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Summary

  • remove duplicate range-request hedging and rely on safe task splitting
  • add opt-in adaptive concurrency that backs off on 429/503 responses and recovers gradually
  • preserve rate-limited downloads for later recovery while avoiding resumed-download prewarming
  • harden range coordination, pause-state delivery, probe locking, and shared transport limits
  • reduce the default per-download connection count from 32 to 16
  • add deterministic throttle benchmarks and focused regression coverage

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  • go test ./...
  • go test -race ./internal/strategy/concurrent ./internal/scheduler ./internal/progress ./internal/transport
  • git diff --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added optional adaptive download concurrency that reduces activity during throttling and gradually recovers.
    • Added settings for adaptive concurrency intervals and dial hedging.
    • Improved pause and resume event handling and state recovery.
    • Improved connection pooling and runtime user-agent handling.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved rate-limit cooldown handling and reduced rapid retries.
    • Prevented incomplete ranged responses from delaying task completion.
  • Documentation

    • Updated default connection limits and added benchmark instructions.

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The change adds configurable adaptive concurrency, updates downloader task and retry coordination, revises probe and rate-limit handling, improves pause-event fallback delivery, and adds deterministic throttling benchmarks with connection metrics.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime settings and documentation
README.md, docs/*, internal/config/*, internal/types/config*
Adds adaptive concurrency settings, changes connection defaults, updates retry semantics, and documents dial hedging, smoothing, and benchmark usage.
Probe and rate-limit state
internal/probe/*, internal/transport/ratelimit*
Uses reference-counted probe locks, runtime request settings, and cooldown-preserving rate-limit penalties.
Adaptive concurrency gate
internal/strategy/concurrent/concurrency_gate*
Adds admission, parking, throttling, recovery, and completion monitoring.
Downloader task and worker coordination
internal/strategy/concurrent/*, internal/strategy/single/downloader.go
Integrates adaptive capacity, synchronizes range mutation, removes hedged shared-offset tracking, requeues throttled work, and applies runtime connection and split limits.
Pause and lifecycle fallback delivery
internal/progress/*, internal/scheduler/*, internal/strategy/concurrent/*, internal/tui/*
Centralizes paused-event fallback delivery, preserves pending resume state, handles full lifecycle channels, and updates startup test setup.
Benchmark and transport observability
internal/strategy/concurrent/throttle_benchmark_test.go, internal/testutil/*
Adds deterministic throttling benchmarks and tracks peak requests and unique TCP connections.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9713f

No actionable merge-blocking risk remains at the current head; the PR is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Downloader as ConcurrentDownloader
  participant Worker as worker
  participant Gate as concurrency_gate
  participant Limiter as HostRateLimiter
  participant Scheduler as scheduler

  Downloader->>Worker: start download workers
  Worker->>Gate: acquire context
  Worker->>Limiter: wait for host access
  Limiter-->>Worker: rate-limit response
  Worker->>Gate: throttle adaptive capacity
  Gate-->>Worker: park blocked workers
  Worker->>Scheduler: send paused fallback event
  Gate-->>Downloader: recover capacity during healthy intervals
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PR 17.96 MB 18829604
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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (2)
internal/strategy/concurrent/task.go (1)

17-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the stray ponytail: token from the lock-order comment.

The token has no meaning for readers of this invariant. The lock-order rule is important, so keep the comment free of internal markers.

♻️ Proposed comment cleanup
 	// RangeMu serializes writes with work-steal boundary changes.
-	// ponytail: When both are needed, acquire ConcurrentDownloader.activeMu
-	// before RangeMu; never acquire them in the reverse order.
+	// When both are needed, acquire ConcurrentDownloader.activeMu before
+	// RangeMu; never acquire them in the reverse order.
 	RangeMu sync.Mutex
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In `@internal/strategy/concurrent/task.go` around lines 17 - 20, Remove the stray
“ponytail:” marker from the lock-order comment associated with RangeMu while
preserving the existing lock acquisition order guidance.
internal/strategy/concurrent/worker.go (1)

437-461: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Consider shortening the section that holds RangeMu across the disk write.

writeAtFn runs while RangeMu is held. StealWork holds activeMu and then blocks on the same RangeMu, so one slow buffered write blocks activeMu. saveStateSnapshot and detachRemainingTask also take activeMu, so pause and worker cleanup wait for that write to finish. The buffer default is 512KB, so the stall is bounded but noticeable on slow storage.

One option is to clamp readSize against StopAt before the read loop, so the post-read recheck rarely shortens the buffer, and to keep the locked section as small as the correctness rule allows.

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In `@internal/strategy/concurrent/worker.go` around lines 437 - 461, Reduce the
duration of activeTask.RangeMu in the worker write path around writeAtFn, while
preserving the guarantee that StealWork cannot overlap the claimed range. Clamp
the read size against activeTask.StopAt before the read loop where possible, and
use the smallest safe locked section for the final boundary check and range
reservation; keep CurrentOffset updates and error handling consistent with the
existing behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/OPTIMIZATIONS.md`:
- Line 9: Revise the download-manager strategy description in OPTIMIZATIONS.md
to remove the inaccurate claim that Surge runs the same task on two workers,
while retaining the accurate explanation of concurrent requests splitting files
into parts.

In `@internal/strategy/concurrent/concurrency_gate.go`:
- Around line 192-196: Remove the unused currentCap method from
adaptiveConcurrencyGate, unless an existing production path genuinely requires
its value; do not add a use solely to silence lint.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/strategy/concurrent/task.go`:
- Around line 17-20: Remove the stray “ponytail:” marker from the lock-order
comment associated with RangeMu while preserving the existing lock acquisition
order guidance.

In `@internal/strategy/concurrent/worker.go`:
- Around line 437-461: Reduce the duration of activeTask.RangeMu in the worker
write path around writeAtFn, while preserving the guarantee that StealWork
cannot overlap the claimed range. Clamp the read size against activeTask.StopAt
before the read loop where possible, and use the smallest safe locked section
for the final boundary check and range reservation; keep CurrentOffset updates
and error handling consistent with the existing behavior.
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  • README.md
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  • internal/config/settings.go
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  • internal/probe/probe.go
  • internal/probe/probe_locks_test.go
  • internal/probe/probe_redirect_test.go
  • internal/progress/progress.go
  • internal/scheduler/manager.go
  • internal/scheduler/manager_test.go
  • internal/scheduler/scheduler.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/concurrency_gate.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/concurrency_gate_test.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/concurrent_test.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/downloader.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/downloader_helpers_test.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/hedge_race_test.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/prewarm_reuse_test.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/signed_range_test.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/switch_429_test.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/task.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/task_queue_test.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/task_test.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/throttle_benchmark_test.go
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/worker.go
  • internal/strategy/single/downloader.go
  • internal/testutil/mock_server.go
  • internal/testutil/mock_server_test.go
  • internal/transport/ratelimit.go
  • internal/transport/ratelimit_test.go
  • internal/tui/polling_test.go
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Fixed 2 file(s) based on 2 unresolved review comments.

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  • docs/OPTIMIZATIONS.md
  • internal/strategy/concurrent/concurrency_gate.go

Commit: 49cccae36ed346e32bb47d8a2c0caf36d741a1c5

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@superGekFordJ applied some of things we talked about a long time ago. Would love if you could take a look at this PR :)

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Haha @SuperCoolPencil, I was actually just thinking about bringing the full VerifiedProgress mechanism over to finally close out #579, and it's super cool to see these ideas we've explored before landing in Surge!

I actually feel that AIMD and request hedging can totally coexist here. In GoAria, there were moments I really loved—the download was lagging at like 6–10 MB/s near the very end, and then hedge workers kicked in, instantly shooting the speed up to ~70 MB/s and finishing it right off. So it really feels worth keeping around!

The real issue with hedge before was just the race conditions and flaky state machine under concurrency, which is honestly what the VP mechanism fixes.

To me, both mechanisms have their own sweet spots:

  • Adaptive Tail Splitting helps split things up and keep idle workers busy when there’s still unsplit data left.
  • Request Hedging rescues those annoying tail-end stragglers when the last chunk is already in-flight on a slow connection and can't be split anymore.

I'd love to try bringing the VP mechanism into this PR so we can have both working nicely together. Excited to see these two features team up to make downloads even faster for every Surge user.

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I'll take a look at GoAria and how the VP is implemented. I'll try to see if I can port it over in this PR itself

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Don't worry about digging through all the GoAria specifics—I'm actually already halfway through putting together a clean branch based on your PR #632 with the core VP bits & guards.

I'll push it to a branch / open a sub-PR against your branch shortly so you can just review the clean diff directly.

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I tried to look into a lot of different ways we could do hedging but it falls into one of 3 problems:

  • It's not really hedging, just smarter stealing
  • It's gonna create maintainability problems in the future and it's gonna be riddled with data races
  • It's gonna make the normal workers be more complex and have more overhead.
    Right now, I'm out of ideas. Will look into it in the future. looks like it's time to merge this PR :)

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/strategy/concurrent/concurrency_gate.go`:
- Around line 54-60: Update adaptiveConcurrencyGate.acquire to check ctx.Err()
before the capacity-admission branch, returning false for an already-canceled
context before incrementing g.admitted; preserve normal admission when the
context is active.
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Comment thread internal/strategy/concurrent/concurrency_gate.go
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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Merging this PR now is definitely the most practical move.

I can open a separate PR later for the VerifiedProgress mechanism. With VP handling the state and progress safety under the hood, adding this "bonus stealing" on top might actually be pretty straightforward and take very little effort.

Looking forward to seeing this merged!

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