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A.Shakhmatov
e66030f43e plan: the eight bugs cleared before the free list
Four of them were not in the plan that started this work -- they were
found by tests written for the three that were, which is M0's gate lesson
arriving a milestone early. The record has to match what happened, or the
next session reads a milestone that looks like it went as designed.

Also records what nobody is fixing yet: `rebuild_collection` frees pages
under only the collection's lock while a concurrent checkpoint may have
snapshotted a catalog that claims them, and the `seq` retry cannot see it
because a rebuild appends no log record. Written down so the free list
does not add a second instance of the same shape.
2026-08-09 12:31:56 +03:00
f2844e7894 cursors: server-side cursors for find, aggregate and the listing commands
Every reply came back in a single batch with `cursor.id = 0`, `getMore` was a
stub answering an empty `nextBatch` on the literal namespace `test.$cmd`, and
nothing read `batchSize`. That caps the useful collection size at what fits in
one 48 MiB message, which is the opposite of the tens-of-GB target and the
reason M0 made whole-index scans stream: the streaming candidate generator
existed with no consumer that could suspend.

## What a cursor is allowed to remember

A cursor holds no lock between requests, so everything it saves has to survive
arbitrary concurrent mutation. Nothing here is a pointer, and the two things
that look like stable addresses are not: `reset_tree` re-creates node ids 0 and
1 as different nodes, and `rebuild_collection` moves every document. Three
sources, chosen by query shape, each with a different memory contract:

- **stream** -- an index-ordered walk resumed from a `(key, off)` anchor plus a
  `(leaf, slot)` hint. O(key) state, so this is what lets a cursor walk a
  collection larger than memory. Survives a rebuild, because a repack changes
  no key.
- **offsets** -- the matched slab offsets a narrowed plan already materialized,
  8 bytes each. Killed by a rebuild with `QueryPlanKilled`, because those
  offsets now name unrelated bytes.
- **buffered** -- canonical BSON copies, for a sort no index provides and for
  aggregate/listing output. Depends on nothing, which is what lets a listing
  hold a cursor over a `$cmd.*` namespace no collection backs.

`Collection.layout_epoch` and `Index.epoch` are the invalidation tokens, both
checked as error returns rather than assertions since a client reaches them by
keeping a cursor open across maintenance.

## Resume

`resume_forward`/`resume_reverse` are O(1) while the hint holds and fall back to
an exact-order band walk bounded by `resume_walk_max`. Without the hint, `seek`
lands at the *start* of an equal-key band, so `sort({status: 1})` over three
distinct values across 10M documents would cost ~5e10 comparisons to drain.

Two hazards found by draining a collection while writing to it, neither
predictable from reading the code:

- A deleted anchor must resume at its *band position*, or the rest of an
  equal-key band is silently dropped -- most of the collection on a
  low-cardinality index. Hence `band_index`.
- On a **unique** index a same-key entry can only be the anchor rewritten, so
  resuming at it returned updated documents twice. Observed as duplicate `_id`s
  while updating underneath a drain.

## Protocol

Measured against mongod 8.3.7 rather than recalled, which corrected three
assumptions: a bare `getMore` does *not* inherit the find's `batchSize` (4998 of
5000 documents come back), a namespace mismatch is `Unauthorized` (13) not
`CursorNotFound`, and `CursorInUse` is 143 not 12051.
`internalQueryFindCommandBatchSize` is 101, `cursorTimeoutMillis` 600000,
`clientCursorMonitorFrequencySecs` 4.

The rule everything follows is **never look ahead**: a batch that met its target
leaves the cursor open even when the source is in fact exhausted, so four
documents at `batchSize: 2` take three commands. `limit` acts as an EOF source,
which is what makes `batchSize == limit` close in one round trip. `skip` is
consumed once. `batchSize: 0` returns an empty batch with a live cursor.

Cursor ids are `(nonce << 20) | slot`, always positive. The nonce is not
decoration: without it a recycled slot serves one client another's documents.
Cursors are not connection-pinned, since the driver spec allows a `getMore` on
any connection to the same server; they end at exhaustion, `killCursors`, or the
idle sweep (a second monitor fiber, separate from the TTL one because the
cadences differ by an order of magnitude and a TTL failure must not stop
reclamation). The registry is fixed-capacity and evicts the least recently used
cursor, whose client sees the same 43 an idle timeout gives.

Fixed alongside, because cursors are what expose them:

- `listCollections` reported `"<db>."` with an *empty* collection part, which
  makes the driver throw client-side -- so it would have broken the moment its
  cursor stopped being id 0. Now `<db>.$cmd.listCollections`, as mongod uses.
- `count` ignored `skip` and `limit` entirely.
- `wire.end_message` now bounds a reply by the 48 MiB we advertise rather than
  by `maxInt(u32)`; a reply past what we told the client to expect is not a large
  reply, it is a desynchronized connection.
- Two `codeName` strings were wrong: 72 is `InvalidOptions` (MongoDB has no
  `InvalidArgument`), and 40324 reports as `Location40324`.

## Verification

Unit 160/160 in ReleaseFast and ReleaseSafe; `tests/e2e/e2e7.js` adds 86 cursor
checks across five phases (batching/lifecycle/errors, streaming across churn,
aggregate+listings+count, expiry+capacity, restart) and is self-contained
because cursor behaviour is only observable with non-default flags. No
regressions: e2e 49, e2e3 16, e2e4 17, e2e2 2, e2e6 72. Spec 168 pass / 124
fail, +5 against the previous scorecard.

Mutation-checked, per the repo's second ground rule: `hint_slot + 1`, the
`band_index` off-by-one, both epoch bumps, the id nonce, the at-least-one-
document rule, and `stream_shape` returning null each turn the intended test
red. One claim was withdrawn rather than kept -- swapping `std.mem.order` for
`cmp_prefix` in the band walk changes nothing observable, so the comment now
says so instead of asserting a check that does not hold.
2026-08-04 14:54:27 +03:00
d597597a4c plan/results: record the two post-gate CRUD corrections
The gate results file said the replacement-style-update gap was found and not
fixed, and PLAN said it was left alone. Both were true when written and are not
now, so a reader would take the M0 scorecard for the current one. The M0 figures
stay as measured -- they are the gate result -- with a pointer to
tests/spec/scorecard.txt, which always holds the current number.
2026-08-04 00:03:02 +03:00
504179acd1 results: the M0 gates, measured
PLAN D7's six items, with the numbers and the command that reproduces each in
tests/e2e/results/m0-gates.txt. Unit tests green in both optimize modes, the
whole e2e matrix green, the spec scorecard byte-identical at 131/161/195, and
the large smoke run at the scale D7.3 asked for:

  21.47 GB collection (1,310,720 x 16 KiB)
  data file                 21.75 GB      (+1.3% over the documents)
  log after the load        2.5 MB        (checkpoints reclaim it)
  kill -9 then reopen       0.5 s         (0.5 s at 4 GB too -- flat)
  RSS after reopen          237 MB        (1.1% of the data)
  count after restart       1,310,720     last document byte-intact
  acked writes after kill   200/200

That is the milestone's claim, measured: an open costs the working set rather
than the size of the database. Before M0 the same measurement was 523 MB
resident for a 512 MB database, because recovering each document's `_id` meant
reading every document at open.

Two gates need reading rather than a tick, and m0-gates.txt says so where a
reader would otherwise take a tick for granted.

The churn gate settles at 1.65x live data (delete-heavy) to 2.47x
(update-heavy), flat, above the ~1.3x amendment A2 hoped for. Rebuild-only
reclamation cannot reach that: it needs a whole second copy of the live data
before the first can be freed. The gate existed to decide whether doc-level
free lists are needed after M0, and that is the answer.

Benchmark parity holds for every read and latency row inside the run-to-run
spread, and bulk insert regresses 24% (732 -> 555 MB/s), reproducibly across
three runs. Risk 1 as written: document bytes now reach the disk uncompressed
on top of the LZ4 log. createIndex improves 62% from the same change.

Three measurement bugs fixed while running the gates, because each would have
put a false number in the README:

  - `compare-run.sh` measured "db on disk" as `du` of the log alone against
    `du` of mongod's whole dbpath. It reported 20 MB for a 1 GB collection --
    the documents had moved to <db>.data. Honest figure, measured: 914 MB of
    allocated blocks against mongod's compressed 85 MB.
  - `big.js` counted "compaction events" as "the log shrank", which is a
    *checkpoint* now. It claimed 12 compaction rewrites during a pure insert
    load, which has no garbage to compact.
  - `big.js` labelled peak RSS "in-memory engine: docs live in RAM" and its
    summary said the collection was held "fully in RAM". Both were true of the
    engine this milestone replaced.

README: the storage section described an all-in-RAM engine; the comparison
table mixed one old run's body with three new rows; and `findOne({_id})` was
documented as a full scan for integer ids, which the ordered `_id_` index made
false (2 ms against 55 s for a scan of the same 21.5 GB collection). The table
is now best-of-three for both servers, with the measured variance stated, since
two runs of the same binary moved the sub-10 ms rows by 27-51%.
2026-08-03 23:09:43 +03:00
90de7820da tests/spec: MongoDB spec-test runner and the M0 scorecard
PLAN D2 makes the official specification suites the gate for command semantics;
D7.6 asks for the harness to exist at M0 with a recorded baseline. This is that
harness, pinned on both sides -- mongodb/specifications @ 615e0f9 and
mongodb@7.5.0 -- because a scorecard is only comparable across milestones if a
delta cannot be an upstream test change.

It implements the unified format's Evaluating Matches algorithm as written,
including the two rules that decide whether a pass is earned: extra keys are
tolerated only in a root document, and numeric types compare flexibly. Anything
unimplemented is a SKIP with a reason, never a pass, and the one assertion class
not yet checked -- expectEvents, i.e. command monitoring -- is disclosed at the
top of the scorecard so `pass` reads as an upper bound.

First honest run: 131 pass, 161 fail, 195 skip over 175 files, zero timeouts.

Getting there took four attempts, and the failures are documented in the README
because each would have shipped a scorecard claiming a compatibility gap that
did not exist. Two were genuine leaks in this runner (clients left open when a
case timed out; clients registered for cleanup only after `await connect()`,
plus abandoned cases still creating more). The third I misdiagnosed as machine
load. The fourth attempt found the real cause: a leaked catalog lock in the
engine, fixed separately, which alone accounts for the jump from 45 passes to
131.

So the runner carries its own guards: per-operation CSOT timeouts so work is
never abandoned, an active-handle census per file, an end-of-run tripwire for
stray timers, a hard stop if the server dies rather than emitting hundreds of
misleading ECONNREFUSED failures, and --skip/--limit for bisecting a run whose
failures depend on position. The README states the rule plainly -- a long
unbroken tail of timeouts is a harness bug until proven otherwise -- and the two
commands that settle it.

Also fixes bench-run.sh, which copied its report over bench-latest.txt
unconditionally, including after a run that only warned -- so a degraded run
could silently replace the baseline that PLAN D7.5 makes a milestone gate.
2026-08-03 18:58:01 +03:00
aee23cb028 index/db: enforce _id uniqueness through the _id_ index
_id uniqueness was a `coll.docs.contains` probe. The docs hashmap is going
away (PLAN A3), so it has to move to the _id_ tree -- and the tree answers
better, because it is keyed on bson.encode_key, which is canonical where
serialize_value is not. int32 1, int64 1 and double 1.0 are now one _id, as
they are in MongoDB (A4).

_id_ is built and checked first, so a write violating both it and a unique
secondary reports _id_, which is what MongoDB reports. It returns
error.DuplicateKey with `dup_index` left null, which is exactly what
commands.zig's E11000 rendering already treats as "the _id_ index", so the
wire-visible message is unchanged and that file needed no edit.

check_unique's exclude-self became optional and is null on an insert. That was
a latent bug of its own: a replace must ignore its own existing entries, but an
insert has none, and passing the document's id there hides a collision whose
entry carries that same id -- precisely the case _id_ exists to catch. Only
_id_ could reach it, since a secondary collision is between different
documents.

Two corrections found while doing this, both worth reading:

PLAN A4 claimed a database already holding {_id: int32 1} and {_id: int64 1}
loses one on reopen. It does not. Replay evicts through the docs map, keyed on
serialize_value, so both survive; the tree is bulk-built afterwards with
enforcement off, which tolerates duplicate keys and warns. The loss arrives
only with the commit that drops the map, and that is where it needs a
pre-flight scan. Amended.

dispatch_insert asserted only `ok: 1`, but a rejected document comes back as a
writeError alongside it -- so the mixed-type corpus silently shrank from ten
documents to nine when _id_ became unique, and every test over it still passed.
The helper now rejects writeErrors and asserts the inserted count; it caught
the shrink immediately. The corpus keeps an int64 _id on a distinct value, and
the collision it used to stand in for is asserted directly.

Also adds Index.lookup_exact, which the commands that currently probe the docs
map will need. Exact byte equality rather than cmp_prefix, because {a: 1}'s
encoding is a proper prefix of {a: 1, b: 2}'s and a prefix match would claim a
document is present when it is not.

Mutation-checked, all three red: unique=false on id_index; exclude=id_key on
insert; eql -> cmp_prefix in lookup_exact.
2026-08-03 18:15:21 +03:00
13d7b79f2c plan: amend the M0 decision record for copy-on-write; add AGENTS.md
The M0 implementation review found three of D1-D9 wrong or incomplete. The
originals stay in place with pointers to a new amendments section, so a later
session can see what changed rather than reading a rewritten history.

A1: D4 as written is unsound. The doc and overflow slabs are append-only, so
replay repairs them, but B+tree node pages are mutated in place -- after a
crash the file holds an arbitrary mix of written-back and not-written-back
pages, and once D6.3 truncates the log the data file is the only copy below
the watermark. A half-persisted tree is unrecoverable. So the checkpoint needs
shadow paging: no page below the last watermark's allocation mark is ever
stored into, and the watermark write is the atomic switch. Knock-on: node ids
cannot be page numbers, because Node.parent/next/prev are back-pointers by id
and copy-on-write would cascade; an in-RAM id->page table per index keeps every
persisted id at its current width and gives COW one pointer to fix.

A2: follows from A1 -- a page free list is a prerequisite, not the
defense-in-depth D6.2 assumed, because COW abandons every page it touches in
every epoch. The churn gate stays, retargeted at document garbage.

A3: section 5 step 4's trap was misidentified. store_record already copies
keys, so "entries must own their key bytes" is work that does not need doing.
The real problem is that a leaf record has nowhere to put a slab offset; the
resolution is to make the payload that offset, in every index, and delete
Entry.id rather than re-own it.

A4: making _id_ a unique index keys uniqueness on the canonical encode_key
rather than serialize_value, so int32 1 / int64 1 / double 1.0 collide as they
do in MongoDB -- a compatibility improvement, with a documented one-way
migration hazard for a database that already holds two such documents.

Also records that Engine.seq is never restored on open (harmless today, silent
data loss once a watermark exists), and two bugs the new spec harness found.

AGENTS.md carries the same rules into the operating guide: ground rules grow
from 7 to 9, and the old rule 6 is corrected with a note saying why.
2026-08-03 17:08:41 +03:00