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Problem

PUT /api/group/{group_id} keeps the dashboard in a loading state for minutes on large groups. A group with roughly 30,000 members currently performs all of the following before returning the response:

  1. Hydrates the complete Group.users relationship just to validate and serialize the group response.
  2. Loads every affected User with admin, next-plan, usage-log, and group relationships.
  3. Reconciles WireGuard allocations for the full group.
  4. Serializes every user for node dispatch. Because group inbounds are not nested-eager-loaded, this path can fall back to one inbound query per user.
  5. Repeats the entire workflow even when only the group name changed.

This makes request latency, memory use, and query count scale with group membership. It is separate from, and complementary to, the group-list optimization in #772.

Changes

  • Load a group update without hydrating Group.users and count memberships directly for the response.
  • Compare inbound tags and disabled status before updating:
    • name-only updates skip membership rewrites and user/node synchronization;
    • access-affecting updates commit immediately and schedule reconciliation outside the request path.
  • Process affected users in stable keyset-paginated batches of 1,000 instead of materializing the whole group.
  • Load only id, admin_id, status, and proxy_settings for background node synchronization.
  • Fetch accessible inbound tags once per batch and reuse them for both WireGuard reconciliation and node serialization, removing the per-user inbound-query fallback.
  • Await each batch dispatch inside the background task so large groups do not create an unbounded number of dispatch tasks.
  • Cancel stale in-process work when the same group is updated again, so the latest update wins.
  • Preserve the existing response schema and notification behavior.

Behavior and trade-off

The group row is committed before the API returns. For inbound/status changes, propagation to users and nodes becomes eventually consistent and continues in the background. Name-only changes are immediate and require no propagation. Background failures are logged with the group ID.

The task registry keeps strong references to active work and bounds it to one task per group. A newer update cancels the older task; every batch reads current membership and inbound access before reconciling.

Tests

  • ruff check app tests/test_group_update_sync.py — passed
  • ruff format --check for all changed files — passed
  • focused group/node/WireGuard tests — 28 passed
  • non-API test suite excluding the existing API-backed review-admin module — 172 passed, 2 skipped
  • Python compilation for all changed modules — passed

Added regression coverage for:

  • count and keyset membership helpers;
  • name-only updates avoiding user hydration and synchronization;
  • inbound/status updates scheduling background work;
  • bounded batch iteration and tag reuse;
  • cancellation of stale same-group work;
  • serialization without per-user inbound queries;
  • awaited batch dispatch.

Notes

  • No schema or API response changes.
  • No migration is required by this PR.
  • perf(groups): scale membership summaries #772 remains important because its reverse membership index accelerates the group-centric count and batch lookups used here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Group updates return promptly while affected user access changes synchronize in the background.
    • Large groups synchronize in bounded batches, improving responsiveness and resource usage.
    • Synchronization minimizes unnecessary data loading and lookups.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Access changes, including inbound tags and disabled status, propagate reliably to connected nodes.
    • Unchanged group settings no longer trigger unnecessary synchronization.
    • Outdated pending synchronizations are canceled to prevent stale updates.
    • Synchronization preserves consistent ordering and coordinates concurrent group and inbound changes safely.

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Walkthrough

Group updates avoid loading unchanged relations, return membership counts, and schedule cancellable background synchronization for access changes. Synchronization fetches users in keyset-paginated batches, reuses accessible inbound tags, and awaits node dispatch.

Changes

Group user synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Membership queries and locking
app/db/crud/group.py, app/db/crud/group_lock.py, app/db/crud/host.py, app/operation/__init__.py
Group membership counts, keyset-paginated user IDs, configurable relation loading, and portable write-lock coordination are available. Inbound deletion locks affected groups before cleanup.
Node synchronization inputs
app/db/crud/user.py, app/node/sync.py, app/node/user.py
Node synchronization loads required user columns, accepts prefetched inbound tags, sorts tags, and can await dispatch.
Batched background synchronization
app/operation/group.py
Group users are synchronized in bounded batches. The task revalidates group state, commits each batch, and replaces older in-flight tasks.
Group update integration and validation
app/operation/group.py, tests/test_group_update_sync.py
Group updates skip unchanged inbound-tag writes, build counted responses, and schedule synchronization when tags or status change. Tests cover locking, batching, revalidation, cancellation, tag reuse, and awaited dispatch.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to da565

Access-affecting group updates now return before all users and nodes are reconciled. Concurrent membership changes or interruption during background processing could leave stale authorization, allocations, or node state for part of the group, so this PR is not merge-ready without addressing or explicitly accepting that consistency risk.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GroupOperation
  participant GroupMembershipQueries
  participant UserCRUD
  participant NodeSync
  GroupOperation->>GroupMembershipQueries: Fetch next group user ID batch
  GroupMembershipQueries-->>GroupOperation: Return ordered user IDs
  GroupOperation->>UserCRUD: Load node-sync user columns
  UserCRUD-->>GroupOperation: Return users in input order
  GroupOperation->>NodeSync: Sync allocations and dispatch users with tags
  NodeSync-->>GroupOperation: Await dispatch completion
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A rabbit counts the users in line
Through ordered batches, neat and fine
Tags hop along in sorted rows
Old sync tasks yield to newer flows
The node receives each change in time

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