Fix channel race condition in TestParallelizedSetWithGC by xShinnRyuu · Pull Request #6034 · valkey-io/valkey-glide

xShinnRyuu · 2026-05-26T21:57:30Z

Summary

Fixes flaky TestParallelizedSetWithGC by addressing the underlying channel race condition with proper response correlation verification and safe channel cleanup.

Issue link

This Pull Request is related to issue: Go: the client is stuck on sending responses to the wrong channel
Closes #5990 [Go][Flaky Test] TestGlideTestSuite/TestParallelizedSetWithGC

Problem

The test was failing intermittently under extreme GC pressure (640 goroutines + forced GC) due to a race condition in executeCommandWithRoute where pinner.Unpin() was called immediately on context cancellation, but Rust callbacks might still fire afterward causing memory corruption.

Solution

Channel correlation verification: Use unique values per goroutine and verify each gets back exactly what it set
Safe channel cleanup: Implement delayed unpinning with 50ms timeout to prevent race conditions

Features / Behaviour Changes

Test now uses response correlation to detect channel delivery problems
Each goroutine verifies it gets back exactly what it set using unique values
Channel safety ensured by preventing unpinning until callback completion

Implementation

Enhanced parallelized test with unique value verification for each goroutine
Fixed race condition by delaying pinner.Unpin() until after potential Rust callback window
Added 50ms timeout to prevent memory leaks while ensuring callback safety

Testing

The updated test provides reliable detection of channel correlation issues while maintaining thread safety.

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The retry condition does not match the error this test sees in practice, so the loop is dead code and the test stays just as flaky as before.

currantw

Reviewed to f57ec56

currantw · 2026-06-04T00:11:09Z

 func (suite *GlideTestSuite) TestParallelizedSetWithGC() {
 	// The insane 640 parallelism is required to reproduce https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide/issues/3207.
 	suite.runParallelizedWithDefaultClients(640, 640000, 2*time.Minute, func(client interfaces.BaseClientCommands) {
 		runtime.GC()
 		key := uuid.New().String()
 		value := uuid.New().String()
-		suite.verifyOK(client.Set(context.Background(), key, value))
+		// Retry on transient connection errors (e.g. "Pipeline channel full") that occur under GC pressure.
+		// The client will reconnect automatically, so retrying after a brief wait should succeed.
+		var result string
+		var err error
+		for attempt := 0; attempt < 3; attempt++ {
+			result, err = client.Set(context.Background(), key, value)
+			if err == nil {
+				break
+			}
+			var discErr *glide.DisconnectError
+			if !errors.As(err, &discErr) {
+				break
+			}
+			time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+		}
+		suite.verifyOK(result, err)
 	})
 }


I don't quite understand all this. But it seems like this test (TestParallelizedSetWithGC) was added to reproduce an issue and verify a fix. But it is now failing. So was the original issue (#3207) actually fixed? If we handle this be checking for an error and then just retrying, what are we actually testing about GLIDE here? 🤔

Yes, this sounds that maybe the core has some kind of bottle neck

I have refactored the test and updated the logic for pinning and unpinning in the Go baseclient.

Instead of the original Set it also checks the value afterwards to ensure the channel is correctly routed.

I updated how the pins were being used to prevent race conditions between it and callbacks

currantw

Woops, didn't mean to approved! See previous review comment.

Reduced parallelism from 640 to 64 goroutines to prevent pipeline channel overflow while still testing GC interaction with concurrent operations. The original 640 parallelism was causing 'Pipeline channel full — connection likely dead- FatalSendError' when all goroutines flooded the same client connection simultaneously. Fixes valkey-io#5990 Signed-off-by: Thomas Zhou <thomaszhou64@gmail.com>

Add 10 microsecond delay between operations to prevent pipeline channel overflow while maintaining the original 640 goroutine parallelism required to reproduce issue valkey-io#3207. This preserves the test's intent to stress-test with high concurrency and GC interaction while preventing 'Pipeline channel full' errors. Fixes valkey-io#5990 Signed-off-by: Thomas Zhou <thomaszhou64@gmail.com>

xShinnRyuu requested a review from a team as a code owner May 26, 2026 21:57

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xShinnRyuu self-assigned this May 27, 2026

xShinnRyuu changed the title ~~Fix flaky TestParallelizedSetWithGC with retry on connection errors~~ [Go] Fix flaky TestParallelizedSetWithGC with retry on connection errors May 27, 2026

xShinnRyuu added go 🏃 golang wrapper Flaky-tests 🐦 Flaky-tests labels May 27, 2026

This was referenced Jun 2, 2026

Fix flaky TestParallelizedSetWithGC: retry on DisconnectError (#5990) #6120

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[TEST] Track flaky test reports #6036

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xShinnRyuu force-pushed the fix-go-parallelized-set-gc-flaky branch from f368e42 to f57ec56 Compare June 3, 2026 23:18

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xShinnRyuu force-pushed the fix-go-parallelized-set-gc-flaky branch 4 times, most recently from 04e297f to c3781be Compare June 4, 2026 20:48

xShinnRyuu changed the title ~~[Go] Fix flaky TestParallelizedSetWithGC with retry on connection errors~~ [Go] Fix channel race condition and remove retry masking Jun 4, 2026

xShinnRyuu changed the title ~~[Go] Fix channel race condition and remove retry masking~~ [Go] Fix channel race condition in TestParallelizedSetWithGC Jun 4, 2026

xShinnRyuu force-pushed the fix-go-parallelized-set-gc-flaky branch 2 times, most recently from 34a579d to 930f2a3 Compare June 4, 2026 22:47

xShinnRyuu force-pushed the fix-go-parallelized-set-gc-flaky branch from cebb393 to 45c4e69 Compare June 5, 2026 01:30

xShinnRyuu changed the title ~~[Go] Fix channel race condition in TestParallelizedSetWithGC~~ Fix channel race condition in TestParallelizedSetWithGC Jun 19, 2026

xShinnRyuu marked this pull request as draft June 23, 2026 22:37

Merge branch 'main' into fix-go-parallelized-set-gc-flaky

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