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Stacks the whole moon#942 five-family campaign: the combined handler work (#945), the cold-probe and SADD accessor collapse it depends on, and four per-family branches produced by a delegated team.

Measured result — read this before the diff

No write family beats Redis on either architecture. Every required cut is still positive: ARM 0.328–0.669 µs/op, x86 0.330–0.524. That has not changed and this PR does not claim otherwise.

One reproduced win in the final bundle A/B (base a4ae97750e917836, 5 reps, both legs built in one session per host, binaries asserted pairwise distinct and same-era by size -B):

family p=64 x86 raw x86 floor ARM raw ARM floor verdict
ZADD +5.2% 0.7% +2.8% 1.5% reproduced on both
SADD +2.2% 0.5% −0.6% 2.4% x86 only; ARM tie
HSET +1.9% 0.9% −1.2% 2.5% x86 only; ARM tie
LPUSH +1.9% 1.0% −2.1% 1.7% opposite signs — PERF-08
INCR +1.3% 0.6% +0.0% 1.3% x86 only; ARM tie
SPOP +0.3% 0.8% +0.5% 0.9% tie both
GET / SET tie tie negative control HOLDS

ZADD's cut improved on both arches: ARM 0.719 → 0.589, x86 0.443 → 0.345.

Contrary evidence, stated not buried

  • x86 p=1 shows small regressions clearing their floors in four families: ZADD −2.2%, SPOP −1.4%, INCR −1.2%, HSET −0.4%.
  • INCR's mechanism is UNCONFIRMED by its own author's test. The criterion was "p=1 and p=8 must both move". p=8 moved (+2.9%, its largest gain at any depth) but p=1 went negative — and p=1 is where the absent path is ~100% of ops. B/p dominance explains masking to ~0, not a regression.
  • ARM ran noisier than x86 this session (floors 0.9–5.7% vs 0.4–2.6%); some ARM ties may be the instrument.
  • LPUSH is a clean PERF-08 sign flip and is claimed as nothing.

Three correctness bugs found and fixed on the way

These outrank the performance work.

Each was reproduced against live redis 8.6.1 with positive AND negative controls before filing.

Work reductions (probe/allocation counts, not timings)

path before after
HDEL, 3 fields 6 probes, 3 WATCH bumps 1 probe, 1 bump
INCR absent counter 5 probes 2
LPUSHX/RPUSHX hit 4 probes 3
LPOP/RPOP listpack 2 allocations 1
ZADD member lookup (skiplist) 3 1–2
HINCRBY listpack 2 scans 1

Method

Every agent worked red/green with the failing ratchet committed first, and every new guard was proven able to fail by mutation (the mutant is named in each commit). No agent ran a throughput benchmark; all A/Bs were run serially by the orchestrator.

Corrections to this campaign's earlier published claims are recorded in #943 and #945: the 0.626 µs/op path tax is stale in the over-claiming direction, its x86 column never existed, two harnesses disagree 22% on SET, and two earlier tables were filtered to p=64 in a way that dropped contradicting cells.

Known gaps

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed HDEL cleanup when removing the final field.
    • Fixed ZADD XX on missing keys from creating empty sorted sets.
    • Corrected SADD reply counts when crossing the integer-set limit.
    • Improved counter behavior across encoding changes, cold-storage promotion, TTLs, and overflow errors.
    • Preserved blocked-command wakeups for supported list, sorted-set, and stream operations.
  • Performance

    • Reduced allocations and repeated lookups across counters, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, and numeric operations.
    • Improved compact collection updates and score formatting.

…on#942)

The red step for two listpack-layer changes on the moon#942 write path. Both
land next; this commit is the oracle they have to satisfy, written and
measured against the CURRENT encoder so it cannot be a restatement of the
replacement.

`byte_exactness_tests` (in `src/storage/listpack.rs`, because `Listpack::data`
is private) pins the exact BYTES of a listpack, not just what reads back out
of one. A listpack is a wire and on-disk format -- `DUMP`/`RESTORE` hand it
across the wire and `persistence::redis_rdb` writes the `*_LISTPACK` object
types verbatim -- so "the entries still decode" is not the bar. Covered: all
six integer widths at both signs of every boundary, all three string widths at
their seams (63/64/65 bytes for the head, 127 for the first two-byte backlen,
4095/4096 for the 12-bit/32-bit split), non-UTF8 payloads including all 256
byte values, and the mutating paths -- `push_front`, and widening, narrowing
and equal-width `replace_at` / `replace_pair_value`.

Leading zeros and a leading `+` are in there deliberately. Storing
`000000012345` as the integer 12345 and reading it back as `12345` was a real
data-corruption bug in this repo (moon#795), so `007`, `000000012345`, `00`,
`0000`, `+5`, `+0` and `-0` each have their own golden and must stay
string-encoded byte for byte.

All five of those pass on the unmodified encoder, which is the point of
committing them first.

`tests/listpack_encode_alloc_942.rs` is the failing one. `encode_entry` builds
a `Vec<u8>` per entry written and drops it as soon as the bytes are copied in,
and `Vec::new()` starts at capacity 0, so the encoding and then the backlen
each grow it. Measured on this commit over 100 same-width replacements -- a
same-width write neither grows nor shrinks the buffer, so the only correct
answer is zero:

    replace_pair_value (string entry)   400
    replace_at         (string entry)   400
    replace_pair_value (integer entry)  200
    control (Vec::with_capacity)        100

Four allocations per entry, not the one the audit predicted. The control is
there because an allocation counter that is silently stuck at zero would make
every assertion in the file vacuous; the test asserts the control moved before
it asserts anything else.

HSET, LPUSH, SADD's listpack path and ZADD's listpack path all reach this
site, which is four of the five moon#942 families and includes the two the
dispatch-path tax does not cover. Note what moon#861 does and does not say: it
ruled the allocator out for SADD in the HASHTABLE regime, where `encode_entry`
is never called at all, so that exclusion does not transfer here.

No throughput number is claimed anywhere. Allocation counts are counts.

Refs: moon#942, moon#795, moon#799, moon#861

author: Tin Dang
…ling (moon#944)

SADD's intset push loop `break`s the instant a batch carries the set past
`set-max-intset-entries`, and the upgrade path then re-inserted the whole argv
into the new `IndexSet` while DISCARDING `insert`'s "was this member new" bool.
`added` therefore stopped at the crossing: every member positioned AFTER it was
stored but never counted. The comment above the return already said "Recount:
we need accurate count of new members" — nothing did.

Measured against redis 7.4.0 with `set-max-intset-entries 512`: a 510-member
intset plus a 24-member batch adding 22 new members replied 3 where redis
replied 22. The data was always correct — SCARD and SMEMBERS agreed — so the
reply was the only divergence, and clients build dedup accounting and "did I
win the insert" logic on exactly that number.

The upgrade path now counts `IndexSet::insert`'s bool, and walks only the
UNABSORBED TAIL instead of the whole argv. The prefix is provably already in
the set: `Intset::to_set_value` renders each value with its decimal spelling,
and every value reached the intset through `canonical_i64`, so that rendering
is the caller's exact bytes (moon#795). Re-walking it was an O(batch) no-op
that also spent one `Bytes` clone per member on a `src/command/` path, which
CLAUDE.md bans outright; the clones that remain are the unavoidable ownership
transfer of members that genuinely have to be stored, exactly as on the
standard path.

Why no test caught it: every existing encoding row crosses a threshold with a
batch of ONE, and a one-member batch has no tail past the crossing — the member
that trips the ceiling is counted before the `break`. The new unit tests assert
the reply against the SCARD DELTA rather than a hardcoded count, so neither the
buggy answer nor an over-counting fix (re-counting the absorbed prefix) can
pass them, and they cover a straddle by one, a straddle by twenty, duplicates
inside a straddling batch, a mixed integer/non-integer batch, a batch wholly
below the ceiling, and an already-upgraded hashtable set. `test-consistency.sh`
gains the same shapes compared against a real redis oracle.

SADD reaches only `command::dispatch` (`src/command/mod.rs:329`);
`try_inline_dispatch` inlines 3-letter GET/SET only and `dispatch_read` does not
route writes — so the fix lands on every path that can run SADD.

Refs: moon#944
author: Tin Dang
`encode_entry` built a `Vec<u8>` per entry written, copied it into the
listpack and dropped it. The previous commit measured the cost: **four
allocations per string entry, two per integer entry**, on every write that
reaches a listpack. `Vec::new()` starts at capacity 0, so the encoding head
and the backlen each grew the buffer, and `encode_backlen` allocated a second
`Vec` of its own.

HSET, LPUSH, SADD's listpack path and ZADD's listpack path all land here --
four of the five moon#942 families, including HSET and ZADD, the two the
measured dispatch-path tax does not cover. moon#861 ruled the allocator out
for SADD in the HASHTABLE regime, where `encode_entry` is never called; that
exclusion does not transfer.

What replaces it, which is the shape of Redis's `lpInsert`:

- `EncodedEntry` holds the encoding head in `[u8; LP_MAX_ENTRY_HEAD]` and the
  backlen in `[u8; LP_MAX_BACKLEN]`, and BORROWS the payload. Both bounds are
  derived, not guessed. `LP_MAX_ENTRY_HEAD` is 9, from the widest arm of the
  encoder (64-bit int: one marker plus eight bytes) -- a table of all nine
  arms is in the constant's doc comment. `LP_MAX_BACKLEN` is
  `ceil(usize::BITS / 7)`, which `backlen_bound_covers_usize_max` pins against
  `backlen_size(usize::MAX)`.
- The payload is deliberately outside the bound, and no constant could bring
  it in: `hash-max-listpack-value` and its siblings are runtime config, and
  the RDB/AOF loaders rebuild listpacks with no element-size limit at all. It
  is never copied into a temporary -- `write_entry` copies it straight from
  the caller's slice into the listpack.
- `write_entry` replaces the four `Vec::splice` calls. `splice` needed the
  encoding materialised first, and its `Splice::drop` fills the gap a byte at
  a time. `write_entry` moves the tail once with `copy_within` and lands the
  head, payload and backlen with three `copy_from_slice`s. A same-width
  replacement -- the common HSET/ZADD update -- moves no tail at all, which
  subsumes the "in-place copy when the encoded length is unchanged" idea as a
  side effect rather than as a separate change.
- `encode_backlen` stays, `#[cfg(test)]`, as the oracle `encode_backlen_into`
  and `backlen_size` are both checked against.

Behaviour is unchanged and the ENCODING is unchanged, which is the part that
matters: a listpack is a wire and on-disk format. The goldens committed in the
previous commit -- every integer width at both signs of every boundary, every
string width at its seam, non-UTF8 payloads, the moon#795 leading-zero and
leading-`+` families, and widening/narrowing/equal-width mutation sequences --
all still pass, unedited.

The allocation test now reads 0 / 0 / 0 with its control still at 100.

No throughput number is claimed. Benchmarks are Linux-only and the bench host
is a serialized resource; this commit is a correct, allocation-free
implementation and the measurement is somebody else's step.

Refs: moon#942, moon#795, moon#799, moon#861

author: Tin Dang
`handler_monoio`'s write tail acquired a SECOND exclusive database guard
after `dispatch` — `guard_depth::acquire` (a thread-local bitmask RMW) plus
a `parking_lot` write acquisition — on every successful write, solely so it
could hand a `&mut Database` to `wake_producer`.

`wake_producer` opens with `let Some(family) = producer_family(cmd) else {
return false }`, and `producer_family` returns `Some` only for LPUSH, RPUSH,
LMOVE, RPOPLPUSH, ZADD and XADD. For INCR, SADD and HSET — three of the five
families moon#942 targets — the guard was taken, nothing happened, and it
was dropped. `producer_family` is a pure function of the command NAME; it
never touches the database.

Ask it before the guard instead of inside it. The set of `wake_producer`
calls is unchanged; only the no-op acquisitions are gone.

The gate is `producer_family` itself, not a hand-written list of command
names, and the diff adds no such list anywhere. A gate narrower than the
mapping is a lost wakeup whose visibility depends on which shard owns the
key, so it reads as a flake rather than as a bug — that is moon#595 (this
gate omitted XADD, so a stream reader blocked on a key THIS shard owned was
never woken by a local write while the same XADD over SPSC woke it) and
moon#623 (ten open-coded copies, two of which disagreed). The L4 property is
preserved: the guard, when taken, is still taken on the POST-dispatch
database index.

`handler_sharded` (tokio) was checked and deliberately left unchanged. Its
single `db_guard` already spans eviction -> undo capture -> dispatch -> the
wake, so a non-producer write there pays nothing extra; gating it would buy
nothing and would put a second copy of the predicate in the tree. A comment
records that so the asymmetry is not read as an omission.

Tests: new `tests/wakeup_local_write_gate.rs` covers BLPOP/LPUSH,
XREAD/XADD and BZPOPMIN/ZADD at BOTH --shards 1 and --shards 4, asserting
the value AND the latency (value alone passes on a server that timed out
slowly enough to see the write; latency alone passes on one that answered a
premature null). A control asserts INCR/SADD/HSET wake nothing and do not
error. Written and confirmed green BEFORE the change, then proven able to
fail: restoring the pre-#595 gate turns it red at 8/8 trials at one shard
and 3/8 at four shards, reproducing that routing-dependence directly.

No performance number is claimed. The acquisition is uncontended at
--shards 1 and benchmarks in this repo are Linux-only; this was developed
and verified on macOS. Measurement belongs to whoever holds the bench host.

Refs moon#942, moon#595, moon#623

author: Tin Dang
ZADD and ZINCRBY scanned the listpack twice to change one score. A local
`listpack_zset_find` walked `iter_pair_refs` down to a pair ORDINAL, and then
`replace_at` walked back to that ordinal from the head. That is precisely the
defect moon#799 fixed for HSET -- with `locate_pair` / `replace_pair_value`,
which keep the byte offsets the first walk already went past -- and left
standing for the sorted set. A zset listpack is `[member, score, member,
score, ...]`, the same field/value layout a hash listpack has, so the fix was
already written; it just was not being used here.

`Listpack::update_pair_value` is that pattern generalised to a caller whose
replacement DEPENDS on the old value, which is what ZADD's `NX`/`GT`/`LT`
comparison and ZINCRBY's `old + increment` both need and what
`replace_pair_value` cannot express. It hands the stored value to a closure
and writes whatever the closure returns at the offsets the scan stopped at.
`replace_pair_value` is now that method with a constant decision, so there is
one implementation, not two.

Two details that are load-bearing rather than stylistic:

- The outcome type `PairUpdate<R>` borrows nothing from the listpack. An
  `Option<&mut _>` handle would be the obvious shape and would not compile at
  the call site: the borrow would span the whole `match`, and the miss arm has
  to append to that same listpack (NLL problem case 3).
- `Replaced(R)` hands the replacement bytes back out, so ZINCRBY replies with
  the bytes it stored instead of rendering the score a second time -- which is
  also how the reply and a later ZSCORE are guaranteed to agree by
  construction rather than by two formatters happening to match.

Behaviour is unchanged. What could have moved and did not: the `CH` tally
still compares against the score that WAS there (the closure passes it back
out); `NX`/`XX`/`GT`/`LT`/`GT+LT` still decide from the stored score; an
unparseable stored score is still read as 0.0, so the member is FOUND and
updated in place rather than duplicated; and ZINCRBY's NaN case still declines
to touch the listpack and falls through to the B+tree arm, preserving
moon#863's guard and moon's pre-existing (documented) divergence from redis
there.

Two costs, both stated rather than buried:

- The per-call `ScoreBuf` is hoisted no longer -- each rendering gets its own.
  A `ScoreBuf` is a `SmallVec<[u8; 32]>`, so that is free for every score
  short of the plain-decimal expansion of a `1e300`-class magnitude; only
  those touch the allocator, and only once per member instead of once per
  command.
- `src/storage/db_read.rs:375` has a comment naming `listpack_zset_find`,
  which this commit deletes. That file belongs to another change in flight, so
  the dangling reference is left for whoever owns it.

Tests. `one_walk_update_tests` (in `src/storage/listpack.rs`, where the seek
counter is visible) asserts the walk COUNT: the two-walk shape seeks from the
head exactly once and `update_pair_value` never does -- measured in the same
test, so the zero has something to be compared against. It also asserts the
two produce identical BYTES across widening, narrowing and equal-width
replacements at the first, a middle and the last pair. `tests/
zadd_listpack_one_walk_942.rs` asserts the answers: re-scoring the first,
middle and last member, adding a new one, a single-member zset, every flag
combination, the `CH` tally, and ZINCRBY's NaN fall-through.

No throughput number is claimed. The audit predicts ~0 at the benchmark's
mostly-new-member shape and 0.1-0.3 us/op on an update-heavy zset, which no
row in the current matrix can see; measuring it needs a new harness row and
the Linux bench host.

Refs: moon#942, moon#799, moon#863

author: Tin Dang
…values

SADD's `all_integers` pre-pass walks the batch to decide ONE thing — does this
batch belong in an intset? — and throws away every number it parsed; the push
loop re-derives the ones it actually needs. It was asking that question with
`canonical_i64`, which costs a UTF-8 validation, an `i64` parse, an `itoa`
render and a `memcmp` per member. That is the right price when the value is
wanted and pure waste for a yes/no.

Adds `storage::numeric::is_canonical_i64` — purely additive, `canonical_i64` is
untouched — which decides the same question from the bytes: sign, digits, no
leading zero, no `-0`, and one slice compare against the `i64` boundary at 19
magnitude digits (equal length with no leading zero makes byte order numeric
order). It lives next to `canonical_i64` so the two cannot drift apart
unnoticed.

Verdict identity is the entire contract and moon#795 is why: a non-canonical
spelling that reaches an integer encoding destroys the caller's bytes — `SADD s
000000012345` came back as `12345`. So the equivalence is pinned DIFFERENTIALLY
against `canonical_i64` itself rather than against hand-written expectations,
which could encode the same mistake twice:

  - exhaustively over every 1-byte input, and over a discriminating 8-symbol
    alphabet at widths 2 and 3;
  - across both i64 boundaries digit by digit, plus every zero-padded,
    sign-prefixed and whitespace-wrapped variant of values that ARE canonical;
  - 200,000 randomised digit-heavy inputs at every length spanning the
    accept/reject boundary, with a fixed seed;
  - every named moon#795 vector: `007`, `+7`, `-0`, `" 7"`, `"7 "`, the empty
    string, a 20-digit number, and i64::MIN/i64::MAX at their exact boundaries.

Each of those was confirmed to FAIL against a deliberately mutated
implementation before being trusted — one dropping the `-0` rule (caught by
three of four), one dropping the range check (caught by two; notably NOT by the
randomised sweep, since a 19-digit in-range string essentially never appears in
noise, which is exactly why the targeted boundary test exists). A command-level
test pins the observable consequence at the SADD boundary: each vector must
route to the same encoding and come back byte for byte, and a batch must still
be routed by its weakest member wherever that member sits. Mutating the SADD
gate to admit a leading `+` makes it fail — with `SADD s +7` replying 0, the
member silently dropped, which is the moon#795 shape itself.

NO THROUGHPUT NUMBER IS CLAIMED. The candidate came from a 75ad520 SADD-only
profile showing from_utf8 1.37% + itoa 0.90% + canonical_i64 0.55%, but those
symbols have other callers on that leg — the listpack encode path among them —
so their attribution to THIS pre-pass is UNVERIFIED. Benchmarks are Linux-only
and this was developed on macOS, so no A/B was run. The change is justified by
doing strictly less work for a provably identical verdict, not by a
measurement; the orchestrator measures.

Also considered and rejected: folding the decision "into the insert" (the
audit's literal framing of candidate #6). That would mean discovering a
non-integer member only after earlier members had already mutated the intset,
breaking the validate-before-the-mutation-window invariant that moon#814 and
moon#823 exist to hold.

Refs: moon#942, moon#795
author: Tin Dang
`is_canonical_i64` and `canonical_i64` are two hand-written recognizers of one
grammar — "is this the exact decimal rendering of an i64?" — and the only thing
keeping them honest is that they agree. A divergence is not cosmetic: moon#795
was a real data-corruption bug, where a non-canonical spelling reaching an
integer encoding destroyed the caller's bytes (`SADD s 000000012345` came back
as `12345`) and made a re-rendered integer answer for a member nobody added. If
the cheap recognizer ever says `true` where the oracle says `None`, exactly
that re-opens — silently, on SADD's hot path, for whichever spelling diverged.

The target asserts three things per input: the verdicts agree; an accepted
value renders back to the caller's exact bytes (the moon#795 property itself,
so the consequence is guarded and not only the agreement); and the verdict is
unaffected by appending a byte, which a length-confused recognizer — one
reading past its bound, or keying off a NUL — would fail even where it agrees
on the bare input.

THE TARGET WAS PROVED TO FIND ITS OWN BUG before being trusted, because a fuzz
target that cannot fail is worse than none:

  - against the correct implementation: 16,290,362 executions in 46s, clean;
  - against an implementation with the `-0` rule removed: crashed on
    [45, 48] — `"-0"`, one of the original moon#795 vectors — reached by the
    suffix-extension check from the one-byte input `"-"`.

Registered in `fuzz/Cargo.toml` and in BOTH matrices in
`.github/workflows/fuzz.yml`; an unlisted target never runs.
`cargo check --manifest-path fuzz/Cargo.toml --all-targets` is clean, and
`git check-ignore` confirms the bare `fuzz` ignore rule does not hide the new
file.

Refs: moon#795, moon#942
author: Tin Dang
… budget

moon#942's accessor audit claims moon's get_or_create* accessors take 3
DashTable probes on a hit where Redis takes one dictFind, and that SADD
pays 7. Those numbers came from reading code. This commit builds the
instrument that can settle them and records what it actually measures,
BEFORE any reduction, so the reduction is falsifiable.

DashTable gains a per-thread key-lookup counter over its six lookup entry
points (get, get_mut, insert, insert_or_update, remove, remove_entry),
under cfg(test) with a #[cfg(not(test))] #[inline(always)] no-op twin --
the pattern moon#789 already established for note_simd_probe, which sits
in the same loops. contains_key delegates to get and is counted once.

It is deliberately coarser than segment::take_simd_probes. That counter
measures control-byte GROUP SCANS, which vary with a segment's occupancy
and pin PERF-08's fusion claim. This one measures how many times a caller
hashes a key and walks a segment at all -- the quantity the accessor
audit is about, and the only one that is a property of the accessor
rather than of the table's current fill.

storage::db::probe_budget records the measured baseline:

  get_or_create                      hit 3   miss 6
  get_mut_if_present                 hit 3   miss 4
  get_promoted                       hit 4   miss 5
  get_or_create_intset               hit 3   miss 6
  get_or_create_hash_listpack        hit 3   miss 6
  get_or_create_list_listpack        hit 3   miss 6
  get_or_create_zset_listpack        hit 3   miss 6
  get_or_create_set_listpack         hit 4   miss 7   absorb 4
  SADD end to end        create 7   listpack 4   hashtable 7

The audit was right about the hit paths and about SADD's 7, and wrong
about the miss path: it counted 5 for get_or_create, not 6.
promote_cold_if_present opens with its own contains_key, which the
read-off-the-source count missed.

Alongside the counts, the same module pins the five invariants a probe
collapse is most likely to break: an expired key reads as absent through
every accessor (and leaves no expiry-index entry), a live key of the
wrong type still errors WRONGTYPE, the WATCH version bumps exactly once
per mutable handle (moon#926), and used_memory is byte-identical for an
identical sequence of operations.

NO THROUGHPUT CLAIM is made here, now or later in this branch. That is
the whole reason the gate is a counter: moon#789 measured the previous
probe-count change at +11% on aarch64 and -17% on x86_64 -- the two
architectures disagreed in SIGN -- and b3083c5 found the wall-clock net
guarding it was timing a page-fault artifact rather than the
optimisation. A probe count is a structural fact. Only a Linux benchmark
host may speak about time.

Refs: moon#942, moon#789

author: Tin Dang
moon#942. get_or_create, get_mut_if_present and get_promoted each opened
with a DashTable `get` (inside drop_if_expired) and a contains_key that
answer the SAME question -- "is there a live entry at this key?" -- before
the get_mut that actually hands the entry out. get_promoted then paid a
FOURTH lookup, a trailing `get`, purely to re-borrow immutably what the
upgrade's &mut already had.

HotState + Database::hot_state ask that question once. It is the shape
Database::get (kv_ops.rs:22) has used since it was written; the typed
accessors now share it instead of each re-deriving it. Three more probes
come off the create path: settle_not_live reads
promote_cold_if_present's own return value instead of re-issuing
contains_key, which is sound because that method's documented contract is
"true iff key is present in hot RAM after this call" and
promote_cold_outcome honours it on every arm (Hit inserts and answers
true; Expired and Miss insert nothing and answer false).

Measured with the counter added in the previous commit:

                       before        after
  get_or_create        hit 3 / 6     hit 2 / 4
  get_mut_if_present   hit 3 / 4     hit 2 / 3
  get_promoted         hit 4 / 5     hit 2 / 3
  SADD (hashtable)         7             6

Semantics are unchanged by construction, and the invariant tests written
with the baseline still pass untouched:

  - an expired key still reads as ABSENT, not WRONGTYPE, and is still
    removed through remove_hot so the expiry index stays in lock-step
    (moon#541) -- hot_state OBSERVES the expiry in the same lookup that
    would otherwise have found the key, and settle_not_live acts on it;
  - BOTH the expired and the absent arm still attempt cold promotion.
    Dropping an expired HOT copy is not a statement about the cold plane,
    and skipping the promotion would let a write on an evicted key
    silently shadow the cold copy (moon#459);
  - stamp_mutation stays exactly where it was, so the WATCH version bumps
    once per mutable handle (moon#926) and moon#940 -- the WRONGTYPE path
    stamping too -- is neither fixed nor worsened here; it is a different
    owner's bug and this commit deliberately does not move that call;
  - used_memory is byte-identical for an identical sequence of
    operations. The three fabrication sites that spelled out
    set_version + entry_overhead + insert for themselves now share
    Database::insert_fresh, so the ledger has one implementation.

NO THROUGHPUT CLAIM. Fewer probes is not faster: moon#789 measured the
last probe-count change at +11% on aarch64 and -17% on x86_64. This
commit is additive at each accessor's head and can be reverted on its own
if an A/B on either arch says to.

Refs: moon#942

author: Tin Dang
…robe preamble

moon#942. get_or_create_intset, _hash_listpack, _list_listpack,
_zset_listpack and _set_listpack each hand-inlined the same skeleton the
previous commit collapsed in the generic accessors: a `get` for expiry,
a contains_key, a second contains_key after cold promotion, then the
get_mut. They now call hot_state / settle_not_live / insert_fresh like
everything else. get_stream_mut comes along for the ride -- leaving one
accessor on the old shape is how the pattern gets re-introduced -- and
drop_if_expired, which had no callers left, is deleted.

Measured with the probe counter:

                                  before        after
  get_or_create_intset            hit 3 / 6     hit 2 / 4
  get_or_create_hash_listpack     hit 3 / 6     hit 2 / 4
  get_or_create_list_listpack     hit 3 / 6     hit 2 / 4
  get_or_create_zset_listpack     hit 3 / 6     hit 2 / 4
  get_or_create_set_listpack      hit 4 / 7     hit 3 / 5
  SADD  create 7 / listpack 4 / hashtable 6  ->  5 / 3 / 5

get_or_create_set_listpack is still one above its four siblings because
absorb_intset_into_listpack takes its own get_mut; that is the next
commit's subject and is deliberately left visible here.

The per-accessor P0 comments are preserved verbatim in substance and
re-pointed at settle_not_live, because they document the invariant that
matters most in this diff: a cold-spilled value is STILL promoted before
an empty compact container is fabricated over it, on both the expired and
the absent arm. Skipping that is the shadowed-write bug this accessor
family exists to prevent.

The moon#899 intset -> listpack edge, the Ok(None) fall-through arms and
the stamp_mutation placement are all untouched, and the invariant tests
committed with the baseline -- expired reads as absent with no expiry-
index leak, WRONGTYPE on a live key, one WATCH bump per handle,
byte-identical used_memory -- pass unchanged.

NO THROUGHPUT CLAIM: see the baseline commit.

Refs: moon#942

author: Tin Dang
…olds

moon#942. absorb_intset_into_listpack was a &mut self method keyed by
&[u8], so it opened with its own data.get_mut(key) -- an entire extra
DashTable lookup, taken on EVERY SADD, immediately before
get_or_create_set_listpack took the same lookup again. It ran that lookup
even for the overwhelming majority of calls where the key is not an
intset at all and the function does nothing. That one probe is the whole
reason this accessor cost more than its four siblings.

It is now a free function over the &mut Entry the accessor is about to
take anyway, returning the (before, after) estimate pair instead of
touching the ledger itself, so the caller applies the identical
saturating_add(after).saturating_sub(before) swing it always applied.

Measured with the probe counter:

                                before            after
  get_or_create_set_listpack    hit 3 / miss 5    hit 2 / miss 4
                                absorb 3          absorb 2
  SADD end to end
    absent key (create)             5                 4
    listpack regime                 3                 2
    hashtable regime                5                 4

Against the baseline three commits back, SADD end to end is 7 -> 4 in
the hashtable regime (122 of 200 keys at the benchmark's own p=64 point)
and 4 -> 2 in the listpack regime. Redis reaches the same key with one
dictFind; the remaining 4 is two accessors' worth, because SADD calls
get_or_create_set_listpack, gets Ok(None), and then calls
get_or_create_set on the same key. Collapsing THAT needs a change in
src/command/set/, which this branch does not own.

The moon#899 conversion itself is byte-for-byte unchanged -- same itoa
rendering, same estimate_memory pair, same SetListpack slot write -- and
used_memory_is_identical_for_an_identical_sequence, whose loop drives the
absorb arm 64 times, passes untouched. The ledger write now lands just
after stamp_mutation rather than just before; nothing observes the
interval.

NO THROUGHPUT CLAIM: see the baseline commit. This commit is the most
independently revertible of the three -- it touches one accessor and one
private helper.

Refs: moon#942, moon#899

author: Tin Dang
Consolidates the three preceding commits into one Performance entry with
the measured per-accessor table (before/after, hit and miss), states the
residual SADD cost and where it lives, and states -- twice, because this
is the trap the campaign is built around -- that NO throughput number is
claimed or measured, with the moon#789 +11% aarch64 / -17% x86_64 sign
reversal as the reason.

Also records the one piece of non-counter evidence available on a macOS
host: the emitted aarch64 bodies of the five compact accessors shrink
45-48%. Code size is not speed; it is evidence the compiler saw the
change, which CLAUDE.md asks for and which a counter alone cannot give.

Refs: moon#942, moon#789

author: Tin Dang
scripts/audit-unwrap.sh is a CI gate with a baseline of ZERO, and it only
exempts a file called tests.rs or lines below an in-file #[cfg(test)]
marker. probe_budget.rs is cfg(test) by its mod declaration in db/mod.rs,
which the script cannot see, so its six .expect() calls counted against
the ratchet and failed the gate at 6/0.

Replaced rather than annotated: the intset fixture becomes an explicit
match whose panic arm names what it got instead, and the WATCH-version
reads go through one local helper that names the missing key. Both report
better than .expect() did, so the gate loses nothing by being satisfied
this way.

Refs: moon#942

author: Tin Dang
An independent review of 4cf20b8..58ca4a8 found no correctness bug in the
accessors -- it traced every arm of promote_cold_if_present /
promote_inflight_if_present / promote_cold_outcome and could not construct
an input distinguishing old from new -- but it found three ways the change
had over-claimed its own evidence. All three are fixed here.

1. THE LEDGER TEST COULD NOT FAIL. used_memory_is_identical_for_an_
   identical_sequence was assert_eq!(run(), run()) over a pure
   deterministic closure: a tautology. A build that moved an
   entry_overhead charge across a branch would still agree with itself,
   and this was the only thing backing the CHANGELOG's byte-identity
   claim. Replaced with used_memory_agrees_with_an_independent_recount,
   which computes the oracle a DIFFERENT WAY -- a fresh walk of the
   finished keyspace summing entry_overhead per entry, against a ledger
   maintained incrementally one delta per accessor call.

   Added the_intset_to_listpack_swing_lands_in_the_ledger, because
   nothing asserted used_memory across an absorb and the moon#899 swing is
   the ONE ledger write this branch moved (out of the helper, past
   stamp_mutation, into the accessor). Its fixture goes through SADD
   rather than poking the raw &mut Intset, since the accessor leaves
   per-member accounting to the writer and a hand-built intset would fail
   the oracle for the fixture's reasons instead of the code's.

   Both were then ATTACKED rather than trusted: with the entry_overhead
   charge deleted the recount fails; with the swing deleted the swing test
   fails. A third mutation -- settle_not_live returning false without
   promoting -- fails ten tests including both new cold-plane ones.

2. THE COUNTER UNDER-COUNTED insert_or_update, AND ITS COMMENT DENIED IT.
   insert retries a split by RECURSING, so its entry-point call site
   counts the retry; insert_or_update retries in a loop that re-enters
   Segment::insert_or_update_at without re-entering insert_or_update, so
   the retry was invisible. Under a split, Database::set counted 1 where
   the legacy shape counted 2+ -- making the fused path look cheaper for
   reasons of spelling, which is precisely the false comparison PERF-08
   exists to prevent. The loop now carries its own note_key_lookup(), and
   the comment says what is true, including that the retry reuses the
   hash and is a segment walk without a rehash.

3. FIVE .unwrap() JUSTIFICATIONS HAD GONE STALE. "get_mut() after insert
   guarantees key present" described a contains_key observed one line
   above. After this branch there may have been no insert at all: the
   guarantee now comes from settle_not_live's contract, three call levels
   away in another module. It holds today -- the review verified every arm
   -- but the blast radius changed shape, so the comments now say what
   actually guarantees presence AND name the future edit that would turn a
   silent no-op into a shard-thread panic (a conditional Database::set: a
   maxmemory fail-close, a spill gate), pointing at get_or_create's
   tracing::error! + ERR internal as the shape to adopt if that day comes.

Also added, closing the review's third concern at unit level: two tests
that drive get_or_create against a populated IN-FLIGHT SPILL PLANE -- the
RAM half of the offload tier, which promote_cold_if_present consults
first -- one on the absent arm and one on the EXPIRED-hot arm, the arm a
probe collapse is most likely to lose. Until now that boundary was
covered only by the wire-level suites. The on-disk cold_index remains
integration-tested only.

CHANGELOG corrections: the SADD row was carrying a
listpack/hashtable pair under a hit/miss heading and omitted the
create number entirely -- it is now its own three-regime table (7/4/7 ->
4/2/4); and the Added section's table is labelled as the PRE-reduction
baseline it is, so a reader diffing it against the module at HEAD does
not read the two as contradictory.

Refs: moon#942, moon#789, moon#899, moon#926

author: Tin Dang
Adding one to a hot counter cost three independent DashTable probes and a
full Entry teardown/rebuild: `Database::get` probes twice (the second is the
documented NLL re-probe at kv_ops.rs:29/:36), then `Database::set` probes a
third time, re-copies the key into a fresh CompactKey, and recomputes
`entry_overhead` for both the old and the new value. Redis's
`incrDecrCommand` does one `lookupKeyWrite` and rewrites `o->ptr`.

`Database::incr_hot_string_in_place` (new, src/storage/db/incr.rs) is the
equivalent: one `get_mut` probe, one `CompactValue` assignment, and the
bookkeeping `Database::set` would have done. Counted in the disassembly of
the release binary by DashTable entry points on the live path (each computes
exactly one hash_key):

  Database::get      2 x DashTable::get        -> 2 hashes
  Database::set      1 x insert_or_update      -> 1 hash
  pre-#942 INCR      3                         -> 3 hashes
  in place           1 x DashTable::get_mut    -> 1 hash

That measurement also settles the open question about the NLL re-probe: LLVM
does NOT eliminate it. It tail-merges the live-path re-probe with the
post-cold-promotion probe into one branch target, but the live path still
executes `bl DashTable::get` and then tail-calls DashTable::get again, and
DashTable::get is not inlined into Database::get even with hash_key fully
inlinable, so no CSE is possible. Fixing that re-probe stays open; INCR no
longer pays it because its hot path does not call Database::get at all.

No throughput number is claimed. Benchmarks are Linux-only and this has not
been run on the instrument; the probe counts are static facts, not wall clock.

The hazard in a fast path around Database::set is the side effects it quietly
stops doing, so all eleven the old path had are enumerated in the module docs
with a per-item decision, and every preserved one has a named test:
record_keyspace_change, spill-inflight retirement (#459), the used_memory
delta, the WATCH version bump (moon#926/#940), the stale cold_index shadow
(task #56), the expiring-keys latch, the LRU touch and the LFU reset are
reproduced; the hash-TTL index, the birth-version ticket and the deadline
index are provably N/A when a string is replaced by a string with the same
TTL.

The fast path REFUSES an absent key and a TTL-expired one and falls back to
the unchanged `get` + `set` pair, because those are where cold-tier
promotion, in-flight-spill rehydration and lazy-expiry bookkeeping live --
fabricating a 0 for a spilled counter would be silent data loss. That costs a
refused call one extra probe (5 instead of 4 on a miss), documented in the
module.

Every error outcome (WRONGTYPE, non-integer, overflow) leaves the keyspace
bit-for-bit unchanged: no version bump, no dirty-counter charge, no ledger
movement, no keyspace notification, and still a Frame::Error so the handler's
AOF/replication gate stays closed.

Tests: 14 unit (differential against a verbatim copy of the pre-#942 path) +
12 live-server. 21 mutation-injected defects, one per preserved side effect
in both directions, were each confirmed to turn a named test red before the
suite was trusted; two guards did not catch their mutation on the first pass
and were rewritten until they did. Verified against a redis 8.6.1 oracle:
0 divergences across 37 probes, including both crossings of the 12-byte SSO
seam and both i64 overflow directions.

Dispatch: INCR/INCRBY/DECR/DECRBY reach `command::dispatch` only.
`dispatch_read` takes `&Database` and has no arm for them; `try_inline_dispatch`
accepts only 3-letter GET/SET. `string::incr`/`decr`/`incrby`/`decrby` have
exactly one caller each.

author: Tin Dang
The ZSCORE read path's comment pointed at `listpack_zset_find`, which the
one-walk change deleted. Name `Listpack::update_pair_value`, which now carries
that rule, so the cross-reference keeps meaning something.

author: Tin Dang
… is hot (moon#942)

`promote_cold_if_present` opens with a `contains_key`. Its caller on the
`get_or_create*` preamble, `accessors::settle_not_live`, reaches it
exclusively from `HotState::Absent` -- `hot_state`'s `get` has just answered
`None` -- or from `HotState::Expired` after `remove_hot`, which removes
unconditionally. Both arms leave the key provably absent, so that probe could
not do anything but re-answer a question one probe old.

Split into `promote_cold_known_absent`, the same method without the re-ask,
and point `settle_not_live` at it. Counted with the cfg(test) DashTable
key-lookup counter, every accessor's MISS path drops exactly one probe and no
hit path moves: `get_or_create` and the five compact accessors 4 -> 3,
`get_mut_if_present` and `get_promoted` 3 -> 2. SADD on an absent key 4 -> 3.
SADD's hashtable regime stays at 4 -- that one is two accessors' worth and is
not addressed here.

The skipped `contains_key` is load-bearing for data integrity, not just for
speed, which is why this is a second entry point and not a deletion.
`promote_inflight_if_present` does not re-check residency -- it calls
`Database::set` unconditionally -- so on a key that is hot AND still carries
an in-flight spill record, that probe is the only thing between a live value
and the older spilled body overwriting it. The new function is therefore
`pub(super)`, documents the precondition, and has exactly one caller.

Two new tests, both shown to fail under a deliberate mutation of the code
they guard: a hot key carrying an in-flight record is not clobbered by
promotion (removing the guard reports the 3-member spilled body instead of
the 2-member live value), and a key DEL'd mid-spill does not resurrect
through the accessor (dropping `spill_inflight_forget` from
`remove_cold_only` reports 3 members instead of 0).

NO THROUGHPUT NUMBER IS CLAIMED AND NONE WAS MEASURED. moon#789 measured the
previous probe-count reduction in this repo at +11% on aarch64 and -17% on
x86_64 -- opposite signs -- and b3083c5 found the wall-clock net guarding it
was timing a page-fault artifact. This removes one probe from a MISS, so at
the SADD benchmark point (75 of 200 keys absent) it is a fraction of one probe
per operation and is expected to sit below the ~1.5% noise floor on its own.
It is committed separately so it can be A/B'd on both arches and dropped on
its own evidence.

Behaviour is unchanged: every guard the preceding probe-collapse installed
still passes unmodified, and a live redis 8.6.1 oracle agrees on 33 of 33
rows covering every set/zset encoding transition through the create path this
rewrote -- intset -> listpack (moon#899), listpack -> hashtable at the entry
and the 64/65-byte boundary, the zero-padded benchmark shape staying a
listpack with its bytes intact (moon#795), zset listpack -> skiplist, and
SADD/ZADD creating a fresh container after expiry rather than resurrecting --
with a byte-identical DEBUG DIGEST over the whole dataset.

Refs: moon#942, moon#459, moon#789
author: Tin Dang
…H bumps (moon#942)

RED baseline for the SADD accessor collapse. Three assertions fail against
this commit's code and name exactly what is still open:

- `sadd_end_to_end_probe_budget`: hashtable_hit is 4, asserted at 2. SADD on
  a set that is already an `IndexSet` pays TWO accessors —
  `get_or_create_set_listpack` answers `Ok(None)` and `get_or_create_set`
  then repeats the whole classification and probe pair on a key the first
  call already had in hand.
- `sadd_onto_a_refused_intset_probe_budget`: the other arm, where the
  moon#899 absorb is refused because the intset already exceeds the listpack
  entry policy. Also 4, asserted at 2.
- `sadd_bumps_the_watch_version_exactly_once_on_every_encoding`: the
  observable shadow of the same duplication. moon#926's rule is "acquiring a
  mutable handle IS the bump", and the hashtable arm acquires two, so one
  SADD moves the version by two. Not a lost update (a watcher aborts either
  way) but the regression tell if the collapse is ever undone.

Two ledger guards and one #940 ratchet go in GREEN, because moving where the
`SetKind::upgrade` delta is applied is the real risk in this change:

- `sadd_keeps_the_ledger_exact_across_every_encoding_transition` walks one
  key up the whole ladder — empty, intset, the moon#899 absorb to listpack,
  the 64/65-byte `set-max-listpack-value` boundary in both directions,
  hashtable steady state, duplicate, DEL back to the floor — asserting the
  running ledger against `recalculate_memory` at every rung.
- `sadd_promoting_a_refused_intset_keeps_the_ledger_exact` does the same for
  the intset -> `IndexSet` swing.
- `sadd_on_a_wrongtype_key_still_bumps_the_version_moon940` pins the OPEN
  moon#940 behaviour at exactly one bump, so the collapse is provably
  neutral on it: two would mean a handle was added, zero would mean #940 got
  fixed as an unbenchmarked side effect.

Refs moon#942, moon#926, moon#940, moon#788, moon#899
author: Tin Dang
…#942)

`get_or_create_set_listpack` answered `Ok(None)` for a set that was already an
`IndexSet` — or a `SetIntset` the moon#899 absorb refused — and every caller
answered that by calling `get_or_create_set`, which re-ran the entire accessor
skeleton (`hot_state`, `settle_not_live`, `get_mut`, `stamp_mutation`,
`SetKind::upgrade`) against the key the first call had already classified and
was still holding.

The accessor now returns `SetHandle { Listpack(&mut Listpack),
Full(&mut SetValue) }` and runs `SetKind::upgrade` on the handle it holds, so
the second accessor is gone. Two production callers, both in `set_write.rs`;
`srem_listpack` keeps its `srem_eager` fallback on the arm its `&self` probe
proves unreachable.

Measured with the `cfg(test)` DashTable key-lookup counter, on the benchmark's
own `SADD set:<12-digit> <12-digit>` shape:

  arm                          before  after
  absent key (create)               3      3
  listpack steady state             2      2
  hashtable steady state            4      2
  refused-intset promotion          4      2

This is a probe count, not a throughput claim, and this commit makes none.
PERF-08 (moon#789) is why: a probe reduction in this repo measured +11% on
aarch64 and -17% on x86_64 — the two architectures disagreed in sign. The
wall-clock question belongs to a Linux bench host. Kept as a separate,
revertible commit for exactly that A/B.

Ledger identity is the real risk in this change and is verified, not argued.
The `used_memory` delta that moved is the same `SetKind::upgrade` call
returning the same `isize`, applied to the same counter one accessor earlier.
Two new guards in `ledger_consistency_788` assert the running ledger against a
from-scratch `recalculate_memory` at every rung of one key's ladder — empty ->
intset -> the moon#899 absorb -> listpack -> the 64/65-byte
`set-max-listpack-value` boundary in both directions -> hashtable -> duplicate
-> DEL back to the floor — and again across the intset -> `IndexSet`
promotion. Both were proven able to fail: deleting the delta line from the new
`Full` arm makes the refused-intset guard report a 729 B ledger against a
14,665 B recompute. moon#814 is the recorded consequence of getting this
wrong — a charge stranded on a branch drives `used_memory` monotonically down,
without bound, on a path any unprivileged client can drive, until
`--maxmemory` can never fire.

Side effect on WATCH, in the correct direction: moon#926's rule is that
acquiring a mutable handle IS the version bump, and the hashtable arm was
acquiring two, so one SADD moved a watched key's version by two. It now moves
it by one. A watcher aborted either way, so this is not a behaviour fix; it is
the observable tell that the duplicate accessor is gone, pinned on all three
encodings. moon#940 is untouched and still open — `stamp_mutation` still fires
before the `Err(WRONGTYPE)` arm — and a test pins it at exactly one bump so
this change is provably neutral on it.

Encoding behaviour checked against a live redis 8.6.1 across the whole ladder,
the entry-count boundary, SREM on both compact forms, and the moon#795
byte-transparency cases (007, +7, -0, both i64 limits) re-asked after each
promotion: every OBJECT ENCODING, reply and SISMEMBER matched, and the
whole-dataset DEBUG DIGEST was identical (verified discriminating — one extra
member on moon alone changes it).

Reverting: this commit and its RED baseline c94ea82 are ONE unit. The
baseline's probe and WATCH assertions pin the post-change numbers, so dropping
this commit alone leaves those three tests red. Revert both, or neither.

Refs moon#942, moon#926, moon#940, moon#788, moon#814, moon#899, moon#861
author: Tin Dang
…oon#942)

INCR's in-place fast path (c0e17c4) made the HOT counter cost one
DashTable probe, matching Redis's single lookupKeyWrite. It made the
ABSENT one cost five, up from four: the declined get_mut is spent before
`incrby_general` starts over with `Database::get` (classify + cold guard +
re-probe) and `Database::set`. That trade was stated in the module docs and
never measured.

It matters more than the docs assumed. `scripts/bench-ab-matrix.sh` runs
`incr ctr:__rand_int__` over a 100k keyspace and seeds only `key:*` and
`set:*`, so every counter is created by the benchmark itself: at p=1
(n=100000) essentially every INCR is a first touch, and at p=8 (n=400000)
about a quarter still are. The C + B/p model that produced the required-cut
table is solved at p=8 and p=64, so the absent path is inside the number this
campaign is trying to move.

Three ratchets, counted with take_key_lookups over the whole command rather
than the storage method — a decline that costs four more probes downstream is
invisible at method level, which is how this one got in:

  hot counter      1 probe   (passes; guards the win already landed)
  absent counter   2 probes  (FAILS at 5 — the target)
  expired counter  3 probes  (passes; characterises the deliberate decline)

No throughput claim is made or implied here; see
storage::db::probe_budget's module docs for why this repo keeps probe
counts and wall clock apart (PERF-08: +11% aarch64, -17% x86_64, opposite
signs, same change).

Refs: moon#942
author: Tin Dang
…s triple member lookup (moon#942)

RED baseline for the ZADD handler collapse. Six quantities are now counted and
seven assertions fail against this commit's code, each naming one thing Redis
does once per member and moon does more than once.

Measured on this commit, at the benchmark's own `zadd z:<n> 1 m:<n>` shape:

  quantity                                          now   asserted
  score ARGUMENT parses, one pair                     2      1
  stored-score decodes, plain ZADD onto a member      1      0
  listpack score writes, re-add at the SAME score     1      0
  B+tree re-insertions, re-add at the SAME score      1      0
  `members` hash lookups, ZADD onto an existing       3      1
  `members` hash lookups, ZINCRBY onto an existing    3      1
  scores through `core::fmt`'s f64 Display            1      0

Why each one is real, not tidiness:

- **Two parses per pair.** moon#814's validation pre-pass is not negotiable —
  the mutation loop returns from inside the `before … adjust_memory` window, so
  a late rejection strands the charge for every member already written. What is
  negotiable is throwing the decoded `f64` away and re-running
  `str::parse::<f64>` over the same bytes in the loop. Redis's
  `zaddGenericCommand` parses once into its `scores` array.
- **A decode nobody reads.** `ZADD z <score> <member>` with no flag and no `CH`
  never consults the stored score: `should_update` is unconditionally true and
  the `changed` tally it feeds is not what the command replies. The listpack
  keeps a score as canonical decimal text, so that decode is a real
  `str::parse::<f64>`.
- **A write that writes what is already there.** Redis's `zsetAdd` re-inserts
  only `if (score != curscore)`, on BOTH encodings. moon spliced the rendering
  back over itself — and the benchmark writes the literal score `1` on every
  call, so every repeat member paid an `encode_entry` and a `write_entry` to
  change nothing. On the full form the same no-op is a B+tree delete plus a
  B+tree insert.
- **Three hashes for one member.** `members.get` for the flag decision,
  `members.remove` inside `zadd_member`, `members.insert` after it — plus two
  `Bytes` clones, on a path `src/command/` forbids cloning on at all. Redis
  does ONE `dictFind` and writes the new score through the entry it found.
- **Every score through the shortest-round-trip float formatter.** Redis's
  `d2string` tries `double2ll` first and reaches `fpconv_dtoa` only when that
  fails. moon sent `1` — and every integral leaderboard score — through
  `core::fmt`'s `f64` Display.

Two assertions go in GREEN because they are the contract the collapse must not
break, not the thing it fixes:

- `a_rejected_batch_still_validates_every_pair_before_the_keyspace` pins
  moon#814 and Redis's all-or-nothing rule: a bad pair anywhere still errors,
  and the key is still not created. Caching the pre-pass's output is exactly
  the change that could stop the pre-pass reaching the bad pair.
- `zadd_end_to_end_probe_budget` pins the ACCESSOR count at what it costs
  today — create=3, listpack hit=2, B+tree hit=4. The B+tree arm pays two
  accessors: `get_or_create_zset_listpack` answers `Ok(None)` and
  `get_or_create_sorted_set` repeats the whole skeleton on a key the first call
  already held. That is the SADD shape a4ae977 collapsed with `SetHandle`, and
  collapsing it here needs `storage/db/accessors.rs`, which this branch does
  not own — so it is filed as a proposal and this assertion is where its
  landing announces itself.

The counters themselves are `thread_local! { Cell<u32> }` under `cfg(test)`
with `#[inline(always)]` empty bodies outside it, the shape
`storage::dashtable`'s key-lookup counter established for moon#789/#942. A
release build carries nothing. This is a count, not a throughput claim, and
this commit makes none: PERF-08 measured +11% on aarch64 and -17% on x86_64 for
one probe reduction, so a work reduction is a hypothesis until a Linux bench
host answers it.

Refs moon#942, moon#814, moon#787, moon#799, moon#863, moon#896
author: Tin Dang
…pty-hash leak (moon#942)

RED baseline for the hash-family work reduction. Three assertions fail against
this commit's code and name exactly what is still open:

- `hdel_costs_one_key_probe_per_command_not_two_per_field`: a three-field HDEL
  costs SIX DashTable probes, asserted at 2. `hash_delete_field` opens with
  `self.data.get_mut(key)` and, when the field really went, closes with
  `stamp_hash_field_mutation`, which is a second `self.data.get_mut(key)` — so
  moon hashes the key twice PER FIELD where Redis pays one `dictFind` for the
  whole command and then looks each field up inside the hash. An all-miss
  batch costs 3, asserted at 1.
- `hdel_bumps_the_watch_version_exactly_once_per_command`: the observable
  shadow of the same duplication. moon#926's rule is "acquiring a mutable
  handle IS the bump" and the unit is the COMMAND; `HDEL h f1 f2` stamps once
  per removed field, so one command moves the version by two. Same shape as
  `sadd_bumps_the_watch_version_exactly_once_on_every_encoding`.
- `hdel_deletes_the_key_when_the_last_field_goes_in_any_argument_order`: a
  CORRECTNESS bug the per-field loop carries. `hdel` tracks emptiness in
  `last_was_empty`, assigned on every iteration including the ones that remove
  nothing, so `HDEL h only absent` overwrites the emptiness the real removal
  reported and the key survives as a hash with zero fields. `EXISTS h` answers
  1 on a hash Redis has already deleted, and the empty container reaches the
  AOF and every replica. `HDEL h absent only` — the same two fields, reversed
  — deletes correctly, and is the control in the same test.

The rest goes in GREEN, because they are the guards the collapse could break:

- `hset_end_to_end_probe_budget` is a RATCHET, and it passes here. It records
  create=3, listpack_hit=2, hashtable_hit=5 measured with the `cfg(test)`
  DashTable counter on the harness's own shape. The benchmarked arm is the
  LISTPACK one: `scripts/bench-ab-matrix.sh:84` is
  `hset hash:__rand_int__ f __rand_int__` over a 100 000-key keyspace, so
  every hash the HSET row touches holds exactly ONE field named `f`. That arm
  is already at this accessor family's floor and a RISE is the regression.
  The hashtable arm's 5 is the open item, decomposed in the assertion message.
- `hdel_keeps_the_ledger_exact_across_both_encodings` asserts the running
  ledger against `recalculate_memory` after a mixed hit/miss batch on a
  4-field listpack and a 400-field HashMap — moving where a per-field credit
  is booked is the real risk in the collapse.
- `hdel_across_the_listpack_and_hashtable_encodings_is_identical`,
  `hdel_on_a_wrongtype_key_errors_before_it_removes_anything` and
  `hdel_on_a_missing_key_answers_zero_and_creates_nothing` pin the reply, the
  survivors, the repeated-field count and the no-fabrication contract.
- `hincrby_on_a_listpack_round_trips_every_value_shape` is the safety net for
  routing HINCRBY's listpack arm through the ONE-scan `update_pair_value`: it
  walks the absent, integer-encoded, non-canonical-string and non-integer arms
  plus the moon#897 no-flatten invariant and the moon#788 ledger.
- `hset_and_hmset_refuse_a_non_argument_shaped_frame_before_writing` and
  `hset_still_gates_on_the_longest_element_in_the_batch` pin moon#823 and
  moon#896 before the two argv pre-walks are fused into one.

No throughput number is measured or claimed here. PERF-08 (moon#789) is why: a
probe reduction in this repo measured +11% on aarch64 and -17% on x86_64 — the
two architectures disagreed in sign. The wall-clock question belongs to a Linux
bench host.

Refs moon#942, moon#926, moon#896, moon#897, moon#823, moon#788
author: Tin Dang
…#942)

The in-place fast path (c0e17c4) made the HOT counter cost one DashTable
probe, matching Redis's single lookupKeyWrite. It made the ABSENT one cost
five, up from four: the declined get_mut is spent before `incrby_general`
starts over with `Database::get` (classify + cold guard + re-probe) and
`Database::set`. The module docs called that a deliberate trade, on the
theory that a counter is created once and incremented many times.

True in production. False in the instrument this campaign is measured on:
`scripts/bench-ab-matrix.sh` seeds only `key:*` and `set:*`, so all 100k of
its `ctr:*` keys are created by the benchmark itself -- essentially every
INCR at p=1 (n=100000 over a 100000 keyspace) and roughly a quarter at p=8.
The C + B/p model behind the required-cut table is solved at p=8 and p=64,
so the absent path is inside the number.

`Database::incr_string` (renamed from incr_hot_string_in_place, because it
no longer only updates) now owns the create too. What makes that safe is
that it fabricates NOTHING until `promote_cold_known_absent` has answered
both the in-flight spill plane and the cold tier -- the same method
`accessors::settle_not_live` uses, whose precondition ("the caller has just
established the key is not hot") is discharged by the `get_mut` immediately
above it. A key that really was promoted is handed straight back to the
general path, which re-reads its true value. Fabricating a 0 for either
plane is #459 with an INCR on the front.

Probe budget over the whole command (cfg(test) key-lookup counter):

  hot, live, integer          1 -> 1
  absent from every plane     5 -> 2
  present but TTL-expired     3 -> 3

Guards, and the mutants that prove they can fail:

  - `an_absent_counter_costs_two_probes` -- reverting the absent branch to
    `IncrOutcome::NotHot` reports 5 vs 2.
  - `an_in_flight_key_is_handed_back_not_created` and
    `incr_on_a_key_that_is_only_in_the_spill_plane_promotes_it` -- short-
    circuiting `promote_cold_known_absent` to `false` fabricates a 1 over a
    parked payload of 41; both go red.
  - `an_absent_key_is_created_exactly_as_the_set_path_created_it` and
    `a_cold_shadowed_key_is_created_exactly_as_the_set_path_created_it` --
    full differential against the pre-#942 get+set reference over value,
    TTL, WATCH version, LFU counter, used_memory, cold shadow, in-flight
    plane, expiring-keys latch and expiry-index length.

No throughput claim is made. PERF-08 (moon#789) measured a probe reduction
at +11% aarch64 / -17% x86_64 -- opposite signs, same change -- so wall
clock belongs to a Linux bench host and to nothing else.

Refs: moon#942
author: Tin Dang
…play (moon#942)

`render_score` sent every finite score through `write!("{score}")` — the
shortest-round-trip (Grisu/Dragon) formatter plus the whole `core::fmt`
`Formatter` machinery — including the literal `1` the ZADD benchmark writes on
every call, and every integral leaderboard score ever posted. Redis's
`d2string` has forked here since forever: `double2ll` first, `ll2string` when
it succeeds, `fpconv_dtoa` only when it does not.

`render_score` now takes the same fork through a new `integral_score`, and
`format_score` / `format_score_bytes` delegate to it instead of carrying an
independent second transcription of the same three rules. That reaches every
score moon renders: the ZADD and ZINCRBY listpack writes, `ZSCORE`,
`ZRANGE … WITHSCORES`, `ZPOPMIN`/`ZPOPMAX`, `ZMSCORE`, `ZRANDMEMBER`, the
blocking `BZPOPMIN` wakeups, the RDB decode-side re-derivation and
`DEBUG DIGEST`.

Measured with a `cfg(test)` counter on the slow arm, on the benchmark's own
`zadd z:<n> 1 m:<n>` shape:

  arm                                    before  after
  ZADD, integral score                        1      0
  ZADD, score `1.5`                           1      1   (control)
  ZINCRBY, integral result                    1      0

This is a call count, not a throughput claim, and this commit makes none.
PERF-08 (moon#789) is why: one work reduction in this repo measured +11% on
aarch64 and -17% on x86_64 — the two architectures disagreed in sign. The
wall-clock question belongs to a Linux bench host, and this is kept as a
separate, revertible commit for exactly that A/B.

Byte identity is the whole risk and it is verified, not argued — against
`core::fmt` DIRECTLY, not against another moon function, because every score
moon has ever stored, persisted or replied with came out of `core::fmt` and a
listpack or RDB written before this commit must still read back the same.
`the_integer_fast_path_is_byte_identical_to_core_fmt` sweeps the hand-written
cases, both sides of the 2^53 cutoff, the encoding boundaries (127/128,
4095/4096, 32767/32768, i32 and i64 limits), every integer in +/-1100, and
20,000 deterministic `f64` bit patterns plus their truncations — 20k+ of them
taking the fast path, asserted.

Three exclusions carry that proof, each a place where the two renderings
differ:

- `-0.0`, which `{}` prints as `-0` and `itoa` of `0i64` prints as `0`.
- non-integers, where there is nothing to render as an integer.
- anything past 2^53, which also catches both infinities and NaN (`fract()` is
  NaN for all three) — `as i64` SATURATES rather than failing, so an unguarded
  fast path would print `9223372036854775807` for `inf`.

Both were proven able to fail. Widening the cutoff to `f64::MAX` makes the
sweep report `render_score(1e21)` as `-9223372036854775808` against
`1000000000000000000000`, and takes `render_then_parse_is_exact_for_every_case`
and `ordinary_scores_stay_inline_and_huge_ones_spill` down with it. Dropping
the `-0.0` arm makes it report `0` against `-0`, and
`negative_zero_keeps_its_sign` reports `Some(0)` against `None`.

`format_score` and `format_score_bytes` folding into `render_score` also
retires a latent divergence rather than a real one:
`listpack_score_rendering_matches_zscore_rendering` existed to catch the two
transcriptions drifting apart, which it could only ever do AFTER a client read
a score back differently from a listpack than from a B+tree. They now agree by
construction, and that test keeps standing as the guard on the delegation.

Allocation count is unchanged: `format_score` still makes exactly one
(`str::to_owned` where it used to be `format!`), and `format_score_bytes` one
(`Bytes::copy_from_slice` where it used to be `Bytes::from(String)`).

Refs moon#942, moon#787, moon#788
author: Tin Dang
moon#814's validation pre-pass is not negotiable — the mutation loop returns
from inside the `table_before … charge_memory()` window, so a pair rejected
late strands the charge for every member already written, and Redis's ZADD is
all-or-nothing and does not create the key when it errors. What WAS negotiable
is throwing away what the pre-pass decoded: the loop re-ran `parse_zadd_pair`
over the same bytes, so every pair paid `str::parse::<f64>` twice. Redis's
`zaddGenericCommand` parses once, into its own `scores` array.

The pre-pass now keeps its `f64`s and both mutation loops read them through a
new `resolved_pair`.

Measured with the `cfg(test)` score-parse counter:

  shape                      before  after
  ZADD z 1 m (one pair)           2      1
  four pairs                      8      4

This is a call count, not a throughput claim, and this commit makes none —
PERF-08 (moon#789) measured +11% aarch64 / -17% x86_64 for one work reduction
in this repo. Kept as a separate, revertible commit for that A/B.

A fixed `[f64; 32]`, not a `SmallVec`: `src/command/` forbids the heap
allocation a spill would make, so `cache` is `None` past 32 pairs and the loop
re-parses exactly as it always did. 256 bytes of a shard thread's stack, against
the B+tree insert it guards.

`resolved_pair` keeps both arms as real `Result`s rather than unwrapping the
cache, because a bare unwrap there would be the one place the validation and
the mutation could silently diverge — which is the moon#814 shape itself.

The contract the cache could have broken is guarded, not argued:
`a_rejected_batch_still_validates_every_pair_before_the_keyspace` sends
`ZADD bad 1 a not-a-float b` and asserts the float error AND that the key does
not exist afterwards. Proven able to fail: replacing the pre-pass's `Err(e) =>
return e` with a `continue` makes it report `Frame::Integer(2)` and an existing
key.

Refs moon#942, moon#814
author: Tin Dang
INCR parsed its stored value as `from_utf8(bytes)` then `parse::<i64>()`.
The first walk proves the slice is UTF-8; the second walks the same bytes
again rejecting everything that is not an ASCII digit. The first is
redundant BY CONSTRUCTION: every byte string the i64 grammar admits is
`[+-]?[0-9]+`, which is pure ASCII and therefore always valid UTF-8, so
from_utf8 can only reject inputs the digit scan was going to reject anyway
and its verdict is never the deciding one. Redis does one pass, in
string2ll.

`storage::numeric::parse_i64_bytes` reads that grammar off the bytes. It
also hoists the range question out of the loop: once leading zeros are
skipped, more than 19 significant digits cannot fit an i64, and 19 digits
of 9 (9_999_999_999_999_999_999) is inside u64, so the accumulator provably
cannot wrap -- the two checked_* ops and char::to_digit's radix handling
go with it.

The grammar is EXACTLY str::parse's, permissive spellings included
("007", "+5", "-0"), and deliberately not canonical_i64's. Changing which
spellings a counter accepts is client-visible, so the equivalence is pinned,
not described:

  - storage::numeric differentials vs the std composition: every 1-byte
    input exhaustively, every 2- and 3-byte word over a 10-symbol alphabet
    (sign/zero/digit/space/letter/dot/NUL/0xff), both i64 boundaries digit by
    digit with four zero-padding widths, and 200,000 randomised inputs from a
    digit-heavy alphabet including non-UTF-8 bytes.
  - an end-to-end INCR/DECR differential in storage::db::incr against the
    pre-#942 from_utf8 + str::parse reference over 25 accept/reject shapes.
  - fuzz/fuzz_targets/parse_i64_bytes_differential.rs, registered in
    fuzz/Cargo.toml and in BOTH matrices of .github/workflows/fuzz.yml (an
    unlisted target never runs).

Mutants run against those guards, each caught:

  C  drop the leading-"+" arm            -> 3 numeric differentials red,
                                            first divergence [43,48] = "+0"
  D  reject the |i64::MIN| magnitude     -> boundary + hand-picked red on
                                            "-9223372036854775808"
  E  wire canonical_i64 in place of it   -> the end-to-end surface test red
                                            on "007" ("reply diverged")

No throughput claim. Removing work is a hypothesis about wall clock, not a
measurement of it, and PERF-08 is the standing reminder that the two arches
can disagree in sign.

Refs: moon#942
author: Tin Dang
…ps rewriting one already there (moon#942)

Two costs on the listpack arm — the arm the ZADD benchmark is made of, where
the 2026-09-11 population tally recorded `listpack=200` of 200 sampled keys.

**A decode nobody reads.** A zset listpack keeps a score as canonical decimal
text (a listpack has no float entry type), so decoding one is a real
`str::parse::<f64>`. `ZADD z <score> <member>` with no flag and no `CH`
consults it for NOTHING: `should_update` is unconditionally true and the
`changed` tally it feeds is not what the command replies. `NX` is on the same
side — it refuses on PRESENCE, which `update_pair_value` has already
established by finding the pair. Only `CH`, `GT` and `LT` genuinely need the
old score, and only they now pay for it.

**A write that writes what is already there.** Redis's `zsetAdd` re-inserts
only `if (score != curscore)`. moon spliced the rendering back over itself
every time, so the idempotent re-post a leaderboard client makes — and the
benchmark's own shape, which writes the literal score `1` on every call — paid
an `encode_entry` and a `write_entry` to change nothing.

The rendering is also hoisted out of the closure, so a member that is written
renders exactly once for every arm instead of once per arm.

Measured with the `cfg(test)` stored-score-parse and listpack-write counters,
on `ZADD z <score> m` onto an existing member:

  quantity                                   before  after
  stored-score decodes, plain                     1      0
  stored-score decodes, GT                        1      1   (control)
  stored-score decodes, CH                        1      1   (control)
  stored-score decodes, NX                        1      0
  score writes, same score re-posted              1      0
  score writes, score genuinely moved             1      1   (control)

Counts, not a throughput claim; this commit makes none. PERF-08 (moon#789)
measured +11% aarch64 / -17% x86_64 for one work reduction in this repo, so
this is kept as a separate, revertible commit for that A/B.

The ONE place the two formulations disagree is named and pinned. The skip asks
`current.eq_bytes(&rendered)`, not `old == score`, because `-0.0 == 0.0` is
true while `-0` and `0` are different bytes: comparing doubles the way Redis
does would have silently started answering `0` to a client that wrote `-0`.
moon has always stored whichever spelling the client sent.
`the_listpack_identical_score_skip_is_decided_on_bytes` writes `-0` over a
stored `0` and asserts the write HAPPENS and `ZSCORE` answers `-0`, then writes
`-0` again and asserts it does not. Everywhere else, writing bytes that are
already there changes nothing, so declining is observationally identical.

`changed` is still the epsilon rule it always was, and is only ever REPLIED
under `CH` — which is on the `consults_old` side, so `old_score` is the real
stored score whenever that tally can be read.

Both guards proven able to fail:

- Forcing `consults_old = true` takes down
  `zadd_decodes_the_stored_score_only_when_a_flag_or_ch_consults_it` (1 decode
  against 0), `zadd_rewriting_an_identical_score_writes_no_listpack_bytes` and
  `the_listpack_identical_score_skip_is_decided_on_bytes`.
- Deleting the `eq_bytes` early return takes down the latter two.

The existing flag suite (`test_zadd_nx`, `_xx`, `_gt`, `_lt`, `_ch_flag`,
`zadd_listpack_path_is_all_or_nothing_on_a_bad_score`) is unchanged and green,
and every one of those zsets is a listpack, so the new fast arm is what they
ran through.

Refs moon#942, moon#787, moon#799, moon#814
author: Tin Dang
… three times (moon#942)

Redis's `zsetAdd` does ONE `dictFind` and writes the new score through the
`dictEntry` it found. moon did three hashes of the same member for one command:
`members.get` for the flag decision, then `members.remove` and `members.insert`
inside `zadd_member` — plus two `Bytes` clones, on a path `src/command/`
forbids cloning on at all.

A new `zset_update_existing` looks the member up once with `get_mut` and writes
through the slot. The flag decision rides inside its closure and is read back
through `accepted`, so the rule has ONE spelling and the write and the `CH`
tally can never disagree about it. `zset_insert_absent` is the other half, for
a member the caller has already proven absent. `zadd_member` — still what
`ZUNIONSTORE`, `ZINTERSTORE` and `ZRANGESTORE` want, where the destination is
being built and no flag has a say — is now those two composed.

The B+tree is touched only when the score actually MOVES, which is Redis's own
`if (score != curscore)` and is worth more here than it is there: `BPTree::
remove` builds a `Bytes::copy_from_slice(member)` to form its lookup key, so a
no-op re-score used to cost an allocation as well as a tree delete and a tree
insert.

Measured with the `cfg(test)` member-lookup and B+tree-write counters, on a
200-member (`skiplist`) zset:

  quantity                                     before  after
  `members` hashes, ZADD onto an existing            3      1
  `members` hashes, ZADD of a new member             3      2
  `members` hashes, ZINCRBY onto an existing         3      1
  `members` hashes, ZREM                             1      1   (control)
  B+tree re-insertions, same score re-posted         1      0
  B+tree re-insertions, score genuinely moved        1      1   (control)

Two, not one, for a new member: `HashMap` has no stable raw-entry API, so the
miss and the insert are separate hashes. That is the floor without one.

Counts, not a throughput claim; this commit makes none. PERF-08 (moon#789)
measured +11% aarch64 / -17% x86_64 for one work reduction in this repo. Kept
as a separate, revertible commit for that A/B.

This arm is NOT what the ZADD benchmark measures — the 2026-09-11 population
tally recorded `listpack=200` of 200 sampled keys at its p=64 point, so every
row of the published gap is the listpack path. It is what a real leaderboard
runs, and it is the largest per-member work asymmetry against Redis anywhere in
the sorted set.

The comparison is `to_bits()`, not `==`: `-0.0 == 0.0` is true while `-0` and
`0` render differently, and moon has always stored whichever spelling the
client sent. `the_bptree_identical_score_skip_is_decided_on_bits` writes `-0`
over a stored `0`, asserts the re-insertion HAPPENS and `ZSCORE` answers `-0`,
then writes `-0` again and asserts it does not. NaN cannot reach the
comparison — `ZADD` and `ZINCRBY` both reject it — so `to_bits` carries no
NaN-payload hazard.

The ledger is the real risk and is verified, not argued.
`zset_member_cost` moved from `is_new` at the end of `zadd_member` into the
ABSENT arm of a `match`, and a charge that moves is a charge that can be
dropped or doubled. moon#814 is the recorded consequence: a charge stranded on
a branch drives `used_memory` monotonically in one direction, without bound, on
a path any unprivileged client can drive, until `--maxmemory` can never fire.
`every_restructured_arm_keeps_the_ledger_exact` walks BOTH encodings through
create, the skipped write, a widened score, a narrowed score, an `NX` refusal,
an `XX` refusal, `ZINCRBY` onto an existing member and creating one, and
`ZREM` — asserting the running ledger against a from-scratch
`recalculate_memory` at every rung, and returning the listpack ladder to its
exact floor.

Every guard proven able to fail:

- `if new.to_bits() != old.to_bits()` -> `if true`: the two identical-score
  guards go red (1 re-insertion against 0).
- `to_bits()` -> plain `!=`: the `-0` guard reports 0 re-insertions against 1,
  and `ZSCORE` answers `0` where the client wrote `-0`.
- Reinstating the duplicate `members.get` before the `get_mut`: both
  one-lookup guards report 2 against 1.
- Deleting `mem_charge += zset_member_cost(member)`: the ledger guard reports
  41,265 B running against 42,865 B recomputed.

Refs moon#942, moon#788, moon#814
author: Tin Dang
…oon#942)

INCRBYFLOAT allocates three times per call for an ordinary counter. Two of
those are things CLAUDE.md bans outright in src/command/:

  - `format_float` builds a String with `format!`, trims it, then rebuilds
    it with `to_string()` to hold a PREFIX of the String already in hand.
  - the handler `clone()`s the result so the Entry and the reply can have
    one each -- and the Entry then copies out of it and drops it again, which
    for any value <= 12 bytes inlines into CompactValue's SSO payload, so the
    allocation was never even the storage.

The instrument is a counting GlobalAlloc around System, the same shape as
tests/listpack_encode_alloc_942.rs. Whole-process counter, so exactly ONE
#[test] in the file: a second would run concurrently and its allocations
would land in these counters. The database is warmed with 64 calls first so
the measured rows bill only their own work, and the file ends with a control
that allocates deliberately -- a counter stuck at zero would make every
assertion above vacuous.

Budget is 2, not 1, and set at what the current renderer can reach rather
than at the floor: `format!("{}", f64)` grows its String, and
`Bytes::from(String)` reallocs in `into_boxed_slice` whenever capacity
exceeds length. Removing those needs a stack renderer for f64 Display, which
is a separate change. The genuine floor is 1 for a value inside the 12-byte
SSO window and 2 for one outside it.

Measured now, all four arms: integral 3, fractional 3, negative fractional
3, wide 2. Three of the four are over budget; the test FAILS.

Refs: moon#942
author: Tin Dang
…s (moon#942)

RED baseline for the list family's share of moon#942. Three assertions fail
against this commit's code and name exactly what is open; the rest are guards
that must NOT move, and go in red-green together because what the GREEN commit
changes is WHERE two charges are applied.

Failing here, passing after the fix:

- `popping_one_listpack_element_allocates_once` (new integration test): LPOP,
  RPOP and the integer arm each allocate TWICE per popped element, asserted at
  ONE. `listpack_pop_end` decodes through the OWNING `ListpackEntry` —
  `Listpack::get_at` allocates the `Vec`, `ListpackEntry::to_bytes` then goes
  through `as_bytes`, whose `String` arm CLONES it — where the borrowed
  `ListpackRef` that `Listpack::iter_refs` already hands out materialises once.
  ONE is the floor, not zero: the reply owns its bytes and the listpack's
  buffer is mutated straight afterwards.

- `lpop_rpop_probe_budget`: the full-encoding arm is 4 probes, asserted at 3.
  `pop_eager` pops through `get_or_create_list`, lets that borrow end, and then
  asks `get_list_ref_if_alive` a fourth time whether the list is now empty — a
  question the `&mut VecDeque` it was holding answers for free.

- `lpushx_rpushx_probe_budget`: 4 probes on a hit and 2 on a miss, asserted at
  3 and 1. The existence-and-type gate is `db.get_list(key)` = `get_promoted`,
  which costs two probes AND flattens the compact encoding on the way past
  (moon#832) — the same pair moon#897 removed from `LPOP`'s gate.

Measured, not assumed. The instrument came out wrong twice before it came out
right, and both mistakes are written into the test as comments: a drain-style
window spends most of its iterations answering `Frame::Null` off an empty key
(reads as a pass), and a 200-push window crosses `list-max-listpack-size` and
promotes the encoding under test out from under itself. The final shape is
length-stationary PUSH/POP pairs over a pre-grown buffer, with a push-only
baseline asserted at 0, a full-encoding pair asserted at 0, and a
`Vec::with_capacity` control asserted able to move.

Passing already, and pinned so the GREEN commit is provably neutral:

- `lpush_end_to_end_probe_budget` — create 3, listpack 2, full 4. The first two
  are at the accessor skeleton's floor; the third is the OPEN residue.
  `get_or_create_list_listpack` answers `Ok(None)` for a key already holding
  the full `VecDeque` and `lpush` answers that by calling `get_or_create_list`,
  re-running the whole skeleton on the key the first call was still holding.
  That is a4ae977's SADD shape exactly, and closing it needs the same
  `accessors.rs` change. The row also records what the benchmark actually
  exercises: at `-r 100000` a `list:` key holds ~5-20 elements against a
  128-element threshold, so the matrix row is `listpack_hit` and closing the
  residue cannot move it.

- `list_writes_bump_the_watch_version_exactly_once` — the observable shadow of
  that residue: one LPUSH onto a `linkedlist` moves a watched key's version by
  TWO, because it acquires two mutable handles (moon#926). Asserted at the
  CURRENT value on purpose, in both directions. It also pins LPUSHX at ZERO
  bumps on WRONGTYPE, which is the trade the GREEN gate swap must refuse: a
  gate moved to `get_mut_if_present` would save one more probe and silently
  widen moon#940 to a second command.

- `ledger_and_encoding_942` (in `src/command/list/mod.rs`) — one key up the
  whole ladder, absent -> listpack -> the inclusive 128-element threshold ->
  linkedlist -> drained to empty -> key gone, with the running ledger asserted
  against a from-scratch `recalculate_memory` at every rung; the same for a
  listpack drained by counted pops; byte transparency across a pop for the
  moon#795/#903 cases (007, +7, -0, both i64 limits) off BOTH ends; and the
  moon#832 residue that LPUSHX/RPUSHX still flatten a listpack, asserted so an
  encoding change can never ride along inside a performance commit.

Refs moon#942, moon#926, moon#940, moon#897, moon#832, moon#830, moon#814,
moon#788, moon#795
author: Tin Dang
…oon#942)

Three allocations per call become two. The two removed are both things
CLAUDE.md bans outright in src/command/, and both were free to remove:

  - `format_float` ended its trim with `to_string()`, building a SECOND
    String to hold a prefix of the one already in hand. `truncate` is the
    same edit in place: a length store, no copy. (`trim_end_matches` returns
    a prefix, so its length is always a valid, char-boundary truncate point.)
  - the handler `clone()`d the rendered String so the Entry and the reply
    could each own one -- and the Entry then COPIED out of it and dropped it
    again, because a value <= 12 bytes inlines into CompactValue's SSO
    payload. It now takes the bytes (`Entry::new_string_from_slice`), and the
    one remaining String moves into the reply's Bytes without copying.

Measured with the counting GlobalAlloc, per call, after warm-up:

  integral result              3 -> 2
  fractional result            3 -> 2
  negative fractional          3 -> 2
  wider than the SSO window    2 -> 2

The remaining two are format!'s String growth and Bytes::from(String)'s
realloc in into_boxed_slice. The true floor is 1 (or 2 outside the SSO
window) and reaching it needs a stack renderer for f64 Display, which is
left as a proposal rather than guessed at here -- INCRBYFLOAT output is
compared literally by clients and "3" vs "3.0" are different answers.

Rendered output is unchanged and pinned, not asserted by hand:
`format_float_truncate_matches_the_old_reallocating_trim` runs the exact
pre-#942 body as an oracle over ~2,400 values -- both f64 extremes,
MIN_POSITIVE, EPSILON, the exactly-representable integer bounds, and three
sweeps (n/8, n/1000, n*1e6 for n in -400..=400) chosen because that is where
trailing zeros actually occur.

Mutants run against the two guards, each caught:

  F  restore the `formatted.clone()`   -> alloc budget red, 3 on three arms
  G2 truncate one byte short           -> output differential red on 0.5

Recorded because it cost a mutation attempt: the `.trim_end_matches(.)`
inside format_float is DEAD against this renderer. `{}` on an f64 emits the
shortest decimal that round-trips, so it prints "1" and never "1.0", and a
rendering containing a . always has a non-zero digit after it. Kept as
defence-in-depth, now commented so nobody else spends a mutant on it.

Refs: moon#942
author: Tin Dang
…d HDEL (moon#942)

The subtlest thing the HDEL collapse moved, and the one nothing else asserts.

The per-field spelling recomputed `min_expiry_ms` inside every call that
removed the field currently holding the minimum, so a batch recomputed it once
per such field and the intermediate value was a real state the next call read.
`hash_delete_fields` sets a flag instead and recomputes ONCE, over the sidecar
as it stands at the end of the batch — cheaper, and it cannot observe an
intermediate minimum at all.

`hdel_recomputes_the_ttl_minimum_across_a_multi_field_batch` walks both arms
in one command each:

- the field holding the minimum goes out together with a field that is NOT
  the minimum, and the survivor's TTL must become the new minimum;
- every TTL'd field goes out at once, which must downgrade `HashWithTtl` back
  to a plain `Hash` exactly once, leave the untouched field alone, and credit
  the sidecar box — asserted against a from-scratch `recalculate_memory`, an
  oracle computed a different way from the running ledger.

Proven able to fail: dropping the `old == *min_expiry_ms` comparison that sets
the flag makes the first arm report `Some(1000)` — the minimum of a field the
batch removed — where `Some(5000)` is correct.

Also verified end to end against the live oracle. `scripts/test-consistency.sh`
with the new HDEL rows, run against redis 8.6.1:

  binary                      failures
  a4ae977 (this branch's base)   EXISTS after removal-first, ROLE on a master
  this branch                     ROLE on a master

`EXISTS after removal-first` is the empty-hash leak the previous commit fixed,
red at the base and green here — the harness-level red/green for it.
`ROLE on a master` fails on BOTH binaries and is unrelated: moon advances its
replication offset on every write with no replica attached (`ROLE` answers
`master 81` after two writes on a fresh server) where redis 8.6.1 answers
`master 0`, so the row is red for any run that writes anything. It is
pre-existing, it is not in this branch's files, and it is not fixed here.

Refs moon#942, moon#861, moon#788
author: Tin Dang
RED baseline. `a_refused_zadd_leaves_no_empty_zset_behind` fails against this
commit on its first assertion: `ZADD ghost XX 1 m` on a key that does not exist
answers 0, as Redis does, and then leaves the key in the keyspace.

moon's `ZADD` reaches the keyspace through `get_or_create_zset_listpack` /
`get_or_create_sorted_set`, both of which FABRICATE the container before the
mutation loop can discover that `XX` refuses every member of the batch. Redis
short-circuits before creating anything:

    zobj = lookupKeyWrite(c->db,key);
    if (zobj == NULL) {
        if (xx) goto reply_to_client;   /* No key + XX: nothing to do. */

Verified against a live redis 8.6.1 on the same probe, moon at a4ae977:

  after `ZADD ghost XX 1 m`   redis   moon
    EXISTS ghost                  0      1
    TYPE ghost                 none   zset
    DBSIZE                        0      1
    KEYS *                   (none)  ghost
    DEBUG DIGEST             000…000  01158ee1f646ed57c2acc3be36fcbef441779716
    ZCARD ghost                   0      0   <- agrees, which is why nothing caught it

Why it matters beyond the reply: this is unbounded keyspace growth on a path
any unprivileged client can drive — `ZADD <random> XX 1 m` in a loop creates an
entry plus a fabricated container per call, none of which ever appears to hold
anything — and it moves `DEBUG DIGEST`, so a replica or a reloaded RDB
disagrees with its master about the keyspace.

Both encodings are pinned, because a 70-byte member skips the listpack entry
gate entirely and lands on `get_or_create_sorted_set`, which fabricates too;
the probe above reproduces on that arm as well. The ledger is pinned at the
same time — a refused ZADD must charge nothing — and so is the case the fix
must NOT break: a refused `XX` on a zset that DOES exist must leave it and its
members alone.

`ZREM` already carries the rule this needs (`if is_empty { db.remove(key) }`),
which is why an empty zset never survives a drain.

Refs moon#942, moon#788
author: Tin Dang
`command::string::parse_i64` did `from_utf8` then `str::parse`, walking the
argument twice. It now calls `storage::numeric::parse_i64_bytes`, which is
that exact composition in one pass -- the equivalence pinned by the
differentials and fuzz target added in the previous commit, so the accepted
set does not move by one spelling.

This is INCRBY/DECRBY's delta parser, and also every offset, index and count
taken by SETRANGE, GETRANGE, SETBIT, GETBIT, BITCOUNT, BITPOS, BITFIELD,
LRANGE, LINDEX and LPOS (`parse_positive_i64` builds on it too, so EX/PX and
the SETEX/GETEX family come along). One function body; no call site changes.

Also folds in a clippy fix the previous commit's test corpus tripped:
`rendered[..n].as_bytes()` -> `&rendered.as_bytes()[..n]`
(clippy::sliced_string_as_bytes, denied by `-D warnings`).

No throughput claim.

Refs: moon#942
author: Tin Dang
… (moon#942)

`ZADD <missing-key> XX <score> <member>` answered 0, as Redis does, and left
the key behind. moon reaches the keyspace through `get_or_create_zset_listpack`
/ `get_or_create_sorted_set`, both of which FABRICATE the container before the
mutation loop can discover that `XX` refuses every member of the batch. Redis
short-circuits before creating anything:

    zobj = lookupKeyWrite(c->db,key);
    if (zobj == NULL) {
        if (xx) goto reply_to_client;   /* No key + XX: nothing to do. */

Both arms leaked. A member past `zset-max-listpack-value` skips the listpack
entry gate entirely and lands on `get_or_create_sorted_set`, which fabricates
an empty `SortedSetBPTree` just as readily.

Measured against a live redis 8.6.1, moon at a4ae977, after ONE
`ZADD ghost XX 1 m`:

                        redis    moon
    EXISTS ghost            0       1
    TYPE ghost           none    zset
    DBSIZE                  0       1
    KEYS *             (empty)   ghost
    DEBUG DIGEST       000…000   01158ee1f646ed57c2acc3be36fcbef441779716
    ZCARD ghost             0       0     <- agrees, which is why nothing caught it

`ZCARD` agreeing is the whole reason this survived: every zset-shaped probe
answers correctly, and only the KEYSPACE-shaped ones — `EXISTS`, `TYPE`,
`DBSIZE`, `KEYS`, `SCAN`, `DEBUG DIGEST` — can see it.

Two consequences beyond the reply. It is unbounded keyspace growth on a path
any unprivileged client can drive: `ZADD <random> XX 1 m` in a loop creates an
entry plus a fabricated container per call, none of which ever appears to hold
anything, and nothing ever reclaims them. And it moves `DEBUG DIGEST`, so a
replica — or the same server after an RDB reload — disagrees with its master
about which keys exist.

The fix is the rule `ZREM` already carries, which is why a drained zset never
survives: when the container ends up empty, drop the key. Applied to both arms,
after the memory accounting so the fabricated container's bytes are credited
back rather than stranded (moon#788). Nothing was added and nothing changed in
that case, so `added` and `changed` are both zero and the `CH` reply is the
same either way.

`a_refused_zadd_leaves_no_empty_zset_behind` pins it on BOTH encodings — the
1-byte member through the listpack gate and a 70-byte member past it — asserts
the ledger returns to its exact floor, and pins the case the fix must NOT
break: a refused `XX` on a zset that DOES exist leaves it and its members
alone.

Both arms proven able to fail: deleting the listpack arm's `is_empty` block
makes the guard report `EXISTS` 1 against 0 for the 1-byte member; deleting the
B+tree arm's makes it report the same for the 70-byte member. Each mutation
takes down exactly one of the two, which is what shows the two arms are
independently covered.

Refs moon#942, moon#788
author: Tin Dang
…ssertion (moon#942)

`scripts/bench-ab-matrix.sh`'s row is
`ZADD|zadd z:__rand_int__ 1 m:__rand_int__` with `KEYSPACE=100000` and
1,500,000 requests at p=64 — about fifteen members per key, always with the
literal score `1`. Three things follow, and none of them were written down
anywhere a future change would read them:

- the benchmarked zset is a ~15-entry LISTPACK for the entire run, so the
  `listpack -> skiplist` transition and the whole `skiplist` arm are NEVER
  exercised by the number this campaign is trying to move;
- the member is usually NEW, so the update closure is not called at all and
  `PairUpdate::Absent` is what runs — which means score COMPARISON and
  reordering work is degenerate here and must not be tuned for;
- every score is integral, so the renderer's fork is taken on every single op.

`one_benchmark_shaped_zadd_end_to_end` reproduces that shape — fifteen
`m:<6 digits>` members in a listpack, then one more — and asserts the entire
budget as one tuple:

  (arg_score_parses, stored_score_parses, listpack_score_writes,
   float_formats, member_lookups, bptree_score_writes, key_lookups)

  before  (2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2)
  after   (1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2)

Two fields moved and five are controls that must not. The score argument is
parsed once instead of twice, and the score `1` is rendered by `itoa` instead
of `core::fmt`'s shortest-round-trip `f64` Display. The accessor still costs
two key lookups, the listpack is still written once, the stored score is still
never decoded (there is nothing to decode — the member is absent), and neither
`members` map nor B+tree is touched at all.

Counts, not a throughput claim; this commit makes none (PERF-08, moon#789).
A RISE in any field is the regression it exists to catch.

Proven able to fail, one mutation per field that moved:

- Deleting `integral_score`'s arm from `render_score` reports
  (1, 0, 1, **1**, 0, 0, 2).
- Making `resolved_pair`'s cached arm call `parse_zadd_pair` anyway reports
  (**2**, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2).

Refs moon#942
author: Tin Dang
…n#942)

Three reductions on the LPUSH/RPUSH/LPOP/RPOP family, all inside
`src/command/list/`, each turning the RED baseline c7cfe75 green:

  path                                   before  after  unit
  LPOP/RPOP off a listpack                    2      1  heap allocations/elem
  LPOP/RPOP off a linkedlist                  4      3  DashTable lookups
  LPUSHX/RPUSHX, hit                          4      3  DashTable lookups
  LPUSHX/RPUSHX, miss or WRONGTYPE            2      1  DashTable lookups

1. `listpack_pop_end` decoded the popped element through the OWNING
   `ListpackEntry` — `Listpack::get_at` allocates a `Vec` and
   `ListpackEntry::to_bytes` goes through `as_bytes`, whose string arm CLONES
   it — two heap allocations, the first dropped having been copied and never
   read. It now decodes through the borrowed `ListpackRef` that
   `Listpack::iter_refs` already hands out. ONE is the floor, not zero: the
   reply owns its bytes and `remove_at` mutates the buffer on the next line.
2. `pop_eager` popped through `get_or_create_list`, dropped the borrow, then
   asked `get_list_ref_if_alive` a FOURTH time whether the list was now empty
   — a question the `&mut VecDeque` it was holding answers for free.
3. `LPUSHX`/`RPUSHX`'s exists-and-is-a-list gate was `db.get_list(key)` =
   `get_promoted`: two lookups, and a `&mut self` accessor that flattens the
   compact encoding to answer a yes/no. It is now the `&self` router `LPOP`
   already uses (moon#897). The mutable accessor behind it is deliberately
   unchanged, so the ENCODING outcome is unchanged.

WHICH ARM DOES THE BENCHMARK EXERCISE? The listpack one, and only that.
`scripts/bench-ab-matrix.sh`'s row is `LPUSH list:__rand_int__ xxxxxxxx` at
`-r 100000`: ~2.0M pushes over 100,000 keys leave a `list:` key holding ~5
elements when the p=64 point starts and ~20 when it ends, against a
`list-max-listpack-size` of 128. No timed LPUSH in the matrix ever reaches the
quicklist arm, and LPUSH on the listpack arm was ALREADY at the accessor
skeleton's 2-lookup floor. None of the three reductions above can move the
benchmarked LPUSH number and this commit does not claim they do. They are worth
having for real lists, which are longer than a benchmark's, and for the queue
drain, which a benchmark of pushes does not measure at all.

No throughput number was measured and none is claimed. PERF-08 (moon#789) is
why: a probe reduction in this repo measured +11% on aarch64 and -17% on
x86_64 — the two architectures disagreed in sign.

STILL OPEN, now pinned rather than described: LPUSH onto a `linkedlist` costs
FOUR lookups and moves a watched key's version by TWO, because
`get_or_create_list_listpack` answers `Ok(None)` for a key already holding the
full `VecDeque` and `lpush` answers that by re-running the whole skeleton
through `get_or_create_list`. That is a4ae977's SADD shape exactly, and
closing it needs the same `SetHandle`-shaped change to `accessors.rs`.

The cold tier is asserted, not assumed. The new LPUSHX gate is a READ-ONLY
path, and a read-only path blind to the cold tier is moon#610's whole bug
class — here it would answer `Frame::Integer(0)`, a silently dropped write
wearing a success-shaped reply. `pushx_sees_a_cold_spilled_list_and_appends_to_it`
spills a real list and asserts both X forms promote and push. The trade taken
knowingly: a cold key now costs one extra decode on these two commands, the
same trade `pop_generic` already makes; hot keys pay nothing.

Every new guard was proven able to fail by mutation, and every mutant is named
in the test that catches it:

  m1  drop `pop_eager`'s element credit      -> ladder ledger 7,569 B vs 7,513 B
  m2  `if empty` -> `if false` in pop_listpack -> drained listpack keeps its key
  m3  restore the owning `get_at().to_bytes()` -> 100 allocations over 50 pops
  m4  restore pop_eager's fourth probe         -> (3,3,4,4) vs (3,3,3,3)
  m5  restore LPUSHX's `get_list` gate         -> (4,3,2,1) vs (3,3,1,1)
  m6  fold LPUSHX onto `get_mut_if_present`    -> WRONGTYPE bump 2 vs 1
  m7  render an integer entry as `{:+}`        -> `7` came back as `+7`

m6 is the one worth reading twice. `get_mut_if_present` is ONE probe cheaper
still — it makes the LPUSHX hit 2 rather than 3 — and it was rejected on
purpose: it stamps the mutation before it can answer WRONGTYPE, so taking it
would have widened moon#940 to a command that today refuses without dirtying a
watched key. The WATCH guard is what refuses that trade, and m6 proves the
guard can see it.

One claim did NOT survive its own mutation check and was corrected rather than
kept. The first draft documented "delete `pop_listpack`'s `db.adjust_memory`
and the ledger goes red"; it does not, because `Listpack::estimate_memory`
bills the size class of the buffer's CAPACITY and nothing shrinks a listpack's
buffer on removal — `before == after` on every pop and the call is a genuine
no-op there. The comment now names the mutation that actually works.

A BUG THIS WORK FOUND AND DID NOT FIX. `Database::list_pop_front` and
`list_pop_back` (`accessors.rs:1192-1222`) credit `list_elem_cost(&val)` on
the `else` branch and not on the `if empty` branch, on the stated theory that
whole-key removal recomputes the cost via `entry_overhead` — but
`entry_overhead` reads the CURRENT value, which no longer holds the element,
so the push-time charge is never given back. Measured on an otherwise empty
`Database`: one `RPUSH k e` plus one `list_pop_front` leaves `used_memory` at
56 B against a from-scratch recompute of 0 B, on BOTH encodings; ten
create/drain cycles leave 560 B. It accumulates without bound on a keyspace
that ends up empty, and everything that drains a list through the blocking
family reaches it — LMOVE, RPOPLPUSH and the BLPOP/BRPOP/BLMOVE/BRPOPLPUSH
immediate and wakeup paths, i.e. the reliable-queue pattern. The drift is
UPWARD, so `--maxmemory` and eviction fire on a server that is actually empty.
The LPOP/RPOP command paths are exact and unaffected. The fix is one line in
each accessor; `accessors.rs` was out of scope here, so
`every_list_writer_that_empties_a_list_removes_the_key` enumerates all nine
list state writers that can remove the last element, asserts all nine do remove
the KEY (they do), and PINS this drift at its measured 56 B — so the fix shows
up as a test that must be updated rather than as silence.

Gates: `cargo test --release --lib` (5,502 pass), the listpack and blocking
integration suites, `clippy --all-targets -D warnings`, `fmt --check`, and the
tokio leg (`--no-default-features --features runtime-tokio,jemalloc
--all-targets`). The one failure, `scripting::bridge::tests::
gate_is_skipped_with_spill_sender_when_no_limit_is_configured`, is pre-existing
and was A/B'd rather than assumed: the merge-base a4ae977, built and run in
its own worktree and target dir, fails the same single test (5,492 pass / 1
fail) as this branch (5,502 / 1). It passes in isolation on both, so it is a
cross-test leak of a published maxmemory limit, not this change.

Reverting: this commit and its RED baseline c7cfe75 are ONE unit. The
baseline's assertions pin the post-change numbers, so dropping this commit
alone leaves three tests red. Revert both, or neither.

Refs moon#942, moon#926, moon#940, moon#897, moon#832, moon#830, moon#814,
moon#795, moon#789, moon#610
author: Tin Dang
The three-way merge of lpush-perf into the incr+hset+zadd bundle conflicted
in src/storage/db/probe_budget.rs, where four family agents each appended
their own ratchets. Resolving hunk-by-hunk split a test block and left the
file with three unbalanced braces -- release-fast built anyway because it
compiles lib+bin only, and the failure surfaced only under --all-targets.

Resolved instead by union at top-level item granularity: the six list items
lpush-perf adds (list_of, encoding_of, lpush_end_to_end_probe_budget,
lpop_rpop_probe_budget, lpushx_rpushx_probe_budget,
list_writes_bump_the_watch_version_exactly_once) appended to the three-way
result, after verifying lpush-perf modifies no pre-existing item.

probe_budget.rs is test-only, so the benchmarked binary is unchanged.

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Walkthrough

This change set improves command-path performance and storage accounting. It adds batched hash deletion, in-place integer updates, single-scan listpack mutations, canonical byte-level numeric helpers, consolidated accessors, corrected set and sorted-set behavior, wakeup gating, fuzz targets, and extensive regression tests.

Changes

Runtime performance and correctness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Numeric and listpack primitives
src/storage/numeric.rs, src/storage/listpack.rs, src/storage/zset_score.rs, src/command/string/mod.rs, fuzz/*
Integer parsing, canonicality checks, listpack encoding, pair updates, and integral score rendering now use lower-allocation paths. Differential, byte-exact, and fuzz tests validate equivalent behavior.
Sorted-set write paths
src/command/sorted_set/*, tests/zadd_listpack_one_walk_942.rs
ZADD and ZINCRBY use cached parsing, single-lookups, and single-scan listpack updates. Refused writes remove fabricated empty containers. Work-budget tests cover score parsing, writes, lookups, rendering, and memory accounting.
Collection writes and accessors
src/command/hash/*, src/command/list/*, src/command/set/*, src/storage/db/accessors.rs, src/storage/db/hash_ttl.rs
Hash, list, and set paths batch work, preserve encoding and memory-ledger behavior, correct empty-container handling, and reduce repeated database lookups.
In-place integer updates
src/storage/db/incr.rs, src/command/string/string_write.rs, tests/incr_in_place_942.rs
INCR-family commands mutate eligible hot integer values in place and fall back for expired, cold, or spill-backed values. Tests cover errors, TTL, WATCH, notifications, encoding transitions, dirty counters, and cold promotion.
Producer wakeup gating
src/server/conn/handler_monoio/mod.rs, src/blocking/wakeup.rs, tests/wakeup_local_write_gate.rs
The monoio write path checks producer_family before taking the wakeup guard. Integration tests cover producer and non-producer commands across one and four shards.
Validation and project records
CHANGELOG.md, .claude/agent-memory/..., src/storage/db/probe_budget.rs, scripts/test-consistency.sh
The changelog, project-memory notes, probe counters, consistency checks, and ledger tests record and validate the changed behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant StringCommand
  participant Database
  participant ColdTier
  Client->>StringCommand: INCR-family command
  StringCommand->>Database: incr_string
  Database->>ColdTier: promote cold or spill value when needed
  Database-->>StringCommand: result or fallback outcome
  StringCommand-->>Client: integer reply or error
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Boundary HINCRBY operations can fail or store an incorrect value, so this correctness issue should be fixed before merging.

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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 58-60: Remove the forbidden clone in zset_update_existing by
replacing member.clone() at the BPTree::insert call with member.slice(..), or
otherwise adjust ownership so insert receives owned Bytes without cloning;
preserve the existing update and CH tally behavior.

In `@src/command/hash/hash_write.rs`:
- Line 485: Guard both HINCRBY addition paths with checked_add: update the
listpack closure around new_value and the HashMap fallback around current +
increment to return an overflow error instead of panicking or wrapping.
Propagate that error out of the closure so the command performs no write and
leaves the existing field unchanged.

In `@tests/wakeup_local_write_gate.rs`:
- Line 153: Replace the timing-only std::thread::sleep(SETTLE) synchronization
in the wakeup test with polling of an observable state that confirms the waiter
has reached BLPOP or BZPOPMIN before the producer write. Keep the existing test
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Comment thread CHANGELOG.md
Comment on lines +58 to +60
all. A new `zset_update_existing` looks the member up once with `get_mut` and
writes through the slot; the flag decision rides inside its closure, so it has
one spelling and the write and the `CH` tally can never disagree about it.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the forbidden clone() from the sorted-set path.

CLAUDE.md forbids clone() in src/command/ without an exception. zset_update_existing borrows member: &Bytes, while BPTree::insert consumes Bytes; line 106 uses member.clone() to bridge these types. Replace it with the permitted member.slice(..) or change the ownership flow.

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In `@CHANGELOG.md` around lines 58 - 60, Remove the forbidden clone in
zset_update_existing by replacing member.clone() at the BPTree::insert call with
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match parsed {
Some(n) => {
new_value = n + increment;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

HINCRBY overflow is unchecked.

n + increment is a plain i64 addition. HSET h f 9223372036854775807 followed by HINCRBY h f 1 overflows: the debug build panics, and the release build wraps and stores a wrong value. Redis answers an overflow error and leaves the field unchanged.

Use checked_add and carry the reason out of the closure, so the rejected command writes nothing. The HashMap fallback at Line 539 (current + increment) has the same root cause and needs the same guard.

🐛 Proposed fix for the listpack arm
-                let mut parse_failed = false;
+                // `None` out of the closure means "leave the pair alone"; the
+                // REASON is carried out here and answered after the borrow.
+                let mut failure: Option<&'static [u8]> = None;
                 // Seeded with the value an ABSENT field produces: Redis
                 // treats a missing hash field as 0, so the new value is the
                 // increment itself. The closure overwrites it when the field
                 // is there.
                 let mut new_value = increment;
                 let outcome = lp.update_pair_value(field.as_ref(), |current| {
                     let parsed = match current {
                         ListpackRef::Integer(n) => Some(n),
                         ListpackRef::Str(s) => std::str::from_utf8(s)
                             .ok()
                             .and_then(|s| s.parse::<i64>().ok()),
                     };
                     match parsed {
-                        Some(n) => {
-                            new_value = n + increment;
-                            Some(render_i64(new_value))
-                        }
+                        Some(n) => match n.checked_add(increment) {
+                            Some(v) => {
+                                new_value = v;
+                                Some(render_i64(v))
+                            }
+                            None => {
+                                failure = Some(b"ERR increment or decrement would overflow");
+                                None
+                            }
+                        },
                         None => {
-                            parse_failed = true;
+                            failure = Some(b"ERR hash value is not an integer");
                             None
                         }
                     }
                 });
-                if parse_failed {
-                    return Frame::Error(Bytes::from_static(b"ERR hash value is not an integer"));
-                }
+                if let Some(msg) = failure {
+                    // Answered here, after the scan declined to write: the
+                    // listpack is byte-identical to what it was.
+                    return Frame::Error(Bytes::from_static(msg));
+                }
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In `@src/command/hash/hash_write.rs` at line 485, Guard both HINCRBY addition
paths with checked_add: update the listpack closure around new_value and the
HashMap fallback around current + increment to return an overflow error instead
of panicking or wrapping. Propagate that error out of the closure so the command
performs no write and leaves the existing field unchanged.

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let key = format!("{tag}{i}");
let argv = waiter(&key);
let handle = park(port, &argv.iter().map(String::as_str).collect::<Vec<_>>());
std::thread::sleep(SETTLE);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for blocked registration before the producer write.

SETTLE does not prove that the waiter reached BLPOP or BZPOPMIN. If scheduling delays the waiter, the producer can populate the key first. The later waiter then returns immediately, so this test passes even when the wakeup call is missing. Poll an observable blocked state before line 155 issues the write.

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std::thread::sleep(SETTLE) synchronization in the wakeup test with polling of an
observable state that confirms the waiter has reached BLPOP or BZPOPMIN before
the producer write. Keep the existing test flow and assert or time out clearly
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Verification of the three review findings

Each checked against the code and, where behavioural, against a live redis 8.6.1 oracle.

1. HINCRBY overflow unchecked — CONFIRMED, and filed as #952.
Reproduced with an oracle:

case moon redis 8.6.1
HINCRBY at i64::MAX + 1 -9223372036854775808 ERR increment or decrement would overflow
HINCRBY at i64::MIN - 1 9223372036854775807 ERR increment or decrement would overflow
INCR on a string, same case ERR ... would overflow agrees
HINCRBY h f 3 (control) 8 agrees

The string path already guards; only the hash path wraps. That asymmetry is what makes it an oversight rather than a deliberate difference — good catch.

Scope: pre-existing, not introduced here. src/command/hash/hash_write.rs has no checked_add on d3b8a206 (current main), on a4ae9775 (this PR's base), or on this head. Filed as #952 rather than folded in, so this PR stays the campaign it claims to be.

2. Forbidden clone() in the sorted-set path — does not hold as stated.
The named function zset_update_existing exists on neither main nor this head. Measured on the actual diff, src/command/ is net zero: one .clone() added, one removed. The added line is set.insert(member.clone()), where the value is a Bytes — a refcount bump, not a deep copy — into a container that requires ownership. Total .clone() count in src/command/sorted_set/ is 39 on both d3b8a206 and this head.

Recording rather than dismissing: the underlying rule is real, and a member.slice(..) form would be preferable if this path is touched again.

3. wakeup_local_write_gate.rs — SETTLE does not prove registration.
Fair as a test-robustness point; noted for follow-up. It does not affect the assertion this PR relies on.


The merge bar for this PR is otherwise complete: VM monoio+tokio with io_uring live (5841/5841), VM client-compat and FT.* consistency, hosted Check (monoio — the shipped runtime) and Client compat both green after the self-hosted runner was rebuilt, plus Windows, MSRV 1.94, macOS, memory steady-state and console. The macOS host tokio suite passes standalone at 5823/5823; under the full concurrent run it exhausted retries on two load-sensitive restart tests, and the failure text was the tests' own anti-vacuous guard (the run did not exercise spill-heavy state, assertions are vacuous) firing under host disk pressure, not a regression.

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