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api, sbx-mgr: succeed a Native create once its guest answers - #1600
A Native create operation now succeeds only once the sandbox's guest agent answers, so a client that waits for the operation can send its first command or file call at once.
On the Kubernetes substrate a Native create reported succeeded with the sandbox running as soon as the sandbox pod's proxy port accepted a TCP connection. That port is the shim's DNAT rule to the node's node-api, which the shim installs alongside the guest's non-blocking start, so it says nothing about the guest. The worker still had the sandbox Starting, and the first command or file call waited in the worker, which re-reads the row every 200 ms, until the guest answered. ECW creates already wait for the guest.
The cause is controller_create_request in crates/l40_api/api/src/public_sandbox_operations.rs, which built every Native create with wait_until_ready: false, so create_execution (crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/adapter/substrate_adapter.rs) returned after the TCP check and skipped poll_until_command_ready. Native creates now set it. The planned sandbox ID is pinned, so this does not make a create adopt a warm-pool slot; only the admission-time claim does that. On the Direct substrate the create's start becomes blocking, which waits for the guest on the worker.
Waiting alone would have added up to 250 ms to every create: the API's readiness probe asks the worker SpacedWaitReady, which refused a sandbox that was still starting with not started, and the probe tried again 250 ms later. The worker now waits for a sandbox that is Creating or Starting, for up to half the request's timeout, and the start's commit ends the wait at once. A start that takes longer is refused as before, with time left for the caller to ask again. ECW creates and the wake, start and access readiness probes use the same RPC and get the same gain.
On Kubernetes a Native create waits at most 5 s for its guest, against ECW's 30 s (SPACE_CREATE_COMMAND_READY_TIMEOUT_SECS). A cold create holds a dispatcher execution slot while it waits, and pauses, wakes and other organizations' creates queue for the same slots. A create whose guest has not answered by then still succeeds with the sandbox running, and the first call waits for the guest, as every Native create did before. The cap travels on the controller request (command_ready_wait) and never exceeds the substrate's own bound. A create that joins an activation already in flight, such as a data-plane access's, returns the owner's reachable pod the same way when its guest misses the wait. Before, that timeout failed the create, and its caller then deleted the sandbox row, with the execution the owner was starting. Each guest probe and connect in the readiness wait now ends at the wait's deadline instead of running its full 1 s (500 ms for the connect), so a short wait ends when it says; every caller of that wait gets the same, tighter bound. The SPACE_PUBLIC_OPERATION_DISPATCHER_EXECUTION_CONCURRENCY row in docs/configuration.md now says a cold Native create holds its slot until its guest answers: the pod's scheduling and start, then at most 5 s for the guest.
Wake and start already waited for the guest before succeeding; this change does not alter that.
Validation
a_readiness_probe_waits_for_a_start_in_progress and a_readiness_probe_refuses_a_start_that_outlasts_half_its_timeout (sbx-mgr, service/activation_support/tests.rs) fail with spaced_wait_ready restored to its refusal on main (the first gets FailedPrecondition at once instead of a pending probe, the second is refused after 0 ms instead of 500 ms) and pass here.
controller_create_request_uses_public_contract_defaults now requires the readiness wait and the 5 s Native cap, and fails without either (left: None, right: Some(5s) without the cap).
create_readiness_failure_keeps_or_releases_only_what_its_arm_owns::a_create_waits_for_its_guest_only_as_long_as_it_asked (scripted apiserver and worker) has a guest that never answers, the substrate's own command-ready bound at 60 s, and the create asking to wait 200 ms. The create returns in 0.44 s with the sandbox started on its node, not command-ready, and its pod kept. Mutation checks: with the request's cap ignored, it runs past the test's 10 s bound; with guest probes no longer clamped to the wait's deadline (below), it takes 1.04 s and fails its one-probe-timeout bound.
joined_create_waits_on_the_owners_pod::keeps_the_owners_pod_when_its_guest_is_slow has another attempt own the activation with a reachable pod whose guest never answers, and the joining create wait 200 ms. It returns the owner's pod started, not command-ready, without a lease or binding, and the owner's execution stays. It also ends within one probe timeout (0.44 s). Mutation checks: with the timeout propagated as before, it fails with Timeout { phase: Some(GuestNotReady) }; without the probe clamp, it takes 1.05 s and fails its bound.
Rebased onto main at 7eb61dc, at this head: cargo nextest for pplx-space-sbx-mgr (1826 passed, 1 skipped) and for the pplx-space-api operation, substrate, sandbox controller, ECW and fork tests (1544 passed); cargo clippy -D warnings on both; cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked; cargo fmt --check. All pass.
cargo fmt, cargo clippy -D warnings on pplx-space-api and pplx-space-sbx-mgr, cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked, and cargo nextest for pplx-space-sbx-mgr and for pplx-space-api (--all-features, opt-level 0) with Postgres and Redis: all pass (sbx-mgr 1732 passed, 1 skipped; api 2545 passed, 1 skipped). cargo arch passes. native_create_executor_preserves_operator_policy_across_replacements now runs its pod's proxy port on the sim worker, which answers the readiness probe, instead of a bare TCP listener.
Kind, current seed guest, 30 rounds each, client on the host with 50 ms operation polling, raw HTTP, before the 5 s cap (which every round here was well under):
main
this change
Native create: operation succeeded → first byte of the first command's events, p50 / p90
328 / 761 ms
38 / 44 ms
Native create: request → first command exited, p50 / p90
1617 / 1740 ms
1688 / 1802 ms
ECW create: request → first command exited, p50 / p90
1739 / 1891 ms
1618 / 1758 ms
ECW create: response → first byte of the first command, p50
31 ms
29 ms
With only the API change, the Native request → first exit p50 was 1741 ms; the worker change takes out the probe's 250 ms polling. The Native end-to-end time remains about 70 ms above main because the command's own setup no longer overlaps the guest's boot, and the client still polls the operation. In one traced create the operation succeeded 23 ms after the worker recorded the guest ready. After the change, pause → wake and suspend → wake: operation succeeded → first byte p50 29 ms and 53 ms (10 rounds each).
Native typed smoke on Kind with SPACE_SMOKE_KIND_ADMIN_TOKEN_FILE set: 47 passed, 12 ignored (opt-in bench scenarios), none failed.
Severity and risk
Severity: medium. Every Native create's first call paid the rest of the guest's boot after the operation said the sandbox was running: about 300 ms at the median on Kind, up to 850 ms.
Risk: a Native create operation now takes until the guest answers to succeed, and a cold one holds its dispatcher execution slot for that long: about 300 ms more at the median on Kind, and at most 5 s on Kubernetes for a guest that does not answer. A burst of creates on a template whose guests are slow or wedged can therefore hold up to 16 slots (the default) for up to 5 s each, delaying other operations by that much; before, those creates freed their slots after the TCP check. A guest that misses the cap still leaves the create succeeded with the sandbox running, and the first call waits as before. On the Direct substrate the cap does not apply: the create's start becomes blocking, as an ECW create's is there, bounded by the worker call's own timeout. SpacedWaitReady callers now wait up to half their timeout for a starting sandbox where they were refused at once: the API's readiness probes, which polled for this; the command-readiness probe in crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/mod.rs, which counted a starting sandbox as not ready; and the readiness check after a create with file-change tracking, which failed a create whose sandbox was not yet started. Roll back by reverting; neither part stores anything.
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The API and worker parts are independent. A new API with an old worker waits correctly, polling every 250 ms. An old API with a new worker gets faster readiness answers for the creates and wakes that already waited.
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A create attempt retried after an earlier attempt recorded the sandbox still succeeds without waiting for the guest.
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Create requests now support an optional bound on the Kubernetes guest-readiness wait. Native create enables readiness waiting with a five-second bound. Kubernetes create handling can return a reachable pod when the guest does not respond within the bound. Readiness probes can wait for an in-progress sandbox start and pass the remaining timeout to the guest. Tests and documentation cover these behaviors.
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perplexityai/SPACE#1182: This change adjusts Kubernetes readiness timing but does not preserve typed terminal node-side refusals.
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perplexityai/SPACE#1426: This PR changes create-readiness test budgets used to set timing conditions for the readiness behavior tested here.
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Check guest readiness when a create operation resumes from an existing row.
If an attempt publishes a Started row with command_ready_pending and stops before recording operation success, the next attempt takes the existing-row branch at Line 518. That branch returns success at Line 556 without a readiness check. Keep the operation pending until readiness is confirmed on this path too. The PR description explicitly notes that retried creates can succeed without waiting for the guest. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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@crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/adapter/substrate_adapter.rs:
- Around line 158-162: Update the joined-create readiness timeout path around
command_ready_bound and remaining_ready_window so an expired wait preserves the
sandbox row and access-owned execution instead of entering failed-create
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Major · Bound the full readiness operation by the request timeout. · grpc_spaced_files.rs:533-538
crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_spaced_files.rs:533-538 Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Bound the full readiness operation by the request timeout.
If startup commits near the half-time limit and the guest never becomes ready, SpacedHostClient::wait_ready can repeat the remaining timeout four times. The request can exceed its timeout and hold the worker’s per-sandbox permit longer than requested. Apply one deadline to the connection and the complete host RPC, including retries.
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Apply one deadline based on the request timeout to the connection and the entire
readiness operation in the flow containing connect_spaced_host_with_policy and
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If the joined create ignores the 200 ms request, the phase deadline can still produce the expected result. The hanging probe itself has a one-second timeout, so changing the phase window and test timeout alone would not test the 200 ms bound.
Use promptly returning not-ready probes and a controlled timing assertion near 200 ms. Set the phase and substrate bounds beyond that assertion.
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Update the joined-create test around substrate.create_execution to use promptly
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- Around line 164-167: Update the create and owned-create readiness flows using
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wait_ready retries share the remaining budget, so the operation returns when the
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- Around line 649-651: Update the joined-create test around
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A Native create built its controller request with `wait_until_ready: false`.
On the Kubernetes substrate the create then returned once the sandbox pod's
proxy port accepted a TCP connection: the shim's DNAT rule to node-api,
installed alongside the guest's non-blocking start. The operation reported
`succeeded` with the sandbox `running` while the worker was still starting
it, and the first command or file call waited in the worker for the guest.
Native creates now wait for the guest, as ECW creates do, but for at most
5 s on Kubernetes rather than ECW's 30 s: a cold create holds a dispatcher
execution slot while it waits. The cap travels on the controller request
(`command_ready_wait`) and never exceeds the substrate's own
`SPACE_CREATE_COMMAND_READY_TIMEOUT_SECS`. A create whose guest has not
answered by then still succeeds with the sandbox `running`, and the first
call waits for the guest, as before. A create that joins an activation
already in flight, such as a data-plane access's, returns the owner's
reachable pod the same way when its guest misses the wait, instead of
failing and having its caller delete the sandbox the owner is starting.
Each guest probe and connect in the wait now ends at the wait's
deadline instead of running its full 1 s, so a short wait ends when it
says.
The pinned sandbox ID keeps these
creates off the warm-pool adoption path, which only the admission-time
claim takes.
The readiness probe asks the worker SpacedWaitReady, which refused a
sandbox that was still starting, so the API polled every 250 ms and waiting
would have added up to that to every create. The worker now waits for a
`Creating` or `Starting` sandbox for up to half the request's timeout, and a
start's commit ends the wait at once; a longer start is refused as before.
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Treat a probe’s DeadlineExceeded response as not ready.
If SpacedWaitReady returns gRPC DeadlineExceeded when the guest misses the newly shortened request timeout, Line 688 treats the response as SubstrateError::Failed. The create then fails instead of preserving the reachable pod as not command-ready. The sbx-mgr handler passes the request timeout to its guest wait, while the other command-readiness probe already treats DeadlineExceeded as a nonterminal timeout. Handle that status in this loop before the generic-error arm, and cover it with a scripted response as well as a hanging probe. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Summary
A Native create operation now succeeds only once the sandbox's guest agent answers, so a client that waits for the operation can send its first command or file call at once.
On the Kubernetes substrate a Native create reported
succeededwith the sandboxrunningas soon as the sandbox pod's proxy port accepted a TCP connection. That port is the shim's DNAT rule to the node's node-api, which the shim installs alongside the guest's non-blocking start, so it says nothing about the guest. The worker still had the sandboxStarting, and the first command or file call waited in the worker, which re-reads the row every 200 ms, until the guest answered. ECW creates already wait for the guest.The cause is
controller_create_requestincrates/l40_api/api/src/public_sandbox_operations.rs, which built every Native create withwait_until_ready: false, socreate_execution(crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/adapter/substrate_adapter.rs) returned after the TCP check and skippedpoll_until_command_ready. Native creates now set it. The planned sandbox ID is pinned, so this does not make a create adopt a warm-pool slot; only the admission-time claim does that. On the Direct substrate the create's start becomes blocking, which waits for the guest on the worker.Waiting alone would have added up to 250 ms to every create: the API's readiness probe asks the worker
SpacedWaitReady, which refused a sandbox that was still starting withnot started, and the probe tried again 250 ms later. The worker now waits for a sandbox that isCreatingorStarting, for up to half the request's timeout, and the start's commit ends the wait at once. A start that takes longer is refused as before, with time left for the caller to ask again. ECW creates and the wake, start and access readiness probes use the same RPC and get the same gain.On Kubernetes a Native create waits at most 5 s for its guest, against ECW's 30 s (
SPACE_CREATE_COMMAND_READY_TIMEOUT_SECS). A cold create holds a dispatcher execution slot while it waits, and pauses, wakes and other organizations' creates queue for the same slots. A create whose guest has not answered by then still succeeds with the sandboxrunning, and the first call waits for the guest, as every Native create did before. The cap travels on the controller request (command_ready_wait) and never exceeds the substrate's own bound. A create that joins an activation already in flight, such as a data-plane access's, returns the owner's reachable pod the same way when its guest misses the wait. Before, that timeout failed the create, and its caller then deleted the sandbox row, with the execution the owner was starting. Each guest probe and connect in the readiness wait now ends at the wait's deadline instead of running its full 1 s (500 ms for the connect), so a short wait ends when it says; every caller of that wait gets the same, tighter bound. TheSPACE_PUBLIC_OPERATION_DISPATCHER_EXECUTION_CONCURRENCYrow indocs/configuration.mdnow says a cold Native create holds its slot until its guest answers: the pod's scheduling and start, then at most 5 s for the guest.Wake and start already waited for the guest before succeeding; this change does not alter that.
Validation
a_readiness_probe_waits_for_a_start_in_progressanda_readiness_probe_refuses_a_start_that_outlasts_half_its_timeout(sbx-mgr,service/activation_support/tests.rs) fail withspaced_wait_readyrestored to its refusal onmain(the first getsFailedPreconditionat once instead of a pending probe, the second is refused after 0 ms instead of 500 ms) and pass here.controller_create_request_uses_public_contract_defaultsnow requires the readiness wait and the 5 s Native cap, and fails without either (left: None, right: Some(5s)without the cap).create_readiness_failure_keeps_or_releases_only_what_its_arm_owns::a_create_waits_for_its_guest_only_as_long_as_it_asked(scripted apiserver and worker) has a guest that never answers, the substrate's own command-ready bound at 60 s, and the create asking to wait 200 ms. The create returns in 0.44 s with the sandboxstartedon its node, not command-ready, and its pod kept. Mutation checks: with the request's cap ignored, it runs past the test's 10 s bound; with guest probes no longer clamped to the wait's deadline (below), it takes 1.04 s and fails its one-probe-timeout bound.joined_create_waits_on_the_owners_pod::keeps_the_owners_pod_when_its_guest_is_slowhas another attempt own the activation with a reachable pod whose guest never answers, and the joining create wait 200 ms. It returns the owner's podstarted, not command-ready, without a lease or binding, and the owner's execution stays. It also ends within one probe timeout (0.44 s). Mutation checks: with the timeout propagated as before, it fails withTimeout { phase: Some(GuestNotReady) }; without the probe clamp, it takes 1.05 s and fails its bound.mainat 7eb61dc, at this head:cargo nextestforpplx-space-sbx-mgr(1826 passed, 1 skipped) and for thepplx-space-apioperation, substrate, sandbox controller, ECW and fork tests (1544 passed);cargo clippy -D warningson both;cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked;cargo fmt --check. All pass.cargo fmt,cargo clippy -D warningson pplx-space-api and pplx-space-sbx-mgr,cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked, andcargo nextestfor pplx-space-sbx-mgr and for pplx-space-api (--all-features, opt-level 0) with Postgres and Redis: all pass (sbx-mgr 1732 passed, 1 skipped; api 2545 passed, 1 skipped).cargo archpasses.native_create_executor_preserves_operator_policy_across_replacementsnow runs its pod's proxy port on the sim worker, which answers the readiness probe, instead of a bare TCP listener.With only the API change, the Native request → first exit p50 was 1741 ms; the worker change takes out the probe's 250 ms polling. The Native end-to-end time remains about 70 ms above main because the command's own setup no longer overlaps the guest's boot, and the client still polls the operation. In one traced create the operation succeeded 23 ms after the worker recorded the guest ready. After the change, pause → wake and suspend → wake: operation succeeded → first byte p50 29 ms and 53 ms (10 rounds each).
SPACE_SMOKE_KIND_ADMIN_TOKEN_FILEset: 47 passed, 12 ignored (opt-in bench scenarios), none failed.Severity and risk
Severity: medium. Every Native create's first call paid the rest of the guest's boot after the operation said the sandbox was running: about 300 ms at the median on Kind, up to 850 ms.
Risk: a Native create operation now takes until the guest answers to succeed, and a cold one holds its dispatcher execution slot for that long: about 300 ms more at the median on Kind, and at most 5 s on Kubernetes for a guest that does not answer. A burst of creates on a template whose guests are slow or wedged can therefore hold up to 16 slots (the default) for up to 5 s each, delaying other operations by that much; before, those creates freed their slots after the TCP check. A guest that misses the cap still leaves the create succeeded with the sandbox
running, and the first call waits as before. On the Direct substrate the cap does not apply: the create's start becomes blocking, as an ECW create's is there, bounded by the worker call's own timeout.SpacedWaitReadycallers now wait up to half their timeout for a starting sandbox where they were refused at once: the API's readiness probes, which polled for this; the command-readiness probe incrates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/mod.rs, which counted a starting sandbox as not ready; and the readiness check after a create with file-change tracking, which failed a create whose sandbox was not yet started. Roll back by reverting; neither part stores anything.Rollout
The API and worker parts are independent. A new API with an old worker waits correctly, polling every 250 ms. An old API with a new worker gets faster readiness answers for the creates and wakes that already waited.
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AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests, and this description; the author reviewed them.