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Problem

--stream-request-bodies-over made an operator pre-decide, fleet-wide and by size, whether request bodies buffer (store, parse, re-serialize, send) or stream through verbatim. That one guessed number silently coupled three unrelated questions: does anything downstream need the bytes, who validates, and how much memory one request may pin. The default (disabled) buffered everything: on the video shadow lane that was ~340GB of slow client uploads pinned per router until the flag was discovered. Operators tuning routing knobs should not inherit a memory model as a side effect - and "we only fixed router.rs" should not be possible either: whether a router family can forward bodies verbatim is a property of the family, and it should be declared, not implied by a downcast.

Solution

Two layers, no operator input:

Body policy is part of the router contract. RouterTrait gains a non-defaulted request_body_policy() -> BodyPolicy: either ForwardCapable (the regular HTTP router) or MustBuffer(reason) - per_leg_construction (PD), protocol_transformation (gRPC), pipeline_transform (Anthropic/Gemini/OpenAI), model_selection (multi-router dispatch). The compiler forces every family, present and future, to declare; there is no silent default. Every request increments smg_router_request_body_path_total{path, reason} exactly once, so the buffered/streamed mix per lane is on a dashboard with reasons attached.

ForwardCapable routers decide per request, before the body arrives, from facts the router already has:

  1. Buffer when someone provably needs the bytes: policy needs request text and no sticky-key/token-hint waiver applies; a candidate worker mutates requests (re-checked after selection to cover the registration race); WASM request hooks; missing/invalid Content-Length.
  2. When the only reason is retryability: buffer up to --max-buffered-request-bytes (default 1MiB, 0 = never) to keep router retries; past the bound, stream and forfeit retries for that request, observably.
  3. Otherwise stream, any size: the engine receives the client's bytes as they arrive; the router holds only in-transit chunks.

--stream-request-bodies-over is REMOVED, not deprecated - it never shipped in a tagged release.

Breaking change

⚠️ Versus the last release, the default changes: eligible requests larger than 1MiB now stream - engines receive the client's bytes verbatim (chunked, no re-serialization normalization), those requests forfeit router-level retries, and router-side parse validation for them moves to the engine (which always re-validated). --max-buffered-request-bytes 0 plus a text-needing policy restores buffer-everything.

⚠️ Deployment coordination: --stream-request-bodies-over is gone and clap rejects unknown args (verified: the binary and the Python launcher both fail at startup if it is passed). Any nightly deployment still setting it must drop the flag in the SAME change as the image bump - dropping it early reverts those routers to buffer-everything on the old image; keeping it late crash-loops the new one. Config files carrying the old key are unaffected (serde ignores unknown fields); the CLI is the hard-fail surface.

Changes

  • BodyPolicy in the router trait's home with a DEFAULTED request_body_policy(): buffering is the safe default, with the counter reason derived from the existing router_type() identity - zero code per family. Exactly two overrides: the regular HTTP router (ForwardCapable) and RouterManager (lone-router delegation; model_selection when dispatching across several). The middleware consults the capability, never a downcast
  • Router::request_body_path per-request decision matrix (one compact doc comment); middleware renamed stream_eligible_request_bodies, no longer size-gated
  • --max-buffered-request-bytes through both config paths, builder, serde default, Python bindings; old flag removed from every surface (CLI, config, validation, bindings, tests)
  • smg_router_request_body_path_total{path, reason} counter, tiny label set

Test Plan

  • Decision matrix units: every hard-buffer reason forces buffering; retry crossover exactly at the bound (1024 buffers, 1025 streams); 0-cap semantics; pure-forward streams any size; per-model retry-override conservatism
  • Capability: manager delegation pinned through derived reasons (lone stub, lone PD stub, multi-router model_selection)
  • Integration: stock config buffers small and streams a 2MiB body (worker observes chunked/no-CL); retries-disabled streams small bodies; removed-flag rejection verified for both the binary and the Python launcher; all pre-existing streamed/buffered/mutating-worker fixtures pass
  • Full cargo test -p smg: 26 binaries, zero failures (lib 1822); Python wheel rebuilt via maturin, arg-parser pytest 56 passed; smg-golang clean; clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; fmt silent
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  • 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

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  • New Features

    • Added max-buffered-request-bytes, defaulting to 1 MiB.
    • Request bodies now buffer only when required for routing, processing, or retries; eligible larger requests stream instead.
    • Added metrics for buffering and streaming decisions.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of missing or invalid content lengths.
    • Prevented retry buffering from exceeding its configured limit.
  • Breaking Changes

    • Replaced stream-request-bodies-over with max-buffered-request-bytes in configuration and Python interfaces.

Walkthrough

The request-body threshold is replaced with a configurable retry-buffer cap. Routing now selects buffering or streaming per request based on router policy, body requirements, retry settings, content length, WASM hooks, and worker behavior.

Changes

Request body routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Buffer cap configuration
bindings/python/..., model_gateway/src/config/..., model_gateway/src/main.rs
Replaces stream_request_bodies_over with max_buffered_request_bytes, defaulting to 1 MiB across Python, CLI, builder, serialization, and server wiring.
Router body policies
model_gateway/src/routers/common/..., model_gateway/src/routers/mod.rs, model_gateway/src/routers/router_manager.rs, model_gateway/src/worker/registry.rs
Adds BodyPolicy and router policy dispatch for raw-body forwarding, mandatory buffering, and model selection.
Per-request body path
model_gateway/src/routers/http/router.rs, model_gateway/src/observability/metrics.rs
Selects buffered or streamed request handling using body requirements, retry limits, retry overrides, content length, mutating workers, WASM hooks, and path metrics.
Middleware integration and validation
model_gateway/src/server.rs, model_gateway/src/routers/http/router.rs, model_gateway/tests/routing/..., bindings/python/tests/test_arg_parser.py
Renames the middleware, passes application context and hook state into request-body routing, and tests cap defaults, retry boundaries, mandatory buffering, streaming, fallback paths, and argument ordering.

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The PR changes request-body handling to choose buffering or streaming per request and removes the old size-based flag; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Middleware
  participant Router
  participant WorkerRegistry
  participant Metrics
  Client->>Middleware: send request body
  Middleware->>Router: evaluate body policy and WASM hooks
  Router->>WorkerRegistry: inspect worker retry behavior
  Router->>Router: choose buffering or streaming
  Router->>Metrics: record path and reason
  Router-->>Client: forward request
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  • smg-project/smg#2198: This PR supersedes its request-body streaming threshold across configuration, routing middleware, and tests.

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Clean PR. The per-request body-path decision matrix in request_body_path() is well-structured with clear first-match semantics. Deprecation mapping via effective_max_buffered_request_bytes() is sound — resolves at Router construction time. The registration-race guard after worker selection correctly covers mutating workers that join between the fleet check and dispatch. Metric accounting has exactly one record_request_body_path per code path with accurate labels. Test coverage is comprehensive: every branch of the decision matrix has a unit test, and integration tests verify end-to-end behavior including the deprecated-flag mapping, retries-disabled streaming, and default-config crossover at 1MiB.

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Some(selected) => selected,
None => return next.run(req).await,
None => {
Metrics::record_request_body_path(BODY_PATH_BUFFERED, "model_selection");

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🟡 Nit: "model_selection" is a bare string literal here (and on line 1891), while every other reason string used in Metrics::record_request_body_path is a const (REASON_POLICY_NEEDS_TEXT, REASON_WORKER_MUTATES_BODY, etc.). A typo in either copy would silently create a new metric label. Consider extracting a constant alongside the others:

const REASON_MODEL_SELECTION: &str = "model_selection";

The same literal also appears as MustBuffer("model_selection") in RouterManager::request_body_policy() — a shared constant would keep all three sites in sync.

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Fixed in 6a67e10 — one shared REASON_MODEL_SELECTION const used at all three sites, and the whole reason vocabulary now lives in one module (routers/common/body_policy.rs); repo-wide grep confirms zero bare reason/path literals outside it.

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- Around line 1715-1721: Update the streamed request handling around
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preserved: buffer the body whenever selection requires the request model, or use
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router whose request_body_policy returns BodyPolicy::ForwardCapable, then assert
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RouterTrait gains a BodyPolicy capability whose default is MustBuffer
keyed by the family's router_type — buffering is always correct, so
transforming families (PD, gRPC, external providers) take it for free
and only the forward-capable HTTP regular router overrides it (the
RouterManager delegates a lone router's policy and turns multi-router
dispatch into a buffer reason). The capability, its reason vocabulary
and the per-request decision matrix live in routers/common/body_policy.

The forward-capable router chooses the body path per request, before
the body arrives: requests it must parse (text-routing policy without
a hint waiver, a registry serving more than one model — content-blind
selection could land on the wrong model's worker — a body-mutating
worker, WASM request hooks, missing Content-Length) buffer as before;
eligible requests buffer only up to --max-buffered-request-bytes
(default 1MiB) to stay retryable, and otherwise stream to the worker
verbatim, forfeiting router-level retries. The never-released
--stream-request-bodies-over flag is removed. Every decision on an
eligible route is observable via
smg_router_request_body_path_total{path,reason}.

Signed-off-by: Simo Lin <25425177+slin1237@users.noreply.github.com>
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Review round addressed in 6a67e10, plus a structural change from maintainer review: the whole capability now lives in routers/common/body_policy.rs - the BodyPolicy enum, every reason constant, and the decision matrix as a pure function over explicit per-request inputs (unit-testable without constructing a router). http/router.rs keeps only a thin adapter that gathers its state and calls it.

The matrix gained one hard-buffer reason from this round: model_ambiguous - a multi-model registry buffers so selection can read the model from the body; single-model registries (the production video lane) stream as before. Full suite re-run green: 26 binaries zero failures, wheel + arg-parser pytest, golang check.

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