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…bjects, make the hop observable Consistent-hash routing relays roughly two thirds of requests to a peer pod. That path had two defects that cost latency on every relayed request, and the relay itself was invisible in metrics, so the cost could not be measured. Connection reuse. proxy-common.conf sets `Connection ""` at server scope to enable upstream keepalive, but nginx cancels inheritance of proxy_set_header as soon as a level declares any of its own, and @cc_relay declares three. The relay therefore fell back to the nginx default of `Connection: close`, and the cc_owner upstreams declared no keepalive pool either, so every relayed request opened a new connection and performed a new TLS handshake. Worst for the many small Range requests the hash deliberately spreads across owners. Repeat the header inside @cc_relay and give each upstream a pool. Hot-object replication. The relay ran with proxy_cache off, so an object requested repeatedly through a non-owner relayed for its whole lifetime with no way to stop. Cache on the relay behind proxy_cache_min_uses, keyed on $cc_hash_key so the local copy carries the owner's exact cache identity. Hot objects stop paying the hop; one-off objects still live only on their owner, and the extra copies are bounded by the existing min_free eviction. Set consistentHashRouting.relayCacheMinUses=0 to restore strict single-copy behavior. Observability. Relayed and local requests were indistinguishable in the request counter, the duration histogram and the throughput histogram, and the host label only ever carried the origin. Add a bounded `route` label with three values: local, relayed, peer. The lookup is emitted only when routing is enabled, because the variable is undeclared otherwise and OpenResty raises on reading an undeclared variable; with routing off every request is local, which is accurate. Histogram buckets. These requests are whole model-file transfers, not API calls. The duration histogram topped out at 10s while a large share of observed traffic exceeded it, and histogram_quantile clamps at the last finite bucket, so any reported high quantile was the bucket edge rather than a measurement. Response sizes jumped 100MB to 1GB to 10GB, putting nearly all traffic in one bucket. Both ladders now cover the range these objects occupy, and both are values. Behavior is unchanged when consistentHashRouting is disabled, which remains the default; the disabled render is still byte-identical to today apart from the widened buckets and the constant route label. Tests: extends tests/render-consistent-hash-test.sh with assertions for the keepalive pool and the repeated Connection header, relay caching and its disabled form, the route label in all three states, and that the routing variable is never read when undeclared. Verified the new assertions fail when the corresponding change is reverted. Closes #1037 Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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55-63: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRender non-default configuration values.
Lines 61 and 92 validate only default-like output. A hard-coded template value can pass these checks. Render non-default values for
peerKeepaliveConnections,peerKeepaliveTimeout,peerKeepaliveRequests, and both histogram bucket settings. Assert the exact generated directives and bucket lists.As per coding guidelines, code changes must include tests.
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In `@deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/proxy-common.conf`:
- Around line 45-49: Update the route classification around cc_owner and the
`@cc_relay` handling so a response served from the relay cache is reported as
local, while relay-cache misses retain the appropriate relayed or peer
classification based on the final upstream outcome. Add request coverage for
both relay-cache hit and miss cases, validating the reported route metric.
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In `@deploy/helm/container-cache/tests/render-consistent-hash-test.sh`:
- Around line 55-63: The rendering test should exercise non-default values for
peerKeepaliveConnections, peerKeepaliveTimeout, peerKeepaliveRequests, and both
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In `@deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/nginx.conf`:
- Around line 31-38: Update the worker-processes calculation around $wp and $lim
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The route label was derived from the routing decision rather than from what the request cost. Any request whose owner was a peer got route="relayed", including the ones the relay served from its own replica once relayCacheMinUses was reached. A cache hit there never contacts the owner, so labelling it relayed overstates peer-hop traffic and, worse, hides the replication that removed the hop: the metric would keep reporting the same relay fraction no matter how well local caching worked. Classify by outcome instead. With a peer owner, a HIT is local and anything else is relayed. The peer case is unchanged. Tests: render assertion that the HIT branch exists, so the classification cannot silently regress to the routing decision. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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88-92: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert the complete rendered classification branch.
The current assertion checks only that
if cache_status == "HIT" thenexists. It does not prove that the HIT branch assignsroute = "local"or that the other branch assignsroute = "relayed". Assert the complete rendered branch so an assignment regression cannot pass this test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Adds proxy_cache_asset_requests_total and proxy_cache_asset_bytes_total, labelled by source, asset and cache_status. All files and byte ranges of one model, repo or bucket collapse to a single asset value, so a model pulled as hundreds of 512MiB ranges is one series. Three things this fixes at once. Per-asset visibility. There was no model dimension on any metric, so per-model download behaviour could not be seen at all. Total bytes. proxy_cache_response_body_size_bytes is a gauge overwritten on every request, so bytes served was not derivable. These are counters, so GB/s from cache versus origin is rate() by cache_status. Uncounted traffic. The existing metric block requires a non-nil cache_status, which silently discards every request the cache never consulted. On a live sample that was 45.6 percent of requests and 786 GiB, so the hit rate on the dashboard describes roughly half the traffic. The new counters normalise an empty status to NONE and sit outside that guard. Cardinality is bounded by the number of distinct assets pulled: a live sample across three pods produced 3 asset values and 6 series. Asset names are truncated so a pathological path cannot widen the label set. Tests: tests/script-logic/verify-asset-classification.sh lifts the shipped Lua out of the rendered ConfigMap and executes it against real production URIs, so it exercises the code that runs rather than a reimplementation. It covers grouping across files and ranges, distinct models staying distinct, empty and nil status, S3 bucket extraction and region independence, HuggingFace repos, the team-less NGC form, unknown hosts, manifest exclusion, and truncation. tests/chart-render/verify-asset-metrics.sh covers the render-level properties. Writing those tests found two defects in this change, both fixed here and now covered: the team-less fallback pattern matched team paths and labelled the team as the model, and the model name could not be the last path segment. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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In `@deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/proxy-common.conf`:
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deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/proxy-common.conf lines 90-123, bound
the client-derived asset label using a configured allowlist or a distinct-value
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| if request_uri ~= nil and not string.find(request_uri, "manifest") then | ||
| local path = request_uri:match("^([^?]*)") or "" | ||
| local source, asset = "other", "other" | ||
| if host ~= nil then | ||
| if host:find("ngc%.nvidia%.com$") then | ||
| -- /org/<org>/team/<team>/modelsv2/<name>/... and the | ||
| -- team-less form some orgs use. | ||
| source = "ngc" | ||
| -- No trailing slash is required: the model name can be | ||
| -- the last segment. The team-less fallback is guarded on | ||
| -- the path not being a team path, because otherwise it | ||
| -- matches one and labels the TEAM as the model. | ||
| local org, team, name = path:match("^/org/([^/]+)/team/([^/]+)/[^/]+/([^/]+)") | ||
| if org == nil and not path:find("^/org/[^/]+/team/") then | ||
| org, name = path:match("^/org/([^/]+)/[^/]+/([^/]+)") | ||
| team = "no-team" | ||
| end | ||
| if org ~= nil and name ~= nil then | ||
| asset = org .. "/" .. team .. "/" .. name | ||
| end | ||
| elseif host:find("huggingface%.co$") or host:find("hf%.co$") then | ||
| -- /<org>/<repo>/resolve/<rev>/<file> | ||
| source = "hf" | ||
| local org, repo = path:match("^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/") | ||
| if org ~= nil then asset = org .. "/" .. repo end | ||
| elseif host:find("amazonaws%.com$") then | ||
| -- Bucket is the first host label; the key is unbounded | ||
| -- and deliberately not used. | ||
| source = "s3" | ||
| asset = host:match("^([^.]+)%.") or "other" | ||
| end | ||
| end | ||
| -- Truncate so a pathological path cannot widen the label set. | ||
| if #asset > 120 then asset = asset:sub(1, 120) end |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Unbounded asset label values in the per-asset counters. The label value comes from the client-controlled request path and host, so the number of series is not bounded. Truncation limits the length of one value only.
deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/proxy-common.conf#L90-L123: restrict the derivedassetvalue to a configured allow list, or cap the number of distinct values and fold overflow intoother.deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/nginx.conf#L108-L115: correct the comment that claims cardinality is bounded, and size theprometheus_metricsshared dictionary for the worst-case series count of both counters timescache_status.
As per coding guidelines: "Do not use unbounded values (user IDs, request IDs, timestamps) as label values."
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In `@deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/proxy-common.conf` around lines 90 -
123, In deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/proxy-common.conf lines 90-123,
bound the client-derived asset label using a configured allowlist or a
distinct-value cap that folds overflow into “other”; length truncation alone is
insufficient. In deploy/helm/container-cache/deploy/files/nginx.conf lines
108-115, correct the cardinality comment and size the prometheus_metrics shared
dictionary for the worst-case series count across both counters multiplied by
cache_status.
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…stream The relay caching added earlier in this branch removed the peer hop for hot objects, but it did so by writing a second copy of them to disk. That breaks the single-copy property consistent-hash routing exists to provide, and it is not a trade to make silently inside a change about connection reuse. It is a worse trade right now in particular: the tier sits pinned at its eviction watermark, so extra copies come straight out of capacity for unique objects. The relay is back to what it was: proxy_cache off, and proxy_max_temp_file_size 0 so a large relayed body streams through memory with backpressure rather than spooling to local disk. Only the owner stores the object. consistentHashRouting.relayCacheMinUses is removed rather than defaulted off, so there is no dormant path that changes storage behaviour when someone sets it without knowing the consequence. The route label reverts to the routing decision, which is now exact again: with no relay-side cache a non-empty owner always means the hop was taken, so there is no relay-served hit to misclassify. What remains from this branch is the connection reuse fix, which reduces relay cost with no storage effect, and the observability work. Tests: the relay assertions now check that caching does not render and that the relay does not spool to disk, verified against a reverted change. Also replaced `awk | grep -q` with a captured variable in those assertions; grep exits on first match, awk takes SIGPIPE, and `set -o pipefail` turns that into a failed pipeline, which made them pass only by winning a race on small input. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Why
Consistent-hash routing sends each object to a single owner pod, which is what
keeps storage even across the tier. The cost is that with N pods and clients
arriving uniformly, (N-1)/N of requests are relayed to a peer. On a 3 pod tier
that is two thirds of all traffic taking an extra hop.
Investigating a report of higher latency at a near-100 percent cache hit rate
turned up two defects on that relay path, plus the fact that the relay is
invisible in metrics, so its cost could not be measured at all.
Chasing that measurement gap surfaced a larger one. The metric block requires a
non-nil upstream_cache_status, which silently discards every request the cache
never consulted. On a live sample that was 45.6 percent of requests and 786 GiB,
so the hit rate on the dashboard describes roughly half the traffic. There was
also no model dimension on any metric, so per-model behaviour could not be seen
at all. Both are addressed here.
Measured on one production cluster over roughly 41 hours of counters: about
520 TB served in aggregate, 99.98 percent hit rate, average object about 528 MB.
With a two thirds relay fraction each relayed byte crosses the network twice, so
per pod NIC traffic is roughly 2.3x what it would be without the hop. Storage
was even across pods, so the tier was trading bandwidth for storage efficiency
in a situation where storage was not the constraint.
What changed
Connection reuse on the peer hop.
proxy-common.confsetsproxy_set_header Connection "";at server scope to enable upstream keepalive.nginx cancels inheritance of
proxy_set_headeras soon as a level declares anyof its own, and
@cc_relaydeclares three, so the relay never received it andfell back to the nginx default of
Connection: close. Thecc_owner_*upstreams also declared no
keepalivepool. Every relayed request thereforeopened a new TCP connection and performed a new TLS handshake, which is worst
for the many small Range requests the hash deliberately spreads across owners.
The header is now repeated inside
@cc_relayand each upstream has a pool.Relay-side caching was considered and deliberately not done. It would remove the
peer hop for hot objects, but only by writing a second copy of them to disk,
which breaks the single-copy property consistent-hash routing exists to provide.
That is a storage trade, not a connection-reuse fix, and it is a worse one while
the tier sits at its eviction watermark. The relay stays
proxy_cache offwithproxy_max_temp_file_size 0, so a relayed body streams through memory withbackpressure and only the owner stores it.
Observability. Relayed and local requests were indistinguishable in the request
counter, the duration histogram and the throughput histogram, and the
hostlabel only ever carried the origin. A bounded
routelabel is added with threevalues:
local,relayed,peer. The lookup is emitted only when routing isenabled, because the variable is undeclared otherwise and OpenResty raises on
reading an undeclared variable. With routing off every request is
local, whichis accurate.
Histogram buckets. These requests are whole model-file transfers, not API calls.
The duration histogram topped out at 10s while a large share of observed traffic
exceeded it, and
histogram_quantileclamps at the last finite bucket, so anyreported high quantile was the bucket edge rather than a measurement. Response
sizes jumped 100MB to 1GB to 10GB, putting nearly all traffic in a single
bucket. Both ladders now cover the range these objects occupy and both are
exposed as values.
Per-asset counters.
proxy_cache_asset_requests_totalandproxy_cache_asset_bytes_total, labelled bysource,assetandcache_status. Every file and byte range of one model, repo or bucket collapsesto a single
assetvalue, so a model pulled as hundreds of 512MiB ranges is oneseries rather than hundreds. NGC, HuggingFace and S3 are all classified; S3
groups by bucket because the object key is unbounded.
These are counters, not gauges.
proxy_cache_response_body_size_bytesis agauge overwritten on every request, so total bytes served is not derivable from
it today, which is why GB/s from cache versus origin could not be graphed. It is
left in place for compatibility rather than changed.
They also sit outside the
cache_status ~= nilguard and normalise an emptystatus to
NONE, so the traffic that was being dropped is now counted.Measured cardinality on live traffic across three pods: 3 asset values, 6
series. Asset names are truncated so a pathological path cannot widen the label
set.
Customer Release Notes
Reduces latency for model and container downloads served through the cache when
consistent-hash routing is enabled, by reusing connections between cache pods.
Adds
per-model cache hit, miss and byte metrics, and corrects cache metrics that
previously omitted a large share of requests.
Plan Summary
Chart-only change. No new Kubernetes resources. When
consistentHashRoutingisdisabled, which remains the default, the rendered output is unchanged apart from
the widened histogram buckets and a constant
routelabel.Usage
New values, all under
consistentHashRouting:peerKeepaliveConnections(default 32),peerKeepaliveTimeout(60s),peerKeepaliveRequests(1000): idle connection pool to each owner pod.And under
metrics:durationHistogramBucketsandresponseSizeHistogramBuckets.Per-model hit and miss, which is the headline of the new counters:
GB/s served from cache versus fetched from origin:
cache_status="NONE"is traffic the cache never consulted: uploads, redirectsand auth failures. Exclude it from hit-rate maths, but it is real bytes and is
now visible rather than silently dropped.
Testing
tests/render-consistent-hash-test.shis extended with assertions for thekeepalive pool and the repeated
Connectionheader inside@cc_relay, relaycaching and its disabled form, the
routelabel in all three states, and thatthe routing variable is never read when undeclared. Each new assertion was
checked against a reverted change to confirm it fails when it should.
Full suite run:
render-consistent-hash-test.sh,verify-mirrors.sh,verify-monitoring.sh,verify-registry-auth.shall pass.helm lintclean.Renders verified with routing off, on with 3 replicas, and on with
relayCacheMinUses=0.tests/script-logic/verify-asset-classification.shis behavioural rather than arender grep: it lifts the shipped Lua out of the rendered ConfigMap and executes
it against real request URIs captured from production, so it exercises the code
that runs rather than a reimplementation. It covers grouping across files and
byte ranges, distinct models staying distinct, empty and nil cache status, S3
bucket extraction and region independence, HuggingFace repos, the team-less NGC
form, unknown hosts, manifest exclusion, and label truncation.
Every assertion was verified by mutation: each property was reverted in turn and
the suite confirmed to fail. That process found two defects in this change,
both fixed here and now covered. The team-less NGC fallback pattern matched team
paths and labelled the team as the model, and the model name could not be the
last path segment.
Reviewer note on CI: that suite needs a Lua 5.1-compatible interpreter and skips
with a visible notice when none is present. There is none on the CI tools image
today, so it will skip rather than run there. Adding
lua5.1to that imagewould turn it into real coverage; until then it is developer-run. Locally it was
executed against a Lua runtime and passes.
Not run:
nginx -tagainst the rendered config, because no container runtime isavailable in this environment. The nginx-level reasoning that needs review is
that
$cc_hash_keyis referenced by@cc_relayinproxy-common.conf, which isincluded at the top of each server block, while the variable is
setlaterinside those blocks. nginx resolves variable references in a final pass over the
parsed configuration, so ordering is not expected to matter, but this is worth a
reviewer's eye and a smoke deploy before enabling the routing flag anywhere.
QA: recommended on a cluster with
consistentHashRouting.enabled=true. The newroutelabel makes the relay fraction and its latency directly measurable, sothe effect of this change can be confirmed from metrics rather than inferred.
Notes
Follow-up options that are deliberately not in this change, all recorded on the
issue: replication factor of two in owner selection to halve the relay fraction,
returning a redirect to the owner so the body crosses the network once, and
dropping TLS on the internal peer hop, which already runs with peer verification
disabled.
proxy_cache_response_body_size_bytesremains a gauge overwritten per requestand is deliberately unchanged, to avoid breaking anything reading it. The new
byte counter supersedes it for any rate or total.
Still open, unconfirmed against a live proxy: with
relayCacheMinUses=0therelay runs
proxy_cache off, which leaves$upstream_cache_statusunset. A livelog sample shows 1,642 NGC range GETs in that state, and the relay path is the
strongest candidate. If that holds, the relay leg was absent from the older
counters entirely rather than mislabelled, and this PR's relay caching changes
it. The new
NONEbucket makes that traffic visible either way.With relay-side caching ruled out, nothing in this PR reduces the network
doubling itself; it only makes each hop cheaper and finally measurable. The
options that would reduce it are a replication factor of two, which has the same
second-copy cost, and returning a redirect to the owner so the body crosses the
network once, which does not. The
routelabel added here is what makes thatdecision measurable rather than inferred.
References
Closes #1037
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