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api: fail sandbox creates fast when the node refuses the pod - #1629
A create whose node refuses memory admission can wait out the pod-readiness deadline even though its current placement cannot start. Generic ResourceExhausted is not sufficient to identify this case: it also covers transient queue and network-slot pressure.
Extend the pod-UID-scoped FailedCreatePodSandBox watch already merged in #1599, rather than adding a second Event watcher, shared cache, expiration/pruning machinery, or polling loop.
Node-manager prefixes memory-admission refusals with a stable marker. The existing allocation and shim paths preserve it in the kubelet Event.
With SPACE_CREATE_FAIL_FAST_ON_NODE_REJECTION=true, that marker plus ResourceExhausted returns a retryable unavailable error and uses the existing pod/execution cleanup.
The flag defaults to false. Invalid requests retain the existing always-on fail-fast behavior. Queue/slot exhaustion and other transient failures still allow kubelet to retry.
Older node-manager versions do not emit the marker, so they retain the readiness-deadline fallback.
The rewritten branch removes the separate cache/watcher and duplicated smoke harness. It extends the existing API characterization table and node-manager allocation-refusal table instead.
Validation
The regression create_handles_node_refusal::case_4_memory_refusal_is_retryable failed against the base implementation: the create did not end within the test bound, while the five adjacent cases passed. It passes on this head.
Local checks passed:
SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo test -p pplx-space-api --features kubernetes --lib create_readiness: 18 passed, including all seven refusal cases and existing cleanup/joined-create coverage.
SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo test -p pplx-space-node-mgr --lib allocate_refusal_grants_no_lease: 14 passed. The existing table now verifies that only memory refusals carry the marker.
SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo test -p pplx-space-node-mgr --lib admission: 20 passed.
cargo fmt --all -- --check, git diff --cached --check, and the staged Gitleaks hook.
Pull CI on d993bc8a6 passed, including Rust tests/static checks and all 14 Kind/Firecracker smoke shards. Kind Direct CI also passed. The API characterization and node-manager allocation-refusal tables specifically exercise the changed behavior; the general Kind suites are broader regression coverage, not a dedicated flag-on memory-refusal E2E.
This rewrite has not been deployed or exercised in a new production smoke run; earlier dedicated smoke results from the replaced implementation are not evidence for this version.
Severity and risk
Severity: moderate. A placement refused by memory admission can otherwise consume the default 120-second pod-readiness timeout before failing.
Risk: when enabled, a transient memory refusal ends the placement instead of letting kubelet retry it; the caller must retry a new create. This is faster failure, not faster successful startup. The flag defaults to false, generic queue/slot exhaustion remains retryable by kubelet, and older node-manager versions retain the readiness-deadline fallback. Roll back the opt-in behavior by disabling SPACE_CREATE_FAIL_FAST_ON_NODE_REJECTION.
Public contribution review: reviewed the complete contribution and this description with no findings in that scope. New fixtures are synthetic, with no private operational measurements or deployment context.
AI assistance: Perplexity simplified the implementation, extended the existing test tables, ran validation, and drafted this description.
No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.
Walkthrough
The node manager prefixes memory-admission refusal messages. The Kubernetes readiness wait classifies matching resource-exhaustion events as Unavailable when SPACE_CREATE_FAIL_FAST_ON_NODE_REJECTION is enabled. Invalid-argument events remain classified as InvalidRequest. The flag defaults to false. Tests cover memory, invalid-disk, and lifecycle-queue refusals across enabled, disabled, and unset flag states.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to d993b
The change is opt-in and defaults to off, so default behavior is unchanged. With the flag on, a node memory refusal fails the create quickly and the caller retries, instead of waiting out the 120-second readiness timeout. That flag-on path has no cluster-level test or deployment run yet, so confirm it in a cluster before enabling it broadly.
Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to d993b
The opt-in behavior distinguishes memory-admission refusals from transient resource pressure while retaining pod-specific event matching and existing cleanup. The inspected change establishes no introduced or worsened material risk to security, ownership, or failure containment.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — A matching refusal affects the waiting pod placement and its associated create operation, including callers joining that execution. The inspected change does not introduce a cluster-wide refusal cache or a broader event selector.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The new verdict is emitted from the node-manager memory-admission error branch, not from arbitrary ResourceExhausted errors. The consumer requires both markers and the operator-controlled flag. Pod UID matching scopes the affected object but does not itself authenticate an Event writer.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Unavailable does not take the timeout-only preserve-node-work branch. Failed owner creates use existing pod deletion and generation/attempt-scoped retirement calls. Cancellation retains the existing background cleanup path, which uses the recorded pod UID and avoids deleting an execution still owned by a newer activation.
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The title uses the lowercase area prefix "api:" followed by a lowercase summary "fail sandbox creates fast when the node refuses the pod", matching the required format. It accurately describes the main change: the watcher now fails sandbox creates early when node memory admission refuses a pod, gated by SPACE_CREATE_FAIL_FAST_ON_NODE_REJECTION. The title has no trailing period and no ticket IDs.
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The PR description contains all four required items. Checked against the description text supplied in the review context; no repository inspection was needed because this check concerns only the description. 1. "## Summary": Present with content. It states that a create whose node refuses memory admission can wait out the pod-readiness deadline. It also describes the change: extending the pod-UID-scoped FailedCreatePodSandBox watch, adding a stable marker, and returning a retryable unavailable error when SPACE_CREATE_FAIL_FAST_ON_NODE_REJECTION=true. 2. "## Validation": Present with content. It names the local cargo test runs and their pass counts, the Clippy and fmt checks, and the Pull CI and Kind Direct CI runs. It also reports that case_4_memory_refusal_is_retryable failed on the base and passes on this head. 3. "## Severity and risk": Present with content. It gives "Severity: moderate" and a described risk: a transient memory refusal ends the placement when the flag is enabled, and the caller must retry. 4. "AI assistance:" line: Present. The line reads "AI assistance: Perplexity simplified the implementation, extended the existing test tables, ran validation, and drafted this description." Judged on presence only, as the check requires. The check does not assess quality or length.
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The check applies only to pull requests that fix a defect in application behavior under crates/, shim/, or ui/. This PR changes files under crates/l40_api/. The PR states that a create whose node refuses memory admission can wait out the 120-second pod-readiness deadline. That makes it a defect fix, so the check applies. The Validation section names a regression test, create_handles_node_refusal::case_4_memory_refusal_is_retryable. It states that this test failed against the base implementation because the create did not end within the test bound. It also states that the test passes on this head. The diff confirms that the test is in adapter_characterization_tests/create_readiness.rs. The parameterized create_handles_node_refusal test includes a memory_refusal_is_retryable case with NodeRefusal::Memory. The author also names the local commands used to run the affected test tables. I did not re-run the test. The check requires the Validation section to name a fail-then-pass test, and the section does so. The fail-without-fix result comes from the author's report, not from a run I performed.
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The check fails only for removed or weakened tests, assertions, lints, CI checks, or repository guards without a stated reason, and for new review-steering text in AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, skills, CONTRIBUTING.md, or docs/rust. I inspected the full PR range (7 modified files, no added or deleted files). - Tests and assertions: No test is deleted and no assertion is loosened. In create_readiness.rs, the old create_fails_when_its_node_refuses_the_pod_as_invalid is renamed to create_handles_node_refusal. Its three original cases (Invalid, Retryable, InvalidAfterThrottledWatch) are kept. The InvalidRequest message assertion is kept for the invalid cases. Four new cases are added. In runtime/tests.rs, a new assertion is added that checks the memory-admission prefix. The test also now uses matches! and an if over the refusal kind, which is equivalent in logic to the original checks. Nothing is skipped or ignored. - Lints and attributes: No #[allow], #[expect], #[ignore], or equivalent is added. No [lints] table changes. - CI and guards: No workflow, continue-on-error, SPACE_TEST_DEPS_OPTIONAL, nextest, known-failures, allowlist, or baseline file changes. - Review-steering text: No AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .agents/, CONTRIBUTING.md, or docs/rust/ file changes. - Removed code:wait_ready.rs removes the old single-purpose rejection parser and its doc comments, and it replaces them with a classified-error path. The activation_support.rs comment is reworded. These are behavior and documentation changes, not removed checks. The new memory refusal fail-fast path is opt-in (SPACE_CREATE_FAIL_FAST_ON_NODE_REJECTION, default false). The invalid-request fail-fast path is unchanged. The change narrows when the readiness wait ends, but that wait is not a test, lint, CI check, or repository guard under this check. Result: no item in the failure list is matched. The check passes.
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Reviewed at 5b973a7. Reading Events from a single watch into an index is the right approach, and the terminal-phase-without-IP fix covers my #1625 point. One real issue: the marker match is too broad (inline). Two smaller points are also inline.
Rollout point for the description: if this flag is enabled without #1625's capacity clamp, the scheduler still sees free network slots on the node that just refused the pod. The retried create can land on the same node, get refused at the first Event, and be deleted again. That's a delete-and-recreate loop at client retry speed, where today there's one slow failure. Say in the description that the flag should be enabled together with, or after, SPACE_NETWORK_SLOTS_MEMORY_CLAMP.
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Re-reviewed at e3594a8. All four points are addressed:
The match now requires space-err=ResourceExhausted plus MEMORY_ADMISSION_REFUSED. The prefix is added only in the MemoryAdmissionError arm in runtime.rs. The NodeMemory and unavailable arms stay Unavailable, and slot, queue, rate, fence and disk refusals don't match. The queue-full negative test covers that.
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The first watcher error logs at error level.
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Non-blocking: reported_error never resets, so if the watcher recovers and later loses RBAC again, only warns are logged. Resetting it on the next Ok would make it log once per outage. No further issues.
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@crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/sandbox_create_rejections.rs:
- Line 149: Update the rejection-index pruning logic around PRUNE_THRESHOLD and
inner.entries to enforce a cardinality bound during bursts, accounting for
entries needed by active create waiters. Retain expiry-based eviction, and
ensure the bound does not invalidate active waiters’ rejection lookups.
- Line 180: Update the wake wait target to pass the active pod UID from
execution instead of None, so rejection_for checks the cached rejection against
the current pod; preserve the existing pod-name and generation matching in the
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- Line 1001: Update the rejection-matching logic used by wake waits so it
matches only when both the stored pod UID and the wake UID are present and
equal; a missing UID must not fall back to pod-name matching. Preserve name-only
matching for create and create-join waits that may have no UID, using the
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Minor · Do not use name-only rejection matching for a create join when the… · wait_ready.rs:318-329
crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/wait_ready.rs:318-329 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Do not use name-only rejection matching for a create join when the execution UID is absent.
During same-generation started recovery, claim_active_execution_pod_materialization clears the active row's UID before the successor UID is persisted. A concurrent same-target create join then passes None to wait_for_rejection. The rejection index can match the predecessor's still-unexpired refusal by name and return Unavailable with the wrong node and reason.
Make name-only matching an explicit wait mode. Disable it for create_join when the UID is absent, while retaining it for the initial-create path.
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Update wait_for_rejection and PodProxyWaitTarget to make name-only rejection
matching an explicit mode. Disable name-only matching for create_join when the
execution UID is absent, while retaining it for the initial-create path;
preserve UID-based matching when a UID is available.
Minor · Propagate the terminal Pod outcome · wait_ready.rs:229-239
crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/wait_ready.rs:229-239 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Propagate the terminal Pod outcome
If the watch sees a terminal Pod without an IP and no admission rejection wins the race, the error falls back to polling. Create can then wait until the deadline and return PodNeverReady instead of Unavailable.
Use a distinct internal watch outcome for the terminal Pod and propagate it as Unavailable. Keep polling for other watch errors.
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Update the watch handling in the wait-ready flow so a terminal Pod without an IP
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Preserve polling for other watch errors and the existing admission-rejection
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space_smoke/node_memory_admission.py: 1
115-129: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Record the three standing values on their Leases so a killed run can be repaired.
The standing node-manager command, clamp env and fail-fast env exist only in memory in _take_knobs. The other mutation Leases in KindHarness record the faulted value on the Lease before writing it: the cordon, limiter env and drain-gate Leases do this, and _fast_rollout records on the Deployment. The Leases taken here have no repair callback.
Trigger: CI cancels, or an operator kills the process, between refuse_new_sandboxes() and restore_standing(). Every worker's node-manager keeps --memory-admission-reserve-mib=1048576 and refuses every new sandbox. Every later scenario on that bench fails at create. The next run of this scenario also cannot self-repair. It captures the poisoned command as standing, and set_node_manager_memory_admission_reserve rejects a standing that already holds the reserve flag. A stale fail-fast flag is rejected the same way, by the verify at Line 108. Someone must fix the DaemonSet by hand.
Fix: record the standing command and env values as Lease annotations before the first write. Pass a repair= callback to _acquire_named_mutation_lease that restores them. Call it from the scenario preflight, as is done for repair_orphaned_limiter_faults.
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Update _take_knobs so the standing node-manager command, clamp env, and
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- Around line 115-129: Update _take_knobs so the standing node-manager command,
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- Line 263: Update the timing around attempt_create so elapsed is captured in
its finally block immediately after the call returns, before signaling done or
joining the sampler thread. Remove the later elapsed measurement so
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Major · Keep cleanup pending when the pod DELETE fails. · wait_ready.rs:326-329
crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/wait_ready.rs:326-329 Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Keep cleanup pending when the pod DELETE fails.
If admission rejects a fresh-create pod and its DELETE fails, the handler forgets tracking and can delete the sandbox row, yet ECW returns 503. Kubelet can retry the untracked pod after capacity frees, leaving it running alongside a client retry.
Persist cleanup intent and retry the pod DELETE before removing tracking or the sandbox row. Keep the existing cleanup path for an accepted DELETE or 404.
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Update the rejection branch in the `tokio::select!` flow so a failed pod DELETE
leaves cleanup intent tracked and retries the DELETE before removing pod
tracking or the sandbox row. Preserve the existing cleanup path when DELETE
succeeds or returns 404.
Major · Continue restoring settings after a restore failure. · node_memory_admission.py:115-160
space_smoke/node_memory_admission.py:115-160 Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Continue restoring settings after a restore failure.
If API restoration fails and its cleanup retry stalls, it can consume the cleanup budget before the node-manager restore runs. The Kind cluster can then retain the refusing reserve and reject new sandboxes. Attempt the other restores while their leases are still held, even when one restore or verification fails.
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Update restore_standing to continue attempting each restore and verification
when one fails, retaining the leases until every standing setting has been
attempted. Afterward, release the leases and propagate the restore or
verification failures without silently discarding them.
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- Around line 326-329: Update the rejection branch in the `tokio::select!` flow
so a failed pod DELETE leaves cleanup intent tracked and retries the DELETE
before removing pod tracking or the sandbox row. Preserve the existing cleanup
path when DELETE succeeds or returns 404.
Review comments at @space_smoke/node_memory_admission.py:
- Around line 115-160: Update restore_standing to continue attempting each
restore and verification when one fails, retaining the leases until every
standing setting has been attempted. Afterward, release the leases and propagate
the restore or verification failures without silently discarding them.
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Keep cleanup pending when the pod DELETE fails (wait_ready.rs). This PR adds no new cleanup path. A node-admission rejection returns SubstrateError::Unavailable early from the wait, and the adapter then takes the existing create-failure path that unschedulable and terminal pod errors already use (substrate_adapter.rs, delete_sandbox_pod). If the DELETE isn't accepted (anything except Ok or 404), that path logs that the pod may be orphaned and returns err.demoted_after_side_effect(). So the caller is not told to retry into a second sandbox, and the orphan reconciler owns the leftover pod. The flag only changes when we stop waiting, not what happens after. Changing cleanup semantics for every create failure is out of scope here.
Keep restoring settings after a restore failure (node_memory_admission.py). Fixed in 0f40694. restore_standing now tries every knob even when an earlier one fails. A knob that fails keeps its compensation armed. The Leases stay held for the scope to retry and release. The first failure is raised, with the others attached as notes, only after every knob was tried.
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Extend the existing UID-scoped rejection watch and cleanup path. Keep memory-refusal fail-fast opt-in, distinguish it from transient exhaustion, and extend the existing behavioral test tables instead of adding a watcher cache or smoke harness.
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No High findings. I traced the marker end to end, and the classifier's guard holds up under a mutation.
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crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/wait_ready.rs:42: with the flag on, nothing keeps the retried create off the node that refused it.
Memory admission refuses on measured node memory, but kube-scheduler places by resource requests and gets no signal from the refusal. I found no taint, label or allocatable change fed back from memory admission, and the only excluded_node_names use is for stopped replacements (pod_ops/ensure_pod.rs:480). Before this change, kubelet kept retrying RunPodSandbox on the same node and could still succeed if memory freed up within the readiness budget. With the flag on, the create fails in about a second, and the caller's retry (the async create's transient-error budget, or the ECW client) can land on the same node and fail again. The description's risk section prices "the caller must retry a new create", but not that the retry may be refused for the same reason by the same node. That's worth saying in the description or the flag's docs before anyone turns it on. If it shows up in practice, the follow-up is excluding the refusing node on the retry.
crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/wait_ready.rs:622: SPACE_CREATE_FAIL_FAST_ON_NODE_REJECTION has no row in docs/configuration.md.
Its sibling API flags all document there what they do, the accepted values, and which processes need them. This one matters most for the last point: creates run in both space-api and space-cluster-controller (queued native creates, see the SPACE_CLUSTER_ACTIVATION_ADMISSION_SLOT_CHECK_ENABLED row). An operator who sets it only on the API gets fail-fast for some creates and the readiness deadline for others, with nothing explaining the split. Please add a row that says to set it the same on both, and notes the Medium above.
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crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/adapter_characterization_tests/create_readiness.rs:566: the cross-hop contract has no test, and the fixture text isn't what node-manager emits.
I traced the path by reading it. Cold start (start.rs:2418) and restore (create.rs:910) both wrap the allocate error with Status::new(e.code(), "network allocate failed: …") through ActivationCleanupGuard::failure, which returns the status unchanged, and Wake passes it up to the shim's annotateStatus without remapping. So [space-err=ResourceExhausted] comes before the prefix, as split_once needs. But only this hand-written event string ties the two ends together. If a future change sent the allocate error through ActivationFailureStage::failure_status, ResourceExhausted (non-terminal in node_manager_failure_is_terminal) would flatten to [space-err=Internal], which would silently turn the feature off while every test stays green. An sbx-mgr test that feeds an Allocate ResourceExhausted through Wake and asserts the code and prefix survive would close that gap. Separately, the fixture's tail insufficient node memory isn't MemoryAdmissionError's Display (node uses … MiB … above total memory … MiB). It's harmless because only the prefix is matched, but a realistic string documents the contract better.
crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/wait_ready.rs:622: the flag's name is broader than what it does, and it's read from process env on every wait. …_ON_NODE_REJECTION reads as covering all node rejections, but InvalidArgument fails fast whatever its value (the Invalid case runs with it "false"), and only memory admission is gated. …_ON_MEMORY_ADMISSION_REFUSAL would match. Parsing it once into the substrate's K8s config, next to create_data_plane_ready_timeout, would also let the test set a field instead of forking a sim-worker process with env overrides, which crates/l40_api/api/AGENTS.md prefers.
crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/adapter_characterization_tests/create_readiness.rs:595, crates/l40_api/node/mgr/server/src/service/runtime/tests.rs:329: naming and a duplicated literal. memory_refusal_is_retryable is the case that fails fast, while its siblings use "retry" to mean kubelet keeps retrying. Something like memory_refusal_fails_fast_when_enabled would read correctly. The node-manager test hard-codes "node memory admission refused:" instead of pplx_space_node_mgr_client::MEMORY_ADMISSION_REFUSAL_PREFIX, so rewording the constant breaks the test for the wrong reason.
Verified against d993bc8a6262f5e2cf8acebaffac5649d7dfaf69. Reproduced locally: cargo nextest run -p pplx-space-api -p pplx-space-node-mgr --features pplx-space-api/kubernetes filtered to create_handles_node_refusal and allocate_refusal_grants_no_lease, with Postgres required: 21/21 passed. Mutation: I removed the memory-prefix split_once at wait_ready.rs:42, so any ResourceExhausted failed fast. case_7_queue_full_keeps_kubelet_retry failed and the other six passed, so the queue-full case guards the distinction. The propagation through sbx-mgr Wake and the shim in finding 3, and the missing scheduler feedback in finding 1, come from reading the code, not from running it.
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Summary
A create whose node refuses memory admission can wait out the pod-readiness deadline even though its current placement cannot start. Generic
ResourceExhaustedis not sufficient to identify this case: it also covers transient queue and network-slot pressure.Extend the pod-UID-scoped
FailedCreatePodSandBoxwatch already merged in #1599, rather than adding a second Event watcher, shared cache, expiration/pruning machinery, or polling loop.SPACE_CREATE_FAIL_FAST_ON_NODE_REJECTION=true, that marker plusResourceExhaustedreturns a retryable unavailable error and uses the existing pod/execution cleanup.The rewritten branch removes the separate cache/watcher and duplicated smoke harness. It extends the existing API characterization table and node-manager allocation-refusal table instead.
Validation
The regression
create_handles_node_refusal::case_4_memory_refusal_is_retryablefailed against the base implementation: the create did not end within the test bound, while the five adjacent cases passed. It passes on this head.Local checks passed:
SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo test -p pplx-space-api --features kubernetes --lib create_readiness: 18 passed, including all seven refusal cases and existing cleanup/joined-create coverage.SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo test -p pplx-space-node-mgr --lib allocate_refusal_grants_no_lease: 14 passed. The existing table now verifies that only memory refusals carry the marker.SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo test -p pplx-space-node-mgr --lib admission: 20 passed.cargo clippy -p pplx-space-api -p pplx-space-node-mgr -p pplx-space-node-mgr-client --all-targets --features pplx-space-api/kubernetes --no-deps -- -D warnings.cargo fmt --all -- --check,git diff --cached --check, and the staged Gitleaks hook.Pull CI on d993bc8a6 passed, including Rust tests/static checks and all 14 Kind/Firecracker smoke shards. Kind Direct CI also passed. The API characterization and node-manager allocation-refusal tables specifically exercise the changed behavior; the general Kind suites are broader regression coverage, not a dedicated flag-on memory-refusal E2E.
This rewrite has not been deployed or exercised in a new production smoke run; earlier dedicated smoke results from the replaced implementation are not evidence for this version.
Severity and risk
Severity: moderate. A placement refused by memory admission can otherwise consume the default 120-second pod-readiness timeout before failing.
Risk: when enabled, a transient memory refusal ends the placement instead of letting kubelet retry it; the caller must retry a new create. This is faster failure, not faster successful startup. The flag defaults to false, generic queue/slot exhaustion remains retryable by kubelet, and older node-manager versions retain the readiness-deadline fallback. Roll back the opt-in behavior by disabling
SPACE_CREATE_FAIL_FAST_ON_NODE_REJECTION.Public contribution review: reviewed the complete contribution and this description with no findings in that scope. New fixtures are synthetic, with no private operational measurements or deployment context.
AI assistance: Perplexity simplified the implementation, extended the existing test tables, ran validation, and drafted this description.