perf(watermark): background-prefetch the AudioSeal generator at startup - #1577
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The first mark_synthetic serialized the audioseal import plus the
generator load INSIDE the first synthesis — measured at ~42s inline on
a cold filesystem (macOS, 2026-08-17 report), pushing a cold first
synthesis to ~87s and 3s past a 90s client timeout. The generator now
warms on a background task ~35s after boot (+5s past the capture-ASR
warm so the two cold imports don't contend), on the watermark pool,
cancellable at shutdown (OMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_WATERMARK=0 opts out; the
pool is only created when will_mark() says watermarking is active, and
setup-half failures log immediately instead of surfacing at shutdown).
Because the prefetch thread races the first embed, the lazy builds now
hold per-model locks — one build per model, no cross-blocking: a
detector load no longer queues behind a ~42s generator build, and
release_idle_models takes both locks in a fixed order. A
prefetch-warmed, never-used generator survives ONE extra idle-reaper
window so a first synthesis shortly after boot still finds it warm;
real embed/detect use clears the grace.
Also: embed/detect failures now log the full traceback (exc_info). The
catch-all printed only the message, which today left a
ModuleNotFoundError('getopt') inside AudioSeal's forward undiagnosable
from the log — audio silently ships unmarked when this fires.
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 10 reviews per rolling hour; 8 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAudioSeal now supports synchronized lazy loading and delayed background generator prefetch. Startup validates preload settings, while shutdown manages the preload task and watermark executor. Watermark failures include full tracebacks. Tests cover concurrency, isolation, and lifecycle behavior. ChangesAudioSeal warm-up and loading
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| backend/services/model_manager.py | Adds the bounded watermark executor and lifecycle state, but late producers can reopen admission and escape the current shutdown drain. |
| backend/services/watermark.py | Adds locked AudioSeal prefetch and shared async dispatch, but submission can still race executor retirement and propagate RuntimeError. |
| backend/main.py | Schedules delayed watermark prefetch and drains its executor during shutdown, while leaving the independent batch producer active. |
| backend/api/routers/generation.py | Migrates generation and streaming watermark calls to the shared async helper; correctness depends on that helper preserving fail-open behavior. |
| backend/api/routers/batch.py | Migrates assembled-track watermarking to the shared helper, while its module-level worker remains outside the application shutdown task set. |
| backend/api/routers/archetypes.py | Migrates archetype watermarking to the shared helper with the existing timeout. |
| tests/test_watermark_prefetch_coldstart.py | Covers prefetch locking, detector independence, feature gates, failure degradation, and idle grace, but not late producer submission after drain. |
| tests/test_shutdown_preload_race_1000.py | Updates shutdown task-handle coverage for the watermark preload task. |
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In `@backend/main.py`:
- Around line 918-922: Update the watermark prefetch delay near the existing
asyncio.sleep call to use a watermark-specific 35-second default rather than
_capture_preload_delay_s(). Ensure the implementation supports and tests both
the capture preload and watermark delay environment overrides independently,
preserving the intended separation between their scheduling.
- Around line 936-939: Update the watermark preload flow around
_watermark.prefetch_generator and AudioSeal.load_generator so shutdown
cancellation enforces the configured deadline instead of leaving the executor
thread running until interpreter exit. Make the blocking worker shutdown-aware,
or isolate the complete watermark worker in a terminable process, while
preserving normal preload behavior.
In `@backend/services/watermark.py`:
- Around line 135-137: Synchronize all reads and writes of _prefetched_unused,
including the prefetch path around _get_generator(), the embed/detect paths, and
release_idle_models(), with one shared state lock so the prefetch-to-first-use
transition is linearizable and retention cannot be granted after use. Add a
regression test covering the interleaving where prefetch sets the flag after
embed or detect clears it.
- Around line 121-137: Update prefetch_generator so it only calls _get_generator
when the watermark checkpoint is already available locally or prefetch was
explicitly requested, preventing default startup from downloading
audioseal_wm_16bits. Preserve the existing disabled/absent early return and lazy
retry behavior, and add a regression test verifying an empty model cache sets or
honors HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 without initiating a download.
In `@tests/test_watermark_prefetch_coldstart.py`:
- Around line 23-29: Update the _reset_models fixture to reset
watermark._prefetched_unused, watermark._last_used, and
watermark._audioseal_available to their initial states both before yielding and
during teardown, alongside the existing _generator and _detector resets.
- Line 19: Remove the module-level services.watermark import in the test module
and resolve it inside a function-scoped fixture at test runtime, ensuring each
test receives the current module state after setup and avoiding stale
sys.modules pollution.
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…indings Two CI failures, both understood: 1. test_shutdown_preload_race_1000 pins the production _cancel_and_await _tasks call site by regex; the new fifth handle broke the pattern. The guard now pins all FIVE handles (its property — every preload handle awaited under one generous bound — is unchanged). 2. test_prefetched_model_gets_one_extra_idle_window flaked only in the full suite: many tests boot the app lifespan, and any that exits without a lifespan shutdown leaves the deferred watermark-preload task pending — 35s later it fires mid-suite in another thread and re-stamps _last_used under whatever test is running. conftest now defaults OMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_WATERMARK=0 for the test session (a test can still opt in), and the grace test neutralizes will_mark so a leaked warm-up can't touch it. Bot findings: Greptile P1 + CodeRabbit — cancelling the preload task doesn't stop a watermark-pool thread already inside the ~42s cold import, and nothing drained that pool at shutdown (only the GPU pool was reset). Shutdown now drains the watermark pool's queue (shutdown(wait=False, cancel_futures=True)) — bounded abandon, same documented reality that Python can't kill a running thread. CodeRabbit Major: the warm-up reads its own delay knob (OMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_WATERMARK_DELAY, default 35s) instead of reusing the capture-ASR delay, so a capture env override no longer retimes it. CodeRabbit Minor: the _prefetched_unused claim/clear transitions now happen under _generator_lock, so the retention grace can't be granted to a model that has actually been used; the test fixture resets all lifecycle globals. Skipped with reason: gating prefetch on local-checkpoint presence — the warm-up downloads only what the first embed would download anyway; time-shifting that download is the feature, not a new network call.
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930-945: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winLog all watermark preload setup failures.
from services import watermark,will_mark(), andget_watermark_poolrun before thetry, so an import or availability-check failure can end the background task without the intended warning. Put these setup steps and executor submission inside onetryblock while allowing cancellation to propagate.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@backend/main.py`:
- Around line 386-398: Update _watermark_preload_delay_s to accept the
environment override only when it parses to a finite value greater than or equal
to zero; return 35.0 for blank, non-numeric, negative, or non-finite values,
matching _capture_preload_delay_s behavior.
- Around line 1140-1145: Add a reusable watermark-pool shutdown helper near
get_watermark_pool that atomically clears _watermark_pool_singleton before
shutting down, skips pool creation when none exists, and logs shutdown failures
with exc_info=True. Update the shutdown block in backend/main.py to call this
helper instead of invoking _get_wm_pool().shutdown directly, preserving safe
reuse across later lifespans.
In `@tests/conftest.py`:
- Around line 48-55: Update the OMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_WATERMARK setup in the test
initialization code to assign "0" unconditionally instead of using setdefault,
preventing inherited runner environment values from enabling background preload.
Preserve opt-in behavior through scoped test fixtures that explicitly override
the variable.
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In `@backend/main.py`:
- Around line 930-945: Update _preload_watermark so importing
services.watermark, checking will_mark(), importing get_watermark_pool, and
submitting the preload work all occur inside one try block. Log any setup or
submission failure with the existing warning path, while catching cancellation
separately so asyncio cancellation continues to propagate.
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The shutdown drain killed the module singleton with no replacement, so any process that keeps running after a lifespan shutdown — the CI suite does exactly this — dead-submitted on the next watermark op: "cannot schedule new futures after shutdown" (CI red; independently confirmed by Greptile P1, CodeRabbit Major, and the plugin code review at 95/100 confidence). shutdown_watermark_pool() now resets the singleton under its build lock before draining, so the next get_watermark_pool() hands out a live replacement. Regression test covers drained-pool-refuses + replacement-accepts. Same round, minor findings: the drain's except now logs with exc_info instead of a bare pass (GHAS CodeQL empty-except); the watermark delay knob rejects negative/non-finite overrides (CodeRabbit); conftest sets OMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_WATERMARK=0 unconditionally so a stray export from the runner shell cannot re-enable background warm-ups mid-suite (CodeRabbit).
Second CI red on the same test, different assert: the conftest fix killed the leaked PRELOAD task, but a test lifespan that exits without shutdown also leaves idle_worker running, and idle_worker calls release_idle_models on these same module globals from another thread — re-stamping _last_used mid-test. Each phase of the test now re- establishes its preconditions immediately before its release call and pins now= to a far-future monotonic, so an interleaved reaper tick cannot change the outcome. Verified against the full 5801-test suite run in one process.
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In `@backend/services/model_manager.py`:
- Around line 1086-1090: Update get_watermark_pool() to capture the singleton
executor and return that captured reference while holding _watermark_pool_lock,
preventing shutdown from clearing the value between validation and return. Keep
shutdown’s locking coordination intact, and add a regression test covering
concurrent getter/shutdown behavior that fails before the fix and confirms
callers never receive None afterward.
In `@tests/test_watermark_prefetch_coldstart.py`:
- Around line 195-220: Make the idle-grace test deterministic by stopping or
isolating the idle_worker before manipulating watermark state, and update _given
to set shared fields while holding the model locks. In the embed_watermark
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_prefetched_unused; assert immediately that embed_watermark cleared the flag,
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…race CodeRabbit on 28c7bac: 1. (Major) get_watermark_pool's double-checked pattern re-read the global after an unlocked null-check, so shutdown_watermark_pool's reset could land in between and the caller received None. The executor is now captured and returned under _watermark_pool_lock. 2. (Minor) the idle-grace test overwrote _prefetched_unused after the embed call, making the embed's clearing unobservable — a failing embed would have passed unnoticed. It now asserts the flag directly, and a guard diverts any leaked idle reaper (idle_worker resolves release_idle_models per call) to a no-op for the test's duration.
… _env_float Four-angle /simplify on the cumulative branch diff: - The idle-reaper grace flag now lives entirely inside _get_generator's lock: the prefetch claims it only when THAT call builds the model, and every other getter call consumes it. This deletes the duplicated call-site clears in embed/detect (detect no longer touches the generator's grace at all — it was clearing a flag for a model it never uses), and closes the lock-gap window where the prefetch's claim could land on an already-used model, which the old comment claimed was impossible. - Shared _env_float(name, default) for main.py's three inline float-env parsers (capture delay, watermark delay, MCP start timeout): one NaN/negative-rejecting implementation instead of three drifting copies; the older two lacked the isfinite guard entirely. - Test cleanups: dead isinstance-Future assert half removed, the fake-audioseal Event-wait simplified to sleep, the reaper-diversion guard simplified to a plain no-op lambda, stale setdefault sentence dropped from the conftest comment. Skipped with reason: merging the double will_mark() gate (they guard different invariants — pool creation vs model load, both tested) and hoisting the reaper guard to conftest (an autouse module-attr patch would break tests that verify release_idle_models directly).
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When a batch job reaches watermarking after the original worker stops, this branch restores _watermark_pool_accepting and creates a replacement executor even though the current lifespan is still shutting down, allowing AudioSeal work to continue after the only pool drain has completed. Keep submissions closed until the next lifespan explicitly calls begin_watermark_pool_lifecycle(), and stop the batch producer before draining the pool.
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When shutdown retires pool after get_watermark_pool() returns but before these lines submit the job, _WatermarkExecutor.submit() raises RuntimeError, causing a completed generation, preview, batch track, or archetype render to fail instead of returning unchanged audio. Catch executor rejection around the submission and preserve the helper's fail-open contract.
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Fixes #1576
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mark_syntheticserialized the audioseal import + generator load (~42s measured inline on a cold filesystem) INSIDE the first synthesis, pushing a cold first synthesis to ~87s — 3s past the measured client timeout. The generator now warms on a background task ~35s after boot (+5s past the capture-ASR warm so the two cold imports don't contend for the same disk), on the watermark pool, cancellable at shutdown.OMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_WATERMARK=0opts out.Details that the review rounds (in-repo
/simplify+ a high-effort code review) tightened:release_idle_modelstakes both locks in a fixed order.will_mark()gates before the pool is created, preservingget_watermark_pool()'s lazy invariant (hosts with watermarking off never spawn its thread); setup-half failures of the warm-up task log immediately instead of surfacing as an unretrieved exception at shutdown.exc_info=Trueon the embed and detect catch-alls: today an intermittentModuleNotFoundError('getopt')inside AudioSeal's forward (issue First synthesis serializes the AudioSeal watermark load (~42s inline); intermittent 'No module named getopt' skips watermarking #1576 §2, not yet root-caused — state-dependent in a long-lived process, gone after restart) ships unmarked audio with only a one-line hint in the log.The checkpoint itself is NOT the cost: it loads in 0.1s from the local torch.hub cache with no network (measured with and without
HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1); the 42s is the audioseal dependency import on a cold page cache.Tests
tests/test_watermark_prefetch_coldstart.py(new): concurrent lazy-load builds exactly once; detector load not blocked by an in-flight generator build; prefetch loads when watermarking is on, no-ops when disabled/absent, degrades silently on failure; the idle-reaper grace (kept once, released after use). Watermark suites: 60 passed.AudioSeal generator loading now runs as a cancellable background task with configurable prefetching, per-model locks, detector independence, idle-reaper grace, and traceback logging. Shutdown resets and drains the watermark pool so later operations can create a replacement pool. Review startup timing, shutdown races, and lock coordination for delayed failures.
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Both CI failures fixed: the
#1000shutdown guard now pins all five task handles (regex updated — the guarded property is unchanged), and the idle-window test's full-suite flake is closed at the root — tests that boot the app lifespan could leak the deferred preload task, soconftestdefaultsOMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_WATERMARK=0for the session (opt-in possible) and the test is neutralized against leaked warm-ups.Greptile P1 + CodeRabbit: shutdown now drains the watermark pool (
shutdown(wait=False, cancel_futures=True)) so a queued warm-up can't outlive the app; a thread already inside the ~42s cold import is the same unkillable-thread reality documented for the GPU pool. The warm-up reads its own delay knobOMNIVOICE_PRELOAD_WATERMARK_DELAY(default 35s)._prefetched_unusedtransitions are under_generator_lock.Skipped with reason: gating the prefetch on local-checkpoint presence — the warm-up downloads only what the first embed would have downloaded anyway; time-shifting that is the feature.