fix(index): defer requeued work to next round

[miyanyan]

Related issue

Fixes #611

What changed

Fixed background indexing repeatedly consuming work that was requeued during the same indexing round.

The indexer now freezes the queue boundary at the start of each round. Work enqueued while that round is running, including tasks requeued because no stateless worker is available, is deferred to the next idle-delayed round.

Tests

Added UnavailableWorkerDoesNotSpinInCurrentRound to indexer_tests.cpp. The test starts an empty worker pool and verifies that a requeued file is processed only once in the current round.

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The background indexer now processes a fixed queue snapshot per round. A regression test verifies that unavailable workers do not cause repeated rounds for one queued file.

Changes

Indexer round boundary

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Snapshot-bounded indexing dispatch src/server/compiler/indexer.cpp	run_background_indexing freezes the queue boundary, calculates totals from the snapshot, and dispatches only through that boundary. Newly queued files are deferred.
Unavailable-worker regression coverage tests/unit/server/indexer.cpp	The test adds CDB setup and verifies that one queued file completes in exactly one indexing round when workers are unavailable.

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Possibly related PRs

• clice-io/clice#432: Constrains run_background_indexing() dispatch to a queue snapshot boundary.
• clice-io/clice#496: Changes how Indexer::run_background_indexing() controls queued work per round.
• clice-io/clice#502: Modifies indexing failure requeue handling and background dispatch behavior.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes deferring requeued indexing work to the next round.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the issue, change summary, and added test; it does not list local test commands.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The queue-boundary fix and regression test address issue #611 by preventing unbounded same-round retries and progress growth.
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In `@tests/unit/server/indexer_tests.cpp`:
- Around line 1239-1242: Update the zero-worker retry test around f.pool.start
and the first indexer round to assert that f.indexer.pending_reason(id) has a
value afterward, confirming the file remains pending when index_one encounters
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Compact consumed entries between retry rounds

When work keeps being requeued across multiple rounds—for example, while stateless workers remain unavailable—this bounded loop advances index_queue_pos but each retry appends another entry to index_queue. The cleanup at line 1077 only clears the vector when there is no retry tail, so a persistent outage or repeated preemption retains every consumed slot and grows memory by the number of retried files on every idle-delayed round. Erase or otherwise compact the consumed prefix at the round safe point while preserving the deferred tail.

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[miyanyan]

• add a compaction threshold

  if(index_queue_pos == index_queue.size()) {
      index_queue.clear();
      index_queue_pos = 0;
  } else if(index_queue_pos >= index_queue_threshold) {
      index_queue.erase(
          index_queue.begin(),
          index_queue.begin() + index_queue_pos);
      index_queue_pos = 0;
  }

or

• add a double buffer to swap index_queue

[16bit-ykiko]

Fixed in #615.