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Add last_cluster_affinity to wait-and-widen and pulsar-wait-and-widen. When enabled, Stargate classifies each request with an affinity key once, on its first load-balancer decision, from the trusted x-stargate-last-cluster-id header: - new (no hint) and stale (hint names a cluster outside the candidate set) requests skip the affinity wait and the affinity prefill discount and go to the best-ranked cluster that is selectable now. - returning requests move the last cluster to the front of the affinity order for that request only, then run the configured wait, discount, and widening unchanged. Per-key ring and ranking caches keep the original order. Other algorithms reject the field at startup through the existing unsupported-field error. Routing expressions do not accept it. The header is consumed and never forwarded to Pylon. Remove the pulsar-wait-and-widen eligible-primary shortcut that sent a request to its rank-1 cluster without a load check when no queue-SLO fields were set. Rank 1 now goes through queue admission, the affinity wait, and the discount like any other request. Add stargate_routing_session_selections_total, the routing.session_state span field, and a debug log for each classified selection. Add unit and integration tests, including the cache-thrash regression for both algorithms with the flag on and off, a pulsar-wait-and-widen load-balancer microbenchmark case, and docs. Refs #2289 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: jcameron <jcameron@nvidia.com>
… routing hint Remember the x-stargate-cluster-id from each session's last 2xx Stargate response and send it back as x-stargate-last-cluster-id on the session's next request, so Stargate's last_cluster_affinity can tell new sessions from returning ones. - Config, all off by default: STARGATE_LAST_CLUSTER_ENABLED (false), STARGATE_LAST_CLUSTER_TTL (10m), STARGATE_LAST_CLUSTER_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT (20ms), STARGATE_LAST_CLUSTER_LOCAL_MAX_ENTRIES (100000). - Only prompt_cache_key, conversation_id, and x-multi-turn-session-id header sessions are eligible. Payload-derived sessions are skipped. - Store: a stargate-last-cluster DMap on the embedded Olric node when OLRIC_ENABLED=true, otherwise an in-process LRU with the same TTL. Keys are lc:v1: plus a SHA-256 of the length-prefixed routing key, model, and cache affinity key. Values over 256 bytes are not stored. - Complete, Stream, and Proxy always strip an inbound x-stargate-last-cluster-id. Lookups run with a hard deadline and never fail the request. Writes run off the request path when 2xx response headers arrive, before the stream ends. - The Olric node now starts whenever OLRIC_ENABLED=true, not only when the rate limiter is on, and is shared by the rate limiter and the last-cluster store. - Add llm_api_gateway_last_cluster_lookups_total, llm_api_gateway_last_cluster_writes_total, and llm_api_gateway_last_cluster_lookup_duration_seconds, pre-initialized to zero, plus last_cluster_lookup and last_cluster_write child spans and warn logs without affinity keys or session IDs. - Expose the four env vars through the llm-api-gateway Helm chart values. - Document the header in the Stargate API gateway contract, the gateway README, the LLM gateway overview, and the gateway metrics reference. No new third-party dependencies. Refs #2289 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: jcameron <jcameron@nvidia.com>
…teway Add scripts/e2e-last-cluster.sh, which runs the LLM API gateway against a real Stargate, two Pylons, and two mock-dynamo backends on loopback and reproduces the overflow cache-thrash scenario for last_cluster_affinity. With the feature on, the session's 10 follow-up requests stay on the overflow cluster; with it off, they return to rank 1. It covers wait-and-widen and pulsar-wait-and-widen and exits non-zero on any mismatch. Refs #2289 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: jcameron <jcameron@nvidia.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe gateway now stores last-cluster hints for eligible sessions and sends them to Stargate. Stargate can classify sessions and apply last-cluster affinity in wait-and-widen and pulsar-wait-and-widen. The change also adds metrics, configuration, tests, benchmarks, and documentation. ChangesGateway last-cluster tracking
Session-aware routing
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant Gateway as StargateProvider
participant Tracker as lastcluster.Tracker
participant Store as lastcluster.Store
participant Router as Stargate
participant Balancer as WaitAndWidenLoadBalancer
Client->>Gateway: Send session request
Gateway->>Tracker: Look up session cluster
Tracker->>Store: Get hashed session key
Store-->>Tracker: Return cluster ID or miss
Gateway->>Router: Forward request with gateway-owned hint
Router->>Balancer: Pass LastClusterHint
Balancer-->>Router: Return selected cluster
Router-->>Gateway: Return response and serving-cluster ID
Gateway->>Tracker: Remember successful response cluster
Tracker->>Store: Set cluster ID with TTL
Gateway-->>Client: Return response
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Last-cluster affinity is opt-in and off by default. The remaining issues affect only test reliability and running the end-to-end script on hosts without shasum. This change is mergeable, preferably after fixing those two items. Pre-merge checks |
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- Around line 312-318: Widen the 25 ms wall-clock limits in both lookup-timeout
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Loosen the wall-clock bounds in the lookup-timeout tests.
Both tests check the 20 ms lookup timeout with a 25 ms wall-clock limit. That leaves only 5 ms for scheduling, span and metric work, and request construction. Under -race or a loaded CI runner, these tests can fail even when Lookup works correctly. The blocked fake store already proves that the request does not wait for Get. A wider bound, such as 200 ms, keeps that guarantee and removes the random failures.
src/invocation-plane-services/llm-api-gateway/lastcluster/tracker_test.go#L312-L318: change theelapsed >= 25*time.Millisecondcheck to a wider bound, such as200*time.Millisecond.src/invocation-plane-services/llm-api-gateway/provider/stargate_last_cluster_test.go#L474-L478: changerequire.Less(t, arrived.Sub(start), 25*time.Millisecond)to the same wider bound.
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Widen the 25 ms wall-clock limits in both lookup-timeout tests to 200 ms while
preserving their existing timeout assertions: in
src/invocation-plane-services/llm-api-gateway/lastcluster/tracker_test.go lines
312-318, update the elapsed check around tracker.Lookup; in
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| printf 'mt:v1:session:%s' "$(printf '%s' "${session_id}" | shasum -a 256 | cut -d' ' -f1)" | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make affinity_key work on hosts without shasum.
affinity_key calls shasum -a 256. The script does not check for shasum, and the usage text does not list it as a requirement. Minimal Linux images often have sha256sum but not shasum. On such a host, the pipeline produces an empty hash. Because the pipeline runs inside a command substitution, set -e does not stop the script. The holder requests then use the wrong affinity key, and the run fails later with a misleading message: "holders did not land on one cluster". Use sha256sum when it exists and fall back to shasum.
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--- "a/src/libraries/rust/stargate/scripts/e2e-last-cluster.sh"
+++ "b/src/libraries/rust/stargate/scripts/e2e-last-cluster.sh"
@@ -235,9 +235,11 @@
esac
}
affinity_key() {
- printf 'mt:v1:session:%s' "$(printf '%s' "${session_id}" | shasum -a 256 | cut -d' ' -f1)"
+ local hasher=(sha256sum)
+ command -v sha256sum >/dev/null || hasher=(shasum -a 256)
+ printf 'mt:v1:session:%s' "$(printf '%s' "${session_id}" | "${hasher[@]}" | cut -d' ' -f1)"
}
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| affinity_key() { | |
| printf 'mt:v1:session:%s' "$(printf '%s' "${session_id}" | shasum -a 256 | cut -d' ' -f1)" | |
| } | |
| affinity_key() { | |
| local hasher=(sha256sum) | |
| command -v sha256sum >/dev/null || hasher=(shasum -a 256) | |
| printf 'mt:v1:session:%s' "$(printf '%s' "${session_id}" | "${hasher[@]}" | cut -d' ' -f1)" | |
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Update affinity_key to use sha256sum when available and fall back to shasum with
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TL;DR
Route returning LLM sessions back to the cluster that served their last
request. The LLM API gateway remembers each session's last
x-stargate-cluster-idand sends it to Stargate asx-stargate-last-cluster-id. With the newlast_cluster_affinityflag onwait-and-widenandpulsar-wait-and-widen, Stargate sends new sessions tothe best cluster that is selectable now (no affinity wait, no prefill
discount) and keeps returning sessions on their last cluster. This also
removes the
pulsar-wait-and-widenshortcut that sent requests to rank 1without a load check when no queue-SLO fields were set.
Additional Details (optional for docs, build, test, refactor, ci, chore, style, and revert PRs)
Why:
it. A returning session's cache is wherever it last ran.
lower-ranked cluster. When rank 1 recovers, the next request goes back to
rank 1 and misses that cache. Under steady load this repeats.
pods. The gateway already sees
x-stargate-cluster-idon every responseand runs an embedded Olric cluster, so it carries the last cluster forward.
Stargate (
src/libraries/rust/stargate):last_cluster_affinityfield (defaultfalse) onwait-and-widenandpulsar-wait-and-widen. Other algorithms fail startup through the existingunsupported-field error, which names the field and the algorithm. Routing
expressions (
x-routing-methodwith;) do not accept it.load-balancer decision. Retries and timed waits keep that classification.
new(no usable header) andstale(header names a cluster outside thecandidate set): affinity wait 0 and discount 1.0 for this request.
Everything else runs as configured.
returning: the last cluster moves to position 1 of the affinity orderfor this request only. The group stays size k. Pulsar widening bands come
from the reordered ranking. Wait, discount, and widening apply as
configured. Per-key ring and ranking caches keep the original order.
through queue admission (
max_queued), the affinity wait, and the discount.x-stargate-*filter, plus explicit tests).
load_balancer/session.rs.http_proxychanges arelimited to header parsing, one call site in
run.rs, and one span field.LLM API gateway (
src/invocation-plane-services/llm-api-gateway,deploy/helm/llm-api-gateway):STARGATE_LAST_CLUSTER_ENABLED(false),STARGATE_LAST_CLUSTER_TTL(10m),STARGATE_LAST_CLUSTER_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT(
20ms),STARGATE_LAST_CLUSTER_LOCAL_MAX_ENTRIES(100000). Exposed asllmApiGateway.config.lastCluster.*in the chart.prompt_cache_key,conversation_id, and thex-multi-turn-session-idheader. Payload-derived and Claude Code headersessions are skipped.
stargate-last-clusterDMap on the embedded Olric node whenOLRIC_ENABLED=true, otherwise an in-process LRU with the same TTL. Keysare
lc:v1:plus a SHA-256 of the length-prefixed routing key, model, andcache affinity key. Values over 256 bytes are not stored.
Complete,Stream, andProxyalways strip an inboundx-stargate-last-cluster-id. Lookups have a hard deadline and never fail arequest. Writes run in the background when 2xx response headers arrive,
before the stream ends. Non-2xx and transport errors never write.
OLRIC_ENABLED=true, not only when therate limiter is on, and the rate limiter and the store share it.
Behavior changes and rollout:
pulsar-wait-and-widenconfigs without queue-SLO fields left at thedefaults (
max_queued: 0,cache_affinity_wait_ms: 0) now overflow as soonas rank 1 has no free engine slot. Before upgrading Stargate, set
max_queuedandcache_affinity_wait_ms, or switch topulsar, to keeprequests on rank 1 under load.
last_cluster_affinityoff. It consumes and ignoresthe header.
STARGATE_LAST_CLUSTER_ENABLED=true.last_cluster_affinityper model. Doing this before step 3 makesevery request
newand drops its affinity wait.olric.enabled=trueand rate limiting off now start anOlric node in the gateway.
Observability:
stargate_routing_session_selections_total(labelsrouting_key,model,algorithm,session_state,selection). All sixstate and selection pairs start at zero for a target on its first
classified selection, since routing key and model are dynamic labels.
routing.session_stateon the proxy request span, and a debug log withrequest ID, model, routing key, state, and whether the last cluster was
promoted.
llm_api_gateway_last_cluster_lookups_total{result},llm_api_gateway_last_cluster_writes_total{result}(pre-initialized), andllm_api_gateway_last_cluster_lookup_duration_seconds(1 ms to 50 msbuckets). Child spans
llm-api-gateway.last_cluster_lookupandllm-api-gateway.last_cluster_writewithresultandnvcf.function.id.Store errors warn with request ID, model, and routing key, never the
affinity key or session ID. Timeout warns are sampled.
Decisions where the issue was open or silent:
primaryfornewandstalemeans the selected cluster came from theaffinity group (
rank_depth <= k).band_widen_interval_msis unset, the Pulsar band interval followsthe request's effective wait, so it is 0 for
newandstale. This makesnew-session decisions equal flag-off decisions at X = 0 and s = 1.0.
returningbut cannot be promoted.skippedlookups are counted only when the feature is on and asession exists but is ineligible. A cancelled client request counts as
timeoutwithout an error status.a best-effort basis; a lost hint costs one affinity miss.
Not in this PR:
and share of returning requests that left their last cluster) through
stargate-benchor the routing simulator. The simulator does not yet passper-session hints.
lastClustervalues into the self-managed stack. The chart exposesthem; the stack keeps the default (off).
For the Reviewer
src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/src/load_balancer/session.rs:classification, promotion, and metrics.
pulsar_wait_and_widen.rsandwait_and_widen.rs: shortcut removal andwhere the session plan feeds the affinity phase.
src/invocation-plane-services/llm-api-gateway/lastcluster/tracker.goandprovider/stargate.go: lookup deadline, header strip order, and writetiming.
server/server.go: Olric node ownership moved out ofnewRateLimiter.in
http_proxy/attempt.rs,routing.rs, andrun.rs(oneLoadBalancerRequestfield, onerecord_session_selectioncall, testliterals). refactor(stargate): centralize request routing #2177 already conflicts with main; whichever merges second ports
these lines. No textual conflict with fix(stargate): expire reservations after backend RTT #2295 or fix(pylon): exclude cached prompt tokens from fallback TPS #2296.
Load-balancer microbenchmark (
stargate-bench lb-microbench, release, 64candidates, 100k iterations, concurrency 1):
pulsar-wait-and-widenabout1.9 us per decision; with a promoting last-cluster hint about 2.2 to 2.5 us.
For reference,
pulsaris about 0.24 us. There is no before number with theshortcut, because main has no
pulsar-wait-and-widenmicrobench scenario.For QA (optional for docs, build, test, refactor, ci, chore, style, and revert PRs)
src/libraries/rust/stargate:cargo test --locked -p stargate --lib: 479 passed.cargo test --locked -p stargate --test stargate_integration: 158 passed,including the cache-thrash regression for both algorithms with the flag
on and off.
cargo test -p stargate-bench -p stargate-routing-sim -p stargate-protocol:passed.
cargo clippy --locked -p stargate -p stargate-bench -p stargate-routing-sim -p stargate-protocol --all-targets -- -D warningsand
cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean.--bin stargatetestoccupied_metrics_port_fails_before_runtime_constructionfails locally on macOS. It fails the same way on main and is unrelated.
src/invocation-plane-services/llm-api-gateway:gofmt,go vet ./...,go test -count=1 ./...(including the Olric clustersuites), and
go test -race -count=3onlastcluster,provider,server, andapi: pass.bazel teston the changed gateway packages:pass.
make -C deploy/helm/llm-api-gateway test lint: pass.src/libraries/rust/stargate/scripts/e2e-last-cluster.shrunsthe gateway against a real Stargate, two Pylons, and two mock-dynamo
backends. Flag on: the first request overflows to B and the next 10 stay on
B. Flag off: the next 10 return to A. Passes for both algorithms.
in an environment, run the validation workload listed under "Not in this
PR".
Issues
Closes #2289
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