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The Rust tests job's nextest run no longer waits on its two slowest tests. Those two set the end of the merge-queue job in run 41749164320, at 149 s, while every other test there was done by 91 s. The job runs in PR CI, the merge queue and main.

Why. In that job, 184 of 11,456 tests took over 2 s, about 1,000 of the run's 2,812 test-seconds. These set its wall time:

Test Took Started Finished
pplx-space-net-gateway certificates::client::tests::local_cache_shares_exact_targets_and_bounds_retention 79.5 s 69.7 s 149.2 s
pplx-space-archcheck::repository node_manager_commands_reject_direct_spawns_without_restricting_other_services 82.2 s 42.2 s 124.4 s
pplx-space-sbx-mgr-store db::tests::update_state_from::expecting_every_state_answers_every_lifecycle_pair_and_cleanup_shape 25.4 s 83.4 s 108.8 s

The other 11,453 tests were done by 91 s. Merge-queue run 41749161582 shows the same two at the end: 52.5 s and 46.8 s, ending at 100.9 s and 75.6 s, with 99% done by 63 s.

What changes.

  • Gateway cache test. It filled the certificate cache's 4096-entry bound, signing a real leaf for each entry. CertificateProvider::new keeps MAX_CACHED_CERTIFICATES, but now builds through a private constructor that takes the bound. The bound checks, the eviction metric and the entries gauge read the cache's own capacity. The test fills a 16-entry cache and asserts the same things: shared exact targets, the bound, eviction without revocation, and failed misses that keep warm entries. Eviction does not depend on the size.
  • Archcheck test. It ran every rule over the whole repository for each of its eight cases, to read one pattern_ratchet instance's findings. It now keeps only node_manager_commands, asserts that it did, and turns the layers rule off. Every case still asserts its finding or its absence.

Stack

  1. This PR: shorten the Rust tests job's slowest tail.
  2. #1408: report Rust tests over 2 s and fail those over 4 s.
  3. #1426: bring the Rust tests under the 2-second limit.

Validation

  • The gateway module's 4 tests finish in 0.03 s locally; the changed one took 52.5-79.5 s in CI.
  • The archcheck test takes 0.74 s locally, from about 20 s; the crate's repository tests pass.
  • Clippy with -D warnings and cargo fmt --check pass for both crates.
  • Unrelated failures, the same on main on macOS: the gateway's tcp_proxy::tests::tls_interception::interception_exemptions_relay_original_tls_only_after_admission times out, and archcheck's cli tests a_rust_file_name_that_is_not_utf8_exits_2 and inventory fail. CI on Linux runs them.
  • CI. On this head the nextest run took 68.1 s (job 126337907794). Across 24 merge-queue and Main CI runs from 2026-11-02 to 2026-11-04 it took a median of 116 s (95-155 s).
  • PR CI. For pull requests that run no Kind smoke, the Rust tests job is the last job before space-pull-ci in 17 of the last 31 runs. Taking 48 s off it in those runs' job timings moves the required check from a median of 6.15 min to 5.80 min (90th percentile 7.08 to 6.62 min). From there Rust isolated crates and Rust clippy finish last. Pull requests with Kind smoke wait on the Kind shards (median 19.0 min) and do not change.

Severity and risk

Severity: does not apply; this is a CI speedup.

Risk:

  • Coverage. The gateway test covers the same behaviour at a smaller bound, but no longer exercises the 4096 bound itself. The archcheck test no longer runs the other rules, which repository_config_and_baseline_pass_every_required_rule still runs on the whole repository.
  • Rollback. Revert this PR.

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Walkthrough

The certificate provider now accepts a ready-cache capacity and uses it for cache reporting and eviction detection. The retention test uses a bound of 16. The archcheck repository test narrows its active rules to the node_manager_commands pattern-ratchet rule.

Changes: Certificate cache capacity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure cache capacity and test retention
crates/l40_api/net/gateway/server/src/certificates/client.rs, crates/l40_api/net/gateway/server/src/certificates/client/tests.rs
new passes the existing limit to with_cache_bound, which initializes the ready LRU with the supplied capacity. Cache metrics and eviction detection use the configured capacity. The retention test uses a bound of 16 in its retention and rejection loops and cache-size assertion.

Archcheck repository test scope

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scope the repository test rules
crates/tools/archcheck/tests/repository.rs
The test retains only the node_manager_commands pattern-ratchet rule, asserts one instance remains, and disables the layers rule.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other · Unblocks: 3 PRs

Possibly related PRs

  • perplexityai/SPACE#1360: Introduces required node_manager_commands archcheck comparisons, which the repository test change exercises.
  • perplexityai/SPACE#1426: Uses test-bound injection to reduce Rust test durations, as does the certificate-cache test change.

Suggested reviewers: ac-pplx, nikhilbirmiwal-pplx

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 442c2

The change is mergeable; update the stale workload comment for accuracy.

Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 442c2

The production cache still holds up to 4096 certificates, and the smaller capacity is accessible only through a private constructor used by tests. Certificate issuance controls and validity checks are unchanged. Narrowing one architecture test does not disable the separate repository-wide check.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The change does not expand certificate-issuance exposure across callers or environments: production construction and the TLS interception call path are unchanged, and the smaller cache is instantiated only by the test.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — ClientHello SNI and port remain inputs to the existing policy-gated certificate request path. Policy readiness, shutdown, identity cancellation, current authority, and certificate admissibility checks remain unchanged; cache capacity does not grant issuance authority.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — LRU eviction removes cache ownership rather than revoking an active certificate lease. Independent lease ownership and validity fences remain unchanged, and the reduced-capacity test still checks that an evicted lease remains usable.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reducing the Rust tests job's slowest tail.
Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Description check Passed The description states the purpose clearly: the Rust tests job's nextest run no longer waits on its two slowest tests, with the evidence from run 41749164320 given in a table. It explains the two code…
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The description states the purpose clearly: the Rust tests job's nextest run no longer waits on its two slowest tests, with the evidence from run 41749164320 given in a table. It explains the two code changes (the gateway cache test now uses a 16-entry bound through a private constructor, and the archcheck test keeps only the node_manager_commands rule and turns off the layers rule). It has Summary, Validation, Severity and risk, and AI assistance sections, which match the template's required sections. It also lists stacked PRs, the test-result and timing evidence, the unrelated failures on macOS, and the risks (reduced coverage at the 4096 bound and the reduced archcheck rule scope). The template calls for a Severity line and a Risk line with rollback, and both are present. The description is complete. The template's optional sections (Rollout, Stack, Not covered) are either used or not needed.

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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A merge-queue Rust tests job ran nextest for 149 s (GitHub run
41749164320). Every test but a few was done by 91 s; two set the end:

- net-gateway's local_cache_shares_exact_targets_and_bounds_retention
  (79.5 s) filled the certificate cache's 4096-entry bound, signing a
  leaf for each entry. The provider now takes its bound at construction
  (CertificateProvider::new keeps 4096), the bound checks read the
  cache's own capacity, and the test fills a 16-entry cache. Eviction
  works the same at any size. It now takes milliseconds.
- archcheck's node_manager_commands_reject_direct_spawns_without_restricting_other_services
  (82.2 s) ran every rule over the whole repository for each of its
  eight cases, to read one pattern_ratchet instance's findings. It now
  keeps only that instance and turns the layers rule off: 0.7 s locally,
  from about 20 s.
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