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Metadata writers queue on the branch instead of racing for it
122cbe4f62bf87a941538450584ba1b20444c135 · Keenan Nemetz · 7d ago · parent 4739664b
Metadata writers queue on the branch instead of racing for it Every write to refs/heads/vole read the whole branch, decided, and moved the ref with a compare-and-swap, retrying up to 64 times with no backoff and no coordination. Concurrent writers therefore did not queue: they each paid a full read, lost, and paid it again. Measured on a 2,000-file branch, one write needed one attempt alone and 21 with 32 writers, and throughput fell as writers were added because the retries were the load. At 64 simultaneous writers the loop ran out and the write failed for being unlucky. The read-modify-write now runs with one writer at a time, holding a flock in the repository so the SSH hook and the server queue behind each other. The compare-and-swap stays for writers that go around the lock — a push, a hand-run git command, another host — and losing one now waits with jittered backoff before deciding again. Writers read the branch once. The load and the decision happen inside the commit instead of before it, which also stops an edit from replacing a change that landed while the page was open: the decision is made against the tree it writes. A push only does that work when it has metadata to move. Post-receive asks the index which open requests follow the branch it moved, and a branch nobody is proposing from now writes an audit line and no commit. Measurements, 32 concurrent writers: 21.3 CAS attempts per write before, 1.0 after. Through the web, posting comments at concurrency 32: p99 4.7 s -> 0.95 s, and throughput no longer falls as workers are added. The load harness gains a `comment` scenario so the number is visible. Closes: 01M6D9G8H6E0RCQ3AD5TMAGX34
forge/index/requests_test.go +50
| @@ -292,3 +292,53 @@ func TestEnsureIndexesReleaseArtifacts(t *testing.T) { | |||
| 292 | 292 | t.Fatalf("artifacts(v2.0.0) = %+v, %v", list, err) | |
| 293 | 293 | } | |
| 294 | 294 | } | |
| 295 | |||
| 296 | // A push asks whether any open request follows the branch it moved. The answer has | ||
| 297 | // to be trustworthy or absent: a stale index must say "ask the branch" rather than | ||
| 298 | // "nobody follows this", because a skipped sync is not repaired afterwards. | ||
| 299 | func TestRequestsFollowingOnlyAnswersForTheBranchItIndexed(t *testing.T) { | ||
| 300 | t.Parallel() | ||
| 301 | s, m, g := incrementalRepo(t) | ||
| 302 | now := time.Date(2026, 10, 30, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC) | ||
| 303 | followed := createIndexedRequest(t, g, "Follows feature", now, nil) | ||
| 304 | if _, err := metadata.SetRequestHead(g, followed.ID, requestHead, "feature", "keenan"); err != nil { | ||
| 305 | t.Fatal(err) | ||
| 306 | } | ||
| 307 | createIndexedRequest(t, g, "Pinned to a commit", now.Add(time.Minute), nil) | ||
| 308 | if err := s.Ensure(m); err != nil { | ||
| 309 | t.Fatal(err) | ||
| 310 | } | ||
| 311 | |||
| 312 | follows, ok, err := s.RequestsFollowing(m, "feature") | ||
| 313 | if err != nil { | ||
| 314 | t.Fatal(err) | ||
| 315 | } | ||
| 316 | if !follows || !ok { | ||
| 317 | t.Fatalf("feature = follows %v, known %v; want both true", follows, ok) | ||
| 318 | } | ||
| 319 | follows, ok, err = s.RequestsFollowing(m, "other") | ||
| 320 | if err != nil { | ||
| 321 | t.Fatal(err) | ||
| 322 | } | ||
| 323 | if follows || !ok { | ||
| 324 | t.Fatalf("other = follows %v, known %v; want a known no", follows, ok) | ||
| 325 | } | ||
| 326 | |||
| 327 | // A closed request stops following its branch. | ||
| 328 | if _, err := metadata.SetRequestState(g, followed.ID, "closed", "keenan"); err != nil { | ||
| 329 | t.Fatal(err) | ||
| 330 | } | ||
| 331 | if err := s.Ensure(m); err != nil { | ||
| 332 | t.Fatal(err) | ||
| 333 | } | ||
| 334 | if follows, ok, err = s.RequestsFollowing(m, "feature"); err != nil || follows || !ok { | ||
| 335 | t.Fatalf("closed request: follows %v, known %v, err %v", follows, ok, err) | ||
| 336 | } | ||
| 337 | |||
| 338 | // The branch moves and the index is behind: the question is no longer answerable, | ||
| 339 | // so the caller has to look. | ||
| 340 | createIndexedIssue(t, g, "Moved on", now.Add(2*time.Minute), nil, nil) | ||
| 341 | if follows, ok, err = s.RequestsFollowing(m, "feature"); err != nil || ok { | ||
| 342 | t.Fatalf("stale index answered: follows %v, known %v, err %v", follows, ok, err) | ||
| 343 | } | ||
| 344 | } | ||