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kevy_store/
expire.rs

1//! Active TTL reaper — Redis's `activeExpireCycle`, adapted to the
2//! thread-per-core / single-shard `Store`.
3//!
4//! Lazy expiry (in `live_entry[_mut]`) still handles the common case where
5//! the next access to a TTL'd key removes it. The active reaper exists for
6//! the harder case: a key has TTL but is never touched again, so without an
7//! explicit sweep it would sit in the map until the next FLUSH or eviction.
8//!
9//! Entry point: [`Store::tick_expire`]. The shard runtime calls it at the
10//! configured `[expiry].hz` cadence (default 10 Hz / every 100 ms);
11//! embedded users without a runtime call it themselves from whatever event
12//! loop they have (mandatory for WASM, which has no threads).
13
14#[cfg(not(feature = "std"))]
15use crate::nostd_prelude::*;
16use crate::{Store, now_ns};
17
18/// What [`Store::tick_expire`] saw and did. Surfaced for tests, INFO
19/// keyspace, and (eventually) Wave 2 task #4's crash-safe verifier.
20#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
21pub struct ExpireStats {
22    /// Total TTL-bearing keys sampled across all rounds.
23    pub sampled: u32,
24    /// How many of those were past their deadline and got removed.
25    pub expired: u32,
26    /// Rounds executed before the loop exited (either `max_rounds` reached
27    /// or in-batch expire-rate dropped below the continuation threshold).
28    pub rounds: u32,
29}
30
31/// Continuation threshold: when an in-batch expire-rate is above this
32/// percentage, run another round (the keyspace is "expiry-heavy"). Mirrors
33/// Redis's 25% from `activeExpireCycle`.
34const EXPIRE_RATE_CONTINUATION: u32 = 25;
35
36/// Sample a single round of up to `samples` TTL-bearing keys starting at a
37/// random bucket; remove any that are past their deadline. Returns
38/// `(sampled, expired)` counts for this round. Walking is `O(visited)` —
39/// bounded by `2 * map.capacity()` to keep a sparsely-populated table from
40/// spinning the inner scan forever.
41pub(crate) fn sample_round(store: &mut Store, samples: usize, now: u64) -> (u32, u32) {
42    let cap = store.map.capacity();
43    if cap == 0 || store.map.is_empty() {
44        return (0, 0);
45    }
46    // Random start derived from the access-ordinal clock; Fibonacci-hash
47    // multiplier shifts the sampling window every call so we don't re-visit
48    // the same bucket range twice in a row. (No-quality PRNG needed for
49    // sampling, just want to spread starting positions.)
50    store.clock_counter = store.clock_counter.wrapping_add(1);
51    let start = (store
52        .clock_counter
53        .wrapping_mul(0x9E37_79B9_7F4A_7C15) as usize)
54        % cap;
55    let (sampled, victims) = collect_victims(store, samples, now, start);
56    let expired = victims.len() as u32;
57    for k in &victims {
58        store.note_expired(k);
59        store.remove_entry(k);
60    }
61    // Active-expire-driven removals are still expirations from the shard's
62    // perspective — surface them under the same counter `MEMORY STATS` /
63    // `INFO memory` already exposes.
64    if expired > 0 {
65        store.expired_keys_total = store
66            .expired_keys_total
67            .saturating_add(u64::from(expired));
68    }
69    (sampled, expired)
70}
71
72/// The sampling walk of [`sample_round`]: visit up to `8 * samples` buckets
73/// from `start`, sample up to `samples` TTL-bearing keys, and return
74/// `(sampled, past-deadline victim keys)`.
75///
76/// Single-pass walk from `start`, bounded in *visited entries*, not just
77/// in TTL-bearing samples: without the bound, a keyspace with few (or
78/// zero) TTL'd keys made every round walk to the end of the table
79/// looking for them — measured at 6 % of server CPU on a 300k-key
80/// TTL-free shard under a pinned 8-shard profile, for a reaper
81/// with nothing to reap. With it, a TTL-free round costs O(samples)
82/// buckets; sparse-TTL keyspaces sample fewer keys per round and rely
83/// on the rotating random start (plus lazy expiry) for coverage —
84/// the same time-boxing trade Redis's activeExpireCycle makes.
85fn collect_victims(
86    store: &Store,
87    samples: usize,
88    now: u64,
89    start: usize,
90) -> (u32, Vec<Vec<u8>>) {
91    let mut victims: Vec<Vec<u8>> = Vec::with_capacity(samples);
92    let mut sampled = 0u32;
93    let visit_cap = samples.saturating_mul(8);
94    let mut visited = 0usize;
95    for (k, e) in store.map.iter_from_bucket(start) {
96        visited += 1;
97        if sampled as usize >= samples || visited > visit_cap {
98            break;
99        }
100        let Some(deadline_ns) = e.expire_at_ns else {
101            continue;
102        };
103        sampled += 1;
104        if deadline_ns.get() <= now {
105            victims.push(k.to_vec());
106        }
107    }
108    (sampled, victims)
109}
110
111impl Store {
112    /// Run up to `max_rounds` of active-expiry sampling against this shard.
113    ///
114    /// Per round: sample `samples_per_round` TTL-bearing keys at random and
115    /// drop any whose deadline has passed. Stop early as soon as the
116    /// in-batch expire-rate drops below 25 % (Redis's `activeExpireCycle`
117    /// continuation threshold) — that's the signal the keyspace doesn't
118    /// have a "thick band" of expired keys to clean up right now.
119    ///
120    /// Cost when there are no TTL-bearing keys at all: one map-emptiness
121    /// check + a single bucket-iter probe per round. Designed so the active
122    /// reaper is never a tax on TTL-free workloads.
123    pub fn tick_expire(&mut self, samples_per_round: usize, max_rounds: u32) -> ExpireStats {
124        // Refresh the coarse cached clock every tick (the read path's lazy
125        // expiry compares against it) — even when there's nothing to reap.
126        self.refresh_clock();
127        // Skip the sampling loop entirely when no key
128        // carries a TTL. `expires` is the O(1)-maintained count of
129        // TTL-bearing keys (incremented/decremented in `adjust_expires`).
130        // The standard redis-benchmark workload sets no TTLs, so
131        // `expires == 0` is the common case — saving up to `max_rounds *
132        // samples_per_round` probe lookups per tick (~256 at the default
133        // 16×16 budget). For TTL-bearing workloads (cache patterns) this
134        // adds one comparison; the bigger "splay / skip-list" reaper
135        // structure that the task entry mentioned would only beat the
136        // current random-sample algorithm at very high TTL fractions,
137        // and is left as a future workload-driven follow-up.
138        if samples_per_round == 0
139            || max_rounds == 0
140            || self.map.is_empty()
141            || self.expires == 0
142        {
143            return ExpireStats::default();
144        }
145        self.run_expire_rounds(samples_per_round, max_rounds)
146    }
147
148    /// The round loop of [`Self::tick_expire`]: run [`sample_round`] up to
149    /// `max_rounds` times, stopping early on the 25 % continuation gate or
150    /// after 3 consecutive zero-sample rounds.
151    fn run_expire_rounds(&mut self, samples_per_round: usize, max_rounds: u32) -> ExpireStats {
152        let now = now_ns();
153        let mut total_sampled = 0u32;
154        let mut total_expired = 0u32;
155        let mut rounds = 0u32;
156        // Single-pass sample_round can return sampled=0 when the random
157        // start lands in an empty bucket region (sparse tables / unlucky
158        // starts). Allow 3 consecutive zero-sample rounds before declaring
159        // the keyspace TTL-free this tick, so a small table doesn't miss
160        // its expired keys for several ticks.
161        let mut consecutive_zero = 0u32;
162        for _ in 0..max_rounds {
163            let (sampled, expired) = sample_round(self, samples_per_round, now);
164            rounds += 1;
165            total_sampled = total_sampled.saturating_add(sampled);
166            total_expired = total_expired.saturating_add(expired);
167            if sampled == 0 {
168                consecutive_zero += 1;
169                if consecutive_zero >= 3 {
170                    break;
171                }
172                continue;
173            }
174            consecutive_zero = 0;
175            // Continuation gate: only push another round if THIS round was
176            // expiry-heavy. A round that finds nothing expired-enough exits.
177            if expired * 100 < sampled * EXPIRE_RATE_CONTINUATION {
178                break;
179            }
180        }
181        ExpireStats {
182            sampled: total_sampled,
183            expired: total_expired,
184            rounds,
185        }
186    }
187
188    /// Total keys expired (by lazy reap OR active reaper). Surfaced via
189    /// `INFO keyspace` and `MEMORY STATS` once those grow the field.
190    #[inline]
191    pub fn expired_keys_total(&self) -> u64 {
192        self.expired_keys_total
193    }
194}
195
196#[cfg(test)]
197mod tests {
198    use super::*;
199    use crate::value::SmallBytes;
200    use core::time::Duration;
201
202    #[test]
203    fn tick_expire_drops_past_deadline() {
204        let mut s = Store::new();
205        s.set(b"k1", b"v".to_vec(), Some(Duration::from_millis(1)), false, false);
206        s.set(b"k2", b"v".to_vec(), Some(Duration::from_millis(1)), false, false);
207        s.set(b"perm", b"v".to_vec(), None, false, false);
208        // Two flake sources, both observed on virtualized CI runners:
209        // a single tick may legitimately miss a key (the sampling walk is
210        // time-boxed with a rotating start — the a635d65 trade; coverage
211        // comes from repeated ticks), and on a starved macOS VM the
212        // monotonic clock (`Instant`, mach_absolute_time) can advance far
213        // slower than the wall-clock `sleep`, so a 1 ms deadline may not
214        // have passed yet. Sleep-and-tick until converged (bounded), like
215        // the production reaper drives it — the eventual contract.
216        for _ in 0..500 {
217            s.tick_expire(20, 16);
218            if s.dbsize() == 1 {
219                break;
220            }
221            std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
222        }
223        assert_eq!(s.dbsize(), 1, "perm survives, both TTL'd keys reaped");
224        assert!(s.expired_keys_total() >= 2);
225    }
226
227    #[test]
228    fn tick_expire_no_op_on_fresh_ttls() {
229        let mut s = Store::new();
230        s.set(b"k1", b"v".to_vec(), Some(Duration::from_hours(1)), false, false);
231        s.set(b"k2", b"v".to_vec(), Some(Duration::from_hours(1)), false, false);
232        let stats = s.tick_expire(20, 16);
233        assert_eq!(stats.expired, 0, "no fresh TTL should expire");
234        // sampled may be 0..=2 depending on how many our walk hit
235        assert_eq!(s.dbsize(), 2);
236    }
237
238    #[test]
239    fn tick_expire_no_op_on_ttl_free_keyspace() {
240        let mut s = Store::new();
241        for i in 0..50 {
242            s.set(format!("k{i}").as_bytes(), b"v".to_vec(), None, false, false);
243        }
244        let stats = s.tick_expire(20, 16);
245        assert_eq!(stats.expired, 0);
246        assert_eq!(stats.sampled, 0, "no TTL'd keys ⇒ nothing sampled");
247        // Loop tolerates up to 3 consecutive zero-sample rounds (the
248        // unlucky-start guard) before exiting, so a TTL-free keyspace
249        // costs at most 3 cheap bucket-iter passes per tick.
250        assert!(stats.rounds <= 3, "got {}", stats.rounds);
251    }
252
253    #[test]
254    fn tick_expire_zero_args_short_circuit() {
255        let mut s = Store::new();
256        s.set(b"k", b"v".to_vec(), Some(Duration::from_millis(1)), false, false);
257        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(5));
258        assert_eq!(s.tick_expire(0, 16), ExpireStats::default());
259        assert_eq!(s.tick_expire(20, 0), ExpireStats::default());
260        // store still has the expired key (active reaper disabled).
261        assert_eq!(s.dbsize(), 1);
262    }
263
264    #[test]
265    fn tick_expire_loops_on_heavy_batch() {
266        let mut s = Store::new();
267        // 40 TTL'd keys (all expired) + 1 perm. A single tick samples from
268        // a random bucket window, so we may need several ticks for full
269        // coverage of a 40-key keyspace — that matches how `activeExpire`
270        // converges in production (10 ticks/sec until everything's cleaned).
271        for i in 0..40 {
272            s.set(
273                format!("k{i}").as_bytes(),
274                b"v".to_vec(),
275                Some(Duration::from_millis(1)),
276                false,
277                false,
278            );
279        }
280        s.set(b"perm", b"v".to_vec(), None, false, false);
281        // Sleep-and-tick until converged: on a starved CI VM the monotonic
282        // clock can lag the wall-clock sleep, so a fixed pre-sleep + a
283        // bounded dry tick loop under-counts (see
284        // tick_expire_drops_past_deadline).
285        let mut total_expired = 0u32;
286        let mut any_round_ge_2 = false;
287        for _ in 0..500 {
288            let stats = s.tick_expire(20, 16);
289            total_expired += stats.expired;
290            if stats.rounds >= 2 {
291                any_round_ge_2 = true;
292            }
293            if s.dbsize() == 1 {
294                break;
295            }
296            std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
297        }
298        assert_eq!(total_expired, 40);
299        assert!(any_round_ge_2, "at least one heavy-batch tick should loop");
300        assert_eq!(s.dbsize(), 1);
301        let _ = SmallBytes::from_slice(b"k0"); // touch SmallBytes import
302    }
303}