feat(worker): resourceLimits for worker isolates - #2042
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participant JavaScriptWorker
participant CallbackHandlers
participant WorkerWrapper
participant Runtime
participant V8Isolate
JavaScriptWorker->>CallbackHandlers: construct Worker with resourceLimits
CallbackHandlers->>WorkerWrapper: pass validated IsolateLimits
WorkerWrapper->>Runtime: arm PendingIsolateSetup
Runtime->>V8Isolate: create isolate with heap constraints
V8Isolate->>WorkerWrapper: invoke OnNearHeapLimit
WorkerWrapper->>JavaScriptWorker: report out-of-memory error
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In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/CallbackHandlers.cpp`:
- Line 1305: Update the resourceLimits validation condition around parsed and
kBytesPerMegabyte to reject values whose megabyte-to-byte conversion exceeds
std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max() before either static_cast<size_t> occurs,
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Adds Node's `resourceLimits` worker option, at the top level of the options
object rather than under `android`:
new Worker("./w.js", {
resourceLimits: {
maxOldGenerationSizeMb: 64,
maxYoungGenerationSizeMb: 8,
jsDispatchTableSizeMb: 64,
},
});
The two heap caps map onto v8::ResourceConstraints and are applied through a new
`IsolateLimits` struct. A worker's isolate is created on the worker thread deep
inside the Java initWorkerRuntime call, a path with no parameter to carry them,
so WorkerWrapper leaves them -- together with the near-heap-limit callback -- in
a thread-local slot that PrepareV8Runtime consumes; the main isolate never sets
one and is unaffected. Values are validated at construction: a non-object
`resourceLimits` or a non-numeric key throws a TypeError, a non-finite or
non-positive value throws a RangeError, and unknown keys are ignored.
`jsDispatchTableSizeMb` is a NativeScript extension compiled behind
V8_HAS_JS_DISPATCH_TABLE_RESERVATION_PARAM, which v8-14.9.207.39-7 carries.
Worker isolates default to a 64 MB reservation instead of V8's 256 MB, and the
main isolate keeps the default; against an older prebuilt the option is rejected
as unsupported.
Capping a worker's heap is only useful if exhausting it is recoverable, so every
worker isolate now registers a near-heap-limit callback (Node does the same
unconditionally for workers). It forwards "Worker JS heap out of memory" to the
parent's worker.onerror as a plain string payload, asks V8 to terminate the
isolate and returns the limit raised by 16 MB so the in-progress GC can finish.
Termination goes to the isolate the callback belongs to rather than through
Terminate() alone, because Terminate() only reaches an isolate BackgroundLooper
has already published -- which happens once the worker's runtime is up, and a
worker that exhausts its heap can do so while its entry is still loading.
Building the exception detail for a terminating isolate could crash on the empty
v8::Message such an isolate reports, so GetFullMessage now returns the plain JS
message when there is none.
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In `@test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/testWorkerResourceLimits.js`:
- Around line 149-150: Update the jsDispatchTableSizeMb startup tests around
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Handle V8 builds without dispatch-table reservation support.
When V8_HAS_JS_DISPATCH_TABLE_RESERVATION_PARAM is absent, ParseWorkerResourceLimits throws an Error for valid jsDispatchTableSizeMb values before worker startup. Gate both startup tests on this capability, or assert the documented error for unsupported builds.
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In `@test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/testWorkerResourceLimits.js` around
lines 149 - 150, Update the jsDispatchTableSizeMb startup tests around
expectStarts to account for builds without
V8_HAS_JS_DISPATCH_TABLE_RESERVATION_PARAM: gate the valid-reservation
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Stacked on #2041 — merge that first.
Option surface
Adds Node's
resourceLimitsworker option, at the top level of the options object (not underandroid, since the two heap caps are portable):maxOldGenerationSizeMbandmaxYoungGenerationSizeMbkeep Node's names, units and semantics, fractional megabytes included. Node'scodeRangeSizeMbandstackSizeMbhave no equivalent here and are ignored rather than rejected, so code written against Node keeps working.The caps travel as a new
tns::IsolateLimitsstruct. An Android worker's isolate is created on the worker thread, deep inside the JavaRuntime.initWorkerRuntimecallWorkerWrapper::BackgroundLoopermakes — a path with no parameter to carry them — soWorkerWrapperleaves aPendingIsolateSetup(the limits plus the near-heap-limit callback) in a thread-local slot immediately before that call andRuntime::PrepareV8Runtimetakes it. The main isolate never sets one and is unaffected;PrepareV8Runtimeonly applies what it is given, so the worker-specific policy stays inCallbackHandlers.cpp.Validation
All of it happens in the
Workerconstructor, on the calling thread, before any worker starts. Every error carries a realTypeError/RangeError/Errorinstance, soinstanceofholds in JS.resourceLimitsabsent,undefinedornullresourceLimitsany other non-objectTypeError, names"resourceLimits"undefined"64",{}, …)TypeError, names the keyNaN,Infinity,0or a negative numberRangeError, names the keyjsDispatchTableSizeMbnot a whole number, or outside[1, 256]RangeError, names the keyMegabytes become bytes as
size_t(mb * 1024 * 1024).Out-of-memory behavior
A heap cap is only useful if reaching it is recoverable — otherwise a capped worker takes the whole process down with V8's fatal OOM. So every worker isolate now registers a near-heap-limit callback, capped or not (Node does the same unconditionally for workers).
When the worker's heap reaches its limit, the callback — which runs on the worker thread from inside a GC, where no JS may run and no handle may be created:
Worker JS heap out of memory (maxOldGenerationSizeMb: N)to the parent'sworker.onerrorthroughWorkerWrapper::PassUncaughtExceptionFromWorkerToParent, which only copies strings onto the parent's event loop and never touches the worker's isolate;Later invocations return the same raised limit and do nothing else (returning a lower limit is fatal to V8). The worker thread then unwinds normally: the running JS terminates,
BackgroundLooperstops before it would run anything else on the terminating isolate, the looper is never entered, and the shutdown tail disposes theRuntime. This mirrors Node'sERR_WORKER_OUT_OF_MEMORY, which surfaces on the parent's'error'event and leaves the process alive.Termination is requested on the isolate the callback belongs to, not only through
WorkerWrapper::Terminate():Terminate()reachesworkerIsolate_, whichBackgroundLooperpublishes only once the runtime is up — and a worker that exhausts its heap can do so before that, while its entry is still loading.One pre-existing crash surfaced while building this: a terminating isolate reports an exception with an empty
v8::Message, andNativeScriptException::GetFullMessagedereferenced it unconditionally. It now returns the plain JS message when there is none.JS dispatch table
jsDispatchTableSizeMbcaps the address space an isolate reserves for its JS dispatch table. It is compiled behindV8_HAS_JS_DISPATCH_TABLE_RESERVATION_PARAM, the macro the V8 patch in v8-buildscripts PR NativeScript/v8-buildscripts#7 defines alongsideIsolate::CreateParams::js_dispatch_table_reservation_size. This PR bumpsV8_RELEASEtov8-14.9.207.39-7, the first prebuilt with Android artifacts that carries it; the code still builds against older prebuilts, where the option is rejected as unsupported.With that prebuilt, worker isolates default to a 64 MB reservation while the main isolate keeps V8's default. Every isolate otherwise reserves 256 MB for this table, and 64 MB still holds four million dispatch entries — far more than a worker allocates. Apps that need more can raise it per worker.
v8-buildscripts PR: NativeScript/v8-buildscripts#7
Verification
./gradlew runtestsAndVerifyResults -Pabis=arm64-v8a, Debug, API 33 emulator.feat/worker-android-options)16 new specs in
testWorkerResourceLimits.js: the OOM path end-to-end (a worker capped at 32 MB that allocates without releasing reports throughworker.onerrorand the runner survives), both heap caps applied individually and together,resourceLimits: null, unknown keys, nine validation cases (including a value too large to hold in bytes, one below a byte, and a throwing getter), and workers starting under 64 MB and 1 MB dispatch table reservations. Every other worker spec in the suite now runs under the 64 MB worker default.Mirrors NativeScript/ios#471.
Deviations from the iOS PR
Runtime::CreateIsolateas a defaulted parameter, which the worker startup lambda captures. Android has no such seam — the isolate is created inside a JNI round trip — so the limits and the near-heap-limit callback ride athread_local PendingIsolateSetupthatPrepareV8Runtimeconsumes. Same net effect: the main isolate's path is untouched and only what is given is applied.CreateIsolate; here it is armed insidePrepareV8Runtime, right after the isolate is locked and before anything runs in it, so a cap small enough to be hit during runtime bootstrap is still recoverable.GetFullMessagewithFromMaybe; Android already did.PassUncaughtExceptionFromWorkerToParenton Android has only the strings overload, so no new one was needed.Follow-ups
@nativescript/coretypings forWorkerOptions.resourceLimits.Summary by CodeRabbit
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