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perf(shared): queued SQLite reads stop waiting on one reader while another is free - #27979
When a read finds all four SQLite readers busy, it picks the least-claimed one and waits on that reader's own lock. It stays pinned there: if a different reader frees up first, the read keeps waiting for its own, and later reads can finish ahead of it on the free one. A point read that lands behind a long shell read waits for the whole shell read while other readers sit idle.
PixPMusic found this while reviewing #26816 and reproduced it on main with real workers. The review asked for it to be tracked separately from that PR.
Change
Admission to the pool is now one semaphore with a permit per reader. A read waits for any permit, then takes the lowest idle slot. Holding a permit always leaves an idle slot, so a queued read is no longer tied to one busy reader: it waits for any of them. Idle slots still never start a worker. As before, waiters are not strictly first in, first out; a read that arrives just as a permit frees can take it first. The permit and slot are released through the same finalizers as before: when a standalone read ends, or when a read transaction's scope closes. A scheduler yield still can't separate taking the permit from registering its release.
The queueing now happens while routing, so both acquisition paths start the db.lock_wait_ms timer before routing; otherwise a read that waited for a busy pool would report almost no lock wait.
Verification
New case in nodeSqliteClient.test.ts, "gives a queued read the first reader that frees up": four read-only transactions hold every reader, a fifth read queues, the second transaction ends, and the queued read must finish while the other three are still open. It uses Deferred milestones and real reader workers, with no sleeps. While the read waits, the test clock moves 1 s, and the read's span must report db.lock_wait_ms of exactly 1000.
On main's nodeSqliteClient.ts it fails at the 60 s test timeout, because the queued read waits on the first reader's transaction.
On this branch it passes, and so do the other SQLite client tests except "uses the writer when the reader cannot open the database". That one also fails on main on Windows, because it deletes an open database file (EBUSY); CI's Linux runners don't hit that.
vp run check:changed passes format, lint, knip and typecheck across the 33 dependent packages; its only test failure is that same Windows case.
Latency under load
To see the effect on real reads, I ran the SQLite client from main and from this branch with reader workers against a static copy of a real server's shell tables: 3,047 threads and 701,015 turn items, read-only. Three loops ran a shell-sized read (every thread's item count by run, about 0.5 s), with a 1 ms pause between runs. Point reads (one thread row by ID) arrived as new fibers in bursts of three every 5 ms, so at least one reader was always idle. Each arm ran 20 s, alternating main and branch, two rounds:
Point reads (~4,100 per run)
main
this PR
p50
0.49 / 0.70 ms
0.55 / 0.61 ms
p95
361 / 275 ms
0.98 / 1.11 ms
p99
517 / 801 ms
2.5 / 3.1 ms
max
702 / 1,702 ms
17 / 19 ms
waited over 50 ms
226 / 297
0 / 0
The heavy reads took the same time in both arms (p50 450 / 609 ms on main, 456 / 499 ms here). On main, a point read that arrived while the idle reader was busy queued behind a heavy read instead.
A read that found every reader busy picked one and waited on that reader's
own lock, even when another reader freed up first. Admission is now one
semaphore with a permit per reader; a read waits for any permit and takes
the lowest idle slot.
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perf(shared): a queued SQLite read takes the first reader that frees up
perf(shared): queued SQLite reads stop waiting on one reader while another is free
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Walkthrough
Read-only routing uses a semaphore to claim available reader slots. Borrow and transaction lock-wait timing includes time spent waiting for reader admission. A regression test checks queued-read completion and verifies a 1000 ms lock wait.
Queued SQLite reads now take the first reader slot that frees up, and cancelling a queued read no longer waits for another reader to be released. No outstanding merge-blocking risk was found. Tests were not re-run in this review.
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Queueing moved from each reader's lock into routing, which ran before the lock-wait timer started, so a read that waited for a busy pool reported almost no db.lock_wait_ms. Both acquisition paths now start timing before routing.
merged current main without rebasing, preserving both sets of test imports. kept first-free reader admission and the contributor's lock-wait timing fix.
fixed one cancellation edge: reader admission now uses the transaction's restore policy, matching lock acquisition. extended the existing regression to cancel a queued transaction before any of the four held readers is released. it timed out before the fix and passes afterward.
blacksmith verification: all 20 sqlite tests pass; vp run check:changed refs/remotes/github/main passes format, lint, knip, typechecks for 33 affected packages, and 21 tests. two independent reviews found no remaining issues at 626491b1d9. the pr still changes only the sqlite client and its existing test file.
verified unchanged head 626491b1d9f32c769ae2fe82fb88f26122b5e21c on this Linux Boat VM. reproduced the bug first on github/main at 30084f0018c5 in a separate worktree. installed dependencies in each checkout and ran one background dev server at a time with isolated empty state.
used authenticated server endpoints with real sqlite workers. debugger pauses controlled scheduling without changing app code or database contents: four shell snapshot requests occupied all readers, then a project read queued. resumed only reader 2.
main: the earlier project read stayed blocked while a later project read completed on reader 2. it finished only after reader 1 resumed.
pr: the queued project read completed as soon as reader 2 resumed, while readers 1, 3 and 4 stayed paused. later reads and all held shell requests also completed with HTTP 200.
this proves admission ordering under controlled contention; it is not a production latency benchmark. command transcript.
created a real git project and threads through the live CLI. Codex gpt-6.1-sol returned reader-pool-ok on both servers. drove the PR web app with repo Playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome: submitted two follow-ups, saw the real responses, and reloaded the conversation successfully.
blacksmith passed all 20 sqlite client tests, including queued cancellation and the 1000 ms lock-wait assertion. vp run check:changed refs/remotes/github/main passed format, lint, knip, typechecks for 33 packages and 21 tests. no source edits or pushes were needed.
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native desktop, iOS and Android clients; macOS and Windows worker behavior; relay and tunnel connections; other providers; whole-server latency under natural sustained traffic. this VM verified the shared server path and Linux web client, with deliberate debugger scheduling rather than a naturally large workload.
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Review comments at @packages/shared/src/nodeSqliteClient.ts:
- Line 905: Update the standalone-read routing from SqliteClient.readOnly to
pass the caller’s restore function through to reader admission, so
readerAdmission.take(1) honors the borrower’s interruption policy. Preserve the
existing TransactionAcquire restore precedence for transaction acquisition.
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Warm four SQLite readers, pause all four, send four held shell requests, queue a projects read, then resume only reader 2. After one second, send a later projects read. Finish by resuming readers 3/4, then reader 1. Both sides ran real Linux/Node servers with fresh databases; captures show the live driver output at 1280×1000.
The base reproduced blocking and overtaking, but its queued read completed when readers 3/4 resumed rather than waiting until reader 1. Worker labels are debugger identities, not verified internal pool indexes. The blocked SQLite operations were authentication-session reads on the real endpoints.
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The exact triage tail—remaining blocked with three readers idle until slot 1 resumes—was not reproduced: this base run's queued read completed after readers 3/4 resumed. Blocking behind an occupied reader while another was available, and overtaking by a later read, were directly observed.
Reader admission for a standalone read waited with the restore that
readOnly captured. When readOnly was entered inside an uninterruptible
mask, that restore kept the mask, so cancelling a queued read waited for
a reader to free up. Standalone reads now wait with the borrower's own
restore; transaction acquisition still prefers TransactionAcquire's.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Routing fell back to readOnly's captured restore for reservations and
used it again for the reader's startup wait. Work masked inside readOnly
therefore became interruptible once admitted: a cancelled sql.reserve or
withTransaction skipped its body after a reader freed up, where main ran
it. route now takes the caller's restore for both waits; the transaction
acquirer passes the same restore it uses for the reader lock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Paused all four SQLite readers, sent four held shell requests, queued a projects read, then resumed slot 2. Sent a later projects read, resumed slots 3–4, waited 1.5 seconds, and finally resumed slot 1. Same driver and isolated fresh databases on Linux / Node 26.12.1. Captures show live server HTTP/debugger output.
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Problem
When a read finds all four SQLite readers busy, it picks the least-claimed one and waits on that reader's own lock. It stays pinned there: if a different reader frees up first, the read keeps waiting for its own, and later reads can finish ahead of it on the free one. A point read that lands behind a long shell read waits for the whole shell read while other readers sit idle.
PixPMusic found this while reviewing #26816 and reproduced it on main with real workers. The review asked for it to be tracked separately from that PR.
Change
Admission to the pool is now one semaphore with a permit per reader. A read waits for any permit, then takes the lowest idle slot. Holding a permit always leaves an idle slot, so a queued read is no longer tied to one busy reader: it waits for any of them. Idle slots still never start a worker. As before, waiters are not strictly first in, first out; a read that arrives just as a permit frees can take it first. The permit and slot are released through the same finalizers as before: when a standalone read ends, or when a read transaction's scope closes. A scheduler yield still can't separate taking the permit from registering its release.
The queueing now happens while routing, so both acquisition paths start the
db.lock_wait_mstimer before routing; otherwise a read that waited for a busy pool would report almost no lock wait.Verification
New case in
nodeSqliteClient.test.ts, "gives a queued read the first reader that frees up": four read-only transactions hold every reader, a fifth read queues, the second transaction ends, and the queued read must finish while the other three are still open. It usesDeferredmilestones and real reader workers, with no sleeps. While the read waits, the test clock moves 1 s, and the read's span must reportdb.lock_wait_msof exactly 1000.nodeSqliteClient.tsit fails at the 60 s test timeout, because the queued read waits on the first reader's transaction.vp run check:changedpasses format, lint, knip and typecheck across the 33 dependent packages; its only test failure is that same Windows case.Latency under load
To see the effect on real reads, I ran the SQLite client from main and from this branch with reader workers against a static copy of a real server's shell tables: 3,047 threads and 701,015 turn items, read-only. Three loops ran a shell-sized read (every thread's item count by run, about 0.5 s), with a 1 ms pause between runs. Point reads (one thread row by ID) arrived as new fibers in bursts of three every 5 ms, so at least one reader was always idle. Each arm ran 20 s, alternating main and branch, two rounds:
The heavy reads took the same time in both arms (p50 450 / 609 ms on main, 456 / 499 ms here). On main, a point read that arrived while the idle reader was busy queued behind a heavy read instead.
Not measured: a whole server under real traffic.
Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).