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Problem

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  • The session refreshes its timer where node calls [kUpdateTimer]. Each site links node's line.
  • An expiry emits 'timeout' unless a stream write is in flight and frames left since the last expiry (node's callTimeout).
  • The parser passes null to the callback of a dropped write, which is not activity.
  • Verified: test/js/node/http2/node-http2-session-timeout.test.ts (16 tests, 11+ fail on main). Node v18 to v26 and bun give equal refresh() counts for 31 steps. Self-reviewed: 14 concerns raised, 8 addressed, the rest are Downside 2 and Notes.

Background

  • session.setTimeout(ms) arms an idle timer that activity refreshes. An expiry emits 'timeout'.
  • Considered an expiry gate only: live sessions get 'timeout'. Considered an activity stamp read at expiry: fewer refresh() calls, a second mechanism.

Downsides

Notes

Root cause. The expiry handler had two checks before it emitted 'timeout'. The first compared the bytesWritten of the socket with a snapshot, with no condition that a write was in flight (http2.ts:4915 on main). Any frame since the snapshot, for example the SETTINGS ACK, made the first expiry refresh. The second compared parser.bufferSize() with a snapshot that nothing seeded (http2.ts:4927). In the TLS repro the handshake bytes are not in bytesWritten, which counts plaintext. There the frame parser holds the 33 bytes of preface and SETTINGS until the handshake completes, and the second check refreshes.

Why frames that arrive did not refresh. On a TCP or TLS socket the frame parser reads the socket in native code. The JS read handler of the session (#onRead), the one place that refreshed for inbound bytes, runs only for a JS stream transport.

Expiry that emits 'timeout' on an idle session (server never answers over https and over http, idle client after connect, idle server session): expiry 1 in node v26.3.0 and in this PR, expiry 2 on main and in bun 1.4.3.

refresh() calls per step, counted by test/js/node/http2/http2-session-timer-refresh.fixture.js. The table is the output of node v18.20.8, v20.20.2, v22.23.3, v24.21.0, v26.3.0 and v26.10.0, and of this PR. The test runs the fixture in bun on a TCP socket, a TLS socket and a duplexPair, and once in the installed node. With the JS of main the test fails on the three transports.

step client server
connect 1 0
request() 1 1
write() on the client 2 1
additionalHeaders() 1 1
origin() and additionalHeaders() 2 1
altsvc() and additionalHeaders(), no 'altsvc' listener 1 1
altsvc(), 'altsvc' listener 1 0
pushStream() and respond() on the pushed stream 2 2
respond() 1 1
write() on the server 1 2
end() and sendTrailers() 1 1
end() on the client 0 1
end() with data, request not read 4 4
end() with data, request read to its end 6 5
resume(), respond() and end() with data in the 'stream' event 4 3
end() with data, request ended by an empty DATA frame and not read 4 4
end() with data on the client, response ended by an empty DATA frame and not read 4 4
respondWithFD() 4 2
respondWithFile() 4 2
respondWithFD(), statCheck responds and returns false 2 3
respondWithFile() of a missing file, onError responds 2 3
close() with a code, on a stream with a write that waits for window 4 3
settings() on the server, no 'remoteSettings' listener 0 1
settings() on the server, 'remoteSettings' listener 1 1
ping() on the server, no 'ping' listener 0 0
ping() on the server, 'ping' listener 1 0
settings() on the client, no 'remoteSettings' listener 1 0
settings() on the client, 'remoteSettings' listener 1 1
ping() on the client, no 'ping' listener 0 0
ping() on the client, 'ping' listener 0 1
close() 1 1

On a duplexPair the connect row is 0 and 0 in node and in this PR. node sets the session up inside connect() when the stream has connected already, before a timer can exist.

The write rule. node's onWriteComplete refreshes when the write completed and the stream is not destroyed (stream_base_commons.js#L81-L101).

  • A write whose frames the parser drops (the stream is reset) or refuses is not complete. The parser now calls the callback of such a write with null (dispatch_dropped_write_callback in h2_frame_parser.rs). A Writable callback reads null as no error, so nothing else changes. Without it, a 'timeout' listener that resets a stalled stream got a second 'timeout' one period later.
  • node has destroyed the stream at completion when END_STREAM follows the write and the readable side has emitted 'end' (core.js#L607-L609). Bun destroys a stream later, so it tests that state itself. StreamState.EndedUnread marks a readable side that bun ended with no consumer where node waits for the close.
  • 13 of 14 write patterns give the same counts in node and in this PR (GET or POST, request read or not, consumer attached or not, response at once or later, early response). With a node client and this PR as the server, 12 of 17 do. The rest is the first difference below.

Differences from node that stay (the self-review found them, each is one refresh() call).

  • A POST handler attaches a consumer and ends the response inside the 'stream' event, and the END_STREAM of the request is in the same read. Bun refreshes at the completion and node does not. Bun runs the tick queue between the frames of one read, so the write completes before bun has read that END_STREAM.
  • write(a); end(b) after the request was read to its end: node refreshes at the completion of b, because it sends b before its END_STREAM. Bun puts END_STREAM on b.
  • A write that is in flight when setTimeout() first arms the timer does not refresh at its completion. To track it, every write of a session without a timer would pay for a wrapper. When a JS transport holds such a write and stalls, 'timeout' comes at the first expiry, as on main. node emits at the second.
  • settings() before the socket connects: node refreshes for it at connect, a second time at the same instant.
  • On a transport that delivers in the same tick (a duplexPair), the answer of the peer can arrive before the write callback runs. The fixture orders its steps so that this does not happen.
  • The refresh on a frame error (core.js#L670) has no test: node closes the session after a frame error and bun does not.
  • destroy() keeps the 'timeout' listeners of the session. node removes them (core.js#L1229). Here an expiry emits on the open streams before it emits on the session, so a stream listener that destroys the session would take away the callback of session.setTimeout().

Other changes, all toward node.

  • A request without a body arms a timer that has fired. With session.setTimeout(T) and a GET every 1.5 T, node and this PR emit 4 session 'timeout' events in 6.4 T, main 1.
  • Inbound DATA on a TCP socket refreshes. During a 3.2 T upload with a chunk every 0.4 T, the server session emits 'timeout' 0 times in node and in this PR, and once on main.
  • One large write that waits in the socket holds back one expiry only. A server writes 16 MiB to a client with a 2 GiB window. If the client reads nothing, 'timeout' comes at expiry 2 in node and in this PR, and at expiry 3 on main. If the client reads 1 MiB between expiries, it comes at expiry 2 in node and in this PR, and at expiry 6 or 7 on main.
  • Frames for a stream that is reset or destroyed do not refresh.

The fan-out in the second Downside. An idle open stream has setTimeout(T), and a GET without a body runs every 1.5 T for 6.4 T. 'timeout' events on the stream and on the session: node 1 and 0, main 1 and 1, this PR 4 and 4. In bun stream.setTimeout() arms the session timer, and an expiry of the session emits on each open stream. Both are from before this PR.

Costs, measured on Linux x64 (debug build for the counts, release-mode bundle for the sizes).

  • Reads of session[kTimeout] per request on a session without a timer, client and server: GET with 1 KiB body 4 and 4 (main 0 and 1), POST 1 KiB 5 and 5 (1 and 1), POST 64 KiB 5 and 10 (1 and 1), GET with 1 MiB body 84 and 4 (0 and 1). That path has no allocation and no host call.
  • refresh() calls per request on a session with a timer, client and server: GET with a body 4 and 4 in node and in this PR (main 0 and 1), POST with a body 6 and 5 (main 1 and 1).
  • 20,000 writes on one stream of a session with a timer allocate no function object. A stream that writes keeps one bound function.
  • Shallow size of a session (estimateShallowMemoryUsageOf): client 260 to 261 bytes, server 229 to 230 bytes.
  • Bundled node:http2: 168,936 to 172,248 bytes. The embedded module blob: 2,631,105 to 2,634,023 bytes (+2,918).
  • The parser gains one small function and no host function. The size of a release binary is not measured: the container has no release build.
  • Not measured: instructions per request and wall-clock time. perf and valgrind are not installed and the package index is not reachable. The host load average was above 500, so a wall-clock comparison has no value.

Tests. 11 to 13 of the 16 tests fail on main. The node run and the two idle tests on a duplexPair pass there. The idle client on a TCP socket and on a TLS socket fails on main in some runs only: 13 tests fail with bun 1.4.2, and 11 with the JS of main in a debug build. The three fixture tests run one at a time. The tests have their own file: a debug build needs more than 200 s for node-http2.test.js, and other tests of that file reach the default 5 s limit there.

Found on the way, not changed here.

  • After session.goaway() with no open stream, node stops reading. Bun reads the GOAWAY that the peer sends back and answers it with close().
  • Bun has no handler for an inbound PRIORITY frame, so that frame does not refresh (core.js#L654).
  • session.settings(settings, callback) does not call callback when the transport delivers in the same tick: the ACK arrives before the callback is queued. On such a transport 'wantTrailers', and the 'trailers' event of the peer, fire inside stream.end().
  • A node client gets ERR_HTTP2_ERROR: Protocol error when a bun server (1.4.3 too) calls stream.close(NGHTTP2_CANCEL) on a request whose 200 KB body waits for window.

Suites run with a debug build of the head, after the merge of main at 47ba1c8d85.

  • node-http2-session-timeout.test.ts: 16 pass in ten runs. With the JS of main: 11 fail in eight runs.
  • The 12 test files in test/js/node/http2/ with the default 5 s limit: 623 pass, and 9 tests reach the limit. Each of the 9 spawns a debug bun or is slow in a debug build. With --timeout 90000, node-http2.test.js (405 pass), node-http2-streams-rehash.test.ts and node-http2-syscall-fault.test.ts pass in full. The last two files give the same results with the JS of main.
  • The 261 vendored test-http2-* tests: all pass.

The expiry handler of the session idle timer refreshed the timer when
the socket had written any byte since the previous expiry, or when the
parser held bytes such as the connection preface. An idle session then
emitted 'timeout' one period late.

The session now refreshes the timer at the sites where node calls
[kUpdateTimer]: headers, DATA and END_STREAM that arrive, request(),
respond(), respondWithFile(), respondWithFD(), additionalHeaders(),
pushStream(), sendTrailers(), a stream write and its completion,
settings(), goaway(), ORIGIN, and the PING, SETTINGS and ALTSVC frames
that have a listener. An expiry emits 'timeout' unless a stream write
is in flight and frames left since the previous expiry, like node's
callTimeout.

A write whose frames the parser drops or refuses is not a completed
write. The parser calls the callback of such a write with null, so
that the write does not refresh the timer.

The session does not forward the 'timeout' event of its socket, and
destroy() removes the 'timeout' listeners of the session, like node.
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Reproduced on main with an idle session.setTimeout(T): the session emits 'timeout' at the second expiry of its timer, after 2 T. The four cases are a client whose server never answers over https://, the same over http://, an idle client after connect, and an idle server session. Node v26.3.0 emits at the first expiry in each case.

The tests are in test/js/node/http2/node-http2-session-timeout.test.ts. 11 to 13 of the 16 fail on main and all pass with this PR.

PR: #44481

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HTTP/2 sessions now use session-owned idle timers refreshed at selected protocol and stream activity points. Expiry handling checks frame progress during in-flight writes. Stream completion, unread END_STREAM state, and dropped-write callbacks are tracked. New tests check timeout behavior and timer refresh counts across transports.

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HTTP/2 session idle timeout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session timer setup and expiry
src/js/node/http2.ts
Timeout handling moves from socket events to a session-owned timer. Expiry checks sent-frame progress during in-flight writes.
Stream write and end-state tracking
src/js/node/http2.ts, src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs
Stream write completion refreshes the timer when appropriate. Stream state tracks unread readable endings. Dropped writes invoke callbacks with null.
Refresh timers on HTTP/2 activity
src/js/node/http2.ts
Client and server stream, file-response, and session operations refresh timers at selected activity points, with conditions for specific events.
Timeout behavior and refresh-count tests
test/js/node/http2/http2-session-timer-refresh.fixture.js, test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js
The fixture measures timer refreshes across HTTP/2 operations. Tests cover expiry, frame progress, refresh counts, socket-timeout isolation, timer rearming, and listener cleanup.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0c072

The HTTP/2 timer test needs its per-test timeout removed to meet the repository’s testing rules. No supported runtime failure remains from the reviewed comments.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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session[kTimeoutFramesSent] = -1;
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🟡 (optional) Long-lived idle streams (SSE, long-poll, CONNECT tunnels) on a busy session now receive repeated 'timeout' events, one per idle period, where the base emitted one and node emits one. Every expiry runs parser.forEachStream(emitTimeout) at src/js/node/http2.ts:5029 before the session emit, and the new refresh sites (request() :6090, headers :4265, DATA :4253) re-arm the timer on each unrelated request, so the fan-out repeats. The author's own table reports 4 stream 'timeout' events in 6 T against node's 1. Fix: stop fanning session expiry out to streams (give streams their own timer as #30308 proposes) or emit on a stream at most once per arming.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: session.setTimeout(T) or server.setTimeout(T) with a server 'timeout' listener (so the session survives), one stream that stays open and idle (server-sent events, a long poll, a CONNECT tunnel), and other requests arriving every ~1.5 T on the same session. Each request refreshes the timer at src/js/node/http2.ts:6090 and :4265, so the timer expires again and again; each expiry calls parser.forEachStream(emitTimeout) at :5029 which emits 'timeout' on the idle stream, and the compat layer's onStreamTimeout at :570 re-emits it on Http2ServerRequest/Response. On the base branch a GET never refreshed the timer, so the idle stream got one 'timeout'; in node streams have independent timers and never receive the session's expiry. User stream timeout handlers that assume a single firing now run repeatedly. The fan-out loop is pre-existing (#30307) but the repetition is new to this change; a fix must bound the stream emission to once per arming or move streams onto their own timer.

Verification: Every expiry runs parser.forEachStream(emitTimeout) at src/js/node/http2.ts:5029, and the new refresh sites re-arm the one-shot timer on each unrelated request (request() at :6090, the headers callback at :4265), so the idle stream's listeners fire once per gap. On the base this did not repeat because sessionTimerExpired (base :4913-4918) refreshed instead of emitting whenever bytesWritten changed.

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This is the second Downside in the description. The fan-out of a session expiry to its streams is from before this PR (#30307), and #30308 gives each stream its own timer. The new part is that a request without a body arms the timer again, as in node, so the expiry repeats. I did not add a second rule for the fan-out here, because #30308 removes it.

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if (sessionHasWriteInFlight(session, parser, snapshot >= 0)) {
const framesSent = parser.getFrameCounters().framesSent;
if (framesSent !== snapshot) {
session[kTimeoutFramesSent] = framesSent;
session[kTimeout]?.refresh();
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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: Operators who set session.setTimeout() or server.timeout to reap a peer that stops reading but keeps sending frames never get 'timeout' (pre-existing: base's bufferSize-change check had the same hole). sessionTimerExpired at src/js/node/http2.ts:5020 reads a changed framesSent as frames that left. But the counter increments at serialization (h2_frame_parser.rs:398, h2/connection.rs:411), before the bytes are parked in write_buffer under backpressure (h2_frame_parser.rs:2586-2600). Each PING or DATA the stuck peer sends adds an ACK or WINDOW_UPDATE and refreshes. Fix: measure progress by bytes the transport accepted, e.g. handle bytesWritten plus write_buffer_offset, so a stalled socket emits 'timeout' at the first expiry like node's callTimeout.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

A server session has a timer and a response body write that the peer never reads: the DATA frames sit in the parser queue, so parser.bufferSize() > 0 and sessionHasWriteInFlight (src/js/node/http2.ts:5001) is true. The peer keeps sending one PING per period without reading. The engine answers each PING with send_ping_ack -> write_frame, which does self.frames_sent += 1 (src/runtime/api/bun/h2/connection.rs:411) before sink.write. Under backpressure generic_write cannot write and appends the ACK to write_buffer (src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs:2586-2600), so nothing reaches the wire. At each expiry sessionTimerExpired sees parser.getFrameCounters().framesSent !== snapshot (src/js/node/http2.ts:5020-5024), stores it and refreshes; the session never emits 'timeout' and sessionOnTimeout never destroys it (src/js/node/http2.ts:6549-6555). The base branch refreshed when parser.bufferSize() changed between expiries, which the growing ACK buffer also satisfies, so this is the same exposure carried into the new mechanism.

Verification: Pre-existing (base fails the same way). At expiry, while sessionHasWriteInFlight is true, the session refreshes whenever parser.getFrameCounters().framesSent !== snapshot (src/js/node/http2.ts:5018-5024). The engine increments self.frames_sent += 1 in write_frame (h2/connection.rs:411) BEFORE sink.write(...); generic_write parks the bytes in write_buffer (h2_frame_parser.rs:2586-2600).

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Not changed here. The progress count is frames that the parser serialized, and main has the same hole with its buffer size check. A count of the bytes that the socket took also changes another case: one large write that drains slowly from a full socket. Node emits 'timeout' at the second expiry there, and so does this PR. That is a separate decision, so it needs its own change.

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Updated 3:19 PM PT - Oct 14th, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit 22b688010b39e90187de8afd94a85d1892cace9a passed in Build #125584! 🎉


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respond() took a third parameter that only file responses passed. A
private method takes that flag now, so respond.length is 2 again.

destroy() removed the 'timeout' listeners of the session. An expiry
emits 'timeout' on the open streams before it emits on the session, so
a stream listener that destroyed the session took away the callback of
session.setTimeout(). destroy() keeps the listeners again.

The three fixture tests run one at a time and have no time limit of
their own.
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I reviewed the second push and found no new bugs; the respond()/destroy()/per-test-timeout points from the earlier pass are addressed by ce56c52. Because this rewrites the idle-timer semantics of both http2 session classes and the expiry rule, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • The [kRespond] rewire: all three doSendFileFD callers pass refresh=false, the public respond() and the compat-layer call at http2.ts:1184 keep the refresh, and the symbol is declared before the computed class key.
  • The Rust dispatch_dropped_write_callback: both drop sites (reset-stream queue dump, can_send_data refusal) pass null; the successful-send path at h2_frame_parser.rs:1656 is unchanged.
  • Candidate ruled out: 'timeout' during a large response draining to a slow peer — the new rule holds back exactly one expiry while frames still leave, which is node's callTimeout behavior, so it is intended rather than a regression.
Extended reasoning...

The PR touches src/js/node/http2.ts (about 285 changed lines across ClientHttp2Session, ServerHttp2Session, Http2Stream write path and sessionTimerExpired), adds a null-argument write callback in src/runtime/api/bun/h2_frame_parser.rs, and adds a 31-step fixture plus 17 tests. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface; the sensitive part is timer/lifecycle semantics where a wrong refresh can either hang a timeout or destroy live sessions. The second commit addressed three of the seven inline comments from the earlier run, while the remaining threads (write-completion snapshot reset, repeated stream fan-out, class-field declarations) are still open on the PR. The size, the bug-for-bug node mirroring with acknowledged residual differences, and the open threads decided defer over approve.

Still open from earlier reviews (4):

  • Unresolved: 4 minor or pre-existing.

Each comment is one line now and keeps its link to the node source.
The check for a stream that node has destroyed is one function.

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Code review completed

Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

Still open from earlier reviews (4):

  • Unresolved: 4 minor or pre-existing.

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This PR and #44881 change the same seam. #44881 fails a write whose DATA frames were dropped, and it moves write completion out of native. The PR that merges second needs these changes.

#44881 does not change when the timer is refreshed.

…2-session-idle-timer

# Conflicts:
#	test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js
The 16 tests and their fixture move from node-http2.test.js to
node-http2-session-timeout.test.ts. A debug build runs the new file in
about 10 s. It needs more than 200 s for node-http2.test.js, and ten
other tests of that file reach the default time limit there.

The tests do not change, except for type annotations, and for
server.setTimeout(period) in place of server.timeout = period.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

  • Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🟡 src/js/node/http2.ts — nit: a session that already called close() and then receives the peer's GOAWAY gets no idle-timer refresh, so 'timeout' can fire one period earlier than in node. node's onGoawayData calls sessionkUpdateTimer before emitting 'goaway'; the bun handlers at src/js/node/http2.ts:5390 (client) and :4381 (server) never refresh, and the only refresh on that path comes from self.close() -> goaway(), which returns early when #closed is already set. Fix: refresh session[kTimeout] (when set and connected) at the top of both goaway handlers before the emit, so the count stays 1 whether or not this side closed first. Same pattern at 2 sites (src/js/node/http2.ts:5390, src/js/node/http2.ts:4381).

    Why this was flagged

    Trigger: a client or server session with session.setTimeout(ms) armed calls close() while streams are still open, then the peer answers with GOAWAY(NGHTTP2_NO_ERROR); the frame arrives in ClientHttp2Session.#Handlers.goaway at src/js/node/http2.ts:5390 or ServerHttp2Session.#Handlers.goaway at :4381. Neither handler touches self[kTimeout]; the refresh the PR relies on for this frame is the one inside goaway() at :5662 / :4727, reached via self.close() at :5418 / :4389, but close() returns at once when this.#closed is already true (:5868), so no refresh happens. node refreshes the session timer unconditionally in onGoawayData, so a node session idle after that frame waits a full period from its arrival while the bun session's timer keeps the older deadline and emits 'timeout' up to one period sooner. The base branch had the same gap for native sockets, so this is a site the rework did not reach rather than a regression; the fixture's 'close()' step does not cover it because its receiver has not closed yet.

    Verification: ClientHttp2Session.#Handlers.goaway at src/js/node/http2.ts:5390-5418 and the server handler at :4381-4389 contain no self[kTimeout].refresh(). The only refresh on the received-GOAWAY path is indirect, via self.close() (:5418 / :4389) to :5662 / :4727. But close() begins with if (this.#closed || this.destroyed) return; (:5868 / :4783), so when close() was already called the refresh is never reached.

Comment thread test/js/node/http2/node-http2-session-timeout.test.ts
A test that waits for the 'timeout' event of a session now rejects when
the session emits 'error' or 'close' before that event. Before, such a
test ended at its time limit with no message.
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About the review note on a GOAWAY that arrives after close(): I did not change this, because node does not refresh the timer there.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

  • Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

Comment thread src/js/node/http2.ts
Comment on lines +4930 to +4934
if (!previous) {
// A write from before this call is not tracked: bytes that a connected parser holds count as that write.
const parser = this[bunHTTP2Native];
this[kTimeoutFramesSent] = connected && parser && parser.bufferSize() > 0 ? 0 : -1;
}

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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: nit: a session on a JS-stream transport that arms setTimeout() while a stream write is still draining into the socket can get a spurious 'timeout' at the first expiry, where node refreshes. setSessionTimeout at src/js/node/http2.ts:4933 seeds kTimeoutFramesSent only from parser.bufferSize(), while the expiry's in-flight check also counts socket.writableLength (http2.ts:4967), but only when tracked. Fix: seed the tracked state from the same condition the expiry uses, i.e. parser.bufferSize() > 0 or the socket's writableLength > 0, so a write already handed to a backpressured Duplex counts as in flight at the first expiry.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

A session whose transport is a JS Duplex (http2.connect with createConnection returning a duplexPair side or a tunnel Duplex, or server.emit('connection', duplex)) writes a response body with stream.write() before any timer exists, the peer is slow so the Duplex holds the bytes (socket.writableLength > 0) while the parser's own queue is empty (parser.bufferSize() === 0), and then user code calls session.setTimeout(ms) or res.setTimeout(ms) (compat, http2.ts:1156 -> stream.setTimeout -> session.setTimeout at http2.ts:2516). setSessionTimeout at http2.ts:4930-4934 sets kTimeoutFramesSent to -1 because it only consults parser.bufferSize(). At expiry, sessionTimerExpired (http2.ts:4980) calls sessionHasWriteInFlight with tracked=false, which skips the socket.writableLength check at http2.ts:4966-4967 and returns false, so 'timeout' is emitted while the write is still draining. Node's callTimeout sees writeQueueSize > 0 for that write and refreshes. The base branch refreshed at the first expiry whenever bytesWritten changed since arm time, so it did not emit here either.

Verification: Pre-existing (nit-sized): the base branch already emits at the first expiry by the same route. setSessionTimeout seeds kTimeoutFramesSent only from parser.bufferSize() > 0 (src/js/node/http2.ts:4933), so Duplex-held bytes leave it -1. At expiry sessionHasWriteInFlight is called with tracked=false (:4980), the socket.writableLength > 0 branch at :4967 is skipped, and the session emits 'timeout' (:4990-4992).

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Not changed. I measured which expiry emits 'timeout' on a session whose JS transport holds bytes when setTimeout() arms the timer.

Bytes that the transport holds node v26.3.0 main this PR this PR with that seed
A stream write from before setTimeout() 2 1 1 2
Preface and SETTINGS, no stream write, the peer never reads 1 1 1 2

socket.writableLength does not show if the bytes are stream data. With that seed, the second row gets the delay of one period that this PR removes. To tell the rows apart, the session must track stream writes before a timer exists. Then each write of a session without a timer pays for it. The description lists this case under "Differences from node that stay".

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A correction to my merge note above, for the current head of #44881 (0c88055):

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A second correction to my merge note, for the current head of #44881 (a06ea38):

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