Daemon no longer owns a coarse mu shared across unrelated concerns.
Each subsystem now carries its own state and lock:
- tapPool: entries, next, and mu move onto a new tapPool struct.
- sessionRegistry: sessionControllers + its mutex move off Daemon.
- opRegistry[T asyncOp]: generic registry collapses the two ad-hoc
vm-create and image-build operation maps (and their mutexes) into one
shared type; the Begin/Status/Cancel/Prune methods simplify.
- vmLockSet: the sync.Map of per-VM mutexes moves into its own type;
lockVMID forwards.
- Daemon.mu splits into imageOpsMu (image-registry mutations) and
createVMMu (CreateVM serialisation) so image ops and VM creates no
longer block each other.
Lock ordering collapses to vmLocks[id] -> {createVMMu, imageOpsMu} ->
subsystem-local leaves. doc.go and ARCHITECTURE.md updated.
No behavior change; tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Beat VM create wall time without changing VM semantics.
Generate a work-seed ext4 sidecar during image builds and rootfs rebuilds, then clone and resize that seed for each new VM instead of rebuilding /root from scratch. Plumb the new seed artifact through config, runtime metadata, store state, runtime-bundle defaults, doctor checks, and default-image reconciliation so older images still fall back cleanly.
Add a daemon TAP pool to keep idle bridge-attached devices warm, expose stage timing in lifecycle logs, add a create/SSH benchmark script plus Make target, and teach verify.sh that tap-pool-* devices are reusable capacity rather than cleanup leaks.
Validated with go test ./..., make build, ./verify.sh, and make bench-create ARGS="--runs 2".