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Implements the remaining protective behavior for #145 on top of the resource monitors and pressure gauges merged in #1455. Rising pressure shortens transport waits and idle retention; sustained saturation refuses new work while admitted HTTP responses, HTTP/2 streams, and TCP sessions continue under their normal deadlines.
Filter activity and retained-body attribution have been extracted into independent observability PR #1515. Neither metric drives overload protection.
Behavior
Validated per-resource bands under runtime.overload_thresholds, with finite 0 <= scaling < saturation <= 1. Omitted resources retain defaults.
Actions require the off-default overload-actions Cargo feature and both runtime overload flags. Flags and bands require a restart; filter reloads preserve the server controller.
Effective pressure uses finite cgroup working-set pressure before heap pressure. Cgroup-local CPU PSI can drive actions; host-wide fallback remains observational. Missing readings retain their gauges but expire from action decisions after ten samples.
Connect, HTTP/1 header, and upstream idle budgets scale from their original values using 1 - 0.9 * pressure. Body and total stream/session deadlines are preserved. Returned idle connections age out sooner; active connections are not cleared.
HTTP/1 keep-alive is disabled above pressure 0.5 and restored at 0.4. Response commitment rechecks the signal after awaited filters. HTTP/2 receives no connection-specific header.
Three consecutive raw saturated samples refuse new data sockets before TLS, reject new HTTP requests/HTTP/2 streams with 503 and Retry-After, close new TCP sessions, and fail /ready. Three samples below saturation recover each resource. Management listeners and /healthy remain available.
Memory pressure requests at most one allocator purge worker per sampler. The action gauge reports completed success. Startup/shutdown own and join housekeeping work, clear only their controller, and preserve sibling servers' state.
Pressure and action metrics carry reusable server-controller slots, keeping concurrent servers distinct and retained series bounded by peak live controllers. Existing hard limits remain independent backstops.
Allocator safety
Epoch refresh and allocated-byte reads now use safe tikv-jemalloc-ctl APIs. One private mallctl call remains for the argument-free arena-purge command because the typed API does not expose it. Its reason and safety contract are documented beside the call. Default and non-Unix builds retain forbid(unsafe_code). Only Unix builds with overload-actions use deny(unsafe_code) plus the documented local exception; this exception still needs maintainer agreement.
#1514 tracks adopting a safe purge API, removing the exception, and restoring forbid(unsafe_code). If maintainers require zero local unsafe code before merge, removing the purge action is a separate, explicit contract decision.
Review fixes
Registered overload-actions in the startup experimental-feature catalog. This fixes the shared unit/Hyper/coverage failure in every_experimental_manifest_feature_is_listed and includes enabled overload actions in the operator-facing experimental warning. The manifest guard and experimental marker are preserved.
Rebased onto main at d5844c1f (v0.8.0), preserving its Policy feature/profile validation, FIPS test environment, dependency updates, and release changes. The overload entry remains under Unreleased.
Corrected the Mermaid sequence label; reproduced the original parser failure and validated the corrected diagram with Mermaid.
Strengthened the pressure-isolation regression to start both servers at distinct nonzero pressures and verify the sibling is unchanged after reset.
Extracted the two independent attribution gauges, their tests, and their documentation for separate review. The branch-hook coverage fix requested in review belongs to that observability PR.
Validation
Current CI-fix validation: reproduced the exact manifest/catalog failure before the fix. All 31 startup-check tests then passed in each of the Hyper CI profile (overload actions off) and the Pingora compatible-feature profile (overload actions on). Focused server Clippy with warnings denied and workspace formatting passed.
Previous rebase checks: all three Policy-profile harness tests passed on each backend; six server overload unit tests, ten Pingora/eight Hyper overload integration scenarios, and three schema cases per backend passed. The changed harness passed Clippy on both backends; workspace formatting passed. Mocked Make checks verified Cargo artifact paths, explicit binary overrides, failed-build handling, and preservation of the FIPS provider environment in integration and conformance recipes.
Earlier feature validation:
40 affected server unit tests passed, including nonzero sibling isolation and sampler shutdown.
Allocator unit checks and the real binary live-allocation wiring test passed with safe statistics APIs.
10 Pingora and 8 Hyper overload integration scenarios passed; three overload schema tests passed on each backend.
Complete make lint and all three Hyper Clippy passes passed.
Make binary-selection checks passed for paths with spaces, custom target paths, explicit caller overrides, backend selection, and stopping after build failures. Main's shared harness remains selected.
Mermaid validation reproduced the old parser failure and accepted the corrected diagram.
Added optional, experimental overload protection, configurable per resource and disabled by default.
When enabled, sustained pressure can reject new work, affect readiness, close HTTP/1 keep-alive connections, scale selected timeouts, and purge unused allocator pages.
Added per-server overload metrics and an example configuration.
Documentation
Added configuration, observability, and architecture guidance for overload settings and behavior.
Bug Fixes
Improved build and integration-test binary selection across supported configurations.
This pull request adds experimental, feature-gated overload actions. It adds configurable pressure bands, server-scoped action state, protocol admission and timeout controls, readiness responses, metrics, jemalloc purging, tests, documentation, and build tooling.
Changes: Overload Actions
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Pressure configuration and decisions crates/core/src/config/runtime.rs, crates/core/src/overload.rs, tests/schema/tests/suite/edge_cases.rs
Runtime configuration adds overload_actions and per-resource thresholds. The monitor validates bands, tracks sample freshness and CPU source, and derives keep-alive, readiness, and purge actions.
Server sampling and action lifecycle Cargo.toml, crates/server/Cargo.toml, crates/server/src/*
The server registers the optional jemalloc purge callback and manages overload housekeeping, per-server pressure and action metrics, asynchronous purge work, startup checks, reload diagnostics, and shutdown cleanup.
Protocol signal wiring and enforcement crates/protocol/src/overload.rs, crates/protocol/src/pipelines.rs, crates/protocol/src/http/*, crates/protocol/src/tcp/*
Listener pipelines share overload signals with protocol handlers. Hyper and Pingora paths reject saturated work, scale eligible timeouts, and disable HTTP/1 keep-alive under pressure.
Validation, examples, documentation, and build support tests/integration/*, tests/utils/*, Makefile, xtask/src/*, examples/*, docs/*, CHANGELOG.md
Tests cover overload actions, recovery, feature gates, and protocol behavior. Documentation and examples describe configuration and observability. Build tooling resolves test binaries from Cargo artifacts.
sequenceDiagram
participant OverloadSampler
participant Signal
participant Listener
participant HealthService
OverloadSampler->>Signal: publish pressure and action state
Signal->>Listener: expose saturation and timeout scaling state
Listener->>Listener: reject saturated work or adjust eligible timeouts
Signal->>HealthService: expose readiness state
HealthService->>HealthService: return 503 when saturated
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Possibly related issues
praxis-proxy/praxis#1514: The issue tracks replacing the raw jemalloc purge call used by this overload purge path.
praxis-proxy/praxis#1067: The pull request adds pressure-driven shedding actions, 503 responses, pressure metrics, and allocator purging within the epic’s scope.
praxis-proxy/praxis#1495: The pull request changes admission and body-handling paths, but the supplied evidence does not establish that it fixes the issue’s cleanup delay.
Possibly related PRs
praxis-proxy/praxis#1443: The pull request adds housekeeping shutdown cleanup and documents that joining an active purge can extend process exit beyond the shutdown budget.
praxis-proxy/praxis#1455: The pull request builds overload actions on the pressure monitor, gauges, and runtime gate added in that PR.
praxis-proxy/praxis#1479: The pull request changes connect_upstream to accept the pressure-scaled timeout used by the newer CONNECT path.
Suggested labels:area/observability
Suggested reviewers:leseb, shaneutt
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Move the heap purge off the housekeeping runtime thread.
apply_overload_actions calls run_heap_purge() synchronously on the single-thread housekeeping runtime. That runtime also drives the FD, memory, and circuit-eviction loops. Nothing bounds the purge duration, so each engaged sample can stall those loops. Run the purge on a blocking thread and skip a sample while a purge is still in flight.
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Review comment at @crates/server/src/server.rs around lines 973 - 974:
Update apply_overload_actions to dispatch run_heap_purge on a blocking worker
instead of running it on the housekeeping runtime thread, and track whether a
purge is in flight so subsequent samples skip starting another until it
completes. Ensure the in-flight state is cleared when the purge finishes.
Add an example config and a functional integration test for overloadactions.
Add an example config and a functional integration test for overload_actions.
runtime.overload_actions has no example configuration and no integration test. The overload_gauges feature has both: examples/configs/observability/overload-gauges.yaml and tests/integration/tests/suite/examples/overload_gauges.rs, which starts the binary from that example. AGENTS.md requires an example configuration with a functional integration test for new capabilities, and it requires README regeneration.
The field's doctest in crates/core/src/config/runtime.rs covers YAML parsing. The overload_actions_without_gauges_warns test in crates/server/src/startup_checks.rs sets the field on a constructed Config. No test starts the server from YAML with the flag enabled. The startup read in crates/server/src/server.rs:876 is therefore not exercised by any test that enables the flag.
Create examples/configs/observability/overload-actions.yaml, based on the gauges example, with both flags enabled:
Add tests/integration/tests/suite/examples/overload_actions.rs, modeled on overload_gauges.rs. The test should start the binary from the new example and assert the startup behavior and the metrics that the enabled actions produce.
Run cargo xtask sync-example-readme --fix to regenerate the example README.
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Review comment at @crates/core/src/config/runtime.rs around lines 298 - 299:
Add an example configuration that enables runtime.overload_actions alongside
overload_gauges, and add a functional integration test that starts the server
from that example and verifies startup behavior and the metrics produced by the
enabled actions. Ensure the test exercises the YAML-loaded overload_actions
setting rather than only constructing a Config directly.
Test the production scaletimeout formula, not a copy in the test module.
Test the production scale_timeout formula, not a copy in the test module.
The three timeout tests call scale_timeout_by_pressure, a copy defined in the test module. They never call scale_timeout. A change to the production formula or threshold would not fail any of them. Move the formula into a private helper that takes pressure, make scale_timeout call it with peak_pressure(), and point the tests at that helper. The helper tests cover the arithmetic and threshold. They do not exercise the peak_pressure() read in scale_timeout.
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Review comment at @crates/core/src/overload.rs around lines 1400 - 1401:
Move the timeout formula into a private production helper named
scale_timeout_by_pressure that accepts pressure, and have scale_timeout pass it
peak_pressure(). Remove the duplicate test-module helper so the timeout tests
exercise the production arithmetic and threshold through
scale_timeout_by_pressure; retain scale_timeout’s peak_pressure() read.
Feature-gated overload test runs a default-feature praxis binary.
PraxisProcess runs the binary returned by praxis_bin(). When no binary exists at the resolved path, the harness builds praxis-proxy with default features (tests/utils/src/proxy.rs:19-30, backend_build_args() at lines 66-76). overload-actions is not a default feature, so that binary starts with actions disabled. It logs that runtime.overload_actions requires --features overload-actions.
The pressure gauge is still exported, so the wait at overload_actions.rs:33-35 succeeds. The wait for fail_readiness at line 48 cannot succeed without engaged actions. It then panics after 12 seconds.
The harness reuses an existing binary without checking its features. A default-feature binary left at target/debug/praxis causes the same failure on later runs. Build the binary with the features the suite requires, and do not reuse a binary built with different features.
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Review comment at @tests/integration/tests/suite/examples/overload_actions.rs
around lines 30 - 35:
Update the binary selection/build flow used by PraxisProcess in this
overload-actions test so it launches a praxis binary built with the
overload-actions feature. Ensure cached or existing binaries are reused only
when their enabled features match the suite requirements; otherwise rebuild with
the required features.
Add a test for dropping the housekeeping owner while a purge is blocked.
Add a test for dropping the housekeeping owner while a purge is blocked.
HousekeepingTasks::drop cancels the loops and joins the housekeeping thread with no deadline. That thread's runtime does not stop until in-flight spawn_blocking work returns, so a blocked purge holds the drop.
No current test covers this path. an_in_flight_purge_does_not_block_sampling_or_queue_another uses a standalone blocking task and never drops an owner. housekeeping_tasks_spawn_without_panicking drops owners with no purge in flight. A change to this shutdown wait would not fail a test.
Add a test that:
starts a housekeeping owner with a purge blocked on a channel,
drops the owner on another thread, and
asserts that the drop returns only after the purge is released.
The owner calls praxis_core::overload::run_heap_purge directly, so this test needs a seam that lets it inject a blocking purge.
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Review comment at @crates/server/src/server.rs around lines 1549 - 1555:
Add coverage for HousekeepingTasks shutdown while a heap purge is blocked:
provide a seam for injecting the blocking purge, start a housekeeping owner with
that purge held on a channel, and drop the owner on another thread. Assert the
drop remains blocked until the purge is released, then completes; keep the
existing poll_heap_purge behavior unchanged.
Make the no-recorder test deterministic, or rename it to match what it checks.
Make the no-recorder test deterministic, or rename it to match what it checks.
record_utilities_noop_without_recorder shares one test process with the tests that call install_prometheus_recorder(). After one of those tests installs the global recorder, is_recorder_installed() stays true for the rest of the process. Whether this test reaches the early return in set_overload_action and the other setters then depends on test scheduling. The test also has no assertions, so it only fails if a call panics.
Either run this check in its own process, or rename it to describe what it verifies:
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Review comment at @crates/protocol/src/http/pingora/metrics.rs at line 1092:
Rename the test for the record utilities from
record_utilities_noop_without_recorder to record_utilities_do_not_panic, since
the shared process may already have an installed recorder and the test only
verifies that the calls do not panic.
Wait for one sampler interval before asserting that no action series exists.
actions_without_gauges_remain_disabled scrapes immediately after two requests. If the overload_gauges gate regressed, the first overload sample runs about one second after startup and publishes every praxis_overload_action series at 0. The absence assertion can therefore pass before that sample runs.
Allow at least one sampler interval to elapse before the scrape. Pressure is not required. The sampler publishes inactive action series on every tick.
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Review comment at @tests/integration/tests/suite/examples/overload_actions.rs
around lines 134 - 143:
Update actions_without_gauges_remain_disabled to wait at least one sampler
interval before scraping metrics, then assert that no praxis_overload_action
series exists; retain the existing checks for readiness and the “actions require
gauges” log.
Cover the overload sampler's shutdown in a feature-gated test.
Cover the overload sampler's shutdown in a feature-gated test.
stopping_housekeeping_clears_the_signal_and_action_gauges uses fully_limited_runtime(), which leaves overload_gauges off. housekeeping_loops adds overload_gauge_loop only when overload_gauges is set, so this test never starts the sampler. A sampler that keeps running after drop(task) cannot fail this test.
Setting overload_gauges: true alone does not cover this path. With overload_actions off, sample_overload returns before publish_overload_actions runs. A gauges-only sampler never updates the action signal or the action gauges, so the reset assertions cannot observe it.
Covering the path requires a test gated on cfg(feature = "overload-actions"), with both overload_gauges and overload_actions enabled. The sampler also samples only after its first SAMPLE_INTERVAL tick, so a test that drops the task immediately never runs a sample. A deterministic seam is needed to make a post-shutdown sample observable. Examples include a test-only hook on the sampling interval, or a test-only record of publish calls. Asserting the default action state after drop cannot detect a surviving sampler that publishes default values.
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Review comment at @crates/server/src/server.rs around lines 1580 - 1585:
Update stopping_housekeeping_clears_the_signal_and_action_gauges to cover
overload sampler shutdown in a test gated on the overload-actions feature,
enabling both overload_gauges and overload_actions. Ensure the sampler performs
a sample before shutdown and use a deterministic test seam to detect any
publish_overload_actions call after dropping the housekeeping task; default
action-state assertions alone are insufficient.
Skip the heap purge task when no allocator callback is registered.
Skip the heap purge task when no allocator callback is registered.
When actions are enabled without a set_heap_purge call, poll_heap_purge starts a spawn_blocking task on each sample while memory pressure stays above idle. run_heap_purge returns false without doing work. The published purge_heap value is false either way, so the result is correct. The extra task is still wasted work.
Add an availability check to praxis_core::overload and test it before the spawn. The change is small: one pub fn and one condition.
Suggested fix
--- a/crates/core/src/overload.rs+++ b/crates/core/src/overload.rs
@@ pub fn run_heap_purge() -> bool {
HEAP_PURGE.get().is_some_and(|purge_fn| purge_fn())
}
++/// Whether an allocator purge callback has been registered.+pub fn heap_purge_available() -> bool {+ HEAP_PURGE.get().is_some()+}
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Review comment at @crates/server/src/server.rs around lines 1039 - 1041:
Add a public availability check in praxis_core::overload that reports whether a
heap-purge callback is registered, then update poll_heap_purge to spawn
run_heap_purge only when a purge is requested, no task is active, and the
callback is available.
Add a wiring test that fails when the binary's jemalloc global allocator is removed.
Add a wiring test that fails when the binary's jemalloc global allocator is removed.
jemalloc_purge_succeeds runs in the library test executable. That executable uses the system allocator because crates/server/src/lib.rs declares no #[global_allocator]. The only declaration is in crates/server/src/main.rs. If that declaration is removed, the test still passes. No integration test checks allocations in the shipped binary. The purge callback would still return true, but jemalloc would not serve the process allocations that the purge is meant to release.
Keep jemalloc_purge_succeeds. Add a check that reads jemalloc's stats.allocated before and after a large allocation, and asserts that the value increases. Refresh the jemalloc statistics epoch before each read. Run the check in the binary's test target, so the binary's global allocator applies. Gate it with overload-actions, matching the allocator module.
Do not assert that purging reduces stats.allocated. Purging releases unused pages and frees no live allocation, so allocated bytes do not change. Residency, such as stats.resident, is the statistic that decreases after purging.
main.rs forbids unsafe_code. Keep any raw mallctl call in crates/server/src/allocator.rs, and call a safe helper from the test in main.rs.
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Review comment at @crates/server/src/allocator.rs around lines 37 - 40:
Add a wiring test in the binary test target, gated by overload-actions, so it
uses the global allocator declared in main.rs and fails if that allocator is
removed. Keep jemalloc_purge_succeeds and place any raw mallctl access in
allocator.rs behind a safe helper; have the binary test use it to refresh the
stats epoch and verify stats.allocated increases across a large allocation. Do
not assert that purging reduces allocated bytes.
Test the host-CPU locality filter through sampleoverload.
Test the host-CPU locality filter through sample_overload.
The current wiring applies monitor.action_pressures(pressures) at crates/server/src/server.rs:985, before track_cpu_source and apply_overload_actions. The host-CPU test in crates/core/src/overload.rs:1428-1431 calls Monitor::action_pressures directly. No test calls sample_overload. Passing raw pressures at line 985 would leave the current tests passing. A host-only CPU sample could then reach EngagedActions::from_pressures and affect keep-alive and readiness.
Add a test that reaches this filter through sample_overload. The pressure input must be injectable, because Monitor::observe reads the kernel files directly. A seam at that boundary lets the test supply a host-only CPU reading. Call sample_overload with actions enabled, then assert that the returned EngagedActions leaves disable_keepalive and fail_readiness unset.
Keep the test at the caller boundary. Do not add a second action-derivation path for the test to call. The test should observe the actions that sample_overload returns.
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Review comment at @crates/core/src/overload.rs around lines 1428 - 1431:
Add an injectable pressure-input seam at the Monitor observation boundary used
by sample_overload, then test the caller-facing sample_overload path with
actions enabled and a host-only CPU sample. Assert its returned EngagedActions
leaves disable_keepalive and fail_readiness unset; do not test action derivation
through a separate path.
Make the PRAXIS_BIN path follow a Cargo build.target set in configuration.
When build.target comes from Cargo configuration and CARGO_BUILD_TARGET is unset, the test-integration recipe runs cargo build into target/<triple>/debug/. It then sets PRAXIS_BIN to target/debug/praxis. The subprocess tests then either panic because that file is missing, or run a stale binary. The same path formula already exists in resolve_praxis_bin_path(), so this is not a new defect in the PR. The test-integration recipe and the harness should derive the target directory from the same source Cargo uses.
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Review comment at @Makefile at line 831:
Update the test-integration recipe’s PRAXIS_BIN path and the harness’s
resolve_praxis_bin_path() so both derive the Cargo target directory from the
same source Cargo uses, including build.target from configuration when
CARGO_BUILD_TARGET is unset. Keep the executable path aligned with where cargo
build places the binary.
Resolve the praxis binary path from Cargo's configured target.
128-131: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | 💤 Low value
Resolve the praxis binary path from Cargo's configured target.
When build.target is set in Cargo configuration and CARGO_BUILD_TARGET is unset, resolve_praxis_bin_path looks for target/debug/praxis. Cargo places the build output in a target-triple subdirectory, so the assertion in build_praxis_bin fails after a successful build. Locate the executable from the build output, for example with cargo build --message-format=json, or read the configured target. The same failure exists before this change, so this is a follow-up.
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Review comment at @tests/utils/src/proxy.rs around lines 128 - 131:
Update resolve_praxis_bin_path so it locates the praxis executable in Cargo’s
configured target-triple output directory when CARGO_BUILD_TARGET is unset; use
the actual build output or configured target rather than assuming target/debug.
Ensure build_praxis_bin checks the resolved executable path after a successful
build.
Wait for a periodic sampler publication in the lifecycle test.
Wait for a periodic sampler publication in the lifecycle test.
spawn_housekeeping_tasks publishes once synchronously before it returns. The wait loop at crates/server/src/server.rs:1686 therefore exits on that initial publication. The test can pass without the sampler running its first periodic tick, so it does not verify the sampler path it names. Capture the count after spawn and wait for it to increase.
Suggested fix
let task = spawn_housekeeping_tasks(&runtime, &client, false, Arc::clone(&signal)).unwrap();
+ let baseline = signal.publications();
let deadline = std::time::Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(5);
- while signal.publications() == 0 {+ while signal.publications() == baseline {
assert!(std::time::Instant::now() < deadline, "real sampler must publish");
std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
}
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Review comment at @crates/server/src/server.rs around lines 1684 - 1688:
Update the lifecycle test around `spawn_housekeeping_tasks` to capture
`signal.publications()` immediately after spawning, then wait until the
publication count increases beyond that baseline. Preserve the existing deadline
and polling behavior so the test verifies a periodic sampler tick.
Skip the Arc::makemut copy when overload scaling cannot change the connection options.
Skip the Arc::make_mut copy when overload scaling cannot change the connection options.
select_peer in the Hyper upstream and execute in upstream_peer.rs call Arc::make_mut on every attempt. The Arc is shared with the source Upstream, so each call clones ConnectionOptions and allocates a new Arc, even when overload actions are off. The cost is one small allocation per attempt. Treat this as an optional refactor.
The skip condition must be !signal.is_enabled() && !signal.is_scaling(). When overload actions are enabled, scale_connection sets idle_timeout from None to Some(...), so the call must run. When pressure is active, the call must run to apply the shortened timeouts. When neither flag is set, scale_timeout returns its input unchanged, and the 1 ms floor does not alter zero or sub-millisecond values.
Add a helper beside scale_connection that applies this condition:
/// Scale a shared connection only when overload actions or pressure can change it.#[cfg(any(feature = "pingora", feature = "hyper", test))]pub(crate)fnscale_connection_if_active(connection:&mut std::sync::Arc<praxis_core::connectivity::ConnectionOptions>,signal:&praxis_core::overload::Signal,){if signal.is_enabled() || signal.is_scaling(){scale_connection(std::sync::Arc::make_mut(connection), signal);}}
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Review comment at @crates/protocol/src/http/hyper/upstream.rs at line 157:
Add a helper beside scale_connection that checks whether overload actions are
enabled or pressure is active before calling Arc::make_mut and scaling the
connection; otherwise leave the shared connection unchanged. Use this helper in
select_peer and execute instead of calling Arc::make_mut at each call site,
keeping its condition aligned with scale_connection’s behavior.
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Minor · Render compiler diagnostics when the test-binary build fails. · Makefile:57
Makefile:57 Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Render compiler diagnostics when the test-binary build fails.
cargo build --message-format=json > "$$artifacts" captures rustc diagnostics in the temporary file. When the build fails, set -e exits before artifact-path runs, and the EXIT trap deletes the file. The developer may then see only Cargo's final failure output.
Use json-render-diagnostics to render diagnostics to stderr while preserving the JSON artifact messages for xtask artifact-path.
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Update the cargo build command in the test-binary build recipe to use
`json-render-diagnostics` so compiler diagnostics reach stderr while JSON
artifact messages remain available in `$$artifacts` for `xtask artifact-path`.
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Review comments at @crates/server/src/server.rs:
- Around line 1764-1769: The shutdown assertion can match a nonzero pressure
value because it checks for a string ending in “0”. In the test around
`reset_overload_actions`, locate the CPU metric using its full label prefix,
parse the rendered value as a number, and assert that it equals zero so the test
fails when the reset does not clear the gauge.
Review comments at @docs/architecture/overload-manager.md:
- Around line 27-28: Rewrap the prose around “Pressure and action gauges” and
“total TCP session limits” so each Markdown line is at most 80 columns,
preserving the existing wording and meaning.
Review comments at @docs/operating/observability.md:
- Around line 390-392: Update the `praxis_overload_rejects_total` reason table
to include `pressure` and `pre_tls_pressure`, matching the reason values passed
by the TCP proxy, Hyper admission, and pre-TLS callers of
`record_overload_reject`.
Review comments at @tests/integration/tests/suite/examples/overload_actions.rs:
- Around line 291-382: The HTTP/2 waits in
server_scoped_transport_actions_preserve_body_reads_and_other_servers are
unbounded. Apply the existing WAIT timeout to the admitted response future, each
admitted body read, and the refused response future, retaining clear timeout
expectations and the existing status and body assertions.
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- Line 57: Update the cargo build command in the test-binary build recipe to use
`json-render-diagnostics` so compiler diagnostics reach stderr while JSON
artifact messages remain available in `$$artifacts` for `xtask artifact-path`.
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Review comments at @crates/server/src/server.rs:
- Around line 1770-1772: Update the test around the pressure(&after_stop,
&sibling) assertion so the injected CPU usage produces distinct, nonzero
pressure values for both servers; then verify the sibling’s pressure is
unchanged after reset_overload_actions.
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Could we move praxis_filter_active and praxis_body_buffer_bytes into a separate observability PR? Neither drives overload protection, so they seem independently reviewable and useful. That would help keep this PR focused on protective behavior.
Also, it looks like we now have unsafe code, which our repo forbids. @shaneutt@alexsnaps How should we handle this? For now, we could have something simple that the code must explain why unsafe must be used, and additionally, open up a GitHub issue to track whenever we could technically remove that unsafe code and the action associated with that removal.
@leseb Addressed the review in new commit 0bab36a, after rebasing onto main at 29cacba.
The two independent attribution gauges are now in PR #1515, commit 8d6a03c, based directly on main. That PR includes the missing branch request-hook guard, a suspended/cancelled hook regression, body ownership tests, and a working example validated on both backends. #1487 now focuses on protective behavior, with its description and design updated to show the split.
Allocator statistics now use safe typed TiKV APIs. The remaining argument-free purge call has an explicit reason and safety contract. Default and non-Unix builds retain forbid(unsafe_code); only opt-in Unix overload builds have the local exception. Issue #1514 tracks removing that exception and restoring blanket forbid when a safe purge API is available. If project policy requires zero local unsafe code before merge, the purge action would need an explicit contract change; the current revision retains it and makes the exception clear for that decision.
The Mermaid parser error and the nonzero sibling-pressure regression are also fixed. Each inline thread has the relevant fix SHA and has been resolved.
The observability review follow-up is published in 57ca50a: response chunks reuse request-scoped gauge handles, and dedicated lifecycle tests cover TCP connect/disconnect, request-head, and response trailers. All 3,181 filter tests and both backend examples pass; its two CodeRabbit threads are also resolved.
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@leseb Addressed the review in new commit 0bab36a, after rebasing onto main at 29cacba.
The two independent attribution gauges are now in PR #1515, commit 8d6a03c, based directly on main. That PR includes the missing branch request-hook guard, a suspended/cancelled hook regression, body ownership tests, and a working example validated on both backends. #1487 now focuses on protective behavior, with its description and design updated to show the split.
Allocator statistics now use safe typed TiKV APIs. The remaining argument-free purge call has an explicit reason and safety contract. Default and non-Unix builds retain forbid(unsafe_code); only opt-in Unix overload builds have the local exception. Issue #1514 tracks removing that exception and restoring blanket forbid when a safe purge API is available. If project policy requires zero local unsafe code before merge, the purge action would need an explicit contract change; the current revision retains it and makes the exception clear for that decision.
The Mermaid parser error and the nonzero sibling-pressure regression are also fixed. Each inline thread has the relevant fix SHA and has been resolved.
The observability review follow-up is published in 57ca50a: response chunks reuse request-scoped gauge handles, and dedicated lifecycle tests cover TCP connect/disconnect, request-head, and response trailers. All 3,181 filter tests and both backend examples pass; its two CodeRabbit threads are also resolved.
This is great. Thanks for the prompt action on all of those points. We should be able to proceed with this one soon. Thanks again. Just want to hear from other maintainers about the unsafe stuff first.
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What changes and why
Implements the remaining protective behavior for #145 on top of the resource monitors and pressure gauges merged in #1455. Rising pressure shortens transport waits and idle retention; sustained saturation refuses new work while admitted HTTP responses, HTTP/2 streams, and TCP sessions continue under their normal deadlines.
Filter activity and retained-body attribution have been extracted into independent observability PR #1515. Neither metric drives overload protection.
Behavior
runtime.overload_thresholds, with finite0 <= scaling < saturation <= 1. Omitted resources retain defaults.overload-actionsCargo feature and both runtime overload flags. Flags and bands require a restart; filter reloads preserve the server controller.1 - 0.9 * pressure. Body and total stream/session deadlines are preserved. Returned idle connections age out sooner; active connections are not cleared./ready. Three samples below saturation recover each resource. Management listeners and/healthyremain available.Allocator safety
Epoch refresh and allocated-byte reads now use safe
tikv-jemalloc-ctlAPIs. One privatemallctlcall remains for the argument-free arena-purge command because the typed API does not expose it. Its reason and safety contract are documented beside the call. Default and non-Unix builds retainforbid(unsafe_code). Only Unix builds withoverload-actionsusedeny(unsafe_code)plus the documented local exception; this exception still needs maintainer agreement.#1514 tracks adopting a safe purge API, removing the exception, and restoring
forbid(unsafe_code). If maintainers require zero local unsafe code before merge, removing the purge action is a separate, explicit contract decision.Review fixes
Registered
overload-actionsin the startup experimental-feature catalog. This fixes the shared unit/Hyper/coverage failure inevery_experimental_manifest_feature_is_listedand includes enabled overload actions in the operator-facing experimental warning. The manifest guard and experimental marker are preserved.Rebased onto main at
d5844c1f(v0.8.0), preserving its Policy feature/profile validation, FIPS test environment, dependency updates, and release changes. The overload entry remains under Unreleased.Corrected the Mermaid sequence label; reproduced the original parser failure and validated the corrected diagram with Mermaid.
Strengthened the pressure-isolation regression to start both servers at distinct nonzero pressures and verify the sibling is unchanged after reset.
Extracted the two independent attribution gauges, their tests, and their documentation for separate review. The branch-hook coverage fix requested in review belongs to that observability PR.
Validation
Current CI-fix validation: reproduced the exact manifest/catalog failure before the fix. All 31 startup-check tests then passed in each of the Hyper CI profile (overload actions off) and the Pingora compatible-feature profile (overload actions on). Focused server Clippy with warnings denied and workspace formatting passed.
Previous rebase checks: all three Policy-profile harness tests passed on each backend; six server overload unit tests, ten Pingora/eight Hyper overload integration scenarios, and three schema cases per backend passed. The changed harness passed Clippy on both backends; workspace formatting passed. Mocked Make checks verified Cargo artifact paths, explicit binary overrides, failed-build handling, and preservation of the FIPS provider environment in integration and conformance recipes.
Earlier feature validation:
make lintand all three Hyper Clippy passes passed.The design and end-to-end flow and functional example document the operating boundaries.
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