feat(server): retire HTTP/2 downstreams with GOAWAY when the drain starts - #1048
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…arts `retire_connection` skips `Connection: close` on HTTP/2 — RFC 9113 §8.2.2 forbids the header — and h2's replacement, GOAWAY, was only emitted when the listener closed, which is after the drain. So an HTTP/2 downstream went the entire grace period with no signal that the instance was leaving: it kept dispatching onto the connection, `in_flight` never reached zero, and the pod waited for SIGKILL with requests still running. The blocker was structural. `axum_server::Handle` has one trigger for both "stop accepting" and "retire connections", and the drain window requires the listener to stay open (AISIX-Cloud#1394), so retirement was unreachable without closing the listener along with it. `serve_http` now runs its own accept loop on hyper, and `axum-server` is dropped. All three listeners — proxy, admin, metrics — go through one path, in both serving modes: - The shutdown signal splits in two. `retire` flips at SIGTERM; `cancel` flips when the drain ends, as before. - The version is decided before hyper sees the connection (ALPN on TLS, the client preface on plaintext), because `auto::Connection` does not report what it negotiated and its `graceful_shutdown` is version-blind. - HTTP/2 is handed `graceful_shutdown()` on `retire`: hyper sends RFC 9113 §6.8's two-phase GOAWAY, stopping new streams without closing anything. HTTP/1.1 hears nothing until `cancel` and keeps retiring in band, since hyper retires it by closing an idle pooled connection — the race AISIX-Cloud#1394 ruled out. h2 moves to 0.4.19, which is required rather than incidental. A peer that answers a GOAWAY with its own — Node's HTTP/2 client does — sends `last_stream_id: 0`, since a client's last-stream-id speaks only for server-pushed streams. Before hyperium/h2#886 (first released in 0.4.14) the server applied it to every stream in the store, so the reciprocal frame reset every request still running on the connection: the drain would kill exactly the in-flight work it exists to protect. The access log gains `http_version`, declared on the request span next to `peer` so it reaches all 29 access-log sites at once. Nothing the gateway logged said whether a deployment had HTTP/2 downstreams at all, which is the fact that decides how its rolling updates behave. Also bounds one previously unbounded window: a plaintext peer that opens a connection and sends nothing is now cut off by `downstream.idle_timeout_secs`. hyper's own version read has no timer.
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change adds HTTP/2 GOAWAY-based draining and depends on h2 0.4.19 for in-flight request safety. The lockfile currently selects that version, but the manifests do not enforce the minimum, so future dependency resolution could reintroduce the broken behavior; the PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to pin the dependency and verify the drain-opened connection contract. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SignalHandler
participant ShutdownWatch
participant TCPListener
participant ProtocolDetector
participant TlsAcceptor
participant HyperConnection
SignalHandler->>ShutdownWatch: publish retirement
TCPListener->>ProtocolDetector: inspect connection preface
ProtocolDetector->>TlsAcceptor: perform TLS handshake when configured
ProtocolDetector->>HyperConnection: provide detected and replayed stream
ShutdownWatch->>HyperConnection: send HTTP/2 GOAWAY on retirement
SignalHandler->>ShutdownWatch: publish cancellation
ShutdownWatch->>HyperConnection: finish connection shutdown
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"other"fallback.
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In `@Cargo.toml`:
- Around line 44-48: Add h2 version 0.4.19 to the workspace dependencies, then
declare h2.workspace = true in aisix-server so its dependency floor is enforced
independently of Cargo.lock. Keep the existing hyper and tokio-rustls dependency
declarations unchanged.
In `@crates/aisix-server/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 2105-2114: The HTTP/2 connection handling loop retires connections
opened during drain immediately, potentially rejecting requests that should
complete. Update the test for the during-drain connection to send an HTTP/2
request and assert it completes; if the drain contract requires success, adjust
the loop around ShutdownWatch::signalled and retire_or_cancel so these
connections defer graceful_shutdown until cancellation.
Apply the same fix in `@tests/e2e/src/cases/graceful-drain-h2-e2e.test.ts` around
lines 184 - 197.
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In `@crates/aisix-proxy/src/request_id.rs`:
- Around line 357-367: Extend the http_version_labels_are_a_closed_set test to
cover an unsupported or unknown axum::http::Version value and assert that
http_version_label returns "other". Keep the existing HTTP version assertions
unchanged.
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…e connection is served Review follow-ups. hyper asks for `h2 = "0.4.6"`, so the 0.4.19 the GOAWAY path needs was held only by the lockfile. Declaring it in the workspace manifest makes `cargo update -p h2 --precise 0.4.13` fail outright instead of silently re-introducing a drain that resets in-flight requests. A connection accepted DURING the drain is retired the instant it is accepted, so its first request is the one that would be lost if retiring meant refusing. It is not — RFC 9113 §6.8's advisory GOAWAY explicitly allows in-flight stream creation — but nothing asserted it. Now the integration test and the e2e spec both do.
retire_connectionskipsConnection: closeon HTTP/2 — RFC 9113 §8.2.2 forbids the header — and h2's replacement, GOAWAY, was only emitted when the listener closed, which is after the drain. So an HTTP/2 downstream went the entire grace period with no signal that the instance was leaving: it kept dispatching onto the connection,in_flightnever reached zero, and the pod waited for SIGKILL with requests still running.The blocker was structural.
axum_server::Handlehas one trigger for both "stop accepting" and "retire connections", and the drain window requires the listener to stay open (AISIX-Cloud#1394), so retirement was unreachable without closing the listener along with it.hyper_util's auto connection compounds it: itsgraceful_shutdownis version-blind, and on HTTP/1.1 it means "close as soon as idle" — the server-initiated close of a pooled connection that #1394 ruled out.What changed
serve_httpnow runs its own accept loop on hyper, andaxum-serveris dropped from the workspace. All three listeners — proxy, admin, metrics — go through one path, in both serving modes.retireflips at SIGTERM;cancelflips when the drain ends, as before.auto::Connectiondoes not report what it negotiated.graceful_shutdown()onretire. hyper sends RFC 9113 §6.8's two-phase GOAWAY: an advisoryGOAWAY(2^31-1), a PING, then a second GOAWAY naming the last stream it processed. New streams stop, nothing closes until the running ones finish, and there is no race with a request in flight.canceland keeps retiring in band onConnection: close, because hyper retires an h1 connection by closing an idle pooled one.The h2 bump is required, not incidental
A peer that answers a GOAWAY with its own — Node's HTTP/2 client does, on any graceful GOAWAY — sends
last_stream_id: 0, since a client's last-stream-id speaks only for server-pushed streams. Before hyperium/h2#886 the server applied that id to every stream in its store, so the reciprocal frame reset every request still running on the connection: the drain killed exactly the in-flight work it exists to protect.That fix first shipped in h2 0.4.14 and the lockfile was pinned at 0.4.13, one release short. Moving to 0.4.19 is what makes the new e2e spec pass; against 0.4.13 it fails with the in-flight request dead at SIGTERM. The bug was server-side only — as a client, our locally-initiated streams were always filtered correctly.
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The access log gains
http_version, declared on the request span next topeerso it reaches all 29 access-log sites at once. Nothing the gateway logged said whether a deployment had HTTP/2 downstreams at all, which is the fact that decides how its rolling updates behave and howterminationGracePeriodSecondsshould be sized.Behaviour changes
downstream.idle_timeout_secs. hyper's own version read has no timer, so that window was previously unbounded.http_version.Unchanged: ALPN still offers
h2ahead ofhttp/1.1;TCP_NODELAYis still set on every accepted socket; a cert-load failure still aborts before the port is bound;ConnectInfo, WebSocket upgrades on/v1/realtime, andheader_read_timeoutbehave as before.Tests
graceful-drain-h2-e2e(new): a real h2c downstream against the real binary — the GOAWAY lands at SIGTERM, the stream already running finishes, and the listener keeps accepting. This is the spec that fails against h2 0.4.13.an_http2_downstream_is_retired_when_the_drain_startsandan_http1_downstream_is_not_closed_when_the_drain_starts: the two halves of the per-protocol split, driven by real hyper clients. Each fails if the other protocol's signal is wired to it, which is the mistake a version-blind graceful shutdown makes.every_listener_sets_tcp_nodelayis replaced by a narrower probe. With one accept path the invariant worth holding is that there is still only one, and that it sets the option before handing the socket to a task.Fixes api7/AISIX-Cloud#1395
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