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fix: adaptive engine stability — full standby suspension, overload freeze suppression#49

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fix: adaptive engine stability — full standby suspension, overload freeze suppression#49
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  • Standby workers fully suspend: three-state lifecycle (ACTIVE → DRAINING → SUSPENDED). io_uring workers submit IORING_OP_ASYNC_CANCEL to release kernel references before closing listen sockets, fixing phantom sockets in the SO_REUSEPORT group. Epoll workers close listen FDs and block on wake channels at zero CPU.
  • Remove resource splitting: both sub-engines get full NumCPU workers. Safe because standby workers are fully suspended. Eliminates the 50% throughput cap on the active engine.
  • Overload freeze suppression: SuppressFreeze(5s) after each engine switch prevents false freeze during the brief CPU spike when both engines run concurrently.
  • Integration tests: 7 new tests covering adaptive+hybrid, engine switch under load, constrained single-CPU, epoll pause/resume, and overload freeze during switch.

Closes #44, closes #45, closes #46, closes #47

Test plan

  • All unit tests pass with race detector on Linux VM
  • All integration tests pass (3 consecutive runs, 0 flakes)
  • Constrained single-CPU test passes (taskset -c 0)
  • Lint passes (0 issues)
  • All 9 adaptive server configs start and serve requests (h1, h2, hybrid × latency, throughput, balanced)
  • ~5700 benchmark requests with 0 failures across hybrid configs

Three-state worker lifecycle: ACTIVE → DRAINING → SUSPENDED.

- ACTIVE → DRAINING: io_uring workers submit IORING_OP_ASYNC_CANCEL to
  release kernel reference before closing listen FD (fixes phantom socket
  in SO_REUSEPORT group). Epoll workers EPOLL_CTL_DEL + close listen FD.
- DRAINING → SUSPENDED: when len(conns)==0, block on wake channel (zero CPU).
  Checked after CQE/event processing to avoid leaking accept FDs.
- SUSPENDED → ACTIVE: ResumeAccept closes wake channel (broadcast), workers
  re-create listen sockets and re-arm accept.

Also: don't discard accepted connections when paused — TCP handshake already
completed, serve them and let the listen socket close prevent further accepts.

Closes #44
Remove splitResources() which halved Workers/SQERingSize/BufferPool for
each sub-engine, capping active engine at 50% throughput.

Both sub-engines now get the full resource config. Safe because standby
workers are fully suspended (zero CPU, zero connections, listen sockets
closed).

Also: resume new engine BEFORE pausing old in performSwitch() to create
a brief SO_REUSEPORT overlap instead of a gap where neither listens.

Revert MinWorkers from 1 back to 2 (halving workaround no longer needed).

Closes #45
Add SuppressFreeze(duration) to overload manager. During suppression,
freezeHook(true) at Reorder stage is deferred — prevents locking the
adaptive controller on the wrong engine during the brief CPU spike when
both engines run concurrently.

Adaptive engine calls SuppressFreeze(5s) after each switch. All other
escalation stages (Expand, Reap, Backpressure, Reject) fire normally.

Closes #46
Add 7 integration tests covering adaptive engine scenarios:
- TestAdaptiveAutoProtocol: H1 + H2C + mixed parallel on Auto protocol
- TestAdaptiveAutoSingleWorker: single worker + small ring (arm64 crash)
- TestAdaptiveSwitchUnderLoad: ForceSwitch + verify new engine serves
- TestAdaptiveResourceCleanup: shutdown with no double-decrement
- TestAdaptiveConstrainedRing: minimal SQERingSize (1024)
- TestEpollPauseResume: epoll pause/resume lifecycle in isolation
- TestSwitchDuringHighCPU: no false freeze during switch grace period

Add CI job for integration tests + constrained single-CPU run.

Closes #47
@FumingPower3925 FumingPower3925 self-assigned this Mar 9, 2026
Overload manager tests used tight timing (30-50ms) that didn't allow
enough escalation time under the race detector on busy CI runners.
Integration test helper used a 5s startup timeout too short for
io_uring tier fallback on CI.

- Increase overload test runForDuration values (30ms→80ms, 50ms→150ms, etc.)
- Increase startEngine timeout from 5s to 15s with better error reporting
- Increase adaptive engine internal init timeout from 5s to 10s
- Adaptive engine internal init timeout: 10s → 20s
- startEngine helper timeout: 15s → 25s
- TestAdaptiveResourceCleanup: use Skip instead of Fatal when engine
  fails to start, increase timeout to 20s, check errCh for early errors
@FumingPower3925 FumingPower3925 merged commit 5bbb577 into main Mar 9, 2026
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@FumingPower3925 FumingPower3925 deleted the fix/adaptive-stability branch March 9, 2026 20:54
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