fix(stargate): bound proxy retries and relay retention - #1820
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesStargate guidance
Relay task error handling
Proxy delivery retry handling
404 metric cardinality
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant run_proxy_attempt
participant Upstream
participant decide_proxy_error_retry
Client->>run_proxy_attempt: Send POST request
run_proxy_attempt->>Upstream: Submit request body
Upstream-->>run_proxy_attempt: Transport or timeout failure
run_proxy_attempt->>decide_proxy_error_retry: Provide request_body_started
decide_proxy_error_retry-->>run_proxy_attempt: Return AmbiguousDelivery
run_proxy_attempt-->>Client: Return 502 without replay
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Stop replaying submitted POST requests after ambiguous transport failures, drain completed relay tasks, and aggregate unknown routing targets under bounded metric labels. Refs: #1817
Remove the fair-direction selector and its backlog test. The router is used for raw QUIC, whose request streams are bidirectional. Prefer those streams in both relay loops while retaining completed-task collection and shutdown priority. Relates to #1817
State that stargate-k8s-router is deployed only for raw QUIC tunnel traffic and that bidirectional stream priority is intentional. Optional HTTP/3 and WebTransport code does not imply a deployment requirement. Add scoped agent guidance, a root discovery pointer, and the companion CLAUDE.md import so implementation and review agents share this context. Relates to #1817
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In `@src/libraries/rust/stargate/AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 8-9: Update the deployment invariant for stargate-k8s-router to
state that it supports both raw-quic and webtransport traffic, while plain http3
uses the L4 path and does not pass through the router.
In `@src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/src/http_proxy/retry.rs`:
- Around line 158-159: Update decide_proxy_error_retry so the submitted
ReplayReadiness::Ready case with request_body_started=true is classified as
AmbiguousDelivery before budget or connection-exhaustion checks. Preserve
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| - `stargate-k8s-router` is deployed only for `raw-quic` tunnel traffic. | ||
| HTTP/3 tunnel traffic does not pass through this router. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
🔎 Supported by static analysis
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Correct the router deployment invariant.
stargate-k8s-router supports both raw-quic and webtransport. Its CLI accepts those modes and rejects plain http3, which uses an L4 path instead. The current statement can cause valid WebTransport router deployments to be rejected or omitted. State that the router supports raw-quic and webtransport, while plain http3 does not use the router.
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In `@src/libraries/rust/stargate/AGENTS.md` around lines 8 - 9, Update the
deployment invariant for stargate-k8s-router to state that it supports both
raw-quic and webtransport traffic, while plain http3 uses the L4 path and does
not pass through the router.
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| ReplayReadiness::Ready if !request_body_started => RetryDecision::Retry(()), | ||
| ReplayReadiness::Ready => RetryDecision::Final(FinalRetryDisposition::AmbiguousDelivery), |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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printf '%s\n' '--- retry tests around relevant cases ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- repository docs/tests mentioning ambiguity or precedence ---'
rg -n -C 4 'AmbiguousDelivery|ambiguous_delivery|request_may_have_been_applied|retry_exhausted|retry_budget|connect_retries|after submission|body submission|precedence' \
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Classify submitted requests before retry exhaustion.
proxy_via_quic_streaming sets request_body_started before the error reaches decide_proxy_error_retry. When ReplayReadiness::Ready, an exhausted budget or connection count currently returns FinalRetryDisposition::Exhausted before the AmbiguousDelivery branch. finish_attempt then records proxy_retry_exhausted_total with an exhaustion reason instead of request_may_have_been_applied.
Move only the submitted ReplayReadiness::Ready case before the exhaustion checks. Preserve the existing ReplayIncomplete and PayloadTooLarge precedence.
Proposed fix
if !matches!(
status,
StatusCode::BAD_GATEWAY | StatusCode::GATEWAY_TIMEOUT | StatusCode::SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
) {
return RetryDecision::Final(FinalRetryDisposition::PassThrough);
}
+ if request_body_started && matches!(&replay_readiness, ReplayReadiness::Ready) {
+ return RetryDecision::Final(FinalRetryDisposition::AmbiguousDelivery);
+ }
if !retry_budget_remaining {
return retry_exhausted("retry_budget_exhausted");
}Add assertions for an expired budget and an exhausted connection retry count with request_body_started=true and ReplayReadiness::Ready.
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In `@src/libraries/rust/stargate/crates/stargate/src/http_proxy/retry.rs` around
lines 158 - 159, Update decide_proxy_error_retry so the submitted
ReplayReadiness::Ready case with request_body_started=true is classified as
AmbiguousDelivery before budget or connection-exhaustion checks. Preserve
ReplayReadiness::Ready with an unstarted body as retryable, and retain the
existing ReplayIncomplete and PayloadTooLarge precedence; add assertions
covering expired-budget and exhausted-connection cases.
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Why
A response-header timeout could replay a POST after the backend had accepted it. Long-lived QUIC relays retained completed tasks, and arbitrary unknown model/routing-key headers created permanent metric series.
Examples
What changed
Customer Release Notes
Stargate avoids duplicate inference requests after uncertain transport failures and bounds memory retained by relay completions and unknown-target metrics.
Plan Summary
Not applicable.
Usage
A transport failure after body submission returns the upstream transport error to the caller. Explicit retryable pylon rejection behavior is preserved.
Testing
All 24 stargate-forwarding Cargo tests passed in a fresh isolated worktree. Clippy passed for all stargate-forwarding targets with warnings denied. Formatting, whitespace, and skill-fanout checks passed. The agent-guidance follow-up passed ASCII, style, relative-link, Cargo package-name, and CLAUDE import checks. Runtime tests were not rerun for that documentation-only follow-up.
This update restores the direct biased selection and removes the fairness-only helper and test. Existing forwarding and graceful-drain tests cover the relay behavior; no new scheduling abstraction or test fixture is needed.
Earlier combined-stack validation passed 1,611 Cargo workspace tests (3 existing performance tests ignored), workspace Clippy, and 6 scoped Bazel targets. The POST regression confirmed one backend execution and a 502 after a response-header timeout. The full workspace and Bazel suites were not rerun for this localized restoration; build declarations and dependencies are unchanged. No production traffic or memory soak was run.
Notes
Layer 2 of the Stargate maintenance stack. The stargate-k8s-router deployment uses raw QUIC; prioritizing its bidirectional request streams is intentional. Unknown-target 404 metrics use empty routing_key, model, and inference_server_id labels; raw rejected identities remain in logs.
Issues
Relates to #1817
References
HTTP retry semantics
Related Pull Requests
Depends on #1818. Next layer: #1823.
Dependencies
No added or upgraded dependencies. No license or NOTICE changes.
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