cluster: stop schedulers before executor teardown - #392
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What is the task that is being scheduled? I know about this error, but I didn't fix it that way before because it is a wrong way in my opinion. We should first end all tasks / threads (or whatever are they called here), and only after they are stopped the scheduler can be stopped. Ignoring this error is not fixing the issue but just masking it. I envision it could hurt us in the future - perhaps the queries that were not finished will be forever waiting? Or there will be something that schedules a task, and awaits its result, causing a hang? I'd like to avoid issues similar to cassandra-stress being stuck on shutdown. |
It is actually already done, here python-driver/cassandra/cluster.py Lines 4399 to 4407 in 63110b0 And here it is python-driver/cassandra/cluster.py Lines 1888 to 1895 in 63110b0 Which means that given issue can happen only when shutdown procedure does not go as it should. |
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Wait, so the error can happen in one of 3 conditions:
The third case is not important with regard to warnings, I think it is ok to print them. The first case is why the warning should not be ignored imo. If we fix second case, and don't kill the process, and still see the warning, then it indicates a bug which we should fix, right? |
Correct, Let's do this:
WDYT ? |
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Imo first lets fix the test cases - then we will see if there is any need to avoid throwing. |
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if I understand this one is a cosmetic change to reduce the those garbage from tests logs/output, right ? Not saying we shouldn't attend to it, but just recapping what's the goal of this change. |
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participant threading
participant Cluster
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threading->>Cluster: begin scheduler cleanup
Cluster->>Scheduler: shutdown()
Scheduler->>ResponseFuture: invoke retry abort callback
ResponseFuture->>ResponseFuture: complete with ConnectionShutdown
Scheduler->>executor: stop submitting tasks
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I replaced the previous exception-suppression approach with a lifecycle-ordering fix based on the earlier review feedback. The failure is reproducible when interpreter teardown disables |
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Measured the open question from the first round — whether unfinished queries could end up waiting forever — since it is the one thing that could gate this.
Non-daemon thread waking during the threading._shutdown() join phase, CPython 3.12, pre-patch vs patched:
pre-patch: scheduler.is_shutdown=False scheduled task ran=False + the #209 traceback
patched : scheduler.is_shutdown=True scheduled task ran=False
concurrent.futures.thread._shutdown is already True by then, so cluster.executor rejects the submission either way. The task is lost in both cases; this patch only changes whether it is silent. So the hang is real — a retry dropped there leaves ResponseFuture.result() on the 10s _default_timeout, or unbounded with timeout=None — but it predates this PR and is not made worse by it. Reads like its own issue rather than something to settle here.
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219-219: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPrevent late cluster registration during interpreter shutdown.
_shutdown_cluster_schedulers()copies_clusters_for_shutdownbeforethreading._shutdown()joins application threads. A thread can therefore register a cluster afterward. Its scheduler can then callThreadPoolExecutor.submit()after_python_exitsets the interpreter-shutdown flag, raisingRuntimeErrorand dropping the scheduled task.Protect registration and scheduler cleanup with one lifecycle state. Reject new
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In `@cassandra/cluster.py`:
- Line 219: Use a shared lifecycle state for _shutdown_cluster_schedulers() and
cluster registration so cleanup beginning before threading._shutdown() prevents
later Cluster.connect() registrations, or immediately stops any scheduler
registered after cleanup starts. Ensure no scheduler can submit work after the
interpreter-shutdown flag is set, and add a regression test covering
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Second round. Re-verified each point against b8dde60 with live runs. CI is green including the PyPy wheel job (linux x86 builds pp3* and runs tests/unit under the pp* override), so the threading._register_atexit availability question from round 1 is settled.
One finding has no anchor in the diff. Stopping the scheduler before non-daemon joins turns a loud failure into a silent one: an application thread that schedules during interpreter shutdown now gets DEBUG Ignoring scheduled task after shutdown (cluster.py:4749), where the base commit produced a full RuntimeError traceback for the same script. The task is lost either way, so this is not a behaviour regression — but that traceback was the only signal it was being lost. Promoting the log.debug wholesale would be noisy (it also fires on ordinary Cluster.shutdown()), so whether the interpreter-shutdown path deserves a louder line is your call.
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- Around line 5755-5757: Introduce a complete-once helper for response
finalization that acquires `_callback_lock`, checks whether either final result
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Re-review at 056f7c19. Findings inline — three on shutdown behaviour, four smaller. All of them land in the 09-21 rework; earlier threads were all on the module-level registration block, so the _Scheduler internals are getting a first pass here.
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[Major] 🟠 _retry_aborted is never reset. start_fetching_next_page() clears _event, _final_result and _final_exception (5344-5347) but not this flag, so after an aborted retry the future can never complete again: _set_final_result and _set_final_exception both return False, _event is never set, and _start_timer() (5348) is a no-op because _cancel_timer() leaves _timer non-None. ResultSet.fetch_next_page() after catching ConnectionShutdown then blocks forever, with no timeout left to break it.
add_callback/add_errback already flag start_fetching_next_page as the reset site for completion state (5901, 5919) — self._retry_aborted = False belongs there.
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[Major] 🟠 The shutdown sentinel (0, 0, None, None) no longer ends run(). With task is None neither reject_task nor future is set, so control falls to break (4849), then time.sleep(0.1) (4853), and only the next outer iteration returns. Base returned unconditionally under if self.is_shutdown.
Every _Scheduler.shutdown() now costs ~100ms instead of ~0.1ms — each Cluster.shutdown(), each with Cluster() exit, each interpreter exit, and each unit test that builds a cluster. No correctness impact. Setting a stop flag in the is_shutdown branch and returning on it regardless of task restores the old cost.
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[Minor] 🟡 This guard lets Cluster.shutdown() skip the scheduler while another thread's shutdown is still in flight. _shutdown_cluster_schedulers() sets is_shutdown first, then joins and drains; a concurrent Cluster.shutdown() sees the flag already set, skips, and returns — having run self.executor.shutdown() (1897) — while the scheduler thread is still alive and the drain that aborts pending retries has not run. _Scheduler.shutdown() has the same hole: the second caller returns at 4755 before join(). Base always joined, so both callers waited.
A caller that has returned from Cluster.shutdown() therefore has no guarantee that pending retries were failed or that the thread stopped. Having the already-shutting-down path wait — join, or an Event the first caller sets after the drain — restores what base gave.
Separately, submit() (4837) runs while holding self._lock, so every schedule() from the event-loop thread blocks behind it; the lock only needs to cover is_shutdown and _scheduled_tasks.
Edited: an earlier version of this comment claimed the race could drive submit() against a shut-down executor and lose an on_shutdown callback. That is wrong — submit() is the elif of the same with self._lock block that tests is_shutdown (4829-4837), so the two are mutually exclusive. Retracted, and severity lowered to Minor.
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Correction, and I have edited the comment above. The RuntimeError / lost-on_shutdown chain I described is not reachable: submit() (4837) is the elif of the same with self._lock block that tests is_shutdown (4830), and _Scheduler.shutdown() sets that flag under the same lock (4753-4756), so the scheduler can only reach submit() while is_shutdown is still false — which is exactly the window in which Cluster.shutdown() has not yet skipped ahead.
What stands is narrower, and I have downgraded it to Minor: Cluster.shutdown() can return with the scheduler thread alive and pending retries not yet aborted, where base always joined.
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[Minor] 🟡 _cancel_timer() moved from the first statement to after the callback-lock section (same in _set_final_exception, 5703), so the request timer stays armed while _final_result is committed. _on_timeout can now start during that section, take the KeyError branch (5031) and call _set_final_exception, which has no guard for _final_result already being set — both callback paths then fire, which this PR sets out to make impossible.
The race predates the PR (cancel never stopped an already-firing timer), but cancel-first closed the window where the timer could newly start. Moving only the metrics call and leaving _cancel_timer() before the lock costs nothing — on the aborted path the timer is already cancelled.
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[Minor] 🟡 schedule_unique reads _scheduled_tasks at 4785 outside this lock, so it can see a task run() is concurrently discarding (4835) and skip a refresh that should have been scheduled, or the reverse. That shared state is what the new lock is for.
Also: schedule and schedule_with_shutdown now return a bool while schedule_unique discards _insert_task's return value, so callers can't uniformly tell whether work was accepted.
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[Minor] 🟡 _register_cluster_shutdown now shuts the cluster down and raises, but its name and docstring ("Track a cluster for interpreter shutdown") still describe a registry. At the call site (1811) it reads as registration inside with self._lock, with no hint it can tear the cluster down.
Moving the predicate into connect() — if _cluster_scheduler_shutdown_started(): self.shutdown(); raise ... — keeps the helper a registry helper and puts the rejection where it happens.
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[Nit] 🟢 ConnectionShutdown subclasses ConnectionException(Exception) (connection.py:524,539), not DriverException, so an app catching (NoHostAvailable, OperationTimedOut, DriverException) around session.execute() will not catch it.
Worth a line in the PR description: _abort_retry makes this reachable under the default retry policy, where previously it took a RETHROW decision on a ConnectionException response to surface it.
Edited: the original claimed this was a new public-API behaviour change. It is not — _handle_retry_decision's RETHROW branch already passes a ConnectionShutdown response straight to _set_final_exception (5556, 5730-5731). Downgraded to Nit.
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Correction, and I have edited the comment above: this is not a new public-API behaviour. _handle_retry_decision's RETHROW branch already calls _set_final_exception(exception_from_response(response)) (5730-5731), and ConnectionShutdown has no to_exception, so it already reaches session.execute() today on a ConnectionException response (5556). _abort_retry widens it to the default retry policy rather than introducing it. Downgraded to Nit.
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[Minor] 🟡 _register_atexit is a private CPython name and this import is unguarded, so on any interpreter that lacks it import cassandra.cluster raises ImportError and the driver becomes unimportable — a worse failure than losing the shutdown hook.
The call below is guarded (except RuntimeError), so the asymmetry looks unintentional. pyproject.toml sets requires-python = ">=3.9" and ships an Implementation :: PyPy classifier; I have not checked whether PyPy exposes the name. Guarding the import and falling back to the previous behaviour, or at minimum a comment naming the interpreters it is known to exist on, would close it.
ThreadPoolExecutor disables new submissions before ordinary atexit callbacks run. A cluster scheduler can otherwise wake during interpreter shutdown and fail while submitting work to its executor. Register scheduler cleanup through the threading shutdown hook, which runs before executor teardown, while keeping full cluster cleanup in regular atexit so application threads finish before connections close. Coordinate cleanup with cluster registration so a non-daemon thread cannot register a scheduler after the cleanup snapshot. Preserve warm imports after threading shutdown starts and allow remaining shutdown callbacks to run when scheduler cleanup fails. Add isolated subprocess coverage for shutdown ordering, late registration, cleanup failures, and warm late imports.
Finalize scheduler-aborted retries under the ResponseFuture callback lock so a concurrent successful response cannot invoke both callback paths or replace the shutdown outcome. Preserve the existing behavior for non-shutdown completions, where a late successful response may supersede an earlier error. Add coverage for both completion orders.
Route the internal keyspace-selection retry through the shutdown-aware scheduler so session or executor teardown cannot strand a response future. Add coverage for retries arriving after session shutdown and scheduler rejection.
Make scheduler shutdown wait for an in-flight owner and drain queued callbacks only after its thread exits. This keeps concurrent cluster cleanup ordered without deadlocking callbacks that re-enter shutdown. Scope retry-abort finalization to the result page that scheduled it. Preserve ordinary response completion semantics, reject paging after terminal scheduler shutdown, and ignore stale abort callbacks from completed pages.
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During interpreter shutdown, Python disables new
ThreadPoolExecutorsubmissions before ordinaryatexitcallbacks run. A cluster scheduler can otherwise wake after executor teardown, fail to submit its task, and leave a pending retry blocked.This change:
atexitConnectionShutdownwhen scheduler shutdown prevents them from runningNo public API or wire-protocol changes. Scheduler shutdown can now surface the existing
ConnectionShutdownexception through the default retry path; previously it surfaced only when a retry policy rethrew a connection failure. Once scheduler shutdown wins retry completion, thatResponseFutureis terminal and a later paging attempt raises the same exception immediately.The early-ordering guarantee depends on the private threading hook used by
ThreadPoolExecutor. Supported CI runtimes expose it. On an unknown runtime without it, the driver remains importable, logs a warning, and retains ordinaryatexitcleanup without the early-ordering guarantee.Full generation fencing for late speculative responses and retry tasks across result pages is broader than shutdown-abort arbitration and remains in #1038. Unrelated empty-keyspace fallback normalization was split into #1037.
Fixes #209.
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uv run pytest -rf tests/unit/test_cluster.py tests/unit/test_response_future.py— 203 passeduv run python -m compileall -q cassandragit diff --check origin/master...HEADPre-review checklist
./docs/source/. Not applicable: this changes internal shutdown behavior only.Fixes:annotations to PR description.