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//! [`L1Cache`] — a `DashMap`-backed, TTL'd, cache-aside wrapper over a store.
use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering};
use std::sync::Arc;
use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
use aa_core::storage::Result;
use dashmap::mapref::entry::Entry;
use dashmap::DashMap;
use tokio::sync::Notify;
use crate::cached_value::CachedValue;
use crate::source::CacheSource;
/// In-process L1 cache that fronts a [`CacheSource`] with a [`DashMap`].
///
/// `get` serves fresh keys from memory and falls back to the wrapped store on a
/// miss or once an entry's TTL elapses, repopulating the cache on the way out
/// (cache-aside). Concurrent misses for the same key collapse to a single
/// `load` call (stampede protection), so a burst of cold lookups never fans out
/// into N backend round-trips.
pub struct L1Cache<S: CacheSource> {
inner: S,
entries: Arc<DashMap<S::Key, CachedValue<S::Value>>>,
inflight: Arc<DashMap<S::Key, Arc<Notify>>>,
/// Monotonic invalidation counter, bumped by every [`invalidate`](Self::invalidate).
/// A leader snapshots it before loading and refuses to cache its result if the
/// counter moved during the load window, so a push-invalidation that races an
/// in-flight load is never silently lost (see AAASM-3985).
epoch: AtomicU64,
ttl: Duration,
/// Upper bound on the number of live entries. Once an insert pushes the map
/// past this, [`enforce_capacity`](Self::enforce_capacity) drops expired
/// entries first, then the oldest-by-insertion entries, so the cache can
/// never grow without bound (AAASM-3997).
max_entries: usize,
}
/// Default entry ceiling for [`L1Cache::new`]. Large enough to be a no-op for
/// realistic agent populations, small enough to bound memory if a caller never
/// invalidates and the key space is effectively unbounded.
const DEFAULT_MAX_ENTRIES: usize = 100_000;
impl<S: CacheSource> L1Cache<S> {
/// Wrap `inner`, expiring cached entries `ttl` after insertion, with the
/// default entry ceiling ([`DEFAULT_MAX_ENTRIES`]).
pub fn new(inner: S, ttl: Duration) -> Self {
Self::with_max_entries(inner, ttl, DEFAULT_MAX_ENTRIES)
}
/// Like [`new`](Self::new) but with an explicit maximum live-entry count.
///
/// `max_entries` is clamped to at least 1 so the cache always retains the
/// entry it just loaded.
pub fn with_max_entries(inner: S, ttl: Duration, max_entries: usize) -> Self {
Self {
inner,
entries: Arc::new(DashMap::new()),
inflight: Arc::new(DashMap::new()),
epoch: AtomicU64::new(0),
ttl,
max_entries: max_entries.max(1),
}
}
/// Borrow the wrapped store.
pub fn inner(&self) -> &S {
&self.inner
}
/// Number of entries currently held (including any past their TTL but not
/// yet evicted). Intended for diagnostics, not control flow.
#[must_use]
pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
self.entries.len()
}
/// Whether the cache holds no entries.
#[must_use]
pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
self.entries.is_empty()
}
/// Drop every cached entry.
pub fn clear(&self) {
self.entries.clear();
}
/// Drop the cached entry for `key`; returns whether one was present.
///
/// This is the hook the Epic C push-invalidation channel calls when the
/// Gateway reports that an agent's policy changed: the next `get` reloads
/// from the source of truth rather than serving a stale entry.
pub fn invalidate(&self, key: &S::Key) -> bool {
// Bump the epoch *before* removing. A concurrent leader load that
// snapshotted the old epoch will fail its post-load check and discard
// its now-stale value; and because the leader commits its insert under
// the same shard lock that `remove` takes, the bump-then-remove here is
// ordered against the check-then-insert there — the eviction can't be
// lost to a racing insert (AAASM-3985).
self.epoch.fetch_add(1, Ordering::AcqRel);
self.entries.remove(key).is_some()
}
/// Bound the live-entry count at [`max_entries`](Self::max_entries),
/// evicting when an insert pushes the map over the ceiling (AAASM-3997).
///
/// Eviction is a pure size-management concern, independent of the
/// invalidation epoch: removing a cached entry is always safe (the worst
/// case is a subsequent miss that reloads from the source of truth), so this
/// never races the epoch/guarded-insert logic. It must be called *without*
/// holding any `entries` shard guard to avoid a DashMap self-deadlock.
fn enforce_capacity(&self) {
if self.entries.len() <= self.max_entries {
return;
}
// Cheap first pass: drop entries already past their TTL (they are misses
// anyway) before resorting to age-based eviction of live entries.
self.entries.retain(|_, value| !value.is_expired(self.ttl));
let len = self.entries.len();
if len <= self.max_entries {
return;
}
// Still over budget: evict the oldest-by-insertion entries. Snapshot the
// (inserted_at, key) pairs, sort ascending, and remove the excess.
let mut stamped: Vec<(Instant, S::Key)> = self
.entries
.iter()
.map(|entry| (entry.value().inserted_at, entry.key().clone()))
.collect();
stamped.sort_by_key(|(inserted_at, _)| *inserted_at);
for (_, key) in stamped.into_iter().take(len - self.max_entries) {
self.entries.remove(&key);
}
}
/// Return a fresh (non-expired) cached value for `key`, if present.
fn fresh(&self, key: &S::Key) -> Option<S::Value> {
let entry = self.entries.get(key)?;
if entry.is_expired(self.ttl) {
None
} else {
Some(entry.value.clone())
}
}
/// Fetch the value for `key`, serving from cache when fresh.
///
/// Cache-aside: a hit clones out of the `DashMap`; a miss (or an expired
/// entry) loads from the wrapped store, populates the cache, and returns.
///
/// Stampede protection: the first caller to miss a key becomes the *leader*
/// and performs the single `load`; concurrent callers become *followers*,
/// wait on a shared [`Notify`], then re-read the now-populated cache. The
/// inner store therefore sees exactly one call per key per miss window.
pub async fn get(&self, key: S::Key) -> Result<S::Value> {
loop {
// Fast path: a fresh cache hit needs no coordination.
if let Some(value) = self.fresh(&key) {
return Ok(value);
}
// Miss: claim leadership for this key, or grab the in-flight signal.
let follower = match self.inflight.entry(key.clone()) {
Entry::Vacant(slot) => {
slot.insert(Arc::new(Notify::new()));
None
}
Entry::Occupied(slot) => Some(slot.get().clone()),
};
match follower {
// Leader: load once, populate, then wake every waiter.
None => {
// Snapshot the invalidation epoch before the load so a push
// `invalidate` that lands mid-load is detected below.
let epoch_before = self.epoch.load(Ordering::Acquire);
let result = self.inner.load(&key).await;
let mut inserted = false;
if let Ok(ref value) = result {
// Commit under the key's shard lock, and only if no
// invalidation raced the load. Holding the entry guard
// serializes this check-and-insert against `invalidate`'s
// `remove`, so a concurrent eviction is never lost: either
// we observe the bumped epoch and skip the insert, or the
// remove runs after us and drops the entry we just wrote.
// The guard is confined to this inner block so it is
// dropped before `enforce_capacity` touches the map.
{
let entry = self.entries.entry(key.clone());
if self.epoch.load(Ordering::Acquire) == epoch_before {
match entry {
Entry::Occupied(mut occupied) => {
occupied.insert(CachedValue::new(value.clone()));
}
Entry::Vacant(vacant) => {
vacant.insert(CachedValue::new(value.clone()));
}
}
inserted = true;
}
}
}
// Bound the cache size once the shard guard is released
// (AAASM-3997). Only meaningful after a real insert.
if inserted {
self.enforce_capacity();
}
if let Some((_, notify)) = self.inflight.remove(&key) {
notify.notify_waiters();
}
return result;
}
// Follower: wait for the leader, then retry the loop.
Some(notify) => {
let waiter = notify.notified();
tokio::pin!(waiter);
// Register before re-checking the cache so the leader's
// notification can't be missed (tokio::sync::Notify pattern):
// the leader always populates `entries` before notifying, so
// either the re-check sees the value or the wait is woken.
waiter.as_mut().enable();
if let Some(value) = self.fresh(&key) {
return Ok(value);
}
waiter.await;
}
}
}
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use std::time::Duration;
use aa_core::storage::AgentId;
use crate::testing::{sample_policy, MemoryPolicyStore};
use crate::L1Cache;
fn agent(seed: u8) -> AgentId {
AgentId::from_bytes([seed; 16])
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn miss_populates_then_serves_from_cache() {
let id = agent(1);
let store = MemoryPolicyStore::with_policy(id, sample_policy(1));
let cache = L1Cache::new(store, Duration::from_secs(60));
// First get is a miss: hits the store and populates the cache.
let first = cache.get(id).await.expect("policy present");
assert_eq!(first.version, 1);
assert_eq!(cache.inner().call_count(), 1);
assert_eq!(cache.len(), 1);
// Second get is a hit: served from memory, the store is not touched again.
let second = cache.get(id).await.expect("policy present");
assert_eq!(second.version, 1);
assert_eq!(cache.inner().call_count(), 1);
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn expired_entry_is_treated_as_a_miss() {
let id = agent(2);
let store = MemoryPolicyStore::with_policy(id, sample_policy(1));
let cache = L1Cache::new(store, Duration::from_millis(20));
cache.get(id).await.expect("policy present");
assert_eq!(cache.inner().call_count(), 1);
// Let the entry age past its TTL; the next get must reload from the store.
tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(40)).await;
cache.get(id).await.expect("policy present");
assert_eq!(cache.inner().call_count(), 2);
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn invalidate_evicts_the_cached_entry() {
let id = agent(3);
let store = MemoryPolicyStore::with_policy(id, sample_policy(1));
let cache = L1Cache::new(store, Duration::from_secs(60));
cache.get(id).await.expect("policy present");
assert_eq!(cache.len(), 1);
// Invalidate removes the entry and reports it was present.
assert!(cache.invalidate(&id));
assert_eq!(cache.len(), 0);
// Invalidating the now-absent key reports nothing was removed.
assert!(!cache.invalidate(&id));
// The next get is a fresh miss that reloads from the store.
cache.get(id).await.expect("policy present");
assert_eq!(cache.inner().call_count(), 2);
}
#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
async fn invalidate_during_load_is_not_lost() {
use std::sync::Arc;
let id = agent(5);
// A 50ms inner delay holds the leader inside `load` long enough for the
// racing `invalidate` below to land in the middle of the load window.
let store = MemoryPolicyStore::with_policy(id, sample_policy(1)).with_delay(Duration::from_millis(50));
let cache = Arc::new(L1Cache::new(store, Duration::from_secs(60)));
// Leader begins a miss and is now sleeping inside `load`.
let leader = {
let cache = Arc::clone(&cache);
tokio::spawn(async move { cache.get(id).await })
};
// Let the leader enter `load`, then invalidate while it is in flight.
// `entries` is still empty, so the old code's `remove` was a silent
// no-op and the leader would go on to cache the value it is loading.
tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20)).await;
assert!(!cache.invalidate(&id));
// The leader still returns the value it loaded, but must NOT have cached
// it: the invalidation raced its load and takes precedence.
leader.await.expect("task joined").expect("policy present");
assert_eq!(
cache.len(),
0,
"stale value must not be cached after a racing invalidate"
);
assert_eq!(cache.inner().call_count(), 1);
// Because nothing was cached, the next get is a fresh miss that reloads
// from the source of truth rather than serving the stale entry.
cache.get(id).await.expect("policy present");
assert_eq!(cache.inner().call_count(), 2);
assert_eq!(cache.len(), 1);
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn cache_is_bounded_by_max_entries() {
// AAASM-3997: without a bound the L1 map grew once per distinct key and
// never shrank. With a ceiling of 2, loading 5 distinct keys must leave
// at most 2 resident, and the most-recently loaded key stays cached.
let mut store = MemoryPolicyStore::new();
for seed in 0..5u8 {
store.insert(agent(seed), sample_policy(u32::from(seed)));
}
let cache = L1Cache::with_max_entries(store, Duration::from_secs(60), 2);
for seed in 0..5u8 {
cache.get(agent(seed)).await.expect("policy present");
}
assert!(cache.len() <= 2, "cache grew past its ceiling: {} entries", cache.len());
// The newest key was loaded last, so it survived eviction: serving it is
// a hit that does not touch the store again.
let calls_before = cache.inner().call_count();
cache.get(agent(4)).await.expect("policy present");
assert_eq!(
cache.inner().call_count(),
calls_before,
"the most-recently loaded key should still be cached"
);
}
#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 4)]
async fn concurrent_misses_collapse_to_one_load() {
use std::sync::Arc;
let id = agent(4);
// A 50ms inner delay holds the leader long enough for all followers to
// pile up behind it before it finishes loading.
let store = MemoryPolicyStore::with_policy(id, sample_policy(7)).with_delay(Duration::from_millis(50));
let cache = Arc::new(L1Cache::new(store, Duration::from_secs(60)));
// Fire 100 concurrent gets for the same cold key.
let mut handles = Vec::with_capacity(100);
for _ in 0..100 {
let cache = Arc::clone(&cache);
handles.push(tokio::spawn(async move { cache.get(id).await }));
}
for handle in handles {
let policy = handle.await.expect("task joined").expect("policy present");
assert_eq!(policy.version, 7);
}
// Every miss collapsed onto a single inner load.
assert_eq!(cache.inner().call_count(), 1);
}
}