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rcourtman fa02fcf5c9 Reuse the host continuity overlay and copy only hosts for live lookups (#2245)
While a standalone agent stays offline across a restart (up to the
72-hour continuity window), every canonical read-state lookup adds it
back from host continuity by building a whole registry clone
(`readStateWithRecords`). Alert evaluation makes one lookup per resource
per poll, so in that state each poll rebuilt the registry once per
resource. Each lookup also called `GetLiveHostsSnapshot` twice, and that
went through `State.GetSnapshot()`, deep-copying every VM and container
just to return the hosts.

**Changes**

- **Overlay cache.** The adapter keeps the last continuity overlay,
keyed by:
  - the registry pointer;
- `LastRebuiltAt` (every replace and in-place supplemental ingest
updates it);
- a fingerprint of the requested records. The fingerprint leaves out
`Resource.UpdatedAt`, which `resourceFromHost` stamps with `time.Now()`
at build time.

It reuses the overlay for at most 2 s, because the overlay evaluates
source staleness when it is built. The live adapter is never mutated.
- **Hosts-only copy.** `GetLiveHostsSnapshot` now copies only hosts,
through the existing `State.GetHosts()`. The result is identical,
because `GetSnapshot` sets `Hosts: cloneHosts(s.Hosts)`. This also
removes a full state copy from each agent report (`ApplyHostReport`),
each config fetch and every other caller.
- **Single host copy per lookup.**
`readStateWithStandaloneHostContinuity` takes the host list once instead
of twice.

**One read-state lookup** with one offline standalone agent (synthetic,
8-node clusters, pulse-dev):

| Resources | main | this PR |
|---|---|---|
| 130 | 3.0 ms / 1.9 MB | 13 µs / 10 KB |
| 520 | 15.9 ms / 11.8 MB | 25 µs / 29 KB |
| 1,040 | 41 ms / 28 MB | 39 µs / 54 KB |
| 2,080 | 136 ms / 95 MB | 74 µs / 104 KB |

**Tests.** Each fails when its mechanism is reverted.

- `TestHostContinuityOverlayReusedWithinRegistryGeneration`: reuse
within a generation, including records rebuilt with a fresh `UpdatedAt`;
rebuild after a new generation or different records; the 2 s age bound;
and no mutation of the live adapter.
- `TestStandaloneHostContinuityReadStateReusedAcrossLookups`: end to end
through `GetUnifiedReadStateOrSnapshot` with a real continuity store.
- `TestGetLiveHostsSnapshotCopiesOnlyHosts`: 1 host with 1,000 VMs must
not allocate per guest. The old path made 1,010 allocations.

**Verification on pulse-dev:** `internal/unifiedresources`,
`internal/monitoring`, the `internal/api/...` subpackages and
`cmd/pulse-control-plane` pass.
`TestServerInfoEndpointReportsDevelopment` fails in that source export
with and without this change, because the export has no git checkout.

Refs #2199
2026-09-24 12:40:19 +01:00
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