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fix(decorators)!: clear an L1-only cache whole on invalidate-all and let the memo own the kill (LAB-12024) - #677
Follow-up to #673, which merged before its review fixes landed. The main fix: a whole-function invalidation could leave an entry it should have removed, and the lock-free hit from #673 kept serving that entry after the call returned.
It also takes #673's unsafe code out of cachekit-rs: that hit reached CPython through unsafe code, and it now runs in safe Rust. With #694's safe decoder merged in, the crate forbids unsafe code again and holds none, so main's Security Medium workflow turns green when this merges (Security Medium on this branch: cachekit-rs unsafe functions: 0).
Closes LAB-12024
BREAKING CHANGE: (from #673) an L1-only cache (@cache(backend=None), @cache.local(), or any plaintext, non-interop decorator that finds no backend configured) times its TTLs and its stale-while-revalidate refresh on the OS monotonic clock that the Rust extension reads, not on time.monotonic(). Patching time.monotonic (pytest's monkeypatch, freezegun's freeze_time or tick) no longer expires its entries or brings a refresh due: a test that needs an entry gone calls fn.invalidate_cache(...) or fn.cache_clear(). Caches with a backend are unchanged.
BEGIN_COMMIT_OVERRIDE
fix(decorators)!: clear an L1-only cache whole on invalidate-all and let the memo own the kill (LAB-12024) (#677)
BREAKING CHANGE: an L1-only cache (@cache(backend=None), @cache.local(), or any plaintext, non-interop decorator that finds no backend configured) times its TTLs and its stale-while-revalidate refresh on the OS monotonic clock that the Rust extension reads, not on time.monotonic(). Patching time.monotonic (pytest's monkeypatch, freezegun's freeze_time or tick) no longer expires its entries or brings a refresh due: a test that needs an entry gone calls fn.invalidate_cache(...) or fn.cache_clear(). Caches with a backend are unchanged.
END_COMMIT_OVERRIDE
What was wrong
Whole-function invalidation could miss an entry.cache_clear() and invalidate_cache() with no arguments deleted an L1-only cache's entries one by one, from the keys the process had recorded. A fill records its key only after its put, and a single-key invalidation untracks its key before its delete, so an entry stored before the call could outlive it and stay servable without the lock.
cache_clear() cleared one key on a function without parameters. It called invalidate_cache() with no arguments, which on such a function deletes only the entry of the call without arguments. A key= that reads its context files that call under many keys, so the other contexts' entries outlived the clear. This predates #673.
A memo write on a retired state (a fork earlier in the same critical section) could displace a slot the child had set since.
A memo slot was read as a HitEntry without a type check. Python code that reached the memo's dict through gc.get_referents could plant another object there and crash the process.
The hit was unsafe code in a crate meant to hold none. It was a hand-made METH_FASTCALL builtin that called the name descriptors' getters directly, cast memo slots unchecked and read the tests' clock through a raw pointer. SECURITY.md keeps unsafe code out of cachekit-rs, and the check that counts it runs after merge, so it failed on main: cachekit-rs has 6 unsafe functions — must be zero.
The fix
cache_clear() and invalidate_cache() with no arguments clear an L1-only function's ObjectCache whole. L1 is not tenant-scoped, and an L1-only function has nothing in L2, so this removes what the key-by-key deletes removed, plus any entry stored but not yet recorded. An L1-only fill therefore no longer records its key in _cached_keys, which had grown by one entry for every distinct key ever filled.
On an L1-only function, cache_clear() takes the whole-function path directly, on a function without parameters too. A backed function's cache_clear() still goes through invalidate_cache(): without parameters it deletes the calling context's key and its pre-0.20.0 twin in L2, which a whole-function drain reaches only when this process recorded them. invalidate_cache() and ainvalidate_cache() now share their preamble (settle a zero-config function, resolve a lazy backend, apply the interop guard).
The memo owns the kill. HitMemo.forget, repoint and clear kill the entries they drop, so no removal route pairs a kill with a slot drop by hand, and HitEntry.kill is no longer exposed to Python. The at-fork reset forgets every stored entry, then clears the memo. Dropping the slots already leaves no hit a way to an entry a refresh had in hand when a fork interrupted it; the clear kills that entry too, as defence in depth. A memo write returns early on a retired state; the take-back after the write stays, for a fork during the write itself.
The hit is safe Rust. HitMemo.get is a #[pymethods] method, the function's names are read as attributes, a memo slot is cast with cast_exact, so a planted object is a miss and set over it raises TypeError, arguments are type-checked against PyO3's type objects, and the tests' clock override is a mutex beside an atomic flag. The crate root declares #![forbid(unsafe_code)], which no module can lift, now that #694 took the unsafe code out of msgpack_decode. CI's Lint Rust clippy builds every non-test module on default features, so a PR that adds unsafe code to any of them fails it. Security Fast's clippy builds without the python feature and does not catch it. At this head cargo-geiger counts no unsafe function, expression, impl, trait or method in the crate (Security Medium on this branch).
Safety costs the hit about 280 instructions on 3.14 and 340 on 3.12, most of it the type lookup in its two name reads: l1_hit moves from 2,487 to 2,765 on CPython 3.14 and from 2,597 to 2,936 on 3.12 (re-recorded under the instruction gate's current method, on the merge with main), still about a quarter of the 10,904 and 11,600 the hit cost under the lock. On the hosted EPYC 7763 the dict's L1-only hit takes 0.341 ± 0.001μs (Bench run of this branch), against 0.311μs for #673's. The budgets are raised to match, and the docs quote the new figures. The Instruction budget check reads FAIL for l1_hit and minimal_l1_hit against main because of this trade, by design.
Docs: docs/backends/none.md gains "TTLs Follow the OS Monotonic Clock", with how to test expiry, the ttl entry in docs/api-reference.md points there, the docs/free-threading.md audit row matches the retired-state handling, SECURITY.md states which checks keep unsafe code out of cachekit-rs, and the README, the performance guide, the comparison page and the backend pages quote the hosted figure.
Tidying: the memo's bounds are exported from the extension (MEMO_MAX_LEN, MEMO_MAX_ARGS, MEMO_MAX_ENTRIES) instead of copied into wrapper.py; the unused HitEntry.value and fresh_until getters and the two pyfunction shims are gone; the SWR jitter's low end is one named constant, and get_with_swr computes the floor once, which makes a locked SWR read 2.8% cheaper (4,789 to 4,656 instructions on 3.14).
test_no_value_is_served_after_its_removal_returned now stamps every entry stored before a cache_clear() as removed once the call returns, whatever way the clear empties the cache. Against key-by-key invalidation it fails on 3.14t with the GIL off in three runs of three; with the fix it passes on 3.14 and on 3.14t. Mutants of the two kills fail 6 tests (forget) and 1 test (repoint). The safe hit needs no new test: the same suites pin its behaviour, and the crate's forbid(unsafe_code) fails the build on any unsafe code.
Results
Interpreter
Passed
Skipped
3.11
7,473
22
3.12
7,487
8
3.13
7,487
8
3.14
7,487
8
3.14t, GIL off
6,843
171
3.15t, GIL off, abi3t extension
6,843
171
Every row ran the unit and critical suites on an extension rebuilt from this branch's head. Doctests 127, markdown docs 158 and tests/docs 77 pass. Ruff, basedpyright, cargo fmt and cargo clippy -D warnings are clean, and cargo-geiger counts no unsafe code in cachekit-rs.
Instruction gate on 3.14 at this head: l1_hit and minimal_l1_hit at their new budgets, and every other path at most 0.25% over its budget (l2_hit_async_metrics) or under it.
Not changed
get and get_with_swr keep their shared read bookkeeping inline. A helper costs every @cache.local() hit 9.1% more instructions (3,954 to 4,315 on 3.14), and the two blocks now point at each other.
No public test clock: _set_clock stays a test hook until someone needs to move L1-only time in their own tests.
One heap for the LRU records instead of the deque and heap would cost a full-L1 miss about 1%.
The at-fork hook takes each entry's key-list mutex. No thread holds one at a fork: a memo write holds it only in Rust code with no point where a thread can be paused, and os.fork() holds the GIL or, free-threaded, stops the world first.
A fill that read its source before an invalidation can still store its result after the invalidation returns, as in any cache-aside cache. Neither this PR nor #673 changes that; it is tracked separately.
…et the memo own the kill
A whole-function invalidation (cache_clear(), or invalidate_cache() with
no arguments) deleted an L1-only cache's entries one by one, from the keys
the process had recorded. A fill records its key only after its put, and a
single-key invalidation untracks its key before its delete, so an entry
stored before the call could outlive it and stay servable by the lock-free
hit. The cache is now cleared whole.
The memo now ends an entry's lock-free hits itself: forget, repoint and
clear kill the entries they drop, so no removal route pairs a kill with a
slot drop by hand. The at-fork reset clears the memo after it forgets every
stored entry, which also ends an entry a refresh had in hand when a fork
interrupted it, and a memo write skips a state the reset retired. A slot is
read back with an exact type check, so an object planted in the memo's dict
through the garbage collector is a miss or a TypeError, not undefined
behaviour.
L1-only TTLs run on the OS monotonic clock that the extension reads, so a
patched time.monotonic does not move them. The docs say so and show how to
test expiry instead. The memo's bounds are exported from the extension, the
unused HitEntry getters and pyfunction shims are gone, and the SWR jitter's
low end is one named constant.
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Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Improved L1 cache-hit handling during refreshes, invalidation and concurrent operations, including after a process fork.
cache_clear() now clears L1-only caches synchronously, including for async functions.
Documentation
Clarified that L1-only expiry, refresh and retry timing use the operating system’s monotonic clock, unaffected by patching Python’s clock, and updated guidance for testing expiry.
Updated published L1 performance measurements, comparisons and instruction counts to reflect later benchmark runs and their variability.
Clarified the scope of security checks in CI and updated the concurrency audit.
Walkthrough
Rust memo operations now use checked PyO3 access and explicit hit-entry lifecycle operations. Python L1 invalidation and fork-related cache handling also change. Tests cover these paths. Documentation updates timing behaviour and performance measurements.
Rust memo-key generation uses checked PyO3 APIs and exports memo limits. The wrapper and tests use these limits. Clock override handling and unsafe-code check descriptions also change.
Hit lifecycle and cache invalidation rust/src/l1_hit.rs, src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py, src/cachekit/object_cache.py, tests/unit/test_invalidate_no_args.py, tests/unit/test_key_memo.py, tests/unit/test_l1_lock_free_hit.py, docs/free-threading.md
Memo entry removal and refresh manage slots and entry state together. L1 invalidation clears the object cache, and cache state handling covers fork-related writes. Tests cover clearing, replacement, invalidation, and fork interleavings.
Timing and performance references README.md, docs/api-reference.md, docs/backends/*, docs/comparison.md, docs/performance.md, tests/performance/ir_baselines.json
L1 hit measurements and instruction budgets are revised. Documentation describes monotonic-clock deadlines for L1-only caches and updates related performance comparisons.
sequenceDiagram
participant Wrapper as Python wrapper
participant ObjectCache
participant HitMemo
Wrapper->>ObjectCache: Read or invalidate L1 entry
ObjectCache->>HitMemo: Look up, forget, or repoint memo slots
HitMemo-->>ObjectCache: Return hit status or update slots
ObjectCache-->>Wrapper: Return cached value or miss
LoadingMerge Risk: Minimal · up to 2fdc0
L1-only whole-cache invalidation can merge; no actionable merge-blocking issue was established.
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Head 2fdc0308ca5ccb10602324f6a3d57615d553afcd measured against base 9924e94d74a2a6ea0f5e4227f6b9deeda62f093a on the same runner, on cpython-3.12-x86_64 (3.12.3). Workflow run
Verdict
Path
Head Ir/op
Base Ir/op
Delta
FAIL
l1_hit
3,313
2,889
+14.68%
FAIL
minimal_l1_hit
3,314
2,889
+14.71%
ok
byte_storage_store_40b
2,780
2,780
+0.00%
ok
byte_storage_store_64k
724,717
724,685
+0.00%
ok
file_set
86,699
86,693
+0.01%
ok
l1_hit_backed
89,406
89,459
-0.06%
ok
l1_hit_backed_auto
102,265
102,415
-0.15%
ok
l2_hit
185,982
185,989
-0.00%
ok
l2_hit_async_metrics
186,118
186,496
-0.20%
ok
miss
242,338
242,373
-0.01%
ok
object_cache_put_full
198,949
198,921
+0.01%
ok
secure_l1_hit
139,145
139,126
+0.01%
ok
serializer_arrow
2,217,789
2,220,347
-0.12%
ok
serializer_auto
70,920
70,908
+0.02%
ok
serializer_default
52,409
52,434
-0.05%
ok
serializer_default_records
1,060,668
1,060,463
+0.02%
ok
serializer_encrypted
97,280
97,270
+0.01%
ok
serializer_orjson
24,386
24,364
+0.09%
A path fails at +1% or more against the base. This check is not required: a deliberate cost increase is accepted at merge. Method: docs/performance.md, Instruction budgets.
…out parameters too
cache_clear() called invalidate_cache() with no arguments, which on a
function without parameters deletes only the entry of the call without
arguments. A key= that reads its context files that call under many keys,
so the other contexts' entries outlived the clear. cache_clear() now takes
the whole-function path directly, after the preamble every invalidation
runs (settle a zero-config function, resolve a lazy backend, apply the
interop guard), which invalidate_cache() and ainvalidate_cache() now share.
An L1-only fill no longer records its key in _cached_keys. Nothing reads
the record once the whole-function path clears the cache whole, and it grew
by one entry for every distinct key ever filled.
Docs: the monotonic-clock note now names a bare @cache that resolves no
backend and the stale-while-revalidate timing, and the free-threading audit
row and the at-fork comments match the code.
…s key and twin again
The previous commit sent every cache_clear() down the whole-function path.
On a backed function without parameters that path reaches only the keys
this process recorded and, on Redis, the key registry, so the call's own key
and its pre-0.20.0 twin could stay in L2 and keep being served. The
whole-function path now applies to L1-only functions only; a backed
function's cache_clear() goes through invalidate_cache() as it did before.
Docs: an L1-only cache is any decorator that finds no backend configured,
not only a bare @cache, and the cache_clear() and invalidate-all docstrings
describe each mode.
The lock-free hit reached CPython through unsafe code: a hand-made
METH_FASTCALL builtin, direct calls to the name descriptors' getters,
unchecked casts and a raw pointer for the tests' clock. cachekit-rs holds
no unsafe code (SECURITY.md), and the post-merge cargo-geiger check failed
on main with six unsafe functions.
The hit now goes through PyO3's checked API: a #[pymethods] get, attribute
reads for the function's names, cast_exact for memo slots, exact-type
checks against PyO3's type objects, and a mutex with an atomic flag for the
tests' clock override. cargo-geiger counts no unsafe function, expression
or impl in the crate. The crate root forbids unsafe code, so a pull
request's build fails on any instead of the post-merge check.
The checked calls cost the hit about 280 instructions, most of it the type
lookup of the two name reads: l1_hit moves from 2,482 to 2,758 on CPython
3.14 and from 2,594 to 2,935 on 3.12, and the budgets are raised to match.
The Bench run of the previous commit on a GitHub-hosted AMD EPYC 7763
(CPython 3.14.7) timed the 100-user dict's L1-only hit at 0.341 ± 0.001μs
and the DataFrame's at 0.34 ± 0.00μs, against 0.311μs and 0.31μs for the
hit that reached CPython through unsafe code. The README, the performance
guide, the comparison page and the backend pages quote the new figures;
the hosted table cites the run for its two L1-only rows.
Conflicts: tests/performance/ir_baselines.json and its table in
docs/performance.md. main re-recorded every budget after its workload edit
(new heap layout), and this branch raised l1_hit and minimal_l1_hit for the
safe-Rust hit, so neither side's figure for those two paths describes the
merged code.
Resolution: main's budgets for every path, then l1_hit and minimal_l1_hit
re-recorded on the merged tree with `ir_budget.py --update --allow-increase
--path l1_hit --path minimal_l1_hit` on CPython 3.12.12 and 3.14.3:
path 3.12.12 3.14.3
l1_hit 2,936 2,765
minimal_l1_hit 2,937 2,765
The host reproduces main's own budgets for l1_hit, minimal_l1_hit and
l1_hit_backed within 0.24%, and on the merged tree l1_hit_backed,
secure_l1_hit and byte_storage_store_40b stay within 0.15% of main's
budgets, so those keep main's figures. Against main the hit still costs
about 280 more instructions on 3.14, as the docs say.
Resolved tests/performance/ir_baselines.json and its table in docs/performance.md: main's budgets everywhere, with l1_hit and minimal_l1_hit re-recorded on the merged tree (3.12.12: 2,936 / 2,937; 3.14.3: 2,765 / 2,765); auto-rebased onto main 1ef1d05; CI will re-run.
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Follow-up Comments
Correct the memo performance description.
232-232: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Correct the memo performance description.
The clause a call the memo does not take builds its key is not grammatical. The phrase 19 times the instructions is also incomplete. State that calls not served by the memo build their key and cost about 19 times as many instructions. This matches the performance documentation. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Proposed wording
-...; a call the memo does not take builds its key, looks it up under the cache's lock and costs about 19 times the instructions; ...+...; a call not served by the memo builds its key, looks it up under the cache's lock and costs about 19 times as many instructions; ...
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Review comment at @docs/backends/none.md at line 232:
Update the memo comparison in the latency description so it says that calls not
served by the memo build their key, look it up under the cache’s lock, and cost
about 19 times as many instructions. Preserve the surrounding performance
details.
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Plain cargo clippy without --all-targets does not compile the #[cfg(test)] modules, so the step covers every non-test module, not every module in the crate.
On CodeRabbit's follow-up for docs/backends/none.md:232: fixed in 777e2b6, which completes the comparison as "about 19 times the instructions of a memoised hit". "A call the memo does not take" stays: it is a relative clause, and the performance guide says the memo "takes" a call, so both pages use one verb for it.
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Takes main 9e5c01d..7146959: the C-fork test helper's bounded wait and the instruction gate's
new method, under which startup costs the same in every run and every budget was re-recorded.
Two files conflicted, both on main's re-record:
- ir_baselines.json: main's budgets, except l1_hit and minimal_l1_hit, which this branch
re-records under the new method (3.12: 2,936 and 2,942; 3.14: 2,765 and 2,765). Against
main's unsafe hit (2,597 and 2,487) the safe hit costs 339 and 278 more instructions, as
before the method changed.
- docs/performance.md: main's method text and budget table, with the two hit rows set to the
re-recorded figures. The prose figures (about 2,760 on 3.14, 2,940 on 3.12, 280 and 340
more) still hold.
… case
The 19x figure was measured for a hit with one list argument; other unmemoised calls cost different amounts to key, so the L1-only page now says which case it is, as the performance guide does.
Resolved docs/performance.md (budget table: kept this PR's l1_hit figures and main's "CacheKit Cloud" wording on the l1_hit_backed row); auto-rebased onto main; CI will re-run.
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Follow-up to #673, which merged before its review fixes landed. The main fix: a whole-function invalidation could leave an entry it should have removed, and the lock-free hit from #673 kept serving that entry after the call returned.
It also takes #673's unsafe code out of cachekit-rs: that hit reached CPython through unsafe code, and it now runs in safe Rust. With #694's safe decoder merged in, the crate forbids unsafe code again and holds none, so
main's Security Medium workflow turns green when this merges (Security Medium on this branch:cachekit-rs unsafe functions: 0).Closes LAB-12024
BREAKING CHANGE: (from #673) an L1-only cache (
@cache(backend=None),@cache.local(), or any plaintext, non-interop decorator that finds no backend configured) times its TTLs and its stale-while-revalidate refresh on the OS monotonic clock that the Rust extension reads, not ontime.monotonic(). Patchingtime.monotonic(pytest'smonkeypatch, freezegun'sfreeze_timeortick) no longer expires its entries or brings a refresh due: a test that needs an entry gone callsfn.invalidate_cache(...)orfn.cache_clear(). Caches with a backend are unchanged.BEGIN_COMMIT_OVERRIDE
fix(decorators)!: clear an L1-only cache whole on invalidate-all and let the memo own the kill (LAB-12024) (#677)
BREAKING CHANGE: an L1-only cache (
@cache(backend=None),@cache.local(), or any plaintext, non-interop decorator that finds no backend configured) times its TTLs and its stale-while-revalidate refresh on the OS monotonic clock that the Rust extension reads, not ontime.monotonic(). Patchingtime.monotonic(pytest'smonkeypatch, freezegun'sfreeze_timeortick) no longer expires its entries or brings a refresh due: a test that needs an entry gone callsfn.invalidate_cache(...)orfn.cache_clear(). Caches with a backend are unchanged.END_COMMIT_OVERRIDE
What was wrong
cache_clear()andinvalidate_cache()with no arguments deleted an L1-only cache's entries one by one, from the keys the process had recorded. A fill records its key only after its put, and a single-key invalidation untracks its key before its delete, so an entry stored before the call could outlive it and stay servable without the lock.cache_clear()cleared one key on a function without parameters. It calledinvalidate_cache()with no arguments, which on such a function deletes only the entry of the call without arguments. Akey=that reads its context files that call under many keys, so the other contexts' entries outlived the clear. This predates #673.HitEntrywithout a type check. Python code that reached the memo's dict throughgc.get_referentscould plant another object there and crash the process.METH_FASTCALLbuiltin that called the name descriptors' getters directly, cast memo slots unchecked and read the tests' clock through a raw pointer. SECURITY.md keeps unsafe code out of cachekit-rs, and the check that counts it runs after merge, so it failed onmain:cachekit-rs has 6 unsafe functions — must be zero.The fix
cache_clear()andinvalidate_cache()with no arguments clear an L1-only function'sObjectCachewhole. L1 is not tenant-scoped, and an L1-only function has nothing in L2, so this removes what the key-by-key deletes removed, plus any entry stored but not yet recorded. An L1-only fill therefore no longer records its key in_cached_keys, which had grown by one entry for every distinct key ever filled.cache_clear()takes the whole-function path directly, on a function without parameters too. A backed function'scache_clear()still goes throughinvalidate_cache(): without parameters it deletes the calling context's key and its pre-0.20.0 twin in L2, which a whole-function drain reaches only when this process recorded them.invalidate_cache()andainvalidate_cache()now share their preamble (settle a zero-config function, resolve a lazy backend, apply the interop guard).HitMemo.forget,repointandclearkill the entries they drop, so no removal route pairs a kill with a slot drop by hand, andHitEntry.killis no longer exposed to Python. The at-fork reset forgets every stored entry, then clears the memo. Dropping the slots already leaves no hit a way to an entry a refresh had in hand when a fork interrupted it; the clear kills that entry too, as defence in depth. A memo write returns early on a retired state; the take-back after the write stays, for a fork during the write itself.HitMemo.getis a#[pymethods]method, the function's names are read as attributes, a memo slot is cast withcast_exact, so a planted object is a miss andsetover it raisesTypeError, arguments are type-checked against PyO3's type objects, and the tests' clock override is a mutex beside an atomic flag. The crate root declares#![forbid(unsafe_code)], which no module can lift, now that #694 took the unsafe code out ofmsgpack_decode. CI'sLint Rustclippy builds every non-test module on default features, so a PR that adds unsafe code to any of them fails it. Security Fast's clippy builds without thepythonfeature and does not catch it. At this head cargo-geiger counts no unsafe function, expression, impl, trait or method in the crate (Security Medium on this branch).l1_hitmoves from 2,487 to 2,765 on CPython 3.14 and from 2,597 to 2,936 on 3.12 (re-recorded under the instruction gate's current method, on the merge withmain), still about a quarter of the 10,904 and 11,600 the hit cost under the lock. On the hosted EPYC 7763 the dict's L1-only hit takes 0.341 ± 0.001μs (Bench run of this branch), against 0.311μs for #673's. The budgets are raised to match, and the docs quote the new figures. TheInstruction budgetcheck reads FAIL forl1_hitandminimal_l1_hitagainstmainbecause of this trade, by design.docs/backends/none.mdgains "TTLs Follow the OS Monotonic Clock", with how to test expiry, thettlentry indocs/api-reference.mdpoints there, thedocs/free-threading.mdaudit row matches the retired-state handling, SECURITY.md states which checks keep unsafe code out of cachekit-rs, and the README, the performance guide, the comparison page and the backend pages quote the hosted figure.MEMO_MAX_LEN,MEMO_MAX_ARGS,MEMO_MAX_ENTRIES) instead of copied intowrapper.py; the unusedHitEntry.valueandfresh_untilgetters and the two pyfunction shims are gone; the SWR jitter's low end is one named constant, andget_with_swrcomputes the floor once, which makes a locked SWR read 2.8% cheaper (4,789 to 4,656 instructions on 3.14).Tests
TestRemovalRoutes::test_a_whole_function_invalidation_removes_an_entry_it_has_no_record_of(cache_clear,invalidate_cache)TestRemovalRoutes::test_cache_clear_removes_every_entry_of_a_function_without_parameterscache_clear()throughinvalidate_cache()leaves the other context's entrytest_invalidate_no_args.py::TestInvalidateNoArgsWithL2Backend::test_cache_clear_without_parameters_deletes_the_key_in_l2TestRemovalRoutes::test_replacementputthat skips removing the entry it replacesTestTheCacheKeepsTheMemoInStep::test_a_fork_inside_a_refresh_leaves_the_old_entry_deadTestTheCacheKeepsTheMemoInStep::test_no_slot_is_set_for_an_entry_of_a_state_the_fork_reset_retiredTestTheCacheKeepsTheMemoInStep::test_an_object_planted_in_a_slot_is_a_miss_not_a_crashtest_no_value_is_served_after_its_removal_returnednow stamps every entry stored before acache_clear()as removed once the call returns, whatever way the clear empties the cache. Against key-by-key invalidation it fails on 3.14t with the GIL off in three runs of three; with the fix it passes on 3.14 and on 3.14t. Mutants of the two kills fail 6 tests (forget) and 1 test (repoint). The safe hit needs no new test: the same suites pin its behaviour, and the crate'sforbid(unsafe_code)fails the build on any unsafe code.Results
Every row ran the unit and critical suites on an extension rebuilt from this branch's head. Doctests 127, markdown docs 158 and
tests/docs77 pass. Ruff, basedpyright,cargo fmtandcargo clippy -D warningsare clean, and cargo-geiger counts no unsafe code in cachekit-rs.Instruction gate on 3.14 at this head:
l1_hitandminimal_l1_hitat their new budgets, and every other path at most 0.25% over its budget (l2_hit_async_metrics) or under it.Not changed
getandget_with_swrkeep their shared read bookkeeping inline. A helper costs every@cache.local()hit 9.1% more instructions (3,954 to 4,315 on 3.14), and the two blocks now point at each other._set_clockstays a test hook until someone needs to move L1-only time in their own tests.os.fork()holds the GIL or, free-threaded, stops the world first.