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WalkthroughTCP and UDS transports now track their listener tasks and wait up to one second for them to stop after cancellation. Tests check that shutdown releases the listening sockets. Documentation describes the updated close behavior and shutdown timing. ChangesTCP and UDS listener shutdown
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to TCP or UDS shutdown can return while a listener socket is still open if its accept loop misses the one-second deadline. Resolve or explicitly accept that shutdown limitation before relying on shutdown to prevent new connections. Pre-merge checks |
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Review comments at @lib/velo/src/transports/tcp/transport.rs:
- Line 580: The TCP and UDS listener waits can time out while accept tasks still
hold their sockets, so shutdown must not imply that connections are impossible
afterward. In `lib/velo/src/transports/tcp/transport.rs` lines 580-580, release
the TCP listener on timeout or make the result explicitly best-effort; in
`lib/velo/src/transports/uds/transport.rs` lines 539-539, apply the same
correction to the UDS listener and socket path. In
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unless both timeout paths enforce it.
- Line 539: Coordinate listener startup with shutdown so pending starts cannot
bind or spawn after close completes. At lib/velo/src/transports/tcp/transport.rs
lines 539-539, update the start flow around listener_tasks.spawn_on to register
startup before close can finish or reject startup after shutdown; at
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before binding and spawning the UDS listener.
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TcpTransport stored the handle of a task that called TcpListener::serve(). serve() spawns the accept loop and returns at once, so closed() joined a task that had already finished while the loop still owned the socket. The test passed only because, on a current-thread runtime, that task never ran before shutdown. Spawn the accept loop directly on the instance runtime and track it with a TaskTracker, as QUIC tracks its writers. closed() waits for it, bounded by one second as the trait requires. TCP's accept select now checks teardown first, as UDS's already does. UDS dropped its listener handle and had the same bug; it gets the same fix. New tests let each accept loop start before shutdown; both fail without the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: jthomson04 <jwillthomson19@gmail.com>
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- Line 21: Update the shutdown timing paragraph to remove the unsupported
total-call upper bound. State that the call can exceed d by the batcher, close,
and hook durations, and that no total upper bound applies when a shutdown hook
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- Line 23: Update the TCP and UDS close description to say they wait up to one
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| 1. **Gate.** The drain flag goes up. New inbound requests are refused. Responses, acks, events, and the messages of open streams continue to flow, so in-flight work can finish. | ||
| 2. **Drain.** Velo waits until no admitted request is in flight. `ShutdownPolicy::WaitForever` waits with no limit. `ShutdownPolicy::Timeout(d)` bounds the drain at `d`. Joining the mux's batchers adds up to 0.5 seconds, the time a batcher stalled on a slow peer may take to send what it holds, and the close step adds the close bound of each transport (QUIC: 2.5 seconds). Teardown adds the time that the shutdown hooks of the transports take. A hook may block, so `d` does not bound it. The ZMQ hook takes at most about 6 seconds: up to 5 seconds for a send already under way to a peer that has gone, and up to 1 second for the frames that were queued before the stop. ZMQ reports each frame that it cannot send in that second as failed. The whole call takes at most `d` plus these bounds. | ||
| 2. **Drain.** Velo waits until no admitted request is in flight. `ShutdownPolicy::WaitForever` waits with no limit. `ShutdownPolicy::Timeout(d)` bounds the drain at `d`. Joining the mux's batchers adds up to 0.5 seconds, the time a batcher stalled on a slow peer may take to send what it holds, and the close step adds the close bound of each transport (QUIC: 2.5 seconds; TCP and UDS: 1 second). Teardown adds the time that the shutdown hooks of the transports take. A hook may block, so `d` does not bound it. The ZMQ hook takes at most about 6 seconds: up to 5 seconds for a send already under way to a peer that has gone, and up to 1 second for the frames that were queued before the stop. ZMQ reports each frame that it cannot send in that second as failed. The whole call takes at most `d` plus these bounds. |
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Remove the unsupported total-time bound.
The paragraph says a shutdown hook may block, but then states that the whole call takes at most d plus the listed bounds. No maximum is given for a blocking hook, so the total-call bound is unsupported. State that hook time can extend the call without a stated upper limit.
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- The whole call takes at most d plus these bounds.
+ The call can exceed d by the batcher, close, and hook durations; no total upper bound applies if a hook blocks.As per path instructions: “Review documentation for accuracy with current code.”
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Review comment at @docs/src/concepts/shutdown.md at line 21:
Update the shutdown timing paragraph to remove the unsupported total-call upper
bound. State that the call can exceed d by the batcher, close, and hook
durations, and that no total upper bound applies when a shutdown hook blocks.
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| 2. **Drain.** Velo waits until no admitted request is in flight. `ShutdownPolicy::WaitForever` waits with no limit. `ShutdownPolicy::Timeout(d)` bounds the drain at `d`. Joining the mux's batchers adds up to 0.5 seconds, the time a batcher stalled on a slow peer may take to send what it holds, and the close step adds the close bound of each transport (QUIC: 2.5 seconds; TCP and UDS: 1 second). Teardown adds the time that the shutdown hooks of the transports take. A hook may block, so `d` does not bound it. The ZMQ hook takes at most about 6 seconds: up to 5 seconds for a send already under way to a peer that has gone, and up to 1 second for the frames that were queued before the stop. ZMQ reports each frame that it cannot send in that second as failed. The whole call takes at most `d` plus these bounds. | ||
| 3. **Teardown.** Velo cancels the tokens and stops the transports. Each transport's shutdown hook runs once, on a dedicated thread, and the call waits for all of them. (A hook runs on the caller instead if the thread cannot be created, and on the building task if the build fails or is cancelled while transports start.) If a hook panics, the other hooks still run, and the call then panics: it cannot report the instance, or its RDMA memory, as released. A later shutdown call panics at once, without draining again. | ||
| 4. **Close.** Velo waits for `Transport::closed()` on each transport. TCP and UDS return at once, because the kernel delivers what they wrote after the process exits. QUIC keeps written data in user space until the peer acknowledges it, so it waits up to 2 seconds for its writers to finish their streams and its connections to close. Then it closes the rest by force and waits up to 0.5 seconds more, so that each frame a writer still held is reported as failed. A frame that quinn accepted but the peer did not acknowledge is lost, as a frame in the kernel send buffer is lost when a TCP peer stops reading. The writer logs a warning when that can happen. The exception is an application close from the peer: a peer that closes has gone, as a TCP peer that closes has, so that end is not a warning. A process can exit when `graceful_shutdown` returns. | ||
| 4. **Close.** Velo waits for `Transport::closed()` on each transport. TCP and UDS do not wait for what they wrote, because the kernel delivers it after the process exits. They wait only until their accept loop has closed its listening socket, for at most 1 second, so that no peer can connect after `graceful_shutdown` returns. The loop stops at its next poll, so the wait runs out only when nothing drives the runtime that runs it. In that case the transport logs a warning, and the socket can stay open until the loop runs. QUIC keeps written data in user space until the peer acknowledges it, so it waits up to 2 seconds for its writers to finish their streams and its connections to close. Then it closes the rest by force and waits up to 0.5 seconds more, so that each frame a writer still held is reported as failed. A frame that quinn accepted but the peer did not acknowledge is lost, as a frame in the kernel send buffer is lost when a TCP peer stops reading. The writer logs a warning when that can happen. The exception is an application close from the peer: a peer that closes has gone, as a TCP peer that closes has, so that end is not a warning. A process can exit when `graceful_shutdown` returns. |
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rg -n -F -- 'struct TcpListener' lib/velo/src/transports/tcp
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Describe the close timeout condition accurately.
The wait expires when the tracked listener task has not stopped within one second, even if its runtime is still active. If the task misses the deadline, graceful_shutdown can return while the listening socket remains open. Make the no-peer-connect guarantee conditional on the listener closing within the deadline.
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-They wait only until their accept loop has closed its listening socket, for at most 1 second, so that no peer can connect after `graceful_shutdown` returns. The loop stops at its next poll, so the wait runs out only when nothing drives the runtime that runs it. In that case the transport logs a warning, and the socket can stay open until the loop runs.
+They wait up to 1 second for their accept loop to close its listening socket. If the listener closes within that deadline, no peer can connect after `graceful_shutdown` returns. If the tracked listener task has not stopped by the deadline, the transport logs a warning, and `graceful_shutdown` can return while the socket remains open.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comment at @docs/src/concepts/shutdown.md at line 23:
Update the TCP and UDS close description to say they wait up to one second for
the accept loop to close its listening socket; make the no-peer-connect
guarantee conditional on the listener closing within that deadline, and state
that if the tracked listener task misses the deadline, the transport logs a
warning and graceful_shutdown can return while the socket remains open.
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Summary
TCP shutdown cancelled the listener but did not wait for it. The default
closed()returned at once, so a TCP connection could still succeed afterVelo::shutdown()returned. This made the Runtime shutdown test in ai-dynamo/dynamo#15231 fail.The transport now spawns the accept loop directly on the instance runtime and tracks it with a
TaskTracker, as QUIC tracks its writers.closed()waits until the loop has dropped its socket, for at most 1 second as the trait requires. Concurrent callers wait for the same loop. A call before shutdown returns at once. TCP's acceptselect!now checks teardown first, as UDS's already does.Spawning
TcpListener::serve()and joining that handle would not work:serve()spawns the accept loop and returns at once, so its handle finishes while the loop still owns the socket.UDS dropped its listener handle in the same way and had the same bug. It gets the same fix.
No public API changes. The book's shutdown chapter and
CLAUDE.mdnow say that TCP and UDS wait for their accept loop to close.Validation
closed_releases_running_listener(TCP and UDS) lets the accept loop start before shutdown. Both fail without the fix and pass with it, without sleeps. The earlier TCP test still covers the schedule where the loop never ran, concurrent close calls, and a close check before shutdown.velolibrary suite passes with default features disabled (902 tests).transports_tcp,transports_tcp_shutdown,transports_udsandtransports_uds_shutdownpass with every feature exceptucx, which needs RDMA headers that this machine lacks.ucx) andcargo fmt --checkpass.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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