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The eight threads that record Graph bodies were created by GraphAsyncRecordingState, a function-local static in orchestration_api.h — so one pool lived in each orchestration .so. Those are dlopen'd one per callable with RTLD_LOCAL and are not released as cases finish, so a process held one pool, eight threads and their recording storage per registered callable.

Measured on a2a3 by counting concurrently mapped orchestration images: 3 over a four-case pytest session, 5 over the whole host_build_graph corpus — i.e. 24–40 recorder threads and 127–212 MB of recorder storage (#1981 + #2015 sizing) where 8 threads and ~42 MB suffice.

The pool is now the runtime's, in host/graph_recorder_pool.{h,cpp} — the host target only, since the aicore and aicpu targets compile orchestration/ too and must not instantiate host threads. Counting threads named hbg-recorder over the same four cases gives 8, independent of how many callables are registered.

How the orchestration .so reaches it

Two new ops entries. job is a borrowed std::function<void(GraphTaskArgs &)> *: the pool moves the closure out of it on success and leaves it untouched on refusal, so no ownership crosses the .so boundary and rt_graph_submit's existing synchronous fallback still has a live job to record inline. The AICPU build links weak fallbacks in runtime_core.cpp — a refusing start and a no-op wait — the same host/device fork host_tensor_read already uses, which is what makes the device path record synchronously.

Two properties this relies on, both already true and now documented at the pool:

  • No job outlives the bind that queued it. rt_orchestration_done() → rt_graph_commit() → graph_record_wait() drains the pool at the end of every orchestration, so a job's code cannot still be queued when unregister_callable dlcloses the .so it lives in.
  • The runtime a job binds to is a plain global in its own .so (orchestration/common.cpp, deliberately not thread_local — see the TLSDESC note there), so a worker shared across callables reads the right one: the job's own inlined code reads its own .so's global.

What this deletes

With the pool inside the runtime, standing each worker's recording storage up is a plain call rather than a symbol handed across the boundary. Gone: framework_prewarm_graph_recorders, framework_set_recorder_storage_init, their dlsyms, the OrchestrationStorageInitFunc typedef, and the failure counter that existed only because a count could cross where a return value could not. Registration now calls graph_recorder_prewarm() and reads its bool. host_orchestration_support/ goes with them.

Cold binds keep what that bought — host_orch minflt per rank:

storage stood up cold bind minflt
lazily, inside the first bind 1220 / 1162 · 1234 / 1189
as the worker starts 1020 / 989

The workers are also named hbg-recorder, so eight mostly-idle threads are identifiable in top -H or a debugger rather than looking like a leak — which is what made the before/after above measurable at all.

The pool's own cpput case now drives it through the ops table with a file-local pool, since the process-wide one lives in a translation unit it does not link; a weak graph_recorder_stand_up_storage in test_stubs.cpp keeps it from linking the orchestrator, the same shape as the existing bind_callable_to_runtime_impl stub.

Testing

  • ctest -LE requires_hardware — 119/119
  • a2a3 onboard sweep — 149 passed, 1 skipped (identical to base)
  • a2a3sim 60 passed · a5sim 53 passed — the ops table changed, so sim exercises it too
  • a2a3 onboard graph_execution + graph_predicated_dispatch — 4 cases, golden-checked on device
  • graph_execution at --rounds 3 — the multi-bind reuse path CI does not reach; golden passes on every invocation
  • hbg-recorder thread count = 8 over four hbg cases
  • clang-tidy, clang-format
  • both arches, one commit

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The change moves asynchronous graph recording from orchestration code into host runtime code. It adds a bounded host worker pool, runtime start/wait callbacks, recorder-storage prewarming and failure tracking, synchronous fallback behavior, and updated build and unit-test wiring for A2A3 and A5.

Graph recording runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recorder storage initialization
src/common/host_build_graph/graph_host_state.h, src/a2a3/.../orchestrator.cpp, src/a5/.../orchestrator.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/stubs/test_stubs.cpp
Recorder storage setup is shared by reset and prewarm paths. Allocation failures use an atomic counter and exported accessors.
Host recorder pool
src/a2a3/.../host/graph_recorder_pool.*, src/a5/.../host/graph_recorder_pool.*
The host runtime adds owned graph arguments, bounded worker management, prewarming, queued recording, wait handling, and strong runtime hook implementations.
Runtime callback path
src/a2a3/.../runtime_core.h, src/a5/.../runtime_core.h, src/a2a3/.../runtime_core.cpp, src/a5/.../runtime_core.cpp, src/a2a3/.../orchestration_api.h, src/a5/.../orchestration_api.h
RuntimeOps exposes graph recording start and wait callbacks. Orchestration submits closures through these callbacks and records inline when queuing is unavailable or refused.
Host wiring and validation
src/a2a3/.../build_config.py, src/a5/.../build_config.py, src/a2a3/.../host/runtime_maker.cpp, src/a5/.../host/runtime_maker.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/CMakeLists.txt, tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_async_submit.cpp
Host registration prewarms the runtime pool directly. Orchestration targets exclude host support sources. Unit tests configure host includes and fake runtime callbacks.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 7d60d

The change moves recorder storage setup earlier, but the current implementation can discard work during fallback and can terminate the process when storage allocation fails. These production-impacting issues should be fixed before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RuntimeMaker
  participant GraphRecording
  participant RuntimeOps
  participant HostRecorderPool
  participant RecorderStorage
  RuntimeMaker->>HostRecorderPool: prewarm()
  HostRecorderPool->>RecorderStorage: initialize worker storage
  GraphRecording->>RuntimeOps: graph_record_start(job)
  RuntimeOps->>HostRecorderPool: queue recording job
  GraphRecording->>RuntimeOps: graph_record_wait()
  RuntimeOps->>HostRecorderPool: drain recording work
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A rabbit saw workers wake in a row
With graphs in their baskets, ready to go
The runtime queued each task with care
Then waited until none hung in the air
Host threads stayed home where they belong
And fallback recording hummed along

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In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/host/graph_recorder_pool.h`:
- Around line 135-149: Update start in
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/host/graph_recorder_pool.h:135-149 and
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/host/graph_recorder_pool.h:135-149 to accept the
job by reference and move it into the queued callable only after stopping_,
capacity, and worker checks succeed, preserving rejected callers’ jobs. In
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/host/graph_recorder_pool.cpp:32-36 and
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/host/graph_recorder_pool.cpp:32-36, pass *record
by reference. In
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/orchestration/orchestration_api.h:548-553 and
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/orchestration/orchestration_api.h:548-553,
update the comment to refer to job and ensure the synchronous fallback invokes
job.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_async_submit.cpp`
around lines 166 - 169.

In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp`:
- Around line 939-943: In the graph_recorder_prewarm() failure branch of
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp at lines 939-943,
unlink so_path before returning, after closing handle. Apply the same cleanup in
the corresponding prewarm failure branch of
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp at lines 955-959; both
sites require direct changes.

In
`@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp`:
- Around line 782-786: Update graph_recording_stand_up() in both
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp:782-786
and
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp:782-786
to catch std::bad_alloc from graph_recording_reserve_storage(), reset recording,
and return false so allocation failures reach
GraphAsyncRecordingState::prewarm() without terminating the process.

In `@tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_async_submit.cpp`:
- Around line 166-171: Protect FakeRuntime::commit_calls in fake_graph_commit
with fake.mutex or std::atomic<int>, ensuring updates from asynchronous worker
and main-thread rt_graph_commit calls are synchronized while preserving the
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@ChaoWao ChaoWao changed the title Refactor: stand the recorder's storage up when its worker starts Refactor: give the runtime the Graph recorder pool Aug 26, 2026
The eight threads that record Graph bodies were created by
GraphAsyncRecordingState, a function-local static in orchestration_api.h — so
one pool lived in each orchestration .so. Those are dlopen'd one per callable
with RTLD_LOCAL and are not released as cases finish, so a process held one
pool, eight threads and their recording storage per registered callable.
Measured on a2a3: 3 orchestration images mapped at once over a four-case pytest
session and 5 over the host_build_graph corpus, i.e. 24-40 recorder threads and
127-212 MB of recorder storage where 8 threads and ~42 MB suffice.

The pool is now the runtime's, in host/graph_recorder_pool.{h,cpp} — the host
target only, since the aicore and aicpu targets compile orchestration/ too and
must not instantiate host threads. One pool per process: counting threads named
hbg-recorder over the same four cases gives 8, independent of how many callables
are registered.

The orchestration .so reaches it through two new ops entries. `job` is a
std::function<void(GraphTaskArgs &)> * the pool moves out of, whether or not it
queues it, since start() takes the callable before it checks capacity — so the
caller treats it as spent on return. Nothing is owned across the .so boundary
either way, and rt_graph_submit's synchronous fallback re-runs its own copy of
the body rather than the job. The AICPU build links weak fallbacks in
runtime_core.cpp — a refusing start and a no-op wait — the same host/device fork
host_tensor_read already uses, which is what makes the device path record
synchronously.

graph_recording_stand_up() catches std::bad_alloc: the node tensor pool is a
nothrow new but the flat arrays are vectors whose resize/reserve throw, and this
now runs on a recorder worker as it starts, where an escaping exception
terminates the process instead of letting prewarm() report the failure. The
temporary orchestration image is also unlinked as soon as dlopen maps it rather
than after the prewarm, so no failure return leaves one behind in /tmp.

Two properties this relies on, both already true:

  - No job outlives the bind that queued it. rt_orchestration_done() ->
    rt_graph_commit() -> graph_record_wait() drains the pool at the end of every
    orchestration, so a job's code cannot still be queued when
    unregister_callable dlcloses the .so it lives in.
  - The runtime a job binds to is a plain global in its own .so
    (orchestration/common.cpp, deliberately not thread_local), so a worker
    shared across callables reads the right one: the job's own inlined code
    reads its own .so's global.

With the pool inside the runtime, standing each worker's recording storage up is
a plain call rather than a symbol handed across the boundary. That deletes the
framework_prewarm_graph_recorders and framework_set_recorder_storage_init
exports, their dlsyms, the OrchestrationStorageInitFunc typedef and the failure
counter that existed only because the count could cross where a return value
could not: registration now calls graph_recorder_prewarm() and reads its bool.
host_orchestration_support/ goes with them.

Cold binds keep what that bought: host_orch minflt per rank was 1220 / 1162 and
1234 / 1189 with the storage stood up lazily inside the first bind, and 1020 /
989 once a worker does it as it starts.

The workers are also named hbg-recorder, so eight mostly-idle threads are
identifiable in top -H or a debugger rather than looking like a leak — which is
what made the before/after above measurable at all.

test_host_orchestration_is_a_self_contained_log_consumer asserted that the
orchestration .so compiles graph_recorder_prewarm.cpp. That file is gone, and the
property is now the opposite one worth guarding: these sources are shared with
the aicore and aicpu targets, so the orchestration .so must compile nothing that
creates host threads. The parameter that carried the old expectation went with
it, since it would have been false for every case.

The pool's own cpput case now drives it through the ops table with a file-local
pool, since the process-wide one lives in a translation unit it does not link;
a weak graph_recorder_stand_up_storage in test_stubs.cpp keeps it from linking
the orchestrator, the same shape as the bind_callable_to_runtime_impl stub. Its
commit_calls counter becomes atomic, because the recorded body calls
rt_graph_commit on a worker while the main thread calls it too.

Verified: cpput 119/119; a2a3 onboard sweep 149 passed, 1 skipped; a2a3sim 60,
a5sim 53; the two a2a3 onboard Graph-recording scene tests golden-checked on
device; graph_execution at --rounds 3 passing its golden on every invocation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@coderabbitai All four addressed — see the resolved threads. Summary:

  1. Job ownership — the finding is right that start() takes the callable before it checks capacity; its stated consequence is not, because the fallback re-runs invoke, captured by value. So the fix is to the contract I documented, in all three places that stated it, plus dropping a redundant std::function hop. Restructuring start() would need a rollback path no caller depends on; the reply explains when that becomes worth doing.
  2. Temp image leak — fixed one step out: unlink moved to right after dlopen succeeds, which covers every failure return below it including the pre-existing dlsym ones, and the dlopen-failed branch unlinks explicitly.
  3. std::bad_alloc — caught in graph_recording_stand_up(), storage dropped, false returned. Real: the pool is a nothrow new but the flat arrays are vectors that throw, and the stand-up now runs on a worker where nothing catches it.
  4. commit_calls race — now std::atomic<int>.

Also, separately from the review: ut was failing on both hosts and I had not run it on this branch. test_host_orchestration_is_a_self_contained_log_consumer asserted the orchestration .so compiles graph_recorder_prewarm.cpp, which this PR deletes. The expectation is now the opposite property, which is the one this change establishes: those sources are shared with the aicore and aicpu targets, so the orchestration .so must compile nothing that creates host threads.

Re-verified on the pushed commit: pyut 1947 passed, cpput 119/119, a2a3 onboard 148–149 passed (see below), a2a3sim 60, a5sim 53, --rounds 3 golden, clang-tidy and the retired-names hook clean.

One local caveat, not a regression: two consecutive local a2a3 sweeps each failed one case on worker_async_fifo's 10 s _wait_for_backend_prepared_successor deadline — but a different variant each time, once host_build_graph and once tensormap_and_ringbuffer. The two runtimes share no orchestration code, so it is the deadline timing out on host CPU (1-minute load 100.9 and 61.2, against ~53 for three earlier all-passing sweeps); the directory passes 7/7 alone, and CI's own st-onboard-a2a3 passes.

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@ChaoWao Thanks for the detailed update.

The documented job-ownership contract makes the synchronous fallback safe. The cleanup change covers both dlopen failure and all later failure paths. The std::bad_alloc handling now prevents worker-thread termination. The atomic commit_calls change removes the data race.

The updated unit-test expectation also matches the new architecture: the orchestration .so must not compile host-thread code.

The intermittent local worker_async_fifo deadline failure appears environmental from the reported evidence. CI passed the relevant onboard suite.


🧠 Learnings used
Learnt from: ChaoWao
Repo: hw-native-sys/simpler PR: 2020
File: src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp:781-794
Timestamp: 2026-08-26T09:38:23.522Z
Learning: In the host-build-graph recorder storage setup, `graph_recording_reserve_storage()` uses both `new (std::nothrow)` for `node_tensor_pool` and throwing `std::vector::resize()`/`reserve()` calls for flat arrays. Therefore, `graph_recording_stand_up(GraphRecording &)` must catch `std::bad_alloc`, reset the `GraphRecording`, and return `false` so worker prewarming can report allocation failure without process termination.

Learnt from: ChaoWao
Repo: hw-native-sys/simpler PR: 2020
File: src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/host/graph_recorder_pool.h:135-149
Timestamp: 2026-08-26T09:37:07.520Z
Learning: In hw-native-sys/simpler host build graph recording, `RuntimeOps::graph_record_start` receives a pointer to a `std::function<void(GraphTaskArgs &)>` that the host recorder pool may consume even when it returns `false`. `rt_graph_submit` is safe because its queued `job` captures `invoke` by value and the synchronous fallback calls the separate local `invoke`, not the potentially moved-from `job`. This contract is documented in both the a2a3 and a5 `orchestration/orchestration_api.h` and `runtime/runtime_core.h` copies.

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