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What

Keep the existing failure-pressure 429 transient, but make its 500 injection persistent.

The 429 case still proves retry recovery. The 500 case now survives the configured retries and both answer candidates, producing the terminal client errors required by the existing mixed-error gate. A zero-second Retry-After keeps the synthetic retry-exhaustion case fast.

Why

SWITCH-1520

Both injected upstream failures previously stopped after two attempts, while the local benchmark config allows ten retries. Every request therefore recovered even though the scenario promises explicit terminal errors and requires a 1%-75% client error rate.

Notes for reviewers

The behavior change is limited to the synthetic switchyard-soak mock backend. The helper is private, and there are no codec, protocol, runner, production-server, or public API changes.

The scenario and operations guide now describe the intended split as transient 429 and persistent 500.

Validation

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • cargo clippy -p switchyard-soak --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings
  • cargo test -p switchyard-soak --locked
  • cargo test -p switchyard-soak --example switchyard-soak-mock --locked
  • uv run pytest tests/test_routing_performance_report.py -q
  • Exact 20-request SWITCH-1520 reproduction: before this change the benchmark saw zero client errors and failed; after it, AIPerf recorded five terminal errors and the gate passed
  • 1,000-request scale run: AIPerf recorded 250 terminal errors and the gate passed

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected failure simulation so transient 429 errors recover after initial attempts, while persistent 500 errors continue failing.
    • Added coverage validating recovery and persistent-failure behavior.
  • Documentation

    • Updated the failure-pressure scenario and resilience testing instructions to accurately distinguish transient 429 errors from persistent 500 errors.

Signed-off-by: Alex Fournier <afournier@nvidia.com>
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Walkthrough

The mock server now applies transient 429 failures and persistent 500 failures. Tests verify the attempt behavior. Scenario descriptions and operations documentation use the updated failure semantics.

Changes

Failure pressure behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Failure injection rules and tests
crates/switchyard-soak/examples/mock_server.rs
The mock server injects 429 failures through attempt 2 and 500 failures on every attempt. Tests verify both outcomes.
Scenario and operations documentation
crates/switchyard-soak/src/scenarios/failure_pressure.rs, docs/operations/soak_test.md
Scenario text and operations instructions describe 429 failures as transient and 500 failures as persistent.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 20c57

The retry behavior is implemented and tested correctly; only the required explanatory comments remain before merge.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
crates/switchyard-soak/examples/mock_server.rs (1)

75-77: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add comments for the new retry contract.

should_inject_failure has non-obvious name-dependent behavior: upstream_429 fails only on attempts 1–2, while upstream_500 fails on every attempt. Add a concise comment above the helper. The new test also encodes this important behavior, so add a concise comment above the test.

As per coding guidelines, Rust changes require comments for private helpers with non-obvious behavior and tests that encode important behavior.

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+// Inject 429 failures for attempts 1-2 and 500 failures for every attempt.
 fn should_inject_failure(name: &str, attempt: u64) -> bool {
     name == "upstream_500" || attempt <= 2
 }

+// 429 recovers after attempt 2; 500 remains injected beyond the retry window.
 #[test]
 fn failure_pressure_recovers_429_but_not_500() {

Also applies to: 276-281

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In `@crates/switchyard-soak/examples/mock_server.rs` around lines 75 - 77, Add
concise comments above should_inject_failure and the
failure_pressure_recovers_429_but_not_500 test documenting that upstream_429
fails only on attempts 1–2 while upstream_500 fails on every attempt, without
changing behavior.

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In `@crates/switchyard-soak/examples/mock_server.rs`:
- Around line 75-77: Add concise comments above should_inject_failure and the
failure_pressure_recovers_429_but_not_500 test documenting that upstream_429
fails only on attempts 1–2 while upstream_500 fails on every attempt, without
changing behavior.

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