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fix(middleware): make the admission queue bound actually bind (FIFO handoff, no wake-all) - #2265

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Problem

--queue-size 512 does not bound the admission queue. In production we measured smg_admission_queue_depth = 1,288 with a configured 512. The size cap only applied to an internal mpsc channel; a processor task drained that channel and spawned a detached waiter task per overflow request, so the real waiter population was unbounded. On top of that, every returned permit woke the whole herd (notify_waiters) to race for one token, waiters re-polled on a 10ms fallback loop, and a real lost-wakeup window existed between a failed try_acquire and parking.

Solution

Two structural changes, both smaller than patching the old design:

  • The queue bound is now a Semaphore(queue_size): a request that misses the fast path must take a queue slot or is immediately shed 429. The depth gauge lives inside the slot's lifetime, so depth can never exceed the configured size - the bound is structural, not advisory.
  • Token returns hand off directly to the oldest waiter (FIFO VecDeque, per-waiter notify_one with the grant recorded under the bucket mutex). No herd wakeups, no polling loop, no barging past parked waiters, and the stored-permit semantics of Notify close the lost-wakeup window. A cancelled or timed-out waiter dequeues itself and returns any uncollected grant.

Preserved exactly: 429 admission_queue_full / 503 admission_queue_timeout with Retry-After: 2, the permit-rides-response-body lifecycle, all three admission metric names/labels, and timeout counted from queue entry. The refill-rate>0 (RPS mode) path is unchanged.

Changes

  • concurrency.rs: AdmissionQueue (slot semaphore + timeout) replaces ConcurrencyLimiter/QueueProcessor/QueuedRequest; no spawned processor task
  • token_bucket.rs: FIFO waiter queue with direct grant handoff for refill=0; drop-guard cleanup for cancelled waiters
  • server.rs + tests/benches: AppState field rename

Test Plan

  • Exact bound: with the fast path saturated, queue_size waiters park and the next request sheds 429 immediately; FIFO drain order asserted
  • No lost wakeup: 200-iteration tight release/acquire loop
  • Cancelled and timed-out waiters free their slot and leak no grant
  • cargo test -p smg --lib 1806 passed (159 middleware); scheduler_admission_test 15; wasm_test 17; clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; fmt silent
Checklist
  • cargo +nightly fmt passes
  • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passes
  • (Optional) Documentation updated
  • (Optional) Please join us on Slack #sig-smg to discuss, review, and merge PRs

--queue-size never bound the number of queued requests: the queue
processor drained the size-capped channel and spawned a detached waiter
task per request, so every overflow request waited anyway (production
read smg_admission_queue_depth=1288 with --queue-size 512), and
notify_waiters woke the whole herd to race for each returned token.

Replace the channel-plus-processor design with a slot semaphore held
for the duration of the wait: at most queue_size requests park, the
next arrival sheds 429 admission_queue_full immediately, and a waiter
that outlives queue_timeout_secs sheds 503 admission_queue_timeout.
Waiters park directly on the token bucket, which now hands returned
tokens to the oldest waiter when refill_rate=0: FIFO order, no lost
wakeups, no barging past the queue, and cancelled or timed-out waiters
return any uncollected grant.

Shed bodies, Retry-After, the permit-rides-response-body lifecycle,
and the admission metrics are unchanged; smg_admission_queue_depth can
no longer exceed queue_size.

Signed-off-by: Simo Lin <25425177+slin1237@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Improved request admission handling with bounded queue capacity and timeout controls.
    • Requests exceeding queue capacity now receive immediate overload responses.
    • Queued requests are processed fairly in FIFO order.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved cancellation and timeout handling to prevent stuck requests.
    • Standardized responses for overloaded and unavailable services.
    • Enhanced rate-limit behavior and request queue reliability.

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Admission control

Layer / File(s) Summary
FIFO token admission
model_gateway/src/middleware/token_bucket.rs
TokenBucket now queues zero-refill acquisitions in FIFO order. Cancellation, timeout cleanup, token returns, and repeated wakeups are covered by tests.
Bounded admission queue
model_gateway/src/middleware/concurrency.rs
AdmissionQueue replaces channel-based admission. It bounds parked requests, sheds overflow, applies timeouts, and releases queue slots before execution.
Server state wiring
model_gateway/src/server.rs, model_gateway/src/middleware/mod.rs, model_gateway/tests/common/test_app.rs, model_gateway/tests/wasm_test.rs, model_gateway/benches/wasm_middleware_latency.rs
AppState and exports use AdmissionQueue. Startup creates it conditionally, and fixtures use the updated field.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3a72e

The change makes admission queue capacity and FIFO handoff behavior explicit while preserving existing shedding responses and lifecycle behavior. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; the PR is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ConcurrencyMiddleware
  participant AdmissionQueue
  participant TokenBucket
  Client->>ConcurrencyMiddleware: Submit request
  ConcurrencyMiddleware->>AdmissionQueue: Acquire queue slot
  AdmissionQueue->>TokenBucket: Acquire token
  TokenBucket-->>AdmissionQueue: Grant or timeout
  AdmissionQueue-->>ConcurrencyMiddleware: Admit or reject
  ConcurrencyMiddleware-->>Client: Return response
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Clean, well-designed replacement of the unbounded mpsc+processor design. The semaphore-based queue bound is structural, FIFO grant handoff via per-waiter Notify is correct (stored-permit semantics close the lost-wakeup window), and FifoWaiterGuard handles cancellation/timeout cleanup for both granted-but-uncollected and still-queued states. No barging possible since try_acquire checks for parked waiters. The refill-rate>0 path is unaffected (new calls are no-ops when the waiter deque is empty). Test coverage is thorough.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (4)
model_gateway/src/middleware/token_bucket.rs (1)

104-118: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

🟡 Nit: A waiter that requests more than capacity would stall the whole FIFO queue.

grant_waiters_locked stops at the head waiter when inner.tokens < front.tokens. A waiter that requests more tokens than capacity can never be satisfied, so every later waiter is blocked forever. All current callers request 1.0 with capacity >= 1, so this is not reachable today. Add a cheap guard in acquire_fifo so a future caller cannot deadlock the queue.

♻️ Proposed guard in `acquire_fifo`
     async fn acquire_fifo(&self, tokens: f64) -> Result<(), Elapsed> {
+        debug_assert!(
+            tokens.is_finite() && tokens >= 0.0 && tokens <= self.capacity,
+            "FIFO acquire needs 0 <= tokens <= capacity, got {tokens} (capacity {})",
+            self.capacity
+        );
         let (id, notify) = {
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In `@model_gateway/src/middleware/token_bucket.rs` around lines 104 - 118, Update
acquire_fifo to reject requests exceeding the token bucket capacity before
enqueuing a waiter, ensuring oversized requests cannot block the FIFO queue;
preserve the existing behavior for requests within capacity.
model_gateway/src/server.rs (1)

1298-1319: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

🟡 Nit: Log the admission-queue decision at info!.

The enabled case logs at debug!, while the rate-limiting-disabled case logs at info!. At the default INFO level an operator sees that rate limiting is on but cannot see the queue size or timeout that determine 429 and 503 shedding. Emit the effective admission configuration at info!.

♻️ Proposed log-level change
     let admission_queue =
         if app_context.rate_limiter.is_some() && config.router_config.queue_size > 0 {
-            debug!(
+            info!(
                 "Admission queue enabled (size: {}, timeout: {}s)",
                 config.router_config.queue_size, config.router_config.queue_timeout_secs
             );
@@
     } else if admission_queue.is_none() {
-        debug!(
+        info!(
             "Rate limiting enabled (max_concurrent_requests = {}, queue disabled)",
             config.router_config.max_concurrent_requests
         );
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@model_gateway/src/server.rs` around lines 1298 - 1319, Change the admission
queue enabled log in the admission_queue initialization block from debug! to
info!, preserving the queue size and timeout values in the message so the
effective admission configuration is visible at the default INFO level.
model_gateway/src/middleware/concurrency.rs (2)

4-8: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

🟡 Nit: Scope the FIFO claim to zero-refill buckets.

TokenBucket::acquire serves waiters in FIFO order only when refill_rate == 0. When rate_limit_tokens_per_second is set, acquire uses the polling refill path, where a later arrival can win the token. State the condition so an operator does not read FIFO as a guarantee for the RPS configuration.

📝 Proposed doc change
 //! `AdmissionQueue` caps concurrent waiters at `queue_size`; a request
 //! that finds every slot taken sheds immediately. Waiters park directly
-//! on the token bucket, which serves them in FIFO order. `TokenGuardBody`
+//! on the token bucket. With `rate_limit_tokens_per_second` unset (pure
+//! concurrency limiting) the bucket serves waiters in FIFO order; with a
+//! refill rate configured, waiters race for refilled tokens. `TokenGuardBody`
 //! wraps the response body so the token is only released after the entire
 //! stream has been delivered.
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In `@model_gateway/src/middleware/concurrency.rs` around lines 4 - 8, Update the
module documentation near AdmissionQueue and TokenBucket::acquire to qualify the
FIFO guarantee: it applies only when refill_rate is zero; rate-limited
configurations use the polling refill path and must not be described as FIFO.

365-376: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

🟡 Nit: Bound the spin helpers so a regression fails instead of hanging.

Both helpers spin without a deadline. If a future change stops releasing a slot or stops enqueuing a waiter, the test blocks until the CI job times out, and the failure gives no diagnostic. Add a deadline with an explicit assertion message.

♻️ Proposed helper change
 async fn wait_for_slots(queue: &AdmissionQueue, expected: usize) {
+        let deadline = tokio::time::Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(5);
         while queue.slots.available_permits() != expected {
+            assert!(
+                tokio::time::Instant::now() < deadline,
+                "expected {expected} free slots, found {}",
+                queue.slots.available_permits()
+            );
             tokio::task::yield_now().await;
         }
     }
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In `@model_gateway/src/middleware/concurrency.rs` around lines 365 - 376, Bound
the polling loops in wait_for_slots and wait_for_bucket_waiters with a deadline
or timeout, and assert with explicit diagnostic messages when the expected state
is not reached. Preserve their existing success conditions and yielding behavior
while ensuring regressions fail promptly instead of hanging.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@model_gateway/src/middleware/concurrency.rs`:
- Around line 4-8: Update the module documentation near AdmissionQueue and
TokenBucket::acquire to qualify the FIFO guarantee: it applies only when
refill_rate is zero; rate-limited configurations use the polling refill path and
must not be described as FIFO.
- Around line 365-376: Bound the polling loops in wait_for_slots and
wait_for_bucket_waiters with a deadline or timeout, and assert with explicit
diagnostic messages when the expected state is not reached. Preserve their
existing success conditions and yielding behavior while ensuring regressions
fail promptly instead of hanging.

In `@model_gateway/src/middleware/token_bucket.rs`:
- Around line 104-118: Update acquire_fifo to reject requests exceeding the
token bucket capacity before enqueuing a waiter, ensuring oversized requests
cannot block the FIFO queue; preserve the existing behavior for requests within
capacity.

In `@model_gateway/src/server.rs`:
- Around line 1298-1319: Change the admission queue enabled log in the
admission_queue initialization block from debug! to info!, preserving the queue
size and timeout values in the message so the effective admission configuration
is visible at the default INFO level.

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