Memoize repeated block and calendar lookups per request - #1331
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BuildTripStatus resolves a trip's block to compute position, distance and schedule deviation. A handler that calls it once per response row repeats that resolution for every row, and each one reloads the stop times and shape points of every trip in the block. The work scales with (rows x block size) rather than with the number of distinct blocks. GetActiveServiceIDsForDate is a smaller repeat in the same path: it is called once per row for a date that cannot change within a request. Add a request-scoped memo, carried on the context, covering loadBlockTripData (keyed on the trip-ID set), the active service calendar (keyed on the date), and stop times seeded by prefetchStopTimes. This mirrors WithSnapshotCache, which already solves the same problem one level up for whole block snapshots; these entries are still reached on the schedule-deviation path, which resolves a block without a snapshot. Handlers that do not opt in are unaffected, since every accessor falls through to the original query when the context carries no memo. Shape points are deliberately not prefetched. GetShapePointsByTripIDs joins shapes to trips, so a shape shared by many trips is returned once per trip with no deduplication, which for a large agency would materialize hundreds of megabytes of duplicated geometry for the life of a request. loadBlockTripData hands out a clone because loadShiftTrips sorts in place. A nil result there means the query failed rather than that the block is empty, so it is not cached; doing so would turn one transient error into a block-wide degradation for the rest of the request.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a mutex-protected, request-scoped cache for block-trip data, stop times, and active service IDs. It adds stop-time prefetching, defensive slice copies, error-aware memoization, and integration across REST API lookup paths. ChangesRequest cache integration
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to One handler still bypasses the request-scoped calendar memo, so repeated rows may perform redundant service-calendar lookups and receive less of the intended performance improvement. The change remains mergeable with explicit owner awareness and a follow-up to route that lookup through the memo. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ArrivalsHandler
participant RequestCache
participant GTFSDatabase
ArrivalsHandler->>RequestCache: Initialize request-scoped cache
ArrivalsHandler->>RequestCache: Prefetch stop times for trips
RequestCache->>GTFSDatabase: Query grouped stop times
GTFSDatabase-->>RequestCache: Return grouped stop times
RequestCache-->>ArrivalsHandler: Return stop times and stop counts
ArrivalsHandler->>RequestCache: Resolve per-trip stop times and active services
RequestCache-->>ArrivalsHandler: Return memoized lookup data
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In `@internal/restapi/request_cache_test.go`:
- Around line 12-170: Add tests covering database-error behavior for
prefetchStopTimes, activeServiceIDsForDate, and loadBlockTripData. Verify failed
stop-time prefetches leave cache entries absent, failed active-service lookups
are not cached, and a failed block-trip load can be retried successfully without
reusing an empty result; follow the existing createTestApi and request-cache
test conventions.
In `@internal/restapi/request_cache.go`:
- Around line 173-181: The active-service lookup in
internal/restapi/request_cache.go:173-181 must coordinate concurrent misses per
formatted date so only one caller queries GetActiveServiceIDsForDate while
others wait and reuse its result; update the relevant cache state and
cleanup/error propagation accordingly. Apply the same per-key in-flight
coordination to the block-trip load in
internal/restapi/scheduled_block_helper.go:536-546, keyed by trip ID, so
concurrent callers wait for and share the single load result.
- Around line 119-146: Update high-cardinality production handlers that build
multiple trip statuses to execute within withRequestCache. Collect the trip IDs
and call api.prefetchStopTimes before the status-building loop, ensuring all
per-trip lookups reuse the request-scoped cache while preserving existing
response behavior.
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Deduplicate concurrent cache misses.
The mutex only protects map operations. It does not coordinate a cache miss through the database lookup. The cache documentation states that handlers can build statuses concurrently. Concurrent callers for one key can therefore issue repeated database queries before either caller stores a result.
internal/restapi/request_cache.go#L173-L181: coordinate in-flight active-service lookups per formatted date.internal/restapi/scheduled_block_helper.go#L536-L546: coordinate in-flight block-trip loads per trip-ID key.
Use per-key in-flight coordination so one caller loads and other callers wait for the result.
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In `@internal/restapi/request_cache.go` around lines 173 - 181, The active-service
lookup in internal/restapi/request_cache.go:173-181 must coordinate concurrent
misses per formatted date so only one caller queries GetActiveServiceIDsForDate
while others wait and reuse its result; update the relevant cache state and
cleanup/error propagation accordingly. Apply the same per-key in-flight
coordination to the block-trip load in
internal/restapi/scheduled_block_helper.go:536-546, keyed by trip ID, so
concurrent callers wait for and share the single load result.
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This will need some changes before merging — please see the notes below.
The cache itself is well built, and I went looking specifically for the ways this kind of change goes wrong. It's genuinely request-scoped with no package-level state; the maps are mutex-guarded with immediate defer Unlock() and no nested acquisition; failures aren't cached as successes on any of the three paths; and only static GTFS data is memoized, so real-time staleness isn't in play. The slices.Clone in loadBlockTripData is necessary and correct given loadShiftTrips sorts in place, and I traced every consumer of the aliased inner slices to confirm the read-only contract your doc comment asserts actually holds. GetStopTimesForTripIDs grouped by trip really is row-for-row equivalent to the per-trip query. That's careful work.
What's holding it up:
Nothing calls it. withRequestCache and prefetchStopTimes are reachable only from request_cache_test.go — no handler installs the memo, so this lands as +382 lines that are inert on main. You offered in the description to wire up arrivals-and-departures-for-stop in this PR; please do that, or split so the caller lands with the cache. CONTRIBUTING is explicit that leftover unreachable code is a review finding, and I'd rather not have a caching layer sitting in the tree with no way to tell whether it works in production.
Two smaller things while you're in there:
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GetShapePointsByTripIDsfailure insideloadBlockTripDataFromDBis non-fatal and yields a haversine-degraded but non-nil result, which is cached. One transient blip pins reduced distance precision for that block for the rest of the request, where before each call would retry. Worth either not caching the degraded result or noting why it's fine. TestActiveServiceIDsForDateWithoutCachehardcodes20241104and asserts equality against a direct query, so it would pass trivially if RABA has no service that day. The companion sentinel test does carry real signal.
Also note the CLA check is still pending — that will block the merge independently of the code.
loadBlockTripDataFromDB has two failure modes with different shapes. A stop-times failure returns nil, which the memo already declines to store. A shape failure is non-fatal: emitBlockStops falls back to haversine, so the function returns usable trips that carry less precise distances. That second result was being cached. One transient shape query failure therefore pinned haversine-derived distances to the block for the rest of the request, where an uncached call would have retried and recovered on the next row. Return a completeness flag alongside the trips and memoize only a fully successful load, so a degraded result is used once by the caller that provoked it and not inherited by everyone after.
arrivals-and-departures-for-stop builds a trip status per arrival row, and each of those resolved the row's stop times with its own query. The handler was already batch-loading the same rows for totalStopsInTrip and then discarding them, so the data was fetched twice over. Install the request memo on this handler and seed it from that existing batch load, which prefetchStopTimes now returns grouped by trip so the stop counts can be derived from the same result. The per-row lookups inside BuildTripStatus become map reads. On a 10-hour window over the RABA fixture's busiest stop this drops BenchmarkArrivalsAndDeparturesWideWindow from ~53ms to ~45ms per request and from 237k to 229k allocations. The pre-existing benchmark for this endpoint runs the real clock against a fixture whose calendar has expired, so it returns an empty list and never enters the per-arrival loop. Add a benchmark that holds the clock inside the service window, and cover the memo's failure paths: a failed prefetch must leave entries absent rather than record trips as having no stop times, and a failed calendar lookup must not be memoized. Also drop the claim that handlers build statuses concurrently. Nothing does today, so the mutex is defensive rather than load-bearing, and the comment invited in-flight coordination for contention that cannot occur.
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Thanks for the careful read the shape-failure caching in particular was a real hole and I'd missed it. Wired it up. On a 10-hour window over the fixture's busiest stop, ~53ms → ~45ms per request and 237k → 229k allocations. The ranges across four runs each don't overlap, so the wall-clock difference is real, though I'd still trust the allocation count more than the millisecond figure on my hardware. That also exposed something worth knowing: the existing Shape-failure caching. Fixed properly rather than documented away. The trivially-passing test. You were right that it proved nothing. It now asserts the fixture actually has service on that date before comparing, so an empty-equals-empty pass is impossible. I also added a case for a date with genuinely no service, to pin that an empty answer is memoized as a legitimate result rather than re-queried on every row. On CodeRabbit's singleflight suggestion I don't think it's warranted and I've left it out. Nothing in Still outstanding on the CLA that's on me, not the code, and I'm sorting it out. |
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In `@internal/restapi/arrivals_and_departures_for_stop_handler.go`:
- Around line 101-105: Update the handler’s active-service lookup so the call
near GetActiveServiceIDsForDate uses the existing activeServiceIDsForDate memo,
or caches successful direct-query results there. Preserve the current
primary-date and spillover error handling while ensuring later BuildTripStatus
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Seed the active-service memo from the existing lookup.
Line 105 creates the active-service cache, but Line 170 calls GetActiveServiceIDsForDate directly. The cache remains empty. Later BuildTripStatus paths use activeServiceIDsForDate, so separate block shifts can repeat the same calendar lookup during this request.
Route the handler lookup through activeServiceIDsForDate, or store successful direct-query results in the request cache. Preserve the current primary-date and spillover error handling.
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In `@internal/restapi/arrivals_and_departures_for_stop_handler.go` around lines
101 - 105, Update the handler’s active-service lookup so the call near
GetActiveServiceIDsForDate uses the existing activeServiceIDsForDate memo, or
caches successful direct-query results there. Preserve the current primary-date
and spillover error handling while ensuring later BuildTripStatus paths reuse
the seeded request-level result.
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You addressed all three of my August 14 points properly rather than papering
over them, and the hardest part of this change holds up under scrutiny.
Taking them in order:
- "Nothing calls it." Fixed the right way.
arrivalsAndDeparturesForStopHandler
now installs the memo, andprefetchStopTimesreplaces the
GetStopTimesForTripIDsbatch whose result used to be discarded — so one query
now does two jobs (seeding the memo and derivingtotalStopsInTrip) where there
were previously two. I checked the row-count derivation is equivalent to the old
tripStopCountMap[st.TripID]++loop, failure path included: a nil map yields
zero counts, same as before. - Caching a haversine-degraded result.
loadBlockTripDataFromDBreturning
([]blockTripData, bool)withcomplete == (shapeErr == nil), and only
memoizing oncomplete, is exactly right — and
TestLoadBlockTripDataDoesNotCacheFailedLoadpins it. - The trivially-passing service-IDs test. The
require.NotEmpty(t, expected, "fixture must have service on %s for this test to prove anything")guard is the
fix I wanted, and adding
TestActiveServiceIDsForDateDoesNotConfuseEmptyWithMissingto pin that an
empty-but-valid answer still memoizes is a good instinct — that's the bug this
class of cache usually ships with.
The thing I looked hardest at is the aliasing, since memoized slices are now
shared where they used to be freshly allocated per call. I traced the consumers:
stopTimesForTrip into BuildTripStatus (which takes &stopTimes[i] pointers
across half a dozen helpers) and blockTripData.stopTimes/shapePoints/cumDistances
into emitBlockStops, projectStopsInSequence and the snapshot fields. All
read-only. The one in-place mutation, the slices.SortFunc in loadShiftTrips,
is precisely what the slices.Clone guards. That's the correct place to have put
the clone, and I'm satisfied it's the only one needed.
Cache keys check out too: activeServiceIDs keys on the formatted date string,
which is the query's only input, with timezone resolution happening before
formatting; blockTripData keys on the ordered trip-ID set; and
blockTripIDsForServiceDate is deliberately left unmemoized. Declining the
singleflight suggestion was also the right call — there are no goroutines
anywhere in internal/restapi, and rewriting the overstated doc comment instead
of adding machinery for a concurrency that doesn't exist is the better outcome.
Approving on the merits — but I can't merge it yet, and it isn't about the
code. license/cla is still pending, and the reason is a mismatch rather than
an oversight: your commits are authored as Aditya Kuchekar <adityakuchekar0077@gmail.com>, which GitHub links to the aditya-systems-hub
account, not to dev-aditya-hub which opened this PR. The CLA bot can't match
the two. The test suite hasn't run on this PR either, which I expect is
downstream of the same thing.
To unblock: either add adityakuchekar0077@gmail.com to the email addresses on
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run clean, this goes in — no re-review needed.
Two follow-ups you can fold in whenever, neither worth another round on its own:
arrivals_and_departures_for_stop_handler.go:170still calls
GetActiveServiceIDsForDatedirectly instead ofapi.activeServiceIDsForDate.
It's nearly free either way since those three calls use three distinct dates,
but it's inconsistent with the rest.prefetchStopTimeslogs via package-levelslog.Warnwhere the code it
replaced usedapi.Logger.Warn, which moves that failure off the app logger.
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This PR has identified a scalability issue which is worth addressing. However, I don’t think this improvement justifies adding The remaining benefit is limited to repeated work within certain requests. It does not help single-row requests or persist across requests, and it does not address The Java OBA server handles this by computing trip status once per GTFS-RT update and caching the result. That approach fits Maglev’s real-time refresh path better than a general request-scoped cache. I've documented the investigation and benchmark results in #1379: #1379. Thanks for the thorough benchmarking and failure-mode tests. They provide useful groundwork for an ingest-side implementation. |
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Why
BuildTripStatusresolves a trip's block to compute position, distance and schedule deviation. For a handler that calls it once per response row, that resolution repeats for every row, and each one reloads the stop times and shape points of every trip in the block. The work ends up scaling with (rows x block size) rather than with the number of distinct blocks.There is a second, smaller repeat in the same path:
GetActiveServiceIDsForDateis called once per row for a date that cannot change within a request.This is the same problem
WithSnapshotCachealready solves for whole block snapshots on the plural arrivals handler. These entries sit one level below it, and are still reached on the schedule-deviation path, which resolves a block without going through a snapshot.What this changes
A request-scoped memo in
internal/restapi/request_cache.go, carried on the context, holding three things:loadBlockTripData, keyed on the trip-ID set. This deduplicates across vehicles sharing a block, and also within a singleBuildTripStatuscall, which resolves the same block twice (once viacomputeScheduledBlockSnapshot, once viablockShiftTripIDsSortedByStartTime).GetActiveServiceIDsForDate, keyed on the date. I only swapped the three hot call sites (blockTripIDsForServiceDate,blockTripSequence,activeTripInBlockAt); the other nine are untouched.prefetchStopTimes, so a handler can resolve every row's stop times in one query instead of one per row.The memo is request-scoped rather than a field on
RestAPIon purpose. Static GTFS data reloads in the background, and anything longer-lived would need invalidation tied to that reload. A handler that does not opt in gets the existing behaviour unchanged, since every accessor falls through to the original query when the context carries no memo.loadBlockTripDatahands outslices.Cloneof the cached entry becauseloadShiftTripssorts it in place. The elements themselves are shared and must be treated as read-only; I traced every consumer and none of them mutate, butBuildTripStatusdoes take&stopTimes[i]pointers into the backing array and pass them to the offset helpers, so I documented the constraint on the accessor rather than leave it implicit.Deliberately not prefetched: shape points
I had shapes in the prefetch initially and took them back out.
GetShapePointsByTripIDsjoins shapes to trips, so a shape shared by many trips comes back once per trip with no deduplication. At roughly 1,500 points per shape that is about 96 KB per vehicle held for the life of the request, which for a large agency is hundreds of megabytes per concurrent request. It also pushes theIN (?,?,...)expansion towardsSQLITE_MAX_VARIABLE_NUMBER. Measured, it made things worse: 26.7 MB and 343,680 allocations against 21.4 MB and 328,843 with stop times alone. Stop times are around 4 KB per trip and carry no duplication, so that half stays.Numbers
Measured with
BenchmarkVehiclesForAgency_50Vehicles(added in the follow-up PR below, since this PR has no handler callingBuildTripStatusper row yet), 50 vehicles on distinct active trips, pure-Go SQLite:Allocation counts are deterministic and are the figures I trust. Wall-clock on my machine varied between 235 ms and 810 ms across repeated runs of the same benchmark, so I have not quoted a speedup; the ratio would not be reproducible.
The structural change matters more than the ratio. Per-vehicle allocations go from growing with vehicle count (12,888 at one vehicle, 55,026 per vehicle at fifty) to flat at roughly 6,600 per vehicle. The quadratic term is gone.
Callers
arrivals-and-departures-for-stopinstalls the memo. That handler builds a tripstatus per arrival row, and each one previously resolved its own stop times; it was
also already batch-loading the same rows for
totalStopsInTripand discarding them,so the data was fetched twice.
prefetchStopTimesnow returns the rows grouped bytrip, the stop counts come from that same result, and the per-row lookups become map
reads — one existing query doing two jobs rather than a new one.
Over a 10-hour window on the fixture's busiest stop that is ~53ms → ~45ms per
request and 237k → 229k allocations (
BenchmarkArrivalsAndDeparturesWideWindow).trips-for-routelooks like the worst offender of all, around four per-trip queriesper row with no cache installed at all, and
trips-for-locationis in the sameshape. Both are bigger changes and I have left them alone.
Testing
internal/restapi/request_cache_test.gocovers each memo: fall-through when the handler has not opted in, seeded entries being preferred over the database, first resolution populating the memo, and callers getting independent slices. The prefetch tests cover a real trip, a trip with no stop times (which must still be seeded so it is not retried per row), and the no-memo no-op path.go fmtclean and the full suite passes on the pure-Go path (CGO_ENABLED=0 go test -tags purego ./...).Summary by CodeRabbit
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