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refactor(cache): evaluate passive ttlcache with process-tree prototype - #1018
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Signed-off-by: Gaurav Chaudhary <chaudharygaurav2004@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Chaudhary <chaudharygaurav2004@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Chaudhary <chaudharygaurav2004@gmail.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds an internal TTL-backed cache and uses it for process-tree caching. Adds cache benchmark experiments and a paired latency-gate runner. The recorded prototype gate failed its six primary latency comparisons; the documentation states that broader migration and validation did not proceed. ChangesTTL cache prototype
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Other Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Runner as cache-migration.py
participant Binary as Go test binary
participant Targets as Cache implementations
participant Report as Gate report
Runner->>Binary: Build test binary and run selected scenarios
Binary->>Targets: Run cache benchmarks and experiments
Targets-->>Binary: Return timing and memory observations
Binary-->>Runner: Return benchmark output or JSON results
Runner->>Report: Classify paired observations and save report
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Process-tree caching now uses a cache adapter that failed its own latency gate. After a period of inactivity, the first write can block both writers and readers for tens of milliseconds. Keep the existing LRU in production, or fix the purge behavior, before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The replacement cache is used by normal event processing, where synchronous expiration cleanup can delay delivery to detection handlers. Recorded experiments show substantial contention, although they used a larger cache than production. Container identity, cache limits and caller interfaces remain unchanged; no exploit or privilege increase was established. Retained concerns
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Review comments at @internal/ttlcache/cache.go:
- Around line 45-48: Limit expired-entry reclamation in Cache.Set to a fixed
budget per write, or redesign it so the cache mutex is not held while processing
the full expired batch. In pkg/processtree/process_tree_manager.go at line 38,
retain expirable.NewLRU rather than switching to this adapter until it passes
the performance gate.
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| func (c *Cache[K, V]) Set(key K, value V) { | ||
| c.cache.DeleteExpired() | ||
| c.cache.Set(key, value, jellycache.DefaultTTL) | ||
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
The failed adapter design reaches the production process-tree path. Set purges every expired entry synchronously under the cache mutex. The process-tree manager now uses this adapter, so production inherits the write and reader stalls that failed the gate.
internal/ttlcache/cache.go#L45-L48: limit expired-entry reclamation to a fixed budget per write, or redesign the purge so it does not hold the mutex for the full expired batch.pkg/processtree/process_tree_manager.go#L38-L38: keepexpirable.NewLRUuntil the adapter passes the gate.
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internal/ttlcache/cache.go#L45-L48(this comment)pkg/processtree/process_tree_manager.go#L38-L38
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Review comment at @internal/ttlcache/cache.go around lines 45 - 48:
Limit expired-entry reclamation in Cache.Set to a fixed budget per write, or
redesign it so the cache mutex is not held while processing the full expired
batch. In pkg/processtree/process_tree_manager.go at line 38, retain
expirable.NewLRU rather than switching to this adapter until it passes the
performance gate.
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Request changes on 7b876408d176b572824132334bffe8fc54660f84, targeting main at 83e2cec9f74303483f1fe3f32c8d36a30ee7fcab.
The evaluation has a concrete benefit: #1014 identifies the uncloseable Hashicorp expiration goroutine, and the target branch still constructs that cache. Upstream v2.0.7 source supports the lifecycle concern. Passive construction avoids that goroutine and preserves fixed TTL and LRU reads. This is useful evaluation work, but the production substitution is not ready.
- High, existing: The unresolved production purge finding remains valid. The normal process-tree constructor selects the adapter unconditionally; misses and forced refreshes call its synchronous full-batch
DeleteExpired, which holds the exclusive cache lock. The documented failed gate measures this at 50,000 entries, not the deployed 10,000-entry capacity; I do not extrapolate an exact production delay. Retain Hashicorp in the production manager while preserving the evaluation, or establish a design that passes the required latency gate. No duplicate inline comment added. - Medium, new: The documented single-CPU parallel benchmark cannot meet the runner's sample minimum; see the new inline comment. This prevents completing the prescribed evaluation matrix.
History: searched repository PRs across open/closed/merged states and issues with ttlcache, expirable, LRU, containerProcessTreeCache, process-tree cache, passive cache, and goroutine/leak terms (up to 100 results per query; indexed text, not exhaustive historical diffs). No duplicate or superseding migration was found. Merged #936 optimized this manager's keys/allocations, and merged #876 fixed creator shutdown/PID reuse; neither removes the cache sweeper. Their review decisions concern separate mechanisms. Broad-search closed #923 was abandoned over fork/storage divergence, not rejection of this cache approach. No applicable prior rejection found within these search limits.
Validation: isolated credential-free containers; GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.27.0 go test -mod=readonly -race -count=1 ./internal/ttlcache ./pkg/processtree/... passed, including leak tests. Python unittest discover -s benchmark -p cache_migration_test.py passed all four tests. A real adapter BenchmarkCacheParallel run with latency sampling, hits, integer payloads, -cpu=1 -benchtime=2s -count=1 returned exactly 8192 samples, below the runner's 10000 minimum. go vet -mod=readonly ./internal/ttlcache passed; the separate process-tree vet attempt was interrupted by test-container teardown and has no result. The reviewed CI has successful build, benchmark, CodeQL and other component checks; the failed component job failed dependency setup with Go proxy HTTP/2 stream errors before test execution, not a demonstrated PR defect. CI's system benchmark does not establish the adapter's required tail-latency matrix or heap plateau. Full matrix, fresh idle-gate reproduction, privileged repository-wide checks and a before/after lifecycle test were not run here. Intentional Has/Len/nonpositive-TTL differences are documented and those methods are not used by the migrated caller. No additional confirmed security, API, concurrency or scope blocker found. Both independent review lanes returned request-changes / architectural BLOCK.
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| result = {unit: float(value) for value, unit in | ||
| re.findall(r"([\d.eE+-]+)\s+(ns/op|B/op|allocs/op|p95-ns|p99-ns|samples)", line)} | ||
| if args.scenario != "allocations" and result.get("samples", 0) < 10_000: |
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[P2] The documented single-CPU parallel experiment always fails this sample check. RunParallel defaults to one worker at GOMAXPROCS=1, but benchmark_test.go:174 retains at most 8192 samples per worker (later measurements overwrite them). An isolated adapter hits/int run with -cpu=1 -benchtime=2s produced exactly 8192 samples; increasing duration cannot reach this 10000 minimum. This prevents every CPU=1 parallel comparison in the planned matrix. Increase the bounded per-worker retention to satisfy the minimum for one CPU and add coverage for that configuration, then verify the runner completes it.
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Overview
Evaluate
jellydator/ttlcache/v3as a replacement for Hashicorp’s expirable LRU caches.This PR adds a passive, fixed-TTL cache adapter and migrates the process-tree cache as a prototype. Reads preserve LRU behavior without extending TTL, and cache construction starts no background goroutines.
It also adds regression and leak tests, isolated comparative benchmarks, and documented performance findings.
Additional Information
This is an evaluation, not a completed migration.
The strict latency gate failed after ten paired repetitions of the first-write-after-inactivity scenario with 50,000 expired entries:
Mutex profiling attributed 99.76% of contention delay to synchronous
DeleteExpired()cleanup during writes.The remaining caches were not migrated. The complete benchmark matrix, repository-wide privileged validation, and system benchmark remain unrun.
Intentional semantic changes:
Hasimmediately rejects expired entries without updating recency or TTL.Lenreclaims expired entries and reports live entries.Full methodology and results are documented in
benchmark/CACHE_MIGRATION.md.How to Test
Run the adapter and process-tree regression, race, and leak tests:
Run static checks and benchmark-gate tests:
Reproduce the latency experiment using a new output directory:
The experiment is expected to exit nonzero because the adapter fails the strict latency gate. Raw observations, source snapshots, and the gate report are retained in the output directory.
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