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This is an automated cherry-pick of #5893

What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #6021

What is changed and how it works?

Removes unnecessary buffering in the log puller. Span cleanup is moved from the dynamic-stream event handler to the failure handler’s run loop, avoiding re-entrant calls and potential deadlocks. Tests are updated for the asynchronous cleanup flow.

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1000K table scenario, the optimized version achieved:

• 3.5% lower CPU usage: 33.69 → 32.52 cores
• 2.5% lower RSS memory: 56.66 → 55.24 GiB
• 4.4% lower Go heap: 43.91 → 42.00 GiB
• 10.9% lower allocation rate: 2.13 → 1.90 GiB/s
• 9.1% lower GC CPU: 5.62 → 5.10 cores

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved region failure handling by queuing drained spans for orderly processing alongside cached region errors.
  • Updated stream buffering behavior to use the default configuration, reducing the risk of deadlocks.
  • Ensured canceled subscriptions remain tracked until failure processing completes.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for queued cancellation handling and failure-handler shutdown.
  • Updated scheduler tests to verify proper cleanup when the operation is canceled.

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📝 Walkthrough

The failure handler now queues drained spans and processes them in its run loop. The dynamic stream no longer explicitly enables buffering. Tests verify deferred cleanup and handler cancellation.

Changes: Deferred span cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Queue and process drained spans logservice/logpuller/region_failure_handler.go, logservice/logpuller/region_event_sink.go, logservice/logpuller/region_request_scheduler_test.go, logservice/logpuller/subscription_client_test.go	errCache stores drained spans separately from region errors. Report queues spans, and Run processes them before cached errors. The event sink no longer explicitly enables buffering. Tests verify deferred cleanup and cancellation.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Report
  participant errCache
  participant Run
  participant onTableDrained
  Report->>errCache: addDrainedSpan(span)
  Run->>errCache: popDrainedSpans()
  Run->>onTableDrained: process queued spans

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Suggested reviewers: lidezhu

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 21bf8

Stopping many subscriptions can delay recovery for active subscriptions. Bound and interleave cleanup work before merging unless that delay is explicitly accepted.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 21bf8

The change removes a re-entrant cleanup path, but queued cleanup can be skipped during termination. The identified concern is limited to retained in-memory state; no expanded external access or additional privileges were established.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: Deferred cleanup has no terminal handoff. A final Report can enqueue a drained span before cancellation or a fatal Run exit, leaving its registry entry and queued reference unconsumed. The base performed that cleanup synchronously. Close clears stream paths but does not clear the span registry or drained-span queue, so a retained client can retain stopped-subscription state after shutdown. This does not establish continued remote access or a persistent security exposure.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed queue and cleanup consumer are shared by subscriptions attached to one client, so cleanup delays can affect that client's other recovery work. The inspected evidence does not establish cross-client, cross-tenant, or deployment-wide propagation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The cleanup target remains an existing subscribedSpan carried through region ownership, rather than a newly accepted external cleanup identifier. UnlockRange validates the locked region identity, version, and range before returning; event-error handling reports removal only when the state transition permits it.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Terminal containment is broader than per-span cleanup: a failure-handler error cancels sibling client tasks through their shared error group. Close is documented to follow Run and closes the event sink and scheduler; dynamic-stream Close clears its path map and cancels and joins its streams. These controls limit the terminal queue concern, but do not empty the retained span registry or drained-span queue.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the primary change: removing unnecessary event buffering in the log puller.
Description check		The description includes the issue number, change summary, test context, and performance results. The Questions section and release note remain unanswered, and the applicable test item is not explicit…
Linked Issues check		Issue #6021 is closed and completed. It supplies historical context only. No active linked issue has coding requirements for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within the scope described by issue #6021 and the pull request. They remove dynamic-stream buffering, queue drained spans for failure-handler processing, and update tests for asynchro…

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The changes stay within the scope described by issue #6021 and the pull request. They remove dynamic-stream buffering, queue drained spans for failure-handler processing, and update tests for asynchronous cleanup. No unrelated change is identified.

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Cherry-pick conflicts appear resolved; removing the do-not-merge/hold label.

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Review comments at @logservice/logpuller/region_failure_handler.go:
- Around line 231-233: Update Run’s drained-span processing around
popDrainedSpans and onTableDrained to use bounded batches, interleaving each
batch with handling of cached region errors instead of draining the entire
backlog first. Preserve synchronous RemovePath behavior while ensuring
active-subscription recovery is not delayed by a large drained-span backlog.

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• logservice/logpuller/region_event_sink.go
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bound drained-span work before processing region errors.

When many subscriptions stop together, popDrainedSpans can return a large backlog. Run calls onTableDrained for every span before it handles any cached region error. Because onTableDrained calls RemovePath synchronously, a bulk stop can delay recovery for active subscriptions. Process drained spans in bounded batches and interleave them with cached errors.

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Review comment at @logservice/logpuller/region_failure_handler.go around lines
231 - 233:
Update Run’s drained-span processing around popDrainedSpans and onTableDrained
to use bounded batches, interleaving each batch with handling of cached region
errors instead of draining the entire backlog first. Preserve synchronous
RemovePath behavior while ensuring active-subscription recovery is not delayed
by a large drained-span backlog.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr