[FumingPower3925]

Four HTTP/2 client defects, all in h2client.go, fixed one commit per issue after a commit that adds the tests alone. Three review rounds followed. Each fix comes after its own failing tests, every commit can be reviewed on its own, and the per-commit tables below show each one turning exactly its own tests green. The prior-knowledge client, the h2c-upgrade client (h2c_upgrade.go:182 calls the same completeH2Handshake/readLoop) and the H2 halves of -mix share the code, so all of them get every fix.

Commit	What it does
d04999b test	15 new tests. On main 14 fail for their issue's stated reason; 1 guard passes by design.
b1250fe #85	Takes the status from the response HEADERS, whatever frames follow.
2217fad #86	Counts every DATA frame of a body, without padding. Also fixes the README line that documented the undercount.
d42f94f #88	Removes the absolute 5-minute deadline.
a46ef3b #89	Redials a connection that dies without a GOAWAY, and fails its streams exactly once.
2930ded #89, review	A response delivered before the connection closes is its request's outcome (CodeRabbit finding, with a unit test).
4c45b36 test, round 1	5 new tests for review findings, plus a guard for the #88 tests. On 2930ded all 5 fail.
1051766 #89, round 1	The body flow-control wait returns window credit and stops on a failed flush.
5ff041c #88, round 1	A connection out of stream IDs is redialed. It no longer fails each request.
fcafd01 #89, round 1	Redials a connection that served at once, as h1client does. Backs off only while the server looks down.
3909500 #85, round 1	A response is a success only when its :status says so.
9ccc451 test, round 1	A failing test for a stream whose slot a later stream takes (pre-existing on main).
8ec81ec round 1	Never gives a new stream the slot of a stream still waiting.
9b42e25 test, round 1	A failing test for requests the connection never wrote.
cd52561 #89, round 1	A request the connection never wrote is retried. await takes an answer that arrives after the close.
e37777e ci	The Test job runs with -v and a 300 s timeout. The release gate gets the same timeout.
a4b2827 test, round 2	6 new tests and 8 new subtests for round-2 findings; 2 round-1 tests reworked. On e37777e 16 of 19 fail; 3 guards pass.
fed72d0 #89, round 2	The h2c upgrade's own stream 1 no longer marks a connection served.
0c005df #89, round 2	A server that looks down is paced inside the request it fails, as in h1client. The pace grows until a connection serves.
ebb34d9 round 2	A request body stops waiting for window once the server ends its stream (pre-existing on main).
90a4e2b #89, round 2	A request queued after the writer's last drain is retried, not an error.
147edb4 #85, round 2	A stream with only a 1xx status, or HEADERS too short for their priority fields, is not a success.
74e9438 test, round 3	3 new tests (one with 2 subtests) for round-3 findings; 3 round-2 tests that could not fail are reworked. On 147edb4 the 3 new tests fail. The reworked ones pass there, and fail under the mutants the old versions let through.
63e53b0 round 3	The request body stops at the server's RST_STREAM, not when the window runs out (RFC 9113 §6.4).
1665d1d #88, round 3	A connection out of stream IDs that then dies is failed like any other.
fb092cc #89, round 3	reconnectSlot reads served once readLoop has parsed what it had read.
24af5d2 test, round 3	A failing test for two awaits draining one dead connection's queue.
0af01b3 #89, round 3	An await on a dead connection waits for a request another await is answering.
03a9f69 test, round 4	A failing test for a redial after the run has ended (3 subtests). On 0af01b3 all 3 fail.
f1075c7 #89, round 4	reconnectSlot dials nothing once the run has ended, also after its wait for the loops.
231723f test, round 4	The GOAWAY test's doc gives the measured range.

Line numbers in the four issue sections are at main = a89f02d, checked against that tree. The round-1 section cites the branch, the round-2 section cites e37777e, the round-3 section cites 147edb4, and the round-4 section cites 231723f.

#85: a 4xx/5xx with a body counted as a success

Root cause.

• readLoop used the :status of a HEADERS frame only when that frame also ended the stream (h2client.go:782-790). A stream that ended on DATA was dispatched as a hard-coded status: 200 (:806), so DoRequest's status >= 400 check (:925) never saw the error.
• Testing against net/http's own server turned up two more holes in the same status path:
  • extractStatus accepted a literal :status only when it named the header by static index 8 (:282). Indices 8-14 all name :status, and x/net's encoder, which net/http's server uses, names it by 14. So every status outside the 7 in the HPACK static table was parsed as 0 and counted as a success, with or without a body: 401, 403, 405, 429, 502, 503 and the rest.
  • A Huffman-coded value returned 0 (:289-292). Encoders pick Huffman whenever it is shorter: 401, 502, 103, 201, 301 and more.

Fix.

• The stream slot keeps the response state. Only readLoop touches it, and it is keyed by stream ID so a reused slot starts clean.
• The status comes from the final response HEADERS and is dispatched whatever ends the stream: DATA, an empty DATA, or trailers. An interim 1xx is replaced by the final status. A HEADERS frame after the final one carries trailers and does not change the status.
• extractStatus accepts name indices 8-14. It decodes a Huffman-coded status with one map lookup: a table of the 500 encodings, zero allocations, measured.
• HeaderBlockFragment strips the padding and priority fields a server may add to a HEADERS frame.
• Round 1 (3909500) closes the last fallbacks to a silent success. See the round-1 section.

Failing first (d04999b).

• TestH2StatusMatchesH1 sends the same net/http handler over HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2:
  • /missing (http.NotFound), /unauthorized (401, no body), /bad-gateway (502) and /unavailable (503): h1 recorded an error, h2 recorded status 0 and a success.
• TestH2StatusRecordedFromHeaders: 7 frame layouts all recorded status 0.
• TestExtractStatusEveryEncoding: 19,993 of 21,500 encodings of a status were not decoded.
• TestH2ErrorStatusWithBodyCountsAsError (all-404-with-body route, 150 ms):
  • prior knowledge: requests=5320 errors=0
  • h2c upgrade: requests=4692 errors=0
  • -mix: requests=11079 errors=0

After (a46ef3b).

• Every row matches HTTP/1.1.
• The Benchmarker reports requests=0 with errors=8793 (prior knowledge), 8726 (h2c upgrade) and 11400 (-mix: H2Errors=5880, UpgradeErrors=5520).

Controls. Each of these one-line mutants, applied to the fixed code, fails the tests:

Mutant	What it restores
M85a	DATA dispatches status 200
M85b	name index 8 only
M85c	Huffman → 0
M85d	HEADERS padding kept
M85e	priority fields kept
M85f	trailers overwrite the status
M85g	1xx taken as final

#86: throughput_bps counted only the last DATA frame

Root cause.

• bytesRead := len(frame.Data()) was taken per DATA frame (h2client.go:794) and forwarded only with the frame that carried END_STREAM (:802-806).
• A body in 4 x 16 KiB frames counted a quarter of itself. A body net/http had flushed, which ends with an empty END_STREAM frame, counted 0. So did a body that ended on trailers.

Fix.

• The stream slot adds up the data of every DATA frame and dispatches the sum.
• Padding is not body, just as h1client counts the Content-Length or the chunk sizes and never the chunk framing. Data() now strips it.
• Flow control still counts the whole payload, padding included (RFC 9113 §6.9.1). The connection window is credited with frame.Length, which is exactly what it was credited with before.
• Bytes are still recorded only for a successful response, for both protocols. bench.go:1049 adds them only on success.

Failing first.

• TestH2BodyBytesMatchH1: /64k counted 0 on h2 against 65536 on h1; /1k-flushed counted 0 against 1024.
• TestH2BodyBytesCountEveryDATAFrame:
  • 4 x 16 KiB frames: 16384
  • 64 KiB then an empty END_STREAM frame: 0
  • body then trailers: 0
  • 3 padded frames: 1017 instead of 3000
• TestH2ThroughputCountsEveryDATAFrame: throughput_bps / requests_per_sec = 16384.0 bytes per 65,536-byte response.

After. All of those equal the body. The Benchmarker reports 65536.0 bytes per response.

Controls.

Mutant	What it restores
M86a	only the last frame counts
M86b	padding counted as body
M86c	flow control not credited for padding; caught by the guard TestH2FlowControlCreditsPadding (15255 bytes sent, 15255 credited)
M86d	trailers end with 0 bytes

#88: an absolute 5-minute deadline on every connection

Root cause. completeH2Handshake armed conn.SetDeadline(now + 5 min) (h2client.go:616-618). New dials every connection of a run together, so 300 s later every H2 connection of the run failed at once.

Fix. The HTTP/1.1 semantics: no deadline once the handshake is done. h1client arms none. The handshake keeps its 10 s read deadline, cleared as before. No bound is needed for the backstop the old comment claimed (:949):

• Close, which Benchmarker.Run calls after cancelling the run context, interrupts a read or write blocked on a silent peer. tls.Conn.Close skips close_notify while a Write is in flight.
• writeBodyFlowControlled waits on done, not on the deadline. Since round 1 it also stops when its flush fails, and since round 2 when the server ends the stream.
• Workers select on ctx and done.

A stalled connection therefore stalls until the run ends, as an HTTP/1.1 connection to the same peer does. A progress watchdog would bound that for both protocols; it is left out so the two stay alike. With no lifetime bound a connection can now use up its stream IDs; round 1 (5ff041c) redials it.

Failing first. TestH2ConnectionHasNoLifetimeDeadline needs no 5-minute run:

• It routes the dial through the existing dialTimeoutFunc hook. Any deadline armed more than 30 s ahead fires 1500x sooner (5 min → 200 ms), and the test counts such deadlines.
• Since round 1 it also requires the hook to have seen every connection (requireWarped), so it cannot pass on a dial that bypasses the hook.
• On main: long deadlines armed=1 requests=80 errors=120 connections=1.
• After: armed=0 requests=240 errors=0 connections=1.

Controls. Re-adding the one line (M88) fails this test and the combination test below. Bypassing the hook (MR7) fails both too.

#89: a connection that dies without a GOAWAY is never redialed

Root cause.

• readLoop's read-error exit (h2client.go:766-778) failed the streams in flight and returned. It set neither closed nor done, and DoRequest redials only a closed connection (:871).
• writeLoop kept writing to the dead connection:
  • a request whose HEADERS fit in the bufio.Writer waited for a response nobody would read (a silent hang);
  • a body waiting for flow-control window waited forever;
  • once a flush failed, bufio's sticky error failed every later request at once (a spin).
• Found while fixing this: a GOAWAY set closed but never closed the connection (:835-843). closeConn's CompareAndSwap on closed (:1008) then made every later close a no-op. Each GOAWAYed connection leaked its socket and a writeLoop that ticks every millisecond. A request registered after the GOAWAY's sweep of the stream slots waited on a done that never closed, so its worker was stuck, and never counted, until the pass ended.

Fix. A connection that dies under the client ends through failConn:

1. It marks the connection closed, so DoRequest redials through reconnectSlot. While the server looks down, the request fails instead, paced by the slot's backoff (rounds 1 and 2). A failed dial is counted in connect_errors as before.
2. It fails every stream in flight on the connection.
3. It closes the connection: done, which stops writeLoop and wakes waiting workers, and the socket.

readLoop calls it on a read error or a GOAWAY. writeLoop calls it when a write fails (writeFailed), because the read does not always see the death. Since round 1 that includes the flush made while a body waits for window. closeConn now closes exactly once under a sync.Once, whatever set closed.

Accounting, matched to h1client:

• Handed to the connection: the request is in flight, and is exactly one error, as h1client counts a request whose response cannot be read.
  • Whoever takes its response channel out of the stream slot answers it.
  • writeLoop now takes it with a CompareAndSwap instead of a Store (:740-746). A write error that races failStreams can therefore no longer answer the stream twice and block writeLoop on the full channel.
• Still queued for a stream, or for the writer, when the connection dies: the request never reached the server, so it is not an error. It moves to the redialed connection. The writer-queue half is round 1 (cd52561).
  • Each retry needs a connection to have ended. Since round 2 a connection that never answered a request fails the request that finds it, so nothing spins uncounted. Cancelling the run context ends the wait.
  • h1client also retries a failed write once, transparently. An HTTP/2 write is a batch of several streams' frames, and which of them reached the server is unknown, so those streams count as in flight.

Failing first (d04999b):

Test	On main	After (a46ef3b)
TestH2RedialsAfterServerClosesWithoutGOAWAY: 1 response per connection, then close, 8 workers on 1 stream	1 connection, requests=1 errors=0 (hang)	35 connections, errors=2, at most 1 per dead connection
TestH2ReadErrorMidStreamFailsEachInFlightStreamOnce: 3 answered, then 4 streams torn mid-DATA-frame	1 connection	33 connections, errors=128, 4 per torn connection, torn bodies credited to nothing (2.000 bytes per response)
TestH2WriteErrorFailsTheConnection: writes fail from the 6th on, reads stay open	1 connection, errors=73782 (spin)	33 connections, errors=123 (at most 132)
TestH2InFlightStreamAnsweredOnceWhenConnectionDiesMidBody	never torn down	torn down, answered once
TestH2GOAWAYConnectionIsReleased	the client closed 0 of the 40 connections it opened	34 of 34

With round 1's redial without backoff after a connection that served, the same tests open many more connections in the same time: 959 instead of 35 in the first row, in the stability run. The per-connection bounds still hold.

#88 and #89 together. TestH2ServerEndedConnectionIsRedialedWithoutLifetimeDeadline: the server closes every connection, without GOAWAY, 300 ms after accepting it, while the warp would fire a lifetime deadline at 200 ms.

• On main: armed=1 connections=1 errors=180.
• After: armed=0 connections=3 server closes=2 answered after a redial=196 errors=0.

Controls.

Mutant	What it restores
M89a	a read error only fails the streams
M89b	queued requests are charged as errors
M89c	a failed write is ignored
M89d	closeConn's CAS on closed
M89e	Store+send instead of CompareAndSwap
M89f	await's done branch without the check for a delivered response (review commit)

A first M89d (the GOAWAY branch without failConn) survived. It is an equivalent mutant: with closeConn's sync.Once, reconnectSlot's old.closeConn() releases the connection anyway. It was replaced by the CAS, which is the change that actually caused the leak.

Round 1: review findings

Each fix has a test that fails before it for the stated reason: on 2930ded, or, for the two defects found during the round, on the commit before the fix. The tests were committed alone first (4c45b36, 9ccc451, 9b42e25). The full write-up is in the round-1 comment (#91 (comment)) and in the evidence r1/.

• F2 (5ff041c), stream IDs used up. With no lifetime deadline, a connection can use up its 2^30 stream IDs: about 4.8 h at 16 connections and 1M requests/s.
  • The connection is now marked closed, so DoRequest redials it.
  • The request that found the IDs used up goes to the new connection (errH2NotSent).
  • TestH2StreamIDExhaustionRedials: on 2930ded, request 4 failed. After the fix, 8 of 8 succeed, on 2 connections.
• F3/F8 (1051766), the body's flow-control wait. It dropped its flush error, so on a dead connection the writer polled until the run ended. It also returned no receive-window credit while it waited, which deadlocks with a peer that waits for that credit. Both are fixed.
  • TestH2WriteErrorWhileBodyWaitsForWindow and TestH2WindowCreditSentWhileBodyWaitsForWindow failed on 2930ded.
• F4 (fcafd01), a redial's latency. Every redial slept the backoff first, inside a request the Benchmarker records.
  • Now a connection that served is redialed at once, as h1client does. Round 2 completed the pacing rules.
  • A probe with a server that closes every connection after 20 responses: p99 11.7-12.2 ms at 2930ded, 0.88-0.92 ms at e37777e.
• F7 (4c45b36), the h2client: every HTTP/2 connection has an absolute 5-minute deadline from dial, so a run past ~5 min loses all H2 connections at once #88 guard. It passed vacuously for a dial made around the hook. It now requires the deadline warp to have seen every connection the server accepted.
• N4 (3909500), silent successes.
  • A literal-name :status (RFC 7541 §6.2) is now decoded.
  • An unreadable :status is an error (errH2NoStatus), as h1client fails a response without a status line.
  • A Pad Length that does not fit its frame is a connection error (RFC 9113 §6.1, §6.2).
  • TestH2ResponseWithoutAReadableStatusIsNotASuccess: on 2930ded all 6 shapes were a success.
• N1/N2 (9b42e25, cd52561), an answer that arrives after the close. Two early decisions, fixed together:
  • A request queued for the writer when the connection died was counted as an error, although it never reached the server.
  • A response that readLoop had already taken could lose to the close.
  • Fix: the writer answers such requests errH2NotSent, and they are retried. await waits for both loops to return (loopsDone) before it decides.
  • TestH2RequestsTheConnectionNeverWroteAreRetried: 4.00 errors per closed connection on 9b42e25, 1.00 after.
• Found in round 1, pre-existing on main (9ccc451, 8ec81ec): a stream whose slot a later stream takes.
  • A stream outlived by 2·MaxStreams − 1 later streams had its response channel overwritten. Its response went to the other request, and its worker waited for the rest of the run.
  • Fix: writeLoop skips an ID whose slot is still held. IDs may have gaps (RFC 9113 §5.1.1).
  • Found when BenchmarkH2CUpgradeRequest hung for 11 minutes on a loaded machine; the same hang was seen once on main.
  • TestH2StreamOutlivedByLaterStreamsGetsItsResponse timed out on 9ccc451.
• Controls: 19 more mutants, all killed at e37777e: MR2a-b, MR3a-b, MR4a-d, MN4a-e, MS1, MN2a-d and MR7.
• Left for later: GOAWAY's Last-Stream-ID (h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92), and the lock held across the dial (now on h1client: a dial in progress cannot be cancelled, so a SYN retransmission at the end of a run stretches Run's elapsed time and deflates requests_per_sec #95; see round 3).

Round 2: review findings

Each fix has a test that fails on e37777e for the stated reason. The tests were committed alone first (a4b2827). The full write-up is in the round-2 comment (#91 (comment)) and in the evidence r2/.

• R2-1, major (fed72d0): the h2c upgrade's own stream 1 marked every connection served.
  • So a server that answers the upgrade and then drops each connection was redialed without pacing: 832 connections in 300 ms on e37777e, and 9-10 after 0c005df.
  • Only a stream from the connection's first request stream on now marks it served.
• R2-3/R2-5 (0c005df): pacing, counting and timing while the server looks down, matched to h1client (h1client.go:230-241):
  • A connection that ended before it answered any request fails the request that finds it (errH2NeverServed), and nothing is dialed for that request.
  • The pace doubles while connections keep ending unserved, and restarts once one has served.
  • The failing request sleeps after it releases the slot lock, so no recorded latency carries the sleep. The next request dials at once.
  • It counts as an error, not as a connect error: ConnectErrors keeps meaning a failed dial or handshake (results.go:56-58).
  • Unlike h1client, HTTP/2 also paces a server that accepts and then drops every connection.
  • TestH2ServerThatDropsEveryConnectionShowsErrors (GOAWAY right after each handshake, 400 ms): 44-46 connections and 24-56 errors on e37777e. After the fix, 10-11 connections and 10-17 errors in 42 runs, counted in round 3 over every fixed-code log, CI's included.
• R2-2 (ebb34d9, pre-existing on main): a request body waited for window after the server had ended its stream. RFC 9113 §8.1 lets a server answer early and then reset the stream, as x/net's server does.
  • Fix: the wait now ends when readLoop has taken the stream's channel.
  • After a plain response, the client closes its half of the stream with RST_STREAM(CANCEL). After a reset it sends none (§5.4.2).
  • TestH2BodyWaitEndsWhenTheServerEndsTheStream: request 2 hung for the full 3 s in all three shapes, on e37777e and on main (a89f02d, run in round 3).
• Nit 2 (90a4e2b): await itself answers errH2NotSent for a request queued after the writer's last drain. Round 3 closes a race in it (P3).
• Nit 3 (147edb4):
  • A stream with only a 1xx status is errH2NoStatus (RFC 9113 §8.1).
  • HEADERS too short for their PRIORITY fields are a connection error (§4.2).
• Fixed in the text:
  • the operating point: 4 streams per connection (R2-4);
  • fastapi-h2, rewritten from the pinned hypercorn and python-h2 sources (R2-6);
  • a figure in the evidence manifest (R2-7).
• Disputed:
  • R2-8's CodSpeed cause: the CodSpeed job runs no tests.
  • Nit 1 (a connection out of stream IDs closes at once) goes to h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92. Round 3 (P2) fixes the one case where the stream's error was lost.
  • Nit 2's second half (a HEADERS frame still unflushed when the connection dies) is not cheap to fix.
• Nit 4 reached me cut off. Its disposition is in round 4.

Round 3: review findings

The third review (three lenses, at 147edb4) approved, with minor findings and nits. Each one is fixed here, or disputed with evidence, or, if it is pre-existing and outside #85/#86/#88/#89, filed. The per-finding ledger is in the round-3 comment. Each behavioural fix has a test that fails on 147edb4 for the stated reason. The tests are committed alone first (74e9438), and each fix commit turns exactly its own tests green (per-commit table under Verification). Line numbers are at 147edb4.

P1 (63e53b0): the request body kept sending DATA after the server's RST_STREAM.

• RFC 9113 §6.4: after receiving RST_STREAM, send no more frames on that stream. Round 2 records the reset (curStreamReset), but writeBodyFlowControlled read it only once the send window was exhausted (h2client.go:1307-1325). With window left, it wrote the rest of the body into a stream that no longer existed, and a Go server answers each such frame with RST_STREAM(STREAM_CLOSED).
• Fix: the writer checks for the reset before each DATA frame and stops there, with no RST_STREAM of its own (§5.4.2). Frames it had written before readLoop read the reset still go out, as the RFC allows.
• TestH2BodyStopsAtTheServersReset: the server grants 128 MiB of window, resets a 32 MiB upload at its HEADERS, and pauses 300 ms. It then counts the DATA of that stream it reads before the next stream's HEADERS. On 147edb4 the client sent all 33,554,432 bytes of the body after the reset. After 63e53b0 it sends 131,072-229,376 (0.4-0.7 %; 18 runs, CI's included): what it had written before readLoop read the reset. It sends no RST_STREAM of its own, and the connection stays up.
• A late RST_STREAM(STREAM_CLOSED) is answered by slot index, and on main it could fail an unrelated stream. That is pre-existing and filed with the window race below. After this fix, only frames already in flight can draw one.

P2 (1665d1d): a connection out of stream IDs that then died was never failed.

• Since round 1 the writer marks a connection whose stream IDs ran out closed, while its last streams are still in flight. readLoop on a read error (:960-962) and writeFailed (:854) read closed as "the client closed it" and returned without failing the connection.
• Fix: both now ask whether closeConn has run (done is closed), through a new closing().
• In a run the window is tiny, because the request that runs out of IDs is retried at once and reconnectSlot closes the connection. The unit test hands requests to the writer directly, so nothing redials.
• TestH2ConnectionOutOfStreamIDsIsFailedWhenItDies: the last stream ID (0x7FFFFFFF) is in flight, the next request is refused (errH2NotSent), and then the server closes the connection or a write to it fails. On 147edb4 the stream in flight was never answered (3 s) in either case. After 1665d1d it fails at once with connection error: EOF or connection error: write tcp: connection reset by peer, and done closes.

P4 (fb092cc): reconnectSlot read served before readLoop had parsed a response it had already read.

• New in round 2 (0c005df). When the writer ends a connection (writeFailed → failConn), readLoop can still be parsing frames it read before the close, the connection's first response among them. It marks the connection served only then.
• reconnectSlot read served at once (:499), so the connection counted as never served. The request that found it failed (errH2NeverServed), slept the backoff, and dialed nothing.
• Fix: reconnectSlot waits until both of the old connection's loops have returned (loopsDone) before it reads served. Both loops return soon after the close. If the run's context ends first, it returns without dialing (round 4, f1075c7).
• TestH2RedialTakesTheResponseTheConnectionHadReceived: a conn wrapper holds the first response between the socket read and readLoop, and the test ends the connection as writeFailed does. On 147edb4 the request failed with errH2NeverServed after 6-12 ms, with 0 dials and served false. After fb092cc it succeeds after 1 dial, in about 100 ms (the time the wrapper holds the read), with served true.

P3 (0af01b3): an await on a dead connection could give up on a request that another await was answering.

• 90a4e2b has every await on a dead connection drain the writer's queue itself (answerQueued). That takes a request off writeCh and then answers it.
• In between, the request's own await could find the queue empty and its channel still empty. It then returned connection closing: an error for a request that never reached the server.
• Fix: answerQueued runs under a per-connection mutex (queueMu), so a request leaves the queue only once it is answered. Only closed connections take the lock.
• TestH2AwaitAnswersEachQueuedRequestOnce runs 20,000 dead connections, each with 8 never-written requests and 8 awaits at once. On fb092cc's code, 826 of 160,000 were answered as errors (922 in the first build's run). A probe of the same shape on 147edb4 counted 913 under -race and 99-104 without. After the fix: 0.
• In a run this needs two requests queued after the writer's last drain on one dying connection, so it is rare.

Tests that could not fail on their defect (RULE 27), reworked in 74e9438. Each is shown able to fail by a mutant that the old test lets through and the new one kills (r4/mutants/):

• grows until a connection serves installed each connection itself (cl.redial(), slot.cur.Store). That skips the dial-success branch of reconnectSlot, the only place e37777e's reset-on-dial lived.
  • Every connection is now dialed by DoRequest, against a server that drops each connection at its first request while it is "down", and answers once it is "up".
  • The subtest checks the pace after each round (20, 40, 80 ms), and that exactly 2 dials happened. Then, after a connection has served, it checks that the pace starts over.
  • Mutant MP2 (reset on every successful dial): the old subtest passes it, with the pace at 20, 40 and 80 ms, because it never dials through reconnectSlot (r4/mutants/old-tests/). The new one fails it: the pace stays at 20 ms in rounds 2 and 3 (r4/mutants/head/).
• TestH2ServerThatDropsEveryConnectionShowsErrors had no floor. A client that ignored the GOAWAY would wait on its only connection for the whole run and pass with 1 connection and 0 errors.
  • It now also requires at least 3 connections and 1 error. Fixed code gives 10-11 connections and 10-17 errors in 400 ms (42 runs), so the floor costs no margin.
  • Mutant MG1 (GOAWAY ignored): the old test passes it with 1 connection and 0 errors; the new one fails it.
• TestH2HeadersTooShortForTheirPriorityFieldsEndTheConnection tested only a 1-byte payload. It now has four cases:
  • 1 byte and 4 bytes: connection errors.
  • 5 bytes (the priority fields and an empty field block): a stream error only; the connection goes on.
  • 6 bytes (:status 200): a success.
  • Mutants MI3a (< 4) and MI3b (<= 5): the old test passes both. The new one fails MI3a on the 4-byte case (the connection goes on) and MI3b on the 5-byte case (the connection is failed).

Fixed in the text, not the code:

• The GOAWAY test's range. The round-2 text said "10-11 connections and 12-15 errors", but the CI Test job at 147edb4 logged errors=16. Across every fixed-code log it is 10-11 connections and 10-17 errors in 42 runs.
• R2-2 "pre-existing on main". It held by reading the code, but it had no run on main. Now it has one: TestH2BodyWaitEndsWhenTheServerEndsTheStream, exactly as committed, with the scripted server it needs, extracted to compile on a89f02d (r4/body-wait-on-main/). On a89f02d, request 2 hung until its 3 s context ran out in all three shapes (run-on-a89f02d.log), as on e37777e.
• The impact list (under "What changes in probatorium's published numbers"). The changes:
  • the slot fix's effect on the latency population;
  • that the H2 rows carry rated fields only because of probatorium#418;
  • about 4× the errors and connect errors per outage second;
  • the h2client: a 4xx/5xx response with a body is recorded as status 200 and counted as a success #85 bound;
  • which cells' throughput_bps changes;
  • who pays for a redial;
  • which classification rules read connect_errors;
  • that the trend caveat needs enforcing.
  • The last one is proposed on probatorium#424: churn-close after loadgen#87: change ErrBudget 0.5 with the loadgen pin bump; lithium's churn-close becomes real churn; latency and teardown discontinuity probatorium#424 (comment).

Disputed:

• I3, a slowdown hidden by the wrong baseline. The baseline was wrong, and it is rebuilt under Verification, CodSpeed. But the slowdown is not there. No commit of this PR was slower locally in round 3's four configurations. Round 4 adds the review's measurements and 5 more, and bounds the cost at 0.08-0.2 µs per request at 7 goroutines per connection, with none at 4 (Verification). On CodSpeed's runner, main's own H2 code spans the PR's range: one main commit measured 46.4 and 38.1 µs, four minutes apart.

Filed, pre-existing on main:

• h2client: a frame for a stream that has ended can reach the stream in its place (a late WINDOW_UPDATE credited to the next body; RST_STREAM answered by slot index) #98: a late stream WINDOW_UPDATE can be credited to the next request body (the check and the add in readLoop are two steps), and RST_STREAM is answered by slot index without the stream ID.
• The dial and handshake under slot.mu, which can hold Close and the slot's workers for up to the dial timeout plus 10 s (plus 10 s for h2c), is added to h1client: a dial in progress cannot be cancelled, so a SYN retransmission at the end of a run stretches Run's elapsed time and deflates requests_per_sec #95, the canonical "a dial in progress cannot be cancelled" issue: h1client: a dial in progress cannot be cancelled, so a SYN retransmission at the end of a run stretches Run's elapsed time and deflates requests_per_sec #95 (comment).

Round 4: review findings

The fourth review, of 0af01b3, raised two minor findings. Line numbers are at 231723f.

reconnectSlot dialed after the run had ended (f1075c7; new in round 3's fb092cc).

• Round 3's wait for the old connection's loops ends when the loops return or when the run's context ends. When the context ended, the code fell through to the dial. The function's own doc says it dials nothing after the run's context ends.
• Two costs:
  • Close runs after the cancel, so it would not close a connection dialed then.
  • A dial that fails then is a connect error in the Result, because bench.go takes snapshotConnectErrors after the workers return.
• Fix: the context is checked after the wait (h2client.go:517-523), not only in its ctx case. If the run ends just after reconnectSlot's first check, and the loops have already returned, both cases are ready and select takes either.
• TestH2RedialDialsNothingOnceTheRunHasEnded (03a9f69, committed alone first) has three subtests. On 0af01b3:
  • The run ends during the wait, with a read held so that the loops outlast the close. It dialed once with the server up, and once with a connect error with the server down.
  • The context ends right after the first check, with the loops already returned. It dialed on the first of 64 attempts.
  • After the fix: 0 dials and 0 connect errors, in 30 of 30 runs under -race.
• Mutants:
  • MC1 (no check) is killed in all three subtests.
  • MC2 puts the check in the ctx case only, which was the review's one-line suggestion. The third subtest kills it in 20 of 20 runs, on attempt 1-6.
• Published impact: none measurable. The review measured the wait at p50 0.2-0.25 µs, p99 6-12 µs and max 48.6 µs.

Round 2's nit 4 reached me cut off and had no disposition. Round 3's review reconstructed it as two items:

• An RST_STREAM(REFUSED_STREAM) is counted as an error and not retried. Disputed.
  • RFC 9113 §8.7 allows the retry ("can be safely retried"); it does not require one. A load generator reports what the server did, and a refused stream is a request the server declined.
  • h2load does the same. It counts every stream closed with a code other than NO_ERROR as failed and errored (nghttp2 ea02d8bc, src/h2load_http2_session.cc:97-100, src/h2load.cc:1134-1137).
  • errH2NotSent retries only requests the server never received (h2client.go:1149-1155).
  • No published cell draws a refusal. The client opens at most the server's advertised limit (:757). probatorium keeps 4 streams in flight per connection, against limits of 100 (aspnet, elysia, hono) or 250 (x/net's default).
• The one case where a refusal is the client's own doing is filed as h2client: SETTINGS the server sends after the handshake are acknowledged but never applied, so a lowered MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS is exceeded #99. A SETTINGS frame after the handshake is acknowledged but never applied (:1080-1087). In a probe, a server that lowered MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS to 1 still received 4 open streams. This is pre-existing, and no published server changes its limit at runtime.
• Streams above a GOAWAY's last-stream-id belong to h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92. The server never processed them (§6.8), so when h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92 drains a GOAWAY they should be retried, not counted: h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92 (comment).

Fixed in the text:

• The GOAWAY test's doc now gives the measured range (231723f). It said 10 connections and 10-16 errors; it now says 10-11 connections and 10-17 errors in 42 runs.
• Round 3's "(41 runs)" below is now 42, like the rest of this text.

Verification

• Per-commit (new tests at each commit, -race):

  Commit	h2client: a 4xx/5xx response with a body is recorded as status 200 and counted as a success #85 tests (4)	h2client: throughput_bps counts only the last DATA frame of each response (0 when the stream ends on an empty DATA frame) #86 tests (3) + guard	h2client: every HTTP/2 connection has an absolute 5-minute deadline from dial, so a run past ~5 min loses all H2 connections at once #88 test	h2client: a connection that dies with a read error (no GOAWAY) is never redialed, so its workers hang or spin errors for the rest of the run #89 tests (6)
  d04999b	FAIL	FAIL, guard PASS	FAIL	FAIL
  b1250fe	PASS	FAIL, guard PASS	FAIL	FAIL
  2217fad	PASS	PASS	FAIL	FAIL
  d42f94f	PASS	PASS	PASS	FAIL
  a46ef3b	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS

  Rounds 1 and 2: each fix commit turned exactly its own tests green; the tables are in the round-1 and round-2 comments (and r1/, r2/ in the evidence).

  Round-3 commit	P1 body stops at the reset	P2 out of IDs (2 subtests)	P4 served read	P3 two awaits	reworked tests (3, 12 subtests)
  74e9438	FAIL	FAIL, FAIL	FAIL	(not yet)	PASS
  63e53b0	PASS	FAIL, FAIL	FAIL	(not yet)	PASS
  1665d1d	PASS	PASS, PASS	FAIL	(not yet)	PASS
  fb092cc	PASS	PASS, PASS	PASS	(not yet)	PASS
  24af5d2	PASS	PASS, PASS	PASS	FAIL	PASS
  0af01b3	PASS	PASS, PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS

  • The reworked tests guard earlier fixes, so they pass throughout. The mutants below show that each can now fail on its defect.
  • A first build of these commits (37ab09f..cf71887, never pushed) put the reset check at the top of the body loop. That made round 2's reset check inside the window wait reachable only in a nanosecond race, and mutant MB3 survived there.
  • The check now sits right before each DATA write, and MB3 is killed. The two builds differ only in those 6 lines (r4/rebuild-r4.txt).
  • Round 4: TestH2RedialDialsNothingOnceTheRunHasEnded fails in all 3 subtests at 03a9f69 and passes at f1075c7 and 231723f.

• Mutants, round 4: MC1 and MC2 killed at 231723f; MC2 in 20 of 20 runs (r4/fin2/mutants/).

• Mutants: 60 of 60 killed at 0af01b3 (r4/mutants/head/): the 51 of round 2 and 9 new ones. The 51 include MB3, re-run and killed again, and M89c, re-texted for closing(); MP2's round-2 entry now runs as MP2w. The new ones are MR1 (the body writer ignores the reset while window remains), MX1 and MX2 (closed read as the client's close in readLoop and in writeFailed), MQ2 (no lock in answerQueued), MW1 (served read before the loops return), and MP2, MG1, MI3a and MI3b against the reworked tests. Those last four also ran against 147edb4's test file, and all four survive it (r4/mutants/old-tests/), which is the RULE 27 finding. Each mutant was restored by copy and checked by sha256 against the saved copy and the HEAD blob; the test file swapped in for the old-test run was restored the same way, and git status was clean afterwards.

• Mutants, earlier rounds: 51 of 51 killed at 147edb4 (round 2), 37 of 37 at e37777e (round 1); every restore checked by sha256 against the saved copy and the HEAD blob.

• Stability: round 4's test, 30 times under -race at 231723f: 30 PASS. Every test this PR adds (36 tests and 23 subtests, 59 names), 10 times under -race at 0af01b3: 590 PASS, 0 FAIL (darwin/arm64). Round 2: every test this PR then added (32 tests and 17 subtests), 10 times under -race at 147edb4: 490 PASS, 0 FAIL (darwin/arm64). Round 1: every test the PR then added, 15 times under -race at e2cf3d1: 525 PASS, 0 FAIL.

• Whole suite: go test -race -count=1 -p 2 -v ./..., counting --- PASS/FAIL/SKIP lines, subtests included:

  	PASS	FAIL	SKIP
  base a89f02d	205	0	7
  branch 2930ded	224	0	7
  branch e37777e	240	0	7
  branch 147edb4	254	0	7
  branch 0af01b3	264	0	7
  branch 231723f	268	0	7
  0af01b3 merged with main a8d9f24 (local only)	336	0	7

  • Round 4: against 0af01b3 no test changed status; the 4 new names are the new test and its 3 subtests.
  • Round 3: against 147edb4 no test changed status, and there is no PASS→FAIL. The 10 new names are 4 tests and 6 subtests; the skips are the same 7; the root package took 108.6 s. Without -race: 268/0/3 (147edb4: 258/0/3). main moved during this round (PR fix(h1client): never reuse a connection that is closing, so -close stops counting one error per request (#87) #90 merged as a8d9f24), so the branch is behind it. It merges without conflict, and the merged tree, built locally and never pushed, runs 336/0/7: exactly the union of main's 277 names and this branch's 264, with no status changed.
  • Round 2: no test changed status, and there is no PASS→FAIL, against base or against e37777e. The 49 new names are 32 tests plus 17 subtests (14 new in round 2). The skips are the same 7.
  • Four of the skips are the h2c-upgrade and -mix tests that skip under -race (x/exp: wrong go.mod go version golang/go#57639). Without -race they run and pass: base 209/0/3, e37777e 244/0/3, 147edb4 258/0/3.

• Integration (-tags integration -race, TestIntegrationH2CMatrix against the live celeris testserver): 13/0/8 on base, on e37777e, on 147edb4 and on 0af01b3.

• Lint: golangci-lint 2.13.2 with the repo's .golangci.yml, with and without -tags integration: 0 issues, at e37777e, 147edb4, 0af01b3 and 231723f. go vet is clean, also with GOOS=linux, and so is gofmt.

• Benchmarks: benchstat over 8 interleaved runs, base a89f02d against e2cf3d1, finds no change on ExtractStatus*, StatusError or H2CUpgradeRequest, and allocations are identical. An earlier run put ExtractStatusLiteral at +9.6 % (p=0.028). The literal-name check was then moved behind the existing range check, which is what 3909500 contains, and three-way runs showed no significant difference. Round 2, a89f02d against 147edb4, 8 interleaved runs: no change in time on any of them, allocations equal, and H2CUpgradeRequest +0.19 % in bytes per op (p=0.022), about 3 bytes.

• CI at the head, 231723f: every check passes except CodSpeed's informational "Performance Analysis". The checks run on the merge with main a8d9f24.

  • Test (job 108607027073, -race -v): 342 PASS, 0 FAIL, 5 SKIP, no data race; root package 120.4 s. Integration: 17/0/4. Coverage: 82.7 %. Lint, Vulnerability Check, CodeQL, Analyze (actions, go), codecov/patch and the CodSpeed job pass.
  • Performance Analysis flagged BenchmarkH2CUpgradeRequest at 51.2 µs (base 38.1). A re-run of the same commit 8 minutes later (the second extra run) measured 40.9 µs. After that, CodSpeed no longer flags it, and the check stays red only on ShardedLatencyRecorder/256workers and /1024workers (b.N 58 for 1024), which is BenchmarkShardedLatencyRecorder measures goroutine spawn when b.N < numWorkers, so CodSpeed flags unrelated PRs #96, in untouched code.
  • At 0af01b3: Test 338/0/5, Integration 17/0/4, Coverage 82.6 %, BenchmarkH2CUpgradeRequest 35.9 µs.

• CI time: the root package takes 106-116 s under -race in CI, so e37777e raised the Test job's -timeout to 300 s (as Coverage has) and runs it with -v.

• CodSpeed (the "Performance Analysis" check; informational, not required):

  • Rounds 0-2 turned it red on the ShardedLatencyRecorder rows, and on BenchmarkH2CUpgradeRequest (39.1 → 43.3-47.2 µs).

    • The recorder rows follow the harness's choice of iterations. In the flagged runs they ran 100-1,484 iterations instead of millions, which row collapses changes from run to run, and latency*.go are untouched.
    • The job runs no tests before the benchmarks: in 5 job logs, about 3 s pass before the first benchmark, while the root package's tests take 106 s.

  • BenchmarkH2CUpgradeRequest took 43.7 µs at 147edb4, against the base's 39.1 µs. Round 2 compared this PR's three later runs with "the 12 runs before", but those 12 included this PR's own round-0 heads, so that baseline was wrong. Round 3 rebuilds it below.

  • Round 3 rebuilt the baseline and measured the regression.

  • Main-only runs (every CodSpeed run, from the raw job logs: r4/codspeed/history.tsv, analyse.py):

    • Main has three runs. The first, 39.1 µs at 1ac3a3b, was the only one before this round.
    • The other two are of a8d9f24, PR fix(h1client): never reuse a connection that is closing, so -close stops counting one error per request (#87) #90's merge, whose H2 request path is a89f02d's. The merge's push run measured 46.4 µs. A workflow_dispatch I triggered 4 minutes later measured 38.1 µs. That is one extra run of the two allowed; the second was not needed.
    • One commit measured 46.4 and 38.1 µs, four minutes apart.

  • Against those 3 main runs, this PR's 5 runs (39.9-47.2 µs, mean 43.3) are not significantly higher: exact one-sided Mann-Whitney p = 0.20.

  • Against all 12 runs whose H2 request path is main's (main, PR fix(h1client): never reuse a connection that is closing, so -close stops counting one error per request (#87) #90's 8 heads and the CodSpeed setup PR, 35.6-46.4 µs), p = 0.0068.

  • Local, interleaved (r4/bench/):

    • One test binary per commit, built from a clean git archive, running BenchmarkH2CUpgradeRequest -benchtime 1s.
    • Each round runs every commit once, in a fresh random order, with GOMAXPROCS pinned through -test.cpu.
    • benchstat reports medians with 95 % confidence intervals:

    	a89f02d (main)	2930ded (round 0)	e37777e (round 1)	147edb4 (round 2)	round 3
    darwin/arm64 (M5), GOMAXPROCS 14, n=15	9.19 µs ±3 %	~ (p=0.86)	~ (p=0.28)	~ (p=0.12)	~ (p=0.30)
    darwin/arm64, GOMAXPROCS 4, n=12	12.47 µs ±1 %	−1.6 % (p=0.03)	~ (p=0.07)	−2.1 % (p=0.001)	−2.8 % (p=0.002)
    linux/arm64 (Docker VM, 8 vCPU), GOMAXPROCS 8, n=15	9.37 µs ±3 %	~ (p=0.40)	~ (p=0.06)	−3.4 % (p=0.005)	−3.4 % (p=0.03)
    linux/arm64, GOMAXPROCS 4, n=12	10.36 µs ±1 %	~ (p=0.11)	~ (p=0.44)	~ (p=0.26)	~ (p=0.55)

    • The round-3 binary is the first build of fb092cc. Its request path is 0af01b3's: the rebuild moved only the body writer's reset check, and 0af01b3 adds only a lock that a closed connection takes.
    • No commit is slower in any configuration. Where there is a difference, the branch is 1.6-3.4 % faster.
    • Allocations are equal (26 per op), and bytes per op are within 0.5 %.
    • The intervals are ±1-5 %, so the 12 % that CodSpeed reported would show in every row.

  • In round 3's data there is no commit to localise; round 4 below bounds the cost. Per request, this PR's request path adds:

    • an atomic load for the free-slot scan (processWriteReq);
    • two loads of closed (roundTrip, processWriteReq);
    • the per-stream state reset and one load of served per new stream in readLoop;
    • two flag tests per frame (badPadding, badPriority).
    • Round 3 adds nothing to it: its changes run only on a request body, a dead connection or a redial.

  • CodSpeed's red check is the runner's spread. Main's own H2 code has measured 35.6-46.4 µs there. Two runs of one commit, 4 minutes apart, differed by 22 %. On that runner the benchmark runs only about 3,000 iterations (b.N 2,750-3,300, about 0.13 s), with client and server in one process.

  • Round 4.

    • 231723f measured 51.2 and 40.9 µs, 8 minutes apart. 0af01b3 measured 35.9.
    • The benchmark never runs reconnectSlot: a coverage profile of it has 0 hits in the function (r4/fin2/bench/cover-*). So the round-4 fix is not on its path, and those two commits run the same code in it.
    • This PR's 8 runs have a median of 42.8 µs, against 38.6 µs for the 12 main-path runs (p = 0.013) and 39.1 µs for main's 3 (p = 0.25). The runs are not interleaved, and one commit's runs span 25 %.
    • Local, interleaved (r4/fin2/bench/): a8d9f24, 0af01b3 and 231723f, n = 12-15, in 5 configurations (darwin GOMAXPROCS 14 at 3000x and 1 s, darwin 4, linux/arm64 8 at 3000x and 1 s).
      • 231723f against 0af01b3: no difference (p ≥ 0.56).
      • Against main: +0.9 % (p = 0.03) at darwin GOMAXPROCS 14, 1 s, which is 0.08 µs per request. The other 4 configurations show no significant difference.
      • The round-3 review measured 0af01b3 at +2.2 % and +1.5 % against main in 2 of its 3 configurations (darwin GOMAXPROCS 14, 1 s and 3000x), and at −1.9 % in the third.
      • So 3 of 12 local configurations (4 in round 3, the review's 3, and these 5) have the branch 0.9-2.2 % slower, which is 0.08-0.2 µs per request. All 3 are darwin at GOMAXPROCS 14: 7 goroutines per connection, as on CodSpeed's runner.
      • At 4 per connection, probatorium's operating point (linux GOMAXPROCS 8), the branch is not slower: −3.4 % in round 3, and no significant difference in both runs of this round.

  • Not acknowledged on codspeed.io.

What changes in probatorium's published numbers

probatorium (main 6f5521c) pins loadgen v1.4.13 (go.mod:8), so nothing changes until a loadgen release and a re-pin. Its only HTTP/2 cells are the static rows get-json-h2 (GET /json) and post-4k-h2 (POST /upload) (scenarios/static.go:248-268). They run on every server whose engine is h2c-capable in featureSetFor (cmd/runner/main.go), with HTTP2Options.Connections = 32 (scenarios/static.go:107-114,258,266). The runner sets Workers = Connections (cmd/runner/main.go:1055) and loadgen multiplies HTTP/2 workers by 4 (bench.go:503), so each cell runs 128 workers on 32 connections: 4 streams in flight per connection. The MaxStreams default of 100 never binds. (probatorium's own static.go comment, "32 TCP conns × default 100 concurrent streams", has the same misconception.)

• stdhttp-h2, stdhttp-hybrid
• gin-h2, echo-h2, chi-h2, iris-h2, hertz-h2
• axum-h2, hyper-h2
• fastapi-h2, aspnet-h2
• hono-h2, elysia-h2
• celeris-iouring-auto+upg-async, celeris-adaptive-auto+upg-async, celeris-epoll-auto+upg-async

That is 32 cells. No scenario uses H2CUpgrade or Mix, and the TLS rows use the H1 client (and are never scheduled without a terminator).

Rated fields. The H2 rows are not rated scenarios: RatedScenarios (budget/profiles.go:39-45) lists none, and the headline and full profiles rate only what it lists (ratedGlobs, :192-198). Today they carry latency_at_slo and rated_mode_p99_at_target_rps only because BenchTier rates every clean cell. That is probatorium#418: the rated sweep at cmd/runner/main.go:1259 has no scenario filter, and #418 gates the v1.6.0 rated bench. Where a bullet below names those two fields, it holds only while #418 stands. Once #418 is fixed, the H2 rows' latency outputs are hdr_histogram_b64 and the timeseries p99_ms.

• h2client: a 4xx/5xx response with a body is recorded as status 200 and counted as a success #85. Applies to a cell whose adapter answers /json or /upload over H2 with any of: a status of 400 or more (with a body, or a status outside HPACK's static table), only a 1xx, or no readable :status.

  • requests and saturation_mode_rps fall, and errors rises, as does sent_vs_handled_delta_pct (report/aggregate.go:295).
  • Those responses' latencies and bytes leave every latency output:
    • hdr_histogram_b64;
    • latency_at_slo and rated_mode_p99_at_target_rps, while #418 stands (see above);
    • the timeseries p99_ms. The timeseries' per-second errors shows them (report/timeseries.go).
  • The cell can move from ok to suspect: (error ratio over budget) or to zero-request cell (DNF, since static rows are not capability-gated) in classifyCompletedCell.
  • Expected published change: none.
    • In v1.5.8, on both arches, every H2 column's H1 counterpart had 0 errors on get-json and post-4k. That is the same column's H1 cells, or, for the 7 H2-only columns, their H1 twin column. h1client counts a status of 400 or more as an error (r4/published-h2-status-bound.txt).
    • The adapters serve the contract's routes: /json, and /upload, which answers "OK" with 200 (servers/common/contract.go:97-101).
    • An HPACK :status: 200 is always decodable with the dynamic table disabled. Round 1's :status changes add only encodings that a 200 does not use.

• h2client: throughput_bps counts only the last DATA frame of each response (0 when the stream ends on an empty DATA frame) #86. throughput_bps changes only on a server that splits a response body over several DATA frames, or ends it with an empty END_STREAM DATA frame. A small body sent in one frame (/json, and /upload's "OK") was already counted exactly.

  • The one published H2 server known to end its bodies that way is fastapi-h2. hypercorn sends the body and then ends the stream with python-h2's end_stream() (protocol/h2.py:164-171), which sends an empty END_STREAM DATA frame (h2/connection.py:914-919). So main counted 0 bytes per response there.
  • throughput_bps reaches the published output only through BytesMedian → network_bound (report/aggregate.go:272,283, report/document.go:212), which fires at 80 % of the fabric line rate, and through the markdown network section built from it (report/markdown.go:640-655). No H2 cell comes near that rate, so nothing published changes.

• h2client: every HTTP/2 connection has an absolute 5-minute deadline from dial, so a run past ~5 min loses all H2 connections at once #88. No change: each pass builds a fresh Benchmarker, and the longest is 110 s (profile full, 20 s warmup + 90 s, budget/profiles.go:171-174). The stream-ID fix (F2) needs 2^30 streams on one connection, which no pass reaches.

• h2client: a connection that dies with a read error (no GOAWAY) is never redialed, so its workers hang or spin errors for the rest of the run #89, on a server that ends connections.

  • Stalled workers now redial, so saturation_mode_rps rises.
  • Each in-flight stream is one error, and a request still queued for the writer is retried, not an error. A former sticky-error spin becomes one error per stream, so the error ratio can fall below the budget.
  • A failed redial now shows in connect_errors, which is published when nonzero. Only the server-down rule decides on it (connectClassDominated, cmd/runner/main.go:1375). Died-mid-cell only prints it in its message (:1368-1373), and a suspect cell's note names it when it covers the overage (:1401-1403).
  • Latency (hdr_histogram_b64, latency_at_slo, rated_mode_p99_at_target_rps, timeseries p99_ms) changes in three ways. First, requests that hung or spun errors after a death without GOAWAY on main are now recorded. Second, the request that redials after a connection death carries the dial and the handshake. So, in part, do the slot's other workers that reach reconnectSlot meanwhile: they wait on slot.mu for that request, so up to all 4 workers of a slot share it. Each errH2NotSent retry carries it too. Since round 3 the redial also waits for the dead connection's loops to return, a few microseconds. That matches h1client's write-failure retry. Third, no recorded latency carries a backoff sleep any more. On main every redial slept 5-10 ms first, and at e37777e a redial after a failed dial or an unserved connection still slept up to 1 s inside a request that could then succeed, as could the slot's other 3 workers waiting on its lock. Since round 2 only a request that fails sleeps, as in h1client. That affects only a server that restarts or flaps mid-cell.
  • During an outage, errors and connect errors per second rise about 4× (round 2).
    • On main, reconnectSlot slept the backoff and dialed under slot.mu. A slot's 4 workers made one attempt per backoff interval between them, while the others waited on the lock.
    • Now the request that fails sleeps after releasing the lock, and the next request dials at once. Each worker runs its own dial-then-sleep cycle: about 4 attempts per interval per slot instead of 1.
    • At the 1 s cap (jitter [0.5, 1] s), that is about 170 failed requests, and as many connect errors, per second per cell (32 slots), instead of about 43. h1client works the same way: each of its workers paces itself.
    • A cell with an outage therefore reaches the 5 % suspect budget (DefaultErrorBudget, scenarios/scenarios.go:32) about 4× as fast. A cell that stays down is server-down or server-died-mid-cell either way.
  • A connection that ends before it answers any request (round 2) now costs the request that finds it one error, and the pace grows while that goes on. Before, those requests were retried silently or counted by timing. errors can rise, never connect_errors, on a server that completes handshakes and then drops the connections, for example one shutting down. None of the published H2 cells shows connection churn except fastapi-h2, whose connections serve 1,000 requests before they end, so this rule does not touch it.

• fastapi-h2 (hypercorn 0.18.0 with a default Config(), servers/fastapi/app/server.py:213-222, requirements.lock:96), both rows, both arches. It is the one published H2 server whose cells show connections ending under load. In results/v1.5.8/20260829 (docs ae6b949) it has the only H2 cells with a nonzero sent_vs_handled_delta_pct: get-json-h2 0.329 (x86_64) and 0.336 (arm64), post-4k-h2 0.374 and 0.365. hypercorn causes this itself:

  • hypercorn 0.18.0 sets keep_alive_max_requests = 1000 (hypercorn/config.py:89), and once more than that many requests arrive on a connection, protocol/h2.py:256-257 calls close_connection(), which sends GOAWAY with the highest stream it received as Last-Stream-ID.
  • python-h2 4.4.1 (requirements.lock:36) then moves the connection from SERVER_OPEN to CLOSED on SEND_GOAWAY, and CLOSED accepts only GOAWAY inputs (h2/connection.py:206-245). hypercorn's send_headers for the streams still in progress raises ProtocolError, which stream_send swallows (protocol/h2.py:234-242). Those responses are never sent.
  • Those streams are at or below Last-Stream-ID, so a graceful drain (h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92) cannot retry them: they are lost on the server. With 4 streams in flight per connection, that is up to 4 per GOAWAY, which fits the published delta of about 0.33 %: about 3.3 requests per 1,000.
  • So after a re-pin, and after h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92, fastapi-h2's error ratio stays about where it is: it is a property of the server, not of loadgen. The other changes:
  • A request still queued for the writer at a GOAWAY is now retried, but with 4 streams per connection a request is almost never queued.
  • loadgen_cpu_p95 falls: main leaked a 1 ms-ticking writeLoop per GOAWAYed connection, and the leaks persisted across the cells of one runner. This fits post-4k-h2's loadgen_cpu_p95 exceeding get-json-h2's on both arches (0.071 vs 0.038 on x86_64, 0.046 vs 0.016 on arm64).
  • No worker is stranded any more by a request registered after a GOAWAY's sweep.
  • The redial after each GOAWAY no longer sleeps 5-10 ms, so the latency tail falls.
  • saturation_mode_rps stays about the same, because the cells are server-bound (6832 and 2860 rps).

• The slot fix, on any H2 cell. A stream that waited while 2·100 − 1 = 199 later streams opened on its connection used to strand its worker for the rest of the pass, and hand its response to another request. With 4 streams per connection, the stream's 3 siblings must each complete about 66 requests while it waits: one response more than about 66 times slower than the median, while the rest of its connection keeps flowing.

  • In the published histograms (hdr_histogram_b64, v1.5.8), 16 of the 64 H2 cells have at least one response that slow: axum-h2 and hyper-h2 on both arches, which stall at about 42 ms, celeris-adaptive on x86_64 (24 responses), stdhttp-h2 get-json-h2 on arm64 (93), and the celeris cells on arm64.
  • Whether their siblings kept flowing meanwhile is not recorded. Each collision strands a worker for the rest of the pass, and 14 of these cells have 12,000 to 196,000 such slow responses against 128 workers, so nearly all of those stalls must have been connection-wide, and collisions rare, or the cells would have run out of workers.
  • The fix also changes which requests reach the latency histograms.
    • On main, when a stream A was outlived by 199 later streams, the stream A' that took its slot received A's response and recorded it as a success. Its recorded latency ended at A's response, so it was no longer than its own.
    • A''s own response was dropped, and A was never recorded.
    • Now A is recorded with its true latency, at least about 66× the median by the precondition above, and A' with its own.
    • So on those 16 cells the upper tail of hdr_histogram_b64 (p99.99 and max) can rise: samples that were missing come back, and misattributed ones go away.
  • A stranded worker lowers the offered concurrency, so saturation_mode_rps can rise a little on those cells. The published data cannot tell how often it happened, because a stranded request is never recorded.

• Failures the servers above do not produce (write-side death during a body wait, a :status the client cannot read, invalid padding, stream-ID exhaustion, and since round 2 a stream with only a 1xx status or HEADERS too short for their priority fields) now end as errors or redials instead of hangs or silent successes.

• Round 2's body-wait fix changes no published cell: it needs a request body larger than the server's stream window. post-4k-h2 sends 4 KiB against the 65,535-byte default, and post-64k-h2 (65,536 bytes) was removed in v1.5.4 (scenarios/static.go:269-270).

• Round 2's h2c fix changes no published cell either: no scenario uses H2CUpgrade or Mix.

• loadgen's own CPU per request. 0.08-0.2 µs per request, and nothing per connection, where 7 goroutines share a connection. At probatorium's 4 per connection, none was measured (Verification, CodSpeed). The benchmark's request, client and server together, costs 9-12 µs, so this is at most 2 %. fastapi-h2's leak fix above is the exception: it lowers that CPU.

probatorium needs no code change for classification: the runner already classifies cells from Errors/ConnectErrors.

But H2 cells from before and after the re-pin measure different things, and nothing keeps them from being compared as a trend:

• The SLO regression gate diffs latency_at_slo without reading loadgen_version: BenchSince → diffBenchResults → report.DiffLatencyAtSLO (mage_bench.go:1575-1597, report/slo_gate.go:88).
• So does the report's "Regression vs baseline" section (report/markdown.go:752).
• loadgen_version is published only as run metadata (benchmark_config.loadgen_version).

Proposed on probatorium#424, the issue for this re-pin (goceleris/probatorium#424 (comment)):

• the gate and the report compare only runs with the same loadgen_version, or exclude the rows a release changes (here get-json-h2, post-4k-h2 and fix(h1client): never reuse a connection that is closing, so -close stops counting one error per request (#87) #90's churn-close);
• the re-pin PR says that these series restart there;
• the re-pin PR corrects scenarios/static.go:251-253, which says "32 TCP conns × default 100 concurrent streams" (it is 4 streams per connection).

Not changed here

• Pre-existing on main, filed from the round-3 review: h2client: a frame for a stream that has ended can reach the stream in its place (a late WINDOW_UPDATE credited to the next body; RST_STREAM answered by slot index) #98 (a late stream WINDOW_UPDATE credited to the next body; RST_STREAM answered by slot index), and the dial under slot.mu added to h1client: a dial in progress cannot be cancelled, so a SYN retransmission at the end of a run stretches Run's elapsed time and deflates requests_per_sec #95 (h1client: a dial in progress cannot be cancelled, so a SYN retransmission at the end of a run stretches Run's elapsed time and deflates requests_per_sec #95 (comment)).
• Filed from the round-4 review: h2client: SETTINGS the server sends after the handshake are acknowledged but never applied, so a lowered MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS is exceeded #99 (SETTINGS after the handshake are never applied). h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92 gets the streams above a GOAWAY's last-stream-id (h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92 (comment)). A RST_STREAM(REFUSED_STREAM) outside a GOAWAY stays an error (round 4).
• GOAWAY still fails every in-flight stream at once, as before. A graceful drain would let streams at or below the last stream ID complete: h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92. A connection out of stream IDs is also closed at once, so its up-to-3 in-flight streams are errors. That belongs in the same drain.
• Macs report a reset late. While testing, a server reset of a loopback connection sometimes reached the client's read about 334 ms late on Darwin 27, with no write failing in between. A standalone probe did not reproduce it. The mid-stream test therefore ends the connection with a FIN in the middle of a DATA frame, which gives a deterministic mid-stream read error; the client code path for a reset is the same one.

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goceleris/probatorium

• go.mod:8 pins github.com/goceleris/loadgen to v1.4.13; these fixes will not affect the harness until the dependency is upgraded. [::goceleris/probatorium::]
• H2 scenarios get-json-h2 and post-4k-h2 use prior-knowledge HTTP/2 against /json and /upload with 32 connections (scenarios/static.go:255-266). [::goceleris/probatorium::]
• The runner copies loadgen Requests, Errors, and ConnectErrors into cell classification (cmd/runner/main.go:1217-1225), while reporting consumes ThroughputBPS (report/netbound_test.go:18-23). The PR’s status, reconnect, and byte-accounting changes therefore directly affect published H2 error classification and network-bound detection after upgrade. [::goceleris/probatorium::]

goceleris/celeris

• Celeris configures response fragmentation through peer SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE and its adapters (internal/conn/h2.go:525-530), so responses can span multiple DATA frames—directly exercising the PR’s cumulative body-byte accounting. [::goceleris/celeris::]
• Celeris’s HTTP/2 regression tests require clients to return connection-window credit and verify complete delivery of large, flow-controlled bodies (internal/conn/h2_test.go:543-565, 648-670). This matches the PR’s distinction between counting DATA bytes excluding padding and crediting the full DATA payload for flow control. [::goceleris/celeris::]

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h2client.go (1)

194-195: LGTM!

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• Bug Fixes
  • HTTP/2 response statuses and body-byte totals are recorded accurately, including bodies split across multiple DATA frames. Padded frame bytes are excluded from body totals while still counted for connection flow control.
  • Requests not sent before a connection failure can be retried. In-flight requests receive a single failure response when a connection ends, and received responses are preserved if the connection closes at the same time.
  • Connections are no longer closed solely because a fixed lifetime expires.
  • Responses without a final status are treated as errors, and uploads stop when the server ends or resets the stream.
• Documentation
  • Clarified how response-body throughput is counted for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2.

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The HTTP/2 client now retains final response status and accumulates DATA payload bytes across frames. It also changes connection shutdown and retry handling, removes the five-minute connection deadline, and adds regression tests for accounting and connection recovery.

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HTTP/2 client behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Response status and body accounting h2framer.go, h2client.go, h2client_accounting_test.go, README.md	Frame parsing removes padding and HEADERS priority fields. Response handling tracks final status and cumulative DATA payload bytes. Tests cover status parsing, multi-frame bodies, flow-control credit, and HTTP/1.1 parity. The README describes the updated throughput byte-counting behavior.
Connection failure and request retry h2client.go, backoff.go, h2client_accounting_test.go, .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml	The client removes the five-minute connection deadline and handles write, read, and GOAWAY failures through shared connection shutdown. Requests not sent can retry after reconnecting. Reconnect backoff separates interval selection from waiting. Tests cover connection closure, redialing, stream handling, and response delivery during shutdown. CI and release test timeouts increase from 120 to 300 seconds; CI also prints individual test verdicts.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The HTTP/2 client now counts final statuses and multi-frame body bytes correctly. It also recovers from dead connections without a fixed connection lifetime. No outstanding issue blocks merging this change.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0af01

A remote HTTP/2 peer may be able to make the client reconnect without the intended outage backoff, increasing connection churn during a run. The exposure is limited to targets the client is configured to contact.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: An HTTP/2 peer can send HEADERS or DATA on an unregistered stream, then close the connection. The frame marks the connection as served even though no request was answered, allowing the next redial to skip outage backoff. Repetition could increase connection churn against that configured target.

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• inferred — The identified availability path requires control of, or interference with, an HTTP/2 peer selected by the client. Its direct effect is connection churn for that configured target and its client-side connection slots; no new inbound service is shown.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A peer can supply a frame on an unregistered stream at or above the first request ID. Processing marks the connection served; if the peer then closes it, reconnection resets backoff rather than treating it as never served.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Connection closure fails registered streams, and the writer checks ownership before answering a write failure. The never-served backoff test covers immediate GOAWAY, but not unsolicited response frames before closure.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The new shutdown path waits for both loops and drains queued requests; cancellation after queue hand-off returns to the caller without removing that request from the writer queue. Whether later transmission is permitted by the caller contract remains unestablished.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Base the served decision on an owned request stream and exercise unregistered frames followed by closure against the backoff invariant.

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[warning] 389-389: This http.Server is constructed without a ReadTimeout. Without a read timeout, a slow or malicious client can hold connections open indefinitely (e.g. a Slowloris attack), exhausting server resources and causing a denial of service. Set ReadTimeout (and ideally ReadHeaderTimeout, WriteTimeout, and IdleTimeout) on the http.Server to bound how long the server waits while reading a request.
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goceleris/probatorium

• H2 benchmark rows use prior-knowledge HTTP/2 for /json and /upload, with 32 connections and multiplexed streams; the changed client behavior directly affects these published cells. [::goceleris/probatorium::scenarios/static.go:248-267]
• The harness consumes loadgen.Result.Errors, RequestsPerSec, and ThroughputBPS through its JSON aggregation/reporting pipeline, so this PR changes benchmark values without changing the result schema. [::goceleris/probatorium::mage_bench.go:1405-1463] [::goceleris/probatorium::mage_bench_test.go:85-99]
• The checked-out harness pins github.com/goceleris/loadgen at v1.4.13; the fixes will not reach this consumer until its dependency is updated. [::goceleris/probatorium::go.mod:7-10]
• Probatorium explicitly treats HTTP 4xx/5xx responses as request errors rather than connection errors, so preserving H2 error statuses will affect cell classification and error budgets as intended. [::goceleris/probatorium::cmd/runner/cellclassify_test.go:165-205]

goceleris/celeris

• Celeris emits :status through its generic HPACK response path, then sends body DATA frames with END_STREAM only on the final fragment; this matches the PR’s need to retain status across DATA frames and accumulate all DATA payloads. [::goceleris/celeris::internal/conn/response.go:573-614] [::goceleris/celeris::internal/conn/h2.go:398-410]
• Celeris can buffer response tails behind connection/stream flow control and later flush them, so the client must count bytes across multiple delivery events rather than assuming the first or final DATA frame represents the whole body. [::goceleris/celeris::internal/conn/response.go:603-617] [::goceleris/celeris::internal/conn/h2_test.go:548-663]
• Celeris supports status 500 through the generic HPACK path. Since the PR summary says static status indices 8–14, verify that HPACK static-table index 15 (:status 500) is also handled, or that the encoder always emits it literally. [::goceleris/celeris::internal/conn/response.go:573-588] [::goceleris/celeris::internal/conn/response.go:869-898]

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25-26: LGTM!

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F1: GOAWAY ignores Last-Stream-ID; the close can now reset unread data	Not fixed here: the graceful drain is #92, the follow-up the finding asks for	none	#92 is open with this scope. The reset reaches only streams that main and this branch both count as errors; on main the socket leaked instead.
F2: stream-ID exhaustion is reachable and never retires the connection	Fixed	5ff041c	TestH2StreamIDExhaustionRedials: on 2930ded, request 4 fails with stream ID exhausted on 1 connection; after, 8 of 8 succeed on 2 connections and the first is closed. MR2a and MR2b killed.
F3: the flow-control wait swallows its flush error and sends no window credit	Fixed	1051766	TestH2WriteErrorWhileBodyWaitsForWindow: never torn down → torn down, answered once. TestH2WindowCreditSentWhileBodyWaitsForWindow: 0 → 10,000 bytes credited. MR3a and MR3b killed.
F4: the impact list omits latency; H2 charges the backoff sleep to a recorded request	Fixed, in code and in the body	fcafd01	Backoff now only while the server looks down, as in h1client. TestH2RedialBacksOffOnlyWhenTheServerLooksDown/answered: no connection after 3.0 s → 536 µs; guards never answered and run over pass. MR4a-d killed. Latency fields are listed under #89 in the impact section. Probe: p99 11.7-12.2 ms → 0.88-0.92 ms when the server closes every 20th response.
F5: the impact list omits fastapi-h2 and the stranded-worker GOAWAY fix	Fixed (body)	none	fastapi-h2 has the only H2 cells with a nonzero sent_vs_handled_delta_pct (0.329/0.374 x86_64, 0.336/0.365 arm64, docs ae6b949). Its expected changes after a re-pin are in the body.
F6: 7 s of CI timeout headroom	Fixed	e37777e	-timeout 300s in the Test job and the release gate. In 22 prior Test jobs the root package took 106.5-109.4 s.
F7: the #88 guard can pass vacuously	Fixed (test)	4c45b36	requireWarped. With the dial bypassing the hook and the 5-minute deadline back, both #88 tests pass on 2930ded and fail on e37777e. MR7 killed.
F8: no test for a write failure during a body	Fixed	4c45b36, 1051766	As F3.
F9: CI's run of the new tests is only inferred; the stability run predates the head	Fixed	e37777e	The Test job runs with -v: at e37777e its log has a --- PASS line for each of the 26 tests this PR adds (242 PASS, 0 FAIL, 5 SKIP, job 108527977413). Stability: 525/525 (35 names × 15, -race, at e2cf3d1, whose tree differs only in two comments).
N1: await's residual window when writeLoop fails the connection	Fixed	cd52561	await waits for both loops (loopsDone) before it concludes no answer came. TestH2AwaitTakesAnAnswerThatArrivesAfterTheClose/response in delivery; MN2c and MN2d killed.
N2: requests queued for the writer are errors, not retries	Fixed	9b42e25, cd52561	TestH2RequestsTheConnectionNeverWroteAreRetried: 4.00 → 1.00 errors per dead connection (184/46 → 44/44). A writer-only retry probe gave 2.75-3.13, which is why await changed too. MN2a and MN2b killed.
N3: reconnectSlot holds the slot lock across dial and handshake	Not fixed: pre-existing, and shortened	fcafd01	Same shape on a89f02d:389-413 and in h1client. There is no sleep after a served connection and no dial once ctx has ended; a dial already under way needs a ctx-aware dial and handshake (follow-up).
N4: :status fallbacks to a silent success (the text reached me truncated after "a HEADERS or DATA frame with an in…")	Fixed	3909500	Literal-name :status decoded; no readable :status → error; bad Pad Length → PROTOCOL_ERROR. TestH2ResponseWithoutAReadableStatusIsNotASuccess: 6 successes on 2930ded → 404, 503, 502 and 3 errors. MN4a-e killed.
New, pre-existing on main: a later stream takes a waiting stream's slot and its response	Fixed	9ccc451, 8ec81ec	TestH2StreamOutlivedByLaterStreamsGetsItsResponse: timeout → own response. A self-contained probe fails the same way on a89f02d. BenchmarkH2CUpgradeRequest hung on a89f02d and on the pre-fix head. MS1 killed.

Also fixed: CodeRabbit's residual note from the previous round (sleep can report its timer after ctx is done). reconnectSlot checks ctx before it dials (MR4d).

Suite (go test -race -count=1 -p 2 -v ./...): base a89f02d 205/0/7, e37777e 240/0/7, with no PASS→FAIL. Mutants: 37/37 killed. Lint and vet: clean. Integration: 13/0/8. CI at e37777e: Test (with -v), Lint, Integration, Coverage (77.3 %), Vulnerability Check, CodeQL, Analyze, codecov/patch and the CodSpeed benchmark job all pass. CodeRabbit reviewed 2930ded..e37777e with no actionable comments, and its two earlier threads are resolved.

The CodSpeed "Performance Analysis" check is red. I re-ran it once, and both attempts flag ShardedLatencyRecorder/8workers, which ran only 100 and 232 iterations. Attempt 2 also flags BenchmarkH2CUpgradeRequest at 47.2 µs (43.3 in attempt 1), against 35.8-42.4 µs in 12 earlier runs. I cannot reproduce it locally with the job's exact command, and benchstat over 8 runs shows no change. Details and a suggested -run '^$' for codspeed.yml are in the body. Not acknowledged; I'm leaving that call to you.

[FumingPower3925]

Round 2 review, addressed at 147edb4 (6 commits, fast-forward from e37777e): each finding and what happened to it. The PR body's new "Round 2" section has the detail, and every number below comes from a saved log.

Finding	Outcome	Commit	Proof
Major: the h2c upgrade's stream-1 response marks every connection served, so an upgrade-only server is redialed without backoff	Fixed	fed72d0	Confirmed first: celeris writes SETTINGS, ACK, then the stream-1 response before it reads the preface. Only streams from the connection's first request stream (1, or 3 after an upgrade) mark it served. TestH2CUpgradeServerThatAnswersOnlyTheUpgradeIsPaced: 675-1321 connections in 300 ms on e37777e → 35 after fed72d0, 9-10 after 0c005df. The h2c subtest checks served directly. MF1 killed.
Minor: RST_STREAM or an early response leaves a body waiting for window forever (pre-existing)	Fixed	ebb34d9	The wait ends once readLoop has taken the stream's channel. That is not a connection error. The client sends RST_STREAM(CANCEL) unless the server reset the stream. TestH2BodyWaitEndsWhenTheServerEndsTheStream: on e37777e request 2 hung until its 3 s context ran out in all 3 shapes; now 3 of 3 are answered on 1 connection. MB1-MB5 killed. No published cell is affected: post-4k-h2's body fits the window, and post-64k-h2 was removed in v1.5.4.
Minor: the backoff never grows when the handshake succeeds, and an unserved connection is not counted	Fixed	0c005df	The request that finds an unserved connection fails (errH2NeverServed, an error, not a connect error, as h1client counts a drop after a good dial), and nothing is dialed for it. The pace resets only once a connection has served. TestH2ServerThatDropsEveryConnectionShowsErrors: 44-46 connections with 24-56 errors on e37777e → 10-11 connections with 12-15 errors. grows until a connection serves: backoff.next 0 → 20/40/80 ms. MP1-MP3 killed.
Minor: the impact list says 100 streams; probatorium runs 4 per connection	Fixed (body)	none	Confirmed: cmd/runner/main.go:1055 sets Workers = Connections = 32, and loadgen multiplies H2 workers by 4 (bench.go:503; :497 is the Mix case). The slot and exhaustion bullets are rescoped. Decoding the published histograms adds one caveat: 16 of 64 H2 cells do have responses slower than 66× their median (axum, hyper, the arm64 celeris cells), so the precondition occurs. Collisions must still be rare, or those cells would have run out of workers.
Minor: a backoff sleep still lands in recorded latency, where h1client's never does	Fixed	0c005df	Only the request that fails sleeps. It takes the interval under the slot lock and sleeps after releasing it, and the next request dials at once. Subtests after a failed redial (context ran out after 3.0 s → dials at once), a failed redial (25 µs, no sleep → sleeps), the sleep holds no lock. MP4-MP6 killed.
Minor: the fastapi-h2 bullet rests on "the reviewer read this as", and #92 cannot rescue most of those streams	Fixed (body)	none	Verified in the pinned sources: hypercorn 0.18.0 config.py:89 and protocol/h2.py:256-257; python-h2 4.4.1 connection.py:206-245 (SEND_GOAWAY → CLOSED), with the ProtocolError swallowed at h2.py:234-242. The body now says the error ratio stays mostly server-side after a re-pin and after #92.
Minor: the report's "38 PASS lines" double-counts	Fixed (manifest)	none	Right: percommit-e37777e.log has 19; 38 was two commits' lines. The manifest line is corrected; the PR body never used the figure.
Minor: CodSpeed's slowdown is unexplained; the likeliest cause is the tests' extra connections	Disputed (the cause)	none	CodSpeed runs no tests. In all 5 job logs (main, 2930ded, e37777e ×2, 147edb4) the test binary's wall time is its benchmarks' span plus about 3.0 s, and the root package's tests take about 106 s, so no test churn reaches a benchmark. Round 1's "runs every test first" premise was mine, and wrong; the body now says so. At 147edb4 the check is red again: the recorder collapse moved to /256workers (100 iterations), and /1024workers "improved" 24×, so those rows follow the harness's iteration count. H2CUpgradeRequest is 43.7 µs (43.3 and 47.2 before) against 35.8-42.4 µs in 12 earlier runs. That shift is not explained, and a local benchstat shows no change (p=0.72). Not acknowledged; that call is yours.
Nit: stream-ID exhaustion closes hard	Disputed (deferred to #92)	none	It is the graceful drain #92 builds. The closed-before-done window changes only the error text, not the count: each in-flight stream is still one error, through await's loopsDone branch.
Nit: a request queued after the writer's drain is an error; an unflushed HEADERS gets the connection error	Fixed (first half), disputed (second)	90a4e2b	await drains the queue once both loops have returned (the suggested fix). TestH2AwaitAnswersARequestQueuedAfterTheWriterReturned: connection closing → errH2NotSent. MQ1 killed. The second half is not cheap: once a flush has started, which streams reached the socket is unknown.
Nit: a stream with only a 1xx is a success; short PRIORITY fields give errH2NoStatus	Fixed	147edb4	finish rejects status < 200 (RFC 9113 §8.1), and badPriority is a connection error (§4.2). TestH2ResponseWithOnlyAnInterimStatusIsNotASuccess and TestH2HeadersTooShortForTheirPriorityFieldsEndTheConnection fail on e37777e and pass now. MI1-MI3 killed.
Nit 4: "Pre-existing gaps next to the new "never reached th…"	Not addressed	none	The text reached me cut off at that point, so I could not act on it.

Tests first: a4b2827 adds 6 tests and 8 subtests, and on e37777e code 16 of its 19 names fail for their stated reasons (the 3 guards pass). Each fix commit then turns exactly its own tests green (per-commit table in the body). Two round-1 tests changed. TestH2RedialBacksOffOnlyWhenTheServerLooksDown now drives DoRequest. TestH2RequestsTheConnectionNeverWroteAreRetried's server starts each response, because under the new rule an unserved connection costs one error, which is not what that test measures.

Controls: 51 of 51 mutants killed at 147edb4 (18 round 0, 16 round 1 re-texted, 17 new), each restored by copy with a sha256 check, git status clean. Suite (go test -race -count=1 -p 2 -v ./...): base 205/0/7, e37777e 240/0/7, 147edb4 254/0/7, with no PASS→FAIL. Without -race: 258/0/3. Integration: 13/0/8. Lint and vet: clean. Stability: 490/490 (49 names × 10, -race).

CI at 147edb4: Test, Lint, Integration, Coverage (80.1 %), Vulnerability Check, CodeQL, Analyze, codecov/patch and the CodSpeed benchmark job pass. The CI Test log has a --- PASS line for all 32 tests this PR adds (256/0/5 on linux). CodeRabbit reviewed e37777e..147edb4 and generated no actionable comments. The only red check is CodSpeed "Performance Analysis" (above).

[FumingPower3925]

Round 3 review of 147edb4: every finding fixed, disputed with evidence, or filed.

Head 0af01b3, a fast-forward from 147edb4: 2 test commits and 4 fix commits. The body is updated: a Round 3 section, Verification, and the impact list. Rounds 1 and 2 are condensed to fit GitHub's body limit; their full text is in the earlier comments.

ID	Finding	Disposition
T1 (minor)	grows until a connection serves skipped the dial-success branch	Fixed 74e9438: every connection is dialed by DoRequest. Mutant MP2 passes the old subtest and fails the new one (20 ms stays 20 ms).
T2 (minor)	TestH2ServerThatDropsEveryConnectionShowsErrors had no floor	Fixed 74e9438: at least 3 connections and 1 error. MG1 (GOAWAY ignored) passes the old test with 1 connection and 0 errors, and fails the new one.
T3 (nit)	< 5 PRIORITY boundary untested	Fixed 74e9438: payloads of 1, 4, 5 and 6 bytes. MI3a (< 4) and MI3b (<= 5) pass the old test and fail the new one.
T4 (nit)	"12-15 errors" vs CI's 16	Fixed in the body: 10-11 connections and 10-17 errors over 42 fixed-code runs, CI's included.
T5 (nit)	R2-2 had no run on main	Fixed: the round-2 test, verbatim, compiled against a89f02d. Request 2 hangs the full 3 s in all 3 shapes.
P1 (minor)	DATA after RST_STREAM while window remained (RFC 9113 §6.4)	Fixed 63e53b0, TestH2BodyStopsAtTheServersReset: 33,554,432 of 33,554,432 bytes after the reset on 147edb4; 131,072-229,376 after the fix. The late-RST dispatch it mentions is filed in #98.
P2 (nit)	closed read as "client closed" after stream-ID exhaustion	Fixed 1665d1d (closing() tests done). Both subtests hung on 147edb4.
P3 (nit)	answerQueued race between two awaits	Fixed 0af01b3 (queueMu), with a failing test in 24af5d2: 826 of 160,000 never-written requests counted as errors before the fix, 0 after.
P4 (nit)	served read before readLoop parsed a buffered response	Fixed fb092cc: reconnectSlot waits for loopsDone. On 147edb4: errH2NeverServed with 0 dials. After: a success after 1 dial.
P5 (nit)	stale stream WINDOW_UPDATE race (pre-existing)	Filed #98.
P6 (nit)	dial and handshake under slot.mu (pre-existing)	Filed on the canonical #95: #95 (comment)
I1 (minor)	slot fix changes the latency population	Fixed in the body.
I2 (minor)	rated-field effects exist only via probatorium#418	Fixed in the body (the "Rated fields" note).
I3 (minor)	CodSpeed baseline included this PR's round-0 heads; a slowdown may be hidden	Baseline fixed; the slowdown disputed by measurement (below).
I4 (minor)	about 4× errors and connect errors per outage second	Fixed in the body.
I5 (minor)	nothing enforces the re-pin trend caveat	Fixed in the body. Gate proposal on probatorium#424: goceleris/probatorium#424 (comment)
I6, I7, I8 (nits)	throughput_bps scope, the #85 bound, who pays for a redial and which rules read connect_errors	Fixed in the body.

CodSpeed (I3), measured:

• main-only: main has 3 CodSpeed runs: 39.1, 46.4 and 38.1 µs. The last two are the same commit (a8d9f24), 4 minutes apart. I triggered one of them; the second extra run was not needed.
• Local, interleaved: a89f02d, 2930ded, e37777e, 147edb4 and the round-3 build, n = 12-15 each, on darwin/arm64 (GOMAXPROCS 14 and 4) and linux/arm64 (GOMAXPROCS 8 and 4). No commit is slower. Where a difference is significant, the branch is 1.6-3.4 % faster. The intervals are ±1-5 %.
• This round's CodSpeed run: BenchmarkH2CUpgradeRequest took 35.9 µs, the lowest of this PR's 6 runs and below all 3 of main's. Against main's 3 runs, p = 0.36.
• So there is no commit to localise and no cost to name. The check is red only on ShardedLatencyRecorder/1024workers, which ran b.N = 87 iterations, in untouched code.
• Not acknowledged on codspeed.io.

Verification at 0af01b3:

• Per commit: each fix turns exactly its own tests green.
• Mutants: 60 of 60 killed. Each was restored by cp and checked by sha256 against the saved copy and the HEAD blob. MB3 survived a first local build, which put the P1 check at the top of the loop; the check was moved and the commits rebuilt before the push.
• Stability: 590 of 590, from 59 names run 10× under -race.
• Suite: 264/0/7, against 254/0/7 at 147edb4. No test changed status. There are 10 new names.
• Without -race: 268/0/3. Integration: 13/0/8.
• golangci-lint 2.13.2: 0 issues, with and without -tags integration. vet is clean in 3 shapes, and gofmt is clean.
• CI: every check passes except CodSpeed's informational analysis.
  • Test: 338/0/5 on the merge ref, root package 117.8 s.
  • Integration 17/0/4; Coverage 82.6 %.
  • Lint, Vulnerability Check, CodeQL, Analyze and codecov/patch pass.
  • CodeRabbit reviewed 147edb4..0af01b3 with no actionable comments. There are no new threads, and both earlier ones are resolved.

main moved during the round: #90 merged as a8d9f24. This branch is behind it, and the "Main — CI" ruleset requires branches to be up to date. It merges without conflicts: the merged tree, built locally and not pushed, runs 336/0/7, which is exactly the union of both sides' tests. CI's own run on the merge ref is green. I did not push a merge commit; Update branch is left to you.

[FumingPower3925]

Round 4 review of 0af01b3: both findings closed. One is fixed, the other is disputed and filed.

The new head is 231723f, a fast-forward from 0af01b3: a failing test, a fix, and a docstring correction. The body now has a Round 4 section, and Verification and the impact list are updated.

Finding	Disposition
reconnectSlot dials after the run's context ended. The wait from fb092cc falls through on ctx.Done (minor).	Fixed in f1075c7, with the test committed alone first in 03a9f69. See below.
Round 2's nit 4 has no disposition (minor).	Disputed and filed. See below.
Carried from round 4: the GOAWAY test's doc said "10 connections and 10-16 errors".	Fixed in 231723f: 10-11 connections and 10-17 errors in 42 runs. The body's "(41 runs)" is corrected to 42.

The redial after the run's end (f1075c7)

• The fix. reconnectSlot checks the context after the wait, not only in the wait's ctx case. If the run ends just after the first check, with the loops already returned, both cases are ready and select takes either. The review's one-line version leaves that case open.
• TestH2RedialDialsNothingOnceTheRunHasEnded, on 0af01b3:
  • With the server up, it dialed once.
  • With the server down, it dialed once and counted 1 connect error.
  • When the context ends right after the first check, with the loops already returned, it dialed on attempt 1 of 64.
• After the fix: 0 dials and 0 connect errors, in 30 of 30 runs under -race.
• Mutant controls. Each was restored by cp and checked by sha256.
  • MC1 (no check) is killed in all 3 subtests.
  • MC2 (the check only in the ctx case) is killed in 20 of 20 runs, on attempts 1 to 6.

Nit 4

• RST_STREAM(REFUSED_STREAM) counted as an error: disputed.
  • RFC 9113 §8.7 allows a retry but does not require one. A load generator counts the server's refusal.
  • h2load does the same: nghttp2 ea02d8bc, src/h2load_http2_session.cc:97-100 and src/h2load.cc:1134-1137.
  • errH2NotSent covers only requests the server never received (h2client.go:1149-1155).
  • No published cell draws a refusal. It runs 4 streams per connection, and the servers' limits are 100 or 250.
• The one case where the refusal is the client's own doing: filed as h2client: SETTINGS the server sends after the handshake are acknowledged but never applied, so a lowered MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS is exceeded #99. SETTINGS frames after the handshake are acknowledged but never applied. In a probe, the server lowered MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS to 1 and still received 4 open streams.
• Streams above a GOAWAY's last-stream-id: filed on the canonical h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92. They were never processed, so they should be retried when h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92 drains the connection: h2client: a graceful GOAWAY fails every in-flight stream, including those at or below last-stream-id that the server still answers #92 (comment)

CodSpeed

• The push run flagged BenchmarkH2CUpgradeRequest at 51.2 µs.
• The second of the two allowed extra runs re-ran the same commit 8 minutes later and measured 40.9 µs. CodSpeed no longer flags the benchmark.
• The check stays red only on ShardedLatencyRecorder/256workers and /1024workers, which is BenchmarkShardedLatencyRecorder measures goroutine spawn when b.N < numWorkers, so CodSpeed flags unrelated PRs #96.
• A coverage profile of the benchmark shows that reconnectSlot never runs in it.
• Local benchmark, interleaved: 5 configurations, n = 12 to 15.
  • 231723f against 0af01b3: no difference (p ≥ 0.56).
  • Against main, the round-3 review's runs and these give 0.08 to 0.2 µs per request at 7 goroutines per connection (3 of 12 configurations).
  • At probatorium's 4 goroutines per connection, no slowdown.
  • The impact list now says so.
• Nothing was acknowledged on codspeed.io.

Checks at 231723f:

• CI:
  • Test: 342 PASS, 0 FAIL, 5 SKIP, no data race.
  • Integration: 17/0/4.
  • Coverage: 82.7 %.
  • Lint, Vulnerability Check, CodeQL, Analyze (actions, go), codecov/patch and the CodSpeed job all pass.
  • The CodSpeed Performance Analysis check fails, as described above.
• Local:
  • The whole race suite: 268/0/7, against 264/0/7 at 0af01b3, with no test changing status.
  • golangci-lint 2.13.2: 0 issues.
  • vet and gofmt are clean.

The branch is still behind main (a8d9f24), and the merge is clean. CI's checks ran on that merge. No merge commit was pushed.