fix(worker): give each proxy host its own QUIC socket - #1045
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The worker opened one UDP socket and reused it for every QUIC dial to every proxy pod for the life of the process. It was created on the first dial and released only by HttpProxy.Close(), which runs at process exit. A UDP load balancer hashes on the source port, so one socket means every proxy pod is reached over a single balancer flow. Two things follow. There is no isolation. If that flow is pinned to an instance that has gone away, QUIC to every pod fails, healthy ones included. On a staging reproduction the worker logged 3,796 dial timeouts in eight minutes against pods that had been healthy for 38 minutes, while the balancer targets were registered healthy, DNS resolved correctly, and the receiving proxies reported no inbound QUIC at all. And it does not recover. A flow is re-hashed only once it goes idle, and a retrying worker never lets it idle, so it is never moved to a healthy instance. With the socket surviving until process exit, the condition lasts as long as the worker does. Replacing instances has been the reliable remedy precisely because new pods get new source ports. Key the transport by host, as the connection cache already is. Recovery then falls out of the existing lifecycle: a failed dial already drops the host from the cache, so releasing its socket there means the next attempt comes from a new source port the balancer is free to place elsewhere. No timers, no new state. The field is written once at construction rather than lazily in the dial goroutine, because the dial goroutine and the close path would otherwise race on it. Also fixes a pre-existing race the new concurrent test exposed: quic-go's validateConfig writes defaults back into the Config it is handed, and every dial passed the same pointer. Each dial now gets its own copy. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughHTTP/3 proxy connections now use a dedicated QUIC transport and UDP socket for each host. Failed host attempts release these resources. QUIC configuration is copied per dial. Tests verify socket isolation, source-port rotation, cache cleanup, and repeated failed-dial cleanup. ChangesHTTP/3 transport isolation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change gives each proxy host its own QUIC socket, but cache eviction can currently remove a newer replacement connection when an older failed dial completes. That can disrupt healthy proxy traffic, so the PR is not merge-ready until removal is tied to the expected client and covered by a concurrent test. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ProxyCache
participant HostTransport
participant ProxyHost
ProxyCache->>HostTransport: create host-specific UDP socket
HostTransport->>ProxyHost: dial HTTP/3
ProxyHost-->>HostTransport: return connection or dial failure
HostTransport->>HostTransport: close transport and socket on failure or removal
ProxyCache->>HostTransport: close cached host transports
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In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/h3.go`:
- Around line 147-150: Update the host-transport lifecycle around t.dial,
getClient, and getDialedClient so a failed dial closes the newly created
transport, while evicting an established connection closes its transport exactly
once. Apply the same cleanup in the connection-context callback, preserving
cache removal and avoiding duplicate Close calls.
In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/host_transport_test.go`:
- Around line 91-112: Strengthen socket lifecycle tests in
src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/host_transport_test.go:91-112 by capture the first
port, bind a guard socket to it after the failed quicConnect, and verify the
retry uses a different port; at
src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/host_transport_test.go:158-166, record the active
port before cache.Close() and verify a new UDP listener can bind it afterward;
at src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/host_transport_test.go:178-185, assert failed
dials leave the cache empty and add a separate responsive HTTP/3-host test
confirming reuse of one stable cache entry.
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Review caught that giving each host its own socket leaked one on every failed dial. None of the removal paths closed it: removeClient and the dialErr branch in getClient both dropped the entry from the map and nothing else, and the connection-context callback goes through the same remove-only path. That is worse than the shared socket it replaced. A dial storm leaked a file descriptor per failure, and the staging reproduction produced 3,796 failures in eight minutes. Release the socket from every path that drops a host, exactly once via a sync.Once, since several paths can race to drop the same entry. The release deliberately does not wait on the dial to finish: callers hold the cache lock, and a dial still in flight belongs to a host being discarded anyway. The tests asserted on cache-map state, which could not tell a released socket from a leaked one, and could have passed while a retry reused the old source port. They now bind the old port to prove it was released, hold it so a retry cannot reuse it by chance, and assert the retry leaves from a different port. Verified they fail with the leak reintroduced. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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83-85: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winWrap the socket-creation error with operation context.
Return an error such as
fmt.Errorf("create host UDP socket: %w", err). The current error does not identify the failed operation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/h3.go`:
- Around line 164-166: Update removeFromCache and the failed-dial cleanup in
getDialedClient to pass the expected client to removeClient; make removal delete
and close the cached transport only when t.clients[hostname] matches that
client, preserving a newer retry client. Add a concurrent failed-dial/retry test
covering this identity check.
In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/host_transport_test.go`:
- Around line 174-185: Register a t.Cleanup callback immediately after
createH3RoundTripper returns in the test, calling cache.Close so cleanup occurs
even when require.NotEmpty or require.NoError terminates the test. Keep the
existing explicit cache.Close assertion for validating the close operation.
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In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/h3.go`:
- Around line 83-85: Update the UDP socket creation error handling around
net.ListenUDP in the proxy worker to wrap the original error with context
identifying host UDP socket creation, while preserving error unwrapping and the
existing nil return behavior.
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| if cl.dialErr != nil { | ||
| delete(t.clients, hostname) | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve client identity during cache removal.
Line 165 removes the entry by hostname only. A waiter in getDialedClient can later call cl.removeFromCache() for the failed client. If a retry created a new client for the same hostname first, removeClient(hostname) deletes and closes the new client's transport.
Pass the expected client to removeClient. Delete and close the entry only if t.clients[hostname] == expected. Add a concurrent failed-dial and retry test.
Proposed fix
-func (t *h3ConnectionCache) removeClient(hostname string) {
+func (t *h3ConnectionCache) removeClient(hostname string, expected *roundTripperWithCount) {
t.mutex.Lock()
if t.clients == nil {
t.mutex.Unlock()
return
}
cl := t.clients[hostname]
+ if cl != expected {
+ t.mutex.Unlock()
+ return
+ }
delete(t.clients, hostname)
t.mutex.Unlock()Update removeFromCache to call t.removeClient(hostname, cl).
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In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/h3.go` around lines 164 - 166, Update
removeFromCache and the failed-dial cleanup in getDialedClient to pass the
expected client to removeClient; make removal delete and close the cached
transport only when t.clients[hostname] matches that client, preserving a newer
retry client. Add a concurrent failed-dial/retry test covering this identity
check.
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| cache := createH3RoundTripper() | ||
| watch := capturePort(t, cache, addr) | ||
| go func() { _, _ = quicConnect(context.Background(), uuid.New().String(), h3ConnConfig(addr), cache) }() | ||
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| require.NotEmpty(t, port, "a socket should have been opened for the host") | ||
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| assert.Eventually(t, func() bool { return canBindUDP(t, port) }, 3*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond, | ||
| "Close left source port %s bound", port) | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Add fallback cleanup for the cache.
If require.NotEmpty or require.NoError fails, the test exits before cache.Close() runs. Register t.Cleanup immediately after cache creation so the socket is released on every test exit path.
Proposed fix
cache := createH3RoundTripper()
+t.Cleanup(func() { _ = cache.Close() })
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| cache := createH3RoundTripper() | |
| watch := capturePort(t, cache, addr) | |
| go func() { _, _ = quicConnect(context.Background(), uuid.New().String(), h3ConnConfig(addr), cache) }() | |
| port := <-watch | |
| require.NotEmpty(t, port, "a socket should have been opened for the host") | |
| require.NoError(t, cache.Close()) | |
| assert.Eventually(t, func() bool { return canBindUDP(t, port) }, 3*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond, | |
| "Close left source port %s bound", port) | |
| } | |
| cache := createH3RoundTripper() | |
| t.Cleanup(func() { _ = cache.Close() }) | |
| watch := capturePort(t, cache, addr) | |
| go func() { _, _ = quicConnect(context.Background(), uuid.New().String(), h3ConnConfig(addr), cache) }() | |
| port := <-watch | |
| require.NotEmpty(t, port, "a socket should have been opened for the host") | |
| require.NoError(t, cache.Close()) | |
| assert.Eventually(t, func() bool { return canBindUDP(t, port) }, 3*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond, | |
| "Close left source port %s bound", port) |
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In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/host_transport_test.go` around lines 174 - 185,
Register a t.Cleanup callback immediately after createH3RoundTripper returns in
the test, calling cache.Close so cleanup occurs even when require.NotEmpty or
require.NoError terminates the test. Keep the existing explicit cache.Close
assertion for validating the close operation.
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Issues
Closes #1044
Why
The worker opened one UDP socket and reused it for every QUIC dial, to every proxy pod, for the life of the process. Created on the first dial (
h3.go), released only byHttpProxy.Close()at process exit. There is no other code path that replaces it.A UDP load balancer hashes on the source port, so one socket means every proxy pod is reached over a single balancer flow. Two things follow.
No isolation. If that flow is pinned to an instance that has gone away, QUIC to every pod fails, healthy ones included.
No recovery. A flow is only re-hashed once it goes idle, and a retrying worker never lets it idle. With the socket surviving until process exit, the condition lasts as long as the worker does.
Observed on a staging reproduction: 3,796
timeout: no recent network activityfailures in eight minutes, dialling pods that had been running and healthy for 38 minutes. Load balancer targets registered healthy, DNS resolving correctly, and the receiving proxies reporting zero inbound QUIC connections. Packets were not arriving. The function sat at 13 of 100 concurrency slots and never recovered on its own; it recovered immediately once the worker pod was replaced.That last detail is the point: replacing function instances has been the reliable remedy because new pods get new source ports.
Why not just share one socket
This is the obvious review question, so answering it directly.
The source port is not an implementation detail here, it is the load balancer's hash key. Sharing one socket does not save a route, it collapses N independent paths into one shared fate. Every proxy pod ends up behind a single flow, and a single dead target takes all of them down together.
Four supporting reasons:
clients map[string]*roundTripperWithCountis keyed by hostname. The transport was the one piece not keyed the same way, so its lifetime did not match the thing it belonged to.Cost is one UDP socket and one reader goroutine per distinct proxy pod a worker talks to: single digits in staging, tens in a production cell. Set against a function-wide outage that only an instance replacement clears.
What changed
quic.Config. This fixes a pre-existing race: quic-go'svalidateConfigwrites defaults back into the config it is handed, and every dial passed the same pointer.Customer Release Notes
A single unreachable gRPC proxy pod no longer blocks a worker's connections to all the other proxy pods. Previously that condition persisted until the function's instances were replaced, which is why scaling a function down and back up was the usual way to clear it.
Plan Summary
Not applicable.
Usage
No configuration. Behaviour is internal to the worker's QUIC dialling.
Testing
go test -racefor the whole worker library andbazel testfor the package, all passing.New tests:
The concurrent-hosts test is also what exposed the shared
quic.Configrace, which was present before this change and is now fixed.Notes
Scope: this changes how sockets are owned. It does not change retry counts, timeouts, or when a dial is attempted.
Deployment: this is in
src/libraries/go/worker, which is not a service subtree, sodeploy-to-stgwill not build an image for this PR.worker-utilsconsumes the library as a pinned Go module, so reaching a cluster needs this merged and then a pin bump inworker-utils/go.mod.Related but independent: #1036 makes dial failures cheap, which reduces the cost of each failed attempt. This one stops a failed host from taking the others with it and lets the worker recover without being replaced. They compose and neither depends on the other.
References
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Related Pull Requests
#1029, #1031, #1036
Dependencies
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