refactor(runtime): use length-delimited response codec

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Summary

• replace the custom frontend response frame decoder with tokio_util::codec::LengthDelimitedCodec
• preserve the existing four-byte big-endian wire format, total-frame size limit, partial-read behavior, and compatibility helpers
• remove 36 net lines without adding a dependency or changing the public response message API

Validation

• cargo test -p dynamo-runtime --lib pipeline::network::codec::tests::test_tcp_response -- --nocapture (6 passed)
• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• git diff --check main..HEAD
• release A/B frontend benchmark against mock workers, three paired trials per point, 8,192 measured requests per trial, zero errors:
  • concurrency 256: frontend CPU/request -0.69%, throughput +0.45%
  • concurrency 1024: frontend CPU/request -0.88%, throughput +0.60%

All benchmark arms used identical trace-enabled JSONL logging, W3C trace headers, fresh frontend/mocker restarts, separate warmup, and disjoint CPU placement.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved TCP response framing and decoding for more reliable message handling.
  • Preserved the existing 4-byte length format and efficient payload processing.
  • Enforced maximum message size limits during response handling.

• Reliability

  • Added consistent default behavior for TCP response encoding and decoding.

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✅ Devin Review: No Issues Found

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Walkthrough

TcpResponseCodec now uses Tokio’s LengthDelimitedCodec for response framing. The codec preserves the four-byte big-endian length format, applies a payload limit, freezes decoded payloads, and provides an explicit default implementation.

Changes

TCP response framing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Codec configuration lib/runtime/src/pipeline/network/codec.rs	TcpResponseCodec now configures LengthDelimitedCodec with response length settings and a payload limit. It also implements Default.
Frame decoding and encoding lib/runtime/src/pipeline/network/codec.rs	Response decoding and encoding delegate to LengthDelimitedCodec. Decoding advances past the length field and freezes the payload frame. Encoding uses the configured maximum frame length.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to dec88

This refactor can allow a peer to trigger an approximately 4 GiB allocation through the default response codec, potentially causing memory exhaustion, and very small configured limits can be violated by emitted frames. Merge should be blocked until the default is bounded and sub-header limits are rejected or handled safely.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the refactor to use a length-delimited response codec.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring check was indeterminate for this PR — some files could not be analyzed in time. Not blocking.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@lib/runtime/src/pipeline/network/codec.rs`:
- Around line 438-442: Update response_payload_limit and the TcpResponseCodec
setup to reject max_message_size values smaller than RESPONSE_LENGTH_WIDTH
instead of converting them to a zero payload limit; return the established error
before delegating to LengthDelimitedCodec. Add boundary tests covering limits of
three and four bytes, preserving valid behavior for a four-byte header limit.
- Around line 438-443: Update response_payload_limit and
TcpResponseCodec::default so an omitted max_message_size uses a finite bounded
response-frame limit instead of u32::MAX, while preserving explicit
caller-provided limits. Add a regression test that feeds a header-only
0xffffffff frame and verifies decoding does not attempt an unbounded payload
allocation.

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