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feat(agent): keep TCP connections between restored set members - #801
A restore turns every established TCP socket whose other end is not in its own image into an unconnected socket, and the INET remap plugin moves only the Pod's own IP. So a connection between two Pods of a set comes back closed, although each Pod restores its own end. Control planes such as MPI, torch's store and NCCL's socket transport cache their peers and cannot reconnect. This PR keeps those connections, as SNEP-324's "Cross-Pod TCP connections" describes.
Keep connections to peers. Callers pass the capture-time and current IPs of the other members of the Pod's set (RestoreRequest.PeerIPs, nsrestore --peer-ips). The image rewrite keeps an established socket whose remote address is a peer's capture-time IP exactly as dumped, and the remap file maps every member's old IP to its new one, so CRIU's UPDATE_INETSK hook moves both ends. Connections to anything outside the set are still disconnected. The map is checked before CRIU runs: no two Pods may move to one IP, the plugin holds at most 256 changed IPs, and only IPv4 is supported. A Pod restored on its own passes no peers and restores exactly as before.
Hold them until every member has restored. Members finish their restores seconds apart. Once CRIU takes a kept socket out of repair mode, its kernel may send a window probe, a retransmission or a keepalive to a peer whose socket does not exist yet, and the peer answers with a reset that kills the connection at both ends. tcphold.Install drops every packet of the preserved connections, in both directions and nothing else, in the Pod's network namespace: one iptables chain applied in one iptables-restore transaction through nsenter, with the agent image's own iptables (1.8.10, checked with both its nf_tables and legacy backends). New connections, such as a library's bootstrap traffic, pass. criu.PreservedConnections lists the held connections from the checkpoint images, with the addresses they will have after the remap. The chain is named from a digest of the attempt, so tcphold.Lift finds and removes it by name alone, including after an agent restart, and lifting a hold that is gone succeeds.
Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Part of #693. Tracking issue: #324. Design: #325 (Cross-Pod TCP connections).
How was this tested?
Unit tests: the IP map (flag parsing, own and peer pairs, two Pods moving to one IP, the 256 limit, IPv6), the image rewrite (connections to peers kept, connections outside the set still disconnected, and every connection disconnected when no peers are passed), PreservedConnections, RestoreInNamespace rejecting a bad map before anything runs, and the hold's iptables transactions (install, reinstall, lift, lift of a missing hold, IPv6 refused). hold_linux_test.go applies real transactions in a private network namespace when run as root.
go build, go vet, go test of internal/criu, internal/tcphold, internal/executor and cmd/nsrestore, and golangci-lint v2.14.0 on those packages: 0 issues.
End to end on AWS GB300 (2 nodes, 4 GPUs each) inside the SNEP-324 lower-layer PoC, which drives these functions from a set executor over feat(coordinator): serve coordination sessions from embedded NATS #762's coordinator session (admission all-gathers the IPs, the hold is lifted at the sockets-restored barrier):
CPU-only set with raw TCP and ZeroMQ between two Pods, restored with the nodes swapped: all 4 cross-Pod connections survived with their ports, both Pod IPs changed.
GLM-5.3 NVFP4, vLLM TP8 with expert parallel across two Pods: vLLM's engine queues, torch's store and gloo, and NCCL's socket transport kept working after restore without a reconnect. 90 connections per member were held for about 14 s and lifted at sockets-restored. The greedy answer after restore was byte-identical to the one before capture, over the Pod network and with a ComputeDomain (78 held connections).
Preserve TCP connections between set members #693 also lists pinning CRIU. The agent image already builds CRIU from criu-dev, which has the UPDATE_INETSK hook the remap plugin uses, so this PR does not pin it.
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agent/Dockerfile
agent/cmd/nsrestore/main.go
agent/internal/criu/inet_remap.go
agent/internal/criu/inet_remap_test.go
agent/internal/criu/restore.go
agent/internal/criu/restore_images.go
agent/internal/criu/restore_images_test.go
agent/internal/executor/nsrestore.go
agent/internal/executor/restore.go
agent/internal/executor/restore_test.go
agent/internal/tcphold/hold.go
agent/internal/tcphold/hold_linux_test.go
agent/internal/tcphold/hold_test.go
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Walkthrough
Restore now accepts peer IP mappings and uses them to preserve matching established TCP connections during checkpoint image preparation. It also adds an attempt-specific iptables packet-hold package and pins the default CRIU source reference to a commit.
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Peer TCP connection restore
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Peer mapping input and restore wiring agent/cmd/nsrestore/main.go, agent/internal/executor/restore.go
The restore command accepts --peer-ips. Restore requests pass nonempty mappings to nsrestore.
IP map construction and CRIU remapping agent/internal/criu/inet_remap.go, agent/internal/criu/inet_remap_test.go, agent/internal/executor/nsrestore.go
Restore combines peer mappings with the checkpoint pod mapping. CRIU validates changed mappings, rejects invalid or duplicate targets, and writes changed IPv4 mappings in sorted order.
Image preparation preserves established connections to configured peers and disconnects unmatched connections outside the peer set. Tests cover mapping propagation and preserved connections.
TCP packet hold install and lift agent/internal/tcphold/*
The new package installs bidirectional IPv4 TCP DROP rules in an attempt-specific chain and removes the chain when the hold is lifted. Tests cover repeated operations and network namespace behavior.
CRIU build reference
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Pinned CRIU source commit agent/Dockerfile
The default CRIU reference changes from the moving criu-dev branch to a pinned commit. The comment describes the override option.
On a root-enabled test host, a startup race can place packet-drop rules in the host firewall and leave them behind. Wait for the child’s network namespace before merging.
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Wait for the child to enter its new network namespace before calling Install.
namespace.Start() returns once unshare is forked and exec'd. unshare calls unshare(CLONE_NEWNET) a short time later. Until then, PID pid is still in the host network namespace.
If Install runs nsenter -t <pid> -n in that window, it enters the host namespace. The test then runs as root and changes the host's filter table. It inserts jumps into INPUT and OUTPUT. save() and Lift can also observe a different namespace than Install did, so the assertions become flaky.
Compare /proc/<pid>/ns/net with /proc/self/ns/net. Continue only when they differ. This adds fmt and time to the imports.
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--- "a/agent/internal/tcphold/hold_linux_test.go"+++ "b/agent/internal/tcphold/hold_linux_test.go"@@ -33,7 +33,19 @@
_ = namespace.Process.Kill()
_ = namespace.Wait()
})
pid := namespace.Process.Pid
+ hostNS, err := os.Readlink("/proc/self/ns/net")+ if err != nil {+ t.Fatalf("read the test's network namespace: %v", err)+ }+ for deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second); ; time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond) {+ if ns, err := os.Readlink(fmt.Sprintf("/proc/%d/ns/net", pid)); err == nil && ns != hostNS {+ break+ }+ if time.Now().After(deadline) {+ t.Fatal("the child did not enter a new network namespace")+ }+ }
save := func() string {
t.Helper()
out, err := exec.Command("nsenter", "-t", strconv.Itoa(pid), "-n", "--", "iptables-save", "-t", "filter").Output()
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A restore turned every established TCP socket whose other end was not in
its own image into an unconnected socket, and the INET remap plugin moved
only the Pod's own address. So a connection between two Pods restored
together came back closed, although each Pod restores its own end.
Callers now pass the capture-time and current IPs of the other members of
the Pod's set (RestoreRequest.PeerIPs, nsrestore --peer-ips). The image
rewrite keeps an established socket whose remote address is a peer's
capture-time IP exactly as dumped, and the remap file maps every member's
old IP to its new one, so CRIU's UPDATE_INETSK hook moves both ends.
Connections to anything outside the set are still disconnected. The map
is checked before CRIU runs: no two Pods may move to one IP, the plugin
holds at most 256 changed IPs, and only IPv4 is supported.
A Pod restored on its own passes no peers and restores as before.
Signed-off-by: Schwinn Saereesitthipitak <schwinns@nvidia.com>
The members of a set finish their restores seconds apart. Once CRIU
takes a kept socket out of repair mode, its kernel may send a window
probe, a retransmission, or a keepalive to a peer whose socket does not
exist yet, and the peer answers with a reset that kills the connection
at both ends.
Add the restore hold: one iptables chain in the Pod's network namespace
that drops every packet of the preserved connections, in both
directions, and nothing else, so coordination and new connections such
as a library's bootstrap traffic pass. criu.PreservedConnections lists
those connections from the checkpoint images, with the addresses they
will have after the IP map moves them. tcphold.Install applies the hold
in one iptables-restore transaction through nsenter, with the agent's
own iptables. The chain is named from a digest of the attempt, so
tcphold.Lift finds and removes it by name alone, including after an
agent restart, and lifting a hold that is gone succeeds.
The agent image already ships iptables 1.8.10, which uses nf_tables by
default. The transactions were checked with both its nf_tables and
legacy backends.
Signed-off-by: Schwinn Saereesitthipitak <schwinns@nvidia.com>
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What type of PR is this?
What this PR does / why we need it:
A restore turns every established TCP socket whose other end is not in its own image into an unconnected socket, and the INET remap plugin moves only the Pod's own IP. So a connection between two Pods of a set comes back closed, although each Pod restores its own end. Control planes such as MPI, torch's store and NCCL's socket transport cache their peers and cannot reconnect. This PR keeps those connections, as SNEP-324's "Cross-Pod TCP connections" describes.
Keep connections to peers. Callers pass the capture-time and current IPs of the other members of the Pod's set (
RestoreRequest.PeerIPs,nsrestore --peer-ips). The image rewrite keeps an established socket whose remote address is a peer's capture-time IP exactly as dumped, and the remap file maps every member's old IP to its new one, so CRIU'sUPDATE_INETSKhook moves both ends. Connections to anything outside the set are still disconnected. The map is checked before CRIU runs: no two Pods may move to one IP, the plugin holds at most 256 changed IPs, and only IPv4 is supported. A Pod restored on its own passes no peers and restores exactly as before.Hold them until every member has restored. Members finish their restores seconds apart. Once CRIU takes a kept socket out of repair mode, its kernel may send a window probe, a retransmission or a keepalive to a peer whose socket does not exist yet, and the peer answers with a reset that kills the connection at both ends.
tcphold.Installdrops every packet of the preserved connections, in both directions and nothing else, in the Pod's network namespace: one iptables chain applied in oneiptables-restoretransaction throughnsenter, with the agent image's own iptables (1.8.10, checked with both its nf_tables and legacy backends). New connections, such as a library's bootstrap traffic, pass.criu.PreservedConnectionslists the held connections from the checkpoint images, with the addresses they will have after the remap. The chain is named from a digest of the attempt, sotcphold.Liftfinds and removes it by name alone, including after an agent restart, and lifting a hold that is gone succeeds.Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Part of #693. Tracking issue: #324. Design: #325 (Cross-Pod TCP connections).
How was this tested?
PreservedConnections,RestoreInNamespacerejecting a bad map before anything runs, and the hold's iptables transactions (install, reinstall, lift, lift of a missing hold, IPv6 refused).hold_linux_test.goapplies real transactions in a private network namespace when run as root.go build,go vet,go testofinternal/criu,internal/tcphold,internal/executorandcmd/nsrestore, and golangci-lint v2.14.0 on those packages: 0 issues.sockets-restoredbarrier):sockets-restored. The greedy answer after restore was byte-identical to the one before capture, over the Pod network and with a ComputeDomain (78 held connections).Special notes for your reviewer:
PeerIPsor callstcpholdyet. The set executor that does (admission, thesockets-restoredbarrier, lifting on every exit path) comes with the agent integration (Integrate coordinated checkpoint and restore into the node agent #614), on top of the coordinator (feat(coordinator): serve coordination sessions from embedded NATS #762). Until then every restore passes no peers and behaves as today.criu-dev, which has theUPDATE_INETSKhook the remap plugin uses, so this PR does not pin it.Does this PR introduce an API change?
Additional documentation, e.g. enhancement proposals, usage docs:
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