Run-ahead verify-window admission, stale-tail discard, and a jitter-capable wire model - #1409
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis PR adds verify-window runahead token configuration and scheduling, advances the Skippy stage protocol to V5, adds stale-window discard handling, improves binary connection shutdown, and supports jitter and probabilistic stalls in downstream wire simulation. ChangesSpeculative runahead and stale-window discard
Downstream wire jitter and stalls
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This change adds speculative run-ahead and stale-work cancellation, but the current implementation can exceed the configured budget, miss cancellation messages until stale work executes, and allow one connection failure to disrupt the stage listener and other connections. Those issues can cause wasted execution, degraded throughput, or failed serving, so the PR is not ready to merge until addressed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EmbeddedGeneration
participant StageOpenAiBackend
participant InboundMessageReader
participant StaleDiscardRegistry
participant EdgeStage
EmbeddedGeneration->>StageOpenAiBackend: send stale window range
StageOpenAiBackend->>InboundMessageReader: send DiscardStaleWindows
InboundMessageReader->>StaleDiscardRegistry: record discard range
InboundMessageReader->>EdgeStage: forward discard message
EdgeStage->>StaleDiscardRegistry: check window ID
EdgeStage->>StageOpenAiBackend: send empty predicted-token reply
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The focused skippy-server suite passes on this head (491 passed, 3 ignored), and the checked PR lanes are green. I found four integration issues around mixed-version wire negotiation, disabling inherited run-ahead config, bounded discard lookahead, and reader-thread teardown; these paths are not covered by the current unit tests.
| DecodeLightCtx = 9, | ||
| VerifyWindow = 21, | ||
| RetireVerifyWindow = 22, | ||
| DiscardStaleWindows = 23, |
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[P1] Negotiate this wire kind before sending it. This adds kind 23 while STAGE_STATE_VERSION remains 11 and STAGE_PROTOCOL_GENERATION remains 4, so a released/current stage peer advertising generation 4 is still eligible. Once run-ahead diverges, the new coordinator sends this kind and the older WireMessageKind::try_from rejects it as unknown stage message kind, tearing down the request connection. The sender being opt-in does not establish receiver support. Please either advertise/gate on a dedicated discard capability across every stage, or bump the stage generation and make split planning exclude older peers.
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Fixed in f632e71 by bumping STAGE_PROTOCOL_GENERATION to 5 (feature token stage-generation-5), so split planning excludes peers that cannot parse kind 23. I took the generation bump rather than a dedicated capability: the generation token is the existing mechanism for current-generation frames, and a per-peer capability would need plumbing from mesh split planning into the embedded frontend's send path. Trade-off is that a run-ahead coordinator will not split with older peers at all instead of degrading with discard off. If mixed-version meshes need to keep working, I can do the capability route as a follow-up.
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| &format!("{base_path}.verify_window_runahead_tokens"), | ||
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[P1] Allow the documented zero sentinel here. VerifyWindowConfig defines runahead_max_tokens == 0 as fixed-depth mode, but the persisted model setting rejects zero. In particular, if [defaults.speculative] enables run-ahead, a model-specific block cannot turn it back off: None inherits the positive default and Some(0) fails validation. Please validate 0..=MAX_VERIFY_WINDOW_RUNAHEAD_TOKENS and add a precedence test with a positive default overridden by model-level zero.
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Fixed in f632e71: validation accepts 0..=MAX_VERIFY_WINDOW_RUNAHEAD_TOKENS. Added model_level_zero_runahead_overrides_a_positive_global_default in the resolver tests: global 256 resolves to 256 when inherited, and a model-level 0 resolves to fixed-depth mode.
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| .context("clone upstream stream for inbound message reader")?; | ||
| let (sender, receiver) = mpsc::sync_channel(capacity.max(1)); |
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[P1] This bounded queue prevents the reader from reaching the discard for the larger run-ahead windows this PR enables. capacity is max_inflight (and is capped to lane_count, commonly 1-4), while the scheduler can enqueue up to 64 verify windows. Once the channel fills, the reader blocks in send on an earlier stale window and cannot parse the later DiscardStaleWindows; most of the stale tail must execute before the registry is updated. Please decouple control-message lookahead from the bounded execution queue (or otherwise cover the full admitted verify backlog), and test a backlog larger than max_inflight.
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Fixed in f632e71: the reader channel is now sized to cover the whole admitted backlog (INBOUND_LOOKAHEAD_MESSAGES = 2 x MAX_VERIFY_WINDOW_PIPELINE_DEPTH, windows plus their retire messages) rather than max_inflight, so the reader always reaches the discard. Regression test writes MAX_VERIFY_WINDOW_PIPELINE_DEPTH messages followed by a DiscardStaleWindows past a capacity-1 execution queue, and asserts the registry records the discard with nothing dequeued; it times out on the previous bounded queue.
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| .context("clone upstream stream for inbound message reader")?; | ||
| let (sender, receiver) = mpsc::sync_channel(capacity.max(1)); | ||
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[P2] Give this reader a shutdown/join path. The cloned TcpStream and JoinHandle are moved into an untracked thread. Dropping InboundMessageReader only drops the receiver; if the connection handler exits on a local execution/protocol error while the peer keeps its side open, this thread remains blocked in read_stage_message, retains the cloned socket fd, and never reaches the failed sender.send. Repeated failures can therefore leak one thread and connection per request. Store a stop-capable stream/handle and shut it down on drop (or use a bounded read timeout plus stop token), with a test that holds the peer open while the handler exits.
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Fixed in f632e71: InboundMessageReader keeps a second stream clone and the JoinHandle; Drop shuts the socket down (Shutdown::Both) to unblock read_stage_message and joins the thread. The reader lives for the whole connection (one handle_binary_connection_messages call per accepted connection), so the shutdown only fires when the handler is exiting. Test holds the peer open, drops the reader on another thread, and asserts the drop completes.
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312-336: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winEnforce the token budget before opening the window.
has_capacitychecks only the currentin_flight_tokens. It does not includetoken_count. With a budget of 100, windows of 48, 48, and 48 tokens are accepted and produce 144 in-flight tokens. The test at Lines 624-636 records this overflow.Reject a window when its
token_countexceeds the remaining budget, or reduce the window width before callingopen. Update the test to require a maximum of 96 tokens for this case.Proposed fix
+ if self.config.is_runahead() + && token_count + > self + .config + .runahead_max_tokens() + .saturating_sub(self.in_flight_tokens) + { + return Err(OpenAiError::backend( + "verify window runahead token budget exceeded", + )); + } if !self.has_capacity() { return Err(OpenAiError::backend( "verify window pipeline depth exceeded", )); }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/skippy-server/README.md`:
- Line 107: Update the remaining generation-4 protocol and topology references
to generation 5: in crates/skippy-server/README.md lines 107-107, revise the
nearby references; in docs/design/TESTING.md lines 851-851, change “generation-4
split topology”; and in docs/skippy/DATA_FLOW.md lines 47-47, rename the
generation-4 section and update its protocol description.
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`@crates/skippy-server/src/binary_transport/binary_messaging/message_receive.rs`:
- Around line 41-48: Update InboundMessageReader::drop to take and drop receiver
before joining the reader thread, so a blocked sender is unblocked during
cleanup. Store receiver as Option, adjust next() to receive through it, and add
a regression test that fills INBOUND_LOOKAHEAD_MESSAGES before dropping the
reader.
In `@crates/skippy-server/src/binary_transport/wire.rs`:
- Around line 55-65: Update WireCondition::with_jitter and the propagation_delay
path to reject or safely handle combined jitter and stall delays that exceed
Duration::from_secs_f64 limits, including finite values such as f64::MAX. Prefer
validating the resulting delay during construction or using a fallible
conversion so conditioned writes never panic; preserve the existing non-negative
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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/decode_scheduler.rs`:
- Around line 312-336: Update the window-opening method around has_capacity and
token_count to reject requests whose token_count exceeds the remaining token
budget before mutating state; preserve existing capacity and overflow checks.
Adjust the associated overflow test to expect the in-flight token maximum to
remain at 96 for three 48-token requests under a 100-token budget.
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Reviewed — solid, careful PR. The core design is right and the opt-in gating is done properly. A handful of things to settle before I'd approve; one is a conscious behavioral sign-off, the rest are minor. What I checked
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Nits Nothing here is a correctness blocker on the run-ahead path itself. #1 is the one I'd want a conscious answer on; the rest are quick. |
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Re the out-of-diff scheduler finding (has_capacity admitting past the token budget): fixed in b122b12. The scheduler enforces the budget from the second in-flight window on (open rejects, and admissible_window_tokens reports the remaining width), and the admission loop clamps its chunk width to the remaining budget rather than planning a chunk the budget cannot fit — so in-flight tokens never exceed the budget once a window is in flight. A first window wider than the whole budget still opens from idle, so a budget narrower than one window cannot stall a request; the smoke test now caps at exactly 100/100 instead of recording 144. |
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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/binary_transport/wire.rs`:
- Line 66: Update sleep_for_bandwidth to validate the computed transfer duration
before converting it with Duration::from_secs_f64, including extremely small
positive mbps values such as f64::MIN_POSITIVE; use checked conversion and
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100-113: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winKeep panics in connection workers from stopping the accept loop.
A panic in the
thread::spawnclosure can makeJoinHandle::join()returnErr.ConnectionWorkers::reap_finishedconverts this result into an error, andconnection_workers.reap_finished()?exits the accept loop. The subsequent shutdown then stops the remaining workers and prevents new connections.Change
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crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/embedded_generation.rs (1)
45-46: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftSplit this file before it passes the 2,000-line limit.
embedded_generation.rsnow ends at line 1963. The coding guidelines forbid Rust source files over 2,000 lines and require a split by responsibility when a file approaches that size.generate_embedded_stage_zero_tokensalone spans lines 46-1962. Move the prefill loop, the pipelined verify-window loop, and the serial decode loop into sibling modules underembedded_generation/, next to the existinglifecyclemodule.As per coding guidelines: "Do not add Rust source files over 2,000 lines. If a file is approaching that size, split it by responsibility into an owning module instead of adding more code to the oversized file."
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crates/skippy-server/src/binary_transport/binary_messaging/connection.rs (1)
383-399: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAvoid cloning the full wire message for every inbound message.
align_message = message.clone()andlookup_message = message.clone()run for every message on this connection, including each decode and verify-window frame.StageWireMessageownsactivation,tokens,positions, andraw_bytes, so on a middle stage each clone copies the whole inbound activation buffer. The size scales withtoken_count × activation_width, so this adds a per-frame allocation and memcpy on the hot path.The block at lines 672-690 already shows the cheaper pattern: move the value into the closure and return it. Apply the same pattern here, or pass only the fields the closures read.
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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/binary_transport/binary_messaging.rs`:
- Around line 100-113: Update ConnectionWorkers::reap_finished to record or
report panicked worker joins without returning an error, so the accept loop
continues reaping remaining workers and accepting connections. Preserve the
existing worker removal and successful-join behavior, while retaining shutdown
error propagation in ConnectionWorkers::shutdown.
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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/binary_transport/binary_messaging/connection.rs`:
- Around line 383-399: Remove the per-message full clone of StageWireMessage in
the alignment and lookup paths around align_message and lookup_message; move the
message into the appropriate closure and return or reuse it as needed, following
the existing move-and-return pattern near lines 672-690, while preserving access
to only the fields each closure reads.
In `@crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/embedded_generation.rs`:
- Around line 45-46: The generate_embedded_stage_zero_tokens implementation in
StageOpenAiBackend is oversized; split its prefill loop, pipelined verify-window
loop, and serial decode loop into responsibility-focused sibling modules under
embedded_generation/, alongside lifecycle, while preserving the existing
behavior and keeping the owning embedded_generation.rs below the 2,000-line
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Needs revision. The discard control isn't serialized with teardown, so a reused lane can be corrupted.
Follow-ups:
- Bound inbound lookahead by bytes as well as message count. A queue of 128 valid activation messages can retain tens of GiB.
- Avoid the process-global jitter counter in parallel tests and lane scheduling; it makes assignment scheduler-dependent.
- Add a delayed/jittered teardown test that covers discard, Stop, and lane reuse.
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The receipt from this async send is discarded. The forwarder can still be sleeping or writing DiscardStaleWindows when teardown sends Stop through another clone of the same socket. Since a frame takes multiple writes, those messages can overtake or interleave and poison the persistent lane. Please flush or await the discard writer before Stop and before returning the lane.
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Fixed in 2d7e284: AsyncForwarder now joins its writer thread on drop, so no queued frame can still be on the wire when the request returns its lane and a teardown Stop goes out through another clone of the socket. The teardown discard also flushes explicitly (before the stale drain) so write errors surface at that point rather than being swallowed at drop. The mid-generation discard still does not wait, since everything behind it is queued on the same forwarder and stays ordered — that was the reason for the original fire-and-forget, and it does not apply at teardown.
Regression test: a_delayed_discard_lands_before_a_teardown_stop_on_another_clone queues a discard behind 250ms of simulated propagation, drops the forwarder, then writes Stop directly to the socket and asserts the receive order. Verified it fails without the join (reads Stop first) and passes with it.
Your three follow-ups: the byte bound and the global jitter counter are also in 2d7e284 — the inbound queue is now capped by INBOUND_LOOKAHEAD_BYTES (256 MiB) as well as message count, since 128 wide activation frames would otherwise retain many GiB, and wire conditioning draws from a per-thread counter so parallel tests and per-lane conditioning no longer depend on scheduler interleaving. The delayed/jittered teardown test above covers discard + Stop ordering on a reused socket; a full lane-reuse test needs the two-machine harness rather than a unit test, so if you want that specific coverage I would rather add it as a follow-up with the lab bench than fake it in-process.
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On the out-of-diff finding about panics in connection workers stopping the accept loop (reap_finished turning a join Err into a bail): agreed that it is a real availability bug, but it is pre-existing on main from the iteration-scheduler work (#1420) rather than something this PR introduces or touches, so I have left it alone here to keep the diff scoped. Happy to raise it separately — say the word if you would rather it rode along with this PR. |
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- Around line 82-86: The byte-based backoff in the message receive loop must
still admit a following DiscardStaleWindows control frame when the verify
backlog reaches INBOUND_LOOKAHEAD_BYTES. Update the admission logic around
reader_queued_bytes and registry.record_message to reserve capacity for required
control frames or otherwise guarantee the reader reaches the discard, while
preserving the existing backlog ceiling; add a regression test covering a
byte-full verify backlog followed by DiscardStaleWindows.
In `@crates/skippy-server/src/binary_transport/wire.rs`:
- Around line 111-115: Update the delay calculation around seconds so only NaN
or non-positive values return Duration::ZERO; allow positive infinity to proceed
through the existing MAX_SIMULATED_DELAY_MS clamp. Add a regression test
covering nonzero bytes with the smallest positive mbps value and verifying the
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| let seconds = bytes as f64 / (mbps * 125_000.0); | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Clamp infinite low-bandwidth delays to MAX_SIMULATED_DELAY_MS.
When mbps is f64::from_bits(1) and bytes is nonzero, seconds becomes f64::INFINITY. The current branch returns Duration::ZERO and removes the serialization delay. Return zero only for NaN or non-positive values, then clamp positive infinity. Add a test for this case.
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In `@crates/skippy-server/src/binary_transport/wire.rs` around lines 111 - 115,
Update the delay calculation around seconds so only NaN or non-positive values
return Duration::ZERO; allow positive infinity to proceed through the existing
MAX_SIMULATED_DELAY_MS clamp. Add a regression test covering nonzero bytes with
the smallest positive mbps value and verifying the delay is capped at
MAX_SIMULATED_DELAY_MS.
- WireCondition gains an exponential jitter component plus probabilistic
burst stalls so benches can model contended links (Wi-Fi, WAN) instead
of a constant-latency pipe; new --downstream-wire-jitter-ms /
--downstream-wire-stall-ms / --downstream-wire-stall-p flags and
MESH_LLM_BENCH_DOWNSTREAM_WIRE_{JITTER_MS,STALL_MS,STALL_P} envs.
- VerifyWindowScheduler gains a run-ahead mode: admission bounded by a
speculative-token budget (verify_window.runahead_max_tokens) instead of
a fixed window count, capped at the native checkpoint-retention bound.
Config plumbed as verify_window_runahead_tokens through model config,
schema, validation, and the skippy resolver.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On divergence the driver now sends DiscardStaleWindows (window-id range in the token sideband) down the chain. Each stage connection gains a reader thread that parses inbound messages ahead of execution and records discard ranges in a shared registry the moment they are read, so buffered stale verify windows are answered with an empty PredictedTokens reply instead of being executed. Middle stages forward the discard and keep executing (their forwarded activations must stay valid); the final stage — which carries the sampling head — skips. Sent only in run-ahead mode, so fixed-depth setups keep today's wire behavior. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…a fixture Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…console-print ratchet Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ead zero, decouple reader lookahead, join the reader on drop - STAGE_PROTOCOL_GENERATION 4 -> 5 with the matching stage-generation-5 feature token, so split planning excludes peers that cannot parse DiscardStaleWindows (kind 23). - verify_window_runahead_tokens validates 0..=MAX: zero is the documented fixed-depth sentinel and lets a model-level block turn inherited run-ahead off. Precedence test covers global 256 + model 0. - The inbound reader's channel now covers the whole admitted verify backlog (2 x MAX_VERIFY_WINDOW_PIPELINE_DEPTH) instead of max_inflight, so a DiscardStaleWindows behind a full backlog is read and recorded before the stale windows execute. Regression test feeds a 64-message backlog past a capacity-1 execution queue. - InboundMessageReader shuts the cloned socket down and joins its thread on drop, so a handler exiting while the peer holds the connection open no longer leaks a blocked thread and descriptor. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rop on a full queue, bound simulated wire delays, finish generation-5 docs - The scheduler enforces the run-ahead token budget from the second in-flight window on (admissible_window_tokens); the caller clamps its chunk width to the remaining budget and waits for a retirement instead of planning a chunk the budget cannot fit. A first window wider than the whole budget still opens so a narrow budget cannot stall a request. - InboundMessageReader::drop disconnects the channel receiver before the socket shutdown and join: a reader blocked in send on a full lookahead queue is not woken by the shutdown alone. Regression test fills the queue before dropping. - WireCondition rejects delay/jitter/stall inputs beyond one simulated hour and clamps the sampled delay, keeping Duration::from_secs_f64 in its domain. - Remaining generation-4 prose in the README and design docs now names generation 5. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…by bytes, per-thread jitter - AsyncForwarder joins its writer thread on drop, so no queued frame is still being written when the request returns its lane and a teardown Stop goes out through another clone of the same socket; the teardown discard also flushes explicitly so write errors surface there. The mid-generation discard still does not wait, since everything behind it is queued on the same forwarder and stays ordered. - The inbound lookahead queue is bounded by bytes as well as message count: 128 wide activation frames would otherwise retain many GiB. - Wire conditioning draws its jitter sequence from a per-thread counter instead of a process-global one, so parallel tests and per-lane conditioning stop depending on scheduler interleaving. - bandwidth_delay clamps the serialization delay the same way the propagation delay is clamped, so a near-zero mbps cannot panic Duration::from_secs_f64. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…on tears down The backoff loop only observed the byte counter, so a reader waiting on an executor that is going away would spin past both the receiver drop and the socket shutdown and block Drop's join. Drop now sets a stop flag the loop checks, and the counter decrement saturates so it cannot wrap the reader into a permanent park. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re-reviewed at Build note (updates my 2026-08-24 comment):
All at Four things left. None of them block the design; (1) and (2) I'd want settled before merge. 1. The inbound read-ahead ceiling is now a per-connection DoS bound, and it got much looser
For a well-behaved driver this is harmless: a depth-2 driver never has more than 2 windows outstanding, so the queue never fills. The bound matters for the case it exists to cover — a peer that sends more than it should. That ceiling went from I don't think you need the full 256 MiB for the property you're buying. A 2. Every simulated lane draws the identical jitter sequence
Moving to per-thread streams was the right call for @ndizazzo's reproducibility point; it just needs a per-thread salt to also be independent. Mixing a monotonically-assigned thread ordinal into the splitmix input keeps each stream reproducible and decorrelates them. The existing test then asserts the opposite of what it does today. 3. The lookahead invariant in the doc comment isn't the one the code holdsThe comment on
That held before the byte gate landed. It doesn't now: 64 windows at up to 4. Docs and small stuff
One question, not a findingThe generation-5 gate lives entirely in mesh split planning ( Since run-ahead is opt-in and the discard only ships in run-ahead mode, this only bites someone who turns run-ahead on across a mixed-version standalone pair — which is exactly the manually-wired path your own bench uses. Is "upgrade all stages together" the contract for standalone, or do you want the sender to degrade? Either answer is fine; I'd just like a sentence in |
…ng, document the discard frame - Salt each thread's draw index with a per-thread stream ordinal. The per-thread index alone handed every lane the identical sequence, so every writer thread took its burst stall on the same message index — a synchronized-loss model rather than the contended link the flag documents. uniform_sample is now pure in (stream, index), so both properties are tested directly: reproducible within a lane, distinct across lanes. - INBOUND_LOOKAHEAD_BYTES 256 MiB -> 32 MiB. Reading ahead moves frames into userspace, so this is the per-connection bound on what a peer can make the process buffer; a ~100-byte discard overtakes a 32 MiB backlog as reliably as a larger one. - The lookahead doc comment claimed the discard always overtakes the stale windows. With the byte gate it does not for wide frames, so it now states the real behaviour and the benign fallback. - DATA_FLOW.md documents DiscardStaleWindows, including the rule that middle stages forward and still execute while the final stage skips, and the section heading names generation 5. The README states that the standalone serve-binary path has no generation handshake, so its contract is that all stages upgrade together. - with_jitter checks finiteness before the magnitude bound, and the reader's EOF doc no longer references a deleted function. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…non-finite scales - dtype() rejects non-zero reserved high bits for every dtype but Lowrank. `reserved` used to be exactly the dtype tag, so masking alone silently accepted frames this field had always rejected — a loss of validation affecting existing dtypes, not just the new one. - The codec claims stage generation 6. #1409 defines generation 5, and a shipped generation-5 peer predates this change to `reserved`, so riding on 5 would turn an excluded-at-planning-time peer into a runtime frame error. - decode rejects a non-finite per-token scale instead of propagating NaN activations into the model. - validate_lowrank names the write-path validation call that previously read as a discarded value. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…non-finite scales - dtype() rejects non-zero reserved high bits for every dtype but Lowrank. `reserved` used to be exactly the dtype tag, so masking alone silently accepted frames this field had always rejected — a loss of validation affecting existing dtypes, not just the new one. - The codec claims stage generation 6. #1409 defines generation 5, and a shipped generation-5 peer predates this change to `reserved`, so riding on 5 would turn an excluded-at-planning-time peer into a runtime frame error. - decode rejects a non-finite per-token scale instead of propagating NaN activations into the model. - validate_lowrank names the write-path validation call that previously read as a discarded value. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thanks — all four addressed in b60599e. 1. Read-ahead ceiling. Agreed, and the framing is the useful part: this is a per-connection bound on what a peer can make the process buffer, not just a queue size. Dropped to 32 MiB. You're right that the discard overtakes a 32 MiB backlog exactly as reliably. 2. Identical jitter streams. This was a real bug in my fix and the test asserted the wrong property — thank you. Per-thread index alone gives every lane the same sequence, which is synchronized loss, not a contended link. Now salted with a per-thread stream ordinal claimed on first draw. On the table: the loopback bench is single-lane so those numbers stand, but I've taken your point that the jitter column is likely optimistic for >2-stage splits and I'm not going to quote it for multi-stage until the lab bench runs with independent streams. 3. Lookahead invariant. Correct, and my comment overstated it. It now says the discard usually overtakes, names the byte gate as the case where it doesn't, and states the fallback (execute the stale tail — today's cost, no deadlock, because the executor keeps draining). 4. Docs. All fixed: the DATA_FLOW heading said "Generation 4" because my earlier pass only replaced the lowercase form; the dangling On the standalone question: the contract is upgrade-all-stages-together, and I've said so in crates/skippy-server/README.md — including explicitly that it is not degraded gracefully (the older peer rejects kind 23 and drops the request connection). You're right that the negotiation story read as complete when it was only complete for the mesh path. |
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Re-requested review. Everything from both passes is in and CI is green at Also filed the two things that came out of review but belong to #1420 rather than this PR, so they don't get lost: #1472 (the flaky |
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Run-ahead verify-window admission, stale-tail discard, and a jitter-capable wire model
Builds on the pipelined-split fixes. Three pieces, all opt-in:
1. Wire conditioning grows a jitter model
WireConditiongains an exponentially distributed per-message delay(
--downstream-wire-jitter-ms, mean) and probabilistic burst stalls(
--downstream-wire-stall-ms/--downstream-wire-stall-p), so benches canmodel contended links (Wi-Fi, WAN) instead of a constant-latency pipe. FIFO
delivery is preserved (head-of-line blocking, like a real ordered transport);
the async-forwarder path samples per job at enqueue so propagation still
overlaps compute. Env:
MESH_LLM_BENCH_DOWNSTREAM_WIRE_{JITTER_MS,STALL_MS,STALL_P}.2. Run-ahead admission (
verify_window.runahead_max_tokens)The pipelined scheduler can admit by speculative-token budget instead of a
fixed window count: dispatch keeps filling while in-flight tokens stay under
the budget, capped at the native checkpoint-retention bound
(
MAX_VERIFY_WINDOW_PIPELINE_DEPTH = 64windows). Config plumbed end to end(
verify_window_runahead_tokensin model config -> schema -> validation ->resolver). Zero keeps today's fixed-depth behavior.
3. Stale-tail cancellation (
DiscardStaleWindows)At larger budgets, executing the stale tail after a rejection is the dominant
recovery cost (visible below: depth 3 is slower than depth 2). On divergence
the driver now sends a
DiscardStaleWindowscontrol message (window-id rangein the token sideband). Each stage connection gains a reader thread that
parses inbound messages ahead of execution and records discard ranges the
moment they are read; buffered stale windows are answered with an empty
PredictedTokensreply instead of executing. Middle stages forward thediscard and still execute (their forwarded activations must stay valid); the
final stage skips. Only sent in run-ahead mode, so fixed-depth setups keep
today's wire behavior byte-for-byte. (No subprotocol feature negotiation yet
Numbers
2-process loopback Qwen3-8B split, standalone suffix (5/32/48, window 32),
temp-0 ~330-token re-emit, 700 max tokens, median of 3, outputs checked
byte-exact. Jitter = 3ms constant + exp(5ms) + 2% x 40ms stalls per message:
Run-ahead beats every fixed depth in both conditions; depth 3 < depth 2 is
the stale-tail cost, which the discard removes (telemetry: 3 windows / 97
tokens in flight against the 96-token budget, accept 0.89). Loopback only so
far - the widening-gap-with-RTT curve still wants a two-box run.
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