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Multi-tenant Valkey deployments commonly separate tenants by DB, often paired with ACL db= restrictions per tenant user. The Lua script cache (EVAL/EVALSHA/SCRIPT LOAD/SCRIPT EXISTS/SCRIPT FLUSH) doesn't respect that separation: it's a single dict shared across every database, so a script loaded by one tenant is reachable via EVALSHA from any other tenant's DB, and SCRIPT FLUSH always wipes every tenant's scripts at once. There was no way to flush, or otherwise isolate, just one tenant's cached scripts.

This adds a new immutable boolean config, default off (zero behavior change for existing deployments). When enabled, the cache becomes an array of dicts sized by 'databases', indexed by the client's currently selected DB, so scripts are scoped to the DB (tenant) that loaded them. SCRIPT FLUSH then only clears the caller's own DB slot instead of doing a full reset (the shared Lua engine environment reset stays tied to the full, all-DBs flush path).

Also adds db_cached_scripts: lines to INFO Memory, one per non-empty DB slot, shown only when script-cache-per-db is enabled. When disabled there's a single shared cache, so the existing number_of_cached_scripts aggregate already fully describes it and no per-DB lines are emitted.

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Adds optional per-database Lua script caches, updated script command ACL metadata, expanded configuration documentation, and related tests. Cache metrics, cleanup, defragmentation, and introspection now support multiple cache contexts.

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Per-database Lua script cache

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and cache contexts
src/config.c, src/server.h, src/eval.c
Adds the disabled-by-default option and supports shared or per-database cache contexts.
Cache lifecycle and command operations
src/eval.c
Routes lookup, loading, execution, eviction, deletion, flushing, and cleanup through the selected context.
Metrics and maintenance integration
src/server.c, src/object.c, src/defrag.c, src/eval.c
Aggregates cache metrics, reports per-database INFO fields, and defragments each script dictionary.
Script command ACL metadata
src/commands.def, src/commands/*.json
Adds keyspace and read classifications and marks SCRIPT LOAD as DENYOOM.
Cache documentation and tests
valkey.conf, tests/unit/scripting.tcl
Documents the option and tests isolation, scoped flushing, metrics, and disabled-mode behavior.

Configuration documentation and validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration reference updates
valkey.conf
Documents TLS alternatives, persistence, replication, ACL roles, cluster behavior, script limits, hot-key detection, and quality-of-service settings.
Introspection test updates
tests/unit/introspection.tcl
Covers forked and forkless background saves, updates replica flag matching, and adjusts configuration skip lists.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant evalGenericCommand
  participant EvalContext
  participant ScriptDictionary
  Client->>evalGenericCommand: EVAL or SCRIPT command
  evalGenericCommand->>EvalContext: select client database context
  EvalContext->>ScriptDictionary: lookup, register, execute, or flush script
  ScriptDictionary-->>Client: command result
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Enabling per-database script caches can make active defragmentation exceed its latency budget as cache contexts grow. Make this work resumable before merging.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 56.25% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 32 functions across 6 files. (5 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding the script-cache-per-db configuration to scope EVAL and SCRIPT caches per database.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the per-database script-cache behavior, default compatibility, SCRIPT FLUSH semantics, and INFO Memory reporting changes.
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In `@src/eval.c`:
- Around line 216-224: The async cleanup currently resets the scripting engine
from only the context-0 job, which may run before other contexts finish
releasing scripts. Update the evalFlushCtx cleanup flow in the surrounding
evaluation cleanup function so resetEngineEvalEnvCallback runs only after every
old context has been released, either by sharing one cleanup job across all
contexts or attaching the callback to the final cleanup completion.

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- Around line 724-791: Add the singledb:skip tag to the nested start_server
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ensuring these DB 9/DB 10-dependent tests are skipped in single-database
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Two correctness issues remain around database selection and ACL isolation.

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If we were going for proper separation of concerns for multi-tenancy, it would be great to have pubsub channels separated as well, but at least there is a configuration option to have them compulsorily prefixed ACL-wise (&channel-prefix:*).

This change is for the scripts part that had absolutely no separation method, so it is implemented here, and I kept it optionally enabled (disabled by default) so it does not break compatibility on deployments that don't need it. Not that it would (tests pass), but better not to risk it unnecessarily.

I use a FreeBSD server where I intend to have one Valkey server that serves as a memory cache for many different projects.

I request a timely merge/release so I can start using it.

Thanks in advance!

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I wonder if this fix shouldn't be the default. I understand the rational to keep the current behavior, but this looks like the correct behavior to me. @ranshid / @madolson thoughts?

Comment thread src/eval.c
Comment on lines +129 to +132
evalCtxs[i].scripts = dictCreate(&shaScriptObjectDictType);
evalCtxs[i].scripts_lru_list = listCreate();
listSetFreeMethod(evalCtxs[i].scripts_lru_list, sdsfreeVoid);
evalCtxs[i].scripts_mem = 0;

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nit: move this into a helper method: initialiseEvalCtx(evalCtx* ctx)

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listSetFreeMethod(evalCtx.scripts_lru_list, sdsfreeVoid);
evalCtx.scripts_mem = 0;
evalCtxCount = server.script_cache_per_db ? server.dbnum : 1;
evalCtxs = zcalloc(sizeof(struct evalCtx) * evalCtxCount);

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Suggestion: we can use a lazy approach (to reduce memory usage): keep pointers instead of the actual struct size) and allocate it when we actually need it.

Comment thread src/eval.c
Comment on lines +201 to +204
ctx->scripts = dictCreate(&shaScriptObjectDictType);
ctx->scripts_lru_list = listCreate();
listSetFreeMethod(ctx->scripts_lru_list, sdsfreeVoid);
ctx->scripts_mem = 0;

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Should you choose to use my helper suggestion above, this become:

initialiseEvalCtx(ctx);

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@eifrah-aws all changes are fine by me but it makes no sense to do them if this PR gets no attention.

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In `@src/defrag.c`:
- Around line 971-974: The defragLuaScripts stage currently scans every script
dictionary to completion without honoring the active-defrag deadline. Make
defragLuaScripts incremental by persisting the current context index and each
dictionary’s scan cursor, resetting both when endtime is zero, processing one
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I wonder if this fix shouldn't be the default. I understand the rational to keep the current behavior, but this looks like the correct behavior to me. @ranshid / @madolson thoughts?

I strongly oppose breaking changes. I also don't really follow why it's the better default position, but I would rather just not randomly break application because a script that they loaded wasn't available across DBs. I would honestly almost prefer an entire new set of commands that did lua stuff per DB.

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karolyi force-pushed the script-cache-per-db branch 2 times, most recently from 84d6780 to 1a11ae5 Compare September 18, 2026 11:38
…per DB

Multi-tenant Valkey deployments commonly separate tenants by DB, often
paired with ACL db=<n> restrictions per tenant user. The Lua script cache
(EVAL/EVALSHA/SCRIPT LOAD/SCRIPT EXISTS/SCRIPT FLUSH) doesn't respect that
separation: it's a single dict shared across every database, so a script
loaded by one tenant is reachable via EVALSHA from any other tenant's DB,
and SCRIPT FLUSH always wipes every tenant's scripts at once. There was no
way to flush, or otherwise isolate, just one tenant's cached scripts.

This adds a new immutable boolean config, default off (zero behavior
change for existing deployments). When enabled, the cache becomes an array
of dicts sized by 'databases', indexed by the client's currently selected
DB, so scripts are scoped to the DB (tenant) that loaded them. SCRIPT
FLUSH then only clears the caller's own DB slot instead of doing a full
reset (the shared Lua engine environment reset stays tied to the full,
all-DBs flush path).

Also adds db<N>_cached_scripts:<count> lines to INFO Memory, one per
non-empty DB slot, shown only when script-cache-per-db is enabled. When
disabled there's a single shared cache, so the existing
number_of_cached_scripts aggregate already fully describes it and no
per-DB lines are emitted.

SCRIPT FLUSH/LOAD/EXISTS/SHOW now act on the caller's currently selected
DB, but carried nothing the per-DB ACL check keys off, so a user
ACL-restricted to one DB could operate on another DB's script cache --
AUTH does not reset the selected DB, so authenticating on a connection
already sitting elsewhere is enough. Tagging them @keyspace/@READ would
fix that but would also widen every existing selector built from those
categories, notably letting a +@READ user retrieve arbitrary script
bodies via SCRIPT SHOW. Add a CMD_CURRENT_DB command flag instead, which
shouldRestrictCmd() honours without changing what any ACL category grants.

Signed-off-by: László Károlyi <laszlo@karolyi.hu>
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