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atlas 9c97365f8f refactor(job-queue): a job is a recipe, not a value you carry
Follows the jobq change: a builder can no longer be constructed or
inserted outside `hive_jobq`, so `DagSpec` cannot hold one. It carries a
`Declare` — `Box<dyn FnOnce(&Job) + Send>` — and the queue runs it
against a builder jobq owns, at the moment it inserts.

`NodeOutput.append_subgraph` becomes `Vec<Declare>` for the same reason,
and this is where the shape was always heading: that field's doc already
said an executor "cannot reach the queue, so it hands the declaration
back", while its type was a `Vec<Job>` the executor had built itself.
The rejected `build_nodes -> Vec<NodeSpec>` was the first version of that
escape hatch; a recipe is the last one, because there is no job-shaped
value to hand over at all.

Templates and the power-op assemblers move their owned data into the
closure and are otherwise unchanged — `rebuild_nodes`, `node` and the
tail helpers already took `&Job` and returned handles, so only each
template's outermost frame moved.

Two `Debug` impls are hand-written: a closure has nothing to show, and
its nodes do not exist until the queue runs it. `NodeOutput` reports how
many subgraphs were emitted, `DagSpec` its source and reason.

`append_subgraph`'s `is_empty()` early-return is gone — you cannot ask a
recipe whether it will declare anything without running it. It now
inserts and returns an empty id list if nothing was declared, which
takes the queue lock in a case that previously skipped it.

The two in-DAG-growth tests build `Declare`s now, so they exercise the
shape an executor actually produces rather than one only a test could
construct. 45 job-queue tests unchanged and passing.
2026-08-02 15:32:05 +02:00
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src refactor(job-queue): a job is a recipe, not a value you carry 2026-08-02 15:32:05 +02:00
Cargo.toml build(#2772): declare enumflags2 at the workspace level 2026-07-27 19:06:27 +02:00
README.md docs(#2627): add READMEs for hive-jobq + the socket wire crates 2026-07-23 12:34:22 +02:00

hive-jobq

A persistent job-DAG scheduler, extracted from hive-c0re's in-tree job_queue as a domain-agnostic library. It schedules a single persistent graph of nodes over named resources; it knows nothing about containers, rebuilds, or any hyperhive type — the node payload N and resource name R are both generic, so the caller supplies its own domain.

When to use it

Reach for this crate whenever you need to run a DAG of interdependent work items under bounded, named concurrency — the hive-c0re rebuild/lifecycle queue is the first consumer, but nothing here is specific to it. The caller defines the node kinds, wires deps, and supplies a runner; the scheduler decides what can start.

Model

One persistent graph for the whole system, not a DAG per job. Enqueuing inserts a self-contained sub-DAG and returns the new node ids; the scheduler runs a continuous loop, starting every node whose deps are satisfied:

  • Resource deps are named counting semaphores over a caller-chosen type R — e.g. build-slot (capacity N), agent/<name> (capacity 1), or any unconfigured name (capacity 1, created on use). A node acquires all its resource deps atomically at start (all-or-nothing) — no hold-and-wait, so no deadlock.
  • Node deps wait on another node per DepWhen: AfterOk needs success (a failed dep cancels the dependent), AfterAny only needs terminal.

A node carries two independent axes: its Deps (ordering + resource needs) and its parent (structural grouping). The parent chain, not the node edges, is what the scheduler consults for resource re-entrancy: a resource unit is held for the acquiring node plus its whole parent subtree, and a descendant needing a resource an ancestor already holds re-uses that grant (a re-entrant borrow, one branch at a time) rather than taking a fresh unit.

A NodeId is opaque, stable, and monotonic (safe to persist). The scheduler is single-threaded — it owns the resource table and mutates it directly.

Shape

  • Graph<N, R> — the persistent node store. insert mints ids and validates dep/parent references; set_state is the single state-transition choke point (and where each node's lifecycle timestamps — started_at / finished_at, DateTime<Utc> — are stamped).
  • Node<N, R>{ id, parent, payload, deps, state, started_at, finished_at, error }. All fields public; derives serde for persistence + the wire.
  • Scheduler<N, R> — drives the graph: settle() starts every ready node (acquiring resources atomically), complete(id, outcome) reports a finished node's result and rolls terminality up the parent chain, releasing grants once a subtree is done. Outcome::{Done, Failed(String)} — the failure reason rides Failed onto the node's error.
  • ResourceTable<R> — per-name capacities; unconfigured names default to capacity 1.

See the crate-root and scheduler module //! docs for the full borrow/release model.