fix(dashboard): enforce/document the advised-set cap honestly; cover handle-0 and oversize-read paths

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Joseph Doherty
2026-08-15 12:31:36 -04:00
parent 7c1ea12331
commit 44ca7c8623
3 changed files with 163 additions and 13 deletions
@@ -19,6 +19,16 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataService : IDashboardLiveDataService, IAsync
// One browse page of tags plus headroom. Bounds the standing advise load the
// single dashboard worker carries — and the event churn that advise set feeds —
// however much of a galaxy an operator browses through in one sitting.
//
// The bound is per-read, not absolute: a read may never evict a tag it is itself
// about to return, so a single read of more distinct tags than the cap leaves the
// set that large. The invariant EvictForAsync actually maintains is
//
// |advise set| after a read <= max(MaxSubscribedTags, distinct tags in that read)
//
// and any overshoot is squeezed back out by the next read that subscribes a tag
// (see EvictForAsync). A browse page requests far fewer tags than the cap, so in
// practice the set settles at MaxSubscribedTags.
private const int MaxSubscribedTags = 256;
private static readonly TimeSpan ReadTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5);
@@ -125,6 +135,11 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataService : IDashboardLiveDataService, IAsync
// order). `justReadCount` is how many distinct tags of this read were already
// advised — they now occupy the front of the list and must never be evicted to
// make room for the same read's new tags. Callers must hold _gate.
//
// Every tag of one read is equally recently read; the recency list needs a total
// order anyway, so the whole service uses one tie-break: later in the request wins.
// Promoting in request order gives that here, and TrackSubscribed inserts new tags
// the same way.
private string[] TouchAndCollectNewTags(IReadOnlyCollection<string> tagAddresses, out int justReadCount)
{
int touched = 0;
@@ -161,6 +176,18 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataService : IDashboardLiveDataService, IAsync
// one batch. A failed unadvise must not fail the read: the tags are dropped
// from tracking regardless, and the session-invalidation path already handles
// gateway/worker drift. Callers must hold _gate.
//
// Eviction stops at the tags this read just touched (`justReadCount`), so a read
// whose own distinct tags outnumber the cap ends over it — see MaxSubscribedTags
// for the exact invariant. That overshoot is not sticky: the next read that
// subscribes anything computes `overflow` against the oversized set and evicts the
// whole excess in one pass (a 300-tag set plus one new tag evicts 45 and lands
// back at the cap). A read that subscribes nothing new evicts nothing, but it also
// cannot grow the set.
//
// Cancellation mid-eviction follows this file's policy: OperationCanceledException
// is deliberately not caught here or in ReadAsync, so it propagates with the tags
// already dropped from tracking — the same end state as a failed unadvise.
private async Task EvictForAsync(
GatewaySession session,
int serverHandle,
@@ -227,10 +254,10 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataService : IDashboardLiveDataService, IAsync
}
}
// Inserted back-to-front so the read's first tag ends up most recent.
for (int i = tagAddresses.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
// Request order, so the read's last tag ends up most recent — the same
// tie-break TouchAndCollectNewTags applies to the tags it promotes.
foreach (string tag in tagAddresses)
{
string tag = tagAddresses[i];
handles.TryGetValue(tag, out int itemHandle);
_subscribed[tag] = _recency.AddFirst(new SubscribedTag(tag, itemHandle));
}
@@ -46,12 +46,14 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataServiceTests
await using FakeSessionManager sessionManager = new(worker);
await using DashboardLiveDataService service = CreateService(sessionManager);
// Within one read the last tag counts as most recently read, so filler[0] is
// the tail of the recency list.
string[] filler = CreateTagAddresses(MaxSubscribedTags);
await service.ReadAsync(filler, CancellationToken.None);
// Re-read the tag that is currently least recent, making it most recent: the
// tag read before it is now the eviction candidate.
await service.ReadAsync([filler[^1]], CancellationToken.None);
// Re-read the tail, making it most recent: the tag read before it is now the
// eviction candidate.
await service.ReadAsync([filler[0]], CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Equal(MaxSubscribedTags, worker.SubscribedTags.Count);
DashboardLiveReadResult overflow = await service.ReadAsync(
@@ -59,16 +61,104 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataServiceTests
CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Null(overflow.Error);
Assert.Equal([worker.HandleFor(filler[^2])], worker.UnsubscribedHandles);
Assert.Equal([worker.HandleFor(filler[1])], worker.UnsubscribedHandles);
Assert.Equal("Overflow.PV", worker.SubscribedTags[^1]);
Assert.Equal(MaxSubscribedTags + 1, worker.SubscribedTags.Count);
// The evicted tag is no longer tracked and re-subscribes; the re-read one does not.
await service.ReadAsync([filler[^1], filler[^2]], CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Equal(filler[^2], worker.SubscribedTags[^1]);
await service.ReadAsync([filler[0], filler[1]], CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Equal(filler[1], worker.SubscribedTags[^1]);
Assert.Equal(MaxSubscribedTags + 2, worker.SubscribedTags.Count);
}
/// <summary>
/// Verifies the cap is per-read, not absolute: a single read of more distinct tags
/// than the cap keeps them all (a read never evicts a tag it is about to return),
/// and the next read that subscribes anything squeezes the overshoot back out.
/// </summary>
[Fact]
public async Task ReadAsync_WithMoreDistinctTagsThanCap_KeepsThemAllThenSelfCorrects()
{
RecordingWorkerClient worker = new();
await using FakeSessionManager sessionManager = new(worker);
await using DashboardLiveDataService service = CreateService(sessionManager);
string[] oversize = CreateTagAddresses(300);
DashboardLiveReadResult oversizeResult = await service.ReadAsync(oversize, CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Null(oversizeResult.Error);
Assert.Equal(300, oversizeResult.Values.Count);
Assert.Equal(300, worker.SubscribedTags.Count);
Assert.Empty(worker.UnsubscribedHandles);
// 300 + 1 - 256 = 45 evicted in one pass, landing the set back on the cap.
await service.ReadAsync(["Overflow.PV"], CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Equal(oversize[..45].Select(worker.HandleFor), worker.UnsubscribedHandles);
// Exactly at the cap now: one more new tag evicts exactly one.
worker.UnsubscribedHandles.Clear();
await service.ReadAsync(["Overflow2.PV"], CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Equal([worker.HandleFor(oversize[45])], worker.UnsubscribedHandles);
}
/// <summary>
/// Verifies tags read in the same call are never evicted for each other: a read that
/// touches nearly the whole advise set evicts only the untouched remainder, ends over
/// the cap, and the following read trims it back.
/// </summary>
[Fact]
public async Task ReadAsync_WhenTouchedTagsFillTheCap_EvictsOnlyUntouchedTags()
{
RecordingWorkerClient worker = new();
await using FakeSessionManager sessionManager = new(worker);
await using DashboardLiveDataService service = CreateService(sessionManager);
string[] filler = CreateTagAddresses(MaxSubscribedTags);
await service.ReadAsync(filler, CancellationToken.None);
// 250 already-advised tags + 10 new ones: only the 6 untouched tags are
// evictable, so the set ends at 260.
string[] fresh = CreateTagAddresses(10, "Fresh");
await service.ReadAsync([.. filler[..250], .. fresh], CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Equal(filler[250..].Select(worker.HandleFor), worker.UnsubscribedHandles);
// 260 + 1 - 256 = 5 evicted on the next read that subscribes anything.
worker.UnsubscribedHandles.Clear();
await service.ReadAsync(["Overflow.PV"], CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Equal(5, worker.UnsubscribedHandles.Count);
}
/// <summary>
/// Verifies a tag the worker failed to advise still occupies a slot but is evicted
/// without any unsubscribe command — there is no item handle to unadvise.
/// </summary>
[Fact]
public async Task ReadAsync_WhenAdviseFailed_EvictsTagWithoutUnsubscribing()
{
RecordingWorkerClient worker = new();
worker.FailSubscribeFor.Add("Bad.PV");
await using FakeSessionManager sessionManager = new(worker);
await using DashboardLiveDataService service = CreateService(sessionManager);
// Bad.PV is read first, so it is the least recently read of the batch and the
// first tag evicted.
string[] filler = CreateTagAddresses(MaxSubscribedTags - 1);
await service.ReadAsync(["Bad.PV", .. filler], CancellationToken.None);
DashboardLiveReadResult overflow = await service.ReadAsync(
["Overflow.PV"],
CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Null(overflow.Error);
Assert.Empty(worker.UnsubscribedHandles);
Assert.Equal(0, worker.UnsubscribeCommandCount);
// It was dropped from tracking all the same, so reading it again re-advises it.
await service.ReadAsync(["Bad.PV"], CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Equal("Bad.PV", worker.SubscribedTags[^1]);
}
/// <summary>
/// Verifies a failed unadvise of an evicted tag does not fail the read, and the
/// evicted tag is dropped from tracking anyway.
@@ -92,8 +182,8 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataServiceTests
Assert.Equal(1, sessionManager.OpenCount);
// The evicted tag was dropped from tracking despite the failed unadvise.
await service.ReadAsync([filler[^1]], CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Equal(filler[^1], worker.SubscribedTags[^1]);
await service.ReadAsync([filler[0]], CancellationToken.None);
Assert.Equal(filler[0], worker.SubscribedTags[^1]);
}
private static DashboardLiveDataService CreateService(ISessionManager sessionManager)
@@ -104,12 +194,12 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataServiceTests
NullLogger<DashboardLiveDataService>.Instance);
}
private static string[] CreateTagAddresses(int count)
private static string[] CreateTagAddresses(int count, string prefix = "Tank")
{
string[] addresses = new string[count];
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
addresses[i] = $"Tank_{i:D4}.PV";
addresses[i] = $"{prefix}_{i:D4}.PV";
}
return addresses;
@@ -227,6 +317,12 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataServiceTests
/// <summary>Gets the item handles the dashboard unsubscribed, in order.</summary>
public List<int> UnsubscribedHandles { get; } = [];
/// <summary>Gets the number of unsubscribe commands the dashboard sent.</summary>
public int UnsubscribeCommandCount { get; private set; }
/// <summary>Gets the tag addresses the worker refuses to advise.</summary>
public HashSet<string> FailSubscribeFor { get; } = new(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
/// <summary>Gets or sets a value indicating whether unsubscribe commands throw.</summary>
public bool FailUnsubscribe { get; set; }
@@ -262,6 +358,7 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataServiceTests
reply.SubscribeBulk = Subscribe(mxCommand.SubscribeBulk.TagAddresses);
break;
case MxCommandKind.UnsubscribeBulk:
UnsubscribeCommandCount++;
if (FailUnsubscribe)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException("Simulated worker unsubscribe failure.");
@@ -305,6 +402,19 @@ public sealed class DashboardLiveDataServiceTests
foreach (string tagAddress in tagAddresses)
{
SubscribedTags.Add(tagAddress);
if (FailSubscribeFor.Contains(tagAddress))
{
subscribeReply.Results.Add(new SubscribeResult
{
ServerHandle = RegisteredServerHandle,
TagAddress = tagAddress,
ItemHandle = 0,
WasSuccessful = false,
ErrorMessage = "Simulated advise failure.",
});
continue;
}
if (!_itemHandles.TryGetValue(tagAddress, out int itemHandle))
{
itemHandle = _nextItemHandle++;