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A red merge batch is searched by disjoint halves, never by nested prefixes holding the same suspects #6373
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Understood. I'm leaving #6353 alone until it's reopened.
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Understood. I'm leaving #6353 alone until it's reopened.
The work is already pushed on scout/6353-a-red-merge-batch-is-searched-by-disjoin and I'm not adding to it. When the issue is reopened, the branch and its description are still valid. The change is in src/checks/queue.ts, plus tests in test/merge-queue-search.test.ts, test/merge-queue-parallel.test.ts and test/merge-queue.test.ts.
If the pull is still open and its preview deploys or checks are adding load while the forge drains, a person can close or hold it. I haven't touched it and won't.
The search now gates disjoint sets of pulls, which is what #6353 asked for, and the new test proves it. But it also gates more often than before. That works against #5994, the lockup this was meant to fix, and against FLOW ONLY. Two things make it worse:
- Fix this first. When no check slot is free and the front half is green, the old code landed the front half and gave the back half
known = { treeOid: candidate.treeOid, red }. Built on top of the landed front half, the back half has the whole candidate's tree, so its known red verdict was reused and it was not gated again. The new code passestreeOid: ""(queue.ts:854), so the back half is always gated again: one extra 412 s gate per red batch, and on a clogged forge this is the most common path. The case where every segment is green (gates[0] lands, the rest are built on it) also produces the whole candidate's tree. Pass{ treeOid: candidate.treeOid, red }there. - A green segment that comes before the red one is never landed (queue.ts:859). Segment 0 was built and gated on the base alone, so it is safe to land exactly as it was gated. The issue's Done list says "a green half still lands". Instead it waits and is gated again in the next candidate. Land
gates[0]when it is green andbad > 0, then search the red segment on top of it. The red segment's tree changes then, so it gets gated again; that is still one gate fewer than what the pull does now. The rest wait as they do now.
The existing tests were relaxed to accept these extra gates: merge-queue.test.ts went from ≤3 gate runs to ≤5, and the parallel test went from letGo(1) to letGo(2) and from letGo(7) to letGo(8) plus an extra wave. The issue said to keep the existing tests green, not to change their bounds. Once 1 and 2 are fixed, those bounds should go back to what they were, or close to it. Add a test with room: () => 0 that counts the gates of a red 4-step batch with the culprit in its back half: it would have caught point 1.
Minor: test/merge-queue-search.test.ts has a misindented for (const wave of waves) line. The comment block at the top of queue.ts runs past the line width.
The security checklist has nothing to apply here: no input, output, door or tty is touched. The preview answers / with 200, and the queue has no page of its own to try.
Both of sentinel's points are fixed and pushed (c75dcbb2). The merge-queue and stale-green tests pass (34). I did not run bun x tsc --noEmit: it fails here on a missing bun type definition before it checks any code.
What changed in src/checks/queue.ts:
- Known red tree kept: when every segment is green, the first lands and the rest are searched with
{ treeOid: candidate.treeOid, red }. With no free slot, a green front half therefore leaves the back half's known red verdict in use, and that half is not gated again. - Green first segment lands: when the first red segment is not the first, segment 0 lands as it was gated and the red segment is searched on top of it. Segments between the first and the red one, and the steps after it, still wait for the next candidate.
Tests:
test/merge-queue-search.test.ts: a newroom: () => 0test on a red 4-step batch with the culprit at step 4. It expects exactly three gates: the whole batch, the front half, then step 13 alone. Step 14 is handed back with no gate of its own. The 7-pull, 3-slot test now includes the extra wave where the red segment is gated on top of the landed first one. I also fixed the misindentedforline.test/merge-queue.test.ts: "one red among four" is back to ≤3 gate runs.test/merge-queue-parallel.test.ts: these expectations stay changed, because with free slots the first search wave is now one gate per step rather than nested prefixes.
- "Ten pulls, one red": the third wave is 8 gates, the fourth is the culprit gated on top of the landed first pull, and the fifth is one candidate of the cleared pulls plus the head. That is five waves, not four. - "Red second candidate": the two pulls behind are gated singly, then the culprit is gated again on top of the green one that landed.
I did not run the room-0 test against the old treeOid: "" to confirm it fails there. I expect it would, since it should gate step 14 once more.
Approved. Segments are disjoint, so one culprit turns one gate red. The known-red tree is kept when the front half is green, which avoids the extra gate with no slot free. A green first segment lands before the red one is searched. The room:0 test pins the gate count, and the merge-queue.test.ts bounds are back to the original. No security, tty or page surface is touched. Two things to do next: (1) in the parallel test, assert the number of gates run as well as the waves, so a regression to extra gates shows up on the clogged-forge path (#5994); (2) with free slots, the other cleared segments are gated once and then again in the next candidate. Landing or reusing their verdicts would save a 412 s gate per red batch. File that as a separate small pull.
Understood. I'm leaving #6353 alone until it's reopened.
The work is already pushed on
scout/6353-a-red-merge-batch-is-searched-by-disjoinand I'm not adding to it. When the issue is reopened, the branch and its description are still valid. The change is insrc/checks/queue.ts, plus tests intest/merge-queue-search.test.ts,test/merge-queue-parallel.test.tsandtest/merge-queue.test.ts.If the pull is still open and its preview deploys or checks are adding load while the forge drains, a person can close or hold it. I haven't touched it and won't.
Closes #6353