fix(worker): rotate the QUIC transport after consecutive dial failures - #1383
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The worker creates one quic.Transport over one net.ListenUDP socket, lazily, once, and never releases it before process exit. Every QUIC dial to every proxy host therefore leaves from the same UDP source port for the life of the process. A network load balancer hashes UDP flows on the 5-tuple, so that one port decides which proxy instance every dial reaches. Once the flow is pinned to an instance that has gone away, retrying cannot help: the retry leaves from the same port and lands on the same dead flow entry. The per-host connection cache already evicts on failure and re-dials, so the recovery logic exists; it just operates one layer above the thing that is broken and hands each new connection back to the same socket. Release the transport after dialFailuresBeforeRotate consecutive failures. The existing lazy initialisation then creates a fresh socket, a new ephemeral port and a new flow, which the load balancer hashes onto a live instance. A single success resets the counter, so an established worker never rotates on isolated failures, and a dial still in flight across a rotation cannot discard the replacement. The threshold is 3. Measured on a staging cell: healthy operation produced zero dial failures across roughly 86 sampling windows, while a blackholed socket produced hundreds inside a single window, so the two populations do not overlap and any small count separates them. Also fixes a pre-existing data race. quicTransport was read and written from the goroutine that performs the dial, which does not hold the mutex guarding the connection cache. It now has its own mutex, deliberately not that one, since the dial goroutine cannot take it. No new tunables, no timeout changes and no retry-policy changes. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 8 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe H3 proxy now tracks dial failures by destination, ignores cancelled and stale results, and rotates the shared QUIC transport after qualifying timeouts. Cleanup clears failure state. Tests cover rotation, filtering, resets, and concurrent access. ChangesH3 transport rotation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The worker now rotates its QUIC transport after consecutive dial failures and protects transport access from races; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant H3ConnectionCache
participant QUICTransport
participant UDPSocket
H3ConnectionCache->>QUICTransport: Dial with context and destination
H3ConnectionCache->>H3ConnectionCache: Record dial outcome
H3ConnectionCache->>QUICTransport: Rotate at failure threshold
QUICTransport->>UDPSocket: Bind replacement socket
QUICTransport->>UDPSocket: Close old socket
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112-112: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winWrap the UDP bind error with operation context.
transportLockedreturns thenet.ListenUDPerror without context. Wrap it with%w, such asfmt.Errorf("create QUIC UDP socket: %w", err), so callers retain error matching and identify the failed operation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/h3.go`:
- Around line 126-130: In the dial-result handling around dialFailures, compare
dialed with t.quicTransport before resetting or incrementing the counter, and
ignore stale results from the previous transport. Preserve normal success-reset
and failure-increment behavior for the current transport, and add a test
covering stale failures followed by one replacement failure without prematurely
closing it.
- Line 110: Update the transport rotation flow around net.ListenUDP and
closeTransportLocked to bind the replacement UDP socket while the current socket
remains open, then atomically swap to the new transport and close the old
socket. Ensure rotation retries or reports the bind failure without discarding
the existing transport, and guarantees the replacement uses a different source
port.
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In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/h3.go`:
- Line 112: Update the UDP bind error return in transportLocked to wrap err with
fmt.Errorf using a descriptive operation context such as “create QUIC UDP
socket” and the %w verb, preserving callers’ ability to match the underlying
error.
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…ation Two defects in the rotation added by the previous commit, both found in review. The identity check ran after the counter was updated, so a dial that began before a rotation still mutated it. Two stale failures left the count at two, and one genuine failure of the replacement then reached the threshold and discarded a socket that had failed once. A stale success cleared failures the current socket really had. The check now precedes both the reset and the increment. Rotation also closed the old socket before binding the replacement. That releases the port, and the kernel is free to hand the same one back, which leaves the worker on the identical 5-tuple and defeats the rotation with no outward sign it had failed. The replacement is now bound while the old socket is still open, then swapped, then the old one closed. If the bind fails the existing socket is kept rather than leaving the worker with none. Tests cover both: stale failures followed by one genuine failure of the replacement, and a stale success arriving mid-run. Both were verified to fail against the previous ordering, at counts of 6 and 0 respectively. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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NVCA Go review: two correctness findings in the transport rotation predicate.
Track timeout failures by resolved destination and ignore canceled or non-timeout dials so unrelated flows cannot trigger or suppress rotation.
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- Line 187: Change the rotation log in the QUIC transport failure-handling path
from Warn to Info, while keeping the replacement-bind failure log at warning
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Issues
Closes #1382
Why
The worker creates one
quic.Transportover onenet.ListenUDPsocket, lazily, once, and never releases it before process exit (h3.go:172). Every QUIC dial to every proxy host leaves from the same UDP source port for the life of the process.A network load balancer hashes UDP flows on the 5-tuple, so that one port decides which proxy instance every dial reaches. Once the flow is pinned to an instance that has gone away, retrying cannot help: the retry leaves from the same port and lands on the same dead flow entry.
Verified locally against the pinned quic-go version,
v0.53.0:Three dials to two different hosts share one port. Releasing the transport is the only worker-side action that changes it.
Confirmed on a staging cell: during an instance removal, dials failed against proxy hosts that were themselves healthy and untouched, while other live instances existed. The destination was reachable; the worker could not get to it. That rules out a stale address from the control plane and leaves flow pinning.
The per-host connection cache already evicts on failure and re-dials (
h3.go:92,:126-130), so the recovery logic exists. It operates one layer above the defect and hands each new connection back to the same socket.What changed
dialFailuresBeforeRotateconsecutive failures. The existing lazy initialisation then creates a fresh socket, a new ephemeral port and a new flow.quicTransportwas read and written from the dial goroutine, which does not hold the mutex guarding the connection cache. It now has its own mutex, deliberately separate, because the dial goroutine cannot take that one.The threshold is 3. Measured on staging: healthy operation produced zero dial failures across roughly 86 sampling windows, while a blackholed socket produced hundreds inside a single window. The populations do not overlap.
No new tunables, no timeout changes, no retry-policy changes.
Customer Release Notes
A worker that loses its network path to the invocation proxy now recovers on its own. Previously the affected function had to be restarted.
Plan Summary
Not applicable.
Usage
Not applicable. The rotation logs at WARN with the consecutive failure count and the socket being released, which is the signal that it fired.
Testing
go test -race ./proxy/for the full package, passing.New tests cover:
-race, which is the pre-existing raceThe source-port assertion is the one that matters: it pins the property the fix depends on, so a future change that reuses the socket fails the test rather than silently restoring the bug.
Notes
Scope is the worker's own recovery. It does not prevent the flow being poisoned, it removes the dependency on external flow state ageing out before the worker can escape.
This is separate from #1031 deliberately. That change is in
src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxyand ships in a different image to different clusters, and its dev-image build resolves a single service subtree, so combining them would stop that image being produced.References
None
Related Pull Requests
#1031 addresses a different failure in the same area: queued work whose CONNECT token expires while it waits, which is not self-healing. Independent of this change.
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