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What

Adds total_pipeline_remote_defer to INFO stats (and moon_pipeline_remote_defer_total to Prometheus): the number of pipeline batches cut short by the #507/#512 ordering guard.

Why

#512 made a pipelined command that cannot route by its own single key wait for the batch's pending cross-shard writes — that is what stopped the silent write loss of #507. It is also expensive, and nothing said so. A client interleaving reads between write groups at --shards >= 2 pays one extra dispatch/await boundary per interleaving, and the only symptom was throughput that looked bad for no visible reason.

Measured

moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), one connection, 9 reps alternating leg order, median of 60 flushes. Parenthesised = deferrals reported by the new counter.

pipeline shape shards=1 shards=2 shards=4
MGET after every 2 SETs 1,296,360 ops/s (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 — routes by its own key 1,700,287 (0) 1,122,573 (0) 993,784 (0)

--shards 1 is the control: remote_groups is always empty there, so the guard structurally cannot fire. Interleaved is 26.3× slower at shards=2 on identical bytes; the deferral eats ~94% of achievable throughput, ≈57–78µs each.

The counts are the server's own, not inferred — reading the code suggested 64 for the first shape and the counter says 48. That gap is the reason this exists.

Where it is recorded

The two sites that set deferred_tail_from for must_wait_for_pending_remote (handler_monoio/mod.rs:1681, handler_sharded/mod.rs:821). Not the #438 blocking-command site, which defers for an unrelated reason.

Test

pco12_the_ordering_guard_reports_what_it_costs in tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs — three legs: --shards 1 (asserts 0), single-key control at shards=4 (asserts 0), interleaved at shards=4 (asserts > 0). It is the acceptance criterion for #513: when the fix lands, that last assertion flips to == 0 rather than being deleted.

Verified by mutation — unwiring the recorder fails pco12 and nothing else. Suite is 12/12 green (11 pre-existing unchanged).

Gates

cargo fmt --check ✅ · clippy ×3 (default / graph / tokio) -D warnings ✅ · scripts/ci-local.sh + dispatch matrix to follow.

Refs #513, #512, #507

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  • New Features

    • Added pipeline remote-deferral metrics to INFO stats.
    • Added a Prometheus counter for pipeline batches deferred across shards.
    • Metrics distinguish scenarios where cross-shard ordering requires additional dispatch and wait steps.
  • Documentation

    • Added unreleased changelog details, including performance benchmarks and single-shard behavior.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage confirming deferral reporting across single-shard and multi-shard pipeline scenarios.

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Pipeline remote-deferral metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Metric contract and recording
src/admin/metrics_setup/{mod.rs,recorders.rs,memory.rs}
Adds the atomic counter, its accessor, and recording logic for atomic and Prometheus metrics.
Defer instrumentation and INFO reporting
src/server/conn/handler_*.rs, src/command/connection.rs
Records pipeline-ordering deferrals and exposes the total through INFO stats.
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tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Tests one-shard and four-shard pipeline behavior and documents the statistic and benchmark results.

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The PR adds observability for an existing pipeline deferral without changing request behavior, so it is mergeable with owner awareness. The changelog should clarify that the cost applies when preceding writes require remote dispatch, avoiding an overly broad description of the reported performance impact.

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  participant PipelineHandler
  participant record_pipeline_remote_defer
  participant PIPELINE_REMOTE_DEFER_TOTAL
  participant INFO_stats
  PipelineHandler->>record_pipeline_remote_defer: Record ordering deferral
  record_pipeline_remote_defer->>PIPELINE_REMOTE_DEFER_TOTAL: Increment atomic total
  INFO_stats->>PIPELINE_REMOTE_DEFER_TOTAL: Read total
  PIPELINE_REMOTE_DEFER_TOTAL-->>INFO_stats: Return deferral count
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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 13-17: Update the changelog explanation around the `#512/`#507 entry
to state that the extra dispatch/await boundary occurs only when a preceding
write requires remote dispatch and has entered remote_groups, rather than for
every read/write interleaving. Keep the existing cost description and shard
condition intact.

In `@src/server/conn/handler_sharded/mod.rs`:
- Line 821: Split the oversized handler_sharded module into focused submodules,
extracting handler phases while preserving behavior and keeping the existing
record_pipeline_remote_defer call intact. Reduce mod.rs below 1,500 lines and
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&& crate::server::conn::shared::must_wait_for_pending_remote(cmd, cmd_args)
{
batch[frame_idx - 1] = frame;
crate::admin::metrics_setup::record_pipeline_remote_defer();

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Split this module before adding more handler logic.

src/server/conn/handler_sharded/mod.rs has 3,228 lines. Extract handler phases into submodules and reduce this file below 1,500 lines.

As per coding guidelines: “No single .rs file should exceed 1500 lines. Split into submodules if approaching this limit.”

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In `@src/server/conn/handler_sharded/mod.rs` at line 821, Split the oversized
handler_sharded module into focused submodules, extracting handler phases while
preserving behavior and keeping the existing record_pipeline_remote_defer call
intact. Reduce mod.rs below 1,500 lines and update module declarations and
references accordingly.

Source: Coding guidelines

#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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TinDang97 force-pushed the perf/pipeline-defer-counter-513 branch from 7b53a6b to 8a259a8 Compare August 24, 2026 20:57
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