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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #11352

With Placement Rules disabled, hot-read leader moves to stores without a Region peer and paired reverse peer moves can bypass the location safeguard. These replacements can reduce replica isolation even though ordinary peer moves reject the same topology change.

Grant-hot-region also applies a peer-replacement safeguard to pure leader transfers. With location labels configured and Placement Rules disabled, it can reject a legal transfer between existing peers even though replica placement does not change.

What is changed and how does it work?

Apply the placement safeguard's location fallback to non-peer hot-read leader targets when Placement Rules are disabled. Existing-peer leader transfers continue through their current filters.

Validate reverse Regions independently even when they have no rule fit, allowing reverse peer replacements to use the same location fallback.

Skip reverse location scoring when Placement Rules are disabled and location labels are empty. Otherwise, cache reverse location results within each main source-store scan, keyed by the Region object and reverse source store. Reuse both accepted and rejected results across main candidates, and recalculate when the Region object changes. Placement Rules checks do not use this cache.

Use the leader safeguard for grant-hot-region leader transfers, checking the Region's actual leader even when the selected hot peer is a follower. Keep the peer-replacement safeguard on its MovePeer path.

Add scheduler regression coverage for both rank formulas, Placement Rules enabled and disabled, existing-peer transfers, valid and invalid reverse replacements, and grant-hot-region leader and peer targets.

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Tests

• Unit test

Validation:

Validated on merge commit dcab98846, including upstream Region snapshot tests from master e687ccff5a.

make gotest PACKAGES=github.com/tikv/pd/pkg/schedule/schedulers GOTEST_ARGS='./pkg/schedule/schedulers -run "TestRevertRegion|TestHotWriteRegionScheduleWithRevertRegions|TestHotReadRegionScheduleWithRevertRegions|TestHotReadMoveLeaderLocationSafeguard|TestGrantHotRegion|TestHotSolver" -count=1'
make gotest PACKAGES=github.com/tikv/pd/pkg/schedule/schedulers GOTEST_ARGS='./pkg/schedule/schedulers -tags deadlock -race -run "TestRevertRegion|TestHotWriteRegionScheduleWithRevertRegions|TestHotReadRegionScheduleWithRevertRegions|TestHotReadMoveLeaderLocationSafeguard|TestGrantHotRegion|TestHotSolver" -count=10'
make basic-test PACKAGES=github.com/tikv/pd/pkg/schedule/schedulers
make check PACKAGES=github.com/tikv/pd/pkg/schedule/schedulers SUBMODULES=

Benchmark:

make gotest PACKAGES=github.com/tikv/pd/pkg/schedule/schedulers GOTEST_ARGS='./pkg/schedule/schedulers -run=^none -bench BenchmarkRevertRegionLocationSafeguard -benchmem -benchtime=1x -count=5'

The local benchmark scans 1,000 reverse Regions for 1,000 main candidates with one fixed store pair per iteration. It mixes valid and invalid replacements, checks identical acceptance counts, and recreates the cache each iteration. It measures reverse validation only, excluding Region lookup, ranking, and operator construction. It does not measure scheduling-cycle latency.

Median of five samples on the merged code, Linux/amd64, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, Go 1.27.3. Both modes invoke the production validation function; the uncached mode passes no result cache.

Location labels	Uncached ms/op	Cached ms/op	Uncached B/op	Cached B/op	Uncached allocs/op	Cached allocs/op
host	373.278	29.097	136,000,464	244,760	3,000,005	3,020
zone, rack, host	405.226	29.273	136,000,112	244,760	3,000,001	3,020

With empty location labels, the fast path takes 7.349 ms/op and has zero allocations; no cache is created.

Release note

Fix incorrect placement checks in hot-region schedulers that could reduce replica isolation during peer replacements or reject legal leader transfers when Placement Rules were disabled.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Hot-region reverts now respect location constraints when placement rules are disabled.
  • Read leader transfers avoid destinations that conflict with location safeguards while retaining transfers to existing peers.
  • Leader transfers and peer moves apply safeguards appropriate to each operation, including placement-rule checks for leader destinations.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for location-aware scheduling across placement-rule settings, ranking versions, and host arrangements.
  • Added checks for revert validation with and without cached results.

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Walkthrough

Hot-region scheduling applies location safeguards to selected leader and peer transfers when placement rules are disabled. Revert-region validation uses a per-source cache in eligible scans. Tests cover placement-rule settings, target selection, cache behavior, and configured leader targets.

Changes: Hot-region scheduling safeguards

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Revert-region validation pkg/schedule/schedulers/hot_region_solver.go, pkg/schedule/schedulers/hot_region_solver_test.go, pkg/schedule/schedulers/hot_region_rank_v2_test.go	Revert-region validation uses location safeguards when placement rules are disabled and location labels are configured. Eligible scans cache results by region and source store. Tests cover cache behavior and location-based revert cases.
Read leader target filtering pkg/schedule/schedulers/hot_region_solver.go, pkg/schedule/schedulers/hot_region_test.go	When placement rules are disabled, read leader candidate filtering applies a placement safeguard to transfers to stores without an existing peer. Tests cover target selection across rank formulas, placement-rule settings, and host arrangements.
Grant-hot-region transfer safeguards pkg/schedule/schedulers/grant_hot_region.go, pkg/schedule/schedulers/grant_hot_region_test.go	Leader transfers require a peer on the target store and an existing current-leader store. They apply a placement leader safeguard and a leader-transfer state filter. Peer transfers retain placement and region-move safeguards. Tests cover safeguard outcomes and configured leader targets.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• tikv/pd#11412: The issue describes rules-disabled location safeguards for peer replacements, including hot-region scheduling paths.

Possibly related PRs

• tikv/pd#11284: Both changes apply placement safeguards to preserve location isolation during peer moves and leader transfers.

Suggested reviewers: jmpotato, rleungx

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to dcab9

The change adds placement safeguards for hot-region scheduling. No merge-blocking risk is evident.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check		The linked issue [#11352] covers hot-read leader scheduling. grant_hot_region.go adds separate leader and peer safeguards to the grant-hot-region scheduler, including existing-peer checks and leader…	Remove the grant-hot-region implementation and its tests, or link the changes to an active issue that requires this behavior.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the package area and the primary fix to placement safeguards in hot-region scheduling.
Description check		The description is mostly complete. It identifies issue #11352, explains the problem and implementation, lists unit-test validation and benchmark results, and includes a release note. The template che…
Linked Issues check		Issue [#11352] requires hot-read leader scheduling to preserve replica topology isolation when Placement Rules are disabled. hot_region_solver.go now applies PlacementSafeguard to leader moves tha…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is inconclusive: files from earlier reviews still need to be rechecked within the check's analysis limits. Not blocking.

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The description is mostly complete. It identifies issue #11352, explains the problem and implementation, lists unit-test validation and benchmark results, and includes a release note. The template checklist does not explicitly address code changes, side effects, or related changes, but these omissions are non-critical because the main required information is present.

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Explanation

Issue [#11352] requires hot-read leader scheduling to preserve replica topology isolation when Placement Rules are disabled. hot_region_solver.go now applies PlacementSafeguard to leader moves that add a peer in this mode. The change also validates reverse Regions without requiring placement-rule fit. TestHotReadMoveLeaderLocationSafeguard covers Placement Rules enabled and disabled, both rank formulas, and existing-peer and new-peer targets.

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Explanation

The linked issue [#11352] covers hot-read leader scheduling. grant_hot_region.go adds separate leader and peer safeguards to the grant-hot-region scheduler, including existing-peer checks and leader-store handling. grant_hot_region_test.go adds tests for that separate behavior. The linked issue does not require these grant-hot-region changes.

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Remove the grant-hot-region implementation and its tests, or link the changes to an active issue that requires this behavior.

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With Placement Rules enabled, a configured leader target that has no peer for the hot Regions being scanned makes this filter emit one WARN per rejected Region through ruleLeaderFitFilter.Target. These are normal scheduling misses, but randomSchedule scans all hot peers and the controller makes up to 10 scheduling attempts per cycle, so replacing the previous debug-only failure path adds repeated log writes proportional to the hot-peer count, with no sampling enabled by default.

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With Placement Rules disabled, v2 reverse peer search now reconstructs the location safeguard for each main/reverse candidate pair, repeating the store-cache read lock, temporary map/slice construction, and scoring for the same reverse Region and source/target stores, even with empty location-labels. The default 1,000-peer limit is per store, so the candidate product can reach roughly one million validations per source/destination pair; this adds CPU and allocation pressure in the innermost loop, with the actual latency impact still unmeasured.

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Addressed in a8f2efd. Reverse MovePeer validation now skips location scoring when Placement Rules are disabled and location-labels is empty. With labels configured, it caches both accepted and rejected results within each main source-store scan. The key contains the Region object and reverse source store; the reverse target is fixed for that scan. Placement Rules checks bypass this cache.

Conflicts with master e687ccff5a are resolved in merge commit dcab988. Its Region/fit snapshot cache is preserved alongside this cache. I reran the validation on the merged code.

BenchmarkRevertRegionLocationSafeguard scans 1,000 reverse Regions for 1,000 main candidates with one fixed store pair. Each iteration starts with a fresh cache and asserts the same acceptance counts for cached and uncached execution. Median of five samples, Go 1.27.3, Linux/amd64, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X:

Labels	Uncached ms/op	Cached ms/op	Uncached B/op	Cached B/op	Uncached allocs/op	Cached allocs/op
host	373.278	29.097	136,000,464	244,760	3,000,005	3,020
zone/rack/host	405.226	29.273	136,000,112	244,760	3,000,001	3,020

Empty labels take 7.349 ms/op with zero allocations using the fast path; no cache is created. These numbers measure reverse validation only, including initial cache misses and allocation, rather than the full scheduling cycle.

Validation on the merged code passed:

• Hot-read MoveLeader, reverse replacement, grant-hot-region, cache separation, and upstream Region snapshot regressions.
• Related regressions repeated 10 times with -tags deadlock -race.
• Scheduler package make basic-test.
• make check PACKAGES=github.com/tikv/pd/pkg/schedule/schedulers SUBMODULES=.

Benchmark command:

make gotest PACKAGES=github.com/tikv/pd/pkg/schedule/schedulers GOTEST_ARGS='./pkg/schedule/schedulers -run=^none -bench BenchmarkRevertRegionLocationSafeguard -benchmem -benchtime=1x -count=5'