** and has NOT been re-verified against | ||
| Redis since — see §2.12 before quoting any ratio. |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Update the release marker and timestamp.
The marker says that everything outside §§2.12–2.13 is still the v0.6.0 record. This file now includes §2.14 for v0.8.8 at Line 582. Last Updated also remains August 31, 2026. Update both metadata blocks to include the September 1, 2026 v0.8.8 measurements.
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In `@BENCHMARK.md` around lines 3 - 5, Update the BENCHMARK.md release marker and
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Avoid the duplicate ### Documentation heading.
CHANGELOG.md already has another ### Documentation heading at Line 188 under the same ## [0.8.8] section. markdownlint-cli2 reports MD024. Merge both groups under one heading or rename this heading.
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In `@CHANGELOG.md` at line 43, Remove the duplicate ### Documentation heading in
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Documentation group or renaming this heading, ensuring markdownlint MD024
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| | `auto` (**default**) | Serve the read in place when the path can actually fire — monoio handler, `--shards > 1`. Declines elsewhere rather than lighting a switch the leg ignores. | | ||
| | `on` | Force it on regardless of shard count or runtime. | | ||
| | `off` | Route the read through the SPSC channel, exactly like a write. One extra channel round-trip **and one park** per read. The rollback. | |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Align the mode table with the later runtime and default rules.
Lines 717-719 say that auto is the default and that on works regardless of runtime. Lines 743-750 say tokio ignores the flag. Lines 749 and 768 say the default is off. Update the table and the stale prose so they specify one effective default and one tokio behavior.
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In `@docs/production-guide.md` around lines 717 - 719, Update the production-guide
mode table and related prose to use the effective default defined later in the
document, and consistently state that tokio ignores the mode flag. Remove the
conflicting claim that auto is the default and that on applies regardless of
runtime, while preserving the documented monoio and shard-count behavior.
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| impl<K, V> SegmentSlab<K, V> { | ||
| fn new() -> Self { | ||
| /// A slab store whose FIRST slab holds exactly `first_slab` segments. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// Callers that know their segment count up front (`DashTable::with_capacity`) | ||
| /// pass it and get a single right-sized slab. Callers that do not | ||
| /// (`DashTable::new`) pass 1 and pay for exactly the one segment they push. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// # Why this is not a fixed 16 | ||
| /// | ||
| /// It was, and that made an EMPTY table reserve 16 slots to hold one | ||
| /// segment. `size_of::<Segment<CompactKey, CompactEntry>>()` is 3,456 B, so | ||
| /// an empty `DashTable` reserved 55,296 B to store 3,456 B — and moon | ||
| /// creates `--databases` (16) of them **per shard** at boot, all empty: | ||
| /// 884,736 B of reservation per shard, 93.75% of it for segments that | ||
| /// never exist on an idle server. It was the single largest allocation in | ||
| /// the whole startup path, four times the size of the entire SPSC mesh. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// The doubling below restores the original growth curve by the fifth | ||
| /// slab, so a table that actually fills sees the same amortised behaviour. | ||
| fn with_first_slab(first_slab: usize) -> Self { | ||
| SegmentSlab { | ||
| slabs: Vec::new(), | ||
| index_map: Vec::new(), | ||
| next_slab_capacity: 16, | ||
| next_slab_capacity: first_slab.clamp(1, MAX_SLAB_SEGMENTS), | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
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Preserve the requested first-slab capacity in with_capacity. DashTable::with_capacity(1_000_000) computes dir_size = 65,536, but with_first_slab clamps it to MAX_SLAB_SEGMENTS (1,024). The loop therefore cannot request the documented single 65,536-slot allocation; once the first slab fills, push requests additional capped slabs. Use first_slab.max(1) in with_first_slab, while retaining the cap in push for organic growth.
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In `@src/storage/dashtable/mod.rs` around lines 99 - 124, Update
SegmentSlab::with_first_slab to preserve capacities above MAX_SLAB_SEGMENTS by
replacing the upper clamp with a minimum-of-one normalization; retain the
MAX_SLAB_SEGMENTS cap in push for organically grown slabs.
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What
SegmentSlab::new()seeded its first slab at 16 segments whileDashTable::new()pushes exactly one.size_of::<Segment<CompactKey, CompactEntry>>()is 3,456 B, so an empty table reserved 55,296 B to hold3,456 B — and moon creates
--databases(16) of them per shard at boot,all empty.
That was 884,736 B of reservation per shard, 84% of all per-shard heap
reservation — four times the entire SPSC mesh.
The first slab is now sized to demand: 1 for
new(), exactlydir_sizeforwith_capacity()(which previously also over-reserved and fragmented across~log2 slabs). Doubling growth is unchanged and restores the original curve by
the fifth slab; slabs are still never reallocated, so segment pointers stay
stable.
A premise correction this PR carries
The 524 KB/shard idle penalty is resident memory; everything previously
attributed to it was reserved memory.
ChannelMesh's 128 KB/shard isconfirmed as arithmetic but is never written —
ringbufdoestry_reserve_exactthenset_lenwith no stores, and untouched pages of afresh mapping are not resident. The old "24% explained" was 24% of the
allocation, not of the RSS.
Measured — Linux, GCE
t2a-standard-8, aarch64Idle RSS, 5 interleaved reps per arm,
--shards N --appendonly no --disk-offload disable:Per-rep spreads are disjoint: pre 15,528–15,656, post 14,996–15,152.
Throughput — no regression
s8, p=64, 3 reps interleaved, driven from a separate box:
An earlier 2-rep run showed SET at 0.900; that was small-n noise and did not
survive a third rep. All three ranges overlap.
Attribution table
Measured with a counting global allocator in
tests/shard_idle_alloc_attribution.rs. Marginal cost fitted s1→s8. Modeltotal per extra shard: 1,030,432 → 200,992 B (−80%). Heap residue after
attribution: 432 B (0.04%).
Three candidates ruled out by evidence, not assumption:
CONN_CHANNEL_CAPACITY = 4096— flume stores the cap as a number and startswith an empty
VecDeque. Cost is oneArc, ~140 B.create_admin_channels—#[cfg(feature = "console")], not in the default set.create_aof_fold_channels— insideif let Some(aof_pool),Nonewithout--appendonly yes/--save.Quadratic mesh growth — costed, not changed
mesh_footprint_is_quadratic_and_pinnedbounds it: s8 0.88 MiB → s16 3.75 MiB→ s32 15.5 MiB, larger than moon's entire idle RSS at s8 → s64 63 MiB.
Depth is untouched here because it sits on the cross-shard path and
docs/internal/cross-shard-cost-model.mdrequires a Linux throughput A/B. Theproposed
clamp(2048 / N, 32, 256)is byte-identical for every N ≤ 8 andbounds s32 at 4.06 MiB. Left for a separate PR.
Tests
Two new unit tests fail on the parent with
reserved 16 segment slots for 1 live segment. The integration gate was attacked — constant reverted inplace — and reported the exact pre-fix figure, 1,030,432 B over a 262,144 B
budget, before being restored.
5,129 lib tests green (monoio, default) · tokio leg green with
--all-targets·clippy zero warnings ·
fmt --checkclean · boots and serves 20,001 keys acrossdbs 0/1/2/15 at s1 and s8 · no new
unsafeinsrc/.The test file's counting allocator needs
unsafe impl GlobalAlloc— unavoidablefor the trait,
tests/only, outsidescripts/audit-unsafe.sh'ssrcscope.Flagging rather than burying it.
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