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The accept loop ran the handlers of each accepted socket inline: on_open, and with TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT also the first read, the request handler and the response. A client that was answered could be back in the queue before the next accept(), so the loop did not end while such clients kept coming. Timers, other sockets and the free of closed sockets waited for it. One readiness event now accepts at most 32 connections. The poll of the listener is level-triggered and reports what is still queued on the next iteration.
No benchmark in bench/ opens a connection per request. This snippet serves Bun.serve, Bun.listen, node:http or node:net for a client such as ab without -k, and prints the CPU time of the server per request.
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WalkthroughThe listener accept loop now limits accepts to 32 per readiness event. New tests cover queued connections across Bun and Node listener types. A new benchmark serves requests through Bun or Node HTTP and raw TCP servers and reports request counts and CPU time per request. ChangesListener Accept Queue
HTTP Connection-per-Request Benchmark
Priority: ⬆️ High Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The TLS test may not verify all 100 accepts, and benchmark CPU-per-request readings may be inflated by logging. These are bounded confidence and measurement issues; the accept limit does not appear to strand queued connections on the default backends. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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CIThe tests of this PR pass on every lane of build 121551, macOS and Windows included. Two tests that this diff does not touch are red there:
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A request head can arrive in more than one chunk. Bun.listen and node:net counted and answered on the first chunk. They now wait for the blank line, as the HTTP servers do.
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two things at the loop.c change: the accept bound's effect on graceful shutdown (connections still queued past 32 when stop() runs are now reset instead of answered) is the trade-off the description already documents rather than a defect, and Windows named-pipe listeners do not go through this us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll accept loop, so the starvation fix and its bound do not apply there.
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The production change is a single bound (32) on the per-readiness-event accept loop in packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c, plus tests, two fixtures and a bench script; no security-sensitive surface is touched. It is a hot event-loop path with a semantic trade-off (shutdown behaviour, burst latency) that the author explicitly leaves to the maintainer, and verified findings exist, so this is not an approve.
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At a bound of 32 the burst of the existing test still parks TLS sockets in the low-priority queue, so that test keeps its coverage and this PR does not need a second one that blocks for 4 s. The sampler of the two TLS kinds stops after 10 samples per expected accept and rejects, so a run that lost a client fails at once.
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The latest commit addresses both points from my earlier review (the 4 s low-priority fixture is gone and the TLS poll sampler now has a deadline that rejects). Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the bound's reliance on a level-triggered listener poll holds on every backend: epoll registers the listen fd without EPOLLET (only the async eventfd is edge-triggered at epoll_kqueue.c:848), kqueue adds the read knote with plain EV_ADD (epoll_kqueue.c:627), and the libuv path dispatches uv_poll which is level-triggered, so a partially drained backlog is reported again on the next iteration.
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The change adds a 32-accept cap to the listener branch of us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll in packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c, plus a benchmark snippet and a 14-kind accept-ordering test with a Worker fixture. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The bound itself is a two-line loop-condition change that is correct given level-triggered listener polls on all backends, but the inline finding about server.stop() now leaving queued connections unserved is a behavior trade-off a maintainer should weigh, and the earlier ruled-out check is the only new information worth recording.
The two TLS kinds of the accept test read the polls of the loop, since no JS runs when their listener accepts. The sampler now rejects when the count rises by more than the clients, and resolves after 10 iterations without a change.
close() of a net.Server or tls.Server leaves its connections open, and 'close' fires after the last one is gone. stop() destroys them.
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🟡 Minor · Sample the CPU baseline after report logging. · http-connection-per-request.mjs:83-91
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSample the CPU baseline after report logging.
The callback samples
cpubeforeconsole.log, but stores the request baseline after logging. The next CPU delta can therefore include report logging without the matching request interval. This can inflate the reported CPU-per-request value.Store a post-logging CPU sample with the post-logging request count.
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if (count) { const micros = cpu.user - last.cpu.user + (cpu.system - last.cpu.system); console.log(`${count} requests, ${(micros / count).toFixed(1)} us of CPU per request`); } - last = { requests, cpu }; + last = { requests, cpu: process.cpuUsage() }; }, 1000);🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The next interval counted the CPU time of the log line of the one before it.
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The kinds were filtered out of the list, so a run on Windows showed no trace of them. Each kind is now registered with skipIf.
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Numbers for the bound from a second, independent measurement. They agree with the table in the description. Release builds on main a4f1429, Linux x64. 20,000 connections with keep-alive off, 64 at a time, one small reply each, 10 interleaved rounds (20 rounds for
The builds for 16 and 1 also had the read bound of #44240. The requests and replies are small, so no read reaches that bound. I did not measure 32. |
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I reached the same fix from a second line of work on this loop. That work stops here, because this PR owns the fix. The branch is Four facts from that work bear on the choice of the bound.
The tests of this PR queue 100 connections, so all 14 fail at 513. The fixture on the branch refills the queue from a client thread and counts the accepts of each loop turn. MeasurementsMethod Release builds of main a4f1429 and 9f70da0, Linux x64, loopback. The host was under load (load average 300 to 600 on 128 CPUs). Runs in separate processes had a same-against-same spread of 3% to 10% there, which resolves none of this. So one server process switches the bound each 50 ms, in a shuffled order. Each phase records the CPU time of the loop thread and the connections it accepted. The loop turn that ends a phase counts for that phase. A C epoll client on other CPUs keeps the server saturated with one connection per request. The numbers are the median of the paired difference against no bound, with the 95% bootstrap interval. A run has 850 to 1580 cycles for a bound of 32 or more, and 140 to 240 for 1, 8 and 16. CPU per connection against no bound
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do { } while (accept() succeeds)inus_internal_dispatch_ready_poll(packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c:522). An answered client is back in the queue before the nextaccept().Fix
MAX_ACCEPTS_PER_READINESS_EVENT(32) connections. The level-triggered poll reports the rest in the next iteration.test/js/bun/net/tcp-server.test.ts, 14 listener kinds. Suites in Notes.Background
TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT, Enable TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT for HTTP listeners on Linux #28617), and a'connection'oropenhandler that writes.Downsides
stop()from a later turn can find queued connections. Of 100, 32 get an answer, was 100.Notes
Decision for the maintainer: the bound
MAX_ACCEPTS_PER_READINESS_EVENTis one constant. These rows are from release builds with only the accept branch changed, on main 1313ca6. The rows for 32 were measured again on this PR and its merge base 9f70da0.ab -c 64stop()with 100 queuedconnection, itssetImmediate, the nextconnection) and oneaccept4per lone connection in place of two. A branch with that change and its 14 order tests exists:robobun/693d0b54/accept-one-per-event.Measurements
Linux x64, release builds. The host was under load from other work (load average 250 to 500), so counts are exact and times are medians with their spread.
/proc/self/fdcount and a 100 mssetIntervalin the server. A node client with 64 lanes opens a connection, sends one request, destroys the socket on the first data and opens the next, 4000 in total. One more connection sends a keep-alive request each 100 ms.'connection'handler that writes 5227 to 5285 ms. The keep-alive request is not answered before the load ends. With this PR: 143 to 151 ms, 139 to 150 ms, 141 to 150 ms.abcloses after the server does and leaves about 10 open.datahandler and has no deferred accept does not hang on main: node:net 96 ms, AF_UNIX 113 ms, Bun.serve on a unix socket 192 ms. TLS listeners do not hang: 49 to 495 ms.'connection'handler that writes has 5133 ms on 1.3.11 too.process.cpuUsage(), user + system), Bun.serve with a trivial handler,ab -n 20000without-k, 7 interleaved runs, medians, main -> this PR: c=64 28.9 -> 28.7 us, c=512 28.2 -> 27.5 us. c=1 43.3 -> 45.6 us and c=8 32.6 -> 35.2 us in one order of the runs, 44.6 -> 44.6 us and 34.0 -> 34.7 us in the reverse order. The same binary against itself differs by up to 1.3 us.accept4calls as before (1000 connections: 1992 and 1997 calls, 992 and 997EAGAIN). 100 queued connections:epoll_pwait21 -> 4,accept4101 -> 101. A spent budget makes no extraaccept4.us_internal_dispatch_ready_poll3564 -> 3596 bytes in a release object. The size of the release binary does not change.Tests
Atomics.wait, so all of them are in the queue at the first readiness event. Each handler schedules an immediate. The test expects the immediate of the first connection before the last connection. On main the listener takes all 100 first.pauseOnConnectand withmaxConnections. No JS runs when Bun.serve with TLS or node:https accepts, so those two read the poll count of the loop, which has to rise by exactly 100 and stay. On Windows the unix kinds and those two are skipped.TLS: reaps every zero-byte pre-handshake connection in a burstinserve.test.ts) parks TLS sockets in the low-priority queue through the accept burst. At 32 it keeps its coverage: with the low-priority walk removed fromus_internal_timer_sweepit reportsheld: 105. At a bound of 5 or less (the handshake budget) the burst parks no socket, and that sweep needs a new test. The branchrobobun/693d0b54/accept-one-per-eventhas one. Bounds between 6 and 31 were not checked.Suites
Debug build,
--timeout 30000. Each file has the same failures as on a debug build of main:node-net-server.test.ts27 pass,socket.test.ts103 pass and 1 fail,node-tls-server.test.ts99 pass,net-syscall-fault.test.ts25 pass,socket-fault-injection.test.ts16 pass,socket-syscall-fault.test.ts9 pass,serve-listen.test.ts39 pass,serve-epoll-add-fail.test.ts6 pass,node-net.test.ts108 pass and 11 fail,serve.test.ts327 pass and 2 fail,node-http.test.ts263 pass,cluster.test.ts36 pass. The failures need the network, a user that is not root, or alocalhostthat resolves to one address.Not covered
tcp-server.test.tshas 22 passes on macOS aarch64, and the Windows x64 and aarch64 lanes pass. The kqueue registration of the listener isEV_ADDwithoutEV_CLEAR, and libuv polls report a state that still holds again.recvrepeat inus_internal_dispatch_ready_poll, the UDP receive loop (usockets(udp): bound a readable event at 32 datagrams #37103) and the error branch ofaccept()(usockets: drain + back off on accept() EMFILE instead of spinning #32705) have their own bounds or PRs.setTimeoutis starved while a synchronousnode:httpburst is in flight (effectively freezes timers under continuous load) #30273 reports starved timers under an HTTP burst with the client in the same process. This PR makes no claim for it.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/net/tcp-server.test.ts