Add test_sim_replay_reproduces_recorded_alloc_from: a recorded DISPATCH at
an epoch-scale beginRound with a sub-second part replays at the default
simulation settings with no --sim-verify mismatch, and the live allocation's
from equals beginRound in whole seconds. Share the dispatch fixture setup
of the existing tests through two helpers.
Live: 2-round HA soak recordings (11 DISPATCH decisions) replayed with
--sim-verify and no --sim-speed report 0 mismatches.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
sim_verify_alloc_eq() compared xce_alloc_t.from, which make_alloc()
(xcealloc.c) stamps with the real OS wall clock (time(NULL)), not
core.c's virtualized sim clock. The recorded (expected) value is
whatever real second the original run happened to execute in; the
freshly-rebuilt (actual) value is whatever real second the replay
executes in -- two unrelated real-world timestamps, so every
otherwise-correct DISPATCH decision failed verification whenever a
replay ran even one wall-clock second away from its own recording.
Drop `from` from the comparison -- it's reservation bookkeeping, not
part of a decision's semantic identity. Verified against a real
captured .replay file: 120/120 false DISPATCH mismatches -> 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
User-reported: replaying a captured session dispatched 44 single-slot jobs
onto a 22-slot host. Root cause traced through two layers:
- bug-1836: sim_reconcile_unaccounted_jobs() (the "Recorded-Decision
Reconciliation" backstop) force-applied any recorded DISPATCH decision
it found, with zero live capacity check. Added
sim_reconciled_alloc_fits_capacity(), reusing the same
sched_check_host_satisfy()/sched_check_shared_satisfy() admission checks
the live picker/allocator path already uses.
- bug-1838: even with that gate, reconciliation still preempted every
freshly-PEND job before the live picker/allocator got a turn each round
-- unnecessary now that scheduler-sim-live-allocation gave sim mode the
same real, capacity-checked picker/allocator threads normal mode uses.
Narrowed reconciliation's trigger back to JOB_IS_RUN-only (undoing a
2026-09-11 widening whose own justification no longer holds), so a
freshly-pushed job now always flows through the same live, verified
decision path as normal mode. Reconciliation now only ever fires for a
job already RUN from before the replay's own observation window --
the one case structurally invisible to the live picker.
Also logged (bug-1837, not fixed here, needs its own design decision):
sim_reconcile_unaccounted_jobs() calls a picker's on_dispatch() hook from
the driver thread instead of the allocator thread plugin.h documents it
belonging to -- currently inert since the only real picker plugin happens
to lock internally, but not contract-safe for a future lock-free one.
Fixing bug-1838 required re-examining every test exercising the old
PEND-inclusive trigger; several needed their fixtures corrected to
register a real worker (harmless before any capacity check existed), and
others needed their actual intent re-derived and their assertions
inverted or restated now that a PEND job is never eligible for
reconciliation. Dated correction notes added in place to the
scheduler-sim-eager-reconciliation spec, matching its own existing
2026-09-11 correction-note precedent.
Verified: full scheduler suite 85/85, independently re-confirmed by
running the four most affected binaries directly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces sim_picker_thread_fn() (the always-PEND placeholder) with the
real sched_job_picker()/sched_allocator() threads (task 3.1), spawned
against &(sim->core) in sched_sim_driver_run(). Simulation mode now
genuinely uses the jbuf capacity-1 rendezvous for the first time
(confirmed still exactly one producer/one consumer). Adds
sched_election.c to sched_sim_isolation_lib.
Fixes bug-1829 (blocking, only reachable once sim_allocator() actually
called sched_make_allocation() for the first time): core->seqjob_
allocator/parjob_allocator were never bootstrapped for simulation mode
at all. Fixed via new sim_alloc.c (sim_bootstrap_seqjob_allocator()/
sim_bootstrap_parjob_allocator()), mirroring the sim_picker.c/
sim_limit.c precedent.
That fix's own workaround -- a throwaway xce_scheduler_t wrapper
satisfying seqjob/parjob's init_fn -- has a documented, narrow side
effect: prepare_allocation_hook fan-out during a live seqjob/parjob
dispatch attempt reaches the wrapper's own separate plugin registry,
not sim->core.plugins, so a plugin registered only against the real
sim core (the limit plugin) isn't reached for host-scoped matching
during a live dispatch yet. Documented in design.md's new "Known Seam
Gap" section; task 4.3 added to tasks.md to close it before task 5.2's
acceptance test can pass for the host-scoped case.
TDD: new end-to-end test drives a real .replay with an empty decisions
array (ruling out reconciliation) through the real thread pair,
proving a genuine DISPATCH from live resource availability. 25
pre-existing white-box sim/repl test files given link-satisfying
stubs reproducing the OLD always-PEND contract unchanged -- their own
assertions are untouched (task 5.3's job to reconcile deeper).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RLSNJhNoULvVcUhXEFafQC
