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What happened

ReconcileDispatchState was added to the account-selection miss path in 167ae1d. That puts three full database reads plus an account-pool rebuild directly behind live traffic:

  • ListActive
  • ListAccountGroupMemberships
  • ListActiveModelCooldowns
  • a pass over the full runtime account pool

This is a serious production regression. During an upstream overload, many requests miss at the same time. They first wait in the scheduler, then line up behind dispatchReconcileMu. One slow reconciliation turns an upstream incident into an application-wide queue, while /health can remain green because it does not exercise the affected path.

We reproduced this on a pool with roughly 7,000 database rows and 2,000+ loaded accounts. Scheduling time climbed into the 19–28 second range, requests accumulated for more than a minute, and graceful shutdown timed out. There was no panic, OOM, database saturation, or container crash.

A full database reconciliation should never be allowed to serialize the request path.

What this changes

  • starts reconciliation in the background as soon as account selection misses
  • coalesces concurrent misses into one shared reconciliation
  • gives the background run a hard 5-second deadline
  • uses TryLock so no caller queues behind an active reconciliation
  • lets a request wait at most 250ms for a shared run when the scheduler returns immediately
  • retries in-memory selection after the shared run completes
  • makes /health use best-effort TryRLock snapshots so liveness never waits on account locks
  • reports counts_complete=false when health counts are partial instead of hanging

The existing cross-process state repair behavior is preserved. The difference is that a slow database scan can no longer freeze unrelated requests.

Tests

  • async reconciliation still loads accounts added by another process
  • a second reconciliation does not wait behind the active run
  • go test ./...
  • go vet ./...
  • targeted race test for dispatch reconciliation
  • frontend typecheck, tests, and production build

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved account selection after scheduler misses by refreshing dispatch status asynchronously.
    • Prevented concurrent refresh attempts from blocking request handling or duplicating work.
    • Improved retry behavior by briefly waiting for newly available account state.
  • Improvements

    • Made health checks more responsive when account data is busy.
    • Added an indicator showing whether reported account counts are complete.
    • Improved handling of paused, unavailable, and lazily loaded accounts during health checks.

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Dispatch reconciliation now runs asynchronously with single-flight coalescing, throttling, and bounded execution. Account selection waits for reconciliation before limited re-entry. The health endpoint now uses non-blocking counts and reports count completeness.

Changes

Dispatch and health flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reconciliation state and availability contracts
auth/store.go
The store adds explicit reconciliation ownership, bounded execution, error handling, and lock-aware availability helpers.
Asynchronous single-flight reconciliation
auth/store.go, auth/dispatch_reconcile_test.go
Asynchronous triggers coalesce onto active runs, enforce throttling, and signal shared completion. Tests cover loading, concurrency, coalescing, and throttling.
Retry re-entry after reconciliation
proxy/retry_exclusions.go, proxy/retry_reconcile_reentry_test.go
Account selection triggers reconciliation after scheduler misses, waits with timeout or cancellation, and retries selection up to three times.
Non-blocking health counts
auth/store.go, main.go, auth/health_counts_test.go
Health counting avoids busy locks, reports completeness, and exposes counts_complete from /health.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ca3fa

Concurrent account-selection misses may retry before reconciliation has actually finished, allowing stale account state to persist briefly and causing avoidable selection or retry failures. This bounded correctness risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant nextRetryAccount
  participant Store
  participant Reconciliation
  participant AccountSelection
  nextRetryAccount->>Store: trigger asynchronous reconciliation
  Store->>Reconciliation: run or join active reconciliation
  Reconciliation-->>Store: signal completion
  Store-->>nextRetryAccount: return completion or timeout
  nextRetryAccount->>AccountSelection: re-enter selection
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@ImogeneOctaviap794 ImogeneOctaviap794 changed the title fix(dispatch): keep reconciliation off the request path fix(dispatch): keep reconciliation and health off hot locks Aug 18, 2026

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5114-5157: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Tie dispatchReconcileDone to the active reconciliation.

When another ReconcileDispatchState call owns dispatchReconcileMu, the async worker can return through the throttle or TryLock check. finish then closes dispatchReconcileDone before the database scan completes. proxy/retry_exclusions.go may retry selection before the newly loaded account is visible. Coalesce onto the active run’s completion signal and add an interleaving test.

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In `@auth/store.go` around lines 5114 - 5157, Update
TriggerDispatchStateReconcileAsync and the ReconcileDispatchState coordination
so dispatchReconcileDone remains associated with the active reconciliation when
another call already owns dispatchReconcileMu; have the async trigger wait or
coalesce onto that run’s completion signal instead of finishing early. Preserve
single-flight behavior, and add an interleaving test covering a concurrent
ReconcileDispatchState call so retry selection cannot proceed before the account
becomes visible.
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In `@auth/store.go`:
- Around line 5114-5157: Update TriggerDispatchStateReconcileAsync and the
ReconcileDispatchState coordination so dispatchReconcileDone remains associated
with the active reconciliation when another call already owns
dispatchReconcileMu; have the async trigger wait or coalesce onto that run’s
completion signal instead of finishing early. Preserve single-flight behavior,
and add an interleaving test covering a concurrent ReconcileDispatchState call
so retry selection cannot proceed before the account becomes visible.

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Addressed the reconciliation interleaving review in 4eb48a7. The completion channel is now owned by the active run, async triggers coalesce onto it, and the new test covers a direct reconciliation overlapping an async trigger. Full Go tests, targeted race tests, vet, frontend checks, and all PR checks are green.

Review follow-ups on the async reconciliation rework:

- A request that misses now re-enters the full selection loop (including
  the availability wait) once the shared background reconciliation
  completes, instead of getting a single immediate re-check. A repaired
  pool no longer drops the rest of a concurrent burst; re-entries are
  capped and a canceled context exits the loop promptly.
- TriggerDispatchStateReconcileAsync returns nil inside the throttle
  window, so callers skip the grace wait instead of receiving an
  instantly-closed channel, and no throwaway goroutine is spawned.
- The grace wait grows from 250ms to 2s: waiting on the single-flight
  channel never queues work, it only spends the request's own latency,
  so it can cover a realistic full-pool scan.
- The background scan deadline grows from 5s to 30s. This is the only
  runtime path that picks up cross-process account changes; a scan that
  always times out would starve that pickup forever.
- ListActiveModelCooldowns errors abort the reconcile instead of loading
  new accounts without their persisted model cooldowns.
- HealthCountsNonBlocking honors lazy mode via the shared
  lazySelectableLocked helper, so refresh-token-only pools no longer
  report zero available accounts.
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Reviewed with multi-pass adversarial analysis. The direction is right and the single-flight/done-channel mechanics verified clean under -race, but the rework dropped one behavior from main that matters in exactly the scenario this PR targets, so I pushed review fixes in ca3fa9b:

Queueing loss on burst recovery (the main fix). On main, changed → continue re-entered the full loop after a reconcile, so when a repaired pool exposed one new candidate, the losers of the first grab fell into the 30s availability wait and recovered. This branch gave them exactly one immediate Next re-check inside the 250ms grace; requests with empty soft-exclusions then failed outright — one restored account, one winner, and the rest of the burst got errors. The grace wait now re-enters the full selection loop after the shared reconcile completes (capped re-entries + explicit ctx.Err() exits keep it bounded), which restores the old recovery semantics without ever queueing work behind the DB scan.

Supporting changes:

  • TriggerDispatchStateReconcileAsync returns nil inside the 1s throttle window (callers skip the grace wait; no throwaway goroutine per miss).
  • Grace 250ms → 2s: waiting on the single-flight channel costs only the request's own latency, and a full-pool scan on the deployments this PR describes routinely exceeds 250ms.
  • Scan deadline 5s → 30s: this is the only runtime path that picks up cross-process account changes; a scan that always times out would starve that pickup permanently.
  • ListActiveModelCooldowns failures now abort the run instead of admitting new accounts without their persisted cooldowns.
  • HealthCountsNonBlocking honors lazy mode (refresh-token-only pools reported available: 0).

All existing tests plus new coverage (loop re-entry end-to-end, canceled-context prompt exit, throttled trigger, lazy/paused health counts) pass under -race. Thanks for the thorough writeup and repro numbers — the diagnosis itself was solid.

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james-6-23 merged commit 97dac72 into james-6-23:main Aug 18, 2026
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