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Summary

Editing an active node used to force a Stop/Start cycle even for metadata-only changes. On WireGuard nodes with thousands of peers, a real restart also embedded the complete peer list in the lifecycle request, which could exceed the startup timeout.

  • Restart the backend only when an edit actually requires it.
  • Preserve the running backend for metadata-only edits and no-op submissions.
  • For WireGuard snapshots of 1,000 users or more, start the interface without peers and apply the initial snapshot in serialized batches of 100 through the existing delta-sync endpoint.
  • Fall back to per-user delivery for a failed chunk and stop the newly started backend if users still cannot be applied, preventing a partially initialized node from being reported as connected.

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  • python -m pytest tests/test_node_manager.py tests/test_node_manager_sync.py tests/test_node_start_timeout.py tests/test_connect_concurrency.py -q — 23 passed.
  • python -m ruff check app/operation/node.py app/node/__init__.py — passed.
  • git diff --check — passed.
  • A direct async 5,000-user restart check confirmed an empty Start followed by 50 bounded batches, plus legacy small-start and failure-cleanup behavior.

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Only app/node/__init__.py and app/operation/node.py are changed. No tests, documentation, migrations, dependencies, or generated files are included.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Updating node metadata no longer unnecessarily stops the active remote backend.
    • Nodes restart only when core configuration or keep-alive settings change.
    • Improved reliability when applying user changes during node reconnection.
    • User synchronization reports failures more reliably and avoids applying changes to outdated node connections.
  • Performance

    • Large WireGuard deployments now start and synchronize users in batches, improving startup handling for nodes with many users.

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Node updates compare connection signatures before stopping remote backends. Large WireGuard starts synchronize users in batches after the initial Start RPC. Modifications force a start only when core_config_id or keep_alive changes.

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Node lifecycle updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Connection signature and sync handling
app/node/__init__.py
update_node stops the remote backend only when the connection signature changes. The manager adds guarded stopping and serialized batched user synchronization.
Batched WireGuard startup
app/operation/node.py, tests/test_node_wireguard_batched_start.py
WireGuard starts with at least 1,000 users send an empty initial user list, then sync users in batches of 100. Tests cover threshold behavior, other node types, failures, replacement, and cancellation.
Conditional node restart decisions
app/operation/node.py, tests/api/test_node.py
modify_node forces a start only when an included core_config_id or keep_alive value differs from the stored value. The API test checks name-only modification scheduling.

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Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant StartFlow as _start_or_attach_node
  participant Node as PasarGuardNode
  participant Manager as NodeManager
  StartFlow->>Node: Start with empty users for large WireGuard node
  StartFlow->>Manager: sync_users_batched(users, batch_size=100)
  Manager->>Node: Apply user batches
  Manager-->>StartFlow: Return node or None
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No merge-blocking issue was established. Metadata-only edits preserve the running backend, while a raised batch error stops the partially started backend.

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@dr-hoseyn dr-hoseyn changed the title fix(node): avoid restarting healthy nodes on metadata edits fix(node): make large WireGuard edits and restarts reliable Sep 17, 2026
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dr-hoseyn force-pushed the codex/fix-large-wireguard-node-edit branch from e422202 to 4a703db Compare October 8, 2026 22:29
A WireGuard Start with at least WIREGUARD_BATCHED_START_THRESHOLD users
sends an empty peer list and then applies the snapshot in batches of
WIREGUARD_START_BATCH_SIZE through sync_users_chunked. Smaller WireGuard
starts and Xray starts keep the full user list in Start.

On a failed batch the node is stopped while it is still the manager's
current object; if an edit replaced it between Start and the batches it
is left alone. Cancelling the start mid-batch stops the current node.
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Brings in PasarGuard#903 (lifecycle preemption of user syncs) and the rest of dev.

Conflict in app/node/__init__.py:
- update_node: keep PasarGuard#903's structure (early unchanged-signature return
  before the lock, preemption only on a connection change, re-check
  under the lock) and this branch's existing_signature read under the
  reader lock, which feeds remote_stop=existing_signature != signature.
- keep this branch's _sync_user_batches helper and PasarGuard#903's
  _sync_users_to_node (node may be None, lock taken per batch, tracked
  for preemption); the shared-store branch from this side is already
  inside PasarGuard#903's version.
sync_users_batched holds the per-node lock for every batch of a large
WireGuard start, so an address change or a removal of the node had to
wait for the whole peer set. Run it in a tracked task through the same
helper as sync_full (_run_preemptible_sync): a connection change or a
removal cancels only the batches, never the connect task that awaits
them, and the caller gets UserSyncPreemptedError.

_start_or_attach_node maps that to NodeAPIError(-4), which connect_node
treats as a skip: the preempting operation already decides whether the
old backend is stopped (remote_stop) and reconnects the node, so the
preempted start neither stops it again nor writes an error status.

A metadata-only edit still waits for the batched start to finish and
then swaps the bridge object without a remote Stop.
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