sched_on_job_array() expanded a compact array-job push (up to
hundreds of elements: a per-element dedup lookup plus a full deep
clone) inline, synchronously, on whatever vtaskmgr thread handled the
incoming request -- the same shared pool the scheduler's own
controller connection traffic depends on, violating ha-async-io.md's
"bounded handler work only" contract for that pool (a project-wide
design invariant). A prior finding already showed a burst of
6x50-element array pushes (300 job events landing within ~2ms of each
other) causing the scheduler to lose its controller connection within
245ms and enter a reconnect/failover loop -- directly consistent with
this mechanism, and the same reconnect storm whose resync races
motivated the companion JOBS_PUSH fix in this branch.
The request handler now does O(1) work only: validate the descriptor
and enqueue it unexpanded (XCE_SCHED_OP_UPDATE_JOB_ARRAY, mirroring
the existing XCE_SCHED_OP_ADMIN_RECORD deferred-dispatch pattern).
The actual per-element expansion and dedup check moved to
translate_one_pending_update(), which runs on the round-processing
thread (main.c's xce_sched_driver_run_normal_mode_round(), before
xce_core_begin_session() each round) -- a thread with no connection-
liveness responsibility. As a side effect this also closes the
dedup check's own pre-existing cross-thread TOCTOU race (previously
documented as bug-1714 follow-up "Bug B"): only one thread ever runs
it now.
test_job_array_expand.c and test_job_array_wire_e2e.c, which asserted
the old inline-expansion behavior, are updated to assert the new
deferred-enqueue behavior instead; expansion, dedup, and full
drain-push-release ownership coverage moved to new tests in
test_driver_translate.c.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RLSNJhNoULvVcUhXEFafQC
Rongsong Shen
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