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.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe proxy now tracks stateful work awaiting worker CONNECT, removes connected requests from tracking, and purges remaining queued work during shutdown. The invocation service provides request-specific JetStream purging. Metrics and tests cover purge outcomes and shutdown behavior. ChangesPending stateful work cleanup
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to During shutdown, a request can be published after the purge snapshot and remain queued even though the originating pod can no longer authenticate it, prolonging backlog recovery after a restart. The PR is not merge-ready until admission is synchronized with the purge or this bounded risk is explicitly accepted. 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: Lookup stream and purge request subjects
StreamDirector->>StreamDirector: Stop pending-work cache
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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
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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
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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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The start time was taken after launching the goroutine, so the sleep could begin first and the measured elapsed time come out just under the held duration, failing the assertion for no real reason. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
The purge arrived with four new constants: a retention, a capacity, a purge budget and a drain timeout. None were derived from anything, and adding tunables to a service whose central defect is one shared timeout doing six unrelated jobs is the wrong direction. All four are gone. Retention and capacity now reuse the issued-token values. That cache records the same population from the same call site, so a second set of numbers described the same thing twice. The purge budget reuses the existing shutdown timeout. The admission gate is removed with its drain timeout. It existed to close a window where a shutdown landing between recording pending work and publishing the work request misses that request. The window is real, but a missed request is left exactly as it is today, and today every one of them is left, so the gate bought a small improvement for an admission path, a wait, and another knob. The trade-off is now stated where the purge is defined rather than engineered around. Net: no new constants, no new tunables, and roughly a hundred fewer lines for the same behaviour. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/director.go`:
- Around line 358-365: Update Close and InvokeStatefulFunction admission
handling to close new invocations first, drain already-admitted invocations with
a bounded timeout, then snapshot and purge pendingWork. Ensure the shutdown
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| // Best effort by design. A session records its pending work just before the | ||
| // invocation publishes the work request, so a shutdown landing precisely | ||
| // between those two steps will miss that one request. Closing that window | ||
| // needs an admission gate and a drain timeout, which is more machinery and | ||
| // another tunable than the gap justifies: a missed request is simply left as | ||
| // it is today, and today every one of them is left. |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Restore invocation admission draining before the purge snapshot.
Lines 360-365 retain the onWorkerAuthSet to startNewSession race. InvokeStatefulFunction records pending work before it publishes the work request. If Close snapshots and purges in that interval, the later publish leaves queued work that this pod can no longer authenticate or purge.
Close admission, drain admitted invocations with a bounded timeout, then snapshot pendingWork. Add a deterministic test for this interleaving.
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/director.go` around lines 358
- 365, Update Close and InvokeStatefulFunction admission handling to close new
invocations first, drain already-admitted invocations with a bounded timeout,
then snapshot and purge pendingWork. Ensure the shutdown sequence prevents a
publish from occurring after the purge snapshot, and add a deterministic test
covering the interleaving where invocation admission precedes work publication.
Scoped to this service on purpose. The worker library is also behind, at v0.53.0, but bumping it here would put a second subtree in this branch and the dev image build only resolves a single service subtree, so the image this PR produces for stage testing would stop being built. grpc-proxy alone moves v0.59.1 to v0.61.0. The library-wide unification stays separate. No source changes were needed. Tests and Bazel pass unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Closing. Tested on stage 2026-08-21 with this exact build ( Reproduction: function pinned 1/1/100, 400 persistent client workers, Result: the wedge still happened, roughly 10 minutes after the restart. The reject:accept ratio did improve (26:1 vs 73:1 on Aug 20), so the purge is not Why it cannot work: the purge removes unclaimed work when a pod shuts down. In Also outstanding: merge conflicts in three files, and the unresolved Major review The idea itself (Frank's suggestion — don't leave orphaned work in NATS on Superseded by a design that removes the publish-time pod binding entirely, which |
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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: it 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, is rejected, and returns the slot having done nothing useful. 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.
Measured on stage, reproducing the failure with a proxy rollout under saturation. Two independent runs, the second on freshly created pods:
rejected_token_expiredrejected_token_unknownacceptedEvery rejection is token expiry and none is an unknown token, so this is not pod affinity or lost in-memory state. These are queued requests whose 30s token died while they waited. Each one still occupies a worker concurrency slot on its way to failing, which is what turns a proxy restart into a long recovery rather than a brief one.
This is the change Frank suggested on the original ticket: invalidate the work request on failed exit, the way the invocation service does.
What changed
The purge. Track a session from the moment a worker token is issued until the worker CONNECTs back. On shutdown, purge the work requests for sessions still waiting on a worker, using the same subject-filtered purge the invocation service uses in
cancel_request. Drop the tracking entry as soon as a CONNECT is accepted.Only sessions still waiting for a worker are purged, and that constraint is the important part. 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 those 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.
quic-go v0.59.1 to v0.61.0, scoped to this service. Included here so the dev image this PR builds can be used for stage testing without a second image. Deliberately not the library-wide unification: the worker library is also behind at v0.53.0, but adding it would put a second subtree in this branch, and the dev image build resolves a single service subtree, so the image would stop being produced. No source changes were required for the bump.
No new tunables
An earlier revision added four constants: a retention, a capacity, a purge budget, and a drain timeout. All four are gone.
That last one is a deliberate trade-off, not an oversight. The gate closed a window where a shutdown landing between recording pending work and publishing the work request misses that one request. The window is real, but a missed request is left exactly as it is today, and today every one of them is left. The gate bought a small improvement in exchange for an admission path, a wait, and another knob. The trade-off is documented where the purge is defined.
This service's central defect is one shared timeout driving six unrelated concerns. Adding more tunables to it was the wrong direction.
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
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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. Worth checking first after any deploy, because it is the difference between the purge working and silently doing nothing.Testing
go test -racefor the full grpc-proxy module andbazel testfor both affected packages, all passing with the quic-go bump in place.Tests cover:
request_stream_nameandrequest_subjectThe format tests matter: 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.
Verified the tests fail with the purge disabled, so they are not passing vacuously.
For the quic-go bump specifically, the keepalive and failure-detection tests were timed against the previous version and are unchanged:
Plus five repeated runs of the QUIC end-to-end suite under
-race, all clean.Notes
Scope: graceful shutdown only. The purge runs in
StreamDirector.Close(), so it covers a rolling update but not a hard kill, node loss, or OOM. Those still leave a poisoned backlog.Best effort by design. See the no-new-tunables section: a shutdown landing between recording pending work and publishing the request will miss that one request.
Permission dependency, unconfirmed. grpc-proxy has never touched the
rq_*streams, and client permissions are assigned by an auth-callout plugin configured outside this repository. Whether the purge is permitted could not be verified from here, which is why it fails soft and is observable via the metric. Worth confirming with the NATS owner before relying on it.Not yet validated on stage. New grpc-proxy pods on the us-east-1 stage cell currently crashloop with
nats: Authorization Violation, on the released image as well as any dev build, so no deploy to that cell can start. This change has not been exercised against a real rollout.src/invocation-plane-servicesis excluded from gazelle at rootBUILD.bazel, so the BUILD rules were updated by hand.References
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Related Pull Requests
#1057 unifies quic-go across the worker library too. This PR carries only the grpc-proxy half, for the image-build reason above.
Dependencies
github.com/quic-go/quic-gov0.59.1 to v0.61.0 in this module only. BSD-3-Clause, unchanged, already on the allow list and already present inMODULE.bazel. Transitively dropsgithub.com/francoispqt/gojay, and bumpsgithub.com/quic-go/qpackto v0.6.0 along with routinegolang.org/x/{crypto,net,sys,text}updates. No NOTICE change required.