Split pods/containers into separate trees in quark_queue

[Tacklebox]

Summary

• Moves pod_by_uid out of quark_kube and into quark_queue directly, alongside the existing container_by_id
• Adds GC_CONTAINER to enum gc_type and embeds struct gc_link gc as the first member of struct quark_container, enabling containers to participate in the GC queue independently
• Adds gc_unlink call in container_delete so containers already in the GC queue are safely dequeued when their parent pod is torn down
• Handles GC_CONTAINER in gc_collect, routing to container_delete

This is the structural foundation for the public pod/container API in the next PR.

Test plan

• make libquark_big.a builds cleanly
• Existing kube-talker integration still runs (no behaviour change, only structural)

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[nicholasberlin]

PR Review: #380 — Split pods/containers into separate trees in quark_queue

Author: Tacklebox
Branch: oci-trees-structure -> main
Commits: 1 | Files changed: 2 | +116 -11
URL: #380
Reviewed commit: 499635f
Reviewed by: OpenAI GPT-5

Summary

This change moves the pod index onto quark_queue, makes pod/container lookup available without Kubernetes state, adds public get/lookup helpers, and cleans up queue-owned pods and orphan containers on close. The ownership move itself is coherent, but the new container getter does not honor its documented parent-link behavior for existing containers, and the reviewed commit does not contain the independent container-GC work claimed by the PR description.

Findings

Significant

1. Existing containers are returned without applying or validating pod_uid (quark.c:2402).

   quark_container_get() resolves the requested pod, but then immediately returns when container_lookup() finds an existing container. A supported call sequence such as quark_container_get(qq, "id", NULL) followed later by quark_container_get(qq, "id", "pod-uid") therefore leaves the container orphaned forever, despite the function's contract saying that a non-NULL pod_uid links the container to that pod. The same path silently returns a container already linked to a different pod. Because there is no other public attachment operation, callers cannot repair either state. When an existing container has no parent, link it into the requested pod; when it already belongs to a different pod, return a defined error such as EEXIST or EINVAL.

2. The commit does not implement the independent container garbage collection described as part of this PR (quark.h:571, quark.h:695, quark.c:473, quark.c:789).

   At the reviewed head, enum gc_type has no GC_CONTAINER, struct quark_container has no leading gc_link, gc_collect() has no container case, and container_delete() cannot unlink a queued container. Those are all explicitly listed in the PR summary as the structural foundation being delivered. They currently appear only in a later draft PR in the stack. Either include that foundation here or update this PR's scope and description so reviewers and merge sequencing reflect what this commit actually provides.

Minor

1. The comments still describe the moved trees as belonging to quark_kube (quark.h:712, quark.h:736).

   After this change both global indexes live in quark_queue, so these comments now document the wrong owner and preserve Kubernetes-specific naming for a queue-wide data structure.

Verdict

REQUEST_CHANGES — fix the existing-container parent-link path before exposing quark_container_get(), and reconcile the implementation with the PR's stated container-GC scope. The ownership relocation and close-time cleanup otherwise look sound.

Verification

• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD passed.
• GitHub reports successful buildkite/quark and CLA statuses for the reviewed commit.
• make libquark_big.a could not be validated locally on macOS because vendored libelf fails first on Clang signedness warnings promoted to errors; the identical failure occurs at the base commit d795343d147d0120b7c7a8e59b76a833f4b8b812, before compiling the PR's changed files.

[biscout42]

Do we actually need it? IIUC pod_delete handles this case at https://github.com/elastic/quark/blob/main/quark.c#L891

[biscout42]

Could we use quark_container_get with pod_uid being NULL ? If so, I assume we will not be able to attach a pod_uid later, because of the check in the next line. Is that correct understanding? (the first finding from Nick's review)

Could we add a unit test which verifies and demoes correct use case of the function?

[biscout42]

Would it make sense to add a unit test?