fix(skippy): stop a stalled SSE consumer pinning a generation worker

[ndizazzo]

What

A generation worker parks in mpsc::Sender::blocking_send when the SSE event channel is full, and blocking_send waits indefinitely. If the consumer stops draining without the channel ever being dropped — a client gone before the server's own disconnect detection notices, e.g. behind a proxy that doesn't propagate the close — that send never returns. The worker, and the execution lane it holds, are pinned forever, even after the request is cancelled. With parallel = 1 one such worker blocks every other request.

This replaces the six ad hoc blocking_send call sites in run_generation_stream with a StreamEventSender that races each send against cancellation and against a stall timeout, so a send can no longer wait unboundedly.

Scope — what this does not claim

This is not established as the cause of the qwen-3.8-perf orphan (report defect #5), and that item stays open. A worker parked in blocking_send is not computing, so it cannot explain the reported "GPU stayed at ~65% for 3+ minutes". A hypothesis that fits all the reported evidence better: the capture ran opencode behind a logging TCP proxy, which keeps draining the SSE body after the real client dies — so nothing is ever full, CancelOnDropSseStream::drop never fires, and generation runs to max_tokens (32000 in that capture; ~464 s at the measured 69 tok/s). This PR does not help that case.

Settling it is cheap: reproduce the orphan and sample GPU utilization. Near-0% ⇒ a stalled send, and this is the fix. Sustained busy ⇒ an uninterruptible run-to-max_tokens, and the real fix is elsewhere. Either way the blocking_send hazard is real and latent, and worth closing on its own merits.

What changed

StreamEventSender::send — in-flight events

tokio::select! (biased, cancellation first) over cancellation, tx.send, and tokio::time::sleep(stall_timeout), run under a tokio::runtime::Handle — the pattern already used from inside this same spawn_blocking worker at prompting.rs:291/:317; CancellationToken::cancelled() is Notify-based.

No polling. The earlier revision of this PR used try_send + a 20 ms sleep, which taxed the healthy path: capacity is 16, so a consumer slightly slower than decode hits Full routinely — ordinary backpressure, not a fault — and would have paid up to 20 ms per event, capping throughput near 50 events/s. The select! wakes the instant space appears, and cancellation is observed immediately rather than up to a tick late.

On a dropped or stalled receiver, the request is cancelled and the receiver is recorded as unreachable.

StreamEventSender::send_terminal — frames emitted after generation finishes

Deliberately does not consult cancellation. The cancellation error, a parser.finish error, the backend error, usage, and Done are exactly the frames the frontend lifecycle needs when the request was cancelled; on main, blocking_send delivered them unconditionally.

This fixes a regression in the first revision of this PR: the cancellation frame was sent from inside if context.is_cancelled(), and the helper opened with an is_cancelled bail, so the frame was never enqueued. That is not cosmetic — the Err frame drives observe_backend_stream → lifecycle.failed(error), which sets backend_error and emits a classified StreamTerminal; without it drop_outcome() falls through to StreamDropOutcome::Cancelled. Both the client-visible error frame and the terminal telemetry changed silently. The same shape swallowed the parser.finish error and the outer generation error.

send_terminal does still refuse to wait on a receiver already proven unreachable. Otherwise a genuinely stalled consumer would be waited out twice — once in flight, once for the terminal frame — doubling the lane hold to 2 * stall_timeout and defeating the point.

Stall timeout

STREAM_SEND_STALL_TIMEOUT is now its own Duration::from_secs(10) rather than an alias of GENERATION_ADMISSION_TIMEOUT. Admission queueing and stream-stall tolerance are unrelated policies; retuning one must not silently retune the other.

Correcting a claim in this PR's earlier description: it said a stalled generation "can never hold a lane longer than everyone else already times out for". That is false as written. The timer is per send, not per generation — a consumer that drains one event every 9.9 s resets it indefinitely. The real property is narrower: no single send stalls more than 10 s. A generation-scoped deadline would be a separate change.

Dead file removed (separate commit)

crates/openai-frontend/src/router/stream_lifecycle.rs is not compiled: lib.rs:13's pub mod router; resolves to src/router.rs, and the only mod stream_lifecycle; (lib.rs:15) resolves to src/stream_lifecycle.rs. The two files have drifted (completed()/dropped() vs finish_natural()/finish_drop() with protocol_complete handling). It sat directly in this PR's blast radius, so it is deleted here. The earlier description cited router/stream_lifecycle.rs:154, inherited from the report — that is the dead copy. The live Drop is crates/openai-frontend/src/stream_lifecycle.rs.

Commits

• 22b37fc8a — fix(skippy): deliver terminal SSE frames and drop the send poll loop
• 69b026749 — chore(openai-frontend): delete the uncompiled router/stream_lifecycle.rs

Tests

Four in crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend/tests.rs. All run the send against a live, never-drained receiver so a regression to an unconditional blocking send fails the test instead of hanging the suite.

Test	Proves
stalled_receiver_does_not_pin_the_generation_worker_forever	A cancelled request interrupts a stalled send (real 10 s timeout, so cancellation must be what ends the wait)
stalled_receiver_self_cancels_after_the_stall_timeout_with_no_external_cancel	With nothing ever calling cancel(), a stalled send still self-cancels and frees the lane
terminal_frames_are_delivered_after_the_request_is_cancelled	Red→green for the swallowed terminal frame; also asserts in-flight send still refuses once cancelled
terminal_frames_are_dropped_once_the_receiver_is_proven_unreachable	The terminal send short-circuits (<25 ms against a 50 ms stall timeout) instead of waiting the timeout twice

Validation

At 69b026749:

cargo fmt --all --check                                     ok
cargo check   -p skippy-server                              ok
cargo clippy  -p skippy-server   --all-targets -- -D warnings   ok
cargo test    -p skippy-server   --lib                      451 passed; 0 failed; 3 ignored
cargo check   -p openai-frontend                            ok
cargo clippy  -p openai-frontend --all-targets -- -D warnings   ok
cargo test    -p openai-frontend --lib                      178 passed; 0 failed

Not yet run: an end-to-end reproduction of the orphan on a GPU host. See Scope above.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved reliability of live generation updates when event delivery is delayed or interrupted.
  • Generation requests now stop promptly when the connection is cancelled or no longer accepting updates.
  • Prevented stalled event delivery from keeping generation requests active indefinitely.
  • Ensured final generation status updates are delivered when possible after cancellation.
  • Improved diagnostic visibility for interrupted or stalled generation streams.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for cancelled connections and timed-out event delivery scenarios.

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StreamEventSender now uses bounded, cancellation-aware delivery with structured telemetry for stalled or unreachable receivers. Stream generation stops after delivery failure. Tests cover cancellation, stalls, terminal delivery, and receiver unreachability. The OpenAI stream lifecycle module was removed.

Generation-event delivery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounded delivery and telemetry crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs	StreamEventSender handles cancellation, stall timeouts, receiver closure, terminal frames, and structured telemetry.
Stream integration and regression coverage crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs, crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend/tests.rs	Generation, usage, completion, and error events use bounded delivery. Tests cover stalled sends, cancellation, terminal delivery, and unreachable receivers.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ecb2d

The PR bounds stalled SSE sends while preserving terminal error and completion frames, reducing the chance that a disconnected client pins a generation lane indefinitely. It is mergeable with owner awareness that one timing-sensitive test may be flaky under CI load and that unstructured diagnostics could make future stalled-lane incidents harder to diagnose.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GenerationWorker
  participant StreamEventSender
  participant GenerationChannel
  participant Telemetry
  GenerationWorker->>StreamEventSender: send stream event
  StreamEventSender->>GenerationChannel: bounded cancellation-aware send
  GenerationChannel-->>StreamEventSender: accept, stall, or disconnect
  StreamEventSender->>Telemetry: emit stage.openai_stream_lane_freed
  StreamEventSender-->>GenerationWorker: continue or stop on delivery failure

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• Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm#865: Both changes modify OpenAI streaming telemetry and stream-delivery guardrails.
• Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm#1149: Both changes modify Skippy generation lifecycle instrumentation.
• Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm#1234: Both changes modify OpenAI streaming lifecycle telemetry and completion diagnostics.

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[michaelneale]

this is a really good one - I bet this bit a lot!

[michaelneale]

Reviewed at 27a110b0 against origin/main = 084105d14. The blocking_send hazard is real and the test is a genuine red→green, so I'd like this to land — but I don't think it fixes the defect the description claims, and it has one behaviour regression plus one incorrect claim in the body. Details below, most important first.

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1. The mechanism is inconsistent with the reported symptom

The report's #6 (the orphan) says:

the GPU stayed at ~65% for 3+ minutes and probe requests failed with timed out waiting for an execution lane after 10 seconds

A worker parked inside mpsc::Sender::blocking_send is not computing. Under this PR's mechanism the orphan would hold the lane with the GPU near idle, not at 65%. So the observed 65% for 3+ minutes falsifies the mechanism-to-symptom link, even though the mechanism itself is a real latent bug.

A hypothesis that fits all the reported evidence: the capture ran opencode behind a logging TCP proxy (report §1, appendix). A proxy keeps reading from the server after the real client dies. So:

• the proxy keeps draining the SSE body → the channel never stays full → blocking_send never blocks and try_send never returns Full
• the server-side socket stays open → CancelOnDropSseStream::drop never fires → cancellation.cancel() is never called
• generation therefore runs to max_tokens, which the capture set to 32000; at the measured 69 tok/s that is ~464 s of continuous decode

3+ minutes of ~65% GPU with the only lane held, and no cancellation, drops out of that directly. This PR does not help that case at all: nothing is full, and nothing ever cancels.

Cheap way to settle it rather than argue: reproduce the orphan and sample GPU utilization. Near-0% ⇒ a stalled send, this PR is the fix. Sustained busy ⇒ an uninterruptible run-to-max_tokens, and the real fix is elsewhere.

I'd suggest retitling/rescoping this to what it demonstrably does — "a stalled SSE consumer can pin a generation worker indefinitely" — and leaving the report's #5 open until the GPU-utilization check comes back. Landing this as "#5 fixed" risks closing a lane-exhaustion bug that is still live.

2. Regression: the cancellation frame is now never sent (must fix)

backend.rs (post-diff):

if context.is_cancelled() {
    let _ = send_generation_event(&tx, Err(request_cancelled_error()), &context);
    return;
}

send_generation_event_with_stall_timeout starts its loop with:

if context.is_cancelled() {
    return Err(request_cancelled_error());
}

Inside that branch context.is_cancelled() is true by construction — it is the branch condition. So the helper returns immediately and the cancellation frame is never enqueued, where on main blocking_send delivered it whenever the buffer had room (capacity 16, backend.rs:815).

Not just cosmetic. On main that Err reaches observe_backend_stream → lifecycle.failed(error) (openai-frontend/src/stream_lifecycle.rs:196-198, :80-86), which sets backend_error and emits a StreamTerminal classified from the error. With the frame dropped, drop_outcome (:111-122) instead falls through to StreamDropOutcome::Cancelled. So both the client-visible error frame and the terminal telemetry classification change silently.

The same shape affects the two terminal Err sends (parser.finish failure, and the outer Err(error) arm): if anything cancelled the context earlier — including a self-cancel from this very helper — the error is swallowed rather than reported.

Fix: send terminal frames with a variant that doesn't consult is_cancelled (a plain try_send, or a terminal: bool / separate send_terminal_event). The stall/closed guards should still apply; only the pre-emptive cancellation check should be bypassed.

3. The body's central claim is false as written

so a stalled generation can never hold a lane longer than everyone else already times out for

let stalled_since = Instant::now(); is per call, so the 10 s bound is per event, not per generation. A consumer that drains one event every 9.9 s resets the timer forever and holds the lane indefinitely — exactly the failure mode being fixed, just slower.

That matters because the justification for reusing GENERATION_ADMISSION_TIMEOUT rests on this claim. Either state the real property ("no single send stalls more than 10 s") or add a generation-scoped deadline if a total bound is actually wanted. Related: aliasing STREAM_SEND_STALL_TIMEOUT = GENERATION_ADMISSION_TIMEOUT couples two unrelated policies — someone retuning admission silently retunes stream-stall behaviour. I'd give it its own value.

4. The 20 ms poll taxes the healthy backpressure path

Channel capacity is 16 (backend.rs:815). A consumer that is merely slightly slower than decode hits Full routinely — that's normal backpressure, not a fault. blocking_send wakes the instant space appears; try_send + thread::sleep(20ms) can wait up to 20 ms per event, capping visible throughput at ~50 events/s under sustained backpressure. Against the 69 tok/s decode this PR's sibling defects are trying to protect, that's a meaningful regression on a common path.

There's a fully event-driven alternative with no polling and faster cancellation response, using pieces already in the crate — CancellationToken::cancelled() is notify-based (openai-frontend/src/backend.rs:54-62), and a tokio::runtime::Handle is already in scope at the spawn site (hook_runtime, Handle::current(); Handle is Clone):

handle.block_on(async {
    tokio::select! {
        result = tx.send(event) => ...,
        () = context.cancelled() => ...,
        () = tokio::time::sleep(stall_timeout) => ...,
    }
})

Immediate wakeup on space, immediate wakeup on cancel, no 20 ms tax, and the stall timeout still enforced. Worth considering before locking in the poll loop.

5. Smaller things

• The description cites a dead file. router/stream_lifecycle.rs:154 (inherited from the report) is not the code that runs. crates/openai-frontend/src/router/stream_lifecycle.rs has no mod declaration anywhere in the tree — the only mod stream_lifecycle; is lib.rs:15, which resolves to src/stream_lifecycle.rs. I confirmed rather than inferred: appending a syntax error to the router/ copy and running cargo check -p openai-frontend --lib still succeeds. The live Drop is src/stream_lifecycle.rs:253-258, and the two files have drifted (completed()/dropped() vs finish_natural()/finish_drop() with protocol_complete handling). It's a 160-line trap sitting directly in this PR's blast radius — worth deleting in a separate commit, and worth fixing the citation here so the next reader doesn't reason from it.
• finish_reason interaction. Not touched by this PR, but while you're in the streaming terminal path: with a bypassed terminal send, double-check nothing now emits Done and an error frame for the same request.
• Tests are good — particularly ..._with_no_external_cancel covering the no-cancel()-at-all case, and running the send off-thread with recv_timeout so a regression fails instead of hanging the suite. If you take the select! approach, please keep both tests; they're the durable part of this PR.

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Summary: I'd like #2 fixed and #3 corrected before merge, #1 resolved by rescoping the claim (the code change can still land), and #4 considered. The blocking_send hazard is worth closing regardless of whether it turns out to be the carrack orphan.

[ndizazzo]

Thanks — all four actionable points are addressed in 22b37fc8a + 69b026749, and I've rewritten the title and description. Point by point.

1. Mechanism vs. symptom — agreed, rescoped

You're right that a worker parked in blocking_send isn't computing, so it can't produce 65% GPU for 3+ minutes. I've retitled to what this demonstrably does ("stop a stalled SSE consumer pinning a generation worker") and the description now states explicitly that report #5 stays open pending the GPU-utilization check, along with your run-to-max_tokens-behind-a-proxy hypothesis and the near-0%-vs-sustained-busy test that settles it. I don't have the box; flagged to Nick in the channel.

2. Swallowed terminal frame — confirmed and fixed

Confirmed exactly as you describe. Terminal frames now go through send_terminal, which does not consult cancellation at all; only in-flight events (the on_text_chunk path) keep the cancellation check. That covers all four sites: the cancellation frame, the parser.finish error, the backend error, and usage/Done.

terminal_frames_are_delivered_after_the_request_is_cancelled is the red→green: it cancels the context, sends a terminal frame, and asserts the receiver actually yields it — plus that in-flight send still returns Err on the same cancelled context, so the bypass is scoped to terminal frames only.

One thing your review didn't cover, which shaped the fix. Bypassing the cancellation check unconditionally means a genuinely stalled consumer gets waited on twice: 10 s in-flight (which cancels), then another 10 s for the terminal frame on the still-full channel — a 20 s lane hold, worse than the bug. So send_terminal short-circuits on a receiver already proven unreachable (closed, or stalled past the timeout), while still delivering when the request was merely cancelled externally and the receiver is alive and draining. terminal_frames_are_dropped_once_the_receiver_is_proven_unreachable bounds it at <25 ms against a 50 ms injected timeout.

3. False claim — corrected, and the constant decoupled

Correct, the timer is per call. The description now states the real property ("no single send stalls more than 10 s") and notes a generation-scoped deadline would be a separate change. STREAM_SEND_STALL_TIMEOUT is its own Duration::from_secs(10); the aliasing to GENERATION_ADMISSION_TIMEOUT is gone, for the reason you gave.

4. 20 ms poll — taken, with the select! you sketched

Adopted. Handle::block_on + tokio::select! (biased, cancellation first) over tx.send, cancellation.cancelled(), and tokio::time::sleep. Your read that this is safe here is right and I checked the precedent before writing it: prompting.rs:291/:317 already handle.block_on(...) from inside this same spawn_blocking worker.

One implementation note for the next reader: the sleep future must be constructed inside the async block passed to block_on, not before it. tokio::time::sleep() registers with the runtime timer when called, not when polled, so hoisting it panics with "there is no reactor running". Commented at both sites.

Both tests you called out are kept, adapted to the new API with their doc comments intact — including ..._with_no_external_cancel, and the off-thread + recv_timeout structure.

5. Smaller things

• Dead file — confirmed independently before deleting: lib.rs:13's pub mod router; resolves to src/router.rs (which exists), and the only mod stream_lifecycle; is lib.rs:15 → src/stream_lifecycle.rs. src/router/ held that one orphaned file and nothing else. Deleted in 69b026749, and the description's citation now points at the live file.
• finish_reason interaction — checked: send_terminal bypasses only the cancellation check, not the control flow. The if context.is_cancelled() branch still returns after its error frame, so nothing emits Done and an error frame for the same request.

Validation at 69b026749

cargo fmt --all --check, cargo check/clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings for both skippy-server and openai-frontend, cargo test -p skippy-server --lib (451 passed, 3 ignored), cargo test -p openai-frontend --lib (178 passed). No end-to-end GPU reproduction — see point 1.

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crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs (1)

998-1006: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a log for the stall and receiver-drop branches.

When a send stalls, mark_receiver_unreachable cancels the context. Line 1003 then takes the cancellation branch, so the terminal frame carries request cancelled and the specific error text (stream receiver stalled without draining) is discarded by the ? at line 998 and the let _ = at line 1004. No branch in StreamEventSender emits a log or a span. An operator therefore cannot distinguish a client-initiated cancellation from a stalled consumer that held an execution lane for stall_timeout.

Add a tracing::warn! in the stall and drop branches of send and send_terminal, with the request id from ids or the context. This is the primary failure mode this PR exists to bound.

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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs` around lines 998 - 1006, Add
tracing::warn! diagnostics to the stall and receiver-drop handling branches in
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the context. Ensure warnings distinguish a stalled consumer from a dropped
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assertion from that timeout with a substantially smaller fraction rather than a
fixed 25 ms bound. Keep the stalled send and terminal short-circuit behavior
assertions unchanged.

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- Around line 998-1006: Add tracing::warn! diagnostics to the stall and
receiver-drop handling branches in StreamEventSender::send and send_terminal,
including the request ID from ids or the context. Ensure warnings distinguish a
stalled consumer from a dropped receiver and are emitted before cancellation or
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crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs (3)

71-78: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial

The stall timeout bounds one send, not the generation.

A consumer that accepts one event just before each 10-second deadline keeps the lane held for the whole generation. The current change removes the unbounded case, which is the important one. Consider adding a generation-wide deadline or a stall counter later if slow-drain consumers appear in production.

Also consider emitting a metric or telemetry span when a stall or receiver-drop is detected, so orphaned lanes are observable without log scraping.

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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs` around lines 71 - 78, Keep
STREAM_SEND_STALL_TIMEOUT scoped to individual event sends; no generation-wide
deadline or stall counter is required for this change. Preserve the current
bounded-send behavior and do not add telemetry or unrelated observability
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Optional: share the send/timeout select between send and send_terminal.

Both methods run the same tokio::select! over tx.send, the stall sleep, the drop branch, and the unreachable flag. Only the cancellation arm and the log text differ. Extract a private helper that takes an optional cancellation token and a frame-kind label. That keeps the timeout and unreachable-marking policy in one place if the timeout is retuned later.

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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs` around lines 198 - 231,
Optionally refactor the duplicated send/timeout logic in send and send_terminal
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Route stream diagnostics through Telemetry. skippy-server uses its custom Telemetry::emit and Telemetry::emit_debug APIs, not a logging facade. Emit the receiver outcome, REQUEST_ID, and stall timeout as structured attributes instead of using uncorrelated eprintln! calls.

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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs` around lines 158 - 161, Replace
the eprintln! call in the stream receiver handling around request_id with the
existing Telemetry::emit or Telemetry::emit_debug API. Record the receiver
outcome, REQUEST_ID, and stall timeout as structured attributes, preserving the
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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/backend.rs`:
- Around line 71-78: Keep STREAM_SEND_STALL_TIMEOUT scoped to individual event
sends; no generation-wide deadline or stall counter is required for this change.
Preserve the current bounded-send behavior and do not add telemetry or unrelated
observability changes.
- Around line 198-231: Optionally refactor the duplicated send/timeout logic in
send and send_terminal into a private helper that accepts the optional
cancellation token and frame-kind label. Preserve each method’s existing
cancellation behavior, logging context, timeout handling, and
receiver_unreachable updates while centralizing the shared tokio::select!
policy.
- Around line 158-161: Replace the eprintln! call in the stream receiver
handling around request_id with the existing Telemetry::emit or
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timeout as structured attributes, preserving the current diagnostic context
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