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usockets: give the receive buffers' unused pages back to the system on Linux - #47786
Each event loop has a 512 KiB receive buffer (loop->data.recv_buf), and each loop that has had a TLS socket has a second one for the decrypted bytes (ssl_read_output). Only the pages that have been written are resident, so a buffer stays resident up to the end of the largest read that it has ever held, for the life of the loop, though what it holds is dead as soon as the data callback returns.
Before: one large response leaves up to 512 KiB resident in each buffer that it passed through, for good.
After (Linux): a second after the last write past the first 64 KiB of either buffer, the loop gives the whole pages past that point of both buffers back to the system with madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).
That is up to 2 × 444 KiB per loop that has done TLS, and the main thread, every worker and the HTTP client thread each have a loop of their own.
How
us_internal_schedule_recv_buffer_release() sets loop->data.recv_buf_release_at_ns = now + 1s. It is called where something is written past 64 KiB:
a socket read of over 64 KiB (loop.c);
a recvmmsg() of more than one datagram, because each datagram has a 64 KiB slot of its own (loop.c);
the SSL_read that takes the plaintext past 64 KiB (openssl.c). This is not derived from the ciphertext's length: a record that the previous read began adds up to 16 KiB to this read's plaintext;
the allocation of either buffer, because mimalloc can hand out pages that an earlier owner left resident.
The deadline is folded into the poll timeout next to the socket-timeout sweep's, so us_internal_sweep_timeout_ns / us_internal_clamp_to_sweep became us_internal_loop_timeout_ns / us_internal_clamp_to_loop_timeout. No timerfd, and it does not keep the process alive. This is what makes it work on the HTTP client thread, which otherwise polls with no timeout once its last socket is closed.
us_internal_release_recv_buffers_if_due() runs after the dispatch of each tick and does the madvise. A nested tick (tick_depth > 1) neither releases nor wakes for the deadline, because the data callback it runs under may still be reading its buffer.
Cost: a load and a branch per tick, a clock_gettime per read of over 64 KiB, and one extra wakeup plus two madvise calls per quiet period. Every loop that lives for a second pays that wakeup once, for the allocation.
Linux only: its MADV_DONTNEED frees anonymous pages at once and leaves nothing to undo before the next write. The field exists on every platform so that the Rust mirror of the struct needs no cfg; nothing else sets it.
Two hooks are added to bun:internal-for-testing: recvBufferTails(ofHTTPThread?) (the address ranges) and residentBytes(address, length) (mincore).
How did you verify your code works?
New test in test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts, "the loop's receive buffers give their memory back once large reads stop", with recv-buffer-release-fixture.ts. It counts the resident pages of the buffers with mincore(), so it does not depend on RSS. Each case does its transfer twice, with a release in between, and the second is the one in the table: the first release can be the one that the allocation scheduled.
Resident bytes past the first 64 KiB, socket buffer + TLS buffer, at the peak → once settled:
tcp (HTTP client thread)
tls (HTTP client thread)
udp (main thread)
this PR
454656 + 0 → 0
454656 + 454656 → 0 + 0
24576 → 0
deadline never set
not run
stays
stays
not folded into the poll timeout
not run
stays
→ 0 (the JS thread's own 1 s timer wakes the loop)
not scheduled by the socket read
stays
→ 0 + 0 (the plaintext schedules it)
n/a
not scheduled by recvmmsg
n/a
n/a
stays
not scheduled by any read
not run
stays
stays
Rows 2 and 3 were measured with an earlier version of the fixture that did one transfer.
The fetch()es use keepalive: false, so that the HTTP client thread is left with no socket, no sweep and no poll timeout of its own.
The first two rows (tls and udp, one transfer) come out the same on a release build, where the buffers are mimalloc's and not ASAN's.
strace of the HTTP client thread after a 32 MiB fetch() over TLS, with nothing else to wake it:
RSS of a release build of this branch against the same tree with the deadline never set: 16 workers each read a 32 MiB TLS response with Bun.connect and then idle. Rss of /proc/self/smaps_rollup 4.5 s later, three runs each:
KiB
before
212108, 205832, 206596
after
200436, 200180, 198712
That is about 8 MiB less, of the 13.9 MiB that 16 loops could hold at most. The runs vary by several MiB, so take the mincore numbers as the measurement and this as a sanity check.
Also checked by hand on the debug build: three rounds of an 8 MiB patterned body over TLS, with a release between each, hash the same as what was sent; and a script that ends right after a large read exits at once instead of waiting for the deadline. 40 × 32 MiB fetch() over TLS shows no difference in throughput outside the noise (1006 / 1073 / 1294 MiB/s before, 1318 / 1431 / 1055 after).
socket.test.ts, udp_socket.test.ts, tcp-server.test.ts, fetch.tls.test.ts, serve.test.ts and node-tls-connect.test.ts pass on the debug build, apart from four tests that need the public internet or a system node that my machine does not have as they expect.
…n Linux
Each event loop has a 512 KiB receive buffer, and a second one for TLS
plaintext. Both stayed resident up to the end of the largest read they had
ever held. A second after the last write past their first 64 KiB, the loop
now releases the whole pages past that point with madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).
The deadline is folded into the poll timeout, so an idle loop wakes for it.
Co-authored-by: dylanc <dylanc@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough
The loop schedules Linux receive-buffer page release after initialization and qualifying reads. Event-loop deadlines trigger release. New testing bindings and tests inspect buffer tails and residency.
Changes
Receive-buffer release
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Summary
Release deadline and page reclamation packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/loop_data.h, packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/internal.h, src/uws_sys/InternalLoopData.rs, packages/bun-usockets/src/libusockets.h, packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c
The loop data stores a receive-buffer release deadline. On Linux, the loop identifies page-aligned unused buffer tails and releases due tails with madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).
Read triggers and event-loop release packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/eventing/epoll_kqueue.c
Loop initialization and qualifying TCP, UDP, and TLS reads schedule release. Both event-loop paths include the release deadline in wait clamping and release due buffers after sweeping.
Testing bindings expose buffer-tail addresses and resident-byte counts. The fixture and Linux-only socket tests check residency during HTTP and UDP reads and after release.
Suggested reviewers: robobun
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to e8bcd
No actionable merge-blocking issue was established. The testing hook receives integral buffer ranges from its caller; fractional-input truncation does not affect that workflow.
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Read again after the first release in the receive-buffer fixture.
The fixture reads once, then waits for the buffers to drain. A release armed at loop init (packages/bun-usockets/src/loop.c:196) or at TLS initialization (packages/bun-usockets/src/crypto/openssl.c:752) clears the buffers at its deadline. If the transfer finishes before that deadline, the test passes with the read-time re-arms removed (loop.c:869, loop.c:1162, openssl.c:2865). The read-time re-arms are not exercised.
Wait for the first release to finish, then run a second read. The second read depends on its own re-arm to drain the buffers. Without that re-arm, settled stays nonzero and the test fails. Both modes need this change.
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Review comment at @test/js/bun/net/recv-buffer-release-fixture.ts around lines
47 - 51:
Update the receive-buffer fixture to wait for the first transfer’s buffers to
drain, then run a second transfer and wait for its buffers to drain before
reporting the result. Apply this sequence to both UDP and TLS modes so the
second read exercises its own release re-arm; leave the assertions in
socket.test.ts unchanged.
Allocating a buffer schedules a release too, so a transfer that finished
within a second of that passed without the reads scheduling anything. Run
each transfer twice and judge the second, and add a plain TCP case, which
the TLS plaintext's own scheduling was masking.
Co-authored-by: dylanc <dylanc@anthropic.com>
The fixture takes 3.6 s on a debug build, two of them waiting for the two
releases, which is too close to the default 5 s.
Co-authored-by: dylanc <dylanc@anthropic.com>
test/aot/builtins/native-contract.test.ts calls every native function with
operands of every kind, and a length that is not a sane number aborted in
the allocation of the page vector.
Co-authored-by: dylanc <dylanc@anthropic.com>
CI, as of build 137036 on e8bcd07, which has finished:
This PR's, fixed in e8bcd07:test/aot/builtins/native-contract.test.ts — the new residentBytes test hook aborted on operands that are not sane numbers. It checks them now; reproduced and verified locally with AOT_BUILTINS_FILTER='residentBytes|recvBufferTails', and it no longer fails in CI.
Not this PR's — red on main too. The build has 39 failing test files. 38 of them (37 under test/aot, and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts) are among the 40 that fail on main, at this branch's base a4c3a5e (build 137005) and again at 6cdb383 (build 137093). main has failed them since build 136252 of Oct 31. The diff touches neither the ahead-of-time compiler nor module mocking.
The open follow-up for them is #47605 ("bun test --aot follows #44833's mocks"; most of the 38 are tests of mocks or of test runs). Its CI does not show yet that it clears them: its latest build (136666) runs only the AOT test files named in its test/aot/every-build.txt. 6 of the 38 are on that list and pass there, 30 are not on it and did not run, and the other two (a program under test/aot/parallel, and compile-aot-size.test.ts) are not among its failures. It changes 7,093 files and its description calls the newest push a compile check, so there is nothing in it to port into this PR. I will merge main into this branch once main passes these again. Merging main before then would only run the same failures again.
Corrected twice: this paragraph first said that I had found no such PR, and then that none of the 38 fails in build 136666, as if all of them had run there.
Not this PR's — at its bound on the ASAN lane. The 39th is test/js/web/request/request-clone-leak.test.ts on 13 x64-asan: new Request(test #1), RSS delta 64 MB against < 64. main builds have no x64-asan lane, so it cannot show there, and the comparison is with other branches:
build
branch
readings (MB)
137036
this PR
56 4 64 4 49 4 50 4 49 4 49 4
135157, Oct 29, four days before this branch's first commit
The file is annotated in 30 of the 81 builds from 136960 to 137040. Each of its tests is synchronous from the baseline to the measurement and opens no socket, so the event loop does not tick in between and nothing in this diff runs.
A fix exists here too, #47579. Its description traces the reading to ASAN's quarantine, which keeps the freed requests resident, plus the first FTL compile; I have not checked that myself. I have not ported it: it rewrites an unrelated test (2 files, +211 −103), and this build would stay red with it because of the 38 above. I cannot re-run jobs from here.
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What does this PR do?
Each event loop has a 512 KiB receive buffer (
loop->data.recv_buf), and each loop that has had a TLS socket has a second one for the decrypted bytes (ssl_read_output). Only the pages that have been written are resident, so a buffer stays resident up to the end of the largest read that it has ever held, for the life of the loop, though what it holds is dead as soon as the data callback returns.Before: one large response leaves up to 512 KiB resident in each buffer that it passed through, for good.
After (Linux): a second after the last write past the first 64 KiB of either buffer, the loop gives the whole pages past that point of both buffers back to the system with
madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).That is up to 2 × 444 KiB per loop that has done TLS, and the main thread, every worker and the HTTP client thread each have a loop of their own.
How
us_internal_schedule_recv_buffer_release()setsloop->data.recv_buf_release_at_ns = now + 1s. It is called where something is written past 64 KiB:loop.c);recvmmsg()of more than one datagram, because each datagram has a 64 KiB slot of its own (loop.c);SSL_readthat takes the plaintext past 64 KiB (openssl.c). This is not derived from the ciphertext's length: a record that the previous read began adds up to 16 KiB to this read's plaintext;us_internal_sweep_timeout_ns/us_internal_clamp_to_sweepbecameus_internal_loop_timeout_ns/us_internal_clamp_to_loop_timeout. No timerfd, and it does not keep the process alive. This is what makes it work on the HTTP client thread, which otherwise polls with no timeout once its last socket is closed.us_internal_release_recv_buffers_if_due()runs after the dispatch of each tick and does themadvise. A nested tick (tick_depth > 1) neither releases nor wakes for the deadline, because the data callback it runs under may still be reading its buffer.Cost: a load and a branch per tick, a
clock_gettimeper read of over 64 KiB, and one extra wakeup plus twomadvisecalls per quiet period. Every loop that lives for a second pays that wakeup once, for the allocation.Linux only: its
MADV_DONTNEEDfrees anonymous pages at once and leaves nothing to undo before the next write. The field exists on every platform so that the Rust mirror of the struct needs nocfg; nothing else sets it.Two hooks are added to
bun:internal-for-testing:recvBufferTails(ofHTTPThread?)(the address ranges) andresidentBytes(address, length)(mincore).How did you verify your code works?
New test in
test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts, "the loop's receive buffers give their memory back once large reads stop", withrecv-buffer-release-fixture.ts. It counts the resident pages of the buffers withmincore(), so it does not depend on RSS. Each case does its transfer twice, with a release in between, and the second is the one in the table: the first release can be the one that the allocation scheduled.Resident bytes past the first 64 KiB, socket buffer + TLS buffer, at the peak → once settled:
recvmmsgRows 2 and 3 were measured with an earlier version of the fixture that did one transfer.
The
fetch()es usekeepalive: false, so that the HTTP client thread is left with no socket, no sweep and no poll timeout of its own.The first two rows (tls and udp, one transfer) come out the same on a release build, where the buffers are mimalloc's and not ASAN's.
straceof the HTTP client thread after a 32 MiBfetch()over TLS, with nothing else to wake it:RSS of a release build of this branch against the same tree with the deadline never set: 16 workers each read a 32 MiB TLS response with
Bun.connectand then idle.Rssof/proc/self/smaps_rollup4.5 s later, three runs each:That is about 8 MiB less, of the 13.9 MiB that 16 loops could hold at most. The runs vary by several MiB, so take the
mincorenumbers as the measurement and this as a sanity check.Also checked by hand on the debug build: three rounds of an 8 MiB patterned body over TLS, with a release between each, hash the same as what was sent; and a script that ends right after a large read exits at once instead of waiting for the deadline. 40 × 32 MiB
fetch()over TLS shows no difference in throughput outside the noise (1006 / 1073 / 1294 MiB/s before, 1318 / 1431 / 1055 after).socket.test.ts,udp_socket.test.ts,tcp-server.test.ts,fetch.tls.test.ts,serve.test.tsandnode-tls-connect.test.tspass on the debug build, apart from four tests that need the public internet or a systemnodethat my machine does not have as they expect.Generated by Claude Code