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Fixes #847

Problem

A defunct control connection could remain disconnected when its host failure did not dispatch cluster DOWN handling. ControlConnection._signal_error() treated the conviction policy accepting a failure as proof that a DOWN callback would reconnect it, but DOWN handling can be rejected, discounted because a session pool is still open, skipped for existing host state, or dropped during shutdown.

Opening the direct fallback also exposed ownership races in the existing reconnect lifecycle. Repeated errors or heartbeat returns could reset a handler's backoff, overlapping attempts could leave stale retry work over a healthy connection, and a handler that eventually succeeded closed the control connection it had just installed.

Changes

  • Make Cluster.on_down() and Cluster.signal_connection_failure() report whether asynchronous DOWN handling was actually dispatched. Executor rejection and every intentional suppression path report False.
  • Reconnect the control connection directly when no DOWN callback owns recovery. Accepted DOWN transitions continue through the existing callback path, avoiding duplicate work.
  • Resolve control hosts consistently across TCP, Unix-socket, alternate-route, and stable host-ID connections.
  • Serialize pending reconnect submissions and leave an active handler on its existing schedule instead of restarting its backoff.
  • Give queued attempts and retry handlers explicit ownership of reconnect triggers. Empty and finite schedules release their slots, final triggers are retained, and a failure arriving during a proactive replacement receives a fresh schedule if that replacement exhausts its retries.
  • Cancel and release handlers with identity checks so stale work cannot evict a replacement or overwrite a newer successful connection.
  • Keep connections adopted by the control reconnection handler open while preserving the existing close-after-probe behavior for host reconnection handlers.
  • Continue host-down processing if a load-balancing policy or control-connection callback raises, so pool, listener, and host-reconnector handling still runs.

Compatibility and risk

There is no CQL protocol, wire-format, or public configuration change. The behavior change is limited to internal host-down reporting and control-connection recovery. The main risk is reconnect concurrency and shutdown ordering; unit coverage exercises pending submissions, overlapping success and failure, handler replacement, finite and empty schedules, heartbeat triggers, shutdown races, and Unix/alternate endpoints.

Testing

  • uv run pytest -q tests/unit/test_control_connection.py tests/unit/test_cluster.py — 159 passed on the final tree.
  • The same focused suite was run at the first code commit — 124 passed.
  • uv run pytest -q tests/unit — 1,132 passed, 24 skipped, with one unrelated pre-existing date-range rounding failure in tests/unit/test_types.py::DateRangeDeserializationTests::test_deserialize_date_range_year.

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  • All commit messages clearly explain what they change and why.
  • I added relevant tests for the bug fix and reconnect lifecycle.
  • Each code commit builds and passes its focused unit tests.
  • The PR description sums up the changes and reasons why they should be introduced.
  • No new public API items require docstrings.
  • I updated CHANGELOG.rst; no public API documentation change is required.
  • I added the appropriate Fixes annotation.

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Cluster.on_down and Cluster.signal_connection_failure now report whether down handling was dispatched. ControlConnection._signal_error reconnects directly when handling is suppressed or fails to dispatch. Reconnection handlers now coordinate concurrent attempts, preserve backoff triggers, handle shutdown races, and retain adopted connections. Tests cover down handling, recovery paths, concurrent retries, backoff, and cleanup.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ControlConnection
  participant Cluster
  participant Host
  ControlConnection->>Cluster: signal_connection_failure(host)
  Cluster->>Host: signal_connection_failure()
  Host-->>Cluster: conviction result
  Cluster->>Cluster: on_down(host)
  Cluster-->>ControlConnection: dispatch result
  ControlConnection->>ControlConnection: wait or reconnect
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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e843b

Control-connection recovery now handles rejected dispatches and overlapping retry triggers correctly, leaving no merge-blocking risk.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 9.40% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 117 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: reconnecting the control connection when DOWN handling is skipped.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the problem, solution, tests, scope, and linked issues. It also includes a Fixes annotation. The repository checklist is not completed, but the required change summary and rat…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed For [#847], Cluster.on_down() and signal_connection_failure() now report whether DOWN handling was dispatched. ControlConnection._signal_error() directly reconnects when handling is deferred, di…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The production changes and tests support [#847] by coordinating direct reconnection, preventing duplicate attempts, preserving retry state, and managing reconnection-handler ownership. No unrelated ch…
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In `@cassandra/cluster.py`:
- Line 2055: Update Cluster.on_down’s dispatch flow to return False when
executor.submit fails, including exceptions handled by run_in_executor, and
return True only after the DOWN callback is successfully queued so
ControlConnection._signal_error can trigger reconnect fallback.
- Around line 4597-4600: Prevent duplicate control reconnection tasks when a
host failure is signaled while an asynchronous DOWN callback is still pending.
Update ControlConnection.reconnect or the Cluster.on_down/_signal_error flow to
track and deduplicate pending reconnection submissions, ensuring each failure
schedules at most one _reconnect task.

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ControlConnection._signal_error() treated a conviction-policy decision as proof that Cluster.on_down() had dispatched its asynchronous callbacks. DOWN handling can instead be suppressed by an open session pool, existing host state, disabled pool creation, shutdown, or a rejected executor submission, leaving the defunct control connection without recovery work.

Report whether DOWN handling was actually queued and reconnect directly when it was not. Keep callback-driven recovery for accepted transitions so the normal host-down path does not submit a duplicate attempt, and cover TCP, Unix-socket, alternate-route, and stable host-ID connections.

Fixes scylladb#847
The direct recovery path can overlap queued attempts, heartbeat returns, topology-driven replacements, and finite retry schedules. Without a single owner for pending and delayed work, later triggers can reset backoff, stale handlers can replace healthy connections, and exhausted handlers can suppress an independent failure.

Serialize reconnect submissions, retain triggers until an active attempt or handler owns them, and release handler slots with identity checks. Preserve failures that arrive during proactive retries, honor empty and exhausted schedules, and keep a successfully restored control connection open while still closing host-probe connections.

Make connection installation and shutdown races explicit so an overlapping failed attempt cannot park retries over a newer connection and an orphaned connection is closed.
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dkropachev force-pushed the fix/847-control-connection-reconnect branch from ede6b19 to e843bca Compare September 22, 2026 01:53
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Control connection: discounted host-down signal can leave defunct connection unreconnected

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