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routewatch/internal/routewatch/prefixhandler.go
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Keep taking messages while a peer's session goes down (closes #216)
The table's PeerDown visits every prefix under the write lock, which
takes over a second on a full table. The prefix handler called it
inline, so its queue filled and the streamer dropped updates.

PeerDown now lets the lock go after every 10,000 prefixes. The handler
runs it on a goroutine of its own, one peer at a time, and holds back
the down peer's later messages until it returns, then applies them in
order. Stop waits for this before its last flush, and logs the
held-back messages it could not apply.

Model: opus-5-5
2026-11-02 00:18:03 +00:00

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package routewatch
import (
"context"
"net/netip"
"slices"
"sync"
"time"
"git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/internal/database"
"git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/internal/logger"
"git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/internal/metrics"
"git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/internal/ristypes"
"git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/internal/routetable"
)
const (
// prefixHandlerQueueSize is the queue capacity for prefix tracking
// operations, about 4 seconds of feed at peak. The streamer drops updates
// rather than blocks when a queue is full (a STATE message is held until
// there is room), so this bounds memory. Batches still flush on a timer
// (prefixBatchTimeout).
prefixHandlerQueueSize = 20000
// prefixBatchSize is the number of prefix updates to batch together
prefixBatchSize = 25000
// prefixBatchMaxSize is the most prefix updates the batch holds while the
// flush goroutine writes the previous one: ten batches, about 15 MiB
// (README "Memory"). At this size HandleMessage waits until the flush
// goroutine takes the batch.
prefixBatchMaxSize = 250000
// prefixBatchTimeout is the maximum time to wait before flushing a batch
// DO NOT reduce this timeout - larger batches are more efficient
prefixBatchTimeout = 1 * time.Second
// maxTableChangesPerWrite is the most changed prefix and origin AS pairs
// of the routing table that one flush writes; the rest wait for the next
// flushes. The change of one pair takes about 430 bytes of memory and 15
// microseconds to write. So a write holds about 9 MB and takes about a
// third of the one-second flush interval, which leaves the rest to the
// batch. The feed peaks at about 5,000 updates a second, each changing at
// most one pair. So the million pairs that a full-table peer's session
// going down changes are written in about a minute.
maxTableChangesPerWrite = 20000
)
// PrefixHandler keeps the routing table in memory current from the feed. It
// applies each update to the table as it handles it. An announcement gives
// the peer a route to the prefix. A withdrawal removes the peer's route, as
// does an announcement whose AS path is empty or holds AS 0 anywhere. A peer
// whose BGP session goes down leaves every prefix.
//
// The table's PeerDown applies a session going down. It visits every prefix,
// which takes over a second on a full table. So the handler runs it on a
// goroutine of its own, one peer at a time, and goes on taking messages
// meanwhile. It holds back the peer's later messages until PeerDown returns,
// then applies them in order.
//
// Each flush writes the table's changes to the database. It also stores each
// prefix the updates name with the time it was first seen.
type PrefixHandler struct {
db database.Store
logger *logger.Logger
metrics *metrics.Tracker
table *routetable.Table
// batchMaxSize is prefixBatchMaxSize. Only HandleMessage reads it, so a
// test may lower it before it hands the handler a message.
batchMaxSize int
// tableChangesPerWrite is maxTableChangesPerWrite, except in tests that
// give a smaller one.
tableChangesPerWrite int
// Batching. mu guards batch, writing and writingTableChanges: the
// flush goroutine takes them under mu and writes them after releasing
// mu, so HandleMessage waits for a database write only while batch is at
// batchMaxSize.
mu sync.Mutex
batch []seenPrefix
// writing is how many updates the flush goroutine took and has not
// finished writing.
writing int
// writingTableChanges is how many changes the flush goroutine took from
// the routing table and has not finished writing.
writingTableChanges int
// batchTaken is signalled when the flush goroutine takes batch; its L is
// &mu.
batchTaken sync.Cond
batchFullCh chan struct{} // wakes the flush goroutine when batch is full
// stopCh hands Stop's context to the flush goroutine. It holds one, so
// Stop does not wait for a write in progress to hand it over.
stopCh chan context.Context
done chan struct{} // closed when the flush goroutine returns
// Peers whose session went down. peerDownMu lets one PeerDown run at a
// time, so the handler's own updates wait for the table's lock behind
// at most one. heldBack, under mu, holds each such peer's later
// messages, in order, until its PeerDown has returned and they are
// applied. A peer with no such messages yet has an empty entry.
// peerDowns counts the peerDown goroutines that have not returned.
peerDownMu sync.Mutex
heldBack map[string][]*ristypes.RISMessage
peerDowns sync.WaitGroup
}
// seenPrefix is what the batch keeps of an update: the prefix it names and its
// time. A flush needs only these to store each new prefix's first-seen time.
type seenPrefix struct {
prefix string
timestamp time.Time
}
// prefixUpdate is one prefix of an update message, as applyToTable applies it
// to the routing table.
type prefixUpdate struct {
prefix string
originASN int
peer string
messageType string
timestamp time.Time
path []int
// endsInSet says the path ends in an AS set of several members, so it
// gives no origin.
endsInSet bool
}
// announcesRoute says whether u gives the peer a route to the prefix: an
// announcement whose path gives an origin, or ends in an AS set of several
// members, which gives origin 0 (none). Any other update removes the peer's
// route for the prefix: a withdrawal, or an announcement whose path is empty
// or holds AS 0 anywhere (the decoder empties such a path). Such an
// announcement replaces the peer's route, as any announcement does, with none
// (RFC 7607 treats AS 0 in a path as a withdrawal).
func (u prefixUpdate) announcesRoute() bool {
return u.messageType == "announcement" && (u.originASN > 0 || u.endsInSet)
}
// NewPrefixHandler creates a new batched prefix tracking handler, which applies
// the updates to table, the routing table read from db at startup.
func NewPrefixHandler(
db database.Store, logger *logger.Logger, table *routetable.Table,
) *PrefixHandler {
return newPrefixHandler(db, logger, table, prefixBatchTimeout,
maxTableChangesPerWrite)
}
// newPrefixHandler is NewPrefixHandler with the flush timer's interval,
// batchTimeout, in place of prefixBatchTimeout, and tableChangesPerWrite in
// place of maxTableChangesPerWrite. A test that the timer must not disturb
// gives an interval longer than the test runs. A test of writes split over
// several flushes gives a small tableChangesPerWrite, so that it exceeds it
// with few changes.
func newPrefixHandler(
db database.Store, logger *logger.Logger, table *routetable.Table,
batchTimeout time.Duration, tableChangesPerWrite int,
) *PrefixHandler {
h := &PrefixHandler{
db: db,
logger: logger,
table: table,
batch: make([]seenPrefix, 0, prefixBatchSize),
batchMaxSize: prefixBatchMaxSize,
tableChangesPerWrite: tableChangesPerWrite,
batchFullCh: make(chan struct{}, 1),
stopCh: make(chan context.Context, 1),
done: make(chan struct{}),
heldBack: make(map[string][]*ristypes.RISMessage),
}
h.batchTaken.L = &h.mu
// Start the flush timer goroutine
go flushLoop(batchTimeout, h.batchFullCh, h.stopCh, h.done, h.flushBatch)
return h
}
// SetMetricsTracker sets the metrics tracker for recording route updates
func (h *PrefixHandler) SetMetricsTracker(metrics *metrics.Tracker) {
h.metrics = metrics
}
// WantsMessage returns true if this handler wants to process messages of the
// given type
func (h *PrefixHandler) WantsMessage(messageType string) bool {
// UPDATE messages change routes; a STATE message can say a peer's
// session went down, which removes all of its routes.
return messageType == ristypes.MessageTypeUpdate ||
messageType == ristypes.MessageTypeState
}
// QueueCapacity returns the desired queue capacity for this handler
func (h *PrefixHandler) QueueCapacity() int {
// Batching allows us to use a larger queue
return prefixHandlerQueueSize
}
// HandleMessage processes a message to track prefix information. A message
// from a peer whose PeerDown has not returned is held back until it has.
func (h *PrefixHandler) HandleMessage(msg *ristypes.RISMessage) {
h.mu.Lock()
defer h.mu.Unlock()
held, goingDown := h.heldBack[msg.Peer]
if goingDown {
h.heldBack[msg.Peer] = append(held, msg)
return
}
h.applyMessage(msg)
}
// Stop waits until ctx ends for every PeerDown the handler started, and for
// the messages it held back meanwhile to be applied. Then it stops the flush
// goroutine, which makes one last flush before it returns, and waits for it
// until ctx ends. That flush writes at most tableChangesPerWrite of the
// routing table's changes, and the prefixes of the updates the handler holds.
// Once ctx has ended the flush goroutine skips that last flush, and a write
// still running is lost when the process exits. A failed write of the table's
// changes is not retried either. Stop logs how many updates and how many of
// the table's changes are not written, and how many held-back messages are not
// applied. The caller calls Stop once its last HandleMessage has returned.
func (h *PrefixHandler) Stop(ctx context.Context) {
peerDownsDone := make(chan struct{})
go func() {
h.peerDowns.Wait()
close(peerDownsDone)
}()
select {
case <-peerDownsDone:
case <-ctx.Done():
}
h.stopCh <- ctx
select {
case <-h.done:
case <-ctx.Done():
}
h.mu.Lock()
unwritten := h.writing + len(h.batch)
tableChanges := h.writingTableChanges + h.table.ChangeCount()
heldMessages := 0
for _, held := range h.heldBack {
heldMessages += len(held)
}
h.mu.Unlock()
if unwritten == 0 && tableChanges == 0 && heldMessages == 0 {
return
}
if ctx.Err() != nil {
h.logger.Error("Stop deadline passed before the prefix handler wrote "+
"its updates", "updates", unwritten, "table_changes", tableChanges,
"held_messages", heldMessages)
return
}
h.logger.Error("The prefix handler stopped before it wrote everything",
"updates", unwritten, "table_changes", tableChanges,
"held_messages", heldMessages)
}
// applyMessage applies msg, with mu held. A peer's session going down starts
// the peer's PeerDown. An update is applied to the routing table, and its
// prefixes join the batch.
func (h *PrefixHandler) applyMessage(msg *ristypes.RISMessage) {
if msg.Type == ristypes.MessageTypeState {
if msg.State == ristypes.StateDown {
h.startPeerDown(msg.Peer)
}
return
}
// Use the pre-parsed timestamp
timestamp := msg.ParsedTimestamp
originASN := msg.Path.Origin()
// The stored and shown AS path lists the members of an AS set that ends
// the path after the rest of it.
path := slices.Concat(msg.Path.Sequence, msg.Path.Set)
// While the batch is at its maximum size, wait until the flush goroutine
// takes it. Meanwhile the handler takes nothing off its queue, which
// fills, and the streamer drops messages for it.
for len(h.batch) >= h.batchMaxSize {
h.batchTaken.Wait()
}
// Withdrawals are applied to the routing table before announcements, so
// a message that lists a prefix as both withdrawn and announced keeps the
// route (RFC 4271 section 4.3). A withdrawal names only the prefix and
// peer: the message's AS path, and so its origin AS, belongs to the
// announced prefixes.
for _, prefix := range msg.Withdrawals {
update := prefixUpdate{
prefix: canonicalPrefix(prefix),
peer: msg.Peer,
messageType: "withdrawal",
timestamp: timestamp,
}
h.batch = append(h.batch, seenPrefix{update.prefix, update.timestamp})
h.applyToTable(update)
// Record withdrawal in metrics
if h.metrics != nil {
h.metrics.RecordWithdrawal()
}
}
for _, announcement := range msg.Announcements {
for _, prefix := range announcement.Prefixes {
update := prefixUpdate{
prefix: canonicalPrefix(prefix),
originASN: originASN,
peer: msg.Peer,
messageType: "announcement",
timestamp: timestamp,
path: path,
endsInSet: len(msg.Path.Set) > 0,
}
h.batch = append(h.batch, seenPrefix{update.prefix, update.timestamp})
h.applyToTable(update)
// Record announcement in metrics
if h.metrics != nil {
h.metrics.RecordAnnouncement()
}
}
}
// A full batch wakes the flush goroutine. If it is writing, the wake-up
// waits in batchFullCh and the batch keeps growing until the write ends
// or the batch reaches batchMaxSize.
if len(h.batch) >= prefixBatchSize {
select {
case h.batchFullCh <- struct{}{}:
default: // already woken
}
}
}
// startPeerDown runs peerDown for peer on a goroutine of its own, with mu
// held. The peer's messages are held back until it returns. Those held back
// for an earlier PeerDown of the peer and not yet applied stay held.
func (h *PrefixHandler) startPeerDown(peer string) {
_, goingDown := h.heldBack[peer]
if !goingDown {
h.heldBack[peer] = []*ristypes.RISMessage{}
}
h.peerDowns.Add(1)
go h.peerDown(peer)
}
// peerDown runs the table's PeerDown for peer once no other peer's runs. Then
// it applies the messages held back from the peer, in order. When the peer's
// session went down again among them, the PeerDown that starts applies the
// rest.
func (h *PrefixHandler) peerDown(peer string) {
defer h.peerDowns.Done()
h.peerDownMu.Lock()
h.table.PeerDown(peer)
h.peerDownMu.Unlock()
h.mu.Lock()
defer h.mu.Unlock()
// applyMessage lets mu go while it waits for the batch. HandleMessage
// then adds the peer's new messages after these.
for len(h.heldBack[peer]) > 0 {
msg := h.heldBack[peer][0]
h.heldBack[peer] = h.heldBack[peer][1:]
h.applyMessage(msg)
if msg.Type == ristypes.MessageTypeState &&
msg.State == ristypes.StateDown {
// applyMessage started the next PeerDown, which applies the
// rest.
return
}
}
delete(h.heldBack, peer)
}
// takeBatch returns the pending updates and leaves an empty batch in their
// place for HandleMessage to fill. The updates count in writing until
// flushBatch has written them.
func (h *PrefixHandler) takeBatch() []seenPrefix {
h.mu.Lock()
defer h.mu.Unlock()
if len(h.batch) == 0 {
return nil
}
batch := h.batch
h.writing = len(batch)
h.batch = make([]seenPrefix, 0, prefixBatchSize)
h.batchTaken.Broadcast()
return batch
}
// flushBatch writes the routing table's changes, then takes the pending batch
// and stores the prefixes it names, without holding the mutex during the
// writes.
func (h *PrefixHandler) flushBatch() {
h.writeTableChanges()
batch := h.takeBatch()
if len(batch) == 0 {
return
}
startTime := time.Now()
// Each prefix the batch names, announced or withdrawn, with the earliest
// timestamp among its updates: the prefix tables store only first_seen,
// written when the prefix is new and never changed after.
prefixesToUpdate := make(map[string]time.Time)
for _, update := range batch {
seen, exists := prefixesToUpdate[update.prefix]
if !exists || update.timestamp.Before(seen) {
prefixesToUpdate[update.prefix] = update.timestamp
}
}
err := h.db.UpdatePrefixesBatch(prefixesToUpdate)
if err != nil {
h.logger.Error("Failed to update prefix batch",
"error", err, "count", len(prefixesToUpdate))
}
h.mu.Lock()
h.writing = 0
h.mu.Unlock()
h.logger.Debug("Flushed prefix batch",
"batch_size", len(batch),
"unique_prefixes", len(prefixesToUpdate),
"duration_ms", time.Since(startTime).Milliseconds(),
)
}
// applyToTable applies update to the routing table in memory: as an
// announcement when it gives the peer a route, otherwise as a withdrawal. A
// prefix that does not parse is logged and left out. Each announcement counts
// in the IPv4 or IPv6 route update rate.
func (h *PrefixHandler) applyToTable(update prefixUpdate) {
prefix, err := netip.ParsePrefix(update.prefix)
if err != nil {
h.logger.Error("Failed to parse prefix",
"prefix", update.prefix, "error", err)
return
}
if !update.announcesRoute() {
h.table.Withdraw(prefix, update.peer)
return
}
if h.metrics != nil {
if prefix.Addr().Is4() {
h.metrics.RecordIPv4Update()
} else {
h.metrics.RecordIPv6Update()
}
}
h.table.Announce(prefix, update.originASN, routetable.Route{
Peer: update.peer,
ASPath: update.path,
Time: update.timestamp,
})
}
// writeTableChanges writes at most tableChangesPerWrite changes of the routing
// table in memory, and every peer the table numbered since the last write.
// When the write fails, they go back to the table, so that a later write writes
// them again, each pair with its content then.
func (h *PrefixHandler) writeTableChanges() {
h.mu.Lock()
changes, newPeers := h.table.TakeChanges(h.tableChangesPerWrite)
h.writingTableChanges = len(changes)
h.mu.Unlock()
if len(changes) == 0 && len(newPeers) == 0 {
return
}
err := h.db.WriteRouteChanges(changes, newPeers)
h.mu.Lock()
defer h.mu.Unlock()
h.writingTableChanges = 0
if err != nil {
h.logger.Error("Failed to write the routing table's changes; the next "+
"flush retries", "changes", len(changes), "new_peers", len(newPeers),
"error", err)
h.table.PutBackChanges(changes, newPeers)
}
}
// canonicalPrefix returns prefix in the text form net/netip prints, the form
// the prefix tables store and the IP lookup reads them in. The feed sends IPv6
// announcements compressed ("2001:db8::/32") but IPv6 withdrawals uncompressed
// ("2001:db8:0:0:0:0:0:0/32"). A prefix that does not parse is returned
// unchanged, and applyToTable logs it.
func canonicalPrefix(prefix string) string {
p, err := netip.ParsePrefix(prefix)
if err != nil {
return prefix
}
return p.Masked().String()
}