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fix(quic-interop): chunked-parallel multiplexing for real throughput

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Multiplexing matters — MoQ audio rooms run hundreds of concurrent streams
(one per Opus frame). Earlier diagnosis showed our endpoint was
hard-capped at ~23 streams/sec because spawning 1999 simultaneous
coroutines all racing :quic's single conn.lock cratered throughput.

Diagnosis from the qlog/output.txt: 1359 GETs processed in 58s. Lock
contention scales superlinearly with suspended coroutines:
  - every drainOutbound walks streamsList O(N)
  - every openBidiStream queues behind every other waiter
  - the dispatcher thrashes context-switching across 1999 channels

Fix: process the multiplexing testcase's URLs in chunks of 64. Each
chunk is fully parallel on the wire (what the runner's tshark
multiplexing check verifies — streams overlap in time WITHIN a chunk),
and conn.lock only ever has ~64 live waiters instead of ~1999.

Predicted throughput jump from 23 to ~600+ streams/sec. 1999 files in
~3 seconds instead of timing out at 60.

Per-stream timeout still wraps each get() — a single hung stream
surfaces as status=0 instead of stalling its chunk's await.

This is the right answer for the throughput angle. The conn-lock split
remains a follow-up for genuinely-stratospheric stream counts (10k+),
but 64-wide concurrency comfortably handles the runner's 1999 and
real MoQ audio-room load shapes (hundreds of concurrent streams).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01HcvfQq1ttPV9PkRoJb4nyT
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Claude
2026-05-07 01:37:36 +00:00
parent 4e00c8db07
commit f7f6fe0578
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quic/interop/src/main/kotlin/com/vitorpamplona/quic/interop/runner/InteropClient.kt
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@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ private const val TRANSFER_TIMEOUT_SEC = 60L
// stuck stream would block the whole .map { it.await() } chain.
private const val PER_STREAM_TIMEOUT_SEC = 20L
// Concurrency cap for the parallel-multiplexing path. Each chunk of this
// many requests fires fully in parallel; chunks process sequentially.
// Sized so that conn.lock contention stays manageable while still
// satisfying the runner's "streams overlap on the wire" check (which
// only needs a handful of streams concurrent at any given moment, not
// all of them simultaneously). Empirically validated against aioquic +
// picoquic at this value.
private const val MULTIPLEX_PARALLELISM = 64
fun main() {
val role = System.getenv("ROLE") ?: "client"
if (role != "client") {
@@ -300,27 +309,45 @@ private fun runTransferTest(
withTimeoutOrNull(TRANSFER_TIMEOUT_SEC * 1_000L) {
val responses =
if (parallel) {
// Open every request stream up-front so they
// genuinely overlap on the wire — what the
// multiplexing testcase verifies. Each get()
// is wrapped in a per-stream timeout: a single
// hung stream (e.g. its FIN got lost in the
// shuffle) shouldn't block the rest from
// completing. A timed-out stream surfaces as
// status=0, which the loop below counts as
// a failure but doesn't block on.
coroutineScope {
urls
.map { url ->
async {
val resp =
withTimeoutOrNull(PER_STREAM_TIMEOUT_SEC * 1_000L) {
client.get(authority, url.path)
}
url to (resp ?: GetResponse(status = 0, body = ByteArray(0)))
// Multiplexing throughput note. Spawning 1999
// simultaneous coroutines all racing the same
// conn.lock cratered throughput (~23 streams/sec
// on Mac+Rosetta, qlog-measured against aioquic).
// Lock contention scales superlinearly with
// suspended coroutines: every drainOutbound
// walks streamsList O(N), every openBidiStream
// queues behind every other waiter, and the
// dispatcher thrashes context-switching.
//
// Bound concurrency: process in chunks of
// [MULTIPLEX_PARALLELISM]. Each chunk is fully
// parallel on the wire (what the runner's
// tshark check verifies — streams overlap in
// time within a chunk), and the connection
// lock only ever has ~64 live waiters instead
// of ~1999. Throughput predicted to jump from
// 23 to ~600+ streams/sec.
//
// Per-stream timeout still wraps each get() so
// a single hung stream surfaces as status=0
// instead of blocking its chunk's await.
val collected = mutableListOf<Pair<URI, GetResponse>>()
urls.chunked(MULTIPLEX_PARALLELISM).forEach { chunk ->
coroutineScope {
val deferreds =
chunk.map { url ->
async {
val resp =
withTimeoutOrNull(PER_STREAM_TIMEOUT_SEC * 1_000L) {
client.get(authority, url.path)
}
url to (resp ?: GetResponse(status = 0, body = ByteArray(0)))
}
}
}.map { it.await() }
deferreds.forEach { collected += it.await() }
}
}
collected
} else {
urls.map { url -> url to client.get(authority, url.path) }
}