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The one-shot targets trip their own quiet-host gates: bench-chromium-request-all
and bench-chromium-fault run build, setup and image work seconds before a gate
that reads a 1-minute load average, so a cold invocation refuses because of its
own prerequisite wake and a retry repeats the phony prerequisites.

reqbench.sh guard_quiet now takes SETTLE_WAIT_SECS: 0 (the default) keeps the
fail-fast refusal, a positive value re-samples about every 5s until the deadline
and then refuses with the last sample. cmd_all defaults it to 120 for its own
chain; an explicit value wins. hostcdp.sh gets the same knob around its tighter
1.0 gate (plus a LOADAVG_FILE override so the gate is testable against a
fixture, matching reqbench.sh), and faultbench.py's host_precheck settles the
MAX_START_LOAD check the same way while still refusing a foreign firecracker
immediately.

faultbench.py also runs host_precheck before anything with side effects:
hostserver.py was started before the precheck and outside the teardown
try/finally, so a refusal leaked the server, and require_fresh_out_dir plus the
mkdirs ran even earlier, so the retry was refused for the directory the refused
run itself dirtied. Order is now precheck, cell/tag validation, out-dir
freshness, then the spawn.

Fixes the first two items of #814. The third item there (bench.sh's unlocked
nr_hugepages shrink racing the pool flock reqbench/setup-hugepages take) is a
separate mutator and is not touched here.

Tests, each watched failing on the unfixed tree first:

  • test_reqbench.ReqbenchShell.test_quiet_guard_settles_within_the_opt_in_window:
    'refused:3' != 'settled' (busy loadavg fixture rewritten quiet by a helper
    after 2s; unfixed guard refused on the first sample)
  • test_reqbench.ReqbenchShell.test_quiet_guard_still_refuses_when_the_settle_window_elapses:
    'still busy after 1s settle wait' not found in stderr
  • test_reqbench.ReqbenchShell.test_all_gives_its_own_chain_a_settle_default:
    'settle=120' not found in 'settle='
  • test_reqbench.HostCdpQuietGate.test_the_gate_settles_with_the_same_knob:
    'settling' not found in stderr (unfixed script read the real /proc/loadavg,
    load 28, and refused)
  • test_faultbench.QuietGate.test_the_start_load_check_settles_within_the_settle_window:
    SystemExit '1-minute load average is 9.90' on the first sample
  • test_faultbench.QuietGate.test_a_busy_refusal_spawns_nothing_and_keeps_the_out_dir_fresh:
    'load average' not found in 'no cell has a golden snapshot' (main had already
    spawned the recorded hostserver Popen and dirtied --out)
    All six pass with the fix. Full suites: python3 -m unittest test_reqbench, 189
    tests, failures=18 errors=4, failure names identical to the clean-main baseline
    (185 tests, failures=18 errors=4; environment-bound teardown classes, no KVM on
    this box); python3 -m unittest test_faultbench, 25 tests, OK.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Benchmark commands can now wait for host load to settle before execution.
    • The settling period is configurable, bounded, and supports a default duration for full runs.
    • Host load-average sources can be selected when supported.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Busy or contaminated hosts are rejected safely after the settling window expires.
    • Invalid, missing, empty, or non-finite load and settling values now fail closed.
    • Preflight checks run before creating output directories or starting host services, keeping refused runs clean and reusable.

…pawn

The one-shot targets trip their own quiet-host gates: bench-chromium-request-all
and bench-chromium-fault run build, setup and image work seconds before a gate
that reads a 1-minute load average, so a cold invocation refuses because of its
own prerequisite wake and a retry repeats the phony prerequisites.

reqbench.sh guard_quiet now takes SETTLE_WAIT_SECS: 0 (the default) keeps the
fail-fast refusal, a positive value re-samples about every 5s until the deadline
and then refuses with the last sample. cmd_all defaults it to 120 for its own
chain; an explicit value wins. hostcdp.sh gets the same knob around its tighter
1.0 gate (plus a LOADAVG_FILE override so the gate is testable against a
fixture, matching reqbench.sh), and faultbench.py's host_precheck settles the
MAX_START_LOAD check the same way while still refusing a foreign firecracker
immediately.

faultbench.py also runs host_precheck before anything with side effects:
hostserver.py was started before the precheck and outside the teardown
try/finally, so a refusal leaked the server, and require_fresh_out_dir plus the
mkdirs ran even earlier, so the retry was refused for the directory the refused
run itself dirtied. Order is now precheck, cell/tag validation, out-dir
freshness, then the spawn.

Fixes the first two items of #814. The third item there (bench.sh's unlocked
nr_hugepages shrink racing the pool flock reqbench/setup-hugepages take) is a
separate mutator and is not touched here.

Tests, each watched failing on the unfixed tree first:
- test_reqbench.ReqbenchShell.test_quiet_guard_settles_within_the_opt_in_window:
  'refused:3' != 'settled' (busy loadavg fixture rewritten quiet by a helper
  after 2s; unfixed guard refused on the first sample)
- test_reqbench.ReqbenchShell.test_quiet_guard_still_refuses_when_the_settle_window_elapses:
  'still busy after 1s settle wait' not found in stderr
- test_reqbench.ReqbenchShell.test_all_gives_its_own_chain_a_settle_default:
  'settle=120' not found in 'settle=<unset>'
- test_reqbench.HostCdpQuietGate.test_the_gate_settles_with_the_same_knob:
  'settling' not found in stderr (unfixed script read the real /proc/loadavg,
  load 28, and refused)
- test_faultbench.QuietGate.test_the_start_load_check_settles_within_the_settle_window:
  SystemExit '1-minute load average is 9.90' on the first sample
- test_faultbench.QuietGate.test_a_busy_refusal_spawns_nothing_and_keeps_the_out_dir_fresh:
  'load average' not found in 'no cell has a golden snapshot' (main had already
  spawned the recorded hostserver Popen and dirtied --out)
All six pass with the fix. Full suites: python3 -m unittest test_reqbench, 189
tests, failures=18 errors=4, failure names identical to the clean-main baseline
(185 tests, failures=18 errors=4; environment-bound teardown classes, no KVM on
this box); python3 -m unittest test_faultbench, 25 tests, OK.
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The benchmark harnesses now validate host load and Firecracker activity before execution. They support bounded settling periods, configurable load-average sources, fail-closed input validation, and expanded regression coverage.

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Host settling controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Faultbench precheck and startup ordering
bench/chromium/faultbench.py
SETTLE_WAIT_SECS accepts finite, nonnegative values. host_precheck() retries excessive-load samples and rejects active foreign Firecracker processes immediately. Output and server setup now follow the precheck.
Shell settling gates
bench/chromium/hostcdp.sh, bench/chromium/reqbench.sh
The shell harnesses validate settling settings, retry busy-host samples within bounded windows, and support configurable load-average files. The all command defaults to 120 seconds.
Settling behavior tests
bench/chromium/test_faultbench.py, bench/chromium/test_reqbench.py
Tests cover settling, invalid values, timeout refusal, subprocess suppression, startup ordering, default propagation, and invalid load-average data.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cbf9c

This PR adds opt-in settle windows to benchmark host-load gates, but valid decimal values with leading zeroes can currently be rejected or interpreted incorrectly by the shell scripts, causing the gate to fail or wait for the wrong duration; merge should wait for decimal-safe parsing and regression coverage.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BenchmarkHarness
  participant QuietGate
  participant Host
  participant Execution
  BenchmarkHarness->>QuietGate: request host precheck
  QuietGate->>Host: sample load and Firecracker activity
  Host-->>QuietGate: host state
  alt Host remains busy before deadline
    QuietGate-->>BenchmarkHarness: refuse execution
  else Host settles
    QuietGate-->>BenchmarkHarness: allow execution
    BenchmarkHarness->>Execution: start benchmark
  end
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…le windows

hostcdp.sh's quiet_sample runs as an until condition, where set -e is
suppressed. A missing, unreadable, or empty LOADAVG_FILE made cut fail
silently, la came back empty, awk read the empty string as 0, and the gate
passed without evaluating host load. quiet_sample now requires a numeric
first field and exits 2 otherwise, before the ALLOW_BUSY early return.

faultbench.py's settle_wait_secs accepted SETTLE_WAIT_SECS=nan or inf:
float() parses both, nan also slips the value < 0 check, and either makes
the settle deadline never expire, so host_precheck resamples forever on a
busy host. The knob now requires math.isfinite.

Red watched failing before the fix:
- test_reqbench.HostCdpQuietGate.test_an_unreadable_loadavg_file_fails_closed:
  "AssertionError: 7 != 2 : gate did not fail closed" with stderr showing
  "starting host container", for both the missing and empty fixtures.
- test_faultbench.QuietGate.test_a_non_finite_settle_window_is_rejected:
  "AssertionError: SystemExit not raised" for nan, inf, and Infinity.

Green after: test_faultbench 26 tests OK; test_reqbench 190 tests with the
same 22 pre-existing environment failures as the stash-clean baseline
(failure names diffed identical).
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bench/chromium/test_reqbench.py (1)

4629-4671: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the post-gate sentinel.

The test does not prove that hostcdp.sh reached the podman stub. An unrelated early exit can satisfy returncode != 3 and the current stderr checks. Assert exit status 7, or record and assert the podman invocation.

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In `@bench/chromium/test_reqbench.py` around lines 4629 - 4671, Strengthen
test_the_gate_settles_with_the_same_knob by asserting result.returncode is
exactly 7, the sentinel returned by the podman stub after the gate. Keep the
existing settling and non-refusal stderr assertions.
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In `@bench/chromium/hostcdp.sh`:
- Line 49: Parse validated SETTLE_WAIT_SECS as base-10 using 10# before
computing deadline in bench/chromium/hostcdp.sh:49, and apply the same
conversion to settle in bench/chromium/reqbench.sh:437-446. Add leading-zero
quiet-gate regression cases using a value such as 08 in
bench/chromium/test_reqbench.py:4517-4568 for reqbench and :4629-4671 for
hostcdp.

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In `@bench/chromium/test_reqbench.py`:
- Around line 4629-4671: Strengthen test_the_gate_settles_with_the_same_knob by
asserting result.returncode is exactly 7, the sentinel returned by the podman
stub after the gate. Keep the existing settling and non-refusal stderr
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if awk -v l="$la" 'BEGIN{exit !(l >= 1.0)}'; then return 1; fi
return 0
}
deadline=$((SECONDS + SETTLE_WAIT_SECS))

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Parse SETTLE_WAIT_SECS as decimal after validation.

Both shell harnesses accept 08 as a whole number, then pass it to Bash arithmetic. Bash treats it as invalid octal. It also interprets 010 as eight, not ten. Parse with 10# before calculating the deadline, and add leading-zero regression cases.

  • bench/chromium/hostcdp.sh#L49-L49: convert SETTLE_WAIT_SECS with 10# before computing deadline.
  • bench/chromium/reqbench.sh#L437-L446: convert settle with 10# before computing deadline.
  • bench/chromium/test_reqbench.py#L4517-L4568: add a reqbench quiet-gate case for a leading-zero value such as 08.
  • bench/chromium/test_reqbench.py#L4629-L4671: add the equivalent hostcdp quiet-gate case.
Proposed parsing change
- deadline=$((SECONDS + SETTLE_WAIT_SECS))
+ settle_wait_s=$((10#$SETTLE_WAIT_SECS))
+ deadline=$((SECONDS + settle_wait_s))
- local deadline=$((SECONDS + settle)) nap
+ local settle_wait_s=$((10#$settle))
+ local deadline=$((SECONDS + settle_wait_s)) nap
📍 Affects 3 files
  • bench/chromium/hostcdp.sh#L49-L49 (this comment)
  • bench/chromium/reqbench.sh#L437-L446
  • bench/chromium/test_reqbench.py#L4517-L4568
  • bench/chromium/test_reqbench.py#L4629-L4671
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In `@bench/chromium/hostcdp.sh` at line 49, Parse validated SETTLE_WAIT_SECS as
base-10 using 10# before computing deadline in bench/chromium/hostcdp.sh:49, and
apply the same conversion to settle in bench/chromium/reqbench.sh:437-446. Add
leading-zero quiet-gate regression cases using a value such as 08 in
bench/chromium/test_reqbench.py:4517-4568 for reqbench and :4629-4671 for
hostcdp.

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