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This is the second piece of the resource_group_round_robin scheduler core, following the job registry in #444. It lands the dispatch queue subsystem: every channel an assignment or a hint travels through on its way from the core to an execution manager. The core and the dispatch service that use it follow in later PRs, so nothing is wired up and no behaviour changes.

The existing round_robin core is untouched.

What the module is

Four types, in one module:

  • DispatchQueueRegistry — the shared handle. One Arc deep, so a clone is one pointer to one allocation holding the per-group table, a SessionTracker clone, and both ends of the broadcast queue.
  • RgDispatchQueueReader — the read side of one resource group's queue. A pinned execution manager blocks on recv_pinned.
  • Hint — what a general execution manager receives from the broadcast queue. It names a resource group; it carries no assignment.
  • RgDispatchQueueWriter — the write side, which the core's scheduling unit owns. Its whole surface is try_send and queue_len.

An assignment is stored exactly once, in the queue of the resource group that owns it. Hints carry no payload, which is what makes exactly-once dispatch structural rather than protocol-enforced.

The design decisions worth reviewing

A hint can be spent at most once, and the type says so. Hint's field and constructor are both module-private, so the only way to hold one is to have received it from the broadcast queue — no holder of a reader can wrap one. consume_and_try_recv takes self, and Hint is deliberately neither Clone nor Copy, so spending the same hint twice is a compile error rather than a convention. RgDispatchQueueReader has no spend at all: the pinned path, which holds a reader and nothing else, has no route to a group's hint counter. That is the accident this shape exists to prevent — an earlier revision put the spend on the reader, where any holder could decrement a count it had no claim on.

Dropping a hint unspent stays possible, and is relied upon: the dispatch service inspects session_id() and lets a stale-session hint go without touching any counter. There is deliberately no Drop impl.

try_send publishes the assignment and decides its hint as one operation. Three orderings used to be obligations on the call site: the assignment must reach the queue before the queue's occupancy is sampled; the occupancy S must be sampled before the hint count H; and a hint that has been taken out must be sent rather than dropped. All three are now internal to one method, so there is one body to review instead of every caller. try_make_hint is private and try_send is its only caller.

The registry owns both ends of the broadcast queue, which has two consequences worth checking:

  • The queue cannot close while the registry lives, so an unbounded wait on an empty queue would never return. next_hint therefore takes a wait_time, exactly as recv_pinned does.
  • It is the one structure a session bump has to empty explicitly rather than by dropping something — every other channel resets itself when its senders go. So clear drains it as well as clearing the table, and does so after the clear, which makes the postcondition unconditional: once the table is empty, every hint the queue could still hold names a group that is already gone.

Every queue in the subsystem is unbounded. The admission threshold is what limits a group's occupancy, so a channel bound would be a second, redundant limit whose only possible effect is to reject a send the design's coverage proof requires to succeed.

Groups are stamped with the session at creation. The registry holds a SessionTracker clone and reads it itself, so no caller passes a session id in. The two accessors create a group on demand through one private get_or_create, which is the single place the stamp is applied.

Error handling

try_send reuses the existing SchedulerError::DispatchQueueClosed — no new variant. Its docstring is widened to cover both queues, which is the only change to error.rs.

Both closures report the same error because no caller can act on the difference: both are fatal to the core, neither leaves anything to recover, and the broadcast one cannot arise in a running scheduler at all. An earlier revision gave the broadcast case its own variant; it named a distinction that was simultaneously unreachable and unactionable.

A note on the file name

core_impl/resource_group_round_robin/dispatch_queue.rs coexists with the crate-root src/dispatch_queue.rs, which holds the DispatchQueueHandle trait. That is intended rather than an oversight: the registry will implement that trait in a later PR, which is also why try_send returns SchedulerError — the vocabulary the trait already documents for this condition.

Visibility and the dead-code expectation

Every item is pub(super): visible throughout resource_group_round_robin so the forthcoming core can use it, and no wider. Nothing is re-exported from core_impl, so none of this reaches spider_scheduler's public API.

Because the consumer has not landed, the module reads as dead to the compiler. Unlike the job registry, its own tests exercise every item, so a bare #[expect(dead_code)] would be unfulfilled under cfg(test) and fire the very lint it suppresses. The declaration is therefore conditional:

#[cfg_attr(
    not(test),
    expect(
        dead_code,
        reason = "the core and the dispatch service that consume the queues have not landed yet"
    )
)]
mod dispatch_queue;

expect rather than allow for the same reason as #444: once the core uses the queues, the expectation becomes unfulfilled and the compiler prints the reason as the instruction to delete the line.

What deliberately does not change

Please read these as decisions rather than as misses:

  • No impl DispatchQueueHandle. The registry is shaped to implement it — next_hint, get_dispatch_queue_reader and the session tracker are the pieces it needs — but the impl, and the wrapper type pairing the registry with the reschedule queue, land in a later PR.
  • No configuration, no wiring, no behaviour. SchedulerConfig gains no variant, scheduler.yaml gains no key, and no code path outside the module's own tests reaches it.
  • spider-core is untouched. SessionTracker is used as it already exists; no method was added to it.
  • One manifest line. dashmap moves from [dev-dependencies] to [dependencies], now that DashMap appears in non-test code.

Checklist

  • The PR satisfies the contribution guidelines.
  • This is a breaking change and that has been indicated in the PR title, OR this isn't a
    breaking change.
  • Necessary docs have been updated, OR no docs need to be updated.

Validation performed

  • Ensure all workflows pass.
  • Add unit tests to assert expected behaviors, including the coverage gate (try_send publishes a hint only while the group's queue is uncovered), the pinned and general read paths, that clear both drops every group and drains the broadcast queue, that a group re-created after a session advance carries the new session, and that both closure paths surface DispatchQueueClosed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added resource-group scheduling support for distributing task assignments through dedicated queues.
    • Added session-aware queue handling, timeout-based retrieval, delivery hints, and queue lifecycle management.
    • Improved handling of closed queues, stale scheduling hints, cancellations, and registry cleanup.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved clear error reporting when assignment queues are unavailable or closed.

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Added a resource-group dispatch queue subsystem. It provides per-group assignment queues, broadcast hints, session-aware registry management, queue closure handling, stale-hint cleanup, and comprehensive tests.

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Resource-group dispatch queues

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Queue endpoints and contracts
components/spider-scheduler/Cargo.toml, components/spider-scheduler/src/core_impl/resource_group_round_robin/dispatch_queue.rs, components/spider-scheduler/src/core_impl/resource_group_round_robin/mod.rs, components/spider-scheduler/src/error.rs
Added reader and writer endpoints, Hint, shared queue state, required dependencies, and dispatch-queue error wiring.
Session-aware queue registry
components/spider-scheduler/src/core_impl/resource_group_round_robin/dispatch_queue.rs
Added queue creation and sharing by resource group, session tracking, broadcast hint retrieval, stale-hint handling, and registry clearing.
Queue behaviour validation
components/spider-scheduler/src/core_impl/resource_group_round_robin/dispatch_queue.rs
Added tests for queue sharing, hint accounting, closure, pinned receives, stale hints, cleanup, and timeout behaviour.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 72e13

If a dispatch consumer is cancelled after receiving a hint, the queue may stop issuing hints for otherwise pending assignments until the next session reset. The change is otherwise mergeable, but this cancellation path needs explicit owner awareness and follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: sitaowang1998

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RgDispatchQueueWriter
  participant DispatchQueueRegistry
  participant Hint
  participant RgDispatchQueueReader
  RgDispatchQueueWriter->>DispatchQueueRegistry: publish assignment hint
  DispatchQueueRegistry-->>RgDispatchQueueReader: next_hint()
  RgDispatchQueueReader->>Hint: consume_and_try_recv()
  Hint-->>RgDispatchQueueReader: TaskAssignment or None
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Storage(#[from] StorageClientError),

/// The dispatching queue is closed and can no longer accept assignments.

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This error is not just used in the reader side, but also the writer side.

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Haven't self-reviewd this test mod yet. May publish some more cleaning commits.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
components/spider-scheduler/src/core_impl/resource_group_round_robin/dispatch_queue.rs (1)

86-145: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Consider restoring the hint count when a hint is dropped unspent.

Hint has no Drop implementation, so a dropped hint never withdraws its increment. If a general execution manager is cancelled after next_hint resolves, living_hint for that group stays permanently raised. try_make_hint then returns None while living_hint >= queue_len, so the group's queued assignments can stay uncovered for the rest of the session, with no signal and no recovery path other than a session bump.

The current design makes the "drop a hint you must not act on" path cheap, and the doc comments state the invariant clearly. An alternative is a Drop impl that decrements unless the hint was spent, which keeps the accounting self-healing:

♻️ Sketch of a self-healing hint
 pub(super) fn consume_and_try_recv(self) -> Option<TaskAssignment> {
-    self.reader.inner.decrement_living_hint();
-    self.reader.inner.receiver.try_recv().ok()
+    let assignment = self.reader.inner.receiver.try_recv().ok();
+    // `Drop` performs the single decrement for both the spent and the dropped path.
+    assignment
 }
+
+impl Drop for Hint {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        self.reader.inner.decrement_living_hint();
+    }
+}

If the deliberate discard path must stay free of any withdrawal, keep the current code. In that case, please make the cancellation window explicit in the future consumer, because the invariant then lives entirely in the call site.

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In
`@components/spider-scheduler/src/core_impl/resource_group_round_robin/dispatch_queue.rs`
around lines 86 - 145, Update Hint accounting so dropping an unspent Hint
restores the resource group’s living-hint count, while consume_and_try_recv
marks the hint spent before decrementing exactly once. Preserve the existing
stale and closed-queue behavior, and ensure the cancellation path in the future
consumer cannot leave living_hint permanently overstated.
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`@components/spider-scheduler/src/core_impl/resource_group_round_robin/dispatch_queue.rs`:
- Around line 86-145: Update Hint accounting so dropping an unspent Hint
restores the resource group’s living-hint count, while consume_and_try_recv
marks the hint spent before decrementing exactly once. Preserve the existing
stale and closed-queue behavior, and ensure the cancellation path in the future
consumer cannot leave living_hint permanently overstated.

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Comment on lines +163 to +169
/// * [`SchedulerError::DispatchQueueClosed`] if either queue this publication writes into is
/// closed: the group's dispatch queue, in which case no hint is published, or the broadcast
/// queue, in which case the assignment is queued but uncovered. The two are indistinguishable
/// to the caller, and a running scheduler never observes the latter: the registry holds both
/// ends of the broadcast queue, so it can only close once the registry itself is gone, i.e.
/// once the scheduler is shutting down; the error is unreachable in a running scheduler but
/// stays fatal to the core.

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