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Ettore Di Giacinto cce914b3fd feat(cluster): relay a peer's stream onto a worker tunnel held here
A worker holds ONE tunnel and it lands on ONE frontend replica, so with N
replicas behind a load balancer roughly (N-1)/N of requests arrive somewhere
that cannot reach the worker directly. This is the piece that carries them:
the SessionStore stream handler reads which worker a peer's stream is for,
opens a stream on the tunnel this replica holds, and splices the two.

Splice has had no production caller since phase 1. It has one now, and being
the first caller it settles the two endings phase 1 deliberately left open,
both of which read as normal termination until now:

  - a peer-initiated *StreamError{Remote: true}, which yamux builds only from
    an RST frame the far side sent (stream.go:432-449); a reset this side asks
    for carries Remote: false, and Splice never resets anything, its own Close
    sending a FIN;
  - a graceful ErrRemoteGoAway, which handleGoAway returns for code
    goAwayNormal (session.go:829-833) and close hands unwrapped to every live
    stream (session.go:328-337).

Both truncate whatever was in flight. Reporting them as normal termination is
how a half-finished inference comes to look like a short one that completed,
so both are now reported; the local forms stay silent, because those are the
teardown Splice provokes itself. The decision cannot live in a caller reading
Splice's result, since a result already mapped to nil carries nothing left to
reclassify, so it lives at the classifier with the reasoning beside it. The
relay logs it at debug: a client cancelling a relayed request produces one per
cancellation, and the truncation is separately visible to the frontend's own
gRPC or HTTP client.

The relay hop gets its own request and reply frames. They have to be distinct
from the worker tunnel's, because a relayed stream carries both hops' frames
back to back, and a vocabulary shared between them would let a reader applied
to the wrong hop hand back a plausible sentinel belonging to the other. Its
three refusals stay apart for the reason the worker's three do: ErrNotOwner is
a routing fact and the caller should resolve the owner again; unavailable is
infrastructure at this replica and a retry is worth something; bad-request is
the caller's bug. None of them is, or may be built over, an absence error.

One hop, always. A stream naming a worker this replica does not hold is
refused, never resolved and relayed onward, so a stale ownership row cannot
become a loop between two replicas each certain the other holds the worker.

PeerPool is constructed and closed alongside SessionStore, so both halves of
the peer mesh now have an owner and a shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-01 14:12:17 +00:00
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