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Part of #1657 (step 2d). Stacked on #1667.

What it does

DirectionPrecomputer no longer loads every row of the shapes table into one Go map before computing stop directions. It keeps the most recently used shapes up to 500,000 points (about 20 MB of rows) in a small LRU cache, recentShapes, and reads any other shape with the per-shape query the calculator already used. Concurrent lookups of one shape share one read through a singleflight group. The completion log reports shape_cache_hits and shape_reads.

Removed: SetShapeCache, its lock and "initialized" flag (only the precomputer used them), and the GetAllShapes query (no other caller).

Root cause

For NJ Transit bus the all-shapes map held 3.3 million points, and the precompute stage peaked at 1.70 GiB of heap. Once the import stops holding the whole feed (#1669, #1672, #1676), this map would be the process peak. The per-shape query returns the same points in the same order, so stop directions do not change: the RABA table digests, which include stops.direction, are unchanged.

Testing

stack base (#1662, same import code as main) this PR
heap while precomputing directions (precomputation_batch_written) 954.25 MiB 362.75 MiB
process peak RSS 2.40 GiB 2.39 GiB
import time 18.58s 20.229s

Full per-stage output is in the TestImportMemory log; the table shows the stages this PR moves.

New tests: TestRecentShapesEvictsLeastRecentlyUsedPoints (LRU eviction by point budget, oversized shape kept alone), TestPrecomputeReadsEachShapeOnce (four stops on one shape cause one read, with the expected directions), and a failed read is not cached.

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Size. 204 added, 420 removed. Most of the removal is the old all-shapes cache and its tests; the new cache and its tests are about 130 lines. Removing the old cache without the replacement would regress import time.

Trade-off. A feed whose stops visit shapes in a scattered order gets fewer cache hits and a slower precompute (up to the no-cache case, about 31 s instead of 21 s for NJ Transit). It never uses more memory than the budget. The hit/miss log shows whether any real feed needs the work grouped by shape instead.

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    • GTFS direction calculations now retrieve shape data as needed and reuse recently accessed results, rather than loading all shapes upfront.
    • Concurrent requests for the same shape share a database read, and recent shape data is kept within a point limit.

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Direction precomputation now loads shape points on demand through a point-budgeted LRU cache, coalesces concurrent misses, and records cache statistics. The all-shapes query and the calculator’s preloaded-cache API were removed.

Changes: Shape-point loading and caching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recent-shapes cache
internal/gtfs/recent_shapes.go, internal/gtfs/shape_cache_test.go, internal/gtfs/advanced_direction_calculator_test.go
Adds a mutex-protected LRU cache with a point budget, lookup and read statistics, and tests for eviction, replacement, and copied point slices.
On-demand shape loading
internal/gtfs/advanced_direction_calculator.go, gtfsdb/db.go, gtfsdb/query.sql, gtfsdb/query.sql.go, internal/gtfs/stop_distances_test.go
The calculator reads shape points directly when no cache is configured, or uses the cache and coalesces concurrent misses. The all-shapes query and SetShapeCache method are removed.
Precomputer cache integration
internal/gtfs/direction_precomputer.go, internal/gtfs/shape_cache_test.go
The precomputer configures a 500,000-point cache and no longer preloads all shape points. Completion logs include cache statistics; tests cover shared reads and retrying failed reads.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DirectionPrecomputer
  participant AdvancedDirectionCalculator
  participant recentShapes
  participant Database
  DirectionPrecomputer->>AdvancedDirectionCalculator: CalculateStopDirection
  AdvancedDirectionCalculator->>recentShapes: get(shapeID)
  alt Cache hit
    recentShapes-->>AdvancedDirectionCalculator: shape points
  else Cache miss
    AdvancedDirectionCalculator->>Database: GetShapeByID
    Database-->>AdvancedDirectionCalculator: shape points
    AdvancedDirectionCalculator->>recentShapes: add(shape points)
  end
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  • OneBusAway/maglev#1669: This PR is stacked on #1668 and changes the shape insertion path in gtfsdb/helpers.go.

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Comment thread internal/gtfs/recent_shapes.go Resolved
Comment thread internal/gtfs/recent_shapes.go Resolved
initialized atomic.Bool // Tracks whether concurrent operations have started
cacheMutex sync.RWMutex // Protects shapeCache map access
cache atomic.Pointer[directionCache]
recentShapes *recentShapes // optional; only for a calculator that lives for one import, since ClearCache doesn't empty it

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recentShapes lives outside the directionCache generation, so ClearCache never resets it. The only thing preventing stale shapes after a reload is this comment. Moving recentShapes and shapeLoads into directionCache, the way requestGroup and tripGroup already are, would drop the "one import only" restriction. It would also stop a reload-time read from filling the new generation, which the directionCache comment says must not happen.


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Leaving this for now. Only the calculator NewDirectionPrecomputer creates has a recentShapes, it's created fresh for each import, and nothing calls ClearCache on it. The long-lived manager.DirectionCalculator has none. So the stale-shape case can't happen today. Moving it into directionCache would mean threading the cache generation through calculateOrientationAtStop and about 15 test call sites, which is fine hardening for later but out of scope here.

// NewDirectionPrecomputer creates a new direction precomputer
func NewDirectionPrecomputer(queries *gtfsdb.Queries, db *sql.DB) *DirectionPrecomputer {
calculator := NewAdvancedDirectionCalculator(queries)
calculator.recentShapes = newRecentShapes(precomputeShapeCachePoints)

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Whether the LRU hits depends on ListStops order (stop_id), not shape order, as the PR description notes. A feed whose stop IDs do not follow routes can fall back to about the no-cache time (31 s vs 21 s for NJT). A deeper fix is to give workers stops in shape order (for example, sort stops by the first shape that serves them), or to compute per shape. Then a small cache, or none, gets close to one read per shape whatever the ID scheme.


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Agreed that's the deeper fix, but handing workers stops in shape order is a redesign of the precompute loop. The PR description already names this limit, so I'd like to take it as a follow-up.

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Filed as #1970.

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After a changed import, the direction precomputer read every row of
the shapes table into one Go map before computing stop directions.
For NJ Transit bus that is 3.3 million points, and the map alone held
hundreds of MB. Once the import itself is fixed (#1657), this would
set the peak.

The precomputer now keeps the most recently used shapes up to 500,000
points (about 20 MB of rows), and reads others with the per-shape
query the calculator already used when no cache was set. The budget
counts points, not shapes, because shape sizes vary widely between
feeds. Lookups of one shape share a single read, and the completion
log reports cache hits and reads.

The query returns the same points in the same order (ordered by
shape_pt_sequence), so stop directions are unchanged: the RABA parity
digests, which include stops.direction, still match. On NJ Transit,
the precompute holds about 580 MiB of heap while it runs instead of
about 1.5 GiB, and the import takes as long as before (about 21 s).
Without any cache it took 31 s, because each shape was read again for
every stop on it. A feed whose stops visit shapes in a scattered
order gets fewer hits, but never more memory than the budget.

The full shape map was set only by the precomputer, so SetShapeCache
and its lock are removed; tests now seed the bounded cache instead.
GetAllShapes had no other caller and is removed.
add assumed the shape was not cached yet. A second add for the same
shape pushed a second list element and counted its points twice, and
evicting the old element later deleted the live map entry too. add
now replaces the points of a cached shape and moves it to the front.

add also used slices.Clip, which only lowers the capacity and keeps
the whole backing array alive. The query builds its result with
append, so that array can be up to twice as long as the points the
budget counts. add now copies the points with slices.Clone so the
memory kept matches the budget.
shapePoints sent every lookup through shapeLoads.Do, so each cache
hit paid for the singleflight mutex, map insert and delete, and
WaitGroup before it took the recentShapes lock. Hits are most
lookups, and the precomputer makes them from NumCPU workers at once.
shapePoints now checks recentShapes first and uses singleflight only
for misses, checking the cache again inside Do in case a read
finished between the two.

The completion log's counts also did not add up. Misses were counted
before the read, so failed reads were included, and lookups that
shared another worker's read were counted nowhere. recentShapes now
counts lookups, hits, and shapes stored after a successful read, and
the log reports shape_lookups, shape_cache_hits, and shape_reads.
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