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fix(stargate): bound proxy retries and relay retention - #1820

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TL;DR

Prevent replaying accepted POSTs after uncertain tunnel delivery. Reap completed relay tasks while accepting streams and aggregate unknown-target 404 metrics into one pre-initialized series.

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Current main can retry a completed POST body after a response-header timeout, although the backend may already have accepted it. Each attempt now records body handoff. A transport failure after handoff ends with delivery ambiguity, including when retry limits have expired. Failures before handoff and explicit retryable pylon rejections preserve their existing retry rules. Local buffered writes cannot prove backend receipt. If a peer died before detection, this conservative rule can return 502 even when the POST never reached the backend, including during rollouts. Availability is traded for avoiding duplicate submissions; no exactly-once guarantee is claimed.

Both relay loops collect completed JoinSet entries during acceptance. The normal loop keeps main's randomized selection between ready accepts and completions. The drain loop keeps its existing drain-first and bidirectional-before-unidirectional priority. Router guidance documents raw-quic and webtransport support; plain http3 uses L4 passthrough. The existing request sequence diagram documents uncertain delivery.

The label-free, pre-initialized stargate_proxy_ambiguous_delivery_total counter measures requests that stop on ambiguous delivery. Existing metric names and label sets remain intact.

Unknown model/routing-key headers previously created permanent metric series. Their 404s now use empty target labels; rejected identities remain available in logs.

For the Reviewer

Layer 2 follows merged #1818 and targets main. The diff contains only this proxy layer. Next layer: #1823.

Both original CodeRabbit findings were independently verified, fixed, and answered. Ada's three comments were also addressed: ambiguity is counted, the conservative availability trade-off is explicit, and normal relay scheduling retains main's fairness.

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Fresh local validation at ff7985d, reconciled with main 543a198:

  • Scoped Cargo suites passed 728 tests, including 389 Stargate library and 149 integration tests, plus forwarding/router tests. Three existing performance tests were ignored. One existing macOS occupied-port test was skipped after independent reproduction on main.
  • The delayed-header POST regression returns 502 after one backend acceptance and increments the unlabeled ambiguity counter exactly once. Its new metric assertion and the startup zero-value assertion both failed before the metric fix. Explicit retryable pylon rejection tests still pass across supported tunnel transports. The ambiguity matrix covers 502/503/504 with available and exhausted retry limits and failed before the precedence fix.
  • Scoped all-target Clippy passed with warnings denied. Touched Rust formatting, whitespace, and skill-fanout passed.
  • A wait-and-widen capacity test failed in the first reconciled sweep, then passed in focused PR/main runs and the complete rerun. Its routing behavior is unchanged by this layer.

Independent main probes reproduced two backend executions with status 200 and 128 unknown-target metric series. A completed-task primitive probe confirmed retention until joining; both relay loops lacked collection while accepting streams. Whole-workspace formatting has existing drift in three unrelated files. All 21 exact-head checks passed, including Rust CodeQL and Stargate Bazel (17 selected tests passed). No live cluster, GPU campaign, or production memory soak was run.

Issues

Relates to #1817

Customer Release Notes

Stargate avoids duplicate inference submissions after uncertain transport failures and bounds retained relay completions and unknown-target metric series.

Plan Summary

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Usage

A transport failure after body handoff returns the upstream transport error. Explicit retryable pylon rejections can still retry within configured limits.

Dependencies

No added or upgraded third-party dependencies. No license review or NOTICE changes required.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented potentially duplicate chat requests when a backend may have received the original submission. These cases now return an error instead of replaying the request.
    • Improved visibility of stream-relay task failures during normal operation and shutdown.
    • Consolidated metrics for requests to unknown targets, preventing separate metric series for each target.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified retry behavior for requests that fail before or after submission.

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Stargate now distinguishes ambiguous request delivery from retryable failures, aggregates unknown-target 404 metrics, and polls completed relay tasks. The repository and Stargate workspace guides also document transport assumptions and development checks.

Changes

Proxy delivery retry handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ambiguous delivery retry decision
src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/src/http_proxy/retry.rs
Retry decisions return AmbiguousDelivery when the request body has started and replay is ready. Tests cover the retryable statuses and exhausted retry limits.
Proxy attempt state and validation
src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/src/http_proxy/attempt.rs, src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/src/metrics.rs, src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/tests/suite/proxy_contract.rs, src/libraries/rust/stargate/docs/diagrams/chat-completions-e2e.puml
Proxy attempts pass request-body handoff state to retry decisions and increment the ambiguous-delivery counter. An integration test checks that a timed-out POST is accepted once and verifies the counter. The diagram documentation describes retry behavior.

Unknown-target 404 metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared 404 metric series
src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/src/http_proxy/routing.rs
Unknown-target 404 requests use shared empty routing-key and model labels. A test checks that 128 distinct targets increment one series.

Relay task handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Relay task error polling
src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate-forwarding/src/lib.rs
The stream relay loop and shutdown drain poll completed relay tasks and log join failures.

Workspace guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stargate workspace guidance
AGENTS.md, src/libraries/rust/stargate/AGENTS.md, src/libraries/rust/stargate/CLAUDE.md
The repository guide points to Stargate-specific guidance. That guide documents transport assumptions, relevant paths, verification commands, and Rust style conventions; CLAUDE.md references it.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant run_proxy_attempt
  participant UpstreamTunnel
  participant decide_proxy_error_retry
  Client->>run_proxy_attempt: Send POST request
  run_proxy_attempt->>UpstreamTunnel: Hand off request body
  UpstreamTunnel-->>run_proxy_attempt: Return transport failure
  run_proxy_attempt->>decide_proxy_error_retry: Pass request_body_started
  decide_proxy_error_retry-->>run_proxy_attempt: Return AmbiguousDelivery
  run_proxy_attempt-->>Client: Return upstream error
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The change stops replaying POSTs after uncertain tunnel delivery, aggregates unknown-target 404 metrics, and reaps completed relay tasks. No concrete merge-blocking risk was identified in the supplied context.

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Accept IPv6 tunnel addresses and owned JSON values, filter Connection-nominated fields, and simplify schema generation while retaining generated API tests.

Refs: #1817
Regenerate the Bazel dependency graph after removing redundant schema compiler dev declarations. No dependency version changes.

Refs: #1817
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Keep the required Host check at its sole forwarding call site. Remove
the one-comparison wrapper, its imports, and its mirrored unit test.
Existing tunnel tests cover the transport path.

Relates to #1817
Stop replaying submitted POST requests after ambiguous transport failures, drain completed relay tasks, and aggregate unknown routing targets under bounded metric labels.

Refs: #1817
Remove the fair-direction selector and its backlog test. The router is
used for raw QUIC, whose request streams are bidirectional. Prefer those
streams in both relay loops while retaining completed-task collection
and shutdown priority.

Relates to #1817
State that stargate-k8s-router is deployed only for raw QUIC tunnel
traffic and that bidirectional stream priority is intentional. Optional
HTTP/3 and WebTransport code does not imply a deployment requirement.

Add scoped agent guidance, a root discovery pointer, and the companion
CLAUDE.md import so implementation and review agents share this context.

Relates to #1817
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- Around line 8-9: Update the deployment invariant for stargate-k8s-router to
state that it supports both raw-quic and webtransport traffic, while plain http3
uses the L4 path and does not pass through the router.

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- Around line 158-159: Update decide_proxy_error_retry so the submitted
ReplayReadiness::Ready case with request_body_started=true is classified as
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Comment thread src/libraries/rust/stargate/AGENTS.md Outdated
Comment thread src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/src/http_proxy/retry.rs Outdated
Classify completed submitted bodies before retry budget and connection exhaustion. Cover transport statuses and exhausted limits, and correct router guidance for WebTransport support.

Relates to #1817

Signed-off-by: jcameron <jcameron@nvidia.com>
Remove duplicate proxy and pylon header changes already fixed by #2064. Reuse the existing Connection parser for HTTP/3 and verify the headers received by a QUIC peer.

Relates to #1817

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Independent verification against main 51f98c7 confirms this layer remains necessary:

  • Accepted POST: delayed-header probe on main executed the backend twice and returned 200. This PR returns 502 after one backend acceptance.
  • Unknown-target metrics: 128 distinct unregistered targets created 128 permanent series on main. This PR records one shared series.
  • Relay retention: both main acceptance loops retain completed JoinSet entries until disconnect/drain. A 128-completion probe confirms entries remain until joined. This PR collects completions while accepting; forwarding and graceful-drain tests pass. No production memory reduction is claimed.

Review fixes pushed in 041e991. Both original CodeRabbit threads answered with evidence and resolved. Fresh scoped validation passed 635 tests (three existing performance tests ignored). Clippy and final-base validation continue.

Required GitHub workflows filter PRs to main/release bases. This PR stays on its protocol base until #1818 settles, then will reconcile only this layer, target main, pass exact-head CI, and obtain final review before entering the merge queue. Shared issue #1817 remains open.

Preserve the queued-request behavior delivered by #2147 and validate the protocol layer against the current base.

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Protocol predecessor #1818 is confirmed merged at 29d7ddd after its exact-head Ada approval and green merge-group checks. GitHub now shows this PR targeting main with conflicts pending reconciliation.

The benchmark layer #1826 remains necessary: the current-main benchmark driver, scorer and native mock are byte-identical to the independently verified defective baseline. It will stay stacked until #1823 settles. Shared issue #1817 remains open through final landing and verification of all domains.

Preserve current capacity admission behavior and regression tests while retaining the independently verified proxy fixes.

Relates to #1817

Signed-off-by: jcameron <jcameron@nvidia.com>
The merge tree matches the validated reconciliation; no additional source changes.

Relates to #1817

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Reconciled this proxy layer with merged #1818 and main at 29d7ddd, preserving history and current capacity-admission behavior. Final head: 96fb7b4. The diff against main contains only the ten proxy-layer files.

Scoped Cargo passed 728 tests; three existing performance tests ignored and one independently reproduced macOS occupied-port test skipped. Scoped all-target Clippy, touched Rust formatting, whitespace and skill-fanout passed. One capacity test failed in the first sweep, then passed on focused PR/main runs and the complete rerun. Exact-head GitHub CI is running before final review.

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The duplicate-POST fix, the unknown-target metric aggregation, and the relay task reaping look right to me. Three inline comments: a metric gap for the new 502s, a question about the retry trade-off, and a description mismatch in the relay loop.

Comment thread src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/src/http_proxy/attempt.rs Outdated
Comment thread src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate-forwarding/src/lib.rs Outdated
Pre-initialize a label-free ambiguity counter and verify it on delayed-header POSTs. Preserve fair normal relay scheduling and document the conservative retry trade-off. Include current main without changing Stargate behavior from that update.

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All three comments addressed at ff7985d. Thanks.

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Final head ff7985d approved after all three review findings were addressed. All 21 exact-head checks passed, including 17 Stargate Bazel tests; 728 scoped Cargo tests and Clippy passed locally. No unresolved threads. Submitted this main-based layer to the required squash merge queue without rule bypass; monitoring merge-group CI and actual merge state. #1823 follows after this layer lands.

Merged via the queue into main with commit 439d964 Sep 30, 2026
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🎉 This PR is included in src/libraries/rust/stargate/v0.19.6 🎉

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Merged into main as 439d964 at 2026-09-30T22:51:37Z. Ada approved final head ff7985d; all five actionable review threads are resolved. Final-head checks and all seven merge-group workflows passed, including 17/17 selected Bazel tests. Scoped local Cargo validation passed 728 tests, with three existing performance tests ignored and one independently reproduced macOS port test skipped.

The proxy branch was automatically deleted by repository policy after merge, then restored at the reviewed head to preserve stack references. #1823 is now based on main and its owner can reconcile the registration layer. Shared issue #1817 remains open for final stack verification. No dependency, license or NOTICE changes.

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This PR is included in version 1.29.1.

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