fix(grpc-proxy): purge unclaimed stateful work on shutdown - #1031
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A worker CONNECT token lives only in the memory of the pod that minted
it, but the work request it belongs to is durable and waits in the
JetStream work queue until a worker has a slot to pull it. When the pod
goes away, every request it issued that has not been pulled yet is
already doomed: a worker pulls it, takes a concurrency slot, is rejected
with 403, and hands the slot back having achieved nothing.
Nothing removed those requests, so on a saturated function this repeats
for as long as the backlog takes to drain while clients retry and refill
it, which is the extended near-zero-goodput window seen after a restart.
Track sessions from the point a token is issued until the worker
CONNECTs back, and on shutdown purge the work requests still waiting.
This is the same subject-filtered purge the invocation service uses in
cancel_request.
Only sessions still waiting for a worker are purged. A session with a
worker attached is not tied to the pod that started it: on reconnect the
config is rebuilt from the answering pod's address with a fresh token, so
the worker reattaches elsewhere and the session survives a rolling
update. Purging those would sever sessions that were going to live.
Purging by subject only removes what the stream still holds, so an
established session is untouched for that reason too.
The purge is best effort and bounded. Whether this service may purge the
work queue is granted outside this repository, so a rejected purge is
logged and shutdown continues rather than failing.
Adds nvcf_grpc_proxy_service_pending_work_purged_total{result}. A
persistent failed count is the signal that the permission is missing.
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe proxy now tracks stateful work requests awaiting worker CONNECT. During graceful shutdown, it drains admitted invocations and purges queued requests that remain pending. Invocation helpers, metrics, and tests cover the new lifecycle. ChangesPending work cleanup
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Shutdown tracking can race with request insertion or worker connection cleanup, potentially leaving failed queued work behind or purging work that has already been assigned to a worker. This should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merging; the remaining test timing issue is minor. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Worker
participant StreamDirector
participant FunctionInvoker
participant JetStream
Worker->>StreamDirector: Register worker CONNECT
StreamDirector->>StreamDirector: Remove request from pendingWork
StreamDirector->>FunctionInvoker: Purge pending requests during Close
FunctionInvoker->>JetStream: Purge queued request subjects
StreamDirector->>StreamDirector: Stop caches
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/director.go`:
- Around line 377-404: Introduce a lifecycle gate across director.go lines
377-404 and 618-631 and hijack.go lines 166-179 so shutdown blocks new
invocation and CONNECT transitions, waits for active transitions to finish, then
snapshots and purges pending work; ensure the Set-to-publish interleaving cannot
leave an orphaned JetStream request and CONNECT cleanup completes during
shutdown. Add deterministic coverage in pending_work_test.go lines 74-124 for
both shutdown interleaving and CONNECT cleanup scenarios.
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An invocation records its pending work before it publishes the work request. A shutdown landing between those two steps purged nothing and then let the publish leave a request in the queue with no surviving token to authenticate it, which is exactly the state the purge exists to prevent. Marking the director as shutting down did not help: that flag only affects eviction reporting and does not stop an invocation already in progress. Gate admission instead. Shutdown closes the gate and waits, bounded, for invocations already past it to finish publishing, so the purge snapshot sees every request this pod created and nothing can publish after it. An invocation refused at the gate returns Unavailable and the client retries against a live pod, which is correct once the servers have drained. The gate covers only the invocation, never the session that follows, so shutdown is never held for the length of a session, and the drain is bounded so a stuck invocation cannot block exit. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Good catch, this was a real hole and it is fixed in the latest commit. You are right that Fixed with an admission gate rather than a broader lifecycle refactor. Shutdown closes admission and then waits, bounded, for invocations already past the gate to finish publishing, so the purge snapshot sees everything this pod created and nothing can publish after it. A refused invocation returns Two things I deliberately kept narrow: The gate covers the invocation only, not the session that follows, so shutdown is never held open for the length of a session. Scoping it to the whole handler would have made every rolling update wait on live sessions. The drain is bounded, so a stuck invocation delays shutdown by at most the timeout instead of blocking exit. I waited in place rather than in a helper goroutine specifically so an invocation that never returns cannot leak one. On your Added tests for admission closing, the drain actually waiting for an admitted invocation, the drain giving up on a stuck one, the idle case returning immediately, and concurrent use under |
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/invocation_gate_test.go`:
- Around line 46-50: In the goroutine coordinating the drain test, call
gate.end() before closing the released channel so receiving released guarantees
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The drain test proved the right thing but read as if it could race: the goroutine closed the channel before calling end, so the assertion looked order-dependent even though the drain cannot return until end runs. Assert on a flag set before end plus the elapsed time instead, so a drain that failed to wait is caught directly rather than inferred. Inverting the original order, as suggested in review, would have introduced a real flake: the drain can return between end and the channel close. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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47-61: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 TrivialConfirm the shutdown sequence documentation.
This test covers admission closure, draining of admitted invocations, and the timeout path. Confirm whether the architecture or sequence diagrams need an update to show this shutdown flow.
As per coding guidelines, "When a change modifies runtime behavior, data flow, or component interactions, ask whether architecture or sequence diagrams need updating."
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/invocation_gate_test.go`:
- Around line 57-61: Move the start timestamp capture in the drain test to
before launching the goroutine that sleeps for held, so timing includes the
entire admitted invocation duration. Keep the existing closeAndDrain call and
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/invocation_gate_test.go`:
- Around line 47-61: Review the architecture and sequence documentation for the
shutdown flow exercised by gate.closeAndDrain, including admission closure,
draining admitted invocations, and timeout behavior; update any affected
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| start := time.Now() | ||
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| assert.True(t, finished.Load(), "drain returned before the admitted invocation finished") | ||
| assert.GreaterOrEqual(t, time.Since(start), held, "drain returned without waiting out the invocation") |
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Record the start time before launching the goroutine.
The goroutine can enter time.Sleep(held) before Line 57 records start. The drain can then wait for the full held duration while time.Since(start) is slightly less than held. This can cause an intermittent test failure.
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const held = 100 * time.Millisecond
var finished atomic.Bool
+ start := time.Now()
go func() {
time.Sleep(held)
finished.Store(true)
gate.end()
}()
- start := time.Now()
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| start := time.Now() | |
| gate.closeAndDrain(5 * time.Second) | |
| assert.True(t, finished.Load(), "drain returned before the admitted invocation finished") | |
| assert.GreaterOrEqual(t, time.Since(start), held, "drain returned without waiting out the invocation") | |
| const held = 100 * time.Millisecond | |
| var finished atomic.Bool | |
| start := time.Now() | |
| go func() { | |
| time.Sleep(held) | |
| finished.Store(true) | |
| gate.end() | |
| }() | |
| gate.closeAndDrain(5 * time.Second) | |
| assert.True(t, finished.Load(), "drain returned before the admitted invocation finished") | |
| assert.GreaterOrEqual(t, time.Since(start), held, "drain returned without waiting out the invocation") |
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/invocation_gate_test.go`
around lines 57 - 61, Move the start timestamp capture in the drain test to
before launching the goroutine that sleeps for held, so timing includes the
entire admitted invocation duration. Keep the existing closeAndDrain call and
assertions unchanged.
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Issues
Closes #1030
Why
A worker CONNECT token exists only in the memory of the pod that minted it. The work request it belongs to is durable and sits in the JetStream work queue until a worker has a free concurrency slot.
When a proxy pod goes away, every request it issued that has not yet been pulled is already guaranteed to fail. A worker pulls it, takes a slot, tries to CONNECT, gets a 403, and returns the slot having done nothing. Nothing removes those requests, so on a saturated function this repeats for as long as the backlog takes to drain, while clients retry and refill it. That is the extended near-zero-goodput window after a restart, and the reason the practical remedy has been to drop demand by scaling the function down and back up.
What changed
cancel_request.Only sessions still waiting for a worker are purged, and that constraint is the important part of the change. A session with a worker attached is not tied to the pod that started it: on reconnect the connection config is rebuilt from the answering pod's own address with a freshly minted token, so the worker reattaches through a different pod and the session survives a rolling update. Purging state for those sessions would sever sessions that were going to live through the restart. Purging by subject also only removes what the stream still holds, so an established session is unaffected for that reason as well.
The purge is best effort and time-bounded, and never fails shutdown.
Customer Release Notes
Restarting a grpc-proxy pod no longer leaves behind queued work that cannot succeed. Previously a busy function could spend an extended period after a restart working through a backlog in which every request failed authentication, which required scaling the function down and back up to clear.
Plan Summary
Not applicable.
Usage
New metric
nvcf_grpc_proxy_service_pending_work_purged_total{result}, pre-initialised forsucceededandfailed.A persistent
failedcount is the signal that this service lacks purge rights on the work queue, rather than a transient NATS error.Testing
go test -racefor the full grpc-proxy module andbazel testfor both affected packages, all passing.New tests cover:
request_stream_nameandrequest_subjectThe format tests are worth calling out: the work queue is owned by a service written in another language, so the formats are duplicated rather than shared. If they drift, the purge targets a subject nothing was published to, removes nothing, and reports no error. The tests pin the exact strings.
I also verified the tests fail with the purge disabled, so they are not passing vacuously.
Notes
Two limitations, both intentional:
Graceful shutdown only. This runs in
StreamDirector.Close(), so it covers a rolling update but not a hard kill, node loss, or OOM.Permission dependency. grpc-proxy has never touched the
rq_*streams, and client permissions are assigned by an auth-callout plugin configured outside this repository. I could not confirm from here whether the purge is currently permitted, which is why it fails soft and is observable via the metric. Worth confirming with the NATS owner before relying on it.This is complementary to #1029, not overlapping. That one recovers a session whose worker is gone regardless of how the pod died; this one stops a graceful restart from leaving a poisoned backlog behind. Minor merge conflicts are expected in
metrics.goand the invocationBUILD.bazel, since both add a metric and a test file.src/invocation-plane-servicesis excluded from gazelle at rootBUILD.bazel, so the BUILD rules were updated by hand.References
None
Related Pull Requests
#1029
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