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quest(m1): plan lock-wait CPU from switches and the bench relay port race - #5404

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Problem

#5277 merged just bench-lock with two follow-ups:

  • Its wait/CPU reads CPU from schedstat around the whole perf record run, but the waits come from the recording. That biases wait/CPU about 2% low, and a worker that ran only during perf's start-up would be refused (raised by CodeRabbit).
  • bench/relay.sh picks a random port and treats any TCP connect as readiness. Another process listening on that port passes the probe, the relay exits with "Address already in use", and the run only fails when the load generator receives nothing.

Approach

This adds two [S] quests to the perf epic, after Relay profiling:

  • quest/m1/perf/switch-cpu.md: derive per-worker CPU from the recorded --switch-events intervals, clipped to the sampled window. Schedstat stays only to tell an idle worker from one that never switched (Codex review).
  • quest/m1/perf/bench-relay-port.md: before reporting ready, prove that the relay owns both its TCP and UDP listeners. The ownership check is settled in that PR; the recommendation is a bench-only ss -lnp check that retries with a new port.

Decisions

The maintainer is away and asked for the recommended options.

  1. How should lock-wait CPU match the recording's window?
    • ✅ Derive CPU from the recorded switch intervals (one clock, one window), keeping schedstat only to classify workers that never switched. (recommended)
    • Gate perf through its --control FIFO and read schedstat at the enable and disable points.
  2. Where does the port fix live?
    • ✅ In the harness: prove the relay owns the port, or retry. This needs no relay change. (recommended)
    • The relay binds port 0 and reports its bound addresses (new relay behavior and docs; QUIC and HTTP would get different ports).
    • Probe a relay-specific endpoint, which proves HTTP but not QUIC.
  3. Does the one-off Go TestReconnectAcrossRelayRestart failure seen during feat(bench): record relay worker lock waits with perf #5277's local check get a quest?
    • ✅ No. It is a watch item: it failed once under heavy host load and passed 20 of 20 reruns. (recommended)
    • Yes, a flake quest.

Impact

Quest files only. There is no public API, wire, or runtime change.

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Follow-ups from #5277: derive lock-wait CPU from the recorded switch intervals instead of schedstat, and make the bench harness prove its relay owns the port before reporting it ready.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Comment thread quest/m1/perf/switch-cpu.md Outdated
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- A worker with no on-CPU time in the window is idle. A worker that ran in the
window but has no sampled switch-out still refuses.

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P1 Badge Refuse switchless workers instead of treating them as idle

When a worker remains scheduled for the entire sampled window, context-switches and --switch-events emit no records for it, making a fully busy worker indistinguishable from one that slept throughout the window. After deleting schedstat, this rule would silently classify that worker as idle and omit its CPU from the benchmark; retain an independent run-state signal, record explicit boundary state, or refuse the ambiguous capture rather than reporting it.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L17-L18

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Agreed, fixed in 437a456. A worker with no switch records is ambiguous, so the plan keeps the schedstat reads only to classify those workers. If its counter didn't advance, the worker is idle. Otherwise the capture is refused. CPU for every worker that did switch still comes from the recorded intervals.

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The performance README now lists two quests. One quest proposes deriving wait and CPU measurements from the same perf recording, with CPU time calculated from switch events instead of schedstat. The other describes a benchmark relay port-ownership race and proposes readiness checks and a port-conflict test.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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The proposed relay test could miss the readiness race, and the CPU plan could produce incomplete window measurements. These are bounded gaps in future-work specifications; runtime behavior is unchanged.

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Review comments at @quest/m1/perf/bench-relay-port.md:
- Around line 30-31: Update the port-conflict test in the plan to keep a foreign
TCP listener responsive while the relay child is alive, and verify that the
harness does not mistake that listener for relay readiness.

Review comments at @quest/m1/perf/switch-cpu.md:
- Around line 20-22: Define explicit boundary semantics for CPU intervals
derived from `--switch-events`: handle workers already running at recording
start and intervals still open at recording end by either clipping both to the
sample-covered window or rejecting incomplete intervals. Ensure `cpu_ns` never
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Cover it in `bench/relay.test.py` (already run by `just gh check`): hold the
chosen port open and expect the harness to retry or refuse.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

ast-grep outline bench/relay.test.py --items all
rg -n -C 8 'port|RANDOM|start_relay|relay|ready|retry|sleep|kill' \
  bench/relay.test.py bench/relay.sh

Repository: moq-dev/moq

Length of output: 15392


Make the port-conflict test deterministic.

Keep a foreign TCP listener responsive while the relay child is alive. Verify that the harness does not accept that listener as ready.

Suggested plan wording
--- "a/quest/m1/perf/bench-relay-port.md"
+++ "b/quest/m1/perf/bench-relay-port.md"
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@
 - Probe a relay-specific endpoint, such as its certificate fingerprint. This
   proves the HTTP listener but not the QUIC socket.
 
-Cover it in `bench/relay.test.py` (already run by `just gh check`): hold the
-chosen port open and expect the harness to retry or refuse.
+Cover it in `bench/relay.test.py` (already run by `just gh check`): keep a
+foreign TCP listener responsive while the relay child is alive, and verify
+that the harness does not accept that listener as ready.
 
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Cover it in `bench/relay.test.py` (already run by `just gh check`): hold the
chosen port open and expect the harness to retry or refuse.
Cover it in `bench/relay.test.py` (already run by `just gh check`): keep a
foreign TCP listener responsive while the relay child is alive, and verify
that the harness does not accept that listener as ready.
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Review comment at @quest/m1/perf/bench-relay-port.md around lines 30 - 31:
Update the port-conflict test in the plan to keep a foreign TCP listener
responsive while the relay child is alive, and verify that the harness does not
mistake that listener for relay readiness.

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Comment on lines +20 to +22
- Derive CPU from the `--switch-events` records already in `perf.data`: sum
each worker's on-CPU intervals, switch-in to the next switch-out, clipped to
the window the samples cover. Delete `schedstat` and the before/after reads.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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git diff --unified=30 0f4f81f9ed7b28545012c619c31c171d40627e4 60c53bfdc5b4b54d8a5377b77dff51fee79d2481 -- quest/m1/perf/switch-cpu.md
rg -n --hidden -g '!vendor/**' -g '!target/**' -g '!**/.git/**' 'switch-events|schedstat|sched_switch|perf.data|cpu_ns' bench quest

Repository: moq-dev/moq

Length of output: 4839


🏁 Script executed:

set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- bench/profile.py ---'
nl -ba bench/profile.py | sed -n '1,190p'
printf '%s\n' '--- bench/profile.test.py ---'
nl -ba bench/profile.test.py | sed -n '1,140p'
printf '%s\n' '--- bench/profile.test.txt ---'
nl -ba bench/profile.test.txt | sed -n '1,180p'
printf '%s\n' '--- related docs and callers ---'
nl -ba quest/m1/perf/lock-profile.md | sed -n '45,75p'
nl -ba bench/run.sh | sed -n '470,535p'

Repository: moq-dev/moq

Length of output: 34701


Define boundary semantics for CPU intervals.

--switch-events does not provide the start of an interval for a worker already running when recording begins, so the parser cannot derive that interval's exact duration from the event stream alone. At recording end, a switch-in after an earlier switch-out leaves an open CPU interval; the proposed refusal for a worker with no sampled switch-out does not cover that case. Define whether to clip both boundaries or reject incomplete intervals, and add fixtures for both cases. Do not silently omit or count unknown time in cpu_ns.

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Review comment at @quest/m1/perf/switch-cpu.md around lines 20 - 22:
Define explicit boundary semantics for CPU intervals derived from
`--switch-events`: handle workers already running at recording start and
intervals still open at recording end by either clipping both to the
sample-covered window or rejecting incomplete intervals. Ensure `cpu_ns` never
silently omits or counts unknown time, and add fixtures covering both boundary
cases.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr

A worker with no switch records either slept or ran the whole window, so the recording alone cannot call it idle (Codex review).

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Merge summary

Adds two [S] quests to the m1 perf epic, after Relay profiling. Both are follow-ups from #5277.

  • Lock-wait CPU from switches (quest/m1/perf/switch-cpu.md): wait/CPU takes CPU from the recorded switch intervals, so CPU and waits share one clock and one window. This removes the ~2% low bias and the start-up refusal CodeRabbit raised. Schedstat stays only to tell an idle worker from one that never switched.
  • Bench relay port (quest/m1/perf/bench-relay-port.md): bench/relay.sh proves its relay owns both the TCP and UDP listeners before reporting it ready, so a port squatter can't pass the readiness probe. The recommended fix is a bench-only ownership check with a retry; the final choice is settled in that PR.

Decisions: the recommended options were taken while the maintainer is away. The Go TestReconnectAcrossRelayRestart flake stays a watch item with no quest.

Review: Codex reviewed 60c53bf with one finding: a switchless worker can't be called idle from the recording alone. It was fixed in 437a456 and answered on the thread.

Impact: quest files only.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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