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Keep a pooled connection and fresh DNS entry to key provider origins on every pod, so an idle pod's next request skips connection setup to the provider. Raises the upstream DNS cache TTL default to 300s and adds chart plumbing for the dispatcher env knobs. Extracted from #3374 (prewarm + DNS TTL only; no hedging, no resource/dnsConfig changes). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SyZUQMBQaXbH6HsFbkmaH1
WalkthroughThe gateway now prewarms configured upstream origins with immediate and periodic ChangesUpstream prewarming
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to The chart currently drops explicit zero values for the upstream prewarm interval and DNS cache TTL, causing configured disabling to be ignored and leaving the runtime defaults active. This is a bounded production-configuration correctness issue that should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GatewayDispatcher
participant PrewarmTimer
participant UpstreamOrigin
GatewayDispatcher->>UpstreamOrigin: Send immediate HEAD request
GatewayDispatcher->>PrewarmTimer: Schedule interval
PrewarmTimer->>GatewayDispatcher: Trigger prewarming
GatewayDispatcher->>UpstreamOrigin: Send periodic HEAD request
GatewayDispatcher->>PrewarmTimer: Clear timer on shutdown
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In `@infra/helm/llmgateway/templates/configmap.yaml`:
- Around line 108-113: Update the Helm conditions for upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs
and upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs to render each key when the value is defined,
including explicit numeric 0, rather than only when truthy; preserve omission
when the values are absent.
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| {{- if .upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs }} | ||
| UPSTREAM_PREWARM_INTERVAL_MS: {{ .upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs | quote }} | ||
| {{- end }} | ||
| {{- if .upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs }} | ||
| UPSTREAM_DNS_CACHE_TTL_MS: {{ .upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs | quote }} | ||
| {{- end }} |
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Preserve explicit zero configuration values.
Lines 108-113 omit numeric 0 values. The dispatcher accepts 0 as valid input. With the default origins in infra/helm/llmgateway/values.yaml, upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs: 0 falls back to 25,000 ms and does not disable prewarming. upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs: 0 also falls back to 300,000 ms instead of disabling DNS caching.
Render these keys when they exist, not only when they are truthy.
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- {{- if .upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs }}
+ {{- if hasKey . "upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs" }}
UPSTREAM_PREWARM_INTERVAL_MS: {{ .upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs | quote }}
{{- end }}
- {{- if .upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs }}
+ {{- if hasKey . "upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs" }}
UPSTREAM_DNS_CACHE_TTL_MS: {{ .upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs | quote }}
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| {{- if .upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs }} | |
| UPSTREAM_PREWARM_INTERVAL_MS: {{ .upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs | quote }} | |
| {{- end }} | |
| {{- if .upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs }} | |
| UPSTREAM_DNS_CACHE_TTL_MS: {{ .upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs | quote }} | |
| {{- end }} | |
| {{- if hasKey . "upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs" }} | |
| UPSTREAM_PREWARM_INTERVAL_MS: {{ .upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs | quote }} | |
| {{- end }} | |
| {{- if hasKey . "upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs" }} | |
| UPSTREAM_DNS_CACHE_TTL_MS: {{ .upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs | quote }} | |
| {{- end }} |
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In `@infra/helm/llmgateway/templates/configmap.yaml` around lines 108 - 113,
Update the Helm conditions for upstreamPrewarmIntervalMs and
upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs to render each key when the value is defined, including
explicit numeric 0, rather than only when truthy; preserve omission when the
values are absent.
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Closing in favour of #3596, which lands the DNS TTL half of this. Sharing the measurements behind that call, since the diagnosis here was right even though one of the two levers doesn't fire. The prewarm ping can't hold a pooled connection. It sends It's the method rather than the path — the same endpoints pool fine under
The stall being chased is DNS, not connection setup. Fresh-connect vs pooled measured ~10ms against A corrected pinger is still worth revisiting if connection setup shows up in the numbers later — it'd want |
## Problem The [computesdk AI-gateway benchmark](https://github.com/computesdk/benchmarks/actions/runs/31716766465) (2026-08-13) dropped LLM Gateway from #1 (90.84, Aug 7) to #4 (88.80). The regression is entirely in cold-start probes: 3 of 10 stalled at 1.1–1.3s inside the gateway→provider hop while the remaining probes ran ~620ms, with edge DNS/TCP/TLS all under 10ms. A stall of that size is not a handshake. TCP+TLS to a provider's anycast edge is two round trips — measured at ~10ms against `api.anthropic.com` from a nearby vantage, and tens of ms at worst. 1.1s is a DNS retransmit: in-cluster an uncached lookup goes through `ndots:5` search expansion, where a single dropped UDP packet stalls for seconds. The dispatcher already caches DNS, but at a 30s TTL the entry expires between requests on a quiet pod, so an idle pod pays resolution again on its next request — exactly the cold-start case the probes measure. ## Approach - Default `UPSTREAM_DNS_CACHE_TTL_MS` 30s → 300s. Provider hostnames resolve to CDN/anycast addresses that are stable over minutes, and a connect failure on a stale address is already retried by provider fallback, so a long TTL is safe while a short one only puts DNS back on the TTFT path. - Plumb `upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs` and `upstreamKeepaliveTimeoutMs` through the Helm chart. Neither was settable without a code edit before; both stay unset in `values.yaml` so the code defaults apply, following the existing `terminationGracePeriodSeconds` pattern. This is the reduced form of #3595. That PR paired the TTL bump with a prewarm pinger that HEAD-pings provider origins to hold a pooled connection open. Measured against undici 8.9.0 with the same Agent config, every `HEAD` to both configured origins is answered `Connection: close`, so the ping opens a connection and has it torn down immediately — it cannot keep anything pooled: ``` HEAD https://api.openai.com/ 421 connection=close 6 connects / 3 req pooled=NO GET https://api.openai.com/ 421 connection=keep-alive 2 connects / 3 req pooled=NO HEAD https://api.openai.com/v1/models 401 connection=close 3 connects / 3 req pooled=NO GET https://api.openai.com/v1/models 401 connection=keep-alive 2 connects / 3 req pooled=NO HEAD https://api.anthropic.com/ 404 connection=close 3 connects / 3 req pooled=NO GET https://api.anthropic.com/ 404 connection=keep-alive 1 connect / 3 req pooled=YES HEAD https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages 405 connection=close 3 connects / 3 req pooled=NO GET https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages 405 connection=keep-alive 1 connect / 3 req pooled=YES ``` It is the method, not the path. Since the stall being chased is DNS rather than connection setup, the TTL change is the part that addresses it; a corrected pinger (`GET`, and preserving the configured path, which `new URL(x).origin` currently strips) can be revisited separately if connection setup turns out to matter. ## Verification - `pnpm vitest run apps/gateway/src/lib/upstream-dispatcher.spec.ts` — 3/3 passing - `helm template` with `gateway.config.upstreamDnsCacheTtlMs=600000` emits the var; with defaults it emits nothing - `pnpm build` — 17/17 tasks pass 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added configurable upstream DNS cache TTL and keep-alive timeout settings for gateway deployments. * Deployment configuration can now override the default upstream connection behavior. * **Improvements** * Increased the default upstream DNS cache duration from 30 seconds to 300 seconds. * DNS caching remains disabled when explicitly configured with a zero-second TTL. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
The computesdk AI-gateway benchmark (2026-08-13) dropped LLM Gateway from #1 (90.84, Aug 7) to #4 (88.80). The regression is entirely in cold-start probes: 3 of 10 stalled at 1.1–1.3s inside the gateway→provider hop (edge DNS/TCP/TLS all <10ms), while the remaining probes ran ~620ms. An idle pod pays fresh DNS + TCP + TLS to the provider on its next request; the Jul 24 dispatcher fix (#3225) only helps while traffic keeps the pool warm.
Approach
Minimal re-extraction of the two cold-path levers from #3374, without the parts that made that PR big (no hedging, no resource/dnsConfig changes):
UPSTREAM_PREWARM_ORIGINSis set, HEAD-ping each origin through the shared dispatcher everyUPSTREAM_PREWARM_INTERVAL_MS(default 25s, below keep-alive and provider edge idle timeouts), keeping one pooled connection and a fresh DNS entry per pod. Best-effort: an unreachable origin never affects serving; the timer isunrefed and cleared on close.api.anthropic.comandapi.openai.com(code default remains off).Verification
pnpm vitest run apps/gateway/src/lib/upstream-dispatcher.spec.ts— 6/6 passing, including 3 new specs (immediate + interval pinging, stop-on-close, invalid-origin tolerance)pnpm build— all 17 tasks pass🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01SyZUQMBQaXbH6HsFbkmaH1
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