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remove_expired_keys() reclaims the expired shared dict entries with an unbounded flush_expired() call (#18). That call holds the dict lock until it returns, walking the whole LRU queue, so an hour's worth of backlog is reclaimed in a single uninterrupted hold and every worker repeats the walk. Issue the reclamation in batches of 10000 instead, pausing in between, so the other workers get the lock back: a batch is ~1ms of reclaim work on OpenResty 1.29.2.4, against ~70ms for an unbounded call over a 750k-entry backlog. A call that frees less than a batch has already walked the whole queue, so the loop stops there. Expose it as KeyIndex:flush_expired() / prometheus:flush_expired() and add the auto_flush_expired option, so callers can reclaim from a single process on their own schedule instead of from every worker. The default is unchanged.
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cleanup_prometheuswithauto_flush_expired=false(integration/nginx.conf:21-22), so no E2E test exercises the default automatic-flush path or the default/explicit-truePrometheus.initpath. The flush tests use onlyFLUSH_EXPIRED_BATCH + 10(prometheus_test.lua:941-978) and 50,010 entries (integration/cleanup.lua:44-57); they do not provide focused zero-entry, one-batch, exactly-10-batch, or over-10-batch cases. New integration calls ignorePrometheus:flush_expired()results atintegration/cleanup.lua:30and:42, andintegration/test.go:120ignores the response-body close error.Resolution
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auto_flush_expired=trueand explicitPrometheus.initoption behavior. Add focused flush cases for zero entries, one batch, exactlyFLUSH_EXPIRED_MAX_BATCHESbatches, and more than that limit. Capture and assert both return values from every newflush_expired()call. Check relevant shared-dictionary operation errors and handle the HTTP response-body close error.
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…round The batch was set as if it bounded one lock hold. It does not. flush_expired(n) walks the LRU queue from its tail and only stops early once n entries have been freed, so one call costs walk_cost * entries in the dict + free_cost * entries freed and only the second term is bounded by n (~7.5ns and ~90-148ns per entry on OpenResty 1.29.2.4). Every call pays the walk again, so a small batch barely shortens a single hold while multiplying the total time the lock is held and the number of requests waiting on it. Measured with 8 workers at 20k rps, one fixed backlog, flush issued from another worker: | dict / backlog | n | calls | one hold | total hold | p99 | p99.9 | |------------------|--------|-------|----------|------------|---------|---------| | 600k / 200k | none | — | — | — | 2.02ms | 2.30ms | | 600k / 200k | 10000 | 21 | 20.4ms | 92.6ms | 2.02ms | 69.6ms | | 600k / 200k | 50000 | 5 | 24.7ms | 45.3ms | 2.08ms | 22.1ms | | 600k / 200k | 0 | 1 | 35.6ms | 35.6ms | 2.04ms | 12.6ms | | 3M / 1.5M | none | — | — | — | 2.03ms | 2.33ms | | 3M / 1.5M | 10000 | 151 | 27.8ms | 1771ms | 1.53s | 1.75s | | 3M / 1.5M | 50000 | 31 | 32.7ms | 480ms | 240ms | 457ms | | 3M / 1.5M | 0 | 1 | 151.1ms | 151.1ms | 2.19ms | 128ms | Going from 10000 to 50000 adds 4-5ms to one hold and halves everything else, because one hold is dominated by the walk, which the batch cannot reduce. So the batch is now the largest value whose own freeing cost still keeps a hold short: a normal round -- the expiry rate times the reclaim interval -- drains in a single call, and the batching only comes into play for a backlog that is not normal, which is also why the cap on batches per round can come down to 10. The round is now guarded as well. It yields between batches, and ngx.timer.every does not wait for the previous run, so rounds could overlap and race for the dict lock; the second one now steps aside. The loop runs under pcall so a throwing ngx.sleep -- a caller reaching flush_expired() from a phase that does not allow yielding -- cannot leave the guard set and stop the reclamation for the life of the worker. remove_expired_keys_interval gains a minimum of 60s for the same reason: a round may occupy its timer for FLUSH_EXPIRED_MAX_BATCHES * BATCH_DELAY seconds and is meant to be a small fraction of the interval. A shorter interval is raised to the minimum with a warning rather than left to drop rounds silently. The three constants are exposed on the module so a caller scheduling its own reclamation can reason about the drain rate and about how long a round can take. Tests: testFlushExpiredRunsInBatches no longer hard-codes the batch size; testFlushExpiredDoesNotOverlap covers the guard (fails without it: the re-entrant round returns 10 instead of 0), testFlushExpiredReleasesTheGuard- AfterAnError covers the pcall (without it the error escapes the suite), and testInitClampsTheRemoveExpiredKeysInterval covers both interval bounds.
The interval has one observable consequence: how much backlog a round has to reclaim, which is the expiry rate times the interval times two (a series leaves a value key and an index slot behind). Both bounds on the interval come from that, and both were measured on a 128m dict -- the APISIX default -- which holds 521,184 entries of a typical shape. The hard bound is the dict itself. Once the backlog no longer fits beside the live entries, the writes that create new series force-evict live ones, and the dead entries win because they were written last. With 100,000 live entries: backlog written entries live entries left after reclaiming 120,000 220,000 100,000 350,000 450,000 100,000 450,000 521,184 71,184 -- 28,816 live metrics destroyed 700,000 521,184 0 -- all of them At 3600s that bound is reached by an expiry rate of ~44 series/s, which is ordinary for a gateway with an exptime configured; this is the shape of apache/apisix#13658. At 60s it takes ~2,675 series/s. The soft bound is request latency. Same dict, 8 workers, a steady 20k rps, one reclaim round in the middle of the run: backlog calls one hold p99 p99.9 max none - - 2.02ms 2.32ms 4.52ms 12,000 1 4.3ms 2.03ms 2.33ms 5.97ms 60,000 2 15.1ms 2.20ms 7.64ms 22.67ms 120,000 3 17.8ms 2.03ms 3.63ms 19.01ms 240,000 5 24.8ms 7.13ms 14.94ms 26.29ms 350,000 8 15.2ms 2.13ms 10.09ms 16.91ms A backlog of ~12,000 entries is indistinguishable from not reclaiming at all; past that the tail starts to move, and at 240,000 even p99 does. 60s keeps a round inside that zone for expiry rates up to ~100 series/s. Running often is what makes the choice asymmetric, because it is cheap: a round with nothing to reclaim costs only the LRU walk, measured at 1.8-9.5ms depending on how full the dict is, so 60s spends ~0.4s of dict lock time per hour per worker against ~0.06s at 3600s. Being too frequent costs fractions of a percent of a core; being too rare destroys live metrics. The upper bound is gone: how long an interval a deployment can afford follows from its dict size and expiry rate, which only the caller knows, and clamping 3600s silently was hiding that. The lower bound is now derived from the batch constants -- twice the longest a round can take -- instead of being a round number. Note for callers reclaiming from a single process: with auto_flush_expired left on, every worker runs its own round. Eight rounds issued at once on a 120,000 backlog took p99.99 to 33.25ms and max to 37.95ms, against 15.90ms and 19.01ms for one.
Sizing the reclaim batch was not enough: what a round actually costs is the local scan, not the reclamation. remove_expired_keys() asks the dict for the ttl of every slot the worker knows has one, which is a lock acquisition per slot, and every worker's timer starts in init_worker, so all of them do it at the same moment. Measured with 150,000 expiring series of which none actually expires during the run -- every round is therefore empty -- 8 workers, a steady 20k rps, 180s: what the round does slots p99 p99.9 max nothing (no round fired) 150,000 2.02ms 2.38ms 9.93ms scan only, no reclamation 150,000 267.01ms 448.00ms 526.34ms scan and reclamation 150,000 284.67ms 474.11ms 570.37ms scan and reclamation 10,000 2.20ms 47.84ms 79.17ms scan only, no reclamation 10,000 2.17ms 39.65ms 72.83ms Dropping the reclamation changes almost nothing, and a tenth of the slots makes the stall a tenth: the cost is the scan, linear in the slots, and it is there in every version of this library -- a long interval only makes it rarer, not cheaper. So the scan now walks a slice of the slot range per round and resumes where the previous round stopped, and the first round of each worker is offset by its worker id so the rounds spread over the interval instead of coinciding. Same workload: interval slots p99 p99.9 max 20s 150,000 2.07ms 4.36ms 27.76ms 60s 150,000 2.04ms 2.81ms 27.45ms 60s 400,000 2.06ms 5.74ms 40.32ms At 60s a round is now indistinguishable from not reclaiming at all, and the cost no longer grows with the number of metrics -- which is what the 60s default needed in order to be defensible. A full sweep of the slot range takes key_count / 10000 rounds. That only delays dropping the worker-local reference to a slot whose entry is already gone, and nothing reads it in the meantime: every dict API reports that slot as missing anyway. The range is bounded by key_count rather than by self.last, because a worker's own newest slots sit above the range it has synced. testRemoveExpiredKeysScansASlicePerRound covers the slicing: one round checks at most a slice and stops short of the range, the next picks up the rest, and each slot is checked once. Without the slice the first round checks everything and the test fails.
Slicing the scan bounded its cost but did not reduce it: a round still asked the dict for the ttl of up to a slice of slots, and the answer is one the worker mostly already has. When add() renews a slot it knows when that slot will expire, so while the recorded deadline is still in the future there is nothing to ask -- nothing but a forced eviction takes a node before its ttl, and a local reference that outlives its slot is harmless until add() next touches that key. So expire_keys now holds the deadline instead of just a flag, and the scan only reaches for the dict once it has passed. A slot that turns out to have been renewed by another worker gets its deadline refreshed from the ttl it just read, rather than being asked about again every round. Isolated by turning the reclamation off, so a round is only the scan -- 8 workers, a 20s interval, a steady 20k rps, 180s, nothing actually expiring: slots sliced only sliced and deadline-aware 150,000 p99.9 3.40ms max 22.40ms p99.9 2.38ms max 15.01ms 400,000 p99.9 5.84ms max 31.92ms p99.9 2.48ms max 17.84ms which is the control (p99.9 2.40ms), and no longer grows with the index. With auto_flush_expired left on the gain is masked, because the round is then dominated by flush_expired()'s walk of the LRU queue: slots sliced only sliced and deadline-aware 150,000 p99.9 2.81ms max 27.45ms p99.9 3.34ms max 26.72ms 400,000 p99.9 5.74ms max 40.32ms p99.9 8.53ms max 37.60ms That walk cannot be made cheaper from here -- it is what flush_expired() does -- so it is the caller's remaining lever: with the reclamation moved to a single process, every other worker's round is left with only the scan, which is now free. Two alternatives were measured and dropped. Dropping the scan and relying on add() and sync_range() to clean up as they go leaves the local reference of a series that never returns in place for good, which is the common case under label churn. Broadcasting "something was reclaimed" through a shared counter so that a round can skip the scan entirely cannot work either: the passive expiry nginx performs on every write frees nodes at the LRU tail without telling Lua, so the counter would miss exactly the removals that happen when nothing else is reclaiming.
The pause belongs between two batches. When a round uses all FLUSH_EXPIRED_MAX_BATCHES of them the loop slept once more and then ended, so the timer was held for a second over a round that was already finished -- and at a short interval that is enough to make the next round be skipped by the re-entry guard. Raised by CodeRabbit on the first revision of this PR. The capped path itself is not covered by a test: reaching it needs a backlog larger than FLUSH_EXPIRED_BATCH * FLUSH_EXPIRED_MAX_BATCHES, which is half a million entries in the mock dict. testFlushExpiredRunsInBatches now asserts the invariant that holds either way, that a round pauses once less than it batches.
60s was derived from one side of the trade only. Reclaiming is also what makes a metric give up its slot number -- one whose entry is still in the dict comes back on the same number, one whose entry has been reclaimed has to take a new one -- and a short interval spends that. Measured over rounds of 3000 series expiring and being observed again: interval new slot numbers per round 3600s 879 on average, and the last rounds 9, 8, 4, 3 -- it converges 60s 2003 -- all of them, every round The latency side turns out to be the weaker constraint, because a round does bounded work now: even a backlog filling two thirds of the dict costs ~10ms at p99.9 (350,000 entries: p99 2.13ms, p99.9 10.09ms, max 16.91ms). What a long interval risks is the memory, not the requests, and that risk is what 1800s halves relative to the 3600s this library used to default to. The expiry rate the bound tolerates on a 128m dict: live entries 1800s 3600s 60s 100,000 117 series/s 58 series/s 3,508 series/s 200,000 89 series/s 45 series/s 2,675 series/s 400,000 34 series/s 17 series/s 1,069 series/s So the default halves the backlog 3600s accumulates while leaving the reclamation rare enough that a returning metric usually still finds its entry. Deployments whose churn is higher than that table should lower it; those whose metrics have no exptime can raise it freely, since nothing ever expires.
Walking a bounded slice per round could fall behind the rate metrics expire at. Instead, collect every slot whose recorded deadline has passed, confirm each with ttl() and yield after every 500 of them, so a round keeps up with expiry without stalling the worker. The scan stops when the worker is exiting and a guard keeps two rounds from overlapping.
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Expiration-boundary handling can retain stale local entries, and failed reclamation rounds can misreport completed work.
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This PR reduces expired-metric cleanup work per batch and adds manual control over shared-dictionary reclamation.
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- Adds batched reclamation, yielding, staggered timers, and overlap guards.
- Tracks expiry deadlines to skip unnecessary TTL checks.
- Adds cleanup options, regression tests, and documentation.
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| README.md | Documents cleanup configuration and manual reclamation. |
| prometheus.lua | Adds configuration defaults and the public flush method. |
| prometheus_test.lua | Tests batching, cleanup guards, and expiry handling. |
| prometheus_keys.lua | Implements batched reclamation and deadline-aware cleanup. |
| CHANGELOG.md | Records cleanup behavior and configuration changes. |
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Restore remove_expired_keys_interval to main's behavior: it defaults to 3600 seconds, and larger values are capped to it. Drop the 20-second minimum and the removal of the upper bound.
sync_range() skipped expiry tracking when ttl() returned 0. Zero is also what a node reads at its exact expiration millisecond, so a reader that first imported a slot then never rechecked it, and kept the local references after the slot was reclaimed. Track it like remove_expired_keys() already does.
…o_flush_expired Drop the auto_flush_expired option. remove_expired_keys_interval of 0 or less now starts no cleanup timer, leaving flush_expired() to the caller. On main, 0 failed init() with "delay cannot be zero".
Adapt the cleanup changes to the slot states of #25: a due slot is forgotten only when its node is gone, and deadlines are moved on the fast-path renewal too. Drop the batched flush_expired(): it bounds the entries freed per call, not the time the dict lock is held, so prometheus:flush_expired() now calls the dict directly.
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Since #25 permanent slots are imported with a zero TTL, which was tracked to catch a slot read at its exact expiry millisecond. Every permanent slot another worker registered was then checked on every round: 100k series cost 100k ttl() calls per round per worker. Restore the zero-TTL rule of main, and stop tracking a slot that turns permanent.
A non-positive remove_expired_keys_interval stopped the whole cleanup timer, so no worker dropped its references to reclaimed slots: under label churn the local index and list() grew with every series ever registered. Only the dict reclamation needs to move to the caller; keep the worker-local cleanup, staggered, on the default 600s interval.
ttl() returns expires - now in milliseconds, so a slot read at its exact expiry millisecond reads 0, like a permanent one. Untracking it on a zero left its local reference behind once the node was reclaimed. Keep it tracked, as main does; only a slot that turns permanent is checked again on later rounds.
Every worker called flush_expired() after its own cleanup round, so each interval walked the whole dict under its lock once per worker, although the first call already reclaims for all of them. After its local cleanup, a worker now claims the interval with safe_add() on a marker that expires with it, and only the worker that claims it flushes. safe_add() keeps the marker from force-evicting a live entry; when the dict is too full to store it, the worker flushes anyway, since that dict needs it most. A worker that is exiting does not claim the interval. This replaces the caller-managed mode: a non-positive remove_expired_keys_interval now falls back to the default, and prometheus:flush_expired() is removed. On main such a value already failed in ngx.timer.every(), so no released configuration relied on it.
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Follow-up to the performance concern in apache/apisix#13658 (comment). Every worker's cleanup timer:
ttl()on every tracked slot in one go, without yielding, including slots that cannot have expired yet;dict:flush_expired(), which holds the shared-dictionary lock for its whole walk, back to back;flush_expired()again, although the first call in an interval already reclaims for every worker.Changes
Worker-local cleanup
ttl == 0) are not tracked, as on main. A tracked slot that readsttl == 0stays tracked:ttl()also returns 0 at a slot's exact expiry millisecond.Timer staggering
id(ofcount) runs its first round atinterval * id / count, then everyinterval. Worker 0, and a process without a worker id such as the privileged agent, run atinterval,2 * interval, and so on.One reclamation per interval
After its local cleanup, a worker claims the interval with
safe_add()on a marker (__ngx_prom__flush_expired) that expires afterremove_expired_keys_interval, and only the worker that claims it callsflush_expired(). The marker is never deleted, so the next interval goes to whichever worker finishes its cleanup first. No worker is fixed, and no privileged agent is needed.safe_add()keeps the marker from force-evicting a live entry. When the dict is too full to store it, the worker flushes anyway.A worker that is exiting does not claim the interval.
The marker is not in the key index, so it never appears in the metric output.
A non-positive
remove_expired_keys_intervalfalls back to the default, with a warning. On main such a value already failed inngx.timer.every(), so no released configuration relied on it.Accepted edges: an evicted marker can let a second worker flush in the same interval; a worker killed between claiming and flushing delays reclamation by one interval; reclamation runs at the first cleanup round after the marker expires, so the period is between
intervalandinterval + interval / workers.flush_expired()is not batched.flush_expired(n)walks the LRU from its tail under the lock and stops only after freeingnentries, so a limit caps entries freed, not entries walked: with few expired entries among many live ones, a batch walks the whole dictionary anyway (~5–15 ms per 1M nodes). The lock hold of a single call is unchanged from main.Addressing the issue comment
ttl()scan now yields every 500 checks and skips slots whose deadline has not passed. Theflush_expired()call itself does not yield.Measurements
One cleanup round on a real shared dict:
Tests
prometheus_test.lua): 87 tests (86 pass;testPrintfTablefails on LuaJIT only, as on main), covering deadline skipping, deadline update on fast-path renewal, yielding, the re-entry guard, permanent slots left untracked on import, the zero-TTL boundary on scan, timer staggering, one flush per interval across workers, flushing when the marker does not fit, an exiting worker leaving the interval to others, and a non-positive interval falling back to the default.integration/cleanup.lua, real shared dict): a cleanup round reclaims expired entries and leaves permanent ones; a second round in the same interval does not reclaim; a round after the interval does.