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perry-container-compose: run on turnloop, drop tokio; stdlib container needs only async-bridge (tokio lane K) - #11209

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perry-container-compose loses tokio completely — normal edge, dev edge, src/, tests/, the perry-compose binary — and perry-stdlib's container feature (which backs perry/container, perry/compose and perry/workloads) now implies only the tokio-free async-bridge, not async-runtime:

container = ["dep:perry-container-compose", "async-bridge"]

scripts/tokio_inventory.py --update drops both group-K edges (on current main: 9 → 7 manifest edges, 6 → 5 crates). The lockfile's tokio-family package set (7) is unchanged — other crates still pull tokio.

How

The engine stays async (185 async fn, async-trait backends, untouched). Only the leaves and the executor changed. A new perry_container_compose::rt module (src/rt/, ~750 lines incl. tests) supplies them on turnloop:

was now
tokio::process::Command (cli_backend.rs, detect.rs, installer.rs, stdlib verification.rs) rt::Command — turnloop's native Driver::spawn with piped stdout/stderr read to EOF by multishot read_start, completing on the reaped Exited status. Same shape (new/arg/args/output/status), stdin null for output(), all inherited for status(), exit code/signal preserved
tokio::time::timeout / sleep rt::timeout / rt::sleep — one-shot turnloop timers
tokio::sync::Mutex (workload.rs, stdlib BACKEND_INIT_MUTEX) rt::Mutex = async_lock::Mutex (3.4.2, already in Cargo.lock via zbus — no new package; const fn new keeps the static)
tokio::signal (stdlib SIGINT/SIGTERM cleanup) rt::shutdown_signal() — turnloop signal_start(Int/Term)
#[tokio::main] rt::block_on(run(cli))
40 #[tokio::test] (compose) + 21 (stdlib container tests) plain #[test] wrapping the unchanged body in rt::block_on(async { … }) — mechanical (a script, then cargo fmt); git diff -w shows only the wrapper lines plus a few rustfmt re-wraps
tokio Runtime/block_in_place sync probe (js_container_getBackend), Handle::try_current gates (js_container_module_init) rt::try_block_on, rt::in_context()
stdlib crate::common::spawn_for_promise[_deferred] (tokio current-thread runtime) container/executor.rs: each operation runs rt::try_block_on(fut) on turnloop's Occupancy::Long pool via turnloop_pool::submit_long (thread fallback when no loop / refused, as perry_ffi_spawn_blocking does), settling through the same async_bridge queue, pin and InflightGuard as before

rt::block_on creates one turnloop Loop per call, polls the future, and turns the loop while it is pending. Leaf futures hold only ids (no loop reference), so they are Send and fit #[async_trait]'s boxed futures; a cross-thread waker (e.g. async-lock unlocked from another operation's thread) goes through the loop's Notifier. Nesting is allowed (inner call gets its own loop). No change to common/ beyond widening ensure_gc_scanner_registered to pub(crate), so this stays rebase-friendly with lane L2's stdlib wiring; L2 builds no future executor, so there was nothing to reuse.

One deliberate behaviour change: a timed-out CLI is killed

tokio's output() future (no kill_on_drop) left the child running when PERRY_CONTAINER_OP_TIMEOUT_SECS fired. Dropping an unfinished rt::Command future closes the turnloop process handle, which terminates the child. Measured with a docker stub that exec sleep 47s and a 1 s timeout, perry-compose up -d: main leaves 2 orphaned sleep 47 processes after exiting, this branch leaves 0; both print the identical "hung for 1s; aborted" error. Pinned by rt::tests::unix::a_timed_out_child_is_terminated_not_orphaned.

Evidence

All on perrymaster (Linux x86_64), branch vs origin/main 83feb3b built the same way, RUST_TEST_THREADS=1, --no-fail-fast. The branch was then rebased onto 4407997 (no conflicts) and both suites re-run there with identical results: compose 184 / 212 passed, stdlib container 5 lib + 48 integration passed, 0 failed.

perry-container-compose (cargo test -p perry-container-compose):

main branch
default features 171 passed, 0 failed 184 passed, 0 failed
--features integration-tests 199 passed, 0 failed 212 passed, 0 failed

Every test target has identical counts on both arms except the lib unit tests, 85 → 98: the 13 new rt::tests (sleep/timeout, nested block_on, cross-thread wake, polled-outside-block_on panic, stdout+stderr+exit code, 300 KB/200 KB concurrent pipes, null stdin, missing program, status(), timeout-kills-child). exec_raw_timeout (the real /bin/sleep timeout test) passes on both in ~1.0 s.

No container runtime on the host (docker/podman/nerdctl/apple container all absent). The 6 live_runtime_tests short-circuit on unset PERRY_INTEGRATION_TESTS and count as passed on both arms identically; they were not exercised against a real runtime. functional_orchestration (15, MockBackend) and the 7 integration_tests run for real on both.

perry-stdlib container (--no-default-features --features container, i.e. without async-runtime):

main branch
lib container:: tests 5 passed 5 passed (the two module_init smoke tests renamed from …tokio…)
container_ffi_tests 20 passed, 38.2 s 20 passed, 0.3 s
container_backend_selection 10 passed, 6 failed 16 passed, 0 failed
capability / extra / props / verification / workspace_invariants 1 / 2 / 5 / 2 / 2 1 / 2 / 5 / 2 / 2

The 6 container_backend_selection failures on main (set_backend[s]_rejects_*) are pre-existing and not in CI's container-tests.yml list: their drive_promise pumps js_stdlib_process_pending but never ticks the tokio current-thread runtime, so the promise stays pending. On the branch the operation runs on its own thread and settles, so they pass — this PR repairs them; nothing else touches that file. Likewise container_ffi_tests' await_promise_sync mostly hit its 200-iteration timeout on main (a timeout also yields Err, which the null-input tests accept); on the branch the promises actually settle.

The lib test binary lists 49 tests on main vs 47 on the branch in this feature config: the 3 common::tokio_bridge::tests no longer compile without async-runtime, and perry_ffi_async::tokio_free_tests (1) now does.

perry-compose binary A/B against a stub docker on PATH (up -d, ps, down on a 2-service file): identical stdout and exit codes; identical CLI call sequence apart from the random container-name suffixes and label order.

Dependency graph:

  • cargo tree -p perry-container-compose -i tokio -e normal,dev,build (also --target all): did not match any packages (main: tokio via normal + dev).
  • cargo tree -p perry-stdlib --no-default-features --features container -i tokio -e normal,build (also --target all): did not match any packages (main: tokio via perry-container-compose and perry-stdlib).
  • With default features (full) perry-stdlib still links tokio through async-runtime, and the two executors coexist: CI's container-tests.yml stdlib layers in that configuration (--features container: the six --test targets it lists plus container_backend_selection = 48 passed, and --lib container::smoke_tests = 3 passed) pass on the branch (run before the rebase).

Windows: cargo xwin check --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc (cargo-xwin 0.23.0, LLVM 22 clang-cl/lld-link) passes for -p perry-container-compose --all-targets and -p perry-stdlib --no-default-features --features container. Not run on Windows.

Warnings: RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings cargo check -p perry-container-compose --all-targets clean. perry-stdlib --features container has the same set of pre-existing unused-import warnings in container/*.rs on main and branch (identical diff); the container module is not in the warnings gate's scope.

Fuzz (crates/perry-container-compose/fuzz, its own workspace, not a member): compose_yaml_parse and env_interpolation build against this branch; compose_spec_json_round_trip does not build, independently of this change: it uses serde_json, which the fuzz Cargo.toml does not declare (neither file is touched here).

Gates: cargo fmt --all -- --check, scripts/check_file_size.sh, scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py, scripts/tokio_inventory.py all pass. SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1 scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: 88 of 90 script gates passed, compile tier not run. The 2 failures: Public benchmark evidence freshness (grandfathered red on every PR) and Type-check Windows runtime and stdlib (cargo xwin not on the host's login-shell PATH — the same cargo xwin check -p perry-runtime -p perry-stdlib --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc passes when run with the private cargo-xwin 0.23.0). platform-visibility.test.mjs printed one failed attempt inside the gate run; it passes standalone on both main and the branch.

Inventory / docs prose

  • scripts/tokio_inventory.json: both perry-container-compose → tokio entries gone; perry-stdlib's entry no longer lists container as an async-runtime selector; the perry-ui-android → tungstenite entry now says it is synchronous tungstenite 0.30 on a std thread per connection with no tokio in its graph (verified: cargo tree -p perry-ui-android -i tokio --target aarch64-linux-android matches no package). The informational source_sites count for compose reads 27 because the regex counts \bblock_on\b — these are rt::block_on call sites, not tokio.
  • docs/turnloop/p8-report.md: group K and its crate row no longer say "no JS surface" (it backs perry/container / perry/compose / perry/workloads through stdlib's container feature) and are marked done; group N's "sync 0.24" corrected to 0.30.

Not run

  • No live container runtime: live_runtime_tests and perry-container-e2e (redis-smoke / forgejo) not exercised; macOS apple/container path not exercised.
  • A compiled Perry program cannot reach this code on either arm today. I built perry + both static archives (release, CGU 16) for main and for the branch and compiled a probe that calls getBackend(), await listImages(), await up({...}) / down() from perry/container / perry/compose against a stub docker on PATH. Both arms compile and link (auto-optimize selects features=async-bridge,container; the rebuilt stdlib archive has 16 tokio members on main, 0 on the branch, and the binary 58 tokio-1. strings on main, 0 on the branch), and both print byte-identical output — but every call evaluates to undefined and the stub docker is never invoked, on main too. The HIR lowers them to NativeMethodCall { module: "perry/container", method: "getBackend" }, which apparently reaches no js_container_* symbol. That is a pre-existing codegen gap, not something this PR changes; it means the JS-facing path is covered only by the stdlib FFI tests above, and the turnloop_pool::submit_long arm of container/executor.rs is exercised by no test (test threads have no event loop, so every test operation takes the plain-thread fallback).
  • There are no perry/container gap tests: --filter container|compose|workload matches only test_gap_gc_container_value_rooting.ts and test_633_compose_synth.ts, which exercise neither this crate nor the container feature, so no gap A/B was run.
  • Nothing run on Windows or macOS hardware.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance and Reliability

    • Container compose operations now use a turnloop-based runtime. Calls that exceed their timeout terminate instead of continuing to run in the background.
    • Container operations continue to settle promises and handle shutdown signals through the updated runtime.
  • Documentation

    • Updated container runtime guidance and migration records.

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The compose engine now runs on a turnloop-backed runtime instead of Tokio. The runtime provides process, timer, signal, mutex, and future-driving APIs. Container FFI operations use a new executor to run compose futures and settle promises through the async bridge.

Changes

Container runtime migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Turnloop runtime and leaf APIs
crates/perry-container-compose/Cargo.toml, crates/perry-container-compose/src/lib.rs, crates/perry-container-compose/src/rt/*
The crate replaces its Tokio runtime dependency with turnloop and adds a public runtime module. The module drives futures through turnloop and provides process commands, timers, shutdown signals, a mutex, and runtime-context functions. Runtime tests cover polling, timers, nested calls, cross-thread wake-ups, and child-process behavior.
Compose engine runtime wiring
crates/perry-container-compose/src/backend*, crates/perry-container-compose/src/installer.rs, crates/perry-container-compose/src/main.rs, crates/perry-container-compose/src/workload.rs, crates/perry-container-compose/src/orchestrate.rs, crates/perry-container-compose/tests/*
The CLI, backend detection, installer, and workload code use the new runtime. The CLI drives run through block_on. Unit and integration tests use the new runtime; their existing scenarios and assertions are retained.
Container promise execution and FFI wiring
crates/perry-stdlib/src/container/executor.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/src/container/mod.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/src/container/{backend_ctl,compose_ffi,images,lifecycle,logs_exec,verification,workload}.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/src/common/async_bridge.rs, crates/perry-stdlib/tests/container_*
The new executor runs compose futures on turnloop long-occupancy workers, with OS-thread and inline fallbacks. Container FFI handlers use it for promise work. Backend initialization, signal cleanup, and process invocation use the new runtime. Container tests drive async operations with block_on.
Feature and migration records
changelog.d/11209-container-compose-on-turnloop.md, crates/perry-stdlib/Cargo.toml, crates/perry/src/commands/compile/optimized_libs/driver.rs, docs/turnloop/p8-report.md, scripts/tokio_inventory.json
The changelog and migration records describe the turnloop-backed compose runtime and the removal of the compose crate's Tokio dependency edges. The container feature documentation describes its async-bridge relationship. The report and inventory also update the Android tungstenite entry.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ContainerFFI
  participant ContainerExecutor
  participant TurnloopWorker
  participant ComposeRuntime
  participant AsyncBridge
  ContainerFFI->>ContainerExecutor: Schedule compose future
  ContainerExecutor->>TurnloopWorker: Submit long-occupancy job
  TurnloopWorker->>ComposeRuntime: Drive future with try_block_on
  ComposeRuntime-->>TurnloopWorker: Return operation result
  TurnloopWorker->>AsyncBridge: Queue promise resolution or rejection
  AsyncBridge-->>ContainerFFI: Settle promise
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If both background execution options fail, a container call can block JavaScript until the compose operation completes. This is a narrow fallback path, but it should avoid blocking the caller before merge.

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Ready to merge once CI is clean (tokio lane K). perry-container-compose now uses no tokio at all, tests included, per the owner's rule. Tokio edges go 9→7 (6→5 crates). The executor is rt::block_on on turnloop; process, timer and signal handling use turnloop; the mutex is async_lock, already in the lock; the stdlib container feature now uses async-bridge. Compose tests 171→184 (+13 new), stdlib container tests 10/16→16/16 (6 that were failing on main are fixed). cargo xwin check passes. It is a text conflict with lane L2 on perry-stdlib's inventory entry; re-run tokio_inventory.py --update for whichever lands second.

Ralph Küpper added 2 commits September 24, 2026 13:39
The compose engine stays async; only its leaves and executor move.
A new `perry_container_compose::rt` module drives it on turnloop:
`Command` (child processes via `Driver::spawn` + multishot pipe
reads), `sleep` / `timeout` (turnloop timers), `shutdown_signal`,
`Mutex` (async-lock), and `block_on` / `try_block_on`, which own one
turnloop loop per call. The `perry-compose` binary and every test use
`rt::block_on` instead of `#[tokio::main]` / `#[tokio::test]`.

perry-stdlib's `container` feature now implies only `async-bridge`:
`container/executor.rs` runs each operation's future with
`rt::try_block_on` on turnloop's `Occupancy::Long` pool and settles
through the tokio-free async bridge.

Dropping an unfinished `rt::Command` future terminates the child, so a
CLI call aborted by PERRY_CONTAINER_OP_TIMEOUT_SECS no longer leaves the
process running.

tokio_inventory drops both perry-container-compose edges; the K/N prose
in the inventory and docs/turnloop/p8-report.md is corrected.
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Merge queue: rebased onto main after #11186 (lean dependencies) landed. The one conflict was workload.rs's imports: kept #11186's std::sync::LazyLock as Lazy (once_cell is gone) and this PR's crate::rt::Mutex in place of tokio's. Local: fmt, -D warnings --all-targets on perry-container-compose/perry-stdlib, perry-container-compose tests, tokio_inventory (7 edges, 5 crates) and the full lint script tier (only the grandfathered public-baseline step fails) all pass.

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🟡 Minor · Do not run the compose future inline on the FFI caller. · executor.rs:41-96

crates/perry-stdlib/src/container/executor.rs:41-96
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not run the compose future inline on the FFI caller.

If submit_long refuses the job and OS-thread creation also fails, run_detached executes try_block_on on the calling thread. Container FFI functions call spawn_for_promise* before returning their promise, so a call from the JS/main thread can block that thread until the compose future completes. The deferred resolution queue moves only promise settlement; it does not move try_block_on.

Reject the operation when no off-thread executor is available.

Suggested fix
     let inflight = keep_alive.then(InflightGuard::new);
+    let settle_slot = std::sync::Arc::new(std::sync::Mutex::new(Some(settle)));
+    let run_settle_slot = settle_slot.clone();
     let run = move || {
         let result = perry_container_compose::rt::try_block_on(future)
             .unwrap_or_else(|e| Err(format!("container runtime unavailable: {e}")));
-        settle(result);
+        if let Some(settle) = take(&run_settle_slot) {
+            settle(result);
+        }
         drop(inflight);
     };
@@
     if spawned.is_err() {
-        // No thread at all: run inline rather than leave a promise pending.
-        if let Some(run) = take(&slot) {
-            run();
+        // Do not block the FFI caller when no off-thread executor exists.
+        if take(&slot).is_some() {
+            if let Some(settle) = take(&settle_slot) {
+                settle(Err("container runtime unavailable: no execution thread".to_string()));
+            }
         }
     }
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In `@crates/perry-stdlib/src/container/executor.rs` around lines 41 - 96, Update
run_detached so that if submit_long refuses the job and thread creation fails,
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- Around line 41-96: Update run_detached so that if submit_long refuses the job
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