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Short Kubernetes API outages could still discard a wake request after the timeout/coalescing fixes in #840. This adds a bounded retry sequence inside the shared wake operation, preserving the existing total PATCH/join budgets, successful-request suppression and established-session draining.

The mixed-load regression exercises 16 concurrent TCP players and 25 UDP sources against an API outage followed by a delayed cold start. CI prints measured request counts, concurrency and handoff timing; the fixture does not claim a production capacity ceiling.

Closes #729.

Validation on 8083a5c2: the full main CI run, including its aggregate report, and portable-path checks passed. Ten E2E jobs initially stopped before product installation because the MetalLB controller image could not be pulled; all passed in a failed-jobs-only retry. No test or lint check was disabled.

On AMD64 and ARM64, the complete sentinel unit suite passed, including the active-PATCH listener-shutdown regression, and the race-enabled mixed-load test passed. Both fixtures completed 16 TCP handoffs, received 26 datagrams from 25 UDP sources, used two API PATCH attempts and observed maximum API concurrency one. Mean handoff latency was approximately 344 ms on AMD64 and 334 ms on ARM64 in this fixture; sentinel coverage was 89.0% on both architectures.

Review follow-up corrected the retry documentation, moved the feature spec to specs/032-wake-retry-load/, and added a real in-flight HTTP cancellation regression. Independent review and the current-head CodeRabbit follow-up found no remaining actionable findings. Local production and regression-source compilation passed; runtime tests and lint ran only in CI under repository policy.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Wake requests now retry temporary API and connection failures with bounded backoff, improving recovery during brief service disruptions.
    • Concurrent wake requests share retry work. Retries stop when canceled, when an error cannot be retried, or when the attempt limit is reached. Permanent failures continue to be reported to callers.
    • Retries respect the original time limit and server-provided retry delays, so recovery attempts do not extend a wake operation indefinitely.

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The change adds bounded retries for wake PATCH requests and connects them to RequestWake. It adds retry tests, mixed TCP/UDP outage-recovery tests, specifications, and a sentinel-specific CI step that runs the recovery test with race detection.

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Wake Retry and Mixed-Load Coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Wake PATCH retries
sentinel/wake_retry.go, sentinel/main.go, sentinel/wake_retry_test.go, sentinel/specs.md, specs/032-wake-retry-load/*
RequestWake uses a retry helper that makes up to four PATCH attempts within the supplied context. The helper classifies errors and applies jittered backoff with server retry hints. Tests cover retry limits, shared retries, error classification, cancellation, and delay bounds. Specifications describe the retry behavior.
Mixed-load outage recovery
sentinel/wake_load_test.go, .github/workflows/ci.yaml, sentinel/specs.md, specs/032-wake-retry-load/*
A loopback test exercises TCP and UDP wake traffic during a stalled API response and recovery. It checks retries, handoffs, gameplay, draining, and inactive work. CI runs the test for the sentinel matrix with race detection.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

  • GameplanePanel/Gameplane#761: Adds shared wake outcomes, bounded PATCH and join contexts, and the UDP wake worker that this change extends with retries and mixed-load coverage.
  • GameplanePanel/Gameplane#840: Implements shared wake PATCH handling, bounded join attempts, and UDP coalescing related to the wake behavior extended here.
  • GameplanePanel/Gameplane#779: Adds GO_PACKAGES selection used to gate the new sentinel-specific test step.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 8083a

This change adds bounded retries for wake requests and regression coverage for mixed TCP and UDP load during an API outage. No actionable merge-blocking risk was identified, and the author reports that CI passed.

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Out of Scope Changes check Passed The retry implementation, regression tests, CI measurement step, and specifications all support issue #729. The current PR description ties the follow-up jitter and context-helper fixes to the retry i…
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Issue #729 requires bounded shared wake retries, cancellation recovery, responsive UDP handling, and preservation of established TCP sessions. The reviewed PR evidence describes retries within the existing PATCH/join budget, shared wake behavior, retry and cancellation tests, and mixed TCP/UDP outage coverage. sentinel/wake_load_test.go also covers listener shutdown, TCP handoff, continued gameplay, and session draining. The follow-up lint fixes use crypto/rand and an inherited-context observation helper; they do not weaken these requirements. The prior reviewed head also passed this assessment, and the supplied evidence identifies no change that invalidates that result.

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@Baylem Baylem added area: e2e kind-based end-to-end suite area: optional-components sentinel, capture-sidecar, mcp-server, tunnel, audit-syslog-bridge, telemetry-receiver type: fix Bug fix labels Nov 9, 2026 — with ChatGPT Codex Connector
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hey only one issue the current specs folder should be 032 since 031 was used by the earlier PR but this create a second 031 specs folder

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322-335: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Test shutdown with an active wake

Add a listener shutdown case that holds the real waker in a PATCH, then cancels the listener and asserts that the worker and request exit promptly. The mixed-load fixture finishes both wakes before shutdown, so it cannot catch a shutdown regression in their interaction.

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Add a separate listener-shutdown test in the wake load tests that keeps a real
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assert that both the wake worker and in-flight request exit promptly; do not
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