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Stop waking the idle-GC coordinator twice per call - #5497
Every BAML call woke the engine's idle-GC coordinator twice: once when the call started, to disarm its 100 ms "collect when idle" deadline, and once when it ended, to re-arm it. Each wake is a thread switch. Now:
a deadline still ahead stays armed when a call starts;
the coordinator disarms it itself if it wakes while work is running;
only arming a deadline from nothing wakes it.
A deadline that has already passed still wakes it, so an idle collection waiting to park still gives way to a new call. Back-to-back calls wake the coordinator at most once per 100 ms instead of twice per call. This applies to every SDK and to baml run.
Python SDK, noop() (function noop() -> int { 1 }), median of 7 rounds, 4 CPUs, release builds, telemetry at the SDK default (medium):
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canary
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sync noop()
55.5 µs
40.7 µs
−27%
sync echo("abc")
61.9 µs
47.6 µs
−23%
sync request_line(...), 5 templates
68.9 µs
54.6 µs
−21%
async noop(), sequential
81.2 µs
78.2 µs
−4%
async noop(), 5,000 concurrent
66.7 µs
61.1 µs
−8%
With telemetry off the sync gain is small (38.4 → 37.4 µs).
speedtest's compute workloads run the same instructions as canary (fib32, json-parser, richards, within 0.01%). fib32 runs about 8% more cycles: with fat LTO this change moves the dispatch loop's layout (more branch mispredictions), the same instruction count; without the change fib32 matches canary.
Also in this PR:
speedtest records at the level each row names. A packed executable ignores BAML_TELEMETRY unless baml.toml names it in [pack.env_var_names], so every BAML row recorded at the level baked in at pack time. speedtest now adds that setting.
Two Python SDK tests: Ctrl+C during a sync call raises promptly and cancels the call, and a sync call keeps running while its own Python callback waits for it.
Earlier commits on this branch tried running sync Python calls on the calling thread. That is reverted: it gave up Python's Ctrl+C behavior for calls that only compute. Stopping such calls when cancelled is B-2010.
A do-nothing BAML function called from Python took 38 µs with telemetry
off and 55 µs at the default level, and about 30 µs of that was threads
waking each other up.
- Sync Python calls run on the calling thread. They used to spawn the call
on a tokio worker, spawn a second task to forward its result, and sleep
on a channel. The call now runs under `block_on` with the GIL released,
and Python callbacks still run on the calling thread between polls.
Ctrl+C still cancels the call, which then finishes unwinding on the
runtime. A caller already inside a runtime keeps the old path. Node's
sync path already worked this way.
- The engine's idle-GC coordinator is no longer woken twice per call.
Starting work woke it to disarm its 100 ms deadline and ending work woke
it to re-arm. Now a deadline still ahead stays armed, the coordinator
disarms it itself if it wakes during work, and only arming a deadline
from nothing wakes it.
- speedtest packs workloads with `[pack.env_var_names] BAML_TELEMETRY`,
so each BAML row records at its own level. Without it every packed
executable recorded at the level baked in at pack time.
- The Python version-skew test expects `baml toolchain use`, the hint
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Walkthrough
The changes adjust Bex idle-GC scheduling, update synchronous Python call execution and callback handling, add tests for interruption and callback dispatch, and declare BAML_TELEMETRY in the speedtest packed-project configuration.
Work registration and completion now preserve or reset deadlines based on their state. The coordinator schedules retries only when no work is active. Tests cover quiet intervals and work spanning a deadline.
Synchronous Python calls
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Summary
Synchronous invocation and first poll baml_language/sdks/python/rust/bridge_python/Cargo.toml, baml_language/sdks/python/rust/bridge_python/src/runtime.rs
The bridge adds the futures dependency. Outside a Tokio runtime, synchronous calls poll on the calling thread until completion or the first wait.
Worker wait, callbacks, and signals baml_language/sdks/python/rust/bridge_python/src/runtime.rs, baml_language/sdks/python/tests/*, baml_language/crates/bridge_encode/fixtures/host_callable_program.descriptor, baml_language/crates/bridge_encode/src/tests.rs
After a wait, the worker path processes callbacks and checks Python signals. Signal errors cancel the call, and invocation panics become outbound errors. Tests cover Ctrl+C handling and callback dispatch after invocation starts. The toolchain version-skew test expects baml toolchain use.
sequenceDiagram
participant PythonCaller
participant call_function_sync
participant InvocationFuture
participant WorkerThread
participant CallbackDispatch
participant PythonSignalCheck
PythonCaller->>call_function_sync: Start synchronous call
call_function_sync->>InvocationFuture: Poll until completion or first wait
InvocationFuture-->>call_function_sync: Complete or wait
call_function_sync->>WorkerThread: Continue invocation after a wait
WorkerThread->>CallbackDispatch: Process callback dispatches
WorkerThread->>PythonSignalCheck: Check signals while caller waits
PythonSignalCheck-->>call_function_sync: Return signal error and cancel call
WorkerThread-->>call_function_sync: Return invocation outcome
call_function_sync-->>PythonCaller: Return result or error
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 08bcf
Compute-only synchronous calls defer Ctrl+C until they finish. No separate merge-blocking risk was established.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 08bcf
Compute-only calls can now occupy the calling Python thread indefinitely and delay Ctrl+C, reducing recoverability. Calls that reach an asynchronous wait retain signal handling. The inspected changes preserve invocation identity and callback ownership; no expanded privilege or access boundary was established.
Retained concerns
Low · reliability · observed: Outside an existing Tokio runtime, a synchronous invocation that never yields now occupies the calling thread without checking Python signals. Unlike the base worker-backed path, Ctrl+C cannot return control to application cleanup while that computation continues. This is a bounded-scope loss of recovery, not evidence of newly granted execution authority.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated exposure change concerns recovery of the Python thread executing an invocation. The inspected path uses the same decoded request, runtime, and call identity; it does not establish new cross-service, credential, or tenant authority. Wider deployment exposure was not established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — If an invoked program remains in non-yielding computation, the new path can prevent signal-based recovery on its calling thread. This does not demonstrate a new remote attack path: attacker influence over such computation depends on the embedding application. The base already allowed compute-loop work to continue in the background after the caller requested cancellation.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Callback ownership remains call-scoped: duplicate synchronous route IDs are rejected, scope teardown removes the matching route, and stale or cancelled dispatches are rejected. Callable lookup and execution leases remain the callback authority mechanism rather than worker-thread placement.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Invocation allocation retirement remains Drop-based across completion and unwind. Dispatch scope teardown removes callback routing on return, and worker-task failure or callback-queue disconnection has an explicit terminal result rather than silently stranding the caller.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — For applications requiring signal-responsive recovery from compute-heavy programs, retain a worker-backed execution option or introduce bounded cooperative handoff. Neither approach should be represented as terminating non-cooperative computation without an engine-level cancellation mechanism.
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A sync Python call now runs on the calling thread, which checks for Python
signals only when the call's future returns. A compute loop never returned:
the VM yields only when a GC wants it to. Ctrl+C then waited for the loop.
On targets with threads, the VM's early-yield poll (every 4096 control-flow
checks) now also yields once it has run 50 ms since its last yield, and the
engine gives the scheduler a turn at every early yield. A blocked caller
gets control back within the slice, and a long compute loop no longer keeps
other tasks off its worker.
Wait for the compute-loop child to exit before cleanup.
The test reads the interruption line and then kills the child in finally. It never checks that the child exits. If a cancelled compute call keeps the child alive, the test can still pass. Waiting for exit with a timeout, as the sleeping-call test does, makes a hung child fail the test.
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line = process.stdout.readline()
+ process.communicate(timeout=10)
finally:
process.kill()
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Review comment at @baml_language/sdks/python/tests/test_engine.py around lines
518 - 519:
In the compute-loop interruption test, wait for the child process to exit with a
bounded timeout after reading the interruption line and before cleanup,
following the existing sleeping-call test’s pattern. Keep the finally cleanup so
a timeout or other failure still terminates the child.
A sync call ran on the calling thread from start to finish. While a Python
callback ran on that thread, nothing drove the call, so a callback that
waited for its own call to do something hung (the call started the
callback, then wrote the file the callback was waiting for). Before calls
ran on the calling thread, the call kept going on a worker.
A call now runs on the calling thread only until it finishes, Ctrl+C
interrupts it, or it first needs a callback. At its first callback the
rest of the call moves to a worker and the caller waits as it used to.
Calls without callbacks keep the gain; calls with callbacks behave as on
canary.
- The engine releases a VM's heap permit while it yields to the
scheduler, so a caller that leaves the call unpolled for a moment (a
Python signal handler) cannot hold up a collection.
- The VM's time slice reads `web_time::Instant`, as the wasm lints
require.
- `test_sync_call_keeps_running_while_its_callback_runs` covers the hang;
the callback test descriptor gains its function.
If the test thread is paused for 50 ms after construction, should_early_yield() returns true with the flag clear. This assertion then fails. Update the test to control the clock or accept time-based yields.
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Review comment at @baml_language/crates/bex_vm_types/src/lib.rs at line 368:
Update the test containing should_early_yield() so it is deterministic: use the
existing clock-control mechanism to prevent elapsed-time yields, or adjust the
assertion to allow a time-based yield while still verifying the flag-clear
behavior. Preserve the test’s intended coverage of early yielding.
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sed -n '2200,2425p' baml_language/crates/bex_engine/src/lib.rs
printf'%s\n''--- native sort and native/sys-op dispatch ---'
rg -n -i --glob '*.rs' -e 'sort' -e 'native' -e 'sys_op' -e 'SysOp' baml_language/crates/bex_vm baml_language/crates/bex_vm_types baml_language/crates/bex_engine | sed -n '1,320p'
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Make expensive native operations cooperative.
Sortable.sort can execute values.sort_by(...) synchronously in _rust_sort. The 50 ms slice is checked only when the VM counter reaches its polling interval, so a large sort can delay both the elapsed-time check and the scheduler yield.
Poll around expensive native calls, and make long operations such as _rust_sort cooperative or run them off the calling thread.
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Review comment at @baml_language/crates/bex_vm_types/src/lib.rs at line 333:
Update _rust_sort so large sorts do not block the VM thread past its polling
interval: use the VM’s established cooperative polling and yield mechanism
during the operation, or offload sorting only if that preserves comparator and
runtime constraints. Ensure elapsed-time checks and scheduler yields can occur
during large sorts; do not rely solely on the Instant::now() check before or
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Drops the engine-wide 50 ms compute slice and the scheduler yield at
`EarlyYield`: every VM runs as on canary again. They existed so Ctrl+C
could reach a sync Python call that was computing on the calling thread,
which was too broad a change for that one case.
A sync call now runs on the calling thread until it finishes or first
waits on something (a model call, I/O, a sleep, a Python callback). At its
first wait it moves to a worker and the caller waits as on canary,
checking for Ctrl+C every 100 ms and running callbacks. A call that only
computes never waits, so Ctrl+C reaches Python when it returns, as with a
sync Node call. The callback route needs no wake signal any more.
@coderabbitai The design changed in 08bcf59, so the earlier threads about the engine yield no longer apply:
The 50 ms compute slice in EarlyYieldCheck and the scheduler yield (with the permit release) at EarlyYield are removed. Every VM runs as on canary again.
A sync Python call now runs on the calling thread only until it finishes or first waits on something, then moves to a worker and the caller waits as on canary. A call that only computes stays on the calling thread, so Ctrl+C reaches Python when it returns. That trade-off is stated in the PR description.
Making a cancelled compute loop actually stop is tracked in Linear as B-2010, so no GitHub issue is needed.
@antoniosarosi I’ll review the new head, including the design change in 08bcf59879.
I’ll check the first-wait handoff and reassess the earlier engine-yield findings against the current code. I’ll treat deferred Ctrl+C handling for compute-only calls as the stated trade-off. No GitHub issue is needed for the cancellation work tracked in B-2010.
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Python's convention is that Ctrl+C interrupts a blocking call, and sync
calls are the rare case, so the two-thread design stays: the VM runs on a
worker and the Python thread checks for Ctrl+C every 100 ms. Stopping a
cancelled call that only computes is the engine's job (B-2010).
The PR keeps the idle-GC wake fix, the speedtest telemetry setting, the
callback and Ctrl+C regression tests, and the version-skew test fix.
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Every BAML call woke the engine's idle-GC coordinator twice: once when the call started, to disarm its 100 ms "collect when idle" deadline, and once when it ended, to re-arm it. Each wake is a thread switch. Now:
A deadline that has already passed still wakes it, so an idle collection waiting to park still gives way to a new call. Back-to-back calls wake the coordinator at most once per 100 ms instead of twice per call. This applies to every SDK and to
baml run.Python SDK,
noop()(function noop() -> int { 1 }), median of 7 rounds, 4 CPUs, release builds, telemetry at the SDK default (medium):noop()echo("abc")request_line(...), 5 templatesnoop(), sequentialnoop(), 5,000 concurrentWith telemetry off the sync gain is small (38.4 → 37.4 µs).
speedtest's compute workloads run the same instructions as canary (fib32, json-parser, richards, within 0.01%). fib32 runs about 8% more cycles: with fat LTO this change moves the dispatch loop's layout (more branch mispredictions), the same instruction count; without the change fib32 matches canary.
Also in this PR:
BAML_TELEMETRYunlessbaml.tomlnames it in[pack.env_var_names], so every BAML row recorded at the level baked in at pack time. speedtest now adds that setting.baml toolchain use, the hint fix: teach the rust-based baml wrapper to install-on-demand #5426 changed.Earlier commits on this branch tried running sync Python calls on the calling thread. That is reverted: it gave up Python's Ctrl+C behavior for calls that only compute. Stopping such calls when cancelled is B-2010.
RUN_CODSPEED=1