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What

A pipelined multi-key command no longer cuts the batch over shards it never touches.

Why

must_wait_for_pending_remote's multi-key arm answered "wait" on the command name, without asking where its keys were. But remote_groups only ever holds foreign shards — the slotting branch is else if let Some(target) = target_shard, and target_shard is None for a local key. So the #507 hazard (reading state a pending command is about to write, or writing state it then overwrites) requires the two to meet on the same shard. An MGET reading shards the batch has no pending work for was being cut for nothing.

The cut is not free: it ends the batch pass, and the phase-2b drain then dispatches one PipelineBatchSlotted per target shard and awaits each reply slot in turn. That drain-per-cut is where #513's cost lives — see the measurement on the issue.

How

The guard takes a pending bitmask, maintained beside remote_groups at O(1) (set on insert, cleared with the map), and compares it against the shard mask of the command's keys. The mask comes from the shared key-position walker (#582) — the same one ACL, cache invalidation and cross_shard_multikey_rejection use — so layouts like ZUNIONSTORE dst numkeys ... are enumerated by the code that already knows them rather than a second, drifting copy.

Only the multi-key arm is refined. The other two still always wait, because neither can be bounded by a key mask: an inline-intercepted command (EVAL, SWAPDB) executes against the local slice whatever keys it declares, and a keyless command (FLUSHALL, KEYS, SCAN) touches every shard. Every case the mask cannot enumerate — SORT ... BY w_*, a key position holding a non-string, more shards than the mask has bits — also waits. Wrongly waiting costs a batch boundary; wrongly proceeding corrupts data.

The two predicates were folded into one: the unmasked form had no callers left, and keeping it would have left two answers to the same question.

Measured

moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), --shards 4, 32 interleavings of SET,SET,MGET, six fresh server starts per side, interleaved:

shape before after
MGET reads shards the writes never touch 41,600 ops/s, 64 deferrals 86,500 ops/s (2.08×), 0 deferrals
MGET reads the shards being written 34,300 ops/s, 64 deferrals unchanged

Fresh starts per measurement because SO_REUSEPORT decides which shard the connection lands on, and that changes the shape's cost as much as the code does — one start per side compares placements as much as binaries. The deferral counts are placement-independent: 64/64 before and 0/0 after in every round.

Not in scope

A co-located {tag} multi-key command still defers, and must: the coordinator executes it inline rather than slotting it, so skipping the wait would re-open #507. Routing a single-owner multi-key command into the slotted batch is the follow-up, and the bigger win.

Tests

pco13 drives the disjoint shape and asserts 0 deferrals, with an overlap leg on the same harness that must stay non-zero — without it, a green disjoint leg could just mean the writes never went cross-shard. Both legs pin one key per shard rather than "the first n keys in this set": two keys that both hashed to shard 0 made the overlap leg depend on where SO_REUSEPORT put the connection, which I caught as a real flake while benchmarking. Four unit tests cover the mask itself, including every fail-closed path.

Verified by mutation:

Gates

cargo fmt --check ✅ · clippy ×3 (default / graph / tokio) -D warnings ✅ · 13/13 ordering suite ✅ · pco13 run 6× consecutively ✅ · scripts/ci-local.sh + dispatch matrix to follow.

Refs #513, #507, #512

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved pipelined multi-key command ordering across shards.
    • Commands now defer only when their keys overlap pending remote work, reducing unnecessary pipeline delays.
    • Preserved ordering and read-your-writes behavior for overlapping and co-located keys.
    • Added safeguards for unsupported or malformed multi-key command layouts.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for disjoint-shard and overlapping-shard multi-key pipeline scenarios.

…513)

`must_wait_for_pending_remote`'s multi-key arm answered "wait" on the command
NAME, without asking where its keys were. But `remote_groups` only ever holds
FOREIGN shards -- the slotting branch is `else if let Some(target) =
target_shard`, and `target_shard` is `None` for a local key -- so the moon#507
hazard (reading state a pending command is about to write, or writing state it
then overwrites) requires the two to meet ON THE SAME SHARD. An MGET reading
shards the batch has no pending work for was being cut for nothing.

The cut is not free: it ends the batch pass, and the phase-2b drain then
dispatches one PipelineBatchSlotted per target shard and awaits each reply slot
in turn.

The guard now takes a `pending` bitmask, maintained beside `remote_groups` at
O(1) (set on insert, cleared with the map), and compares it against the shard
mask of the command's keys. The mask comes from the shared key-position walker
(moon#582) -- the same one ACL, cache invalidation and
`cross_shard_multikey_rejection` use -- so layouts like ZUNIONSTORE are
enumerated by the code that already knows them rather than a second copy.

Only the multi-key arm is refined; the other two still always wait, because
neither can be bounded by a key mask. An inline-intercepted command (EVAL,
SWAPDB) executes against the LOCAL slice whatever keys it declares, and a
keyless command (FLUSHALL, KEYS, SCAN) touches every shard. Every case the
mask cannot enumerate -- `SORT ... BY w_*`, a key position holding a
non-string, more shards than the mask has bits -- also waits: wrongly waiting
costs a batch boundary, wrongly proceeding corrupts data.

The two predicates were folded into one. The unmasked form had no callers left
and keeping it would have left two answers to the same question.

Measured on moon-dev (aarch64, 6 vCPU), --shards 4, 32 interleavings of
SET,SET,MGET, six fresh server starts per side, interleaved:

  MGET reads shards the writes never touch: 41,600 -> 86,500 ops/s (2.08x),
                                            64 deferrals -> 0
  MGET reads the shards being written:      34,300 ops/s, 64 deferrals, both

Fresh starts per measurement because SO_REUSEPORT decides which shard the
connection lands on, and that changes the shape's cost as much as the code
does. The deferral counts are placement-independent: 64/64 before and 0/0
after in every round.

A co-located {tag} multi-key command still defers, and must: the coordinator
executes it inline rather than slotting it, so skipping the wait would re-open
moon#507. Routing a single-owner multi-key command into the slotted batch is
tracked separately.

Tests: `pco13` drives the disjoint shape and asserts 0 deferrals, with an
overlap leg on the same harness that must stay non-zero -- without it a green
disjoint leg could just mean the writes never went cross-shard. Both legs pin
ONE key per shard rather than "the first n keys in this set", because two keys
that both hashed to shard 0 made the overlap leg depend on where SO_REUSEPORT
put the connection (caught as a real flake while benchmarking). Four unit tests
cover the mask itself, including every fail-closed path. Verified by mutation:
reverting the guard to name-only fails pco13 alone; making it never wait fails
five of the moon#507 correctness tests.

Refs #513, #507, #512
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Shard-mask evaluation and ordering rules
src/server/conn/shared.rs
command_shard_mask identifies enumerable key shards. must_wait_for_pending_remote waits only when command and pending shard masks overlap, while unsupported and keyless cases remain conservative. Unit tests cover these paths.
Pending-shard tracking in pipeline handlers
src/server/conn/handler_monoio/mod.rs, src/server/conn/handler_sharded/mod.rs
Both handlers track shards with queued remote work and pass the mask to the ordering guard.
Cross-shard pipeline validation and documentation
tests/pipeline_cross_shard_ordering.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Integration tests verify overlapping, disjoint, and co-located MGET behavior. The changelog records the updated deferral rules.

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Workspace-rewritten keys can cause a command to bypass required deferral, potentially producing stale reads or incorrect write ordering. This correctness issue should be fixed before merging; the related test and changelog wording also need a minor correction.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant PipelineHandler
  participant RemoteGroups
  participant OrderingGuard
  Client->>PipelineHandler: Send pipelined commands
  PipelineHandler->>RemoteGroups: Queue remote commands and set target-shard bits
  PipelineHandler->>OrderingGuard: Check command keys against pending shard mask
  OrderingGuard-->>PipelineHandler: Defer only for overlapping shards
  PipelineHandler-->>Client: Return pipeline replies
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In `@src/server/conn/handler_monoio/mod.rs`:
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sharded handler logic at src/server/conn/handler_sharded/mod.rs:821-827 to
derive pending-mask evaluation from workspace_rewrite_args’ effective arguments
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389-401 around Conn::open and pipeline to use two keys with the same confirmed
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…actually use

The shard mask added earlier in this branch hashes the keys visible AT the
guard. In a workspace connection those are the RAW keys:
`workspace_rewrite_args` rebinds `cmd_args` further down the batch loop, and
the guard cannot move below it -- the connection-level intercepts it exists to
hold back (AUTH, CLIENT, CONFIG, INFO, SELECT, ...) run in between.

The discrepancy is not small. A workspace key is `{<32-hex>}:<key>`, and that
prefix is a hash TAG, so every key in a workspace routes to ONE shard however
the raw names scatter. A mask read off raw names therefore calls a command
disjoint from the very shard its own batch's writes are pending on -- moon#507
reopened for exactly the connections that opted into isolation.

Measured on the pre-fix build of this branch: 5 of 12 workspace connections
had `SET a; SET b; MGET a b` answer `$-1 $-1` for keys the same batch had
already acked `+OK`. The same test is green on the commit this branch forked
from, so this was introduced here, not uncovered here.

Fix: treat every shard as pending when the connection has a workspace, which
makes `must_wait_for_pending_remote` answer exactly as it did before the mask
existed. Workspace connections lose the batch-cut saving; they keep their
data.

Tests: `pco14` drives 12 workspace connections and asserts the MGET observes
its own batch's writes. It asserts CORRECTNESS rather than a deferral count
because the count is only wrong when the workspace's shard is foreign to the
connection and SO_REUSEPORT decides that -- the correctness claim holds for
every connection, so twelve make placement moot. Run 8x consecutively, green.
Verified by mutation: dropping the workspace arm reproduces 5/12 losses.

`pco13` gains a single-shard leg -- the shape the mask is most tempted to wave
through -- and its final correctness block is relabelled: those keys span two
shards, so calling them "co-located" was wrong.

Refs #513, #507, #702
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Update: fixed a regression this PR introduced (thanks CodeRabbit)

The review flagged that the shard mask reads cmd_args before workspace_rewrite_args rebinds it. I verified it against the code and it is real — and worse than a mask being slightly stale.

A workspace key is {<32-hex>}:<key>, and that prefix is a hash tag, so every key in a workspace routes to one shard however the raw names scatter. A mask read off raw names therefore calls a command disjoint from the very shard its own batch's writes are pending on. That is #507 reopened for exactly the connections that opted into isolation.

Measured on the pre-fix build of this branch: 5 of 12 workspace connections had SET a; SET b; MGET a b answer $-1 $-1 for keys the same batch had already acked +OK. I then ran the same test against a65c76d2 (the commit this branch forked from) and it is green there — so this was introduced by my commit, not uncovered by it.

The guard cannot simply move below the rewrite: the connection-level intercepts it exists to hold back (AUTH, CLIENT, CONFIG, INFO, SELECT) run in between, and pco9/pco10 cover that. So a workspace connection now treats every shard as pending, which makes the predicate answer exactly as it did before the mask existed. Workspace connections lose the batch-cut saving; they keep their data.

pco14 covers it — 12 workspace connections, asserting correctness rather than a deferral count, because the count is only wrong when the workspace's shard is foreign to the connection and SO_REUSEPORT decides that. Run 8× consecutively, green; mutation (dropping the workspace arm) reproduces the 5/12 loss.

On the second finding: the pco13 block I labelled "co-located" wasn't — those two keys span shards 0 and 1. Relabelled, and a genuine single-shard leg added, since that is the shape the mask is most tempted to wave through. The CHANGELOG now also says co-located commands defer when their shard has pending work, rather than implying always.

Not taking the suggestion to derive the mask from the rewritten argv: it would mean running workspace_rewrite_args twice per command on the hot path to buy back a saving for a connection class that is not throughput-critical. Fail-closed is the right trade here.

Suite is 14/14. Re-running scripts/ci-local.sh and the dispatch matrix on the new head.

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