perf(plugins): run scheduled updates off the render thread (#407)

* perf(plugins): run scheduled updates off the render thread

plugin update() executed inline in the render loop — execute_update's
internal thread.join(timeout=30) blocked it, so one slow plugin HTTP
fetch froze scrolling for the whole fetch (up to 30s; DNS-retry storms
made this a regular occurrence on flaky networks).

Scheduling stays on the render thread and keeps every existing gate
(enabled, circuit breaker, can_execute, interval); due updates are now
enqueued to a single background worker (serialized — same one-at-a-time
execution as before, no thundering herd). RUNNING is set at enqueue so
can_execute blocks re-entry alongside the pending-set dedup.

Per-plugin locks make the old implicit update/display no-overlap
guarantee explicit: the worker holds the plugin's lock through its
update; the display side try-locks and, when the plugin is mid-update,
holds the last frame for that iteration — reported as success so a
mid-update skip never advances the rotation. Unlike before, the
guarantee now also holds across the post-timeout window (previously the
lingering update thread overlapped display()). Deadlock-free by
construction: the worker takes one lock; display never blocks.

Timeout semantics unchanged (lingering daemon thread documented).
Kill switch: plugin_system.synchronous_updates: true restores the
inline path.

8 new concurrency tests (non-blocking scheduler, overlap assertion
under a hammering display loop, lock release on failure/timeout paths,
dedup, kill switch); 4-min devpi soak clean (updates completing,
rotation advancing, no stuck RUNNING states).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FqzC1nzTWL4kaqgMaQZFam

* fix(plugins): fix skipped-frame health/force_change tracking, config validation, and lock-lifetime gaps in async updates

Addresses PR #407 review findings:
- display_controller: only clear force_change / record health success
  when display() actually ran this frame, not when the frame was skipped
  because the plugin's lock was busy (a skip must preserve a pending
  mode-switch force_clear).
- plugin_manager: replace bool() coercion of synchronous_updates with
  explicit isinstance validation of plugin_system/synchronous_updates,
  failing safe to synchronous mode (with a logged reason) on malformed
  config instead of silently defaulting to async.
- plugin_manager: _update_worker_loop now acquires the plugin lock before
  looking up its instance and re-checks under the lock, so an unloaded
  plugin's lifecycle state is never resurrected to ENABLED.
- plugin_manager + display_controller: move lock ownership (and, for
  updates, RUNNING/pending lifecycle bookkeeping) into the actual update()/
  display() call itself rather than the timeout-wrapped caller, so the
  lock stays held for the real operation's duration even after
  PluginExecutor's own join(timeout) elapses and a lingering daemon thread
  keeps running in the background.
- DisplayController.cleanup() now stops the update worker before tearing
  down display/cache resources; stop_update_worker() logs when the join
  times out instead of failing silently.
- test_async_plugin_updates: rewrite test_unloaded_while_queued_is_harmless
  to exercise the public unload_plugin() lifecycle (via a deterministic
  blocker) instead of deleting pm.plugins directly, and add a regression
  test proving the plugin lock stays held through PluginExecutor's own
  timeout while the real update() call is still running.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KEZK1P1Q1fu5pcuVrkrCFZ

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Co-authored-by: Chuck <chuck@example.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Chuck
2026-07-14 08:08:51 -04:00
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co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5 Chuck
parent 9837315308
commit 0aca40cf3a
4 changed files with 637 additions and 68 deletions
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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Entry point: :func:`main` — instantiates :class:`DisplayController` and calls
import time
import os
import json
import threading
import types
from contextlib import contextmanager
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Dict, Any, List, Optional, Callable
from datetime import datetime
@@ -892,6 +895,30 @@ class DisplayController:
except Exception: # pylint: disable=broad-except
logger.exception("Error running scheduled plugin updates")
@contextmanager
def _display_lock_or_skip(self, plugin_id):
"""Try-lock guard keeping a plugin's display() off its in-flight update().
Yields True when display may run (lock held, released on exit) or
when no lock support exists (older plugin manager). Yields False when
the plugin's update() is currently executing on the background
worker — the caller should treat the frame as displayed (the panel
holds the last pushed frame) rather than as a plugin failure, so a
mid-update skip never advances the rotation.
"""
pm = self.plugin_manager
if not pm or not hasattr(pm, 'get_plugin_lock') or not plugin_id:
yield True
return
lock = pm.get_plugin_lock(plugin_id)
if not lock.acquire(blocking=False):
yield False
return
try:
yield True
finally:
lock.release()
_FOLLOWER_SEND_INTERVAL = 1.0 / 90 # raw bytes are cheap; 90fps > follower render rate
def _follower_rebuild_scroll_image(self) -> None:
@@ -1879,6 +1906,7 @@ class DisplayController:
plugin_id = getattr(manager_to_display, 'plugin_id', active_mode)
try:
logger.debug(f"Calling display() for {active_mode} with force_clear={self.force_change}")
can_display = False
if hasattr(manager_to_display, 'display'):
# Opt #1: look up (or compute once) whether display() accepts display_mode
_cache_key = plugin_id
@@ -1889,14 +1917,64 @@ class DisplayController:
)
_accepts_display_mode = self._plugin_accepts_display_mode[_cache_key]
# Use PluginExecutor for safe execution with timeout
if self.plugin_manager and hasattr(self.plugin_manager, 'plugin_executor'):
result = self.plugin_manager.plugin_executor.execute_display(
manager_to_display,
plugin_id,
force_clear=self.force_change,
display_mode=active_mode if _accepts_display_mode else None
)
pm = self.plugin_manager
display_lock = None
can_display = True
if pm and hasattr(pm, 'get_plugin_lock'):
display_lock = pm.get_plugin_lock(plugin_id)
can_display = display_lock.acquire(blocking=False)
if not can_display:
# update() in flight on the worker — hold
# the last frame; not a plugin failure
result = True
elif pm and hasattr(pm, 'plugin_executor'):
# PluginExecutor's own thread.join(timeout) can
# return before the real display() call
# finishes (a lingering daemon thread keeps
# running it) -- so the lock is released from
# inside the wrapped call itself, whichever
# thread actually finishes it, rather than
# here when this dispatch merely returns.
release_guard = threading.Lock()
released = {'done': False}
def _release_display_lock():
with release_guard:
if released['done']:
return
released['done'] = True
if display_lock is not None:
display_lock.release()
if _accepts_display_mode:
def _display_target(display_mode=None, force_clear=False):
try:
return manager_to_display.display(
display_mode=display_mode, force_clear=force_clear)
finally:
_release_display_lock()
else:
def _display_target(force_clear=False):
try:
return manager_to_display.display(force_clear=force_clear)
finally:
_release_display_lock()
try:
result = self.plugin_manager.plugin_executor.execute_display(
types.SimpleNamespace(display=_display_target),
plugin_id,
force_clear=self.force_change,
display_mode=active_mode if _accepts_display_mode else None
)
except Exception: # pragma: no cover - defensive;
# execute_display catches everything
# internally, but guarantee the lock is
# never leaked if something unexpected
# slips through.
_release_display_lock()
raise
# execute_display returns bool, convert to expected format
if result:
result = True # Success
@@ -1904,10 +1982,14 @@ class DisplayController:
result = False # Failed
else:
# Fallback to direct call if executor not available
if _accepts_display_mode:
result = manager_to_display.display(display_mode=active_mode, force_clear=self.force_change)
else:
result = manager_to_display.display(force_clear=self.force_change)
try:
if _accepts_display_mode:
result = manager_to_display.display(display_mode=active_mode, force_clear=self.force_change)
else:
result = manager_to_display.display(force_clear=self.force_change)
finally:
if display_lock is not None:
display_lock.release()
logger.debug(f"display() returned: {result} (type: {type(result)})")
# Check if display() returned a boolean (new behavior)
@@ -1916,11 +1998,15 @@ class DisplayController:
if not display_result:
logger.info("Plugin %s display() returned False for mode %s", plugin_id, active_mode)
# Record success if display completed without exception
if self.plugin_manager and hasattr(self.plugin_manager, 'health_tracker') and self.plugin_manager.health_tracker:
self.plugin_manager.health_tracker.record_success(plugin_id)
self.force_change = False
# Record success only when display() actually ran this
# frame -- a skipped frame (lock busy) held the last
# frame, not a real success, and must not clear
# force_change or the pending mode-switch clear will
# be lost when display() finally does run.
if can_display:
if self.plugin_manager and hasattr(self.plugin_manager, 'health_tracker') and self.plugin_manager.health_tracker:
self.plugin_manager.health_tracker.record_success(plugin_id)
self.force_change = False
except Exception as exc: # pylint: disable=broad-except
logger.exception("Error displaying %s", self.current_display_mode)
# Record failure
@@ -2205,11 +2291,16 @@ class DisplayController:
while True:
try:
# Pass display_mode to maintain sticky manager state
if _accepts_display_mode:
result = manager_to_display.display(display_mode=active_mode, force_clear=False)
else:
result = manager_to_display.display(force_clear=False)
with self._display_lock_or_skip(plugin_id) as can_display:
if can_display:
# Pass display_mode to maintain sticky manager state
if _accepts_display_mode:
result = manager_to_display.display(display_mode=active_mode, force_clear=False)
else:
result = manager_to_display.display(force_clear=False)
else:
# update() in flight — hold the last frame
result = True
if isinstance(result, bool) and not result:
logger.debug("Display returned False, breaking early")
break
@@ -2269,11 +2360,16 @@ class DisplayController:
break
try:
# Pass display_mode to maintain sticky manager state
if _accepts_display_mode:
result = manager_to_display.display(display_mode=active_mode, force_clear=False)
else:
result = manager_to_display.display(force_clear=False)
with self._display_lock_or_skip(plugin_id) as can_display:
if can_display:
# Pass display_mode to maintain sticky manager state
if _accepts_display_mode:
result = manager_to_display.display(display_mode=active_mode, force_clear=False)
else:
result = manager_to_display.display(force_clear=False)
else:
# update() in flight — hold the last frame
result = True
if isinstance(result, bool) and not result:
# For dynamic duration plugins, don't exit on False - keep looping
# until cycle is complete or max duration is reached
@@ -2791,6 +2887,14 @@ class DisplayController:
def cleanup(self):
"""Clean up resources."""
# Stop the async update worker first so no in-flight update() call
# is still touching display/cache-backed resources while they're
# torn down below.
if self.plugin_manager and hasattr(self.plugin_manager, 'stop_update_worker'):
try:
self.plugin_manager.stop_update_worker()
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("Error stopping plugin update worker: %s", e)
# Shutdown config service if it exists
if hasattr(self, 'config_service'):
try: