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Implement endpoint workload in scripting mode. For that add a new instruction
listen which asynchronously listens on a specified number of ports, e.g:

// Listen on 200 ports starting from 8081, i.e. [8081, 8082, 8083, ... 8281)
listen(8081, 200);

The instruction does not block the execution, listening for each port is
happening in a separate thread and the ony sync part is actually spawning
threads and registering them for clean up. First argument specifies the
starting port number to listen, in case if the listening range have to be
limited (e.g. there are already reserved ports in the system). The port is
opened for the lifetime of work node, e.g.:

main() {
    // Start listen here
    listen(8081, 200);
    // Do something else
    task(stub);

    // We stop listening here, when the main block is finished
} 

Since the instruction could be called in an asynchronous context (e.g. with a
certain distribution where the interval between runs is smaller than the run
itself), thus we maintain a global atomic counter to make sure that new threads
will start listen on disjoint range of ports. For example:

main() {
    listen(8081, 200);
} : exp {
    // 100 runs per second is definitely quicker than a single run
    rate = 100.0
}

What happens in the case above is:

// First listen chunk
listen(8081, 200);
// Second concurrent listen chunk
listen(8281, 200);
// ...

To facilitate it's use introduce a set of helpers: sleep and zipf:

// Blocking wait for specified amount of time.
// It could be used for managing listening endpoints lifetime.
sleep(2.4);

// Returns an integer from Zipfian distribution with the value n = 200 and
// exponent = 1.4. It could be used together with listen to randomize
// number of listening ports like: listen(8081, zipf(200, 1.4));
zipf(200, 1.4);

To support both helpers we also need to introduce another data type for double
precision floating point.

@erthalion erthalion changed the title Add new instruction for endpoint workload ROX-36672: Add new instruction for endpoint workload Sep 18, 2026
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  • New Features

    • Added listen and sleep scripting instructions.
    • Added Zipf-based random value generation for workload behavior.
    • Added support for integer, floating-point, and text constants, plus floating-point runtime values.
    • Added TCP listener management with automatic cleanup.
  • Examples

    • Updated sample workloads to demonstrate random-port listening, Zipf-based port selection, and random-string logging.
    • Removed BPF profiling from the example workload.

Walkthrough

The script language adds typed constants, listen, sleep, and zipf. The runtime adds double values, Zipf sampling, sleeping, TCP listener management, and socket cleanup. Worker creation passes an index to each script worker. Example workloads invoke the new operations.

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Script language and runtime extension

Layer / File(s) Summary
Typed constants and instruction parsing
src/script/ast.rs, src/script/grammar.peg, src/script/parser.rs
Constants now represent text, unsigned integers, or doubles. The grammar and AST add listen and sleep, and the grammar accepts zipf as a dynamic name. The parser builds typed constants and the new instruction variants.
Runtime primitives and JIT execution
src/worker/script.rs, Cargo.toml, Containerfile
The runtime adds Zipf sampling, sleeping, TCP listeners, socket cleanup, and JIT support for typed constants and the new instructions. The llvm-sys version changes to 221.1.0, and the builder image changes to Fedora 44.
Worker indexing and workload integration
src/main.rs, src/worker/mod.rs, workloads/example.ber, workloads/example.short.ber
Worker creation passes an index to each script worker. Tests exercise listen and sleep. The workloads add random-string logging and Zipf-based listener calls. The main example removes its BPF profiling directive.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ScriptWorker
  participant JIT
  participant listen_on_ports
  participant TcpListener
  ScriptWorker->>JIT: Compile Listen instruction
  JIT->>listen_on_ports: Call registered listen function
  listen_on_ports->>TcpListener: Bind listeners on allocated ports
  listen_on_ports->>listen_on_ports: Track socket descriptors
  ScriptWorker->>listen_on_ports: Shut down tracked sockets during cleanup
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In `@src/worker/script.rs`:
- Line 534: Update the LLVM type used for RuntimeType::Float in the surrounding
type-mapping logic to use the 64-bit double type, matching the f64 native
functions and existing double constants; replace the 32-bit float construction
while preserving the other runtime type mappings.
- Around line 158-163: Update the port-range validation in the listen flow
before updating MAX_PORTS or binding listeners: use checked arithmetic with
lower and n to ensure the complete range does not exceed u16::MAX, and reject
invalid ranges such as listen(65535, 2) without reaching TcpListener::bind or
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- Line 340: Update the native declarations for both sleep and zipf to use
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their u64 return values and allowing zipf results to be passed to integer
arguments such as listen.
- Around line 167-169: Update the listener setup around the incoming-connection
thread and SOCKETS state to retain owned TcpListener handles with a stop
mechanism and join handles; revise the accept loop to exit on shutdown and avoid
busy-looping on errors. Extend cleanup to signal termination, close or release
each listener, and join every accept thread instead of relying on borrowed raw
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- Around line 145-205: Update the worker startup flow around listen_on_ports and
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Comment thread src/worker/script.rs
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Comment on lines +158 to +163
let start_port = lower + max_ports as u64;
let _listeners: Vec<_> = (start_port..start_port + n)
.map(|port| {
let addr = format!("0.0.0.0:{port}");
let listener = TcpListener::bind(&addr)
.expect("Couldn't listen on the specified address");

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Validate the complete TCP port range before binding.

lower and n are u64, but TCP ports stop at 65535. Inputs such as listen(65535, 2) reach port 65536 and panic at expect. Use checked arithmetic and reject ranges that exceed u16::MAX before updating MAX_PORTS.

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In `@src/worker/script.rs` around lines 158 - 163, Update the port-range
validation in the listen flow before updating MAX_PORTS or binding listeners:
use checked arithmetic with lower and n to ensure the complete range does not
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Add listen, sleep and a new helper zipf
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Comment on lines +188 to +208
let value =
first_nested_pair(first_nested_pair(arg));
Arg::Const {
text: pair_to_string(a),
match value.as_rule() {
Rule::text => Arg::Const {
value: ConstType::Text(pair_to_string(
first_nested_pair(value),
)),
},
Rule::int => Arg::Const {
value: ConstType::Int(pair_to_int(
value,
)),
},
Rule::float => Arg::Const {
value: ConstType::Float(pair_to_float(
value,
)),
},
unknown => panic!(
"Unknown constant type {unknown:?}"
),

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This logic seems to be duplicated with the Rule::constant branch, should we extract it to a helper function?

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pub static MAX_PORTS: LazyLock<Arc<AtomicUsize>> =
LazyLock::new(|| Arc::new(AtomicUsize::new(0)));

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What is the reason for the Arc here? Since you are already using an AtomicUsize, I would expect you'd be able to use it directly. Also, AtomicUsize::new is const defined, so I would expect something like this to work:

static MAX_PORTS: AtomicUsize = AtomicUsize::new(0);

I haven't tried this though, I'll try to comeback to it later.

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Just checked, this patch seems to compile correctly:

diff --git a/src/worker/script.rs b/src/worker/script.rs
index 94f33d8..dc96e58 100644
--- a/src/worker/script.rs
+++ b/src/worker/script.rs
@@ -155,8 +155,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn task(name: *const i8, args: *const i8) -> u64 {
 #[unsafe(no_mangle)]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn listen_on_ports(lower: u64, n: u64) -> u64 {
     debug!("Listen {lower} {n}");
-    let max_ports =
-        Arc::clone(&MAX_PORTS).fetch_add(n as usize, Ordering::Relaxed);
+    let max_ports = MAX_PORTS.fetch_add(n as usize, Ordering::Relaxed);

     let start_port = lower + max_ports as u64;
     let _listeners: Vec<_> = (start_port..start_port + n)
@@ -181,8 +180,7 @@ thread_local! {
     static SOCKETS: RefCell<Vec<RawFd>> = const { RefCell::new(vec![]) };
 }

-pub static MAX_PORTS: LazyLock<Arc<AtomicUsize>> =
-    LazyLock::new(|| Arc::new(AtomicUsize::new(0)));
+pub static MAX_PORTS: AtomicUsize = AtomicUsize::new(0);

 /// Return a random integer from zipf distribution with specified
 /// size and exponent.
@@ -494,7 +492,7 @@ impl ScriptWorker {
         // FIXME: It's an ugly temporary hack to split port space with a
         // hardcoded constant. Do this better via deriving in applu_rules how
         // listen arguments look like and how the ranges should be.
-        Arc::clone(&MAX_PORTS).fetch_add(worker * 1000, Ordering::Relaxed);
+        MAX_PORTS.fetch_add(worker * 1000, Ordering::Relaxed);

         unsafe {
             // Set up a context, module and builder in that context.

Comment thread src/worker/script.rs Outdated
Comment on lines +162 to +174
let _listeners: Vec<_> = (start_port..start_port + n)
.map(|port| {
let addr = format!("0.0.0.0:{port}");
let listener = TcpListener::bind(&addr)
.expect("Couldn't listen on the specified address");
let fd = listener.as_raw_fd();

trace!("Listen {addr}, fd {fd}");
SOCKETS.with(|socks| socks.borrow_mut().push(fd));

thread::spawn(move || for _stream in listener.incoming() {})
})
.collect();

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In this particular case that is creating threads, a for loop might make more sense, since the final vector is immediately dropped anyways.

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let _listeners: Vec<_> = (start_port..start_port + n)
.map(|port| {
let addr = format!("0.0.0.0:{port}");
let listener = TcpListener::bind(&addr)
.expect("Couldn't listen on the specified address");
let fd = listener.as_raw_fd();
trace!("Listen {addr}, fd {fd}");
SOCKETS.with(|socks| socks.borrow_mut().push(fd));
thread::spawn(move || for _stream in listener.incoming() {})
})
.collect();
for port in (start_port..start_port + n) {
let addr = format!("0.0.0.0:{port}");
let listener = TcpListener::bind(&addr)
.expect("Couldn't listen on the specified address");
let fd = listener.as_raw_fd();
trace!("Listen {addr}, fd {fd}");
SOCKETS.with(|socks| socks.borrow_mut().push(fd));
thread::spawn(move || for _stream in listener.incoming() {});
}

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/// # Safety
/// The caller must ensure the pointer is valid and points to a null
/// terminated C-string.

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Copy pasted from somewhere else?

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/// # Safety
/// The caller must ensure the pointer is valid and points to a null
/// terminated C-string.

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Same as above.

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- Line 188: Update the Zipf sampling path in the function containing
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#[unsafe(no_mangle)]
pub unsafe extern "C" fn zipf(size: u64, exp: f64) -> u64 {
debug!("zipf {size} {exp}");
thread_rng().sample(Zipf::new(size, exp).unwrap()) as u64

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reject invalid Zipf arguments before the JIT call.

If size is zero, Zipf::new returns an error. The unwrap() then panics inside extern "C", which aborts the worker process. Validate the distribution arguments before execution, including values produced by dynamic arguments, and return a script error instead of panicking. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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🟠 Major · Type-check constants against runtime parameters before building calls. · script.rs:425-427

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Type-check constants against runtime parameters before building calls.

A script such as debug(123); is accepted, but this branch now supplies an LLVM i64 to debug, whose runtime declaration requires a pointer. The prior text-only conversion supplied a string pointer. LLVM requires call argument types to match the function signature, so this script produces invalid IR. Reject incompatible arguments during parsing or compilation, or preserve text conversion where the instruction contract requires text. (llvm.org)

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Update the ConstType::Int handling in the call-argument construction path so it
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Reject missing listen and sleep arguments before indexing.

The grammar accepts listen(8081); and sleep();. These branches then index absent arguments and panic inside parse_instructions, instead of returning a parse error. Validate each instruction’s argument count before constructing its AST node. (docs.rs)

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Update the `listen` and `sleep` branches in `parse_instructions` to validate
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