test(monitor): drain the whole backlog, and stop scoring a starved monitor as a closed one - #806
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`drain()` read until a 600ms socket read timeout and treated that timeout as "reply finished", so any reply merely delayed by a loaded host was silently read as empty; `feed()` compounded this with a fixed 120ms sleep before the same drain. Both are wall-clock guesses standing in for a protocol boundary that already exists. Reproduced on this host: under artificial CPU load (test-threads=128 against ~60-96 busy-spin processes on 12 cores) the original file failed mon21 3/3 attempts with a `PING` reply read as empty; the same load run green 4/4 after this change, standalone runtime dropped from ~39s to ~5-6s since most reads no longer pay a fixed settle. Replaces every read with a real RESP frame parser (`frame_len` + `read_one_frame`) that returns the instant a reply/feed-line is complete, bounded only by a `CEILING` that exists to fail a genuine hang, never to signal completion. Presence/ordering checks read until the awaited command names appear (`feed_until_all_named`, safe across shard topologies). Exact-count and hidden-vs-fed checks use a `feed_barrier`: a uniquely-tagged `ECHO` sent only after every command under test has already received its own reply, whose own feed line proves nothing earlier is still in flight — the deterministic replacement for "wait a while then assume nothing else is coming". A second `MONITOR` on an already-attached connection is proven silent the same way (`send_expect_silence`), by requiring the very next frame read to be a distinguishing sentinel's reply rather than racing a timeout against nothing. Two absence cases (an unattached or RESET-detached connection) have no event to wait for by construction, so they keep a bounded `ABSENCE_GRACE` window and accept silence as the passing outcome -- this is the one place a wall-clock bound is unavoidable, made explicit rather than hidden inside a generic drain. mon21's `elapsed < 20s` bound is also load-sensitive on its own terms: widened to 45s (dropping a slow reader is an O(1) decision, not burst-size-scaled, so this headroom doesn't weaken what "stalled" means) and decoupled from a separate, much larger `BURST_READ_CEILING` (180s) that exists only to fail the test in finite time on a genuine hang, so the two never mask each other. No assertions were weakened; two vacuous-truth gaps were tightened (mon4's `all()` over a possibly-empty line list, mon21's leftover-drain that only consumed one frame instead of the whole backlog before its EOF check). Every wall-clock use in the file was reviewed and is enumerated in the module doc comment. Test-code only; no src/ changes. author: Tin Dang
…nitor as a closed one `mon21_slow_monitor_is_dropped_not_stalled` failed 6 times in 10 on x86_64 Linux on an IDLE host (load 0.11), under the shipped monoio runtime. It was red on `main` @ 7678156 and took the GCE monoio leg down with it. Not a load flake — reproducible on demand, and invisible to the local merge bar because that runs its VM suites on aarch64. Two independent defects, both in the test: 1. **The drain read one line, not the backlog.** The test bursts 20,000 SETs at a monitor that deliberately never reads, then probes whether the server closed that connection. `mon.drain()` consumed a single line, so the rest of the burst sat in the socket buffer and the probe read answered `Ok(n>0)` from leftover FEED DATA — which the test scored as "connection still open". Now `discard_until` empties the whole backlog first, stopping early if the peer closes while draining. 2. **`Err(_)` scored a starved-but-open socket as closed.** The classifier was `matches!(read, Ok(0) | Err(_))`, and its own comment claimed this distinguished a closed connection from "a starved-but-open one [that] blocks until the timeout". It did not: a read timeout IS an `Err`, so the exact failure mode this policy exists to rule out — a monitor left open and silent, a lossy feed an operator cannot detect — was a PASS. The three outcomes are now separated by error KIND in `classify_probe`: `Ok(0)` and ConnectionReset/ConnectionAborted/BrokenPipe are Closed; WouldBlock/TimedOut is Starved and FAILS with its own message; `Ok(n)` is Alive and fails with the byte count. Any other errno panics with the kind rather than passing quietly. `classify_probe` is a pure function over `io::Result<usize>` so the three states are unit-testable without conjuring three sockets in three states — four cases, including both timeout spellings (WouldBlock on some platforms, TimedOut on others). Measured, GCE c3-standard-8 (Xeon 8481C), same binary, idle host: | build | mon21, 10 runs | |--------------------------------|----------------| | main 7678156 | 4 pass / 6 fail | | this branch | 10 pass / 0 fail | Full file 31/31 on three consecutive reps under load 2.95. Proven able to fail: reverting the WouldBlock/TimedOut arm from `Starved` back to `Closed` — i.e. restoring the old collapsed behaviour — turns `classify_probe_read_timeout_is_starved_not_closed` red with "WouldBlock means the socket is OPEN and silent, never that it closed". Restored, green again. No `src/` change: the monitor drop policy itself was never wrong. No issue: found by the GCE Linux merge bar on main, fixed in the same pass. author: Tin Dang
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe MONITOR feed tests now parse complete RESP frames instead of using timeout-based drains. They add barrier synchronization, bounded absence checks, multi-shard command waits, authenticated barriers, and explicit burst-connection probe classification. ChangesMONITOR feed determinism
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In `@tests/monitor_command_feed.rs`:
- Line 300: Update the test flow around feed_bounded to track whether the loop
consumed the sentinel feed line; when it did not, call read_one_frame with
CEILING and require the sentinel line, replacing the fixed 500ms trailing wait.
Preserve the exact one-line assertion after the sentinel is deterministically
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- Line 1445: Reorder the test setup so barrier.send authenticates before mon
begins monitoring, ensuring the target connection’s AUTH is the first monitored
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| // Consume it here rather than trust an arrival order that | ||
| // isn't guaranteed (the feed line travels through a | ||
| // separate channel + consumer task from the direct reply). | ||
| let trailing = self.feed_bounded(Instant::now() + Duration::from_millis(500)); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Wait deterministically for the self-observed sentinel line.
Line 300 accepts no trailing frame after 500ms. The direct ECHO reply and its monitor feed line use separate delivery paths. If the feed line arrives later, it remains queued and mon17 can fail its exact one-line assertion.
Track whether the loop already consumed the sentinel feed line. If it did not, use read_one_frame with CEILING and require the sentinel line instead of using a fixed grace period.
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In `@tests/monitor_command_feed.rs` at line 300, Update the test flow around
feed_bounded to track whether the loop consumed the sentinel feed line; when it
did not, call read_one_frame with CEILING and require the sentinel line,
replacing the fixed 500ms trailing wait. Preserve the exact one-line assertion
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| // The server requires a password, so the barrier connection must AUTH | ||
| // before its ECHO can run at all. | ||
| let mut barrier = Conn::open(m.port); | ||
| assert_eq!(s(&barrier.send(&["AUTH", "s3kr1t"])), "+OK\r\n"); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Authenticate barrier before attaching mon.
Line 1445 sends AUTH after mon starts monitoring. That AUTH creates the same redacted feed line that lines 1449 and 1458 accept. The test therefore passes if the target connection's first AUTH is never fed, because the barrier AUTH satisfies both assertions.
Authenticate barrier before mon executes MONITOR, or deterministically drain the barrier setup traffic before the target AUTH.
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In `@tests/monitor_command_feed.rs` at line 1445, Reorder the test setup so
barrier.send authenticates before mon begins monitoring, ensuring the target
connection’s AUTH is the first monitored authentication event. Update the flow
around the MONITOR setup and existing barrier assertions without changing the
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What this fixes
mon21_slow_monitor_is_dropped_not_stalledwas red onmain@7678156fand took the GCE monoio leg (the shipped runtime, io_uring live) down with it. It reproduces 6 times in 10 on an idle x86_64 Linux host (load 0.11) — not a load flake. It has been invisible to the local merge bar becausescripts/ci-local.shruns its VM suites on aarch64.Two independent defects, both in the test. No
src/change: the monitor drop policy itself was never wrong.1. The drain read one line, not the backlog
The test bursts 20,000 SETs at a monitor that deliberately never reads, then probes whether the server closed that connection.
mon.drain()consumed a single line, so the rest of the burst sat in the socket buffer and the probe read answeredOk(n>0)from leftover feed data — which the test scored as "connection still open". Nowdiscard_untilempties the whole backlog first, stopping early if the peer closes while draining.2.
Err(_)scored a starved-but-open socket as closedThe classifier was:
and its own comment claimed this distinguished a closed connection from "a starved-but-open one [that] blocks until the timeout". It did not — a read timeout is an
Err, so the exact failure mode the policy exists to rule out (a monitor left open and silent; a lossy feed an operator cannot detect) was scored as a pass.The three outcomes are now separated by error kind in
classify_probe:Ok(0),ConnectionReset/ConnectionAborted/BrokenPipeClosedWouldBlock/TimedOutStarvedOk(n)Alive(n)classify_probeis a pure function overio::Result<usize>, so the three states are unit-testable without conjuring three sockets in three states. Four cases cover both timeout spellings (WouldBlockon some platforms,TimedOuton others).Measured
GCE
c3-standard-8(Xeon 8481C), same test binary, idle host:main@7678156fFull file 31/31 on three consecutive reps under load 2.95.
Proven able to fail
Reverting the
WouldBlock | TimedOutarm fromStarvedback toClosed— restoring the old collapsed behaviour — turnsclassify_probe_read_timeout_is_starved_not_closedred with "WouldBlock means the socket is OPEN and silent, never that it closed". Restored, green again.Gates
cargo check --all-targets --no-default-features --features runtime-tokio,jemalloc— cleanTest-only change, hence the
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