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-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/file-utils.js25
-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/transport.js98
-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-hub/tests/harness/download_lanes_harness.mjs179
-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_download_lanes.py105
4 files changed, 404 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/file-utils.js b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/file-utils.js
index 294455a..585558f 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/file-utils.js
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/file-utils.js
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ const CHUNK_SIZE = 1024 * 1024;
// fragmented MP4. A stream that arrives in gulps has no margin for a network
// that hesitates, and looks like a hang while it is quiet.
const PIPELINE_WINDOW = 8;
+// A leased download with at least this much left opens the transport's extra
+// connections (`lanes` in transport.js). Below it the handshakes, half a second
+// to a second each, cost more than they save; lanes already open are used
+// whatever the size.
+const LANE_MIN_CHUNKS = 64;
// The most this code will ever collect in the page.
//
@@ -392,10 +397,24 @@ async function pipelinedDownload(transport, gekKey, fileId, totalChunks, onChunk
let nextSend = fromChunk, nextRecv = fromChunk;
const inflight = new Array(totalChunks);
+ // Chunk i goes over lane i modulo the lanes open at that moment, two chunks
+ // in flight per lane so none waits on the slowest. Order is restored below,
+ // where each chunk is awaited by its index. A lane that fails a request is
+ // dropped and the chunk asked for again on the main connection, which has
+ // the retries and the reconnect.
const fire = () => {
- while (nextSend < totalChunks && nextSend - nextRecv < PIPELINE_WINDOW) {
- inflight[nextSend] = _fetchChunkResilient(transport, fileId, nextSend, tr,
- signal);
+ const lanes = (tr && transport.lanes)
+ ? transport.lanes(totalChunks - nextRecv >= LANE_MIN_CHUNKS) : [transport];
+ const depth = Math.max(PIPELINE_WINDOW, 2 * lanes.length);
+ while (nextSend < totalChunks && nextSend - nextRecv < depth) {
+ const index = nextSend;
+ const lane = lanes[index % lanes.length];
+ inflight[index] = lane === transport
+ ? _fetchChunkResilient(transport, fileId, index, tr, signal)
+ : lane.fetchChunk(fileId, index, tr).catch(() => {
+ transport.dropLane(lane);
+ return _fetchChunkResilient(transport, fileId, index, tr, signal);
+ });
nextSend++;
}
};
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/transport.js b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/transport.js
index e995ffe..ee6645f 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/transport.js
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/transport.js
@@ -436,6 +436,25 @@ const JOIN_REFUSALS = {
*/
const LEASE_WATCHDOG_MS = 60000;
+// How many connections a large download is spread over, this one included.
+//
+// One WebRTC connection carries 5 to 6 MB/s at 22 ms whatever the line can do:
+// the browser receives on a UDP socket with a 64 KB kernel buffer, a burst
+// overflows it, and the node's SCTP sender halves its window at every loss.
+// The ceiling is per connection, so the way past it is more connections, and
+// they have to be separate peer connections: several channels on one share
+// its socket, its association and its window. Measured against a browser,
+// one sender: 1 connection 5 to 6 MB/s, 4 about 19, 8 between 27 and 34, and
+// 16 no more than that (the node's sender is one Python process).
+const DOWNLOAD_LANES = 8;
+// A lane left unused this long is closed: each one is a peer connection the
+// node holds open.
+const LANE_IDLE_MS = 30000;
+// After a lane failed to open, how long before another is tried. `lanes()` is
+// asked at every chunk, and without this a node that refuses would be sent an
+// offer per chunk.
+const LANE_RETRY_MS = 30000;
+
class Lease {
constructor(transport, tr, kind, bytes, chunks, onState) {
this.transport = transport;
@@ -566,6 +585,15 @@ class MeshBayTransport {
this._inFlightUploads = new Set();
// tr → Lease. A transfer's slot on the node, from the client's side.
this._leases = new Map();
+ // The extra connections a large download is spread over (see `lanes`).
+ // `_lane` is true on those connections themselves, which open none of
+ // their own and are closed rather than reconnected.
+ this._lanes = [];
+ this._lanesOpening = 0;
+ this._lanesUsedAt = 0;
+ this._lanesTimer = 0;
+ this._laneRetryAt = 0;
+ this._lane = false;
// Set once close() runs — stops the automatic reconnect from firing on a
// connection the caller tore down on purpose (leaving the group, page
// unload), which would otherwise race back in right as everything else
@@ -1433,6 +1461,9 @@ class MeshBayTransport {
*/
_reconnect() {
if (this._closed) return Promise.resolve();
+ // A lane that failed is dropped: the download falls back to the main
+ // connection and `lanes` opens another.
+ if (this._lane) { this.close(); return Promise.resolve(); }
if (!this._reconnectPromise) {
this._reconnectPromise = this._reconnectLoop().finally(() => {
this._reconnectPromise = null;
@@ -1550,6 +1581,72 @@ class MeshBayTransport {
return lease;
}
+ /**
+ * The connections a leased download may read over: this one first, then
+ * every lane that is open right now.
+ *
+ * With `open`, the missing lanes are opened in the background, and they join
+ * the answer of a later call: a download starts on this connection at once
+ * and widens as they land. A lane is this connection again (same node, same
+ * group, same identity, same device), so the node serves a chunk request on
+ * it under a lease this connection opened (docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md §5.5).
+ * The lease itself, and everything else, stays here.
+ */
+ lanes(open = false) {
+ if (this._lane || this._closed) return [this];
+ for (const lane of this._lanes.filter((l) => !l.connected)) this.dropLane(lane);
+ if (open || this._lanes.length) {
+ this._lanesUsedAt = Date.now();
+ if (!this._lanesTimer) {
+ this._lanesTimer = setInterval(() => {
+ if (Date.now() - this._lanesUsedAt > LANE_IDLE_MS) this._closeLanes();
+ }, LANE_IDLE_MS / 2);
+ }
+ }
+ if (open && this._connected && Date.now() >= this._laneRetryAt) {
+ while (this._lanes.length + this._lanesOpening < DOWNLOAD_LANES - 1) {
+ this._openLane();
+ }
+ }
+ return [this, ...this._lanes];
+ }
+
+ async _openLane() {
+ this._lanesOpening += 1;
+ const lane = new MeshBayTransport(this._hubUrl, this._lastToken);
+ lane._lane = true;
+ try {
+ const args = this._connectArgs;
+ const token = this._onNeedToken ? await this._onNeedToken() : this._lastToken;
+ await lane.connect(args.nodeId, token, args.groupId, this._gekRaw,
+ this._identity, args.bundleKey, args.username,
+ args.userId, undefined, undefined,
+ args.joinNodePk, args.nodePk);
+ // Closed, or gone idle, while this one was negotiating.
+ if (this._closed || !this._lanesTimer) lane.close();
+ else this._lanes.push(lane);
+ } catch (e) {
+ console.warn('[MeshBay] could not open a download lane:', e && e.message);
+ this._laneRetryAt = Date.now() + LANE_RETRY_MS;
+ lane.close();
+ } finally {
+ this._lanesOpening -= 1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /** Close one lane, e.g. one that failed a request. */
+ dropLane(lane) {
+ const at = this._lanes.indexOf(lane);
+ if (at >= 0) this._lanes.splice(at, 1);
+ lane.close();
+ }
+
+ _closeLanes() {
+ clearInterval(this._lanesTimer);
+ this._lanesTimer = 0;
+ for (const lane of this._lanes.splice(0)) lane.close();
+ }
+
/** Re-ask for every live lease. Called after a reconnect. */
_reopenTransfers() {
for (const lease of this._leases.values()) {
@@ -1638,6 +1735,7 @@ class MeshBayTransport {
// only skips reconnecting because of this flag, not because "closed" is
// absent from its own trigger condition.
this._closed = true;
+ this._closeLanes();
document.removeEventListener('visibilitychange', this._onVisibilityWake);
this._wakeReconnect();
if (this._diagCleanup) { this._diagCleanup(); this._diagCleanup = null; }
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/harness/download_lanes_harness.mjs b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/harness/download_lanes_harness.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4f9b1da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/harness/download_lanes_harness.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+// Run the SHIPPED `pipelinedDownload` over the SHIPPED `MeshBayTransport.lanes`
+// against a fake clock and a fake node, and see which connection carried which
+// chunk.
+//
+// What is modelled is the node and the network: `connect` (where an offer is
+// made) and `fetchChunk` (a megabyte that takes time). The lanes, the pipeline,
+// the retry path and the idle close are the shipped code, the first by
+// executing transport.js whole and the second lifted out of file-utils.js as
+// text.
+//
+// Usage: node download_lanes_harness.mjs <file-utils.js> <transport sources> <json>
+import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
+import { delimiter } from 'path';
+
+const utils = readFileSync(process.argv[2], 'utf8');
+const transportSrc = process.argv[3].split(delimiter)
+ .map((p) => readFileSync(p, 'utf8')).join('\n');
+const {
+ chunks = 200,
+ tr = 'lease',
+ connectMs = 800,
+ chunkMs = 150,
+ refuseLanes = false, // every lane's connect fails
+ failLaneAfter = -1, // the first lane to open fails every request after this many
+ closeAt = -1, // close the main connection at this time
+} = JSON.parse(process.argv[4] || '{}');
+
+for (const level of ['log', 'warn', 'error', 'info', 'debug']) {
+ console[level] = (...args) => process.stderr.write(args.join(' ') + '\n');
+}
+
+// A download that fails leaves the chunks still in flight to reject with nobody
+// waiting on them, which a browser logs and Node would die of.
+process.on('unhandledRejection', () => {});
+
+// ── The clock ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+let now = 0;
+let nextId = 1;
+let timers = [];
+globalThis.setTimeout = (fn, ms) => {
+ const t = { at: now + (ms || 0), fn, id: nextId++ };
+ timers.push(t);
+ return t.id;
+};
+globalThis.setInterval = (fn, ms) => {
+ const t = { at: now + ms, fn, id: nextId++, every: ms };
+ timers.push(t);
+ return t.id;
+};
+globalThis.clearTimeout = (id) => { timers = timers.filter((t) => t.id !== id); };
+globalThis.clearInterval = globalThis.clearTimeout;
+Date.now = () => now;
+const flush = async () => { for (let i = 0; i < 50; i++) await Promise.resolve(); };
+async function run(until) {
+ await flush();
+ while (timers.length) {
+ const due = timers.reduce((a, b) => (b.at < a.at ? b : a));
+ if (due.at > until) break;
+ if (due.every) due.at += due.every;
+ else timers = timers.filter((t) => t !== due);
+ now = Math.max(now, due.every ? due.at - due.every : due.at);
+ due.fn();
+ await flush();
+ }
+ now = until;
+}
+const sleep = (ms) => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms));
+
+// ── The shipped transport, with a node behind it ─────────────────────────────
+
+globalThis.window = globalThis;
+globalThis.addEventListener = () => {};
+globalThis.removeEventListener = () => {};
+globalThis.location = { hash: '' };
+globalThis.document = {
+ addEventListener() {}, removeEventListener() {}, visibilityState: 'visible',
+};
+new Function(transportSrc)();
+const Transport = window.MeshBayTransport;
+
+let offers = 0;
+let inFlight = 0;
+let peakInFlight = 0;
+let nextName = 1;
+const servedBy = []; // chunk index -> the connections asked for it, in order
+const connectArgs = [];
+const opened = [];
+
+Transport.prototype.connect = async function connect(...args) {
+ offers += 1;
+ this.name = `lane${nextName++}`;
+ connectArgs.push(args);
+ opened.push(this);
+ await sleep(connectMs);
+ if (refuseLanes) throw new Error('Node is at its peer-connection limit');
+ this._connected = true;
+ this.asked = 0;
+};
+Transport.prototype.fetchChunk = async function fetchChunk(fileId, index, lease) {
+ (servedBy[index] = servedBy[index] || []).push(this.name);
+ this.asked = (this.asked || 0) + 1;
+ inFlight += 1;
+ peakInFlight = Math.max(peakInFlight, inFlight);
+ try {
+ await sleep(chunkMs);
+ if (!this._connected) throw new Error('Transport closed');
+ if (this.name === 'lane1' && failLaneAfter >= 0 && this.asked > failLaneAfter) {
+ throw new Error('Response timeout');
+ }
+ return { ct: new Uint8Array([index & 255]), nonce: index, tr: lease };
+ } finally {
+ inFlight -= 1;
+ }
+};
+
+const main = new Transport('https://hub.invalid', 'token');
+main.name = 'main';
+main._connected = true;
+main._lastToken = 'token';
+main._gekRaw = new Uint8Array(32);
+main._identity = { the: 'identity' };
+main._connectArgs = {
+ nodeId: 'node', groupId: 'group', bundleKey: 'bundle', username: 'u',
+ userId: 'uid', joinCode: 'never-again', joinNodePk: '', nodePk: 'pk',
+};
+
+// ── The shipped pipeline ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const constant = (name) => utils.match(new RegExp(`^const ${name} = [^;]+;`, 'm'))[0];
+const from = utils.indexOf('const CHUNK_RETRY_ATTEMPTS');
+const to = utils.indexOf('async function downloadEntry');
+const { pipelinedDownload } = new Function('window', 't', `
+ ${constant('PIPELINE_WINDOW')}
+ ${constant('LANE_MIN_CHUNKS')}
+ ${utils.slice(from, utils.lastIndexOf('/**', to))}
+ return { pipelinedDownload };`)(
+ { MeshBayCrypto: { decryptChunkBin: async (_k, _f, index) => new Uint8Array([index & 255]) } },
+ (key) => key);
+
+const written = [];
+const writable = { write: async (bytes) => { written.push(bytes[0]); } };
+let outcome = 'pending';
+pipelinedDownload(main, 'gek', 'f'.repeat(64), chunks, null, writable, null, tr)
+ .then(() => { outcome = 'done'; }, (err) => { outcome = `failed: ${err.message}`; });
+
+let lanesLeftOpenByClose = null;
+if (closeAt >= 0) {
+ await run(closeAt);
+ main.close();
+ await run(closeAt + 2 * connectMs);
+ lanesLeftOpenByClose = opened.filter((lane) => !lane._closed).length;
+}
+// Long enough for any download here, then past the idle close.
+await run(240000);
+
+const inOrder = written.every((b, i) => b === (i & 255));
+const carried = {};
+for (const names of servedBy) {
+ const last = names[names.length - 1];
+ carried[last] = (carried[last] || 0) + 1;
+}
+process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify({
+ outcome, offers, peakInFlight, carried,
+ written: written.length, inOrder,
+ retried: servedBy.filter((names) => names.length > 1).length,
+ lanesAfterIdle: main._lanes.length,
+ // What a lane was connected with: the group, the identity and the key of the
+ // main connection, and never its join code.
+ laneArgs: connectArgs.length ? {
+ groupId: connectArgs[0][2], sameGek: connectArgs[0][3] === main._gekRaw,
+ sameIdentity: connectArgs[0][4] === main._identity,
+ joinCode: connectArgs[0][8] === undefined ? null : connectArgs[0][8],
+ nodePk: connectArgs[0][11],
+ } : null,
+ lanesLeftOpenByClose,
+ lanesLeftOpen: opened.filter((lane) => !lane._closed).length,
+ timersLeft: timers.length,
+}));
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_download_lanes.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_download_lanes.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f133f5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_download_lanes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+"""
+A large download is spread over several connections to its node.
+
+One WebRTC connection carries 5 to 6 MB/s at 22 ms on a line that carries 47:
+the browser's UDP socket has a 64 KB kernel buffer, a burst overflows it, and
+the node's SCTP sender halves its window at every loss. The ceiling is per
+connection, so `MeshBayTransport.lanes` opens more of them and
+`pipelinedDownload` sends chunk i over lane i modulo their number.
+
+These run the shipped lanes (transport.js, executed whole) under the shipped
+pipeline (lifted out of file-utils.js as text) against a fake clock and a fake
+node. See harness/download_lanes_harness.mjs.
+"""
+
+import json
+import os
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+from spa_source import classic_scripts
+
+STATIC = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "src" / "meshbay_hub" / "static"
+FILE_UTILS = STATIC / "file-utils.js"
+HARNESS = Path(__file__).parent / "harness" / "download_lanes_harness.mjs"
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+ shutil.which("node") is None or not FILE_UTILS.exists(),
+ reason="node or the SPA sources are not available")
+
+
+def _run(**cfg) -> dict:
+ transport = os.pathsep.join(
+ str(STATIC / name) for name in classic_scripts()
+ if name.startswith("transport"))
+ proc = subprocess.run(
+ ["node", str(HARNESS), str(FILE_UTILS), transport, json.dumps(cfg)],
+ capture_output=True, text=True, encoding="utf-8")
+ assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+ return json.loads(proc.stdout)
+
+
+def test_a_large_download_runs_over_eight_connections_in_order():
+ out = _run(chunks=200)
+ assert out["outcome"] == "done"
+ assert out["written"] == 200 and out["inOrder"]
+ assert out["offers"] == 7, "seven lanes beside the connection already open"
+ lanes = {k: v for k, v in out["carried"].items() if k != "main"}
+ assert len(lanes) == 7 and min(lanes.values()) >= 15, out["carried"]
+ # It starts on the main connection without waiting for the lanes.
+ assert out["carried"]["main"] > max(lanes.values())
+ assert out["peakInFlight"] == 16, "two chunks in flight per connection"
+
+
+def test_a_lane_is_the_main_connection_again_and_never_a_join():
+ args = _run(chunks=200)["laneArgs"]
+ assert args == {"groupId": "group", "sameGek": True, "sameIdentity": True,
+ "joinCode": None, "nodePk": "pk"}
+
+
+def test_a_small_download_opens_nothing():
+ out = _run(chunks=10)
+ assert out["outcome"] == "done" and out["offers"] == 0
+ assert out["peakInFlight"] == 8
+
+
+def test_a_read_without_a_lease_opens_nothing():
+ """A preview or a track is not a transfer, and the node would count each
+ lane's read against that lane's own leaseless ceiling."""
+ out = _run(chunks=200, tr="")
+ assert out["outcome"] == "done" and out["offers"] == 0
+ assert out["carried"] == {"main": 200}
+
+
+def test_a_lane_that_fails_is_dropped_and_its_chunks_asked_again():
+ out = _run(chunks=200, failLaneAfter=3)
+ assert out["outcome"] == "done"
+ assert out["written"] == 200 and out["inOrder"]
+ assert out["retried"] >= 1
+ assert out["carried"]["lane1"] <= 3
+ assert out["offers"] == 8, "the dropped lane is replaced, once"
+
+
+def test_a_node_that_refuses_lanes_costs_one_round_of_offers():
+ """`lanes` is asked at every chunk: without the retry delay a refusing node
+ would be sent an offer per chunk."""
+ out = _run(chunks=200, refuseLanes=True)
+ assert out["outcome"] == "done"
+ assert out["carried"] == {"main": 200}
+ assert out["offers"] == 7
+
+
+def test_idle_lanes_are_closed():
+ out = _run(chunks=200)
+ assert out["lanesAfterIdle"] == 0 and out["lanesLeftOpen"] == 0
+ assert out["timersLeft"] == 0, "the idle timer outlived the lanes"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("close_at", [400, 1500])
+def test_closing_the_connection_closes_its_lanes(close_at):
+ """At 400 ms the lanes are still negotiating, at 1500 they are carrying."""
+ out = _run(chunks=2000, closeAt=close_at)
+ assert out["lanesLeftOpenByClose"] == 0
+ assert out["offers"] == 7, "a closed connection opened more lanes"