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Measure how long host reads wait on the account worker (#3273 PR 0) - #3277

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Problem

Host reads (members, MLS state, roster, recovery state, device roster and the rest) go through the account worker's FIFO. While the worker is inside a long unit, such as a catch-up, a convergence pass or a send waiting on its relays, most of those reads wait for it, and hosts see that as stalled screens. Nothing measured how long a read waits or what it waits behind, so the read-path plan had no baseline.

Fix

Each classified host read now records its wait on the worker in a read_queue_r<n> series of the existing performance recorder (R1–R9), and again in read_queue_behind_<unit> when it arrived while the worker was inside one of the plan's long units. Operation names reach hosts as strings, so the UniFFI and C bindings are unchanged. Barrier tests pin today's behaviour: startup sync, a catch-up and a scheduled convergence pass answer five reads from their snapshot and the conversation capture NotReady, and every other read waits; a held send takes no command at all, so the eight-slot lane fills. No read moves and no ordering changes.

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  • Local: cargo fmt --all --check
  • Local: cargo clippy -p marmot-app -p marmot-observability --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings, and cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --locked -- -D warnings
  • Local: cargo nextest run -p marmot-app --features test-policy-overrides (whole crate, 2920 passed, before the review fixes); -E 'test(account_worker) | test(conversation_window)' again at the final head
  • Local: cargo nextest run -p marmot-observability, tracing_audit, just naming-gate
  • Local: both end-to-end smoke commands from land-change, at the final head
  • Review: Codex (gpt-6.1-sol) and Cursor (grok-4.7-high-fast) recommend merge at e8d3da3

Part of #3273.

The new tests take about 1 s (held startup sync, catch-up and send) and 1.5 s (held convergence pass, test-policy-overrides). Dropping the send-unit gauge or the catch-up's snapshot answer for members makes them fail.

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  • Improvements
    • Read requests are handled more consistently while account activity is in progress. Some can be answered using available information, while others wait until processing is ready to continue.
    • The app now tracks time spent waiting for account reads, helping identify delays.

Every host read the read-path plan classifies (R1-R9) now carries a
ReadReply that records its wait on the account worker, from just before
channel admission until the worker takes it up, in a read_queue_r<n>
performance series. A read enqueued while the worker is inside a long
unit (startup sync, catch-up, convergence, Welcome fanout, repair, a send
awaiting its relays, an invite or create, a maintenance tick) records the
same wait in read_queue_behind_<unit>. The worker sets a per-account
atomic gauge; nothing changes when or how it serves a read.

Barrier tests pin today's behaviour: startup sync, an explicit catch-up
and a convergence pass answer five reads from their snapshot and the
conversation capture NotReady, every other read waits for the unit to
end, and a held send takes no command, so the eight-slot lane fills.

Part of #3273.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Host reads now use classified replies that record queue waits and the active worker unit. The account-worker runtime marks long-running units, and tests and telemetry documentation cover read outcomes and queue observations.

Changes

Host-read queue tracking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Read-reply and telemetry primitives
crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker/read_queue.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker.rs, crates/marmot-observability/src/app_telemetry/runtime.rs
Adds read classes, worker-unit tracking, and ReadReply observations for dispatch, cancellation, NotReady, and answer timing.
Worker units and read serving
crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/mod.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/conversation_window.rs
Shares worker lanes and unit gauges through the runtime. Marks long-running worker activities and routes reads through the reply interface while retaining existing snapshot and NotReady results.
Classify AccountManager reads
crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/commands.rs
Assigns read classes to AccountManager read wrappers. Diagnostic reads retain their existing-worker-only, nonblocking enqueue behavior.
Behavior tests and telemetry documentation
crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker/tests/*, crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/conversation_window/tests.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/tests.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/onboarding/tests.rs, crates/marmot-app/AGENTS.md, docs/marmot-architecture/runtime-latency-telemetry.md
Adds tests for read outcomes and queue metrics around held worker units. Updates test fixtures and documents read classes and telemetry series.

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

Possibly related PRs

  • marmot-protocol/mdk#3258: Both changes involve account-worker maintenance units; this PR tracks host-read waits behind maintenance.
  • marmot-protocol/mdk#2668: This PR classifies AccountDevicesActivation as an R4 read and changes its response to ReadReply, a read introduced in this PR.
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This change adds queue-wait telemetry for host reads without changing read behavior or ordering. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after review.

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  • crates/marmot-app/AGENTS.md
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker.rs
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker/read_queue.rs
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker/tests/read_queue_tests.rs
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker/tests/recovery_runner_host_tests.rs
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_worker/tests/secondary_retry_scheduler_tests.rs
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/commands.rs
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/conversation_window.rs
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/conversation_window/tests.rs
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/mod.rs
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/onboarding/tests.rs
  • crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/tests.rs
  • crates/marmot-observability/src/app_telemetry/runtime.rs
  • docs/marmot-architecture/runtime-latency-telemetry.md

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