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Add path-aware automatic defaults for max_concurrent_io_tasks.

By default, Scan actors use lower IO concurrency for local paths and higher concurrency for scans with remote URIs. Users can override this with an integer for all scans, or a {"local": ..., "remote": ...} dict. The environment variable also accepts auto or a JSON dict.

Closes #23552. Once this PR merges we won't be trying to set the value based on any heuristic, but we will at least be defining it based on observed benchmark results.

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cc @Matt711

Also, @TomAugspurger: Does this use the "unspecified" machinery in a correct way? Would it be better to just split the max_concurrent_io_tasks config into .local and .remote variants?

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  • New Features

    • Added flexible concurrent I/O configuration with separate local and remote limits.
    • Added support for dictionary-based settings and JSON environment values.
    • Added automatic path-based defaults and fallback behavior for partial configurations.
  • Documentation

    • Updated streaming options and executor guidance with current defaults, examples, and per-scan memory considerations.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling and validation of unset, partial, and invalid concurrency settings for more predictable behavior.

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The pull request introduces structured local and remote I/O concurrency settings, centralizes validation and conversion, updates scan resolution, and revises related tests and documentation.

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Configurable I/O concurrency policies

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Configuration contract and option conversion
python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/utils/config.py, python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/engine/options.py
MaxConcurrentIOTasks validates, parses, converts, serializes, and hashes local and remote limits. None values map to UNSPECIFIED.
Scan concurrency resolution
python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/dispatch.py, python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/io.py
Scan graph construction selects local or remote concurrency from MaxConcurrentIOTasks and scan paths.
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python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_scan.py, python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_options.py, python/cudf_polars/tests/test_config.py, python/cudf_polars/docs/overview.md, docs/cudf/source/cudf_polars/options.md, docs/cudf/source/cudf_polars/memory_errors.md
Tests cover structured values, defaults, partial overrides, environment parsing, validation, path selection, and serialization. Documentation reflects the updated settings and defaults.

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The PR can fail at runtime when callers directly configure integer I/O concurrency, preventing affected scans from running. The normalization issue should be fixed before merge, and the documented configuration forms should be updated with owner awareness.

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Also, @TomAugspurger: Does this use the "unspecified" machinery in a correct way? Would it be better to just split the max_concurrent_io_tasks config into .local and .remote variants?

@madsbk might be able to answer that better, but I can take a closer look later.

My immediate, uninformed recommendation is to make the configuration something like a int | Literal["auto"], with "auto" as the default. And once we get to the point where we need to resolve an integer count for some Scan node we figure it out then (like you've done).

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Just a request (since we don't have benchmark CLI testing in CI yet), do you mind running our pdsh.py benchmark locally once this is finalized to ensure the the max_concurrent_io_tasks value is json serializable? xref #23684

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max_concurrent_io_tasks: int = dataclasses.field(
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max_concurrent_io_tasks: int | dict[str, int] | MaxConcurrentIOTasks | None = (

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In general, I'd prefer that our configuration only store parsed, validated objects like MaxConcurrentIOTasks. That will

  1. consolidate all parsing & validation logic at the site where the config is initialized
  2. make the downstrema code cleaner.

IMO, the only allowed value here should be MaxIOConcurrentTasks. e.g, this assert shouldn't be necessary. I suspect it's needed today to pass the type checker, and doesn't error since you have the __post_init__ that converts to a MaxConcurrentIOTasks.

I think that ParquetOptions or MemoryResourceConfig should offer a pattern we can follow here. We'll need a bit more code in from_polars_engine to handle the conversion from untyped polars land to our typed & validated config.

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Thanks for reviewing this Tom - Hopefully this is moving closer to what you probably have in mind.

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789-798: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize max_concurrent_io_tasks in StreamingExecutor.__post_init__.

When a caller constructs StreamingExecutor directly with an int, the actor graph passes that value to resolve_max_concurrent_io_tasks(), which accesses .local or .remote and can raise AttributeError. Add normalization and a direct-constructor regression test.

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Normalize integer max_concurrent_io_tasks values in
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880-886: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize max_concurrent_io_tasks in StreamingExecutor.__post_init__.

StreamingExecutor documents int, dict, and None as supported values, but direct construction stores them unchanged. ConfigOptions.from_polars_engine normalizes only the GPUEngine path. When a caller passes StreamingExecutor(max_concurrent_io_tasks=6) through ConfigOptions, scan generation forwards the integer to resolve_max_concurrent_io_tasks, which accesses .local or .remote and can raise AttributeError. Restore normalization and add a direct-construction regression test.

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@rjzamora rjzamora changed the title [WIP] Use different max_concurrent_io_tasks defaults for local and remote paths Use different max_concurrent_io_tasks defaults for local and remote paths Aug 27, 2026

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LGTM, thanks @rjzamora !

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