Task manager: release task locks on stop, recheck claims held elsewhere
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A cluster rehearsal (PostgreSQL + NATS) left index tasks pending well
past the one-hour task lock after the node that claimed them was stopped
or killed. The exact cause there isn't confirmed; this closes every path
found in the task manager that stretches a takeover past the lock, or
keeps a task claimed without running it:

- A graceful stop never released the locks it held, so every task the
  node had claimed stayed blocked for an hour. The server now tracks the
  locks it holds (common::ipc::TaskLocks) and, once the shutdown signal
  arrives, stops claiming and releases them before exiting.
- A node that failed to claim a task (another node held it) set its own
  local hold for a full lock lifetime from that scan. If the holder
  claimed it just after the scan began, or ran on a clock ahead, that
  hold ran out a moment before the lock did and was set for another
  hour: two hours in all. Such claims are now tried again every five
  minutes (a twelfth of the lock lifetime), and the task manager wakes
  up for them: before, a node without a coordinator could sleep up to
  five minutes past the recheck, or until something else woke it.
- A worker that panicked took its task type down on that node for good,
  while the scan kept claiming that type's tasks and failing to hand them
  over, re-taking each lock as it expired and so starving every other
  node of them. Each batch now runs on a task of its own; a panic is
  logged, the batch's locks are released and the worker carries on. A
  failed hand-over releases the lock too.
- A claimed task the worker couldn't read, or found gone, kept its lock
  for the hour. It is released.
- An IndexDocument task for a file (not indexed) returned no result,
  which shifted every later result in the batch onto the wrong task in
  update_tasks. It returns Ignored. Nothing queues such a task today.

The lock lifetime stays one hour; it now lives per server so the tests
can shorten it.

store::task_locks::task_lock_tests plays a second node by writing its
locks straight into the in-memory store: tasks it claimed and abandoned
run here once its locks expire, including locks that outlive this node's
view of them, and a graceful stop hands this node's locks back at once
and claims nothing more. It passes on RocksDB, SQLite and PostgreSQL.
With the old recheck it fails.
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2026-09-24 08:19:05 -07:00
parent 7109e67f07
commit 7c80a12d75
10 changed files with 489 additions and 144 deletions
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@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
* SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Stalwart Labs LLC <[email protected]>
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-SEL
*
* Modified by Coffey Labs in 2026 for INBUXA.
*/
use crate::task_manager::*;
@@ -13,13 +15,21 @@ pub trait TaskLockManager: Sync + Send {
impl TaskLockManager for Server {
async fn try_lock_task(&self, id: u64) -> bool {
// inbuxa: a node that is stopping claims nothing new
let locks = &self.inner.ipc.task_locks;
if locks.is_stopping() {
return false;
}
match self
.in_memory_store()
.try_lock(KV_LOCK_TASK, &id.to_be_bytes(), DEFAULT_LOCK_EXPIRY)
.try_lock(KV_LOCK_TASK, &id.to_be_bytes(), locks.expiry())
.await
{
Ok(result) => {
if !result {
if result {
locks.insert(id);
} else {
trc::event!(
TaskManager(TaskManagerEvent::TaskLocked),
Id = id,
@@ -48,5 +58,27 @@ impl TaskLockManager for Server {
.caused_by(trc::location!())
);
}
self.inner.ipc.task_locks.remove(id);
}
}
/// inbuxa: on a graceful stop, stops claiming tasks and releases every task
/// lock this node holds, so the rest of the cluster can pick the tasks up at
/// once instead of after the lock expires. Returns how many were released.
pub async fn release_task_locks(server: &Server) -> usize {
let ids = server.inner.ipc.task_locks.stop();
for id in &ids {
if let Err(err) = server
.in_memory_store()
.remove_lock(KV_LOCK_TASK, &id.to_be_bytes())
.await
{
trc::error!(
err.details("Failed to release task lock on shutdown")
.ctx(trc::Key::Id, *id)
.caused_by(trc::location!())
);
}
}
ids.len()
}