fix(server): pipeline ordering at --shards >= 2 — inline commands ran ahead of the batch's pending remote writes (#507) - #512
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… ahead of the batch's pending remote writes (#507) Filed as "MGET in the same pipeline batch as its SETs returns nulls". The cause is wider than the symptom, and the symptom is not the worst of it. The sharded pipeline handlers defer a single-key command whose key lives on another shard into `remote_groups`, dispatching each target's group as one `PipelineBatchSlotted` at the END of the batch. Multi-key and keyless commands are not routable that way, so they execute INLINE, mid-loop — against shards whose earlier writes in the same batch have not been sent yet. Measured at --shards 2, 20 trials each, before the fix: SET a, MSET a 7/20 wrong the MSET's value is LOST (SET lands on top) SET, FLUSHALL 10/20 wrong key survives a flush that returned +OK SET, SET, DEL 6/20 wrong keys survive a DEL that returned success SET, SET, MGET 10/20 wrong the reported symptom SET, DBSIZE 12/20 wrong also KEYS/RANDOMKEY/EXISTS/UNLINK/COPY/ BITOP/INFO keyspace SET, TOUCH k 0/20 single-key: always correct So this is not only the stale read it was filed as — same-key write ordering inverts, which is silent data loss. The rate rises with shard count: a key is remote with probability 1 - 1/shards. The issue's own hypothesis (the co-located fast path) was checked and is wrong: co-located keys were 0/20 wrong, uncolocated 15/20. Fix: defer such a command and the unconsumed batch tail to the next iteration, reusing the mechanism #438 already built for early-flush commands. Phase 2 resolves the pending remote replies first, and the tail re-parses at the top of the next batch with `remote_groups` empty — so it cannot loop. Applied to both sharded handlers; `handler_single` has no deferral and was never affected. The predicate is keyed on ROUTABILITY, not a list of command names. A command routed by its own single key needs no wait: a key maps to exactly one shard, so if that shard is local the key cannot be pending, and if it is remote the command is appended behind the pending ones and the slotted batch preserves order. Everything else waits. This matters — a name list written for an MGET bug would not have contained INFO keyspace or RANDOMKEY, and both were wrong. The one case routability cannot see is a command intercepted inline BEFORE routing that still has a key-shaped first argument (EVAL, SWAPDB, FCALL, the FT./GRAPH./CDC./TS. families); those are named explicitly, with a test that fails if an entry is dropped. Deferring is the conservative direction: a command sent down this path unnecessarily is merely executed at the start of the next batch, which is always correct. Wrongly calling something safe is the direction that corrupts. Tests: tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs, 10 cases at --shards 4 x 12 key placements each (a single trial is a coin flip on placement — pco8 passed by luck on its first red run before being restructured). Covers own-batch MGET, single-key ordering as control, MSET-wins-over-SET, multi-key DEL, FLUSHALL, the cross-shard aggregations, INFO keyspace, byte-exact deferred-tail replay, inline commands surviving the defer path, and inline-intercepted commands. Green on both runtimes. The redis-py acceptance pin for this defect (rp7b) is converted from an inverted "known gap" probe into a direct assertion. Two cases are deliberately excluded and filed instead of worked around: MEMORY USAGE mis-routes independently of this bug (#511), and single-key EVAL is rejected CROSSSLOT (#508), which is why pco10 drives SWAPDB alone. Perf: this costs real throughput, and the cost is per INTERLEAVING, not per pipeline. Each deferral is one extra shard dispatch/await boundary (~50us). Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, --shards 2, one connection, 9 reps, alternating leg order, median; "floor" is the worst within-leg spread, so a delta smaller than its floor resolved nothing): shape base head delta floor mixed MGET after every 2 SETs 125,885 59,889 -52.4% 5.8% tail 128 SETs then one MGET 528,764 512,686 -3.0% 22.2% pure SET,SET,GET (guard off) 873,526 867,715 -0.7% 33.9% So: a multi-key or keyless command at the END of a pipeline — the shape #507 was filed from, and the shape redis-py's pipeline() produces — costs nothing measurable. One interleaved after every pair of writes halves throughput. The `pure` control confirms the untouched path is unchanged, and `mixed` reproduced at -52.6% in an independent earlier run against a different noise floor. redis-benchmark cannot express any of this (it sends one command type, so the guard never fires), which is why this is a purpose-built harness; it is pre-flighted against the base binary and refuses to report unless base actually shows the bug (72 lost elements across 64 MGETs), so a vacuous "neutral" is not reachable. Removing that cost means letting multi-key commands participate in the slotted batch instead of executing inline — a cross-shard-coordinator change well outside a correctness fix. Filed separately. Closes #507 Refs #438, #511, #508 author: Tin Dang
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change fixes multi-shard pipeline ordering by deferring commands that depend on pending remote operations. It adds routing-based classification, handler replay logic, and regression coverage for reads, writes, aggregation commands, intercepted commands, and reply ordering. ChangesPipeline ordering
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Some pre-routing commands are still not covered by the ordering fix and may run before pending remote writes, allowing stale results or overwrites; this should be fixed before merge. The pipeline test helper can also truncate slow multi-chunk replies, reducing confidence in the regression coverage. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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The client-compat step's comment still described #507 as pinned as an expected failure. It behaved exactly as the comment promised — the pin started failing the moment the ordering fix landed — so rp7b is now a direct assertion and only #508 remains a pinned gap. Recording that so the comment does not outlive the defect it describes. Verified on moon-dev against the fix binary: 19/19 OK, rp7b green as an assertion, rp14b still red-as-designed for #508. author: Tin Dang
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read_replyends on a read timeout, so a slow reply can be truncated.The loop breaks on the first
Err, and after the first chunk the read timeout is 250 ms. A reply that arrives in two chunks more than 250 ms apart returns only the first chunk. The fix under test adds exactly one extra shard dispatch/await boundary per deferral, so the deferred replies are the ones most likely to arrive in a later chunk.pco8_deferred_tail_is_replayed_intactcompares the full concatenated reply for exact equality across such a boundary, so a slow CI machine can fail it for a reason unrelated to ordering.Terminate on the expected reply count instead of on silence.
♻️ Read until the expected number of top-level replies has arrived
- fn pipeline(&mut self, cmds: &[&[&str]]) -> String { + fn pipeline(&mut self, cmds: &[&[&str]]) -> String { let mut out = Vec::new(); for c in cmds { out.extend_from_slice(&encode(c)); } self.0.write_all(&out).expect("write"); - self.read_reply() + self.read_n_replies(cmds.len()) }Add a counter that walks
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In `@src/server/conn/shared.rs`:
- Around line 1074-1107: Update is_inline_intercepted to recognize VACUUM and
KILL as inline-intercepted commands, and extend the DOTTED prefix list with
TEMPORAL. and TXN. Preserve exact-name matching for MQ and WS without adding
their dotted prefixes.
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In `@tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs`:
- Around line 159-178: Update the multi-reply test path around read_reply to
continue reading with the 5-second timeout until the expected number of complete
top-level RESP frames has been received, counting frames from the accumulated
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| fn is_inline_intercepted(cmd: &[u8]) -> bool { | ||
| // Dotted families first, and deliberately so: a length-keyed match below | ||
| // would swallow `FT.ALIAS` (8 bytes, 'f') into the FCALL_RO/FUNCTION arm | ||
| // and answer false for it. | ||
| const DOTTED: [&[u8]; 4] = [b"FT.", b"GRAPH.", b"CDC.", b"TS."]; | ||
| if DOTTED | ||
| .iter() | ||
| .any(|p| cmd.len() > p.len() && cmd[..p.len()].eq_ignore_ascii_case(p)) | ||
| { | ||
| return true; | ||
| } | ||
| let len = cmd.len(); | ||
| if len == 0 { | ||
| return false; | ||
| } | ||
| let b0 = cmd[0] | 0x20; | ||
| match (len, b0) { | ||
| // Lua and functions read and write real keys through the interceptor, | ||
| // never through routing. | ||
| (4, b'e') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"EVAL"), | ||
| (7, b'e') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"EVALSHA"), | ||
| (5, b'f') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"FCALL"), | ||
| (8, b'f') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"FCALL_RO") || cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"FUNCTION"), | ||
| // SWAPDB exchanges whole databases across every shard. | ||
| // SCRIPT/ACL touch no keyspace data, but they are inline and cost | ||
| // nothing to serialise behind pending writes. | ||
| (6, b's') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"SCRIPT") || cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"SWAPDB"), | ||
| (3, b'a') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"ACL"), | ||
| // Container commands for the message-queue and workspace stores. | ||
| (2, b'm') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"MQ"), | ||
| (2, b'w') => cmd.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"WS"), | ||
| _ => false, | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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Expand is_inline_intercepted for pre-routing interceptors
Add VACUUM and KILL to the predicate. extract_primary_key treats their first arguments as keys, but both commands execute before routing. Add TEMPORAL. and TXN. to DOTTED for the same reason. MQ and WS are exact command names, so MQ. and WS. prefixes are not needed.
Without these entries, a command after a pending remote write can execute before that write lands and return stale data or overwrite it.
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In `@src/server/conn/shared.rs` around lines 1074 - 1107, Update
is_inline_intercepted to recognize VACUUM and KILL as inline-intercepted
commands, and extend the DOTTED prefix list with TEMPORAL. and TXN. Preserve
exact-name matching for MQ and WS without adding their dotted prefixes.
…#507 suite The harness ended a reply when the socket went quiet for 250ms. That is a timing assumption, and this suite is the wrong place for one: the fix under test ADDS pauses inside a single batch's reply stream, because every deferral is a shard dispatch/await boundary. A pause longer than the window truncated the reply, and a truncated read then surfaced as a wrong VALUE — the suite would have reported the wrong defect. Raised in review on #512. Replaced with an actual RESP framer: read until exactly N top-level replies are complete, where N is the number of commands written. Bulk payloads are consumed by declared length, aggregates push their element count onto a pending counter (so an element is never miscounted as a reply of its own), and nested arrays fall out of the same counter. Bytes beyond the Nth reply are retained per-connection rather than discarded, so an over-read cannot shift the next call. A short read now panics naming the shortfall instead of returning silently. pco0 tests the framer directly, including the property that matters: EVERY proper prefix of a complete reply must be judged incomplete — the exact case the silence-based reader accepted. Verified to have teeth by mutation: dropping the CRLF after a bulk payload fails it, and not counting arrays as replies (the bug the first draft of this framer actually had) fails it. Re-verified the suite is not vacuous after the change: with the guard disabled, 8 of 11 fail, and the 3 that pass are exactly the ones that should — the framer unit test, the single-key control, and the inline-command case. Side effect: the suite runs in 0.9s instead of 31s, since it no longer waits out a silence window per reply. author: Tin Dang
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#512 made a pipelined command that cannot route by its own single key wait for the batch's pending cross-shard commands, which is what stopped the silent write loss of #507. It is also expensive, and nothing said so: the only symptom was throughput that looked bad for no visible reason. The boundary is paid per interleaving, but only while the batch still holds an undispatched cross-shard command -- i.e. when an earlier command in the same batch routed to another shard. A read counts: the E2 read fast path is disabled, so foreign reads are slotted into remote_groups too. An interleaving whose preceding commands all landed locally costs nothing, which is why the first shape below reports 48 deferrals and not 64. Add `total_pipeline_remote_defer` to INFO stats (and the Prometheus counter `moon_pipeline_remote_defer_total`), recorded at the two sites that set `deferred_tail_from` for `must_wait_for_pending_remote` — the monoio and sharded handlers. This is NOT the #438 blocking-command site, which defers for an unrelated reason. Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), one connection, 9 reps alternating leg order, median of 60 flushes: pipeline shape shards=1 shards=2 shards=4 MGET after every 2 SETs 1,296,360 (0) 49,203 (48) 38,856 (55) 128 SETs then one MGET 1,156,693 (0) 659,436 (1) 539,996 (1) SET,SET,GET (own key) 1,700,287 (0) 1,122,573 (0) 993,784 (0) Parenthesised numbers are deferral counts from the new counter. They are the server's own, not inferred: reading the code suggested 64 for the first shape and the counter says 48, which is exactly why it exists. The --shards 1 column is the control -- `remote_groups` is always empty there, so the guard structurally cannot fire. The counter also keeps a #513 fix honest. `pco12` in tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs asserts the interleaved shape triggers the guard at --shards 4 and that a single-key control does not; when #513 lands, that assertion flips from `> 0` to `== 0` rather than being deleted. Verified by mutation: unwiring the recorder fails pco12 and nothing else. Refs #513, #512, #507 author: Tin Dang
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#512 made a pipelined command that cannot route by its own single key wait for the batch's pending cross-shard commands, which is what stopped the silent write loss of #507. It is also expensive, and nothing said so: the only symptom was throughput that looked bad for no visible reason. Two things bound the cost, and the counter is what made both checkable: - A deferral needs an undispatched cross-shard command ALREADY in the batch; the guard is `!remote_groups.is_empty() && must_wait_for_pending_remote(..)`. A shard-spanning MGET on its own never defers -- 64 spread MGETs with no preceding writes measure 0. A preceding foreign READ counts too: the E2 read fast path is disabled, so foreign reads are slotted alongside writes. - At most one deferral per batch pass. The cut re-parses the tail with remote_groups cleared, so the head of the next pass runs inline whatever its shape. Together those explain why 64 interleavings produce fewer than 64 deferrals, and fewer at --shards 2 (48) than --shards 4 (55): with two shards more of the preceding SETs land locally and never reach remote_groups. The counts are shape- and placement-specific, not constants -- the same shape on a different key set gave 59. Add `total_pipeline_remote_defer` to INFO stats (and the Prometheus counter `moon_pipeline_remote_defer_total`), recorded at the two sites that set `deferred_tail_from` for `must_wait_for_pending_remote` — the monoio and sharded handlers. This is NOT the #438 blocking-command site, which defers for an unrelated reason. Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), one connection, 9 reps alternating leg order, median of 60 flushes: pipeline shape shards=1 shards=2 shards=4 MGET after every 2 SETs 1,296,360 (0) 49,203 (48) 38,856 (55) 128 SETs then one MGET 1,156,693 (0) 659,436 (1) 539,996 (1) SET,SET,GET (own key) 1,700,287 (0) 1,122,573 (0) 993,784 (0) Parenthesised numbers are deferral counts from the new counter. They are the server's own, not inferred: reading the code suggested 64 for the first shape and the counter says 48, which is exactly why it exists. The --shards 1 column is the control -- `remote_groups` is always empty there, so the guard structurally cannot fire. The counter also keeps a #513 fix honest. `pco12` in tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs asserts the interleaved shape triggers the guard at --shards 4 and that a single-key control does not; when #513 lands, that assertion flips from `> 0` to `== 0` rather than being deleted. Verified by mutation: unwiring the recorder fails pco12 and nothing else. Refs #513, #512, #507 author: Tin Dang
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…) (#707) #512 made a pipelined command that cannot route by its own single key wait for the batch's pending cross-shard commands, which is what stopped the silent write loss of #507. It is also expensive, and nothing said so: the only symptom was throughput that looked bad for no visible reason. Two things bound the cost, and the counter is what made both checkable: - A deferral needs an undispatched cross-shard command ALREADY in the batch; the guard is `!remote_groups.is_empty() && must_wait_for_pending_remote(..)`. A shard-spanning MGET on its own never defers -- 64 spread MGETs with no preceding writes measure 0. A preceding foreign READ counts too: the E2 read fast path is disabled, so foreign reads are slotted alongside writes. - At most one deferral per batch pass. The cut re-parses the tail with remote_groups cleared, so the head of the next pass runs inline whatever its shape. Together those explain why 64 interleavings produce fewer than 64 deferrals, and fewer at --shards 2 (48) than --shards 4 (55): with two shards more of the preceding SETs land locally and never reach remote_groups. The counts are shape- and placement-specific, not constants -- the same shape on a different key set gave 59. Add `total_pipeline_remote_defer` to INFO stats (and the Prometheus counter `moon_pipeline_remote_defer_total`), recorded at the two sites that set `deferred_tail_from` for `must_wait_for_pending_remote` — the monoio and sharded handlers. This is NOT the #438 blocking-command site, which defers for an unrelated reason. Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), one connection, 9 reps alternating leg order, median of 60 flushes: pipeline shape shards=1 shards=2 shards=4 MGET after every 2 SETs 1,296,360 (0) 49,203 (48) 38,856 (55) 128 SETs then one MGET 1,156,693 (0) 659,436 (1) 539,996 (1) SET,SET,GET (own key) 1,700,287 (0) 1,122,573 (0) 993,784 (0) Parenthesised numbers are deferral counts from the new counter. They are the server's own, not inferred: reading the code suggested 64 for the first shape and the counter says 48, which is exactly why it exists. The --shards 1 column is the control -- `remote_groups` is always empty there, so the guard structurally cannot fire. The counter also keeps a #513 fix honest. `pco12` in tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs asserts the interleaved shape triggers the guard at --shards 4 and that a single-key control does not; when #513 lands, that assertion flips from `> 0` to `== 0` rather than being deleted. Verified by mutation: unwiring the recorder fails pco12 and nothing else. Refs #513, #512, #507 author: Tin Dang
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…513) (#708) * perf(pipeline): defer only for shards the batch has pending work on (#513) `must_wait_for_pending_remote`'s multi-key arm answered "wait" on the command NAME, without asking where its keys were. But `remote_groups` only ever holds FOREIGN shards -- the slotting branch is `else if let Some(target) = target_shard`, and `target_shard` is `None` for a local key -- so the moon#507 hazard (reading state a pending command is about to write, or writing state it then overwrites) requires the two to meet ON THE SAME SHARD. An MGET reading shards the batch has no pending work for was being cut for nothing. The cut is not free: it ends the batch pass, and the phase-2b drain then dispatches one PipelineBatchSlotted per target shard and awaits each reply slot in turn. The guard now takes a `pending` bitmask, maintained beside `remote_groups` at O(1) (set on insert, cleared with the map), and compares it against the shard mask of the command's keys. The mask comes from the shared key-position walker (moon#582) -- the same one ACL, cache invalidation and `cross_shard_multikey_rejection` use -- so layouts like ZUNIONSTORE are enumerated by the code that already knows them rather than a second copy. Only the multi-key arm is refined; the other two still always wait, because neither can be bounded by a key mask. An inline-intercepted command (EVAL, SWAPDB) executes against the LOCAL slice whatever keys it declares, and a keyless command (FLUSHALL, KEYS, SCAN) touches every shard. Every case the mask cannot enumerate -- `SORT ... BY w_*`, a key position holding a non-string, more shards than the mask has bits -- also waits: wrongly waiting costs a batch boundary, wrongly proceeding corrupts data. The two predicates were folded into one. The unmasked form had no callers left and keeping it would have left two answers to the same question. Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), --shards 4, 32 interleavings of SET,SET,MGET, six fresh server starts per side, interleaved: MGET reads shards the writes never touch: 41,600 -> 86,500 ops/s (2.08x), 64 deferrals -> 0 MGET reads the shards being written: 34,300 ops/s, 64 deferrals, both Fresh starts per measurement because SO_REUSEPORT decides which shard the connection lands on, and that changes the shape's cost as much as the code does. The deferral counts are placement-independent: 64/64 before and 0/0 after in every round. A co-located {tag} multi-key command still defers, and must: the coordinator executes it inline rather than slotting it, so skipping the wait would re-open moon#507. Routing a single-owner multi-key command into the slotted batch is tracked separately. Tests: `pco13` drives the disjoint shape and asserts 0 deferrals, with an overlap leg on the same harness that must stay non-zero -- without it a green disjoint leg could just mean the writes never went cross-shard. Both legs pin ONE key per shard rather than "the first n keys in this set", because two keys that both hashed to shard 0 made the overlap leg depend on where SO_REUSEPORT put the connection (caught as a real flake while benchmarking). Four unit tests cover the mask itself, including every fail-closed path. Verified by mutation: reverting the guard to name-only fails pco13 alone; making it never wait fails five of the moon#507 correctness tests. Refs #513, #507, #512 author: Tin Dang * fix(pipeline): judge the ordering guard on the keys a workspace will actually use The shard mask added earlier in this branch hashes the keys visible AT the guard. In a workspace connection those are the RAW keys: `workspace_rewrite_args` rebinds `cmd_args` further down the batch loop, and the guard cannot move below it -- the connection-level intercepts it exists to hold back (AUTH, CLIENT, CONFIG, INFO, SELECT, ...) run in between. The discrepancy is not small. A workspace key is `{<32-hex>}:<key>`, and that prefix is a hash TAG, so every key in a workspace routes to ONE shard however the raw names scatter. A mask read off raw names therefore calls a command disjoint from the very shard its own batch's writes are pending on -- moon#507 reopened for exactly the connections that opted into isolation. Measured on the pre-fix build of this branch: 5 of 12 workspace connections had `SET a; SET b; MGET a b` answer `$-1 $-1` for keys the same batch had already acked `+OK`. The same test is green on the commit this branch forked from, so this was introduced here, not uncovered here. Fix: treat every shard as pending when the connection has a workspace, which makes `must_wait_for_pending_remote` answer exactly as it did before the mask existed. Workspace connections lose the batch-cut saving; they keep their data. Tests: `pco14` drives 12 workspace connections and asserts the MGET observes its own batch's writes. It asserts CORRECTNESS rather than a deferral count because the count is only wrong when the workspace's shard is foreign to the connection and SO_REUSEPORT decides that -- the correctness claim holds for every connection, so twelve make placement moot. Run 8x consecutively, green. Verified by mutation: dropping the workspace arm reproduces 5/12 losses. `pco13` gains a single-shard leg -- the shape the mask is most tempted to wave through -- and its final correctness block is relabelled: those keys span two shards, so calling them "co-located" was wrong. Refs #513, #507, #702 author: Tin Dang
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Closes #507.
The bug is wider than filed, and it is not only a stale read
Filed as "MGET in the same pipeline as its SETs returns nulls". Measured, the
MGETis one symptom of a general pipeline-ordering break, and the worst caseis silent write loss.
The sharded pipeline handlers DEFER a single-key command whose key lives on
another shard into
remote_groups, dispatching each target's group as onePipelineBatchSlottedat the end of the batch. Multi-key and keylesscommands are not routable that way, so they execute inline, mid-loop —
against shards whose earlier writes in the same batch have not been sent yet.
Measured at
--shards 2, 20 trials each, before the fix:SET a,MSET aSET,FLUSHALL+OKSET,SET,DELDELthat returned successSET,SET,MGETSET,DBSIZEKEYS,RANDOMKEY,EXISTS,UNLINK,COPY,BITOP,INFO keyspaceSET,TOUCH kThe rate rises with shard count — a key is remote with probability
1 - 1/shards.The issue's own hypothesis was checked and is wrong. It blamed the
co-located fast path and stated uncolocated keys work. Measured the other way
round: co-located 0/20 wrong, uncolocated 15/20.
The fix
Defer such a command and the unconsumed batch tail to the next loop
iteration, reusing the mechanism #438 already built for early-flush commands.
Phase 2 resolves the pending remote replies first, and the tail re-parses at the
top of the next batch with
remote_groupsempty.It cannot loop:
remote_groupsis cleared at the top of every batch, so theguard can never fire on a batch's first frame — every batch therefore consumes
at least one command.
Applied to both sharded handlers (
handler_monoio,handler_sharded).handler_singlehas no deferral and was never affected.Why the predicate is routability, not a list of command names
A command routed by its own single key needs no wait: a key maps to exactly one
shard, so if that shard is local the key cannot be pending, and if it is remote
the command is appended behind the pending ones and the slotted batch
preserves order. Everything else waits.
This distinction is load-bearing — a name list written for an MGET bug would
not have contained
INFO keyspaceorRANDOMKEY, and both were wrong.The one case routability cannot see is a command intercepted inline before
routing that still has a key-shaped first argument (
EVAL,SWAPDB,FCALL,the
FT./GRAPH./CDC./TS.families). Those are named explicitly, with atest that fails if an entry is dropped.
Deferring is the conservative direction: a command sent down this path
unnecessarily is merely executed at the start of the next batch, which is always
correct. Wrongly calling something safe is the direction that corrupts data.
Performance — this costs throughput, per interleaving
Each deferral is one extra shard dispatch/await boundary (~50µs). moon-dev
(aarch64),
--shards 2, one connection, 9 reps, alternating leg order, median."Floor" is the worst within-leg spread — a delta smaller than its floor resolved
nothing.
MGETafter every 2SETsSETs, then oneMGETSET,SET,GET(guard never fires)A multi-key or keyless command at the end of a pipeline — the shape #507 was
filed from, and the shape
redis-py'spipeline()produces — costs nothingmeasurable. One interleaved after every pair of writes halves throughput.
redis-benchmarkcannot express any of these shapes: it sends a single commandtype, so the guard never fires and every configuration comes back "neutral".
The numbers come from a purpose-built harness that is pre-flighted against the
base binary and refuses to report unless base actually reproduces the bug
(72 lost elements across 64 MGETs; head 0), so a vacuous "neutral" is not
reachable. The
mixedregression reproduced independently at −52.6% against adifferent noise floor.
Recovering that cost means letting multi-key commands participate in the slotted
batch instead of executing inline — a cross-shard-coordinator change well
outside a correctness fix. Filed as a follow-up.
Tests
tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs— 10 cases at--shards 4, eachlooping 12 key placements. A single trial is a coin flip on placement: pco8
passed by luck on its first red run, which is why every case loops.
Covers own-batch
MGET; single-key ordering as a control;MSETwinning over anearlier
SET; multi-keyDEL;FLUSHALL; the cross-shard aggregations(
DBSIZE/KEYS/fullSCANiteration/EXISTS);INFO keyspace; byte-exactdeferred-tail replay; inline commands surviving the defer path; and
inline-intercepted commands.
Green on both runtimes. The
redis-pyacceptance pin for this defect (rp7b)is converted from an inverted "known gap" probe into a direct assertion.
Two cases are deliberately excluded and filed rather than worked around:
MEMORY USAGEmis-routes independently of this bug (#511 — it hashes the literalsubcommand
USAGEinstead of the key, so it answers$-1for a key that plainlyexists with no pipelining at all), and single-key
EVALis rejectedCROSSSLOT(#508), which is why
pco10drivesSWAPDBalone.Refs
Refs #438, #511, #508.
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