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WalkthroughVelo 0.19 changes runtime ownership and teardown, removes inline dispatch and ChangesVelo 0.19 runtime and API changes
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The refactor holds up:
- Poison channel: every site that removes a
SenderEntryalso cancels its token, so the poison channel was redundant for both the ordinary and the MPSC sender. - Inline dispatch: the old Spawn mode spawned onto a fresh
TaskTracker::new()that nothing ever waited on, so dropping Inline and the tracker changes no behavior. - Version: 0.19.0 is the right bump over the published 0.18.0.
Most comments below are bugs that existed before this PR, in functions it touches. They matter here because they weaken the PR's claim that cancellation reaches idle and blocked senders. The Bug comments are the ones to fix first; the rest are cleanup, docs, and one test gap.
One finding is on a line outside the diff, so it goes here:
Bug (made inconsistent by this PR): dropping a local MPSC sender can block a runtime thread forever (mpsc/sender.rs:264-270)
Drop does a blocking tx.send on the anchor's shared bounded queue and ignores cancel_token. Its comment says it matches the SPSC drop, but the SPSC sender now goes through the non-blocking send_terminal ("A Drop that parks a runtime..."). So cancellation does not wake a blocked MPSC drop.
Scenario: the consumer keeps its MpscStreamAnchor but stops polling (or cancels it and holds on to it), and the queue fills. Dropping a local MpscStreamSender inside an async task parks that runtime worker thread forever. On a one-worker runtime, or one that also runs the consumer, the whole runtime deadlocks.
Suggest routing the local arm through send_terminal (or the same try-then-spawn pattern), so a full queue can't block the drop.
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Bug (existing): cancel drops the cross-worker _stream_cancel when it runs without a Tokio runtime.
Line 537 guards the send with Handle::try_current(); when that fails, nothing is sent. request_stop was fixed for this same case: control::request_sender_stop spawns on messenger.runtime() ("request_stop is synchronous and can run on a thread with no runtime"). cancel wasn't. cancel_all_senders in mpsc/anchor.rs:306 has the same gap.
Scenario: a remote producer attaches through _anchor_attach and goes idle. The consumer drops its StreamAnchor on a plain or language-binding thread, so Drop calls controller.cancel(). try_current() fails and nothing is sent. The producer's cancellation_token() never fires and it waits forever. The ingress-fault path can't help, because the producer isn't sending anything.
The new zero_rtt.rs test covers request_stop from a plain thread, but nothing covers cancel. Suggest spawning on messenger.runtime() here and in cancel_all_senders, plus a twin of that test for cancel.
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Fixed in #115. SPSC and MPSC cancellation now use the shared request_sender_cancel helper, which sends on messenger.runtime() even when the caller has no Tokio runtime. a_cancel_requested_off_runtime_reaches_a_remote_sender checks the SPSC path over both mux and per-stream transports.
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Bug (existing): race between local MPSC attach and cancel.
The slot, with its stream_cancel_handle, is published under the shard lock (line 2611), but the SenderEntry is only registered here, after the lock is released. If MpscStreamController::cancel runs in that gap, it removes the anchor, and cancel_all_senders calls sender_registry.senders.remove(id), which returns None, so it cancels nothing.
This thread then inserts the entry and returns a sender whose token never fires. Its sends go into the shared queue of a cancelled anchor. Once the queue is full they block with nothing to wake them, and the entry leaks until shutdown.
Suggest registering the SenderEntry before the slot is published (and removing it on the error paths), the way the ordinary path registers first through new_sender_identity.
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Fixed in #115 by allocating SenderIdentity before publishing the local MPSC slot. The registry entry and its token therefore exist before cancellation can see the handle. The identity guard removes the entry if attach fails; a completed sender takes ownership of it.
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Bug (existing): a panicking handler under spawn dispatch sends no reply.
With Inline gone, SpawnedDispatcher is the only unordered mode, and the default. It doesn't catch panics. A panicking unary handler ends its task, the in-flight guard drops, and no response goes out. The caller waits for its full request timeout, or forever if it set none.
The same handler under .ordered() fails at once with "handler panicked", because OrderedDispatcher wraps handle in catch_unwind and calls fail_fast. Its comment gives the lane as the main reason, but the caller-side outcome now depends on dispatch mode.
Suggest the same AssertUnwindSafe(...).catch_unwind() + fail_fast here, lifting fail_fast out of OrderedDispatcher so both can use it.
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Fixed in #115 through a shared run_handler used by spawn and ordered dispatch. It catches panics during both future construction and polling, sends the error reply, and retains the in-flight guard until reply admission completes. every_dispatch_mode_replies_to_construction_and_poll_panics and graceful_shutdown_waits_for_negative_reply_admission cover those outcomes.
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Perf: the MPSC send / send_err hot path changed from an atomic poison_tx.is_disconnected() load to CancellationToken::is_cancelled(). In tokio-util 0.7.18 that call locks the token's tree node (node.inner.lock().unwrap().is_cancelled).
That's one extra mutex acquire per item, on a node shared with every clone handed out by cancellation_token() and with any waiter registering on it. messenger/server/mod.rs measures this exact cost on the inbound path (~6-8 ns uncontended). Probably minor, but a mirrored AtomicBool, set wherever the token is cancelled, would restore the atomic check if MPSC throughput matters.
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Keeping the cancellation token as the single source of state. Callers can cancel cloned tokens directly, so a separately maintained atomic flag could miss cancellation. We can revisit the fast check if profiling shows a material MPSC cost.
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Docs: the doc above says "Passing the four parts positionally would take that tail past clippy's argument limit". poison_tx was one of the four. Three are left, and open_stream_sender with three positional parts no longer goes past the limit. The struct still earns its place through the armed Drop cleanup, so the doc should give that reason instead.
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Updated with the identity fix in #115. The comment now explains registration before publication and the guard that removes the entry if attach fails or its future is dropped. It no longer cites an argument-count limit.
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Test gap: the PR says cancellation wakes MPSC senders blocked on a full queue, but only the ordinary sender has a test for that (cancellation_wakes_item_and_error_sends_on_a_full_channel). The MPSC tests, this one included, only check the up-front is_cancelled() rejection.
A regression in MpscStreamSender::until_cancelled (a dropped biased;, a removed cancel arm) would leave blocked MPSC sends hung after cancel, and no test would fail. A twin of the ordinary-sender test for local and remote MPSC senders would cover it.
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Existing tests cover both blocked MPSC item-send paths: a_local_sender_parked_on_a_full_channel_wakes_on_cancel in mpsc_integration.rs, and cancelling_a_held_mpsc_anchor_releases_its_parked_producer in mux_credit.rs. The remote test waits for backpressure before cancellation, then checks that the writer exits and the slot and withheld records are released. a_producer_parked_on_a_dropped_mpsc_anchor_is_released covers the remote Drop case. Keeping these focused tests; no duplicate suite was added.
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The MPSC Drop finding in the review summary is fixed in #115. Local Drop now tries to enqueue the terminal event without blocking; when the queue is full, a task on the stored runtime waits for space or consumer cancellation. |
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finish_shutdownpanics when transport teardown fails, andVelo::graceful_shutdownandVelo::shutdownpropagate that panic. The existing failure test requires this behavior, so replacing the panic withResultis not supported by the current contract. Add a# Panicssection to both public shutdown methods.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…120) * fix(transports): run every teardown hook when one panics Teardown runs once. One catch_unwind around the whole hook loop meant a panicking hook skipped the hooks after it, and nothing ran them later. Their threads and memory stayed for the life of the process. Run each hook in its own catch_unwind and return the first failure after all have run. If the teardown thread cannot start, run the hooks inline. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(events): fail remote waits when VeloEvents drops Remote waiters hold only their proxy event. The teardown watcher holds a weak reference, so after final Messenger drop the last strong holder can go before the watcher runs, and the waits then hang. Dropping VeloEvents now fails them too. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(streaming): keep anchor cleanup handlers idempotent after final drop The detach, finalize and cancel handlers promise Ok when the anchor is absent. With a retained Messenger after the final Velo drop, they answered an error instead, because the manager could not be reached. A manager that is gone holds no anchor, so cleanup has succeeded. Attach still refuses. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(velo): cover final Messenger drop under a live mux stream Both drop arms kept an Arc<Messenger>, so Messenger::drop never ran and the MPSC check for frames sent after teardown could not fail for its stated reason. Add an arm where the final Velo drop is also the final Messenger drop, and wait for its teardown before the check. Record why streams detach before that teardown. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * refactor(velo): drop the startup guard that final drop replaces Messenger::drop starts the same teardown, and on a failed build nothing outside build holds the Messenger. The existing failed_stream_start_stops_messenger_listener test passes without the guard. The guide notes that the release is asynchronous. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs(velo): document the shutdown hook contract and its panic Shutdown now panics when a transport hook panicked, and hooks run once on a dedicated thread, possibly after the runtime has stopped. State both on the public shutdown calls, on Transport::shutdown, and in the shutdown chapter. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * refactor(velo)!: hold streaming and rendezvous back-links weakly The public register_handlers kept a strong form: anchor handlers owned their AnchorManager, which owns its Messenger, which owns the handlers. Neither was ever dropped, so final Messenger drop never started teardown for callers of the public API. Handlers now always hold the manager weakly, and RendezvousManager holds its Messenger weakly, so one form remains. The seven public create_*_handler factories existed only for the strong form and are removed; register_handlers replaces them. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * perf(messenger): upgrade the messenger once per inbound burst The hub now holds the messenger weakly, and the receive loop upgraded it for every message. Weak::upgrade is a CAS loop on a count that handler tasks on other threads keep moving: 86-94 ns against 30-39 ns for a clone with one other thread on the count. Upgrade once per burst of queued messages and clone per message. Release the reference before the loop parks, and upgrade again every 128 messages, so a queue that never drains cannot keep the messenger alive after its owner drops it. Over UDS with 0-byte payloads, pinned to 8 cores, 12 interleaved runs, median msgs/s: pipeline 1.050M -> 1.099M (main 1.058M); concurrent(100) 461k -> 459k (main 458k), no change. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(transports): enter the runtime when teardown runs inline If the teardown thread could not start, the hooks ran on the caller with no runtime entered, so a hook that used Handle::current panicked. Enter the instance's runtime there too. The Transport::shutdown rustdoc now says that a failed build runs the hooks on the building task, and the out-of-tree guide states the hook contract. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs(streaming): state that AnchorManager still owns its Messenger The guide said register_handlers no longer keeps the Messenger alive. That holds for RendezvousManager only: AnchorManager keeps its Messenger on purpose, so stream detachment comes before transport teardown. Say so in the guide and in the register_handlers rustdoc. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(velo): wait for teardown before timing receive loop exit The test timed the receive loops from the moment of drop, so the budget also had to cover the teardown thread starting and joining the TCP listener. Wait for that teardown first, so the budget covers only the loops. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * perf(streaming): check a flag, not the token lock, on every send The PR moved MPSC sends from flume's atomic is_disconnected (0.3 ns) to CancellationToken::is_cancelled, which locks a mutex (8.7 ns) on every record. SPSC sends paid the same lock on main. Senders now check a SenderClosed flag, handed to them with their identity rather than looked up: a cancel that arrives before the sender is built removes its registry entry. The in-tree cancels set the flag before they cancel the token: SenderEntry::cancel, used by _stream_cancel and shutdown, and a mux slot that cancels its sender. So the next send fails at once. A token cancelled any other way sets the flag from the sender's heartbeat task, one scheduler hop later; the heartbeat interval now starts one period out so that task waits on the token from its first poll. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(messenger): count every dequeue toward the burst refresh BurstRef counted only messages that decoded. A peer sending frames that fail to decode kept the queue full without ever asking for the messenger, so the held reference was never released and final drop never started teardown. Count dequeues instead. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(transports): skip the close wait after a failed startup teardown When a transport failed to start, the build stopped the others and then waited on each one's closed(). If a hook had panicked, its closed() could wait on state the hook never set up, and the build never returned. Wait only after a clean teardown, as finish_shutdown does. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * perf(rendezvous): skip the messenger upgrade for local leases lease_guard upgraded the messenger on every get only to read its runtime handle, then dropped it for a local lease. Keep the handle beside the weak messenger at registration, and upgrade only for a remote lease. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * perf(events): hold the messenger back-link in a OnceLock The link is set once, when the messenger is built, but every remote event operation took a read lock to reach it. A OnceLock reads it with a plain load, as the dispatcher hub and rendezvous manager do. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs(velo-ext): name the one case where hooks run on the building task The rustdoc said any failed build runs the hooks on the building task. Only a failed transport start does; a later build failure drops the Messenger, and its hooks run on the teardown thread. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(velo): check post-teardown sends only where teardown runs In the arm that keeps an Arc<Messenger>, the transports stay up, so the check for frames sent after teardown could not fail there. Run it only in the arms that tear the transports down. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * refactor(velo): drop an unused Clone derive on OwnedStreamTransport Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * refactor(streaming): move the sender registry out of control.rs control.rs grew past 1000 lines with the sender-side types, a concern apart from the anchor handlers its module doc describes. Move the registry, its flag, and the stop and cancel routes to control/registry.rs. The same {cancel, stop, closed} triple lived in SenderEntry, SenderSignals and SenderIdentity, with two copies of cancel(). SenderEntry is now Clone and is what a mux slot and an identity hold; SenderSignals is gone. The flag's docs now say a direct token cancel needs the sender's runtime alive. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(streaming): pin cancels after the sender's runtime is gone A direct token cancel reaches send through the sender's heartbeat task, which dies with the runtime that built the sender. Say so where send and the migration guide describe cancellation, and test that a registry cancel, which sets the flag itself, still stops such a sender. The direct-cancel tests now poll a bounded number of times instead of assuming one scheduler hop, which held only on a current-thread runtime. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs: list every case where shutdown hooks run on the caller The hook docs named one exception to the dedicated thread. There are three: a transport that fails to start, a build cancelled while transports start, and a teardown thread that cannot be created. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * chore(velo-ext): bump to 0.5.5 for the shutdown hook contract The Transport::shutdown rustdoc now states the hook contract that out-of-tree transports rely on. A patch release puts it on docs.rs; velo already carries 0.19.0 over the published 0.18.0, and the = pin tracks the new version. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(transports): log a failed teardown hook on every path The worker thread and failed-build paths logged a hook panic, but the inline fallback did not. Log inside stop_transports, once per failed hook and with the transport's key, so all three paths report the same way. Also point the MPSC control doc at the moved cancel handler. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(streaming): make send_err follow the same cancel rule as send After a direct token cancel, SPSC send accepted records until the flag was set while send_err refused at once, and MPSC send_err took the token lock on every call. Both send_err now check the flag first and race the token only when the channel is full, as send does. The check for a token already cancelled at construction moves into CloseOnCancel::new, its one owner. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(velo): fail a shutdown retry at once after a failed teardown Teardown runs once, so its failure is final. A second graceful_shutdown, from a retry or another clone, still ran the RDMA sweep and the drain against torn-down transports, which can take the sweep's 30 s budget, before it panicked the same way. It now panics at once. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(streaming): tell remote producers their stream ended on final drop With a retained Arc<Messenger>, final Velo drop removed its anchors but never told remote producers: the mux was stopped, so no slot close went back, and the retained Messenger dropped their batches once the mux was gone. Their tokens never fired, and their sends filled the window and then waited forever. Main never reached this, because the handler cycle kept the manager alive. prepare_stop now sends _stream_cancel to each remote sender while the transports are up. Explicit shutdown runs it after teardown, so it still sends nothing then. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(transports): do not enter the runtime during thread-local teardown The inline teardown fallback entered the instance's runtime unconditionally. From a drop during thread-local teardown, Handle::enter panics, and a panic in a drop aborts the process. Skip the enter there. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(transports): see a teardown failure no waiter observed teardown_failure used Shared::peek, which sees only a result that some waiter already took. A first shutdown cut off by a timeout while its hooks ran left none, so a retry ran the sweep and drain again before it panicked. Poll a clone once instead. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(streaming): tell zero-RTT producers their stream ended on final drop A ticket-opened stream records no cancel handle, so its producer learns that the stream ended only from its slot close. On final Velo drop, prepare_stop stopped the mux before it removed anchors, so that close was never sent, and the producer filled its window and waited forever. With the transports up, the removals now come first and the mux stops after. A stopping batcher, which the cancel arm's bias let drop control already queued, now sends that control once before it exits, after leaving the registry as before. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(transports): fail every shutdown retry at once; gate cancels on own teardown A Messenger::graceful_shutdown retry after a failed teardown still ran the drain before it panicked; the backend now refuses at once, and the test checks it. prepare_stop decided whether transports were up from the shared teardown token, which an out-of-tree transport may cancel itself; it now asks the backend whether it started its own teardown. The test that waited 100 ms for the teardown thread now polls for its result. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs(shutdown): say that final drop tells remote producers Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(mux): let a stopped batcher send what it held The flush a cancelled batcher runs on its way out was dropped at its first await: tasks.spawn wraps the run loop in run_until_cancelled on the same token that stopped it. A zero-RTT producer then never got the slot close that is its only notice that its stream ended; pinned to one core, the end-to-end test lost it in 8 of 12 runs. The batcher now runs to its own exit, with a 0.5 s grace after cancel so a stalled peer cannot hold shutdown. The batcher tests now share the production task token, which is what makes the unit test fail without this. Also drop a redundant mux stop in prepare_stop, fix a misplaced doc header, and state in the shutdown chapter that telling remote producers on drop is best effort. Pinned to one core, final_velo_drop_cancels_remote_mux_producers: 12/12 pass (was 4/12); two cores 15/15 (was 13/15). Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(velo): assert only what final drop guarantees; tidy batcher wiring Two tests asserted firmly what the shutdown chapter calls best effort: that a final drop which also drops the Messenger tells remote producers, and that no send fails after such a drop. The notice is queued just before teardown and may fail there, so those arms flaked under CPU contention (6 of 36 pinned runs). They now assert only on retained- Messenger and explicit-shutdown arms; 0 of 32 pinned runs fail. BatcherContext::cancel always had to be the task set's token, or a stop would reach neither the run loop nor its grace and the shutdown join would never return; the field is gone and spawn takes the token itself. The shutdown chapter now counts the 0.5 s batcher grace in the bound of graceful_shutdown, and two stale comments name the current cancel paths. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(streaming): do not let a stream notice hold the Messenger request_sender_cancel and request_sender_stop spawned a task that held an Arc<Messenger> while it waited on admission. On final Velo drop with no retained Messenger, a _stream_cancel to a peer that stopped reading could wait forever, as the last strong reference: Messenger::drop never ran, and the transports were never torn down. Build the send before the spawn, so the task holds only the client. Tests: a stalled peer no longer keeps the Messenger alive (failed before), and a final drop on a plain thread, with and without its runtime, releases it and tells producers. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(messenger): do not let handler tasks hold the Messenger run_handler kept a clone of the Messenger across the handler and its reply, and the reply can wait on admission to a peer that stopped reading. With no other owner left, that clone kept final Messenger drop, and so transport teardown, from ever happening. The task now holds the backend and metrics, as do the panic and shed replies. The transparent rendezvous resolver task, which waits on the payload's owner, holds the hub and backend and upgrades the Messenger again once it has resolved. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(rendezvous): do not let a lease detach hold the Messenger A lease guard dropped armed, after a failed or cancelled get, spawned a detach that held the Messenger while it waited on admission. The owner that stopped answering is the likely reason the guard was armed, so the detach could wait forever as the last strong reference and keep final Messenger drop, and teardown, from happening. Build the detach first and spawn only its send. The stalling test transport is now shared by the tests for both of these holders. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(rendezvous): do not let a remote call hold the Messenger Remote rendezvous calls held the Messenger while they waited on the owner: get, its chunk pulls, metadata, ref, detach, release, lease renewals and an armed lease guard. The large-payload resolver runs get and release on an internal task, so an owner that stopped answering kept the Messenger, and so its transport teardown, alive forever. Each call now builds its request from the messenger's client, which owns the backend but not the Messenger, and waits only on that send. The lease guard keeps the client instead of the Messenger. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(messenger): drop the Messenger before a typed decode-error reply A typed unary handler that could not decode its input kept the Messenger while it sent the error reply. That reply can wait on admission to a peer that stopped reading, so the Messenger's final drop, and its transport teardown, never ran. The handler now drops the Messenger first and sends the reply through the backend alone. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(queue): do not let a try_send task hold the Messenger The messenger queue's try_send spawned a task that held the Messenger while its RPC waited on the target. A target that stopped answering kept the Messenger, and so its transport teardown, alive forever. try_send now builds the request first and the task holds only the request. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * perf(messenger): read handler panic metrics only on a panic run_handler cloned the metrics handle for every message, so each handler call paid an atomic for a counter that only the panic arm uses. The backend now keeps the metrics it was built with, and the panic arm borrows them from the backend the task already holds. The panic test now also checks that both panic counters are still recorded. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(zmq): bound the shutdown drain with one shared budget After a stop, the ZMQ sender still sends the frames queued before it. Each send to a peer that is gone blocks for the 5 s send timeout, so a full queue to a dead peer held the sender join, and so teardown, for up to about 21 minutes, past any timeout given to shutdown. The drain now has one budget of 1 s. Each drain send may block only for what is left of it, and a frame that finds none left is reported failed without being sent. A send already under way when the stop arrives can still take up to the 5 s send timeout. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs: state the hook time in the shutdown bound and fix build-failure cleanup The shutdown chapter said the call takes at most the timeout plus the mux and close bounds, but left out the time the transport shutdown hooks take. It now says a hook may block, and states the ZMQ hook's bound. The migration guide said a failed build cleans up on an owned thread, like Drop. A transport that fails to start is cleaned up on the building task, which waits for the transports to close before it returns the error. The guide now describes both cases. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(messenger): record that an ordered lane holds the Messenger Messages queued on an ordered lane each keep a strong reference to the Messenger in their handler context. While one reply waits on admission to a peer that stopped reading, the messages behind it keep the Messenger, and so its transport teardown, alive. The test shows this and is ignored until a fix is chosen: the direct fixes add an upgrade per ordered message. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(events): guard that event handlers do not hold the Messenger The event handlers send completions inline, and that send can wait on a peer that stopped reading. The handler bodies capture only the payload, so the Messenger is already dropped there. This test keeps it that way: it fails if a handler body captures its whole context. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * perf(rendezvous): build single requests without an extra client clone metadata, ref, detach and release took a client clone and then a second one inside the request, two more reference count changes per call than before. They now build the request from the upgraded Messenger in its own statement, which drops the Messenger before the wait and costs the same as before. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test: make the stalled rendezvous and ordered lane tests exact The rendezvous test now fills the stalled gate first, so every call, fire-and-forget ones included, waits on admission and is checked on each run. The ordered lane test's ignore reason now states the defect and that it waits for a design ruling. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(messenger): do not let queued ordered messages hold the Messenger Each message queued on an ordered lane kept a strong reference to the Messenger. While one reply waited on admission to a peer that stopped reading, the messages behind it kept the Messenger, and so its transport teardown, alive. Dispatch now takes the decoded message and a borrowed Messenger. A spawned handler takes its reference at once, as before. An ordered lane queues the message with no reference, and upgrades its one weak reference when it takes the message off the queue, after the permit. If the upgrade fails, the instance is being torn down, and the message and its drain guard drop unhandled. Per message this is one upgrade in place of the clone the receive loop used to make, so the cost matches before. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(rendezvous): never release a remote lease from the local store A lease guard read "no client" as "local lease". A remote get can lose its Messenger while it waits, so a remote guard could end up with no client, and its drop then released a lease on this instance's own store. Lease and slot ids count from 1 on every instance, so the owner's ids could name a live lease of our own. The guard now records where the lease lives, taken from the handle. A remote guard with no client logs that it could not detach and leaves the local store alone. Callers pass the client they already hold, so a remote guard no longer upgrades the Messenger, and the chunked fallback paths reuse the caller's client too. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(transports): read a teardown failure from its written result teardown_failure polled a clone of the teardown completion to see whether teardown had failed. That poll can say "not yet" for a finished teardown: Tokio's oneshot asks the task's cooperative budget first, and a shared future reports pending while another clone is being polled. A retry then drained again. The teardown worker, and the inline path, now write the result into a cell shared with the backend before they resolve the completion, and teardown_failure reads that cell. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * perf(messenger): take one reference per ordered lane item An ordered lane cloned the handler, the limiter, the metrics handle and the weak Messenger reference for every item it took, and the permit took one more clone of the limiter. They now sit behind one shared Arc that is cloned once per item, and the permit borrows the limiter. run_handler borrows its handler, so the spawn path keeps its single clone. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(transports): count shutdown hook calls instead of asserting in the hook The mock's "called twice" assert ran inside the per-hook catch_unwind, so a second call was only logged, and the final-drop test checked only that the hook ran. The mock now counts its calls and the test asserts exactly one per arm. A second call whose panic is swallowed now fails the test (left 2, right 1). Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(velo): check that final Messenger drop itself starts teardown wait_for_final_messenger_drop called request_teardown, which starts teardown on its own, so the tests passed even if the drop did not start it. The helper now waits for the backend to report a requested teardown first. With the drop's teardown request removed, the three tests that use it now fail. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(velo): wait for every stalled rendezvous call to reach the transport The test slept 100 ms and assumed every call had reached its wait. The stalling transport now counts the sends that reach it, and the test waits for the fill plus one send per call before the final drop. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(zmq): let the listener stop on the stop flag alone The listener polled with no timeout and stopped only on a message sent through a control socket, which stop_threads creates best effort. If that socket could not be made or connected, for example when file descriptors run out, the listener never stopped and the join in shutdown never returned, against the bound the shutdown chapter states. The listener now polls at most 100 ms at a time and stops when the stop flag that stop_threads sets is up, with or without the control message. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(transports): record a failure when teardown unwinds outside a hook Teardown wrote its result only after stop_transports returned. If the teardown body unwound outside the per-hook catch_unwind, the result cell stayed empty, teardown_failure reported no failure, and a later shutdown drained again instead of panicking at once. A guard on the worker and on the inline path now writes a failure if the body unwinds before the result is written. The guard is tested under a real unwind on its own, because no transport can make the body unwind outside a hook on purpose. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs(rendezvous): name the real cause of an undetachable remote lease A remote lease guard with no client said the messenger was gone. The caller now passes the client, so no client means the caller gave none. The variant doc and the warning now say that. Text only; no test. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(zmq): never block on the listener's control message stop_threads sent the listener's control message with a blocking send. Since the listener can stop on the stop flag alone, it may close its control socket between the connect and the send. A blocking send to a PAIR whose peer closed waits forever, so the joins after it never ran and shutdown hung. The send now uses DONTWAIT. The flag is the real stop request; a lost message costs at most one 100 ms poll. A unit test pins the libzmq behavior: a blocking send to a closed PAIR hangs, and a DONTWAIT send returns EAGAIN at once. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * perf(messenger): release the burst reference inside the queue poll The receive loop called try_recv before every message and awaited recv_async only when the queue was empty, so it could release its held Messenger reference before parking. When every message parks, that is one more lock on the queue per message than a plain recv_async. The loop now polls recv_async once per message, as before, and releases the reference inside that poll when it returns Pending, so the task still never parks holding the Messenger. With the release removed, final_velo_drop_stops_streaming_but_keeps_a_retained_messenger fails. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs(streaming): say what keeps a direct prepare_stop call safe The doc said step 1 makes direct calls safe, but step 1 runs only when the transports are already gone. What keeps a direct call safe is that slots are retired only after the streams leave them, and never by this method. Text only; no test. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(messenger): end the resolver and try_send tasks at teardown Final Messenger drop runs teardown, but it does not complete response waits. The large-payload resolver task and the messenger queue's try_send task wait on a response with no deadline of their own, so after the drop they parked forever, keeping the backend, the resolver, the message's drain guard, and their response slots. Both now run under the backend's teardown token, as the event subscribe task does, and end at teardown. The resolver spawn moves into spawn_resolve so a test can reach it. The migration guide now says a response wait made through a dropped Messenger ends at the caller's own deadline, and that internal tasks end at teardown. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs(streaming): state exactly when a direct token cancel stops sends The docs said a token cancelled outside the registry sets the sender's flag "one scheduler hop later". The flag is set once the cancelling task yields and the sender's heartbeat task runs; until then sends that find channel space are accepted, up to the free channel capacity. Text only; no test. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(velo): wait for the replies to park before the final drop The ordered lane and decode-error tests dropped the Messenger right after dispatching, before the handler tasks reached their wait, so a lane that held the Messenger across run_handler still passed. Both tests now wait until the replies reach the stalled transport. A lane that keeps a clone across run_handler now fails the ordered test. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(velo): check the resolver task ends at teardown through the receive loop The resolver teardown test passed its own token to spawn_resolve, so a receive loop that handed the task the wrong token stayed green. A new test feeds one large-payload frame through a real Messenger's receive loop, with a resolver that never answers, and checks the resolver is released after the final Messenger drop. The stalling test transport now keeps its adapter so the test can feed the frame. With a fresh token at the call site, the new test fails. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * test(queue): put the try_send test docs back on their tests The doc of a_stalled_try_send_does_not_hold_the_messenger had ended up above the new teardown test, and the original test had none. Each test now carries its own doc. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs: name the handshake exception and every startup failure path The migration guide said internal response waits end at teardown; the handshake task for a peer not yet known ends at its 30-second timeout instead. The velo-ext hook doc listed only another transport's start failure as running hooks on the building task; any failure while the transports start does, as the shutdown chapter says. The guide also now says the build skips the wait for close when a hook panicked. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs: align shutdown hook, sweep and drain-exempt wording with the code The out-of-tree transport guide now matches the Transport::shutdown docs on where the hook runs. The post-loop sweep comment names every path that reaches it, and the shutdown page lists _stream_stop as drain-exempt. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(streaming): answer an anchor attach after manager shutdown with Err The handler doc promises AnchorAttachResponse::Err on any failure, but a dropped manager returned a handler error. The caller now sees the same variant and its RTT metric is labelled the same way. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * fix(transports): keep inline teardown from unwinding out of get_or_init If the teardown thread cannot start, teardown runs on the caller's thread inside OnceLock::get_or_init. A panic outside the per-hook catch left the lock empty, so the next request_teardown ran every shutdown hook again. Catch the panic and return it as the teardown failure. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * perf(queue): avoid a token clone per try_send record Each record's task cloned the teardown token. A token clone and drop each take the token tree's mutex. Move a ShutdownState clone (one Arc increment) into the task and wait on the borrowed token instead. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * docs(shutdown): say that a later call after a failed hook panics at once Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> * perf(messenger): avoid a token clone per large-payload resolve The resolve task cloned the teardown token for each large-payload message. A token clone takes the token tree's mutex, and so does its drop. That is two lock takes per message. The task now holds the backend it already needs and borrows the teardown token from it. It still ends at teardown. The select is biased to the resolve, so a payload that is ready wins over teardown. Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <rolson@nvidia.com>
Summary
Make runtime ownership explicit. The final
Veloowner stops its streams and builder-owned listener. A retainedArc<Messenger>remains available for active messages. The final Messenger drop starts transport teardown and completes pending remote event waits, including waits blocked in discovery. An owned cleanup thread runs transport teardown hooks once. Explicit shutdown callers share its completion; final Drop returns without joining native threads. Cleanup continues if a waiting shutdown future is cancelled, and a failed hook cannot report successful shutdown. ZMQ shutdown remains reliable with a full sender queue and preserves replies already queued before it stops.Preserve the shutdown ordering from #118: stop mux sends, detach reader feeds and cancel pumps, remove anchors and cancel senders, then retire mux slots. Explicit shutdown joins tasks before retirement; final-owner drop performs synchronous cleanup. Internal handlers use weak references; public handler factories keep their existing ownership behavior.
Velo 0.19 removes value-level
Messenger::clone(),.inline(),DispatchMode, andSenderEntry::rx_closer. CloneArc<Messenger>to share an instance, select dispatch ordering through the handler builder, and use the sender cancellation token. Wire formats andvelo-exttraits stay unchanged. The migration guide describes these changes and the limits of cleanup through Drop.This PR is based on #115, including the merged #118 fixes and accepted gRPC socket cleanup. #117 is stacked on this branch for the same 0.19.0 release. The inherited shutdown fix joins mux tasks after the drain and before messenger transport teardown. New-anchor admission checks remain separate work.
Validation
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e517af5d6e7dbefeee88a303e5da29ee3a485653in an isolated worktree, with builds and tests outside the sandbox:NATS and etcd were available. UCX ran over TCP; no RDMA hardware test or new performance measurement was made. The two existing timing benchmarks remain ignored. The Velo drain timeout bounds draining; the mux join follows it and requires the owning Tokio runtime to make progress.
Required CI, including examples and soak smoke, is pending on this exact published revision.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Arc<Messenger>instead.DispatchModeAPI. Handlers now use spawned or ordered dispatch.