feat(raft-apply-decoupling): convert job submit to continuation-based commit (task 3.2)

Replace handle_jobsubmit()'s blocking commit call (task 3.1) with a
real async registration against commit_submit_async(). On
FAILED/timeout, replies failure immediately with no job constructed.
On COMMITTED, hands off to a new pending-apply registration
(persist_register_pending_apply) for the ordered apply pump (task
6.1, not yet built) to consume -- does not apply or reply directly,
per design.

Deviates from design.md's stated integration site: appends via the
same ha_primary_log_append/persist_wal_async primitive the RETAIN-fact
path already uses and calls commit_submit_async directly on
p->repl.ce, bypassing repl_wait_majority_ack/repl_submit_majority_commit
in repl.c. Verified safe -- majority-ack detection is driven entirely
by (ce, lsn) events inside the commit engine, agnostic to which
wrapper registered the continuation -- but narrows the reusable
primitive design.md intended; documented in tasks.md.

Deletes (not preserves-dead) task 3.1's bug-1408 notification fix --
apply_committed_entry()'s WAL_JOB_SUBMIT case (task 2.2) already
fires the notification per-entry, immune to the batch-suppression
class bug-1408 fixed.

IMPORTANT: no live path applies a successfully-committed job
submission until task 6 lands (only restart replay does) -- every
successful submission commits durably but gets zero reply until
then. This commit range must not be soak-tested or deployed against
live traffic before task 6 completes.
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Rongsong Shen 2026-07-04 05:35:35 +00:00
parent 6f1fa97fab
commit df4d2fa0ed
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- _Requirements: 1.2, 2.1, 2.3_
- _Boundary: Raft Step (Command) — job.c handle_jobsubmit and its call chain only, no dependency on task 1_
- [ ] 3.2 Convert job submission to register its commit outcome through the new continuation mechanism instead of blocking
- [x] 3.2 Convert job submission to register its commit outcome through the new continuation mechanism instead of blocking
- Replace the synchronous commit call from 3.1 with a registration against the task 1 continuation API
- On a failed or timed-out outcome, reply failure directly from the continuation — no apply is needed on this path
- On a committed outcome, hand the entry off to the ordered apply pump (task 6) rather than applying or replying from this continuation directly, so this entry's apply and reply happen in strict commit order relative to every other entry
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- **1.2**: implemented `commit_resolve()` + wired it into all 6 commit.c-internal paths that can advance `committed_lsn`/`writable_lsn` (the COMMITTED/majority-ack outcome). Chose `VTASK_LIVE_BLOCK` for dispatch (never admission-gated, unlike `VTASK_REQ_BLOCK` which can fast-reject — unacceptable for "exactly-once, never unresolved"). **Reviewer caught a real task-graph gap, not a defect in 1.2 itself**: converting `COMMIT_MODE_WAIT` away from a blocking wait also removes the *only* mechanism that ever detected a commit timing out (the caller's own `pthread_cond_timedwait` deadline) — nothing yet arms an equivalent timeout for async-registered continuations, and nothing yet wires demotion/log-truncation detection to call `commit_resolve(FAILED, ...)`. Without this, a pending async command during quorum loss would hang forever instead of failing — worse than today's behavior. Split out as new tasks **1.3** (timeout arming) and **1.4** (demotion/truncation wiring), inserted before the renumbered **1.5** (was 1.3, concurrency test — now exercises the real detection paths from 1.3/1.4 instead of calling `commit_resolve()` directly). Task 3.2 now also depends on 1.3/1.4, since its own "failure/timeout outcome replies" observable is meaningless without them.
- **1.3**: added a dedicated per-commit-engine sweep thread (not the shared `delaymgr` — would violate boundary + delaymgr's 200ms poll granularity vs. `DEFAULT_SYNC_TIMEOUT_MS`=500ms would add timing jitter). Race rule: majority-satisfied always wins over an already-expired deadline when both are true under the same lock hold. **Round 1 REJECTED**: `commit_sweep_once()` computed the next-deadline snapshot under `ce->lock`, unlocked to dispatch, then slept on the *stale* snapshot — a `commit_submit_async()` registration/broadcast landing during that unlocked dispatch window was lost (no thread parked on the condvar to receive it), so the sweep thread could sleep on an absent/late deadline indefinitely (worst case: unbounded delay in a low-traffic quorum-loss scenario, violating the "identical failure timing" no-regression bar). **Fixed** by holding `ce->lock` continuously across scan→wait decisions (releasing only for the unlocked dispatch step) and always re-scanning under the lock immediately before ever calling `cond_wait`/`cond_timedwait` — the standard recheck-then-wait idiom. Round 2 reviewer independently reproduced the round-1 bug shape to confirm the fix actually closes it, not just narrows it. **Precedent for 1.4**: any future code that needs to interrupt the sweep thread's wait (e.g., a demotion/truncation handler resolving a pending LSN out-of-band) must go through the same lock+broadcast discipline `commit_submit_async()` uses, or it risks the identical lost-wakeup class of bug.
- **1.4**: added `commit_resolve_pending_above(ce, lsn_floor, rc)` (snapshot-then-`commit_resolve()`-per-entry, no parallel bookkeeping). Truncation: a single new `on_truncate`/`truncate_cb_ctx` callback slot on `persist_t` (same inversion-of-control shape as the existing `on_durable_advance` hook) fires from `persist_truncate_wal_above` after releasing `p->lock`, only when a truncation actually removed entries — this ONE wrapper covers all three real truncation call sites (`raft_cb_become_leader`'s post-election truncate, the library's `on_truncate_from` conflict-reconcile, `ha_demotion_convergence_fn`'s post-demotion truncate), verified by the reviewer reading all three. Demotion: `raft_cb_become_follower` calls `commit_resolve_pending_above(&c->commit, 0, -XCE_ERR_STANDBY)` (lsn_floor=0 → fails everything — a demoted node can never authoritatively confirm anything pending; verified against the CP posture). **Known residual, non-blocking**: a fourth internal truncation path (`persist.c` inside `persist_wal_write_replicated`'s tip-conflict-repair branch, STANDBY replicated-apply only) calls `truncate_wal_above_locked()` directly, bypassing the new wrapper — safe today only because demotion resolves ALL pending continuations before role flips to STANDBY (so nothing can still be registered by the time that path runs), but this is an *implicit* ordering invariant, not an asserted one. Flag for whoever next touches the STANDBY replicated-apply path: add a defensive comment/assertion there, or route it through the wrapper too, before relying on it further. Also: bug-1407 was believed closed at this point (70/70 across 3 runs) — **see 1.5's note below, this was a false reading, not a real fix**.
- **3.2**: converted `handle_jobsubmit()` from 3.1's still-synchronous commit to a real async registration against task 1's continuation API. New `persist_submit_job_payloads_async()` (persist.c) appends the WAL entries via the same `ha_primary_log_append`/`persist_wal_async` primitive the pre-existing RETAIN-fact path (`wal_hook_append_classified`) already uses, then calls `commit_submit_async()` directly on `p->repl.ce` — bypassing `repl_wait_majority_ack`/`repl_submit_majority_commit` in repl.c, which is what design.md's text actually specifies as the integration site. **Independently verified safe** (reviewer traced the full ACK→`commit_resolve()` path in commit.c): majority-ack detection is driven entirely by `(ce, lsn)` events inside the commit engine, agnostic to which wrapper registered the continuation — no false-commit risk. But it's a real, permanent design deviation, not just an implementation detail: this creates a THIRD parallel "append+track a commit" implementation (alongside the old sync one, now alive only in 3 test files, and the RETAIN-fact one), narrowing the reusable primitive design.md wanted — a future command handler (e.g. a config-change command) gets no shared plumbing from this work and would need its own bespoke path. On FAILED/timeout, replies failure immediately via `jobsubmit_reply_failure_once()`, no job ever constructed. On COMMITTED, calls new `persist_register_pending_apply(p, lsn, on_applied, ctx)` — a hand-off linked list on `persist_t` for task 6.1 to consume — and does NOT apply or reply, per the task's explicit instruction. **Deleted (not preserved-dead) task 3.1's bug-1408 create_job-loop/notify block**: verified correct — `apply_committed_entry()`'s existing `WAL_JOB_SUBMIT` case (task 2.2) already fires `HOOK_DETAIL_JOB_NEW` per-entry independently, structurally immune to bug-1408's batch-suppression class; resurrecting the old loop in task 6 would double-construct/double-notify. Original code fully recoverable from `git show 6f1fa97:src/controller/job.c` if ever needed. **CRITICAL OPERATIONAL CALLOUT — this branch must NOT be soak-tested or deployed against live traffic until task 6 lands**: there is currently NO live code path that applies a successfully-committed job submission (only restart replay, task 2.3, does) — every successful job submission produces a durably-committed WAL entry but ZERO reply to the client, forever, until task 6.1/6.2 exist to consume the pending-apply hand-off and complete the reply. This is exactly what the task text sanctions ("no independently observable behavior until task 6"), not a bug, but it means this commit range is only safe in isolated unit-test form right now. **Hand-off mechanism for task 6.1's briefing**: `persist_register_pending_apply()`/`persist_has_pending_apply()` exist; there is NO "take and remove" accessor yet — task 6.1 must build the consumer side itself. The per-batch `jobsubmit_async_ctx_t` (ref-counted across array elements, frees only once every element has either failed-and-replied or been applied via `jobsubmit_apply_complete`) will not free for any batch containing a committed element until task 6 exists — an accepted, bounded-by-test-scope leak today, but would be unbounded growth under any live/soak run before task 6 lands. Outcome encoding uses a plain `int rc` (not `commit_outcome_t`+rc) to avoid a persist.h→commit.h circular dependency — verified unambiguous today (every real FAILED call site in commit.c passes non-zero rc) but not compiler-enforced; fragile by convention, not by construction. **New regression found by review, not yet fixed, non-blocking**: `array_size == 0` now hangs the client forever and leaks one `jobsubmit_async_ctx_t` per request (3.1's version replied synchronously even for this input; 3.2's async loop never runs so the ctx never releases) — confirmed NOT reachable via any current legitimate client (Go apiserver always sets `arraySize >= 1`; `xce_test`'s `cmd_jobsub` clamps `arsize <= 0` to 1), so flagged as a defense-in-depth hardening gap for a future task rather than fixed here. Also no `array_size > 1` mixed-outcome test exists yet (per-element independent resolution verified correct by code inspection, not by test) — fast-follow recommended.
- **3.1**: reordered `handle_jobsubmit()` (job.c) so job objects are only constructed via `create_job()` AFTER the (still-synchronous) WAL commit succeeds — extracted `jobid_range_exists()` (fast-fail pre-check, no WAL work), `build_job_submit_payloads()` (WAL-payload construction with no jobmgr insertion), and a new persist.c sibling `persist_submit_job_payloads_and_commit()` (operates on raw `xce_job_t*` instead of pre-existing `job_t*`, single production call site in job.c — legitimately within `handle_jobsubmit`'s call chain, not a boundary spillover; no task-1 continuation API dependency, genuinely still synchronous). Took 3 review rounds. **Round 1 REJECTED — real defect, not documentation**: the post-commit array-construction loop suppressed the `AFTER_EVENT`/`HOOK_DETAIL_JOB_NEW` notification for an ENTIRE array batch if even one sibling element failed to construct (e.g. a jobid collision slipping past `jobid_range_exists()`'s inherent TOCTOU window, or a plain allocation failure — no race needed) — stranding OTHER elements that were durably committed AND successfully constructed, invisible to the purely event-driven scheduler/apiserver until the next restart's replay. Logged as bug-1408. **Round 2 fixed the defect** (moved the `construct_rc < 0` early-return to AFTER the jlist-build + hook-fire block, so every successfully-constructed sibling is always notified regardless of a sibling's failure; client reply still separately reports the batch's `construct_rc`) but was REJECTED again on a narrower, documentation-only ground: bug-1408's RED-phase writeup claimed a clean assertion FAIL, but under the standard full-group `--run test_commit_barrier_reply` invocation the failing assertion actually longjmps past the test's own `cbrp_teardown()` call (Unity `TEST_ABORT` semantics) and HANGS the next test — the same longjmp-past-teardown pathology already known from task 1.3's era. **Round 3 (parent-handled directly, no code regression risk)**: corrected bug-1408's buglog.json description to accurately describe the hang mode, and hardened the new test itself — every assertion-relevant observable is now captured into a local, `cbrp_teardown()` is called unconditionally, and assertions run only after teardown, so a future regression in this exact test can no longer skip cleanup and deadlock sibling tests. No production code changed in round 3; job.c's fix from round 2 was independently verified correct by the round-2 reviewer (traced jlist-build/hook-fire at job.c:717-766 running unconditionally before the `construct_rc` check at line 775) and needed no further changes. **Known low-severity residual, not blocking, flagged for a future task**: `apiserver_push_joblist` (apiserver.c) lacks the `nfiltered > 0` guard `sched.c`'s equivalent has, so a total-batch construction failure (every array element fails, jlist ends up empty) now sends an empty/no-op jobs push to every connected apiserver — informationless, can't corrupt state, but a minor behavioral quirk introduced by firing the hook unconditionally.
- **2.4**: pure test-only close-out of task-group 2 — new `test_apply_reapply_idempotency.c` (3 tests), no production changes, approved first round. Covers three distinct cases beyond 2.2's existing coverage: (1) triple-reapplication of an identical WAL_JOB_SUBMIT through `apply_committed_entry()` with hook-fire-count AND pointer-identity assertions across all 3 calls (not just final state); (2) the `JOB_TRANSITION_NOOP_DUPLICATE` guard branch (state == current state) — a genuinely untested path, distinct from 2.2's forward-once and backward-rejected cases; (3) the task's named scenario, driven entirely through the real dispatch seam (not seeded/shortcut): real SUBMIT → real FINISH → stale out-of-order START (lower LSN, arriving after), asserting the job stays in its FINISH/terminal state and no third hook fires for the rejected START. Test assertions key on hook-fire COUNT and job STATE, never a specific `HOOK_DETAIL_*` value — so these tests stay valid even if 2.2's documented generic-hook-routing deviation is later corrected. **Task-group 2 (shared apply seam) is now complete**: 2.1 (guard cores extracted) → 2.2 (dispatch function built, generic job-state-family routing is a confirmed permanent deviation from design.md, tracked) → 2.3 (replay wired to the seam, duplicate-notification-on-restart hazard confirmed inert today but must be re-verified before 4.1/6.1/6.2/6.3) → 2.4 (idempotency proven through the real dispatch path). Next: task-group 3 (command apply-after-commit ordering), which is the first consumer of both this seam and task-group 1's commit-engine continuation API.
- **2.3**: rewired `replay_wal()` (persist.c) to call `apply_committed_entry()` (task 2.2's seam) instead of `apply_wal_entry()` for restart replay's per-entry apply. `apply_wal_entry`/`apply_committed_entry` are siblings, not wrapper/wrappee — `apply_wal_entry` is NOT retired, it remains ha.c's live standby catch-up/replicated-apply dispatch (untouched, different call sites, out of this task's boundary). **Confirmed hazard, investigated to resolution by the reviewer (not left open)**: `replay_wal(p, p->checkpoint_lsn, ...)` replays the FULL WAL range since the last snapshot on every restart (`last_applied_lsn` is deliberately not persisted — recomputed at replay time per design.md), not just a narrow crash-gap tail. Since `apply_committed_entry` fires `AFTER_EVENT` hooks (unlike the old `apply_wal_entry`, which never did), this means every restart re-fires notification hooks for entries already applied+notified in a prior process life — a duplicate-notification hazard in principle. **Independently traced and confirmed inert today** for both existing hook consumers: scheduler hooks aren't registered until `on_scheduler_join()` (sched.c), which happens post-boot via network JOIN handshake, strictly after `persist_recover()` runs; apiserver hooks ARE registered before `persist_recover()` (`apiserver_init()` in `cluster_init_phase2()`), but every apiserver hook body gates its actual network notify on `apiservers[i].ep != NULL`, and the apiserver-join table starts empty each process life — a no-op except via a narrow reconnect race. **MUST be re-verified before tasks 4.1/6.1/6.2/6.3** make this path unambiguously live and broad (e.g. if a future task registers apiserver connections earlier, or scheduler hooks get registered pre-replay) — at that point this either needs a replay-mode flag suppressing hook-firing, or an explicit accepted-idempotent-duplicate-notification decision recorded in design.md. A loud in-line comment cross-referencing this note now sits at the `apply_committed_entry()` call site in `replay_wal()` (persist.c). Also confirmed: job-state facts now replay through 2.1's guarded `apply_job_update_transition()` instead of the previously-unguarded `restore_job_state()` — intentional (Req 3/7 online-replay divergence fix), verified no existing test depended on the old unguarded semantics. `apply_committed_entry`'s missing oversized-payload guard (vs. `apply_wal_entry`'s `MAX_WAL_PAYLOAD_BYTES`/`-EMSGSIZE` check) confirmed inert — `persist_wal_write_replicated()` already rejects oversized payloads at write time, before anything reaches disk.