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Summary

Part of #16000. This PR covers its dead-leaf reclamation; exact-size split prefixes and leaf-slack caps are not included.

CRTC removals change coverage only. A leaf whose last holder evicts it stays linked until the 5-minute stale-leaf sweep, which also stalls an event lane while it runs. Under eviction churn, most of the indexer's memory ends up in dead leaves. At the end of a 2,048-worker Mooncake replay, 73% of nodes were dead.

This PR reclaims dead leaves as they die:

• Lane drain. Each node records parent_tail, the hash of the block before its edge. A node's head never moves, so its parent is always the node whose edge ends with that block.
  • A removal that kills a leaf finds that parent through the root, an anchor, or the evicting worker's lookup, then queues the leaf on its lane.
  • The lane unlinks queued leaves when it is idle: at most 256 at a time, and all of them before a flush. Each parent's leaves go under one try-locked gate.
• Background backstop. ThreadPoolIndexer gets a maintenance thread in place of the lane-scheduled CleanupStaleChildren task, which only CRTC used.
  • CRTC sweeps there once 1,024 nodes have died or 30 s have passed. It catches leaves the drain missed: a parent that was busy or not in the lookup, or a leaf still referenced.
  • The sweep walks the tree without gates and unlinks each parent's dead children under one try-locked gate.

Unlinking uses the sweep's existing conditions: the child is attached, holder-less, childless and referenced only by its parent. Removal still never splits or merges nodes.

Validation

Benchmarks ran on a bench-instrumented prototype of this design, with the same algorithm and constants, against main's behaviour in the same binary. Since then the PR has changed only small details: it has no runtime switches, it queues a leaf only from the removal that kills it, and an overflowing queue drains oldest first.

Memory, Mooncake replay at its end:

	main	this PR
Dead nodes, 128 workers, block size 128	341,174	0
Dead nodes, 2,048 workers, block size 16, with eviction	251,025	5
Indexer heap, 2,048 workers	4.49 GiB	2.28 GiB
Peak RSS, 2,048 workers	14.60 GiB	12.93 GiB

Performance, using the CRTC protocol from INDEXER_BENCH.md (Mooncake, 128 workers, dup 20, length 4, 8 event workers): 20 fresh-process rounds on one node, alternating arm order. Each value is this PR / main, a ratio of medians with a bootstrap 95% CI.

Load	Metric	main	this PR	Ratio [95% CI]
Overload, 750 ms	Write capacity, M block ops/s	69.3	81.2	1.17 [1.15, 1.18]
Overload	Update latency p50	1.68 s	1.52 s	0.90 [0.89, 0.92]
Overload	Update latency p99	3.81 s	3.14 s	0.82 [0.82, 0.85]
Keep-up, 12 s	Lookup service p50	4.03 µs	3.74 µs	0.93 [0.87, 0.95]
Keep-up	Lookup service p99	22.3 µs	23.0 µs	1.03 [0.97, 1.06]
Keep-up	Update latency p50	74 µs	52 µs	0.70 [0.68, 0.79]
Keep-up	Update latency p99	1.68 ms	1.58 ms	0.94 [0.88, 1.15]

All 80 runs were valid, and every keep-up run kept up. A smaller tree makes walks cheaper, so writes speed up. Lookup p99 and keep-up update p99 are within noise. In production, main's 5-minute sweep would also stall a lane for 1.5–2.5 s; the replays end before it runs.

Tests

• New unit tests cover:
  • the lane drain;
  • finding the parent after later splits;
  • leaving referenced leaves to the sweep;
  • split-born dead suffixes;
  • the sweep triggers;
  • flushes;
  • the maintenance thread, including stopping it when the indexer drops.
• New randomized_reclamation_keeps_scores_exact: 32 seeds × 300 ops over two lanes, with drains and sweeps at random points. Every worker's score must equal its held prefix.
• cargo test -p dynamo-kv-router --lib passes, with the CRTC tests repeated 10×. Clippy with -D warnings is clean.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved reclamation of unused index entries during background maintenance, idle periods, and flushes, helping prevent stale entries from lingering.
  • Strengthened cleanup behavior during concurrent updates while preserving accurate query results.

[jthomson04]

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Walkthrough

The CRTC indexer now queues and unlinks eligible holder-less leaves during lane activity and flushes. It also runs scheduled stale-leaf sweeps through a background-maintenance interface. Node state records the hash preceding each edge to support parent lookup.

Changes

CRTC dead-leaf reclamation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track parent edges lib/kv-router/src/indexer/concurrent_radix_tree_compressed/README.md, .../state.rs, .../node.rs, .../store.rs	Nodes now store the hash preceding their edge. New and split nodes receive the corresponding parent hash.
Queue and unlink dead leaves .../children.rs, .../lane_lookup.rs, .../node.rs, .../remove.rs, .../mod.rs, .../README.md	Lane queues hold dead-leaf unlink records. Batch removal checks attachment, holder and child state, references, and node gates. Sweeps scan for eligible leaves and defer candidates whose parent gate is busy.
Integrate maintenance and validate .../sync_impl.rs, .../thread_pool.rs, .../traits.rs, .../types.rs, .../lower_tier.rs, .../positional.rs, lib/kv-router/src/cleanup.rs, .../tests.rs	Flush and idle workers drain pending unlinks. The thread pool runs optional backend maintenance ticks and joins the maintenance thread during shutdown. The cleanup task and related scheduling hooks are removed. Tests cover reclamation, sweep scheduling, and maintenance lifecycle.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b5a75

Provide the required benchmark results and decision for the final implementation before merging. No performance regression is established, but the changed removal path has not met its stated validation requirement.

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Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		PR #16000 requires prompt, bounded reclamation and a five-minute backstop. The changes implement lane queues, 256-entry drains, anchor-root sweeping, and maintenance triggers at 1,024 deaths or 30 sec…	Implement the #16000 volume trigger and edge-capacity requirements, add the anchor-reclaim test, and provide the required time-averaged memory and one-hour RSS validation. Then verify the performance acceptance criteria with the specified b…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 64.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 75 functions across 12 files. (1 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes remove the obsolete lane cleanup task and add generic background-maintenance support in SyncIndexer and ThreadPoolIndexer. Changes in the other indexers, cleanup state, documentation, …
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reclaiming dead CRTC leaves as they become eligible.
Description check		The description is detailed, on-topic, and covers the implementation, validation, tests, and related issue. It does not use the template's exact headings, omits the reviewer-start section, and uses “P…

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Explanation

PR #16000 requires prompt, bounded reclamation and a five-minute backstop. The changes implement lane queues, 256-entry drains, anchor-root sweeping, and maintenance triggers at 1,024 deaths or 30 seconds. The issue also requires the live/8-plus-floor volume trigger, exact split-prefix sizing, capped leaf slack, time-averaged memory evidence, a one-hour RSS soak, and an anchor-reclaim test. The supplied diff summary reports none of those capacity changes or the anchor test, and reports only snapshot benchmarks rather than the required time-averaged and soak results.

Resolution

Implement the #16000 volume trigger and edge-capacity requirements, add the anchor-reclaim test, and provide the required time-averaged memory and one-hour RSS validation. Then verify the performance acceptance criteria with the specified benchmark method.

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Re: CodeRabbit asking for final-code benchmarks (node.rs): the before/after numbers are in the Validation section. They come from the CRTC protocol: overloaded achieved_block_ops_per_sec is 1.17× main [1.15, 1.18], and keep-up query_service p50/p99 is 0.93× / 1.03×, over 20 fresh-process rounds. They were measured on a bench-instrumented prototype with the same algorithm and constants. The description lists the differences, and none of them touch the measured paths. The CRTC maintainer owns the benchmark decision, so no separate PeaBrane review is needed.

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