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Speedups on local-storage and session-storage from the MicroWeb suite.

Every localStorage and sessionStorage read and write made a sync IPC round trip to the process that owns the store — so a script touching storage in a loop spent its time blocked, rather than working. Removing an item and clearing a bottle waited on an empty reply.

Cache each storage map in the process that reads it — primed in one round trip. Local storage makes one bottle per document, so every bottle for a storage key has to find the same cache. Otherwise, two windows of one origin could observe different maps. Session storage already has exactly one bottle per traversable and storage key: The shed hands out one shelf per storage key, and one bottle per endpoint within it. So, that bottle owns its cache outright, and nothing has to name the traversable to find it.

Writes no longer wait for a reply. Quota is answered from the cache against the rule the owner applies. So, a write this process accepts is one the owner accepts — and the owner tells every other process to drop a map it changed, rather than describing the change.

MicroWeb local-storage, 5-iteration median:

Ladybird Chromium jitless ratio
Before 381.6 ms 10.9 ms -35.0x slower
After 7.8 ms 10.8 ms +1.4x faster

MicroWeb session-storage, 5-iteration median:

Ladybird Chromium jitless ratio
Before 198.4 ms 11.3 ms -17.6x slower
After 8.1 ms 11.4 ms +1.4x faster

Important

Quota is decided from the cached map, not from the owner’s reply. An item too large to ever fit is refused before the map is even primed, and the owner still applies its own check — so nothing over quota is ever persisted, and a process whose write the owner refuses is told to drop its cache. What a caller cannot see is a refusal only the owner could have known about: another process filling the same storage key in the window before this one hears about it. That write throws nothing, though the next read is correct. Chromium makes the same tradeoff — CachedStorageArea::SetItem() decides from its renderer-local map, and ignores the browser process’s answer.

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Walkthrough

Storage bottles now use shared in-process caches for local and session storage. Reads lazily request all entries through IPC. Writes update cached entries, enforce UTF-8 quota limits, and forward mutations asynchronously. WebContent clients notify matching clients about storage changes. Receiving clients invalidate affected caches so later reads reload current entries. Storage mutation IPC methods no longer return operation results.

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  participant StorageBottle
  participant PageClient
  participant WebContentClient
  participant OtherConnection
  StorageBottle->>PageClient: page_did_request_storage_entries
  PageClient->>WebContentClient: did_request_storage_entries
  WebContentClient-->>PageClient: keys and values
  StorageBottle->>PageClient: async storage mutation
  PageClient->>WebContentClient: async storage mutation
  WebContentClient->>OtherConnection: async_storage_changed_externally
  OtherConnection->>OtherConnection: invalidate_cached_storage_maps
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This change moves web storage reads and writes to a process-local cache to reduce blocking IPC overhead; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains, so it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

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The pull request description directly matches the changeset. It explains process-local storage caching, IPC changes, quota handling, cache invalidation, and the reported localStorage and sessionStorage performance improvements.


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Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp (1)

159-239: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Hoist the duplicated cache logic into StorageBottle.

LocalStorageBottle and SessionStorageBottle now carry byte-identical implementations of ensure_primed, size, keys, get, set, clear, and remove. Only the stored m_endpoint_type differs, and both classes already store m_page, m_endpoint_type, and m_storage_key identically.

Move these members and method bodies to StorageBottle and keep the subclasses for allocation and for copy_map_from. This removes about 80 duplicated lines and prevents the quota accounting in the two copies from drifting apart.

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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp` around lines 159 - 239, Move
the shared cache operations ensure_primed, size, keys, get, set, clear, and
remove from LocalStorageBottle and SessionStorageBottle into StorageBottle,
preserving their existing behavior and use of m_page, m_endpoint_type,
m_storage_key, and the shared cache. Remove the duplicate subclass
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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp`:
- Around line 151-157: Update invalidate_cached_storage_map to reset the cached
storage object's quota_used to 0 alongside clearing entries and setting primed
to false, so ensure_primed() recalculates usage from the invalidated cache
state.

In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.h`:
- Around line 39-44: The storage_cache_key function must avoid using Page
addresses for session-storage partitioning. Key session-storage entries with the
storage key and page.top_level_traversable()->id(), matching the owner’s
session_storage resolution, and remove the corresponding cached_storage_map
entry when that traversable partition ends.

In `@Libraries/LibWebView/WebContentClient.cpp`:
- Around line 1440-1445: Capture the StorageSetResult returned by
StorageJar::set_item in WebContentClient::did_set_storage_item, and when
result.has<StorageOperationError>() is true, invalidate this client’s cached
storage value before notifying other clients. Do not compare the result against
StorageOperationResult::Success; preserve the existing notification flow.

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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp`:
- Around line 159-239: Move the shared cache operations ensure_primed, size,
keys, get, set, clear, and remove from LocalStorageBottle and
SessionStorageBottle into StorageBottle, preserving their existing behavior and
use of m_page, m_endpoint_type, m_storage_key, and the shared cache. Remove the
duplicate subclass implementations while retaining the subclasses only for
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Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp (1)

161-241: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider moving the cached-map logic into StorageBottle.

LocalStorageBottle and SessionStorageBottle now contain identical implementations of ensure_primed, size, keys, get, set, clear, and remove. Both classes also hold the same m_page, m_endpoint_type, and m_storage_key members. Any future fix to quota accounting or priming must be applied twice. Move these members and methods into StorageBottle, and keep only the endpoint-specific pieces (for example copy_map_from) in the subclasses.

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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp` around lines 161 - 241, Move
the shared storage state members m_page, m_endpoint_type, and m_storage_key plus
the implementations of ensure_primed, size, keys, get, set, clear, and remove
from LocalStorageBottle and SessionStorageBottle into StorageBottle. Update both
subclasses to inherit and use the shared implementation, retaining only
endpoint-specific behavior such as copy_map_from and preserving existing quota,
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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.h`:
- Around line 42-47: Update session-storage initialization around
StorageShed::legacy_clone() and Page::set_top_level_traversable() so
SessionStorageBottle cache acquisition is deferred until the page’s top-level
traversable identifier exists. Ensure storage_cache_key() receives that
identifier for session storage, preventing auxiliary pages from sharing a cache;
preserve existing local-storage behavior.

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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp`:
- Around line 161-241: Move the shared storage state members m_page,
m_endpoint_type, and m_storage_key plus the implementations of ensure_primed,
size, keys, get, set, clear, and remove from LocalStorageBottle and
SessionStorageBottle into StorageBottle. Update both subclasses to inherit and
use the shared implementation, retaining only endpoint-specific behavior such as
copy_map_from and preserving existing quota, priming, and client-notification
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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp`:
- Around line 221-228: Update LocalStorageBottle::set() and the page/client
storage-write path so the owner’s synchronous quota decision is returned to the
caller instead of reporting persistence asynchronously without a result.
Propagate StorageJar::PersistedStorage::set_item() rejection as
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Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp (1)

208-261: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Share the cached implementation between both bottles.

LocalStorageBottle and SessionStorageBottle now contain identical bodies for ensure_primed(), size(), keys(), get(), set(), clear(), and remove(). The two copies differ only by class name. Future quota or invalidation fixes must land twice, and the previous quota_used fix already had to be applied in two places.

Move this logic into StorageBottle and keep m_page, m_endpoint_type, and m_storage_key in the base class. The subclasses then only supply the endpoint type at construction.

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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp` around lines 208 - 261, Move
the shared ensure_primed(), size(), keys(), get(), set(), clear(), and remove()
implementations from LocalStorageBottle and SessionStorageBottle into
StorageBottle, retaining shared state members m_page, m_endpoint_type, and
m_storage_key in the base class. Update both subclasses to only provide their
endpoint type during construction and remove their duplicate method bodies while
preserving existing quota, cache, and invalidation behavior.
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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp`:
- Around line 168-181: Update ensure_primed() in both LocalStorageBottle and the
corresponding other bottle to assert that keys.size() equals values.size()
immediately after requesting storage entries, then iterate over the paired
results without silently truncating mismatched replies.
- Around line 156-166: Update cached_storage_map() to remove the registry entry
when an existing cache_key resolves to an expired weak reference, and prune
stale registry entries before inserting a newly created CachedStorageMap so dead
keys do not accumulate.

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In `@Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp`:
- Around line 208-261: Move the shared ensure_primed(), size(), keys(), get(),
set(), clear(), and remove() implementations from LocalStorageBottle and
SessionStorageBottle into StorageBottle, retaining shared state members m_page,
m_endpoint_type, and m_storage_key in the base class. Update both subclasses to
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@sideshowbarker The current assessment remains:

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · head d5a3ed021dee2158fc3bd43a723fe86c1052c520 (d5a3e)

The PR branch is unchanged from the earlier assessment. GitHub reports that it is MERGEABLE and CLEAN against the current master base commit 50a312b8db1d965315245a0da3219100fd80c039.

Merge and integration status

  • The PR changes 11 production files.
  • The changes consistently update the storage IPC contract across PageClient, WebContentClient, and the two IPC definition files.
  • The previous synchronous mutation result is removed consistently.
  • The new synchronous DidRequestStorageEntries request primes each cache before read or quota-sensitive mutation operations.
  • git diff --check reports no whitespace errors.
  • There are no unresolved, current GitHub review threads.

Validation status

All listed CI jobs pass. This includes:

  • Linux release and debug builds.
  • Linux, macOS, and Windows sanitizer builds.
  • Linux fuzzers.
  • Lint.
  • Flatpak builds for x86_64 and aarch64.

This provides good evidence that the IPC changes compile and integrate across supported build configurations. The sanitizer and fuzzer results reduce the risk of memory-safety and basic runtime regressions.

Storage behavior assessment

The implementation has clear cache-coherence handling:

  • localStorage shares a cache for the same storage key within one WebContent process.
  • sessionStorage receives a separate cache per session-storage bottle.
  • A process that changes storage updates its local cache before it sends the asynchronous mutation.
  • The storage owner notifies other same-privacy processes to invalidate their cached copy.
  • If the storage owner rejects a write, the initiating process also invalidates its own cache. The next access re-primes it from the owner.
  • Cached quota accounting uses UTF-8 byte size, which matches the storage-owner accounting path.

These details make the new asynchronous write model internally consistent. They also limit stale data to the interval before an invalidated cache next reads from the storage owner.

Remaining residual risk

The remaining risk is behavioral rather than merge-related.

  • This PR changes cross-process cache invalidation and asynchronous write behavior.
  • No test files change in this PR.
  • Existing CI confirms integration, but it does not specifically demonstrate multi-process cache invalidation, write rejection after a local optimistic update, or rapid interleaved mutations from separate WebContent processes.

Those cases are the main areas where a runtime regression could still occur. They do not currently indicate a blocking defect in the implementation.

Conclusion

I assess the PR as safe to merge from a branch-health and integration perspective. The merge conflict risk is minimal, the CI status is fully green, and the current implementation handles the critical cache invalidation paths. Focused automated coverage for cross-process invalidation would further reduce residual behavioral risk, but it is not required to classify the current merge risk as minimal.

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@sideshowbarker Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d5a3e

The current PR branch state is unchanged from the earlier assessment.

GitHub previously reported that PR #11357 is mergeable and clean against its master base. The storage IPC changes are consistent across PageClient, WebContentClient, and the IPC definitions. The cache invalidation paths also handle cross-process storage changes.

The remaining risk is behavioral, not merge-related. This PR has no focused tests for cross-process cache invalidation, rejected optimistic writes, or rapid mutations from separate WebContent processes. Those cases do not indicate a current blocking defect.

The branch is safe to merge from a branch-health and integration perspective.


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File: Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp:234-241
Timestamp: 2026-08-25T13:23:12.505Z
Learning: In `Libraries/LibWeb/StorageAPI/StorageBottle.cpp`, `LocalStorageBottle::set()` and `SessionStorageBottle::set()` intentionally make quota decisions from the process-local `CachedStorageMap` and send accepted writes asynchronously. The owner independently enforces the persistence quota and invalidates cached maps after rejecting a write. Do not request a synchronous owner admission result because it would reintroduce the IPC round trip that the storage cache is intended to eliminate.

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I haven't done a thorough code review, but I think there are some fundamental issues with the cache invalidation in this branch. If I'm reading correctly, the cache is only invalidated from WebContent-driven writes. But the storage can be mutated browser-side as well, e.g. through clearing site data in about:settings or devtools.

I think this type of issue is inherent to a "push-based" cache like this, where anytime we introduce a storage mutation API, we have to be sure to remember to then also broadcast the change.

Compare that to the "pull-based" shared-memory version counter that we use for document (non-HTTP) cookies. It's up to the reader to check the version counter, and all writers go through the cookie jar, which automatically handles bumping the version and issuing notifications.

That said, I'm not sure the exact type of cache we use for document cookies would get the same performance gain. document.cookie tends to be read much more than written, so I'm not sure it translates well to web storage.

I'm wondering if the delta-observer approach is actually the way forward here (i.e. what was seemingly rejected by the statement "the owner tells every other process to drop a map it changed, rather than describing the change"). Basically, let the storage jar (the source of truth) tell every process about what has changed (or tell the originating process that the change was rejected).

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I'm wondering if the delta-observer approach is actually the way forward here (i.e. what was seemingly rejected by the statement "the owner tells every other process to drop a map it changed, rather than describing the change"). Basically, let the storage jar (the source of truth) tell every process about what has changed (or tell the originating process that the change was rejected).

hmm yeah, even just intuitively, thinking about it as described that way, that does seem like the better way. I‘ll take a shot at re-doing this with that approach, and I see how far I get.

Every localStorage and sessionStorage read and write made a sync IPC
round trip to the process that owns the store — so a script touching
storage in a loop spent its time blocked, rather than working. Removing
an item and clearing a bottle waited on an empty reply.

Cache each storage map in the process that reads it — primed in one
round trip. Local storage makes one bottle per document, so every bottle
for a storage key has to find the same cache. Otherwise, two windows of
one origin could observe different maps. Session storage already has
exactly one bottle per traversable and storage key: The shed hands out
one shelf per storage key, and one bottle per endpoint within it. So,
that bottle owns its cache outright, and nothing has to name the
traversable to find it.

Writes no longer wait for a reply. Quota is answered from the cache
against the rule the owner applies. So, a write this process accepts is
one the owner accepts — and the owner tells every other process to drop
a map it changed, rather than describing the change.

MicroWeb local-storage, 5-iteration median:

Before: Ladybird 381.6 ms vs Chromium jitless 10.9 ms (-35.0x slower).
After: Ladybird 7.8 ms vs Chromium jitless 10.8 ms (+1.4x faster).

MicroWeb session-storage, 5-iteration median:

Before: Ladybird 198.4 ms vs Chromium jitless 11.3 ms (-17.6x slower).
After: Ladybird 8.1 ms vs Chromium jitless 11.4 ms (+1.4x faster).
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