Fix threadpool schedule race condition

[nitely]

Fix peek+push schedule race cond (which causes a hang) by doing peek, push, then re-check whether the queue got drained in between.

Added regression tests which hang without the fix.

I did not notice a benchmark regression when compiling in release mode. But, interestingly, when compiling in danger mode, nqueens is slower; I was able to restore the perf by returning a bool from push instead of using the var param. My guess is it's something inline related but I did not dig into it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved threadpool task scheduling to prevent missed worker wake-ups.
  • Ensured queued tasks are consistently detected when workers need notification.

• Tests

  • Added regression coverage for high-volume task spawning, future polling, synchronization, and threadpool shutdown scenarios.

[coderabbitai]

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The threadpool queue now reports empty-state transitions during enqueue. WorkerContext.schedule uses this result for worker wake-ups. A repeated two-worker regression test covers sender and polling scenarios and is added to the threadpool test suite.

Changes

Threadpool wake-up coordination

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Task queue transition reporting constantine/threadpool/crossthread/taskqueues.nim	Taskqueue.push reports whether enqueueing made the queue non-empty. The existing two-argument API delegates to the new overload.
Scheduler wake-up integration constantine/threadpool/threadpool.nim	WorkerContext.schedule uses the enqueue result instead of checking queue state before insertion.
Lost-wakeup regression coverage tests/threadpool/t_spawn_spin.nim, constantine.nimble	The test runs sender and polling batches for 400,000 rounds with two workers. The test is registered in the threadpool suite.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to 17b00

The PR addresses the threadpool scheduling race, but its regression test can wait indefinitely if the bug recurs, causing CI to hang rather than fail promptly. The change is mergeable with owner follow-up to add bounded wait deadlines.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkerContext
  participant Taskqueue
  participant Worker
  WorkerContext->>Taskqueue: push(task, wasEmpty)
  Taskqueue-->>WorkerContext: Return wasEmpty
  WorkerContext->>Worker: Wake when forced or wasEmpty

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Poem

A rabbit queued tasks in a neat little line,
The queue said, “I’m waking; the timing is fine.”
Two workers hopped quickly, each task found its way,
While futures stood ready at end of the day.
Four hundred thousand rounds passed without fright.

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Greptile Summary

The PR closes a scheduler lost-wakeup race by publishing a task and then rechecking whether concurrent thieves drained the previously queued work before deciding to wake a worker.

• Moves empty-to-nonempty transition detection into Taskqueue.push.
• Updates schedule to use the transition result when deciding whether to notify sleeping workers.
• Adds a high-contention regression test covering spawn-and-spin and readiness-polling workloads.
• Registers the regression test in the threadpool test suite.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge, with no concrete correctness, security, or independently actionable quality issue identified.

The revised transition check covers the drain-between-observation-and-push race while any worker that steals the newly published task is already active and therefore does not leave work stranded.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
constantine/threadpool/crossthread/taskqueues.nim	Computes the queue transition during push and rechecks the consumer-owned front index after publishing the new task.
constantine/threadpool/threadpool.nim	Uses the push result to preserve scheduler wakeup liveness when thieves drain previously observed work.
tests/threadpool/t_spawn_spin.nim	Adds a stress regression test for tasks awaited without re-entering the scheduler.
constantine.nimble	Registers the new regression test in the standard threadpool test set.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant P as Producer worker
    participant Q as Task queue
    participant T as Thief worker
    participant E as Global backoff
    P->>Q: Read old back and front
    T->>Q: Steal previously queued work
    P->>Q: Store new task and publish new back
    P->>Q: Re-read front
    alt Previous work was drained
        Q-->>P: "wasEmpty = true"
        P->>E: Wake sleeping worker
    else Previous work remains queued
        Q-->>P: "wasEmpty = false"
    end

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Inline comments:
In `@tests/threadpool/t_spawn_spin.nim`:
- Around line 52-63: Bound the polling loops in the spawn-spin regression test,
including the sender loop around entries[i].ready and the loop near the second
polling site, with a monotonic deadline or shared bounded-wait helper. On
expiration, fail the test directly with a clear diagnostic, and avoid calling
sync or any other unbounded scheduler wait from that failure path; preserve the
existing assertions when tasks complete in time.

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• constantine.nimble
• constantine/threadpool/crossthread/taskqueues.nim
• constantine/threadpool/threadpool.nim
• tests/threadpool/t_spawn_spin.nim