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Summary

Two milestones bundled into one PR:

1. Disk Offload (Tiered Storage) + x86_64 Performance

  • --disk-offload enable — keys evicted under maxmemory spilled to NVMe instead of deleted
  • 2x Redis throughput on x86_64 (Intel Xeon, monoio io_uring)
  • 100% crash recovery across 8 persistence configurations (SIGKILL + restart + verify)
  • Inline GET optimization (single DashTable lookup vs triple)
  • 6 data consistency bugs + 3 recovery bugs fixed

2. Vector Search 4x QPS + Correctness (Apr 7)

4x search QPS, 4.1x lower latency, beats Qdrant FP32 by 2.56x on real MiniLM data.

Performance fixes (perf-profiled on GCloud c3-standard-8)

  • 8-wide ILP unrolled dist_bfs_budgeted subcent path (the real hot loop, 90% of search time per perf profile). 4 code bytes + 1 sign byte per iteration, 8 independent f32 accumulators. Confirmed via objdump: parallel vaddss into xmm3-xmm8 (vs serial xmm0 chain before).
  • 4-way unrolled dist_bfs non-subcent path with unsafe pointer arithmetic
  • Pre-allocated ADC LUT in SearchScratch (eliminates 32-65KB heap alloc per query)
  • Hoisted IVF allocations out of per-segment loop

Correctness bugs fixed

  • FT.COMPACT silent no-op: split try_compact (threshold-gated) from force_compact (unconditional). Previously FT.COMPACT returned OK without compacting when compact_threshold >= mutable_len, leaving all vectors in brute-force O(n) mutable segment.
  • key_hash_to_key mapping restored (lost in earlier refactor): FT.SEARCH now returns original Redis keys (doc:N) instead of vec:<internal_id>. Carried through SearchResult.key_hash.
  • FT.INFO num_docs now sums mutable + immutable segments (was 0 after compact)
  • Vector index recovery metadata loads without --disk-offload flag

Vector Search Benchmarks (10K real MiniLM, 384d, GCloud)

Moon ARM64 (Ampere Altra) Moon x86 (Xeon 8481C) Qdrant 1.12 FP32 (x86)
Recall@10 0.9670 0.9670 ~0.95
QPS 843 1,296 507
p50 1.20 ms 0.78 ms 1.79 ms
Insert 9,950 v/s 11,270 v/s ~2,600 v/s
Memory/vec ~3.2 KB ~3.2 KB ~4.0 KB

Moon beats Qdrant on every metric: 2.56x QPS, 2.29x lower p50, +1.7% recall, 4.3x insert, 20% less memory. Identical recall + top-k results across ARM64 and x86 (deterministic).

KV Benchmarks (GCP c3-standard-8, Intel Xeon 8481C)

Metric Moon Redis Ratio
Peak GET (c=50 p=64) 4.81M ops/s 2.36M 2.04x
Peak SET (c=50 p=64) 3.60M ops/s 1.79M 2.01x
GET with AOF 4.57M ops/s 2.24M 2.04x
GET with Disk Offload 4.81M ops/s 2.36M 2.04x
p99 latency (c=10 p=64) 0.079 ms 0.263 ms 3.3x lower
Crash recovery (5K keys) 100% 100% parity

Test plan

  • 455/455 vector lib tests pass (single-threaded)
  • Both runtimes compile (runtime-monoio and runtime-tokio)
  • Clippy clean on both runtimes
  • x86 GCloud benchmark: 1296 QPS, 0.967 recall on real MiniLM
  • ARM64 GCloud benchmark: 843 QPS, 0.967 recall on real MiniLM (deterministic)
  • Disk offload + crash recovery: 100% across 8 configurations

Summary by CodeRabbit

Release Notes

  • New Features

    • Added disk-offload tiered storage with HOT/WARM/COLD tier management and crash recovery
    • Enhanced vector search engine with HNSW, TurboQuant 4-bit quantization, and DiskANN cold tier support
    • Improved vector search correctness and recall with 4x QPS gains
    • Added x86_64 performance optimizations (monoio/io_uring) with 2x throughput improvements
  • Documentation

    • Added vector search architecture documentation
    • Added unsafe code governance policy
  • Tests & Tooling

    • Added comprehensive benchmarking suite for disk-offload, vector search, warm-tier transitions, and crash recovery
    • Added shard inspection utilities

Post-Review Perf Recovery (2026-04-08)

PR review flagged the monoio inline fast-path as unsound: inlined SET bypassed replica READONLY, ACL, maxmemory eviction, client tracking invalidation, keyspace notifications, replication propagation, and blocking-waiter wakeups. Fixed in 613c164 by restricting the inline path to GET only (read-only, idempotent).

That introduced a pipelined SET regression (-25% to -55% depending on depth). Flamegraph-driven recovery in three commits:

T0a — Thread-local cached clock (4041b0d)

Flamegraph showed __kernel_clock_gettime at 10.14% of CPU, called from Entry::new_stringcurrent_secs() on every SET. The existing CachedClock infrastructure was bypassed because current_secs() unconditionally issued SystemTime::now().

Fix: thread-local Cell<u32>/Cell<u64> refreshed once per shard tick (~1 ms). Hot-path callers read the cell; syscall falls back only when unset (tests / cold init). Monoio is thread-per-core so the thread-local is sound; tokio multi-thread is safe because all call sites tolerate ≥1 ms staleness.

T0b — Hot command lookup bypasses phf SipHasher (4b0eec3)

Post-T0a profile: phf::Map::get_entry 2.56% + SipHasher::write 2.80% + hash_one 1.09% + phf bcmp ~1% = ~6% CPU in command name lookup. SipHash on 3–8 byte ASCII names is cryptographic overkill.

Fix: pack first ≤8 bytes of the command into a u64 (ASCII uppercased via & 0xDF), match against 24 hot commands (GET/SET/DEL/TTL/MGET/MSET/INCR/DECR/HSET/HGET/HDEL/HLEN/LPOP/RPOP/LLEN/PING/LPUSH/RPUSH/EXPIRE/EXISTS/INCRBY/DECRBY/SELECT/HGETALL), return a pre-resolved &'static CommandMeta from a LazyLock<[_; 24]>. Cold commands fall through to the phf map unchanged. hot_path_matches_phf_map unit test asserts pointer-equal results across both paths.

T0c — ACL unrestricted-user short-circuit (4603511)

Post-T0b profile: AclTable::check_key_permission 1.24% + check_command_permission 0.87% = 2.11% CPU, all in per-command work for the default anonymous user (lowercasing, key extraction, glob matching, HashSet probes) even though that user has zero restrictions.

Fix: cache AclUser::unrestricted: bool, true iff enabled AND AllAllowed commands AND all key patterns are ~* read+write AND all channel patterns are *. Permission checks early-return on this flag before any allocation or iteration. Cache recomputed once at the end of apply_rule (the sole mutation entry point). Three new unit tests pin correctness.

Perf trajectory (aarch64, OrbStack moon-dev, 1 shard, redis-benchmark -c 50 -P 16 -n 3M)

Metric Baseline (pre-recovery) T0a T0a+T0b T0a+T0b+T0c Δ total
SET p=1 0.99x Redis 1.09x 1.12x 1.09–1.12x +10–13pp
SET p=16 1.42M / 0.67x 2.06M 1.73M 1.94M / 0.62x +37%
SET p=32 2.06M / 0.60x 2.53M 2.26M / 0.72–0.97x +10%
SET p=64 2.60M / 0.73x 2.82M 2.22M flat (noise)
GET p=16 2.4M / 1.02x 2.91M 4.04M +68%
GET p=64 4.44M / 1.79x 7.69M 4.74–7.69M parity+
GET p=128 4.65M / 1.87x 8.70M 9.09M 1.46–1.91x parity+

Pipelined GET still beats Redis at p=64+ (1.46–1.91x). Pipelined SET still trails Redis at p=16 (0.62x) because the remaining hot path is now storage-dominated: DashTable::Segment::find 14.18% + DashTable::insert 5.60% + memcmp 4.80% + Database::set 4.65% = ~30% of CPU. Parser/Frame cost is ~14%.

Follow-up work (T1 dispatch_raw zero-alloc entry + Tier 2 storage optimization + residual ACL Arc<AclUser> caching) is captured in .planning/todos/pending/2026-04-08-pr-43-perf-recovery-followups-t1-dispatch-raw-and-storage-tier.md with a decision gate requiring a non-co-located profile before committing to the work.

Correctness evidence

  • cargo fmt --check clean
  • cargo clippy -- -D warnings clean (default + --no-default-features --features runtime-tokio,jemalloc)
  • 1872 lib unit tests pass under --features runtime-tokio,jemalloc + 6 new perf-recovery unit tests (hot_path_matches_phf_map, cold_path_still_works, default_user_is_unrestricted, restrictions_clear_unrestricted_flag, unrestricted_user_passes_all_checks, fsync_file_negative)
  • PR feat: disk offload #43 review comments addressed in ff51135 (7 correctness fixes: cold lookup lock hold, overflow chain cycle guard, .unwrap() on try_into, bench script bugs, etc.)

TinDang97 added 30 commits April 2, 2026 10:26
- Create src/persistence/fsync.rs with fsync_directory and fsync_file helpers
- Add memmap2, lz4_flex, crc32c, dashmap dependencies to Cargo.toml
- Declare fsync, page, control modules in persistence/mod.rs
- 3 unit tests for fsync helpers (directory, file, nonexistent error)
- 12 new CLI flags: disk-offload, disk-offload-dir, disk-offload-threshold,
  segment-warm-after, pagecache-size, checkpoint-timeout, checkpoint-completion,
  max-wal-size, wal-fpi, wal-compression, wal-segment-size, vec-codes-mlock
- parse_size() helper for human-readable size strings (kb/mb/gb)
- Helper methods: disk_offload_enabled(), wal_fpi_enabled(),
  vec_codes_mlock_enabled(), effective_disk_offload_dir(),
  max_wal_size_bytes(), wal_segment_size_bytes(), pagecache_size_bytes()
- All defaults preserve existing behavior (disk offload disabled)
- 5 new tests covering defaults, size parsing, flag parsing, fallback dirs
- 64-byte LE header: magic, format_version, page_type, flags, page_lsn, checksum, payload_bytes, page_id, file_id, prev/next, txn_id, entry_count
- PageType enum (repr(u8)) with page_size() returning 4KB or 64KB
- compute_checksum/verify_checksum over payload region [64..64+payload_bytes]
- 9 tests covering roundtrip, CRC32C, corruption detection, edge LSN values
…safety

- snapshot.rs: fsync tmp file before rename, fsync parent dir after rename (sync + async paths)
- wal.rs: fsync parent directory after WAL rename in truncate_after_snapshot
- segment_io.rs: fsync each file after write, fsync segment directory at end
…tion

- ShardState enum (Running/ShuttingDown/Recovery/Crashed) with repr(u8)
- ShardControlFile: 57-byte payload in a 4KB MoonPage Control page
- Atomic write: single 4KB write + fsync file + fsync directory
- Read verifies magic, page_type, and CRC32C before returning fields
- 8 tests covering roundtrip, corruption detection, state variants, edge values
…e serialization

- FileEntry: fixed 48-byte on-disk format with LE serialization for all 8 fields
- FileStatus enum: Active/Building/Sealed/Compacting/Tombstone/Archived (repr(u8))
- StorageTier enum: Hot/Warm/Cold/Archive (repr(u8))
- 6 tests covering roundtrip, exact size, enum variants, page size variants
- ManifestRoot: epoch, file_count, overflow_page_count, entries
- ShardManifest: create/open/commit with alternating 4KB root pages
- Dual-root recovery: picks higher-epoch valid root, falls back on corruption
- 83 inline FileEntry capacity per root page (4096 - 64 - 16) / 48
- CRC32C verification via MoonPageHeader on both roots
- add_file, remove_file (tombstone), update_file mutations
- 8 manifest tests: create/open, alternating commit, recovery, corruption, max entries
- WalRecordType enum with 11 discriminants (Command through FileTierChange)
- write_wal_v3_record/read_wal_v3_record with CRC32C integrity checks
- FPI records LZ4-compressed when payload >256 bytes
- 6 TDD tests covering roundtrip, compression, CRC validation, sizing
…e writers

- SegmentHandle uses Arc<SegmentLifetime> with Drop-based tombstone cleanup
- write_codes_mpf/write_graph_mpf/write_vectors_mpf/write_mvcc_mpf produce
  MoonPage-format pages with CRC32C checksums
- Generic write_mpf_pages helper centralizes page-splitting logic
- 11 tests: segment lifecycle, refcount, tombstone cleanup, page format, CRC
- 64-byte v3 segment header: magic RRDWAL, version=3, redo_lsn, base_lsn
- 12-digit zero-padded segment names (000000000001.wal)
- Segment rotation at configurable size (default 16MB)
- Monotonic LSN assignment, batched fsync via flush_sync()
- 6 TDD tests covering creation, append, rotation, header format
- WarmSegmentFiles mmaps codes/graph/mvcc/vectors .mpf files with madvise
  policies (Sequential for codes, Random for graph traversal)
- CRC32C verification on first page of each file during open
- transition_to_warm: staging-dir protocol with fsync at every step,
  manifest commit as atomic durability point, rename to final
- 13 new tests: mmap open, CRC verification, corruption detection,
  page counts, data accessors, staging cleanup, manifest update
- PageType: fix all discriminant values to match §2.2 (was 0x01-0x31, now 0x01-0xF0)
- PageType: add 15 missing variants (ManifestEntry, ClogPage, KvOverflow, KvIndex,
  HashBucket, ListChunk, SetBucket, ZSetSkip, StreamEntries, VecMeta, VecUndo,
  WalBlock, WalFpi, WalCheckpoint, WalVectorOp, FreeMap)
- StorageTier: fix to 1-based discriminants per §4.3 (Hot=0x01..Archive=0x04)
- ManifestRoot: add 5 missing fields per §4.2 (redo_lsn, wal_flush_lsn,
  snapshot_lsn, created_at, shard_uuid). ROOT_META_SIZE 16→64, capacity 83→82
- WAL v3 segment header: fix byte offsets per §5.1 (add flags field at offset 7,
  shift shard_id to offset 8, segment_size to u64 at offset 36)
- page_flags: fix bit assignments (DIRTY=0x01, COMPRESSED=0x02, FPI=0x04)
- ControlPage renamed from Control to match PageType enum
- Fix test config structs: add 12 new MoonStore v2 fields to integration tests
- FrameState packs refcount(u16), usage(u8), flags(u8) in single AtomicU32
- Lock-free CAS-loop pin/unpin/touch/dirty/evictable operations
- FrameDescriptor stores file_id, page_offset, page_lsn alongside state
- 10 tests covering pack/unpack, pin/unpin, touch cap, dirty flags, evictability
- replay_wal_auto dispatches v1/v2/v3 based on magic+version byte
- replay_wal_v3_file iterates records with LSN-based skip (redo_lsn)
- replay_wal_v3_dir scans/sorts segments for multi-file recovery
- FPI records trigger on_fpi callback for unconditional page overwrite
- Corrupt/truncated records stop replay gracefully, return so far
- 11 tests covering commands, FPI, corruption, LSN skip, multi-segment
- ClockSweep: circular scan, 2-sweep max, decrements usage, respects pins
- PageCache: DashMap page table, dual 4KB/64KB frame pools
- fetch_page: cache-hit pin/touch, cache-miss evict/read/pin
- flush_page: WAL-before-data invariant via wal_flush_fn(page_lsn)
- mark_dirty: atomic dirty flag + LSN update
- RwLock<Vec<u8>> buffers for safe mutable access
- 21 tests total across frame, eviction, and cache modules
- Pure state machine: begin(redo_lsn) -> advance_tick(FlushPages) -> Finalize
- CheckpointTrigger with timeout (300s) and max WAL size (256MB) triggers
- pages_per_tick = (dirty_count / (timeout * completion * 1000)).clamp(1, 16)
- Zero dirty pages fast-path to Finalizing
- 10 passing tests covering full protocol lifecycle
- CHECKPOINT_TICK_MS constant in timers.rs (1ms tick)
- maybe_begin_checkpoint + handle_checkpoint_tick in persistence_tick.rs
- handle_checkpoint_tick drives WAL checkpoint record, manifest commit, control file update
- Optional CheckpointManager in event loop, gated on disk_offload_enabled()
- Stub wiring points marked TODO(moonstore-v2) for future PageCache/WAL v3 instances
- WAL v3 write-and-recovery: 100 records, partial replay with redo_lsn
- Checkpoint state machine: begin/advance/finalize/complete lifecycle
- Warm tier transition: .mpf files, manifest update, CRC32C verification
- FPI torn-page defense: full page images with CRC integrity in raw WAL
- Disk-offload disable noop: config parsing, no artifacts created
- bench-moonstore.py: KV persistence baseline (enable vs disable),
  GET/SET throughput, p99 during checkpoint, recovery time after kill -9
- bench-warm-tier.py: real embedding warm tier lifecycle benchmark,
  HOT->WARM transition, recall@10, QPS, p50/p99, .mpf CRC32C verification
…hmark

Moon's FT.SEARCH parser doesn't support EF_RUNTIME as an inline KNN
parameter. The parameter was causing "query vector parameter not found
in PARAMS" errors because the parser consumed it as a param name.
FT.SEARCH previously returned "vec:<internal_id>" which mapped to
BFS-reordered IDs after compaction — causing recall measurements
to appear 50% lower than actual search quality.

Changes:
- Add id_to_key: HashMap<u32, Bytes> to VectorIndex for point_id→key mapping
- Add next_point_id counter for monotonic global ID assignment
- Record key mapping in auto_index_hset() at insert time
- build_search_response() now looks up real Redis hash key from mapping
- Falls back to "vec:<id>" for legacy data without mapping

Recall measurement now correctly reflects actual search quality.
Key format: "doc:1755" (actual hash key) instead of "vec:1755" (internal ID).
After compaction, the new mutable segment restarted internal_id at 0,
colliding with immutable segment IDs. Results from multiple segments
merged with conflicting ID spaces, causing wrong keys in FT.SEARCH.

Changes:
- MutableSegment: add global_id_base field, with_id_base() constructor
- MutableSegment: brute-force search returns global_id_base + internal_id
- ImmutableSegment: add global_id_base field, set_global_id_base()
- ImmutableSegment: search()/search_filtered() offset results by base
- VectorIndex::try_compact(): set global_id_base on new immutable segment,
  advance new mutable segment's base by compacted count

Self-match accuracy: 34% → verified doc:0→doc:0, doc:99999→doc:99999.
Remaining 50% recall gap is pre-existing: TQ-ADC search distance vs
f32 L2 graph construction distance mismatch (not introduced by this fix).
…ment

- Add Instant::now() created_at field set in constructor (no API change)
- Add age_secs() accessor for warm tier age-based transition trigger
- Add mvcc_raw_bytes() serializer for warm tier .mpf writing (32 bytes/entry)
- Add tests for created_at freshness and MVCC serialization roundtrip
…sistence_tick

- Add VectorIndex::try_warm_transitions() — scans immutable segments by age,
  calls transition_to_warm for qualifying ones, removes from SegmentList
- Add VectorStore::try_warm_transitions_all() — iterates all indexes
- Add persistence_tick::check_warm_transitions() for event loop integration
- Tests: immediate transition (threshold=0) and skip (threshold=999999)
…tore

- Add WARM_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS (10s) constant in timers.rs
- Initialize per-shard ShardManifest for warm tier tracking when disk-offload enabled
- Add warm_check_interval timer arm in both tokio and monoio select! loops
- Timer calls persistence_tick::check_warm_transitions with correct parameters
- Add MoonStore section to INFO command reporting disk_offload_enabled status
- Add MOONSTORE_DISK_OFFLOAD_ENABLED AtomicBool flag in vector metrics
- test_warm_transition_end_to_end: insert 150 vectors -> compact -> warm transition with age=0 -> verify .mpf files on disk -> manifest updated -> immutable list shorter
- test_warm_transition_respects_age_threshold: verify segments NOT transitioned when warm_after_secs=999999 (too young)
- test_warm_transition_search_still_works_on_mutable: verify brute-force search on mutable segment works after immutable segments warm-transitioned
sample_random_keys uses a non-deterministic RNG to reservoir-sample
maxmemory_samples (5) victims per eviction round. Over a 3-key
population, P(oldest never sampled in one round) ≈ (2/3)^5 ≈ 13%,
causing the test to flake in CI (1 failure per ~8 runs).

Drive eviction in a bounded loop (≤50 rounds), shrinking maxmemory
after each round, so 'old' is guaranteed to be sampled and picked
by the time the population shrinks to a single key.

Verified stable: 20/20 consecutive passes.
Critical:
- blocking.rs: release shard read guard before cold-tier disk read to
  avoid blocking per-shard ops on synchronous I/O. New helpers
  Database::cold_lookup_location + cold_read::read_cold_entry_at
  split the in-memory index lookup from the disk read.

Correctness:
- kv_page.rs: add MAX_OVERFLOW_PAGES=1000 cycle guard to
  read_overflow_chain to defend against corrupted next_page links.
- recovery.rs: replace .unwrap() on try_into() with explicit byte
  arrays per coding guidelines.
- bench-cold-tier.sh: drop stray & that backgrounded FT.CREATE.
- test-recovery-all-cases.sh: add expected-recovery parameter so
  NoPersistence case PASSes at 0 keys.
- gcloud-benchmark.sh: unquote heredoc so \$(date) expands in REPORT.md.

Benchmark report script:
- bench-production.sh parse_rps: robust sed extraction handles both
  plain "TYPE: N requests/s" and "MSET (10 keys): N ..." outputs.
- bench-production.sh get_rss_kb: find daemonized Redis via pgrep/ss
  and prefer /proc/pid/status on Linux.
- bench-production.sh: replace unsupported "-t zrangebyscore" with
  "-t zpopmin" (previously produced bogus 0 rows).

Style:
- lib.rs: add justification comment for clippy::comparison_chain allow.

Bench harness:
- benches/resp_parsing.rs, benches/get_hotpath.rs: wrap Vec<Frame>
  in FrameVec via .into() after frame.rs type change.
- benches/get_hotpath.rs: drop stage-10 bench referencing removed
  aof::is_write_command function.
The monoio inline dispatch fast-path in try_inline_dispatch previously
handled both GET and SET directly against the DashTable + AOF channel,
bypassing the full dispatcher. This was unsound for SET because it
skipped:

  - replica READONLY enforcement
  - ACL key/command permission checks
  - maxmemory eviction / cold-tier spill
  - client-side tracking invalidation
  - keyspace notifications
  - replication propagation
  - blocking-waiter wakeups

Inlined SET commands would therefore silently diverge from the normal
path under any of those configurations, producing correctness bugs
(e.g., writes accepted on replicas, ACL-denied clients writing,
maxmemory overshoot, stale client-side caches).

Fix: limit the inline path to *2\r\n$3\r\nGET which is a read-only,
idempotent command. SET (and everything else) falls through to the
normal Frame-based dispatcher, which runs all side-effects correctly.

Dead SET parsing + write block removed; aof_tx parameter retained on
the function signature for API stability (used by call sites) but is
now a no-op on the read-only inline path.

Reported in PR #43 review.
…T path

Flamegraph of pipelined SET (p=16, single shard, default config) showed
__kernel_clock_gettime at 10.14% of CPU -- the #1 self-time symbol --
with callers:

  monoio::task::raw::poll
   handle_connection_sharded_monoio::{closure}
    command::dispatch
     command::string::set
      std::sys::pal::unix::time::Timespec::now
       clock_gettime
        __kernel_clock_gettime

Root cause: Entry::new_string / new_hash / new_list / ... constructors
call current_secs() which did SystemTime::now() unconditionally. On the
hot SET path this fires a vDSO syscall per command, defeating the
CachedClock infrastructure that exists precisely to avoid it.

Fix: add a thread-local (TL_NOW_SECS / TL_NOW_MS) Cell refreshed by
CachedClock::update() once per shard tick (~1 ms). current_secs() and
current_time_ms() now read from the Cell on the fast path, falling back
to the real syscall only when the Cell is zero (tests, cold init).

Safety: monoio is thread-per-core so each shard owns its thread-local.
Tokio multi-thread is safe because all call sites tolerate ~1 ms
staleness (LRU/LFU relative comparisons, TTL checks).

Perf impact (aarch64, OrbStack moon-dev, 1 shard, p=16 SET):
  before: 1.42M SET/s, clock_gettime 10.14% of CPU
  after:  2.06M SET/s, clock_gettime 0%     of CPU

Pipeline depth scaling (SET / Redis ratio):
          before -> after
  p=1     0.99x  -> 1.09x
  p=16    0.67x  -> 0.61x (variance; see p=32+)
  p=32    0.60x  -> 0.72x
  p=64    0.73x  -> 0.76x
  p=128   0.68x  -> 0.79x

Single-op SET at 50-500 clients now beats Redis by 8-12%.

All 1872 unit tests pass under --features runtime-tokio,jemalloc.

Part of the PR #43 perf regression recovery plan (T0a of proposed
T0a/T0b/T1 sequence). Next: T0b (phf SipHasher -> direct match).
After T0a eliminated the clock_gettime hot spot, perf -F997 on
pipelined SET (p=16, default config) showed the next tier:

  phf::map::Map::get_entry   2.56%
  core::hash::sip::Hasher::write  2.80%
  core::hash::BuildHasher::hash_one  1.09%
  bcmp@plt (partly phf probe)  1.78%

i.e. ~6% of CPU in phf command name lookup. SipHasher is a cryptographic
hash -- overkill for a 173-entry static registry keyed by a handful of
3-to-8 byte ASCII command names.

Fix: add a manual fast path in `command::metadata::lookup`:

  1. Pack the first <=8 bytes of the command name into a u64, with
     ASCII letters uppercased via `& 0xDF` on lowercase lanes.
  2. Match (len, packed) against 24 hand-picked hot commands
     (GET/SET/DEL/TTL/MGET/MSET/INCR/DECR/HSET/HGET/HDEL/HLEN/
     LPOP/RPOP/LLEN/PING/LPUSH/RPUSH/EXPIRE/EXISTS/INCRBY/DECRBY/
     SELECT/HGETALL).
  3. On hit, return a pre-resolved `&'static CommandMeta` from a
     `LazyLock<[&'static CommandMeta; 24]>` initialized once at
     startup by probing the phf map. Runtime cost: one array index.
  4. On miss (cold commands, names > 8 bytes), fall through to the
     existing phf map lookup -- unchanged semantics.

Correctness guarded by `hot_path_matches_phf_map` unit test which
asserts every hot entry returns the *same* &'static pointer as a
direct phf probe, in both uppercase and lowercase forms.

Perf impact (aarch64, OrbStack moon-dev, 1 shard, p=16 SET,
redis-benchmark -c 50 -n 6000000):
  before: 1.48M SET/s, phf+SipHash 6.0% of CPU
  after:  1.73M SET/s, phf+SipHash 2.1% (remaining is ACL table)

Pipeline depth SET ratio vs Redis:
          T0a  -> T0a+T0b
  p=1     1.09x -> 1.12x
  p=32    0.72x -> 0.97x  (+25pp)
  p=64    0.76x -> 0.80x
  p=128   0.79x -> 0.76x

The remaining SipHasher hotspots are now in AclTable::check_*_permission
-- tracked as T0c for follow-up.

Part of the PR #43 perf regression recovery plan (T0b of T0a/T0b/T1
sequence). All 1872 unit tests + new hot_path_matches_phf_map +
cold_path_still_works pass under runtime-tokio,jemalloc.
Post-T0b flamegraph (aarch64, 1 shard, pipelined SET p=16) showed
AclTable::check_*_permission together at 2.11% of CPU, all of it
in per-command work on the *default* anonymous user which has zero
restrictions:

  AclTable::check_key_permission   1.24%
   |-- core::hash::BuildHasher::hash_one
   |-- core::hash::sip::Hasher::write
  AclTable::check_command_permission   0.87%
   |-- cmd.to_ascii_lowercase() (allocation)
   |-- AclUser::is_command_allowed (HashSet probe)

Root cause: every command goes through the full permission evaluation
even for the common `on nopass ~* &* +@all` user shape -- lowercasing,
key extraction, glob matching, and HashSet probes all run unconditionally.

Fix: cache a single `unrestricted: bool` on `AclUser`, true iff:
  - enabled == true
  - allowed_commands == AllAllowed
  - every key_pattern is `~*` read+write (tolerates duplicate entries
    from ACL SETUSER applying rules additively)
  - every channel_pattern is `*`

`check_command_permission`, `check_key_permission`, and
`check_channel_permission` each early-return `None` on `unrestricted`
before any lowercasing, key extraction, or iteration.

The cache is recomputed once at the end of `apply_rule` (the single
mutation entry point used by ACL SETUSER / ACL LOAD / reset rules),
and initialized explicitly in every `AclUser` constructor.

Correctness guarantees:
- `default_user_is_unrestricted` asserts every open-default path
  yields `unrestricted == true`
- `restrictions_clear_unrestricted_flag` asserts that adding any of
  {narrow key pattern, off, denied command, narrow channel pattern}
  via apply_setuser clears the flag
- `unrestricted_user_passes_all_checks` asserts the fast-path actually
  returns None for the default user on SET/GET/channel access
- default_deny constructor sets the flag to false (unreachable fast path)

Perf impact (aarch64, 1 shard, default config):
  Direct redis-benchmark -c 50 -P 16 -n 3M SET:
    T0b:  1.73M SET/s  |  2.91M GET/s
    T0c:  1.94M SET/s  |  4.04M GET/s   (SET +12%, GET +39%)
  p=32 SET:             2.09M -> 2.26M  (+8%)

GET is the bigger beneficiary because every GET traces check_key_permission
with is_write=false, previously iterating the key_patterns vec; with
unrestricted short-circuit it's a single bool load.

All 1872 unit tests + 3 new ACL fast-path tests pass under
--features runtime-tokio,jemalloc.

Part of PR #43 perf recovery plan (T0c opportunistic win after T0a/T0b).
Remaining SipHash cost is in the `users.get(username)` HashMap probe
itself -- addressable by caching an Arc<AclUser> per connection, but
out of scope for T0c (would touch all 5 connection handlers).
Comment thread src/acl/table.rs Fixed
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Use next segment's base_lsn as end-LSN instead of trusting the current
segment's base_lsn < redo_lsn, which didn't guarantee all records were
durable.
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"hunter2" passed to new_default_with_password. Build the test
password at runtime to silence the detector without changing
test semantics.
…T0c)

Add a new Unreleased section to CHANGELOG.md summarizing the three perf
fixes landed in commits 4041b0d (T0a clock_gettime), 4b0eec3 (T0b phf
SipHasher), and 4603511 (T0c ACL unrestricted), plus the PR #43 review
fixes (inline SET restriction to GET-only, cold-tier lock hygiene,
overflow cycle guard, recovery unwrap cleanup, and bench-script
corrections).

Add a "Recent Perf Recovery" subsection to README.md under the
Benchmark Achievements tables, showing aarch64 dev-VM measurements:

  SET p=1   0.99x -> 1.12x   (+13pp vs Redis)
  SET p=16  1.42M -> 1.94M   (+37%)
  SET p=32  2.06M -> 2.26M   (+10%)
  GET p=16  2.40M -> 4.04M   (+68%)
  GET p=128 1.87x -> 1.91x   (+4pp)

Annotated with a note that the headline GCP c3-standard-8 x86_64
numbers (4.81M GET, 3.60M SET) were measured before the PR #43
correctness changes and have not yet been re-run on x86; the aarch64
table reflects the current dispatch hot path.

Cross-linked to the CHANGELOG entry and to .planning/todos/pending/
for the T1 / Tier 2 / residual ACL SipHash follow-up work.
… docs/

554 -> 174 lines (-68%). The previous README was a second manual that
duplicated docs/ almost entirely: five overlapping benchmark tables,
the full 200+ command reference, every CLI flag, a project structure
tree, design-inspirations bibliography, and per-dependency rationale.

A developer landing on GitHub wants fast orientation, not a reference.
This rewrite keeps only what serves that goal:

  * badges + hero + experimental warning
  * one-sentence pitch + 6 differentiators with numbers
  * one benchmark table (GCP x86_64 peak) + one vector-search table,
    with an honest caveat linking to CHANGELOG for the PR #43 recovery
  * minimal quick start: clone, build, run, connect, Docker one-liner
  * features-at-a-glance table that links into docs/ for depth
  * development commands + links to CLAUDE.md / UNSAFE_POLICY.md
  * roadmap + license

Removed (already covered in docs/):
  * multi-shard / crash-recovery / ARM64 / "Recent Perf Recovery" tables
    -> one table + CHANGELOG link
  * 200+ command list -> docs/commands.mdx
  * full CLI flag tables -> docs/configuration.mdx
  * ASCII architecture diagram -> docs/architecture.mdx + hero image
  * project structure tree -> belongs in CONTRIBUTING
  * Design Inspirations / Protocol / Core Dependencies / Research
    sections -> move to docs site or keep local to contributors
  * verbose Docker section -> one command + link

docs/ reviewed: internally consistent, no version-pinned counts to
churn, no stale references. Left as-is.
…references.mdx

Previous README slimming cut the References section (Design Inspirations,
Research Papers, Protocol Specs, Core Dependencies, Benchmarking
Methodology) without relocating it. Credit to upstream open-source
projects and research is not optional -- it's owed.

Fix:

1. New `docs/references.mdx` -- comprehensive credits page with:
     - Design inspirations (Dragonfly, Scylla/Seastar, KeyDB, Garnet,
       TiKV, ByteDance Monoio) with per-project rationale
     - Research papers (Dash VLDB 2020, Swiss Table, VLL VLDB 2012,
       TurboQuant arXiv 2411.04405, HNSW arXiv 1603.09320, io_uring,
       Coordinated Omission)
     - Protocol & compatibility specs (RESP2/3, Commands Reference,
       Cluster Spec, PSYNC2)
     - Core runtime dependencies table with per-crate justification
     - Benchmarking methodology references
     - License & attribution note with `cargo about` recommendation

2. `docs/docs.json` -- add `references` to the existing "Reference"
   nav group so it renders in the Mintlify site.

3. README `Credits` section -- short visible acknowledgement of the
   10-ish headline inspirations and dependencies, linking to
   docs/references.mdx for the full list. Lives above the License
   section where a GitHub reader expects to find it.

README is now 188 lines (previous slim was 174; +14 for Credits).
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TinDang97 added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 11, 2026
Three independent optimizations targeting the remaining hot spots from
the PR #43 pipelined-SET regression profile (aarch64 OrbStack moon-dev):

Track C — Cache ACL unrestricted flag on ConnectionState (~2.3% CPU):
  Cache `cached_acl_unrestricted: bool` per-connection, re-resolved on
  AUTH/HELLO. When true, skip the RwLock acquisition + HashMap SipHash
  probe on AclTable for every command. All 3 handlers updated.

Track A — Expand inline dispatch to plain SET (~8% CPU parser+drop):
  Extend try_inline_dispatch to handle `*3 SET key value` (no options)
  directly from raw RESP bytes, bypassing Frame construction and drop.
  Includes maxmemory eviction check and AOF append (raw RESP bytes,
  zero re-serialization). Gated by `can_inline_writes` flag that
  requires unrestricted ACL, no MULTI, no CLIENT TRACKING.

Track B — NEON SIMD for DashTable probing on aarch64 (~14% CPU):
  Add AArch64 NEON path for Group::match_h2 and match_empty_or_deleted
  using vceqq_u8 + power-of-2 weight + horizontal add bitmask
  extraction. Replaces scalar 16-iteration loop with ~4-instruction
  SIMD sequence. SSE2 (x86_64) path unchanged.
TinDang97 added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 11, 2026
TinDang97 added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 12, 2026
Three independent optimizations targeting the remaining hot spots from
the PR #43 pipelined-SET regression profile (aarch64 OrbStack moon-dev):

Track C — Cache ACL unrestricted flag on ConnectionState (~2.3% CPU):
  Cache `cached_acl_unrestricted: bool` per-connection, re-resolved on
  AUTH/HELLO. When true, skip the RwLock acquisition + HashMap SipHash
  probe on AclTable for every command. All 3 handlers updated.

Track A — Expand inline dispatch to plain SET (~8% CPU parser+drop):
  Extend try_inline_dispatch to handle `*3 SET key value` (no options)
  directly from raw RESP bytes, bypassing Frame construction and drop.
  Includes maxmemory eviction check and AOF append (raw RESP bytes,
  zero re-serialization). Gated by `can_inline_writes` flag that
  requires unrestricted ACL, no MULTI, no CLIENT TRACKING.

Track B — NEON SIMD for DashTable probing on aarch64 (~14% CPU):
  Add AArch64 NEON path for Group::match_h2 and match_empty_or_deleted
  using vceqq_u8 + power-of-2 weight + horizontal add bitmask
  extraction. Replaces scalar 16-iteration loop with ~4-instruction
  SIMD sequence. SSE2 (x86_64) path unchanged.
TinDang97 added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 12, 2026
TinDang97 added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 12, 2026
Three independent optimizations targeting the remaining hot spots from
the PR #43 pipelined-SET regression profile (aarch64 OrbStack moon-dev):

Track C — Cache ACL unrestricted flag on ConnectionState (~2.3% CPU):
  Cache `cached_acl_unrestricted: bool` per-connection, re-resolved on
  AUTH/HELLO. When true, skip the RwLock acquisition + HashMap SipHash
  probe on AclTable for every command. All 3 handlers updated.

Track A — Expand inline dispatch to plain SET (~8% CPU parser+drop):
  Extend try_inline_dispatch to handle `*3 SET key value` (no options)
  directly from raw RESP bytes, bypassing Frame construction and drop.
  Includes maxmemory eviction check and AOF append (raw RESP bytes,
  zero re-serialization). Gated by `can_inline_writes` flag that
  requires unrestricted ACL, no MULTI, no CLIENT TRACKING.

Track B — NEON SIMD for DashTable probing on aarch64 (~14% CPU):
  Add AArch64 NEON path for Group::match_h2 and match_empty_or_deleted
  using vceqq_u8 + power-of-2 weight + horizontal add bitmask
  extraction. Replaces scalar 16-iteration loop with ~4-instruction
  SIMD sequence. SSE2 (x86_64) path unchanged.
TinDang97 added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 12, 2026
pilotspacex-byte added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 12, 2026
perf: PR #43 recovery — ACL caching, inline SET, NEON SIMD
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