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perf(keeper): replace account recency lru with lock-free s3-fifo - #205
The account recency cache now uses a lock-free S3-FIFO cache (keeper/src/s3fifo.rs) instead of scc::HashCache.
New accounts enter a small probation queue (about 10% of capacity). Accounts hit while there are promoted to a main queue, and main entries get extra passes while their 2-bit hit counter is non-zero. Accounts recently evicted from probation are readmitted straight into main through a ghost fingerprint table.
A hit is one lock-free HashIndex lookup plus at most one relaxed compare-exchange; it never reorders a queue.
Keys are sharded by hash (4 shards per CPU, at least 256 entries per shard) so admissions and evictions on different shards share no queue.
AccountsAccessor::touch(&Pubkey) now records a lock-free read hit (a counter bump) instead of promoting an LRU bucket entry. Materializing a resident account still counts as a hit.
lru_capacity is now the exact resident bound (minimum one), not rounded up to a power of two.
engine/tests/recency.rs replays RPC fan-out against a real Engine. Each round requests 50 hot accounts, then 300 accounts requested only once (more than the 256-account cache), and counts missing_accounts results, which are the accounts a caller fetches upstream. Evictions are drained the way the validator does. On master's LRU, 41–50 hot accounts are fetched again every round. With S3-FIFO they converge to zero within about 5 rounds, and the test asserts zero for the last 3 of 15.
Eviction contract unchanged: displaced pubkeys still go to the subscribe_evictions channel, and cached_eviction_applies still re-checks residency under the lease. One admission can now report more than one eviction (only when a queue hits its stale-entry bound), and materialized sends each one.
Resource bounds: resident entries are bounded by capacity, with transient overshoot of at most one per concurrent admitter. Stale queue entries left by removals are bounded at 2× shard capacity per queue. The ghost is a fixed AtomicU64 table. Queues allocate lazily (SegQueue), so large lru-capacity values don't preallocate.
Performance, measured on an M4 Max (16 cores), capacity 5,000, 32-byte keys, 2M ops, comparing against HashCache with the same read-then-admit-on-miss loop:
Workload
Threads
HashCache LRU
S3-FIFO
All hits
1
76 Mops/s
63 Mops/s
All hits
8
51 Mops/s
454 Mops/s
50% hot (3k keys) + 50% one-off
8
41 Mops/s, 42.0% hit
18 Mops/s, 50.1% hit
80% hot (2k keys) + 20% one-off
8
51 Mops/s, 80.1% hit
37 Mops/s, 80.1% hit
50% is the ceiling for the 50/50 workload, so S3-FIFO keeps the entire hot set while the LRU loses part of it to one-off keys. Admission is slower than in HashCache (about 60 ns per miss single-threaded, against 24 ns). In the validator every miss already costs an upstream RPC fetch plus a subscription, so the hit ratio and hit-path throughput are what matter.
Reviewer notes
Highest risk: concurrent ownership in Shard::evict_node / Shard::remove. Each key's exit is decided by one remove_if_sync (pointer equality for evictions), so a key is reported evicted at most once and a readmitted key's new node is never evicted through its stale predecessor. s3fifo_concurrent_accounting_is_consistent checks inserted − evicted − removed == len == index.len() for both a single shard and a sharded cache.
len is signed because a removal can be counted before the admission it removes.
EVICTION_PROBES caps the work per eviction when concurrent hits keep re-warming main; at the cap the current candidate is evicted regardless of its counter.
The ghost is approximate: colliding fingerprints overwrite each other, which can only cost a readmission into main, never correctness.
Engine::missing_accounts already calls touch on every resident account it scans, so the RPC read path (ensure_accounts) feeds hit counts with no caller changes.
The account recency cache now uses a sharded S3-FIFO implementation instead of an LRU cache. AccountsAccessor::touch records hits without acquiring an account lease or loading an account. Materialization handles all displaced pubkeys, and the capacity documentation now describes S3-FIFO behavior and possible temporary bound overruns during concurrent admissions. New tests cover cache limits, eviction, readmission, concurrency, account-cache eviction handling, and hot-account retention under one-off account fan-out.
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Issue #204 requires bounded crossbeam_queue::ArrayQueue structures for the small, main, and ghost queues. keeper/src/s3fifo.rs instead uses SegQueue for small and main, plus a fixed AtomicU64 …
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- Around line 292-299: Update the eviction loop in `evict_one` so removed nodes
popped by `pop_candidate` do not count toward `EVICTION_PROBES`; count only live
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What changed
The account recency cache now uses a lock-free S3-FIFO cache (
keeper/src/s3fifo.rs) instead ofscc::HashCache.HashIndexlookup plus at most one relaxed compare-exchange; it never reorders a queue.AccountsAccessor::touch(&Pubkey)now records a lock-free read hit (a counter bump) instead of promoting an LRU bucket entry. Materializing a resident account still counts as a hit.lru_capacityis now the exact resident bound (minimum one), not rounded up to a power of two.engine/tests/recency.rsreplays RPC fan-out against a realEngine. Each round requests 50 hot accounts, then 300 accounts requested only once (more than the 256-account cache), and countsmissing_accountsresults, which are the accounts a caller fetches upstream. Evictions are drained the way the validator does. Onmaster's LRU, 41–50 hot accounts are fetched again every round. With S3-FIFO they converge to zero within about 5 rounds, and the test asserts zero for the last 3 of 15.Closes #204
Impact
Eviction contract unchanged: displaced pubkeys still go to the
subscribe_evictionschannel, andcached_eviction_appliesstill re-checks residency under the lease. One admission can now report more than one eviction (only when a queue hits its stale-entry bound), andmaterializedsends each one.Resource bounds: resident entries are bounded by capacity, with transient overshoot of at most one per concurrent admitter. Stale queue entries left by removals are bounded at 2× shard capacity per queue. The ghost is a fixed
AtomicU64table. Queues allocate lazily (SegQueue), so largelru-capacityvalues don't preallocate.Performance, measured on an M4 Max (16 cores), capacity 5,000, 32-byte keys, 2M ops, comparing against
HashCachewith the same read-then-admit-on-miss loop:HashCacheLRU50% is the ceiling for the 50/50 workload, so S3-FIFO keeps the entire hot set while the LRU loses part of it to one-off keys. Admission is slower than in
HashCache(about 60 ns per miss single-threaded, against 24 ns). In the validator every miss already costs an upstream RPC fetch plus a subscription, so the hit ratio and hit-path throughput are what matter.Reviewer notes
Shard::evict_node/Shard::remove. Each key's exit is decided by oneremove_if_sync(pointer equality for evictions), so a key is reported evicted at most once and a readmitted key's new node is never evicted through its stale predecessor.s3fifo_concurrent_accounting_is_consistentchecksinserted − evicted − removed == len == index.len()for both a single shard and a sharded cache.lenis signed because a removal can be counted before the admission it removes.EVICTION_PROBEScaps the work per eviction when concurrent hits keep re-warming main; at the cap the current candidate is evicted regardless of its counter.Engine::missing_accountsalready callstouchon every resident account it scans, so the RPC read path (ensure_accounts) feeds hit counts with no caller changes.