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fix: serialize concurrent GraphRAG lazy initialization - #331

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Summary

Concurrent cold requests on one GraphRAG instance could duplicate lazy ontology/configuration work, causing redundant ontology writes and repeated embedder probes under load.

Changes

  • Serialize ontology initialization and graph configuration validation per GraphRAG instance.
  • Share one in-flight configuration validation task across concurrent callers while respecting each caller's latency budget.
  • Coalesce transient validation failures with a short retry backoff instead of creating a failure convoy.
  • Keep validation state generation-aware so delete_all() cannot be overwritten by an older validation task.
  • Preserve newer ontology assignments during concurrent initialization.

Tests

  • python -m pytest tests/test_facade.py -q — 185 passed.
  • python -m pytest tests/ -q — 2076 passed, 227 skipped.
  • ruff check src/ — passed.
  • git diff --check — passed.

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Fixes #330

Original issue: #330

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GraphRAG adds per-instance locks for ontology initialization and graph-configuration validation. set_ontology() now serializes ontology replacement. Tests cover single-flight initialization, validation, and newer ontology assignment.

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Concurrent lazy initialization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Initialization and validation guards
graphrag_sdk/src/graphrag_sdk/api/main.py
GraphRAG serializes ontology replacement and graph-configuration validation with per-instance locks. Validation keeps its retry and error behavior.
Concurrency regression tests
graphrag_sdk/tests/test_facade.py
Tests verify one ontology load and registration, one configuration query and embedder probe, and preservation of a newer ontology assignment across concurrent tasks.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the coding requirements in issue #330. GraphRAG uses separate per-instance asynchronous locks for ontology initialization and graph configuration validation. Each critical sectio…
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In `@graphrag_sdk/src/graphrag_sdk/api/main.py`:
- Around line 418-419: Update the ontology initialization flow around
_ontology_initialized and set_ontology so concurrent ontology assignment cannot
be overwritten by a stale initialization; serialize assignment and registration
with _ontology_init_lock or track a generation and only mark/return initialized
when it matches the current ontology. Ensure a newer ontology is registered
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1351-1352: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert final validation call counts.

The test checks query.call_count and probe.call_count only while the first probe is blocked. An implementation that omits the inner _config_validated check can run duplicate queries and probes after Line 1350, then still pass. Assert both counts are 1 after await asyncio.gather(*tasks).

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         release_probe.set()
         await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+        assert query.call_count == 1
+        assert probe.call_count == 1
         assert g._config_validated is True
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In `@graphrag_sdk/tests/test_facade.py` around lines 1351 - 1352, Update the test
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assert that both query.call_count and probe.call_count equal 1, while preserving
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🟠 Major · Make the configuration-validation lock loop-aware. · main.py:335

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Make the configuration-validation lock loop-aware.

In Python 3.10–3.12, asyncio.Lock binds lazily when contention first requires a waiter. _validate_graph_config() directly reuses this lock. After delete_all() resets _config_validated, concurrent validation in a later asyncio.run() loop can wait on the old loop and raise RuntimeError: ... is bound to a different event loop.

Track the lock’s loop and recreate it through a helper, as _ontology_lock() does. Add a regression that contends, calls delete_all(), and contends again in a new loop.

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_ontology_lock() that tracks the owning event loop and recreates the
asyncio.Lock when the active loop changes. Update _validate_graph_config() to
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Reviewed the concurrency changes. The set_ontology fix looks correct — I walked the interleavings of set_ontology against an in-flight _ensure_ontology_initialized in both orders, and the double-check on _ontology_initialized after acquiring makes the newer assignment win. Switching to _initialize_ontology() (the lock-free body) correctly avoids self-deadlock on the non-reentrant lock, and there is no re-entrancy into _ontology_lock() via _register_structured_ontology_locked_ontology_store.register. The _validate_graph_config reindentation preserves the try/except/else structure and keeps _config_validated = True inside the async with.

Two issues on the new config-validation lock, inline below. The first is the one I would block on.

One note on the description: the double-checked _ensure_ontology_initialized and _ontology_lock() already exist on main, so this PR's only ontology change is bringing set_ontology under that lock — test_ontology_initialization_is_single_flight covers pre-existing behavior. Not a defect, just worth correcting in the summary.

I could not run the suite locally (no virtualenv in my clone), so both findings are static analysis plus a standalone asyncio repro.

self.ontology = ontology or Ontology()
self._embedding_dimension = embedding_dimension
self._config_validated = False
self._config_validation_lock = asyncio.Lock()

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Lock is not rebound per event loop.

This is a single asyncio.Lock() built in __init__ and never rebound to the running loop — unlike the sibling _ontology_lock() accessor, which exists for exactly this reason. Its docstring states the rule:

the *_sync wrappers run each call under a fresh asyncio.run(), and a lock that once waited on one loop raises when acquired from another.

CPython binds Lock._loop on the first contended acquire(); a second contended acquire from a different loop raises. Reproduced on the repo's Python 3.10.12:

loop1 ok, bound to <_UnixSelectorEventLoop ...>
loop2 RuntimeError: <asyncio.locks.Lock object ...> is bound to a different event loop

The window needs _config_validated to stay False across calls, which happens on any transient query_raw/probe failure (both paths return without latching it) and after delete_all(), which resets the flag.

Concrete failure: the embedder is briefly unreachable; an asyncio.run(...) that gathers two retrieve() calls contends the lock and binds it to loop A; a later retrieve_sync() / ingest_sync() run that contends it again raises RuntimeError out of _validate_graph_config — turning a recoverable probe failure into a hard crash.

Fix: route this through the same loop-rebinding accessor pattern as _ontology_lock().

"""
if self._config_validated:
return
async with self._config_validation_lock:

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Lock convoys all callers behind a failing network probe.

The lock is held across both query_raw and the embedder probe, and both failure paths return without setting _config_validated. So under a sustained provider or graph outage the critical section never latches, and the single-flight becomes a permanent serialization point rather than a one-time de-duplication.

With the embedder timing out, 20 concurrent retrieve() calls previously each paid one probe timeout in parallel; now caller N waits N×timeout, because each waiter re-runs the whole probe after the previous one returns without latching.

There is also no latency-budget escape from the queue: the four internal call sites at lines 2010, 2403, 2506 and 3347 pass no ctx, so the ctx.ensure_budget(...) guards inside are skipped and requests pile up until the caller-side timeout.

A shared in-flight future — or caching the failure for a short backoff window — would give the intended de-duplication without turning an outage into serialized latency amplification.

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