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Problem

• A handler's write to a stream of another HTTP/3 connection waits for that connection's next alarm or packet. curl waits 3991 ms. An idle timeout loses the write.
• lsquic skips a tick request while its engine runs a pass: the ENPUB_PROC test is engine-wide (lsquic_engine.c:1719, lsquic_stream.c:265). Handlers run inside that pass (quic.c:683).
• A packet read while a handler runs the event loop (Bun.build(), async plugin) gets the connection ticked twice per pass. Release hangs, debug fails engine_incref_conn: Assertion '!(conn->cn_flags & flag)' failed.

Fix

• tickable-per-connection.patch: lsquic skips the request only for a connection that this pass ticks, ticked, closed or creates.
• tick-once-per-pass.patch: a connection that the pass ticked stays queued for the next one.
• Correct: the pass looks again at each skipped connection, and ticks none twice.
• Verified: 7 new tests in serve-http3.test.ts and fetch-http3-client.test.ts. Unfixed release fails 518 of 520 runs. Also: fetch HTTP/3, node:quic. Self-reviewed: 21 concerns raised, 17 addressed, 4 in part (Notes).

Background

• A tick runs one connection's callbacks and builds its packets. A tick request queues the connection. A pass ticks each queued connection, then sends.
• Considered a touched-connection list in quic.c: the data leaves a pass later. Considered handlers after the pass (node:quic): one more tick per request.

Downsides

• 26 more instructions per HTTP/3 request, of about 18,300. Passes, ticks and queue inserts: unchanged. Release text: +432 bytes.
• Two more unreported lsquic patches to carry (14), for node:quic too.

Notes

All numbers are from linux x64 on loopback. macOS and Windows were not run locally.

Origin

• No user reported this. It was found during the work on http3: pause a stream by holding its flow-control window #45612, whose body describes the wait.
• The fix is in patches/ and scripts/. A check that reverts only src/ and packages/ cannot see it. The fail-before numbers below come from separate builds of main and of this branch, at c814409, 91e7e3b and 0c864a0.

Repro

const gate = Promise.withResolvers(), arrived = Promise.withResolvers();
let t0 = 0;
const server = Bun.serve({
  port: 0, tls, http3: true, http1: false,
  routes: {
    "/wait": async () => { arrived.resolve(); await gate.promise; return new Response("done"); },
    // setTimeout(() => gate.resolve(), 0) here is the "timer" column
    "/kick": () => { t0 = performance.now(); gate.resolve(); return new Response("kicked"); },
  },
});
const url = `https://127.0.0.1:${server.port}`;
const waiter = Bun.spawn({ cmd: ["curl", "--http3-only", "-k", "-s", url + "/wait"], stdout: "pipe" });
await arrived.promise;
await Bun.sleep(1000);
Bun.spawn({ cmd: ["curl", "--http3-only", "-k", "-s", "-o", "/dev/null", url + "/kick"] });
console.log(await waiter.stdout.text(), Math.round(performance.now() - t0), "ms after the kick");

release build, 12 runs	resolved in the handler of /kick	resolved from a timer
main	3978 to 4030 ms	4 to 7 ms
this branch	3 to 11 ms	4 to 7 ms

• curl sends a PING at half of the idle timeout, which ends the wait on main.
• A node:quic client stays quiet. With a 1 s idle timeout main ends the held request with an empty body at the timeout: the response is lost. With 2 s the response arrives after 1494 ms, at an alarm of the connection. This branch delivers it at once in both cases.
• lsquic debug log on main: the waiting connection stays on the Advisory Tick Time Queue ('HA') until that packet. On this branch it goes 'HA' -> 'HTA' inside the pass of /kick, and its packet leaves in the same send_packets_out.
• The fetch client has the same wait. A redirect makes a request on the pooled connection of another origin, from inside the callback of the first connection.

Tests

• serve-http3.test.ts has 5 cases with node:quic clients: a response, a response from the abort listener of a request whose connection closed, a chunk of a streamed response, the end of one, and the rest of a paused request body. It has 1 case for the handler that runs the event loop. fetch-http3-client.test.ts has 1 case for the redirect.
• Each case asserts the order of two events, not a time. What the other connection's handler released reaches its client before a marker request that starts later.
• The held connection must be silent before the kick, because a packet of its own also gets it ticked. The tests wait until its packet counters do not move during 20 marker requests.
• Release main: 518 of 520 runs fail, at three commits of main. "the end of a streamed response" passed 2 times: a packet from the held client arrived in the window. Release, this branch: 210 of 210 pass.
• Debug main: 62 of 63 fail. The event-loop case exits with SIGABRT there, and never returns on release main. Debug, this branch: 70 of 70 pass.
• The event-loop case keeps a timeout of its own. It has to be longer than the 20 s after which the test ends a server process that hangs.

Measurements

• Instructions: a qemu trace of the release builds counts the instructions of each call of the functions that changed, over 300 requests. A pass without a tick: 124 on both. A pass with one tick: 243 to 256. The stream calls of one request: lsquic_stream_frame_in 158 to 163, lsquic_stream_wantread 68 to 70, stream_write_to_packets 196 to 198, lsquic_stream_shutdown 43 to 44, lsquic_stream_wantwrite 64 to 65, lsquic_engine_add_conn_to_tickable 6 to 8. A request is 3 passes and 1 tick, so it runs 13 + 13 = 26 more. An earlier trace of lsquic and quic.c measured 18,274 per request on main.
• Passes, ticks and inserts are gdb hit counts on debug builds, for 10 and 60 sequential GETs on one curl connection, 3 runs each. Both builds make 3.00 passes per request. Ticks per 60 requests: 62 to 63 on main, 61 to 63 on this branch. Inserts are ticks + 1 on both.
• Fan-out: one handler enqueues a chunk on K idle streamed responses, K = 1, 64, 256. Each touched connection gets 1 insert and 1 tick, and all K + 1 packets leave in one send_packets_out of the handler's pass. Main at K = 64: 0 of 64 chunks arrive before the marker, the last after 1355 ms.
• Release text (size of bun-profile, both at 0c864a0): 107,345,763 to 107,346,195. lsquic_engine_process_conns grows from 4,544 to 4,555 bytes. The new conn_iter_skip_ticked() is 679 bytes, out of line. lsquic_stream_wantwrite shrinks from 674 to 508.
• h3blast (4 connections, 32 streams, 10 s, pinned cores, 18 interleaved pairs): js 118.6k req/s (sd 7.5k) on main and 117.7k (sd 6.0k) on this branch. Static 163.4k (sd 5.7k) and 161.2k (sd 9.4k). No difference resolved.
• lsquic's own unit tests at the pinned commit with these two patches: 82 of 82 pass, as without them.

Suites

• Debug build of this branch: serve-http3 (85), fetch-http3-client (68), fetch-http3-adversarial (27), fetch-http3-cold-post (2), fetch-http3-syscall-fault (7), quic-endpoint (9), quic-sni (9), quic-stream (11), serve-protocols (20).
• Two of these are at their 5 s timeouts on the debug build of the test machine, on main too. serve-protocols starts 20 debug servers at once: 6 of 10 runs on main and 7 of 10 on this branch have a timeout, HTTP/1.1 cases included. It passes with --max-concurrency 2. "8 concurrent POST /echo" with 4 MiB bodies in fetch-http3-adversarial timed out in 7 of 8 runs on main and 8 of 8 on this branch in the same hour. On release it takes 0.4 to 4.2 s on both.
• The 235 test/js/node/test/parallel/test-quic-* files: 232 pass. 3 fail on main in the same way. 2 are flaky on debug builds of main too: test-quic-stream-priority.mjs (3 of 12 runs fail on main) and test-quic-callback-error-onstream.mjs (51 of 150 runs fail on main, 39 of 150 on this branch). test-quic-tls-options.mjs failed once in 137 runs of this branch, and 0 of 80 on main.

Hunks without a test in CI

Each was checked with a gdb injection on the debug build.

• The re-test of LSCONN_TICKABLE after ci_is_tickable() at the end of a pass. ci_is_tickable() parses stream data, and that can ask for a tick. A request injected there queues the connection once (flags 0xc80444 to 0xc81444), and all requests complete.
• The skip of a connection that the pass ticked already, for a promoted connection. A request injected for a connection on new_full_conns: the pass ticks it once and skips it once.
• A connection put on the queue during its own ci_tick(), as lsquic_engine_packet_in() does: ticked once in that pass and once in the next. The same injection on main fails the engine_incref_conn assert.
• The same, with a second connection on the queue whose key is in the future: the pass ticks both, each once.
• The same re-test in check_tickable_conns_again() was not run.

The pass after a packet in the middle

• An entry that lsquic_engine_packet_in() makes during a tick has the key of the tick before, so it is the first one that the pass pops. conn_iter_skip_ticked() sets such connections aside, pops until it finds one that is still due, and puts them back with their new keys.
• The pass ends when no connection is due. It also ends if 8 ticked connections come in a row: the array for them is on the stack.
• A first form ended the pass at the first ticked connection that it popped. Connections that were due then waited for the next pass, and a request that arrived between the two passes was served first. With 4 connections and handlers that run the event loop, the order of the handlers was A, V, B, W. It is A, V, W, B now.
• A second form put the connection back and ended the pass when the same connection came back. A due connection with a key above the new key of the ticked one then waited for the next pass. A review comment on this PR found that case. The last injection in the list above covers it.
• The helper is out of line. Inline, with its array, a pass with one tick ran 24 more instructions than on main, and a pass without one 5 more. Out of line the numbers are 13 and 0.

Not in this PR

• A call that makes no tick request still waits. lsquic_stream_shutdown(how = 0) is in node:quic: make the connection tickable when lsquic queues STOP_SENDING #45931, the close path in Bun.serve(http3): resolve stop() after the UDP socket and the last QUIC connection are gone #45419.
• A target that the running pass already ticked leaves with the next pass, as on main. quic.c starts that pass at once: lsquic_engine_earliest_adv_tick() returns 0 while the queue is not empty.
• quic.c still calls lsquic_engine_packet_in() while a pass runs (us_quic_udp_on_data, quic.c:397), when a handler runs the event loop. lsquic now keeps such a connection for the next pass.
• The stateless-reset path of process_packet_in also inserts after ci_is_tickable(). It runs outside a pass, where lsquic never skipped the request. It is unchanged.

Other open PRs

• Land this before http3: pause a stream by holding its flow-control window #45612. The paused-body case uses the read pause that http3: pause a stream by holding its flow-control window #45612 replaces, and it asserts that the body is still pending at the kick. If http3: pause a stream by holding its flow-control window #45612 lands first, adapt the sizes of that case.
• LSCONN_TICKING takes bit 18 of cn_flags, because node:quic: send a client's coded close before the server's first packet, ignore close options without code #44846 takes bit 5.
• 18 open PRs change patches/lsquic. These two patches apply together with the patch stack of 14 of them, in both orders (git apply on the pinned tree). The 14 are Update lsquic to 4.9.4 and free unsent stateless resets on destroy #41337, Bun.serve(http3): abort the request when the client sends STOP_SENDING with its upload still open #42901, Bun.serve(http3): send a response whose header block is larger than 64 KB #42905, Bun.serve: WebSockets over HTTP/3 (RFC 9220) #44165, node:quic: report a datagram's status under the id kept in its lsquic frame #44680, node:quic: close() waits only for opened streams, and lsquic sends no GOAWAY before HTTP/3 starts #44751, node:quic: send a client's coded close before the server's first packet, ignore close options without code #44846, node:quic: open a uni stream requested before the handshake, keep pending streams paired with lsquic's requests #45342, Bun.serve(http3): resolve stop() after the UDP socket and the last QUIC connection are gone #45419, http3: pause a stream by holding its flow-control window #45612, node:quic: do not reset a stream lsquic has already finished #45676, node:quic: send a close with code 0 as code 0, not INTERNAL_ERROR #45702, node:quic: give a stream still open at connection close the connection's error #45741 and node:quic: make the connection tickable when lsquic queues STOP_SENDING #45931. The other 4 fail at their own node-quic-accessors.patch.
• Both patches apply on lsquic master a961672 (4.10.2) with offsets only.

Self-review items that are not done

• No report is filed at litespeedtech/lsquic. The text below is ready. A maintainer can file it, or waive the link in lsquic.ts.
• No tracker issue exists for the items of "Not in this PR". The first item has two open PRs.
• The two entries stay at the tail of the patches array. A conflict there is the one signal git gives when two PRs change the stack.
• The test helper silent() does not report when it gives up after 60 requests. A give-up can only let an unfixed build pass, and that rate is measured above.

Report for lsquic

Title: a tick request for a connection is dropped when it comes from the callback of another connection

• lsquic_engine_add_conn_to_tickable() and stream_inside_callback() skip the Tickable Queue insert while ENPUB_PROC is set. The bit is engine-wide. A stream write and flush, lsquic_stream_wantwrite(), lsquic_stream_wantread(), lsquic_stream_close() or lsquic_conn_close() for connection A from a callback of connection B does not queue A. process_connections() asks ci_is_tickable() only for the connections that it ticked. A waits for its next alarm or packet.
• Repro on master a961672: give echo_server a relay mode. Inside on_read it writes each line to the stream of every other connection and flushes it. Run two echo_client processes. After 3 s of silence a line needs 913 ms, 14,108 ms and 12,928 ms to reach the other client. With the gate patch, and an earlier form of the once-per-pass check, it needs 0.8 to 5.7 ms.
• The patch tests the connection and not the engine. It skips the request for a connection inside ci_tick(), one that the running pass ticked or closed, and one that is not hashed. It needs a once-per-pass check in the tick loop, because a connection on new_full_conns can then also be on the Tickable Queue.

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Status

• Reproduced on release builds of main. A curl client waits on a request. A second curl request resolves it from its handler. The response arrives 3978 to 4030 ms later, against 4 to 7 ms when a timer resolves it. This branch: 3 to 11 ms.
• The second defect reproduces with the new case "reads a packet for a connection whose handler runs the event loop". Release main does not return. Debug main fails engine_incref_conn: Assertion '!(conn->cn_flags & flag)' failed.
• The 7 new tests fail on main and pass on this branch. The numbers and the repro script are in the Notes of the description.
• PR: http3: tick a connection that another connection's callback acts on, and no connection twice in one pass #46103

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LSQUIC now limits tick requests during engine processing to connections not already handled by the active pass and avoids ticking a connection twice in one pass. HTTP/3 tests cover cross-connection request handling and redirects to an idle pooled connection.

Changes

HTTP/3 tick scheduling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Per-connection tick requests patches/lsquic/tickable-per-connection.patch, scripts/build/deps/lsquic.ts	Tick requests during engine processing are suppressed only for connections handled by the active pass. Tickability scans recheck state before queue insertion, and stream_inside_callback checks the specific connection state.
Tick each connection once per pass patches/lsquic/tick-once-per-pass.patch, scripts/build/deps/lsquic.ts	The iterator temporarily removes and reinserts already-ticked connections. The tick loop skips connections marked ticked or closing.
HTTP/3 cross-connection regression coverage test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts, test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts	Server tests cover response release, aborts, streamed responses, paused request bodies, and a subprocess case. A client test covers redirects to an idle pooled HTTP/3 connection.

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The HTTP/3 scheduling change fixes delayed cross-connection writes and duplicate ticks. Two small items remain. One is a rare cap path where a pass can end before every queued connection is ticked. The other is a test timeout that the repository guidelines forbid. Neither blocks the fix, but both are worth addressing before or soon after merge.

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[claude]

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the re-insert of a LSCONN_TICKED connection in conn_iter_next_tickable (it is keyed by cn_last_ticked, so it sorts behind connections still due and is picked up on the next pass, not delayed to an alarm) and the new continue for LSCONN_CLOSING in the tick loop (the closed_conns walk at the end of the pass still drops the CLOSING ref, so a mid-pass re-queue does not re-tick a destroyed connection). The unhashed-connection clause of lsquic_engine_has_conn_in_hand only widens the skip while ENPUB_PROC is set, matching the base behavior for connections being created. A human familiar with lsquic's engine loop should still look, since this edits the core tick scheduling of the vendored library.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds two source patches to vendored lsquic (lsquic_engine.c tick loop, conns_tickable queueing, a new LSCONN_TICKING flag and a per-connection has_conn_in_hand predicate replacing the engine-wide ENPUB_PROC check in lsquic_stream.c), registers them in scripts/build/deps/lsquic.ts, and adds seven HTTP/3 tests. It touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface, but it alters core scheduling of the QUIC engine shared by Bun.serve, fetch and node:quic. Deferred rather than approved because the patches change refcount-bearing flag transitions in the engine loop and the only inline findings are nits; the ruled-out items above are recorded for the human reviewer.

[claude]

🟡 nit (optional): Maintainers get two load-bearing guards with no automated test: the re-test of LSCONN_TICKABLE after ci_is_tickable() at patches/lsquic/tickable-per-connection.patch:61 and its twin at :40. Without them a tick request made inside ci_is_tickable() double-inserts the connection into conns_tickable, which is the same refcount corruption this PR fixes. The PR text says these hunks were only checked with a gdb injection. Fix: add a test in serve-http3.test.ts or fetch-http3-client.test.ts that fails when either re-test is removed, e.g. a held request body left unread so the end-of-pass ci_is_tickable() parse asks for a window update.

Why this was flagged

The repository review rules say every behavioral change ships an automated test and that manual verification does not count. The PR description, under 'Hunks without a test in CI', lists the LSCONN_TICKABLE re-test at the end of process_connections() (patches/lsquic/tickable-per-connection.patch:55-61) and says each such hunk was checked with a gdb injection only. The same re-test is duplicated in the all-connections walk at patches/lsquic/tickable-per-connection.patch:37-40. If either re-test were dropped, lsquic_engine_add_conn_to_tickable() (which this patch makes live during a pass at :25-26) can insert the connection inside ci_is_tickable(), and the unguarded lsquic_mh_insert that follows inserts it a second time with engine_incref_conn(conn, LSCONN_TICKABLE) on an already-set flag: a failed assert on a debug build, a connection present twice in conns_tickable on release. No test in the diff (test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts, test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts) exercises that path, so a future lsquic bump or edit that loses the re-test is not caught by CI.

Verification: Nit, a gap in automated coverage of a load-bearing guard, not a runtime defect. In patches/lsquic/tickable-per-connection.patch the guard && !(conn->cn_flags & LSCONN_TICKABLE)) is added at line 62 and its twin at line 37. Without the re-test the pass would insert the connection into conns_tickable a second time. Deleting either re-test clause would not fail any test in this PR.

[robobun]

Not added. I found no input from JavaScript that reaches either re-test.

• The suggested input does not reach it. quic.c takes a paused stream off the read queue (lsquic_stream_wantread(s, 0)), and ci_is_tickable() walks only the streams that want to read.
• A packet that arrives in the middle of a pass queues its connection, so the end of the pass does not call ci_is_tickable() for that connection.
• What remains is data that a tick leaves unparsed on a stream that wants to read. quic.c reads each such stream to its end inside the tick.

The re-tests stay because ci_is_tickable() can make the request (a window update, a QPACK decoder write, an HTTP/3 error), and nothing else stops the second insert. The gdb injection in the description covers the re-test at the end of the pass. The description lists both as hunks without a test in CI.

[claude]

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

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the refcount balance in conn_iter_skip_ticked (patches/lsquic/tick-once-per-pass.patch): set-aside connections are popped and re-inserted into conns_tickable without touching LSCONN_TICKABLE, and only the connection the iterator returns is decref'd, so the reference stays balanced. This push also addresses the earlier using/manual stop(true) overlap in exchange() and the per-test timeout on the paused-body case; the remaining 30_000 on the subprocess case now carries a stated reason.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds two lsquic engine patches (per-connection tickable gating via a new LSCONN_TICKING bit and a skip-already-ticked iterator), registers them in scripts/build/deps/lsquic.ts, and adds seven ordering tests. It touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface, but it changes the core scheduling loop of a vendored QUIC engine whose source is not in this checkout, so the min-heap and refcount semantics could only be checked from the patch text. One inline finding on the tests' silence precondition remains, and the prior-round note about untested re-test hunks is unchanged, so a human look is still warranted.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

[claude]

🟡 nit (optional): Maintainers get regression tests whose precondition is never asserted, so an unfixed build can pass them when the held connection keeps sending. The loop at test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:2327 gives up after 60 marker requests without checking that quiet reached 20, and the copy at test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts:992 does the same. Fix: after the loop, assert the silence was reached (for example expect(quiet).toBe(20) or throw with the packet counts), in both files, so a run where the holder never goes quiet fails loudly instead of deciding the order by the holder's own tick.

Why this was flagged

The tests in the describe at test/js/bun/http/serve-http3.test.ts:2262 and the redirect test at test/js/web/fetch/fetch-http3-client.test.ts:947 prove the fix by ordering: what the kick released must reach the held client before a later marker. The file's own comment at serve-http3.test.ts:2318-2321 says a packet from the holder's own client also ticks that connection and sends what the kick queued, which is why the connection must be silent first. silent() at serve-http3.test.ts:2324-2332 and the inline loop at fetch-http3-client.test.ts:992-997 stop after 60 requests whether or not 20 quiet requests were seen, and nothing checks quiet afterwards. On a build without the lsquic patches, a holder that is still exchanging ACKs or PINGs during the kick then gets ticked by its own packet, the held response leaves before the marker, and the assertion at serve-http3.test.ts:2399 passes for the wrong reason. The base branch has none of these tests; the change adds them without the precondition check.

Verification: The holder connection keeps exchanging packets during the 60 marker requests on a build without the lsquic fix. silent() at serve-http3.test.ts:2327-2332 is for (let quiet = 0, last = -1n, requests = 0; quiet < 20 && requests < 60; requests++) { ... } with nothing after the loop. So the regression tests can pass vacuously on a regressed build when the setup did not establish the precondition.