big batches, doesn't change much

Set MAX_SEND_SIZE to 1MB
Set default batch size to 1000
2026-05-22 15:41:15 +00:00 · 2024-07-21 17:40:37 +01:00 · 2024-07-20 23:24:34 +01:00 · 2024-07-20 23:09:36 +01:00 · 2024-07-20 23:03:31 +01:00 · 2024-07-20 20:55:13 +01:00
256 changed files with 5802 additions and 13603 deletions
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# allows for nicer hunk headers with git show
-*.rs diff=rust
--- a/.github/actionlint.yml
+++ b/.github/actionlint.yml
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ self-hosted-runner:
    - small-arm64
    - us-east-2
 config-variables:
-  - BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_PUB
-  - BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_SUB
  - REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER
  - REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION
  - SLACK_UPCOMING_RELEASE_CHANNEL_ID
--- a/.github/actions/neon-project-create/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/neon-project-create/action.yml
@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@ inputs:
  api_host:
    description: 'Neon API host'
    default: console-stage.neon.build
+  provisioner:
+    description: 'k8s-pod or k8s-neonvm'
+    default: 'k8s-pod'
  compute_units:
-    description: '[Min, Max] compute units'
+    description: '[Min, Max] compute units; Min and Max are used for k8s-neonvm with autoscaling, for k8s-pod values Min and Max should be equal'
    default: '[1, 1]'

 outputs:
@@ -34,6 +37,10 @@ runs:
      # A shell without `set -x` to not to expose password/dsn in logs
      shell: bash -euo pipefail {0}
      run: |
+        if [ "${PROVISIONER}" == "k8s-pod" ] && [ "${MIN_CU}" != "${MAX_CU}" ]; then
+          echo >&2 "For k8s-pod provisioner MIN_CU should be equal to MAX_CU"
+        fi
+
        project=$(curl \
          "https://${API_HOST}/api/v2/projects" \
          --fail \
@@ -45,7 +52,7 @@ runs:
              \"name\": \"Created by actions/neon-project-create; GITHUB_RUN_ID=${GITHUB_RUN_ID}\",
              \"pg_version\": ${POSTGRES_VERSION},
              \"region_id\": \"${REGION_ID}\",
-              \"provisioner\": \"k8s-neonvm\",
+              \"provisioner\": \"${PROVISIONER}\",
              \"autoscaling_limit_min_cu\": ${MIN_CU},
              \"autoscaling_limit_max_cu\": ${MAX_CU},
              \"settings\": { }
@@ -68,5 +75,6 @@ runs:
        API_KEY: ${{ inputs.api_key }}
        REGION_ID: ${{ inputs.region_id }}
        POSTGRES_VERSION: ${{ inputs.postgres_version }}
+        PROVISIONER: ${{ inputs.provisioner }}
        MIN_CU: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.compute_units)[0] }}
        MAX_CU: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.compute_units)[1] }}
--- a/.github/actions/run-python-test-set/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/run-python-test-set/action.yml
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ runs:
          exit 1
        fi
        if [[ "${{ inputs.run_in_parallel }}" == "true" ]]; then
-          # -n sets the number of parallel processes that pytest-xdist will run
-          EXTRA_PARAMS="-n12 $EXTRA_PARAMS"
+          # -n16 uses sixteen processes to run tests via pytest-xdist
+          EXTRA_PARAMS="-n16 $EXTRA_PARAMS"

          # --dist=loadgroup points tests marked with @pytest.mark.xdist_group
          # to the same worker to make @pytest.mark.order work with xdist
--- a/.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
@@ -1,292 +0,0 @@
-name: Build and Test Locally
-
-on:
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      arch:
-        description: 'x64 or arm64'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      build-tag:
-        description: 'build tag'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      build-tools-image:
-        description: 'build-tools image'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      build-type:
-        description: 'debug or release'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-      pg-versions:
-        description: 'a json array of postgres versions to run regression tests on'
-        required: true
-        type: string
-
-defaults:
-  run:
-    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
-
-env:
-  RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
-  COPT: '-Werror'
-  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}
-  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_KEY_DEV }}
-
-jobs:
-  build-neon:
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', inputs.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
-    container:
-      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image }}
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
-      # Raise locked memory limit for tokio-epoll-uring.
-      # On 5.10 LTS kernels < 5.10.162 (and generally mainline kernels < 5.12),
-      # io_uring will account the memory of the CQ and SQ as locked.
-      # More details: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6373#issuecomment-1905814391
-      options: --init --shm-size=512mb --ulimit memlock=67108864:67108864
-    env:
-      BUILD_TYPE: ${{ inputs.build-type }}
-      GIT_VERSION: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
-      BUILD_TAG: ${{ inputs.build-tag }}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Fix git ownership
-        run: |
-          # Workaround for `fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at ...`
-          #
-          # Use both ${{ github.workspace }} and ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE} because they're different on host and in containers
-          #   Ref https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/785
-          #
-          git config --global --add safe.directory ${{ github.workspace }}
-          git config --global --add safe.directory ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
-          for r in 14 15 16; do
-            git config --global --add safe.directory "${{ github.workspace }}/vendor/postgres-v$r"
-            git config --global --add safe.directory "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/vendor/postgres-v$r"
-          done
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-          fetch-depth: 1
-
-      - name: Set pg 14 revision for caching
-        id: pg_v14_rev
-        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v14) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - name: Set pg 15 revision for caching
-        id: pg_v15_rev
-        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v15) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - name: Set pg 16 revision for caching
-        id: pg_v16_rev
-        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v16) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      # Set some environment variables used by all the steps.
-      #
-      # CARGO_FLAGS is extra options to pass to "cargo build", "cargo test" etc.
-      #   It also includes --features, if any
-      #
-      # CARGO_FEATURES is passed to "cargo metadata". It is separate from CARGO_FLAGS,
-      #   because "cargo metadata" doesn't accept --release or --debug options
-      #
-      # We run tests with addtional features, that are turned off by default (e.g. in release builds), see
-      # corresponding Cargo.toml files for their descriptions.
-      - name: Set env variables
-        run: |
-          CARGO_FEATURES="--features testing"
-          if [[ $BUILD_TYPE == "debug" ]]; then
-            cov_prefix="scripts/coverage --profraw-prefix=$GITHUB_JOB --dir=/tmp/coverage run"
-            CARGO_FLAGS="--locked"
-          elif [[ $BUILD_TYPE == "release" ]]; then
-            cov_prefix=""
-            CARGO_FLAGS="--locked --release"
-          fi
-          {
-            echo "cov_prefix=${cov_prefix}"
-            echo "CARGO_FEATURES=${CARGO_FEATURES}"
-            echo "CARGO_FLAGS=${CARGO_FLAGS}"
-            echo "CARGO_HOME=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/.cargo"
-          } >> $GITHUB_ENV
-
-      - name: Cache postgres v14 build
-        id: cache_pg_14
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: pg_install/v14
-          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v14_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'Dockerfile.build-tools') }}
-
-      - name: Cache postgres v15 build
-        id: cache_pg_15
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: pg_install/v15
-          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v15_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'Dockerfile.build-tools') }}
-
-      - name: Cache postgres v16 build
-        id: cache_pg_16
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: pg_install/v16
-          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v16_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'Dockerfile.build-tools') }}
-
-      - name: Build postgres v14
-        if: steps.cache_pg_14.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-        run: mold -run make postgres-v14 -j$(nproc)
-
-      - name: Build postgres v15
-        if: steps.cache_pg_15.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-        run: mold -run make postgres-v15 -j$(nproc)
-
-      - name: Build postgres v16
-        if: steps.cache_pg_16.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-        run: mold -run make postgres-v16 -j$(nproc)
-
-      - name: Build neon extensions
-        run: mold -run make neon-pg-ext -j$(nproc)
-
-      - name: Build walproposer-lib
-        run: mold -run make walproposer-lib -j$(nproc)
-
-      - name: Run cargo build
-        run: |
-          PQ_LIB_DIR=$(pwd)/pg_install/v16/lib
-          export PQ_LIB_DIR
-          ${cov_prefix} mold -run cargo build $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES --bins --tests
-
-      # Do install *before* running rust tests because they might recompile the
-      # binaries with different features/flags.
-      - name: Install rust binaries
-        run: |
-          # Install target binaries
-          mkdir -p /tmp/neon/bin/
-          binaries=$(
-            ${cov_prefix} cargo metadata $CARGO_FEATURES --format-version=1 --no-deps |
-            jq -r '.packages[].targets[] | select(.kind | index("bin")) | .name'
-          )
-          for bin in $binaries; do
-            SRC=target/$BUILD_TYPE/$bin
-            DST=/tmp/neon/bin/$bin
-            cp "$SRC" "$DST"
-          done
-
-          # Install test executables and write list of all binaries (for code coverage)
-          if [[ $BUILD_TYPE == "debug" ]]; then
-            # Keep bloated coverage data files away from the rest of the artifact
-            mkdir -p /tmp/coverage/
-
-            mkdir -p /tmp/neon/test_bin/
-
-            test_exe_paths=$(
-              ${cov_prefix} cargo test $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES --message-format=json --no-run |
-              jq -r '.executable | select(. != null)'
-            )
-            for bin in $test_exe_paths; do
-              SRC=$bin
-              DST=/tmp/neon/test_bin/$(basename $bin)
-
-              # We don't need debug symbols for code coverage, so strip them out to make
-              # the artifact smaller.
-              strip "$SRC" -o "$DST"
-              echo "$DST" >> /tmp/coverage/binaries.list
-            done
-
-            for bin in $binaries; do
-              echo "/tmp/neon/bin/$bin" >> /tmp/coverage/binaries.list
-            done
-          fi
-
-      - name: Run rust tests
-        env:
-          NEXTEST_RETRIES: 3
-        run: |
-          PQ_LIB_DIR=$(pwd)/pg_install/v16/lib
-          export PQ_LIB_DIR
-          LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/pg_install/v16/lib
-          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-
-          #nextest does not yet support running doctests
-          cargo test --doc $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES
-
-          for io_engine in std-fs tokio-epoll-uring ; do
-            NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_VIRTUAL_FILE_IOENGINE=$io_engine ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES
-          done
-
-          # Run separate tests for real S3
-          export ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE=nonempty
-          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=neon-github-ci-tests
-          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION=eu-central-1
-          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_s3)'
-
-          # Run separate tests for real Azure Blob Storage
-          # XXX: replace region with `eu-central-1`-like region
-          export ENABLE_REAL_AZURE_REMOTE_STORAGE=y
-          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_DEV }}"
-          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}"
-          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER }}"
-          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION }}"
-          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_azure)'
-
-      - name: Install postgres binaries
-        run: cp -a pg_install /tmp/neon/pg_install
-
-      - name: Upload Neon artifact
-        uses: ./.github/actions/upload
-        with:
-          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ inputs.build-type }}-artifact
-          path: /tmp/neon
-
-      # XXX: keep this after the binaries.list is formed, so the coverage can properly work later
-      - name: Merge and upload coverage data
-        if: inputs.build-type == 'debug'
-        uses: ./.github/actions/save-coverage-data
-
-  regress-tests:
-    # Run test on x64 only
-    if: inputs.arch == 'x64'
-    needs: [ build-neon ]
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', inputs.arch == 'arm64' && 'large-arm64' || 'large')) }}
-    container:
-      image: ${{ inputs.build-tools-image }}
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
-      # for changed limits, see comments on `options:` earlier in this file
-      options: --init --shm-size=512mb --ulimit memlock=67108864:67108864
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        pg_version: ${{ fromJson(inputs.pg-versions) }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-          fetch-depth: 1
-
-      - name: Pytest regression tests
-        uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
-        timeout-minutes: 60
-        with:
-          build_type: ${{ inputs.build-type }}
-          test_selection: regress
-          needs_postgres_source: true
-          run_with_real_s3: true
-          real_s3_bucket: neon-github-ci-tests
-          real_s3_region: eu-central-1
-          rerun_flaky: true
-          pg_version: ${{ matrix.pg_version }}
-        env:
-          TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}
-          CHECK_ONDISK_DATA_COMPATIBILITY: nonempty
-          BUILD_TAG: ${{ inputs.build-tag }}
-          PAGESERVER_VIRTUAL_FILE_IO_ENGINE: tokio-epoll-uring
-
-      # Temporary disable this step until we figure out why it's so flaky
-      # Ref https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4540
-      - name: Merge and upload coverage data
-        if: |
-          false &&
-          inputs.build-type == 'debug' && matrix.pg_version == 'v16'
-        uses: ./.github/actions/save-coverage-data
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
@@ -63,9 +63,11 @@ jobs:
          - DEFAULT_PG_VERSION: 16
            PLATFORM: "neon-staging"
            region_id: ${{ github.event.inputs.region_id || 'aws-us-east-2' }}
+            provisioner: 'k8s-pod' 
          - DEFAULT_PG_VERSION: 16
            PLATFORM: "azure-staging"
            region_id: 'azure-eastus2'
+            provisioner: 'k8s-neonvm'
    env:
      TEST_PG_BENCH_DURATIONS_MATRIX: "300"
      TEST_PG_BENCH_SCALES_MATRIX: "10,100"
@@ -98,6 +100,7 @@ jobs:
        region_id: ${{ matrix.region_id }}
        postgres_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
        api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
+        provisioner: ${{ matrix.provisioner }}

    - name: Run benchmark
      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
@@ -147,7 +150,7 @@ jobs:
    if: ${{ github.event.inputs.run_only_pgvector_tests == 'false' || github.event.inputs.run_only_pgvector_tests == null }}
    env:
      POSTGRES_DISTRIB_DIR: /tmp/neon/pg_install
-      DEFAULT_PG_VERSION: 16
+      DEFAULT_PG_VERSION: 14
      TEST_OUTPUT: /tmp/test_output
      BUILD_TYPE: remote
      SAVE_PERF_REPORT: ${{ github.event.inputs.save_perf_report || ( github.ref_name == 'main' ) }}
@@ -168,7 +171,7 @@ jobs:
        path: /tmp/neon/
        prefix: latest

-    - name: Run Logical Replication benchmarks
+    - name: Run benchmark
      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
      with:
        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
@@ -176,15 +179,12 @@ jobs:
        run_in_parallel: false
        save_perf_report: ${{ env.SAVE_PERF_REPORT }}
        extra_params: -m remote_cluster --timeout 5400
-        pg_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
      env:
        VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.VIP_VAP_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
        PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
        NEON_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
-        BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_PUB: ${{ vars.BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_PUB }}
-        BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_SUB: ${{ vars.BENCHMARK_PROJECT_ID_SUB }}

-    - name: Run Physical Replication benchmarks
+    - name: Run benchmark
      uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
      with:
        build_type: ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}
@@ -216,11 +216,11 @@ jobs:
    # Create matrices for the benchmarking jobs, so we run benchmarks on rds only once a week (on Saturday)
    #
    # Available platforms:
-    # - neonvm-captest-new: Freshly created project (1 CU)
-    # - neonvm-captest-freetier: Use freetier-sized compute (0.25 CU)
+    # - neon-captest-new: Freshly created project (1 CU)
+    # - neon-captest-freetier: Use freetier-sized compute (0.25 CU)
    # - neonvm-captest-azure-new: Freshly created project (1 CU) in azure region
    # - neonvm-captest-azure-freetier: Use freetier-sized compute (0.25 CU) in azure region
-    # - neonvm-captest-reuse: Reusing existing project
+    # - neon-captest-reuse: Reusing existing project
    # - rds-aurora: Aurora Postgres Serverless v2 with autoscaling from 0.5 to 2 ACUs
    # - rds-postgres: RDS Postgres db.m5.large instance (2 vCPU, 8 GiB) with gp3 EBS storage
    env:
@@ -245,21 +245,24 @@ jobs:
            "'"$region_id_default"'"
            ],
          "platform": [
-            "neonvm-captest-new",
-            "neonvm-captest-reuse",
+            "neon-captest-new",
+            "neon-captest-reuse",
            "neonvm-captest-new"
          ],
          "db_size": [ "10gb" ],
-          "include": [{ "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-freetier",       "db_size": "3gb"  },
+          "include": [{ "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neon-captest-freetier",         "db_size": "3gb"  },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neon-captest-new",              "db_size": "50gb" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-freetier",       "db_size": "3gb"  },
                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-new",            "db_size": "50gb" },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "db_size": "3gb"  },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "10gb" },
-                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",          "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "50gb" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",      "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "db_size": "3gb"  },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",      "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "10gb" },
+                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "azure-eastus2",      "platform": "neonvm-azure-captest-new",      "db_size": "50gb" },
                      { "pg_version": 16, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "neonvm-captest-sharding-reuse", "db_size": "50gb" }]
        }'

        if [ "$(date +%A)" = "Saturday" ]; then
-          matrix=$(echo "$matrix" | jq '.include += [{ "pg_version": 14, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "rds-postgres", "db_size": "10gb"}]')
+          matrix=$(echo "$matrix" | jq '.include += [{ "pg_version": 14, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "rds-postgres", "db_size": "10gb"},
+                                                     { "pg_version": 14, "region_id": "'"$region_id_default"'", "platform": "rds-aurora",   "db_size": "50gb"}]')
        fi

        echo "matrix=$(echo "$matrix" | jq --compact-output '.')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
@@ -269,7 +272,7 @@ jobs:
      run: |
        matrix='{
          "platform": [
-            "neonvm-captest-reuse"
+            "neon-captest-reuse"
          ]
        }'

@@ -285,7 +288,7 @@ jobs:
      run: |
        matrix='{
          "platform": [
-            "neonvm-captest-reuse"
+            "neon-captest-reuse"
          ],
          "scale": [
            "10"
@@ -336,7 +339,7 @@ jobs:
        prefix: latest

    - name: Create Neon Project
-      if: contains(fromJson('["neonvm-captest-new", "neonvm-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-new"]'), matrix.platform)
+      if: contains(fromJson('["neon-captest-new", "neon-captest-freetier", "neonvm-captest-new", "neonvm-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-freetier", "neonvm-azure-captest-new"]'), matrix.platform)
      id: create-neon-project
      uses: ./.github/actions/neon-project-create
      with:
@@ -344,18 +347,19 @@ jobs:
        postgres_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
        api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
        compute_units: ${{ (contains(matrix.platform, 'captest-freetier') && '[0.25, 0.25]') || '[1, 1]' }}
+        provisioner: ${{ (contains(matrix.platform, 'neonvm-') && 'k8s-neonvm') || 'k8s-pod' }}

    - name: Set up Connection String
      id: set-up-connstr
      run: |
        case "${PLATFORM}" in
-          neonvm-captest-reuse)
+          neon-captest-reuse)
            CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_CAPTEST_CONNSTR }}
            ;;
          neonvm-captest-sharding-reuse)
            CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_CAPTEST_SHARDING_CONNSTR }}
            ;;
-          neonvm-captest-new | neonvm-captest-freetier | neonvm-azure-captest-new | neonvm-azure-captest-freetier)
+          neon-captest-new | neon-captest-freetier | neonvm-captest-new | neonvm-captest-freetier | neonvm-azure-captest-new | neonvm-azure-captest-freetier)
            CONNSTR=${{ steps.create-neon-project.outputs.dsn }}
            ;;
          rds-aurora)
@@ -439,9 +443,9 @@ jobs:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        include:
-          - PLATFORM: "neonvm-captest-pgvector"
+          - PLATFORM: "neon-captest-pgvector"
          - PLATFORM: "azure-captest-pgvector"
-
+            
    env:
      TEST_PG_BENCH_DURATIONS_MATRIX: "15m"
      TEST_PG_BENCH_SCALES_MATRIX: "1"
@@ -483,7 +487,7 @@ jobs:
      id: set-up-connstr
      run: |
        case "${PLATFORM}" in
-          neonvm-captest-pgvector)
+          neon-captest-pgvector)
            CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_PGVECTOR_CONNSTR }}
            ;;
          azure-captest-pgvector)
@@ -582,7 +586,7 @@ jobs:
      id: set-up-connstr
      run: |
        case "${PLATFORM}" in
-          neonvm-captest-reuse)
+          neon-captest-reuse)
            CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_CAPTEST_CLICKBENCH_10M_CONNSTR }}
            ;;
          rds-aurora)
@@ -592,7 +596,7 @@ jobs:
            CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_RDS_POSTGRES_CLICKBENCH_10M_CONNSTR }}
            ;;
          *)
-            echo >&2 "Unknown PLATFORM=${PLATFORM}. Allowed only 'neonvm-captest-reuse', 'rds-aurora', or 'rds-postgres'"
+            echo >&2 "Unknown PLATFORM=${PLATFORM}. Allowed only 'neon-captest-reuse', 'rds-aurora', or 'rds-postgres'"
            exit 1
            ;;
        esac
@@ -669,7 +673,7 @@ jobs:
    - name: Get Connstring Secret Name
      run: |
        case "${PLATFORM}" in
-          neonvm-captest-reuse)
+          neon-captest-reuse)
            ENV_PLATFORM=CAPTEST_TPCH
            ;;
          rds-aurora)
@@ -679,7 +683,7 @@ jobs:
            ENV_PLATFORM=RDS_AURORA_TPCH
            ;;
          *)
-            echo >&2 "Unknown PLATFORM=${PLATFORM}. Allowed only 'neonvm-captest-reuse', 'rds-aurora', or 'rds-postgres'"
+            echo >&2 "Unknown PLATFORM=${PLATFORM}. Allowed only 'neon-captest-reuse', 'rds-aurora', or 'rds-postgres'"
            exit 1
            ;;
        esac
@@ -756,7 +760,7 @@ jobs:
      id: set-up-connstr
      run: |
        case "${PLATFORM}" in
-          neonvm-captest-reuse)
+          neon-captest-reuse)
            CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_USER_EXAMPLE_CAPTEST_CONNSTR }}
            ;;
          rds-aurora)
@@ -766,7 +770,7 @@ jobs:
            CONNSTR=${{ secrets.BENCHMARK_USER_EXAMPLE_RDS_POSTGRES_CONNSTR }}
            ;;
          *)
-            echo >&2 "Unknown PLATFORM=${PLATFORM}. Allowed only 'neonvm-captest-reuse', 'rds-aurora', or 'rds-postgres'"
+            echo >&2 "Unknown PLATFORM=${PLATFORM}. Allowed only 'neon-captest-reuse', 'rds-aurora', or 'rds-postgres'"
            exit 1
            ;;
        esac
--- a/.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-build-tools-image.yml
@@ -72,12 +72,6 @@ jobs:
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}

-      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
-        with:
-          registry: cache.neon.build
-          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_CI_DOCKERCACHE_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_CI_DOCKERCACHE_PASSWORD }}
-
      - uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
        with:
          context: .
@@ -85,8 +79,8 @@ jobs:
          push: true
          pull: true
          file: Dockerfile.build-tools
-          cache-from: type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/build-tools:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/build-tools:cache-{0},mode=max', matrix.arch) || '' }}
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/build-tools:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
+          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=neondatabase/build-tools:cache-{0},mode=max', matrix.arch) || '' }}
          tags: neondatabase/build-tools:${{ inputs.image-tag }}-${{ matrix.arch }}

      - name: Remove custom docker config directory
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -125,11 +125,7 @@ jobs:

  check-codestyle-rust:
    needs: [ check-permissions, build-build-tools-image ]
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        arch: [ x64, arm64 ]
-    runs-on: ${{ fromJson(format('["self-hosted", "{0}"]', matrix.arch == 'arm64' && 'small-arm64' || 'small')) }}
-
+    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}
      credentials:
@@ -197,30 +193,291 @@ jobs:
        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
        run: cargo deny check --hide-inclusion-graph

-  build-and-test-locally:
-    needs: [ tag, build-build-tools-image ]
+  build-neon:
+    needs: [ check-permissions, tag, build-build-tools-image ]
+    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, large ]
+    container:
+      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}
+      credentials:
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
+      # Raise locked memory limit for tokio-epoll-uring.
+      # On 5.10 LTS kernels < 5.10.162 (and generally mainline kernels < 5.12),
+      # io_uring will account the memory of the CQ and SQ as locked.
+      # More details: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6373#issuecomment-1905814391
+      options: --init --shm-size=512mb --ulimit memlock=67108864:67108864
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
-        arch: [ x64 ]
-        # Do not build or run tests in debug for release branches
-        build-type: ${{ fromJson((startsWith(github.ref_name, 'release' && github.event_name == 'push')) && '["release"]' || '["debug", "release"]') }}
-        include:
-          - build-type: release
-            arch: arm64
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
-    with:
-      arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
-      build-tools-image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}
-      build-tag: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
-      build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
-      # Run tests on all Postgres versions in release builds and only on the latest version in debug builds
-      pg-versions: ${{ matrix.build-type == 'release' && '["v14", "v15", "v16"]' || '["v16"]' }}
-    secrets: inherit
+        build_type: [ debug, release ]
+    env:
+      BUILD_TYPE: ${{ matrix.build_type }}
+      GIT_VERSION: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+      BUILD_TAG: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Fix git ownership
+        run: |
+          # Workaround for `fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at ...`
+          #
+          # Use both ${{ github.workspace }} and ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE} because they're different on host and in containers
+          #   Ref https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/785
+          #
+          git config --global --add safe.directory ${{ github.workspace }}
+          git config --global --add safe.directory ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+          for r in 14 15 16; do
+            git config --global --add safe.directory "${{ github.workspace }}/vendor/postgres-v$r"
+            git config --global --add safe.directory "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/vendor/postgres-v$r"
+          done
+
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+          fetch-depth: 1
+
+      - name: Set pg 14 revision for caching
+        id: pg_v14_rev
+        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v14) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      - name: Set pg 15 revision for caching
+        id: pg_v15_rev
+        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v15) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      - name: Set pg 16 revision for caching
+        id: pg_v16_rev
+        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v16) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      # Set some environment variables used by all the steps.
+      #
+      # CARGO_FLAGS is extra options to pass to "cargo build", "cargo test" etc.
+      #   It also includes --features, if any
+      #
+      # CARGO_FEATURES is passed to "cargo metadata". It is separate from CARGO_FLAGS,
+      #   because "cargo metadata" doesn't accept --release or --debug options
+      #
+      # We run tests with addtional features, that are turned off by default (e.g. in release builds), see
+      # corresponding Cargo.toml files for their descriptions.
+      - name: Set env variables
+        run: |
+          CARGO_FEATURES="--features testing"
+          if [[ $BUILD_TYPE == "debug" ]]; then
+            cov_prefix="scripts/coverage --profraw-prefix=$GITHUB_JOB --dir=/tmp/coverage run"
+            CARGO_FLAGS="--locked"
+          elif [[ $BUILD_TYPE == "release" ]]; then
+            cov_prefix=""
+            CARGO_FLAGS="--locked --release"
+          fi
+          {
+            echo "cov_prefix=${cov_prefix}"
+            echo "CARGO_FEATURES=${CARGO_FEATURES}"
+            echo "CARGO_FLAGS=${CARGO_FLAGS}"
+            echo "CARGO_HOME=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/.cargo"
+          } >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      # Disabled for now
+      # Don't include the ~/.cargo/registry/src directory. It contains just
+      # uncompressed versions of the crates in ~/.cargo/registry/cache
+      # directory, and it's faster to let 'cargo' to rebuild it from the
+      # compressed crates.
+#      - name: Cache cargo deps
+#        id: cache_cargo
+#        uses: actions/cache@v4
+#        with:
+#          path: |
+#            ~/.cargo/registry/
+#            !~/.cargo/registry/src
+#            ~/.cargo/git/
+#            target/
+#          # Fall back to older versions of the key, if no cache for current Cargo.lock was found
+#          key: |
+#            v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-cargo-${{ hashFiles('rust-toolchain.toml') }}-${{ hashFiles('Cargo.lock') }}
+#            v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-cargo-${{ hashFiles('rust-toolchain.toml') }}-
+
+      - name: Cache postgres v14 build
+        id: cache_pg_14
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: pg_install/v14
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v14_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'Dockerfile.build-tools') }}
+
+      - name: Cache postgres v15 build
+        id: cache_pg_15
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: pg_install/v15
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v15_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'Dockerfile.build-tools') }}
+
+      - name: Cache postgres v16 build
+        id: cache_pg_16
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: pg_install/v16
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v16_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile', 'Dockerfile.build-tools') }}
+
+      - name: Build postgres v14
+        if: steps.cache_pg_14.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mold -run make postgres-v14 -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build postgres v15
+        if: steps.cache_pg_15.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mold -run make postgres-v15 -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build postgres v16
+        if: steps.cache_pg_16.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mold -run make postgres-v16 -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build neon extensions
+        run: mold -run make neon-pg-ext -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build walproposer-lib
+        run: mold -run make walproposer-lib -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Run cargo build
+        run: |
+          PQ_LIB_DIR=$(pwd)/pg_install/v16/lib
+          export PQ_LIB_DIR
+          ${cov_prefix} mold -run cargo build $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES --bins --tests
+
+      # Do install *before* running rust tests because they might recompile the
+      # binaries with different features/flags.
+      - name: Install rust binaries
+        run: |
+          # Install target binaries
+          mkdir -p /tmp/neon/bin/
+          binaries=$(
+            ${cov_prefix} cargo metadata $CARGO_FEATURES --format-version=1 --no-deps |
+            jq -r '.packages[].targets[] | select(.kind | index("bin")) | .name'
+          )
+          for bin in $binaries; do
+            SRC=target/$BUILD_TYPE/$bin
+            DST=/tmp/neon/bin/$bin
+            cp "$SRC" "$DST"
+          done
+
+          # Install test executables and write list of all binaries (for code coverage)
+          if [[ $BUILD_TYPE == "debug" ]]; then
+            # Keep bloated coverage data files away from the rest of the artifact
+            mkdir -p /tmp/coverage/
+
+            mkdir -p /tmp/neon/test_bin/
+
+            test_exe_paths=$(
+              ${cov_prefix} cargo test $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES --message-format=json --no-run |
+              jq -r '.executable | select(. != null)'
+            )
+            for bin in $test_exe_paths; do
+              SRC=$bin
+              DST=/tmp/neon/test_bin/$(basename $bin)
+
+              # We don't need debug symbols for code coverage, so strip them out to make
+              # the artifact smaller.
+              strip "$SRC" -o "$DST"
+              echo "$DST" >> /tmp/coverage/binaries.list
+            done
+
+            for bin in $binaries; do
+              echo "/tmp/neon/bin/$bin" >> /tmp/coverage/binaries.list
+            done
+          fi
+
+      - name: Run rust tests
+        env:
+          NEXTEST_RETRIES: 3
+        run: |
+          PQ_LIB_DIR=$(pwd)/pg_install/v16/lib
+          export PQ_LIB_DIR
+          LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/pg_install/v16/lib
+          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+          #nextest does not yet support running doctests
+          cargo test --doc $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES
+
+          for io_engine in std-fs tokio-epoll-uring ; do
+            NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_VIRTUAL_FILE_IOENGINE=$io_engine ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES
+          done
+
+          # Run separate tests for real S3
+          export ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE=nonempty
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=neon-github-ci-tests
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION=eu-central-1
+          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_s3)'
+
+          # Run separate tests for real Azure Blob Storage
+          # XXX: replace region with `eu-central-1`-like region
+          export ENABLE_REAL_AZURE_REMOTE_STORAGE=y
+          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_DEV }}"
+          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}"
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER }}"
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION }}"
+          ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES -E 'package(remote_storage)' -E 'test(test_real_azure)'
+
+      - name: Install postgres binaries
+        run: cp -a pg_install /tmp/neon/pg_install
+
+      - name: Upload Neon artifact
+        uses: ./.github/actions/upload
+        with:
+          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}-artifact
+          path: /tmp/neon
+
+      # XXX: keep this after the binaries.list is formed, so the coverage can properly work later
+      - name: Merge and upload coverage data
+        if: matrix.build_type == 'debug'
+        uses: ./.github/actions/save-coverage-data
+
+  regress-tests:
+    needs: [ check-permissions, build-neon, build-build-tools-image, tag ]
+    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, large ]
+    container:
+      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}
+      credentials:
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
+      # for changed limits, see comments on `options:` earlier in this file
+      options: --init --shm-size=512mb --ulimit memlock=67108864:67108864
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        build_type: [ debug, release ]
+        pg_version: [ v14, v15, v16 ]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+          fetch-depth: 1
+
+      - name: Pytest regression tests
+        uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
+        timeout-minutes: 60
+        with:
+          build_type: ${{ matrix.build_type }}
+          test_selection: regress
+          needs_postgres_source: true
+          run_with_real_s3: true
+          real_s3_bucket: neon-github-ci-tests
+          real_s3_region: eu-central-1
+          rerun_flaky: true
+          pg_version: ${{ matrix.pg_version }}
+        env:
+          TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}
+          CHECK_ONDISK_DATA_COMPATIBILITY: nonempty
+          BUILD_TAG: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
+          PAGESERVER_VIRTUAL_FILE_IO_ENGINE: tokio-epoll-uring
+          PAGESERVER_GET_VECTORED_IMPL: vectored
+          PAGESERVER_GET_IMPL: vectored
+          PAGESERVER_VALIDATE_VEC_GET: true
+
+      # Temporary disable this step until we figure out why it's so flaky
+      # Ref https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/4540
+      - name: Merge and upload coverage data
+        if: |
+          false &&
+          matrix.build_type == 'debug' && matrix.pg_version == 'v14'
+        uses: ./.github/actions/save-coverage-data

-  # Keep `benchmarks` job outside of `build-and-test-locally` workflow to make job failures non-blocking
  get-benchmarks-durations:
-    if: github.ref_name == 'main' || contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-benchmarks')
    outputs:
      json: ${{ steps.get-benchmark-durations.outputs.json }}
    needs: [ check-permissions, build-build-tools-image ]
@@ -231,6 +488,7 @@ jobs:
        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      options: --init
+    if: github.ref_name == 'main' || contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-benchmarks')
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -255,8 +513,7 @@ jobs:
          echo "json=$(jq --compact-output '.' /tmp/benchmark_durations.json)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

  benchmarks:
-    if: github.ref_name == 'main' || contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-benchmarks')
-    needs: [ check-permissions, build-and-test-locally, build-build-tools-image, get-benchmarks-durations ]
+    needs: [ check-permissions, build-neon, build-build-tools-image, get-benchmarks-durations ]
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}
@@ -265,6 +522,7 @@ jobs:
        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
      # for changed limits, see comments on `options:` earlier in this file
      options: --init --shm-size=512mb --ulimit memlock=67108864:67108864
+    if: github.ref_name == 'main' || contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-benchmarks')
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
@@ -289,6 +547,9 @@ jobs:
          PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.PERF_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR }}"
          TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR: "${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}"
          PAGESERVER_VIRTUAL_FILE_IO_ENGINE: tokio-epoll-uring
+          PAGESERVER_GET_VECTORED_IMPL: vectored
+          PAGESERVER_GET_IMPL: vectored
+          PAGESERVER_VALIDATE_VEC_GET: false
      # XXX: no coverage data handling here, since benchmarks are run on release builds,
      # while coverage is currently collected for the debug ones

@@ -309,7 +570,7 @@ jobs:
        SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}

  create-test-report:
-    needs: [ check-permissions, build-and-test-locally, coverage-report, build-build-tools-image, benchmarks ]
+    needs: [ check-permissions, regress-tests, coverage-report, benchmarks, build-build-tools-image ]
    if: ${{ !cancelled() && contains(fromJSON('["skipped", "success"]'), needs.check-permissions.result) }}
    outputs:
      report-url: ${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-url }}
@@ -360,7 +621,7 @@ jobs:
            })

  coverage-report:
-    needs: [ check-permissions, build-build-tools-image, build-and-test-locally ]
+    needs: [ check-permissions, regress-tests, build-build-tools-image ]
    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
    container:
      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}
@@ -499,12 +760,6 @@ jobs:
          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}

-      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
-        with:
-          registry: cache.neon.build
-          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_CI_DOCKERCACHE_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_CI_DOCKERCACHE_PASSWORD }}
-
      - uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
        with:
          context: .
@@ -516,8 +771,8 @@ jobs:
          push: true
          pull: true
          file: Dockerfile
-          cache-from: type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/neon:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/neon:cache-{0},mode=max', matrix.arch) || '' }}
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/neon:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
+          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=neondatabase/neon:cache-{0},mode=max', matrix.arch) || '' }}
          tags: |
            neondatabase/neon:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}-${{ matrix.arch }}

@@ -596,12 +851,6 @@ jobs:
          username: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}
          password: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_KEY_DEV }}

-      - uses: docker/login-action@v3
-        with:
-          registry: cache.neon.build
-          username: ${{ secrets.NEON_CI_DOCKERCACHE_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.NEON_CI_DOCKERCACHE_PASSWORD }}
-
      - name: Build compute-node image
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
        with:
@@ -615,8 +864,8 @@ jobs:
          push: true
          pull: true
          file: Dockerfile.compute-node
-          cache-from: type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/compute-node-{0}:cache-{1},mode=max', matrix.version, matrix.arch) || '' }}
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
+          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=neondatabase/compute-node-{0}:cache-{1},mode=max', matrix.version, matrix.arch) || '' }}
          tags: |
            neondatabase/compute-node-${{ matrix.version }}:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}-${{ matrix.arch }}

@@ -635,8 +884,8 @@ jobs:
          pull: true
          file: Dockerfile.compute-node
          target: neon-pg-ext-test
-          cache-from: type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/neon-test-extensions-${{ matrix.version }}:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=cache.neon.build/neon-test-extensions-{0}:cache-{1},mode=max', matrix.version, matrix.arch) || '' }}
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=neondatabase/neon-test-extensions-${{ matrix.version }}:cache-${{ matrix.arch }}
+          cache-to: ${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && format('type=registry,ref=neondatabase/neon-test-extensions-{0}:cache-{1},mode=max', matrix.version, matrix.arch) || '' }}
          tags: |
            neondatabase/neon-test-extensions-${{ matrix.version }}:${{needs.tag.outputs.build-tag}}-${{ matrix.arch }}

@@ -836,9 +1085,6 @@ jobs:
          rm -rf .docker-custom

  promote-images:
-    permissions:
-      contents: read  # This is required for actions/checkout
-      id-token: write # This is required for Azure Login to work.
    needs: [ check-permissions, tag, test-images, vm-compute-node-image ]
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

@@ -865,28 +1111,6 @@ jobs:
                                               neondatabase/vm-compute-node-${version}:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
          done

-      - name: Azure login
-        if: github.ref_name == 'main'
-        uses: azure/login@6c251865b4e6290e7b78be643ea2d005bc51f69a  # @v2.1.1
-        with:
-          client-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_DEV_CLIENT_ID }}
-          tenant-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_TENANT_ID }}
-          subscription-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_DEV_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}
-
-      - name: Login to ACR
-        if: github.ref_name == 'main'
-        run: |
-          az acr login --name=neoneastus2
-
-      - name: Copy docker images to ACR-dev
-        if: github.ref_name == 'main'
-        run: |
-          for image in neon compute-tools {vm-,}compute-node-{v14,v15,v16}; do
-            docker buildx imagetools create \
-              -t neoneastus2.azurecr.io/neondatabase/${image}:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }} \
-                                        neondatabase/${image}:${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
-          done
-
      - name: Add latest tag to images
        if: github.ref_name == 'main'
        run: |
@@ -999,7 +1223,7 @@ jobs:
          exit 1

  deploy:
-    needs: [ check-permissions, promote-images, tag, build-and-test-locally, trigger-custom-extensions-build-and-wait ]
+    needs: [ check-permissions, promote-images, tag, regress-tests, trigger-custom-extensions-build-and-wait ]
    if: github.ref_name == 'main' || github.ref_name == 'release'|| github.ref_name == 'release-proxy'

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
@@ -1100,7 +1324,7 @@ jobs:
            })

  promote-compatibility-data:
-    needs: [ check-permissions, promote-images, tag, build-and-test-locally ]
+    needs: [ check-permissions, promote-images, tag, regress-tests ]
    if: github.ref_name == 'release'

    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
@@ -1139,7 +1363,7 @@ jobs:
          done

  pin-build-tools-image:
-    needs: [ build-build-tools-image, promote-images, build-and-test-locally ]
+    needs: [ build-build-tools-image, promote-images, regress-tests ]
    if: github.ref_name == 'main'
    uses: ./.github/workflows/pin-build-tools-image.yml
    with:
@@ -1161,7 +1385,7 @@ jobs:
    needs:
      - check-codestyle-python
      - check-codestyle-rust
-      - build-and-test-locally
+      - regress-tests
      - test-images
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
--- a/.github/workflows/neon_extra_builds.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/neon_extra_builds.yml
@@ -133,6 +133,221 @@ jobs:
      - name: Check that no warnings are produced
        run: ./run_clippy.sh

+  check-linux-arm-build:
+    needs: [ check-permissions, build-build-tools-image ]
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    runs-on: [ self-hosted, small-arm64 ]
+
+    env:
+      # Use release build only, to have less debug info around
+      # Hence keeping target/ (and general cache size) smaller
+      BUILD_TYPE: release
+      CARGO_FEATURES: --features testing
+      CARGO_FLAGS: --release
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_KEY_DEV }}
+
+    container:
+      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}
+      credentials:
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
+      options: --init
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Fix git ownership
+        run: |
+          # Workaround for `fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at ...`
+          #
+          # Use both ${{ github.workspace }} and ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE} because they're different on host and in containers
+          #   Ref https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/785
+          #
+          git config --global --add safe.directory ${{ github.workspace }}
+          git config --global --add safe.directory ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+          for r in 14 15 16; do
+            git config --global --add safe.directory "${{ github.workspace }}/vendor/postgres-v$r"
+            git config --global --add safe.directory "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/vendor/postgres-v$r"
+          done
+
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+          fetch-depth: 1
+
+      - name: Set pg 14 revision for caching
+        id: pg_v14_rev
+        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v14) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      - name: Set pg 15 revision for caching
+        id: pg_v15_rev
+        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v15) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      - name: Set pg 16 revision for caching
+        id: pg_v16_rev
+        run: echo pg_rev=$(git rev-parse HEAD:vendor/postgres-v16) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      - name: Set env variables
+        run: |
+          echo "CARGO_HOME=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/.cargo" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Cache postgres v14 build
+        id: cache_pg_14
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: pg_install/v14
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v14_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
+
+      - name: Cache postgres v15 build
+        id: cache_pg_15
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: pg_install/v15
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v15_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
+
+      - name: Cache postgres v16 build
+        id: cache_pg_16
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: pg_install/v16
+          key: v1-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}-pg-${{ steps.pg_v16_rev.outputs.pg_rev }}-${{ hashFiles('Makefile') }}
+
+      - name: Build postgres v14
+        if: steps.cache_pg_14.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mold -run make postgres-v14 -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build postgres v15
+        if: steps.cache_pg_15.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mold -run make postgres-v15 -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build postgres v16
+        if: steps.cache_pg_16.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: mold -run make postgres-v16 -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build neon extensions
+        run: mold -run make neon-pg-ext -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build walproposer-lib
+        run: mold -run make walproposer-lib -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Run cargo build
+        run: |
+          PQ_LIB_DIR=$(pwd)/pg_install/v16/lib
+          export PQ_LIB_DIR
+          mold -run cargo build --locked $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES --bins --tests -j$(nproc)
+
+      - name: Run cargo test
+        env:
+          NEXTEST_RETRIES: 3
+        run: |
+          PQ_LIB_DIR=$(pwd)/pg_install/v16/lib
+          export PQ_LIB_DIR
+          LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/pg_install/v16/lib
+          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+          cargo nextest run $CARGO_FEATURES -j$(nproc)
+
+          # Run separate tests for real S3
+          export ENABLE_REAL_S3_REMOTE_STORAGE=nonempty
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET=neon-github-ci-tests
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_S3_REGION=eu-central-1
+          # Avoid `$CARGO_FEATURES` since there's no `testing` feature in the e2e tests now
+          cargo nextest run --package remote_storage --test test_real_s3 -j$(nproc)
+
+          # Run separate tests for real Azure Blob Storage
+          # XXX: replace region with `eu-central-1`-like region
+          export ENABLE_REAL_AZURE_REMOTE_STORAGE=y
+          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_DEV }}"
+          export AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY="${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}"
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_CONTAINER }}"
+          export REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION="${{ vars.REMOTE_STORAGE_AZURE_REGION }}"
+          # Avoid `$CARGO_FEATURES` since there's no `testing` feature in the e2e tests now
+          cargo nextest run --package remote_storage --test test_real_azure -j$(nproc)
+
+  check-codestyle-rust-arm:
+    needs: [ check-permissions, build-build-tools-image ]
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    runs-on: [ self-hosted, small-arm64 ]
+
+    container:
+      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}
+      credentials:
+        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
+      options: --init
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        build_type: [ debug, release ]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Fix git ownership
+        run: |
+          # Workaround for `fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at ...`
+          #
+          # Use both ${{ github.workspace }} and ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE} because they're different on host and in containers
+          #   Ref https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/785
+          #
+          git config --global --add safe.directory ${{ github.workspace }}
+          git config --global --add safe.directory ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}
+          for r in 14 15 16; do
+            git config --global --add safe.directory "${{ github.workspace }}/vendor/postgres-v$r"
+            git config --global --add safe.directory "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/vendor/postgres-v$r"
+          done
+
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+          fetch-depth: 1
+
+      # Some of our rust modules use FFI and need those to be checked
+      - name: Get postgres headers
+        run: make postgres-headers -j$(nproc)
+
+      # cargo hack runs the given cargo subcommand (clippy in this case) for all feature combinations.
+      # This will catch compiler & clippy warnings in all feature combinations.
+      # TODO: use cargo hack for build and test as well, but, that's quite expensive.
+      # NB: keep clippy args in sync with ./run_clippy.sh
+      - run: |
+          CLIPPY_COMMON_ARGS="$( source .neon_clippy_args; echo "$CLIPPY_COMMON_ARGS")"
+          if [ "$CLIPPY_COMMON_ARGS" = "" ]; then
+            echo "No clippy args found in .neon_clippy_args"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "CLIPPY_COMMON_ARGS=${CLIPPY_COMMON_ARGS}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Run cargo clippy (debug)
+        if: matrix.build_type == 'debug'
+        run: cargo hack --feature-powerset clippy $CLIPPY_COMMON_ARGS
+      - name: Run cargo clippy (release)
+        if: matrix.build_type == 'release'
+        run: cargo hack --feature-powerset clippy --release $CLIPPY_COMMON_ARGS
+
+      - name: Check documentation generation
+        if: matrix.build_type == 'release'
+        run: cargo doc --workspace --no-deps --document-private-items -j$(nproc)
+        env:
+            RUSTDOCFLAGS: "-Dwarnings -Arustdoc::private_intra_doc_links"
+
+      # Use `${{ !cancelled() }}` to run quck tests after the longer clippy run
+      - name: Check formatting
+        if: ${{ !cancelled() && matrix.build_type == 'release' }}
+        run: cargo fmt --all -- --check
+
+      # https://github.com/facebookincubator/cargo-guppy/tree/bec4e0eb29dcd1faac70b1b5360267fc02bf830e/tools/cargo-hakari#2-keep-the-workspace-hack-up-to-date-in-ci
+      - name: Check rust dependencies
+        if: ${{ !cancelled() && matrix.build_type == 'release' }}
+        run: |
+          cargo hakari generate --diff  # workspace-hack Cargo.toml is up-to-date
+          cargo hakari manage-deps --dry-run  # all workspace crates depend on workspace-hack
+
+      # https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/cargo-deny
+      - name: Check rust licenses/bans/advisories/sources
+        if: ${{ !cancelled() && matrix.build_type == 'release' }}
+        run: cargo deny check
+
  gather-rust-build-stats:
    needs: [ check-permissions, build-build-tools-image ]
    if: |
--- a/.github/workflows/pg-clients.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pg-clients.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ on:
    paths:
      - '.github/workflows/pg-clients.yml'
      - 'test_runner/pg_clients/**'
-      - 'test_runner/logical_repl/**'
      - 'poetry.lock'
  workflow_dispatch:

@@ -50,101 +49,6 @@ jobs:
      image-tag: ${{ needs.check-build-tools-image.outputs.image-tag }}
    secrets: inherit

-  test-logical-replication:
-    needs: [ build-build-tools-image ]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-
-    container:
-      image: ${{ needs.build-build-tools-image.outputs.image }}
-      credentials:
-        username: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.NEON_DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }}
-      options: --init --user root
-    services:
-      clickhouse:
-        image: clickhouse/clickhouse-server:24.6.3.64
-        ports:
-          - 9000:9000
-          - 8123:8123
-      zookeeper:
-        image: quay.io/debezium/zookeeper:2.7
-        ports:
-          - 2181:2181
-      kafka:
-        image: quay.io/debezium/kafka:2.7
-        env:
-          ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: "zookeeper:2181"
-          KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://kafka:9092
-          KAFKA_BROKER_ID: 1
-          KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
-          KAFKA_JMX_PORT: 9991
-        ports:
-          - 9092:9092
-      debezium:
-        image: quay.io/debezium/connect:2.7
-        env:
-          BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS: kafka:9092
-          GROUP_ID: 1
-          CONFIG_STORAGE_TOPIC: debezium-config
-          OFFSET_STORAGE_TOPIC: debezium-offset
-          STATUS_STORAGE_TOPIC: debezium-status
-          DEBEZIUM_CONFIG_CONNECTOR_CLASS: io.debezium.connector.postgresql.PostgresConnector
-        ports:
-          - 8083:8083
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Download Neon artifact
-        uses: ./.github/actions/download
-        with:
-          name: neon-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-release-artifact
-          path: /tmp/neon/
-          prefix: latest
-
-      - name: Create Neon Project
-        id: create-neon-project
-        uses: ./.github/actions/neon-project-create
-        with:
-          api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
-          postgres_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
-
-      - name: Run tests
-        uses: ./.github/actions/run-python-test-set
-        with:
-          build_type: remote
-          test_selection: logical_repl
-          run_in_parallel: false
-          extra_params: -m remote_cluster
-          pg_version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PG_VERSION }}
-        env:
-          BENCHMARK_CONNSTR: ${{ steps.create-neon-project.outputs.dsn }}
-
-      - name: Delete Neon Project
-        if: always()
-        uses: ./.github/actions/neon-project-delete
-        with:
-          project_id: ${{ steps.create-neon-project.outputs.project_id }}
-          api_key: ${{ secrets.NEON_STAGING_API_KEY }}
-
-      - name: Create Allure report
-        if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
-        id: create-allure-report
-        uses: ./.github/actions/allure-report-generate
-        with:
-          store-test-results-into-db: true
-        env:
-          REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW: ${{ secrets.REGRESS_TEST_RESULT_CONNSTR_NEW }}
-
-      - name: Post to a Slack channel
-        if: github.event.schedule && failure()
-        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1
-        with:
-          channel-id: "C06KHQVQ7U3" # on-call-qa-staging-stream
-          slack-message: |
-            Testing the logical replication: <${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}|${{ job.status }}> (<${{ steps.create-allure-report.outputs.report-url }}|test report>)
-        env:
-          SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
-
  test-postgres-client-libs:
    needs: [ build-build-tools-image ]
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
--- a/.github/workflows/pin-build-tools-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pin-build-tools-image.yml
@@ -66,22 +66,8 @@ jobs:
          username: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}
          password: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_KEY_DEV }}

-      - name: Azure login
-        if: steps.check-manifests.outputs.skip == 'false'
-        uses: azure/login@6c251865b4e6290e7b78be643ea2d005bc51f69a  # @v2.1.1
-        with:
-          client-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_DEV_CLIENT_ID }}
-          tenant-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_TENANT_ID }}
-          subscription-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_DEV_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}
-
-      - name: Login to ACR
-        if: steps.check-manifests.outputs.skip == 'false'
-        run: |
-          az acr login --name=neoneastus2
-
-      - name: Tag build-tools with `${{ env.TO_TAG }}` in ECR and ACR
+      - name: Tag build-tools with `${{ env.TO_TAG }}` in ECR
        if: steps.check-manifests.outputs.skip == 'false'
        run: |
          docker buildx imagetools create -t 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/build-tools:${TO_TAG} \
-                                          -t neoneastus2.azurecr.io/neondatabase/build-tools:${TO_TAG} \
                                             neondatabase/build-tools:${FROM_TAG}
--- a/.github/workflows/trigger-e2e-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/trigger-e2e-tests.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ defaults:
 env:
  # A concurrency group that we use for e2e-tests runs, matches `concurrency.group` above with `github.repository` as a prefix
  E2E_CONCURRENCY_GROUP: ${{ github.repository }}-e2e-tests-${{ github.ref_name }}-${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && github.sha || 'anysha' }}
+  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}
+  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_KEY_DEV }}

 jobs:
  cancel-previous-e2e-tests:
@@ -62,35 +64,19 @@ jobs:
    needs: [ tag ]
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    env:
-      EVENT_ACTION: ${{ github.event.action }}
-      GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
      TAG: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
    steps:
-      - name: Wait for `promote-images` job to finish
-        # It's important to have a timeout here, the script in the step can run infinitely
-        timeout-minutes: 60
+      - name: check if ecr image are present
+        env:
+          AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}
+          AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_KEY_DEV }}
        run: |
-          if [ "${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME}" != "pull_request" ] || [ "${EVENT_ACTION}" != "ready_for_review" ]; then
-            exit 0
-          fi
-
-          # For PRs we use the run id as the tag
-          BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID=${TAG}
-          while true; do
-            conclusion=$(gh run --repo ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY} view ${BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID} --json jobs --jq '.jobs[] | select(.name == "promote-images") | .conclusion')
-            case "$conclusion" in
-              success)
-                break
-                ;;
-              failure | cancelled | skipped)
-                echo "The 'promote-images' job didn't succeed: '${conclusion}'. Exiting..."
-                exit 1
-                ;;
-              *)
-                echo "The 'promote-images' hasn't succeed yet. Waiting..."
-                sleep 60
-                ;;
-            esac
+          for REPO in neon compute-tools compute-node-v14 vm-compute-node-v14 compute-node-v15 vm-compute-node-v15 compute-node-v16 vm-compute-node-v16; do
+            OUTPUT=$(aws ecr describe-images --repository-name ${REPO} --region eu-central-1 --query "imageDetails[?imageTags[?contains(@, '${TAG}')]]" --output text)
+            if [ "$OUTPUT" == "" ]; then
+              echo "$REPO with image tag $TAG not found" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+              exit 1
+            fi
          done

      - name: Set e2e-platforms
--- a/8
+++ b/8
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 /compute_tools/ @neondatabase/control-plane @neondatabase/compute
 /storage_controller @neondatabase/storage
 /libs/pageserver_api/ @neondatabase/storage
-/libs/postgres_ffi/ @neondatabase/compute @neondatabase/storage
+/libs/postgres_ffi/ @neondatabase/compute @neondatabase/safekeepers
 /libs/remote_storage/ @neondatabase/storage
-/libs/safekeeper_api/ @neondatabase/storage
+/libs/safekeeper_api/ @neondatabase/safekeepers
 /libs/vm_monitor/ @neondatabase/autoscaling
 /pageserver/ @neondatabase/storage
 /pgxn/ @neondatabase/compute
-/pgxn/neon/ @neondatabase/compute @neondatabase/storage
+/pgxn/neon/ @neondatabase/compute @neondatabase/safekeepers
 /proxy/ @neondatabase/proxy
-/safekeeper/ @neondatabase/storage
+/safekeeper/ @neondatabase/safekeepers
 /vendor/ @neondatabase/compute
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -261,6 +261,15 @@ version = "0.5.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c59bdb34bc650a32731b31bd8f0829cc15d24a708ee31559e0bb34f2bc320cba"

+[[package]]
+name = "atomic-polyfill"
+version = "1.0.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c314e70d181aa6053b26e3f7fbf86d1dfff84f816a6175b967666b3506ef7289"
+dependencies = [
+ "critical-section",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "atomic-take"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -1418,7 +1427,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "clap",
 "criterion-plot",
 "is-terminal",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "num-traits",
 "once_cell",
 "oorandom",
@@ -1439,9 +1448,15 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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 dependencies = [
 "cast",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "critical-section"
+version = "1.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6548a0ad5d2549e111e1f6a11a6c2e2d00ce6a3dafe22948d67c2b443f775e52"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "crossbeam-channel"
 version = "0.5.8"
@@ -1672,7 +1687,6 @@ checksum = "62d6dcd069e7b5fe49a302411f759d4cf1cf2c27fe798ef46fb8baefc053dd2b"
 dependencies = [
 "bitflags 2.4.1",
 "byteorder",
- "chrono",
 "diesel_derives",
 "itoa",
 "pq-sys",
@@ -2134,12 +2148,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "slab",
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-[[package]]
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-version = "0.4.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "304de19db7028420975a296ab0fcbbc8e69438c4ed254a1e41e2a7f37d5f0e0a"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "generic-array"
 version = "0.14.7"
@@ -2274,6 +2282,15 @@ dependencies = [
 "num-traits",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "hash32"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "47d60b12902ba28e2730cd37e95b8c9223af2808df9e902d4df49588d1470606"
+dependencies = [
+ "byteorder",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hashbrown"
 version = "0.12.3"
@@ -2322,6 +2339,18 @@ dependencies = [
 "num-traits",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "heapless"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "git+https://github.com/japaric/heapless.git?rev=644653bf3b831c6bb4963be2de24804acf5e5001#644653bf3b831c6bb4963be2de24804acf5e5001"
+dependencies = [
+ "atomic-polyfill",
+ "hash32",
+ "rustc_version",
+ "spin 0.9.8",
+ "stable_deref_trait",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "heck"
 version = "0.4.1"
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 checksum = "6fe2267d4ed49bc07b63801559be28c718ea06c4738b7a03c94df7386d2cde46"

+[[package]]
+name = "histogram"
+version = "0.7.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e673d137229619d5c2c8903b6ed5852b43636c0017ff2e66b1aafb8ccf04b80b"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hmac"
 version = "0.12.1"
@@ -2716,6 +2755,17 @@ version = "3.0.4"
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 checksum = "8bb03732005da905c88227371639bf1ad885cc712789c011c31c5fb3ab3ccf02"

+[[package]]
+name = "io-lifetimes"
+version = "1.0.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "eae7b9aee968036d54dce06cebaefd919e4472e753296daccd6d344e3e2df0c2"
+dependencies = [
+ "hermit-abi",
+ "libc",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "io-uring"
 version = "0.6.2"
@@ -2734,13 +2784,14 @@ checksum = "8f518f335dce6725a761382244631d86cf0ccb2863413590b31338feb467f9c3"

 [[package]]
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-version = "0.4.12"
+version = "0.4.7"
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-checksum = "f23ff5ef2b80d608d61efee834934d862cd92461afc0560dedf493e4c033738b"
+checksum = "adcf93614601c8129ddf72e2d5633df827ba6551541c6d8c59520a371475be1f"
 dependencies = [
 "hermit-abi",
- "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "io-lifetimes",
+ "rustix 0.37.25",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -2752,15 +2803,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "either",
 ]

-[[package]]
-name = "itertools"
-version = "0.12.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ba291022dbbd398a455acf126c1e341954079855bc60dfdda641363bd6922569"
-dependencies = [
- "either",
-]
-
 [[package]]
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 checksum = "4ec2a862134d2a7d32d7983ddcdd1c4923530833c9f2ea1a44fc5fa473989058"

+[[package]]
+name = "linux-raw-sys"
+version = "0.1.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f051f77a7c8e6957c0696eac88f26b0117e54f52d3fc682ab19397a8812846a4"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "linux-raw-sys"
+version = "0.3.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ef53942eb7bf7ff43a617b3e2c1c4a5ecf5944a7c1bc12d7ee39bbb15e5c1519"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "linux-raw-sys"
 version = "0.4.13"
@@ -2992,7 +3046,7 @@ checksum = "7c4b80445aeb08e832d87bf1830049a924cdc1d6b7ef40b6b9b365bff17bf8ec"
 dependencies = [
 "libc",
 "measured",
- "procfs",
+ "procfs 0.16.0",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -3037,7 +3091,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "measured",
 "measured-process",
 "once_cell",
- "procfs",
+ "procfs 0.14.2",
 "prometheus",
 "rand 0.8.5",
 "rand_distr",
@@ -3566,7 +3620,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "humantime",
 "humantime-serde",
 "hyper 0.14.26",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "leaky-bucket",
 "md5",
 "metrics",
@@ -3584,9 +3638,8 @@ dependencies = [
 "postgres_connection",
 "postgres_ffi",
 "pq_proto",
- "procfs",
+ "procfs 0.14.2",
 "rand 0.8.5",
- "range-set-blaze",
 "regex",
 "remote_storage",
 "reqwest 0.12.4",
@@ -3637,7 +3690,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "hex",
 "humantime",
 "humantime-serde",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "postgres_ffi",
 "rand 0.8.5",
 "serde",
@@ -3695,7 +3748,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "hex-literal",
 "humantime",
 "humantime-serde",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "metrics",
 "once_cell",
 "pageserver_api",
@@ -4027,7 +4080,7 @@ name = "postgres_connection"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "once_cell",
 "postgres",
 "tokio-postgres",
@@ -4085,7 +4138,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
 "byteorder",
 "bytes",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "pin-project-lite",
 "postgres-protocol",
 "rand 0.8.5",
@@ -4131,6 +4184,21 @@ dependencies = [
 "unicode-ident",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "procfs"
+version = "0.14.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b1de8dacb0873f77e6aefc6d71e044761fcc68060290f5b1089fcdf84626bb69"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
+ "byteorder",
+ "chrono",
+ "flate2",
+ "hex",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "rustix 0.36.16",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "procfs"
 version = "0.16.0"
@@ -4138,12 +4206,10 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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 dependencies = [
 "bitflags 2.4.1",
- "chrono",
- "flate2",
 "hex",
 "lazy_static",
 "procfs-core",
- "rustix",
+ "rustix 0.38.28",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -4153,15 +4219,14 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2d3554923a69f4ce04c4a754260c338f505ce22642d3830e049a399fc2059a29"
 dependencies = [
 "bitflags 2.4.1",
- "chrono",
 "hex",
 ]

 [[package]]
 name = "prometheus"
-version = "0.13.4"
+version = "0.13.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3d33c28a30771f7f96db69893f78b857f7450d7e0237e9c8fc6427a81bae7ed1"
+checksum = "449811d15fbdf5ceb5c1144416066429cf82316e2ec8ce0c1f6f8a02e7bbcf8c"
 dependencies = [
 "cfg-if",
 "fnv",
@@ -4169,7 +4234,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "libc",
 "memchr",
 "parking_lot 0.12.1",
- "procfs",
+ "procfs 0.14.2",
 "thiserror",
 ]

@@ -4191,7 +4256,7 @@ checksum = "119533552c9a7ffacc21e099c24a0ac8bb19c2a2a3f363de84cd9b844feab270"
 dependencies = [
 "bytes",
 "heck 0.4.1",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "lazy_static",
 "log",
 "multimap",
@@ -4212,7 +4277,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e5d2d8d10f3c6ded6da8b05b5fb3b8a5082514344d56c9f871412d29b4e075b4"
 dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "proc-macro2",
 "quote",
 "syn 1.0.109",
@@ -4269,7 +4334,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "hyper-util",
 "indexmap 2.0.1",
 "ipnet",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "lasso",
 "md5",
 "measured",
@@ -4324,7 +4389,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "tracing-opentelemetry",
 "tracing-subscriber",
 "tracing-utils",
- "try-lock",
 "typed-json",
 "url",
 "urlencoding",
@@ -4446,18 +4510,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "rand_core 0.5.1",
 ]

-[[package]]
-name = "range-set-blaze"
-version = "0.1.16"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8421b5d459262eabbe49048d362897ff3e3830b44eac6cfe341d6acb2f0f13d2"
-dependencies = [
- "gen_ops",
- "itertools 0.12.1",
- "num-integer",
- "num-traits",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "rayon"
 version = "1.7.0"
@@ -4606,7 +4658,6 @@ name = "remote_storage"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
 "anyhow",
- "async-stream",
 "async-trait",
 "aws-config",
 "aws-credential-types",
@@ -4626,7 +4677,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "humantime",
 "humantime-serde",
 "hyper 0.14.26",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "metrics",
 "once_cell",
 "pin-project-lite",
@@ -4936,6 +4987,34 @@ dependencies = [
 "nom",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "rustix"
+version = "0.36.16"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6da3636faa25820d8648e0e31c5d519bbb01f72fdf57131f0f5f7da5fed36eab"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
+ "errno",
+ "io-lifetimes",
+ "libc",
+ "linux-raw-sys 0.1.4",
+ "windows-sys 0.45.0",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rustix"
+version = "0.37.25"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d4eb579851244c2c03e7c24f501c3432bed80b8f720af1d6e5b0e0f01555a035"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
+ "errno",
+ "io-lifetimes",
+ "libc",
+ "linux-raw-sys 0.3.8",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustix"
 version = "0.38.28"
@@ -5621,6 +5700,9 @@ name = "spin"
 version = "0.9.8"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6980e8d7511241f8acf4aebddbb1ff938df5eebe98691418c4468d0b72a96a67"
+dependencies = [
+ "lock_api",
+]

 [[package]]
 name = "spki"
@@ -5642,6 +5724,12 @@ dependencies = [
 "der 0.7.8",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "stable_deref_trait"
+version = "1.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a8f112729512f8e442d81f95a8a7ddf2b7c6b8a1a6f509a95864142b30cab2d3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "static_assertions"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -5684,7 +5772,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "aws-config",
 "bytes",
 "camino",
- "chrono",
 "clap",
 "control_plane",
 "diesel",
@@ -5695,7 +5782,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "hex",
 "humantime",
 "hyper 0.14.26",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "lasso",
 "measured",
 "metrics",
@@ -5704,7 +5791,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "pageserver_client",
 "postgres_connection",
 "r2d2",
- "rand 0.8.5",
 "reqwest 0.12.4",
 "routerify",
 "scopeguard",
@@ -5760,10 +5846,10 @@ dependencies = [
 "either",
 "futures",
 "futures-util",
- "git-version",
 "hex",
+ "histogram",
 "humantime",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "once_cell",
 "pageserver",
 "pageserver_api",
@@ -5940,15 +6026,15 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "tempfile"
-version = "3.9.0"
+version = "3.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "01ce4141aa927a6d1bd34a041795abd0db1cccba5d5f24b009f694bdf3a1f3fa"
+checksum = "b9fbec84f381d5795b08656e4912bec604d162bff9291d6189a78f4c8ab87998"
 dependencies = [
 "cfg-if",
- "fastrand 2.0.0",
- "redox_syscall 0.4.1",
- "rustix",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "fastrand 1.9.0",
+ "redox_syscall 0.3.5",
+ "rustix 0.37.25",
+ "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]

 [[package]]
@@ -6564,9 +6650,9 @@ dependencies = [

 [[package]]
 name = "try-lock"
-version = "0.2.5"
+version = "0.2.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e421abadd41a4225275504ea4d6566923418b7f05506fbc9c0fe86ba7396114b"
+checksum = "3528ecfd12c466c6f163363caf2d02a71161dd5e1cc6ae7b34207ea2d42d81ed"

 [[package]]
 name = "tungstenite"
@@ -6741,6 +6827,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "criterion",
 "fail",
 "futures",
+ "heapless",
 "hex",
 "hex-literal",
 "humantime",
@@ -6763,6 +6850,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "serde_path_to_error",
 "serde_with",
 "signal-hook",
+ "smallvec",
 "strum",
 "strum_macros",
 "thiserror",
@@ -7145,6 +7233,15 @@ dependencies = [
 "windows_x86_64_msvc 0.42.2",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "windows-sys"
+version = "0.45.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "75283be5efb2831d37ea142365f009c02ec203cd29a3ebecbc093d52315b66d0"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-targets 0.42.2",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-sys"
 version = "0.48.0"
@@ -7163,6 +7260,21 @@ dependencies = [
 "windows-targets 0.52.4",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "windows-targets"
+version = "0.42.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8e5180c00cd44c9b1c88adb3693291f1cd93605ded80c250a75d472756b4d071"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows_aarch64_gnullvm 0.42.2",
+ "windows_aarch64_msvc 0.42.2",
+ "windows_i686_gnu 0.42.2",
+ "windows_i686_msvc 0.42.2",
+ "windows_x86_64_gnu 0.42.2",
+ "windows_x86_64_gnullvm 0.42.2",
+ "windows_x86_64_msvc 0.42.2",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-targets"
 version = "0.48.0"
@@ -7392,7 +7504,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "hmac",
 "hyper 0.14.26",
 "indexmap 1.9.3",
- "itertools 0.10.5",
+ "itertools",
 "libc",
 "log",
 "memchr",
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ parquet = { version = "51.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["zstd"] }
 parquet_derive = "51.0.0"
 pbkdf2 = { version = "0.12.1", features = ["simple", "std"] }
 pin-project-lite = "0.2"
-procfs = "0.16"
+procfs = "0.14"
 prometheus = {version = "0.13", default-features=false, features = ["process"]} # removes protobuf dependency
 prost = "0.11"
 rand = "0.8"
@@ -184,7 +184,6 @@ tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-error = "0.2.0"
 tracing-opentelemetry = "0.21.0"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", default-features = false, features = ["smallvec", "fmt", "tracing-log", "std", "env-filter", "json"] }
-try-lock = "0.2.5"
 twox-hash = { version = "1.6.3", default-features = false }
 typed-json = "0.1"
 url = "2.2"
@@ -205,6 +204,9 @@ postgres-protocol = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git",
 postgres-types = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", branch="neon" }
 tokio-postgres = { git = "https://github.com/neondatabase/rust-postgres.git", branch="neon" }

+## Other git libraries
+heapless = { default-features=false, features=[], git = "https://github.com/japaric/heapless.git", rev = "644653bf3b831c6bb4963be2de24804acf5e5001" } # upstream release pending
+
 ## Local libraries
 compute_api = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/compute_api/" }
 consumption_metrics = { version = "0.1", path = "./libs/consumption_metrics/" }
--- a/18
+++ b/18
@@ -93,14 +93,13 @@ COPY --from=pg-build /home/nonroot/postgres_install.tar.gz /data/

 # By default, pageserver uses `.neon/` working directory in WORKDIR, so create one and fill it with the dummy config.
 # Now, when `docker run ... pageserver` is run, it can start without errors, yet will have some default dummy values.
-RUN mkdir -p /data/.neon/ && \
-  echo "id=1234" > "/data/.neon/identity.toml" && \
-  echo "broker_endpoint='http://storage_broker:50051'\n" \
-       "pg_distrib_dir='/usr/local/'\n" \
-       "listen_pg_addr='0.0.0.0:6400'\n" \
-       "listen_http_addr='0.0.0.0:9898'\n" \
-  > /data/.neon/pageserver.toml && \
-  chown -R neon:neon /data/.neon
+RUN mkdir -p /data/.neon/ && chown -R neon:neon /data/.neon/ \
+    && /usr/local/bin/pageserver -D /data/.neon/ --init \
+       -c "id=1234" \
+       -c "broker_endpoint='http://storage_broker:50051'" \
+       -c "pg_distrib_dir='/usr/local/'" \
+       -c "listen_pg_addr='0.0.0.0:6400'" \
+       -c "listen_http_addr='0.0.0.0:9898'"

 # When running a binary that links with libpq, default to using our most recent postgres version.  Binaries
 # that want a particular postgres version will select it explicitly: this is just a default.
@@ -111,6 +110,3 @@ VOLUME ["/data"]
 USER neon
 EXPOSE 6400
 EXPOSE 9898
-
-CMD /usr/local/bin/pageserver -D /data/.neon
-
--- a/Dockerfile.build-tools
+++ b/Dockerfile.build-tools
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ WORKDIR /home/nonroot

 # Rust
 # Please keep the version of llvm (installed above) in sync with rust llvm (`rustc --version --verbose | grep LLVM`)
-ENV RUSTC_VERSION=1.80.0
+ENV RUSTC_VERSION=1.79.0
 ENV RUSTUP_HOME="/home/nonroot/.rustup"
 ENV PATH="/home/nonroot/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"
 RUN curl -sSO https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/$(uname -m)-unknown-linux-gnu/rustup-init && whoami && \
--- a/Dockerfile.compute-node
+++ b/Dockerfile.compute-node
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ RUN curl -sSO https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup/dist/$(uname -m)-unknown-linux
    chmod +x rustup-init && \
    ./rustup-init -y --no-modify-path --profile minimal --default-toolchain stable && \
    rm rustup-init && \
-    cargo install --locked --version 0.11.3 cargo-pgrx && \
+    cargo install --locked --version 0.10.2 cargo-pgrx && \
    /bin/bash -c 'cargo pgrx init --pg${PG_VERSION:1}=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config'

 USER root
@@ -672,15 +672,10 @@ USER root
 FROM rust-extensions-build AS pg-jsonschema-pg-build
 ARG PG_VERSION

-RUN wget https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema/archive/refs/tags/v0.3.1.tar.gz -O pg_jsonschema.tar.gz && \
-    echo "61df3db1ed83cf24f6aa39c826f8818bfa4f0bd33b587fd6b2b1747985642297 pg_jsonschema.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+RUN wget https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema/archive/refs/tags/v0.2.0.tar.gz -O pg_jsonschema.tar.gz && \
+    echo "9118fc508a6e231e7a39acaa6f066fcd79af17a5db757b47d2eefbe14f7794f0 pg_jsonschema.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir pg_jsonschema-src && cd pg_jsonschema-src && tar xzf ../pg_jsonschema.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
-    # see commit 252b3685a27a0f4c31a0f91e983c6314838e89e8
-    # `unsafe-postgres` feature allows to build pgx extensions
-    # against postgres forks that decided to change their ABI name (like us).
-    # With that we can build extensions without forking them and using stock
-    # pgx. As this feature is new few manual version bumps were required.
-    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.11.3"/pgrx = { version = "0.11.3", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
+    sed -i 's/pgrx = "0.10.2"/pgrx = { version = "0.10.2", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
    cargo pgrx install --release && \
    echo "trusted = true" >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pg_jsonschema.control

@@ -694,10 +689,10 @@ RUN wget https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema/archive/refs/tags/v0.3.1.tar.
 FROM rust-extensions-build AS pg-graphql-pg-build
 ARG PG_VERSION

-RUN wget https://github.com/supabase/pg_graphql/archive/refs/tags/v1.5.7.tar.gz -O pg_graphql.tar.gz && \
-    echo "2b3e567a5b31019cb97ae0e33263c1bcc28580be5a444ac4c8ece5c4be2aea41 pg_graphql.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+RUN wget https://github.com/supabase/pg_graphql/archive/refs/tags/v1.4.0.tar.gz -O pg_graphql.tar.gz && \
+    echo "bd8dc7230282b3efa9ae5baf053a54151ed0e66881c7c53750e2d0c765776edc pg_graphql.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir pg_graphql-src && cd pg_graphql-src && tar xzf ../pg_graphql.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
-    sed -i 's/pgrx = "=0.11.3"/pgrx = { version = "0.11.3", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
+    sed -i 's/pgrx = "=0.10.2"/pgrx = { version = "0.10.2", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
    cargo pgrx install --release && \
    # it's needed to enable extension because it uses untrusted C language
    sed -i 's/superuser = false/superuser = true/g' /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pg_graphql.control && \
@@ -717,9 +712,6 @@ ARG PG_VERSION
 RUN wget https://github.com/kelvich/pg_tiktoken/archive/26806147b17b60763039c6a6878884c41a262318.tar.gz -O pg_tiktoken.tar.gz && \
    echo "e64e55aaa38c259512d3e27c572da22c4637418cf124caba904cd50944e5004e pg_tiktoken.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir pg_tiktoken-src && cd pg_tiktoken-src && tar xzf ../pg_tiktoken.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
-    # TODO update pgrx version in the pg_tiktoken repo and remove this line
-    sed -i 's/pgrx = { version = "=0.10.2",/pgrx = { version = "0.11.3",/g' Cargo.toml && \
-    sed -i 's/pgrx-tests = "=0.10.2"/pgrx-tests = "0.11.3"/g' Cargo.toml && \
    cargo pgrx install --release && \
    echo "trusted = true" >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/pg_tiktoken.control

@@ -733,10 +725,14 @@ RUN wget https://github.com/kelvich/pg_tiktoken/archive/26806147b17b60763039c6a6
 FROM rust-extensions-build AS pg-pgx-ulid-build
 ARG PG_VERSION

-RUN wget https://github.com/pksunkara/pgx_ulid/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.5.tar.gz -O pgx_ulid.tar.gz && \
-    echo "9d1659a2da65af0133d5451c454de31b37364e3502087dadf579f790bc8bef17 pgx_ulid.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
+RUN wget https://github.com/pksunkara/pgx_ulid/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.3.tar.gz -O pgx_ulid.tar.gz && \
+    echo "ee5db82945d2d9f2d15597a80cf32de9dca67b897f605beb830561705f12683c pgx_ulid.tar.gz" | sha256sum --check && \
    mkdir pgx_ulid-src && cd pgx_ulid-src && tar xzf ../pgx_ulid.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C . && \
-    sed -i 's/pgrx       = "^0.11.2"/pgrx = { version = "=0.11.3", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
+    echo "******************* Apply a patch for Postgres 16 support; delete in the next release ******************" && \
+    wget https://github.com/pksunkara/pgx_ulid/commit/f84954cf63fc8c80d964ac970d9eceed3c791196.patch && \
+    patch -p1 < f84954cf63fc8c80d964ac970d9eceed3c791196.patch && \
+    echo "********************************************************************************************************" && \
+    sed -i 's/pgrx       = "=0.10.2"/pgrx = { version = "=0.10.2", features = [ "unsafe-postgres" ] }/g' Cargo.toml && \
    cargo pgrx install --release && \
    echo "trusted = true" >> /usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/ulid.control

@@ -933,8 +929,7 @@ COPY --from=pgjwt-pg-build /pgjwt.tar.gz /ext-src
 #COPY --from=pg-tiktoken-pg-build /home/nonroot/pg_tiktoken.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY --from=hypopg-pg-build /hypopg.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY --from=pg-hashids-pg-build /pg_hashids.tar.gz /ext-src
-COPY --from=rum-pg-build /rum.tar.gz /ext-src
-COPY patches/rum.patch /ext-src
+#COPY --from=rum-pg-build /rum.tar.gz /ext-src
 #COPY --from=pgtap-pg-build /pgtap.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY --from=ip4r-pg-build /ip4r.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY --from=prefix-pg-build /prefix.tar.gz /ext-src
@@ -946,7 +941,7 @@ COPY patches/pg_hintplan.patch /ext-src
 COPY --from=pg-cron-pg-build /pg_cron.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY patches/pg_cron.patch /ext-src
 #COPY --from=pg-pgx-ulid-build /home/nonroot/pgx_ulid.tar.gz /ext-src
-#COPY --from=rdkit-pg-build /rdkit.tar.gz /ext-src
+COPY --from=rdkit-pg-build /rdkit.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY --from=pg-uuidv7-pg-build /pg_uuidv7.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY --from=pg-roaringbitmap-pg-build /pg_roaringbitmap.tar.gz /ext-src
 COPY --from=pg-semver-pg-build /pg_semver.tar.gz /ext-src
@@ -961,7 +956,6 @@ RUN cd /ext-src/ && for f in *.tar.gz; \
    rm -rf $dname; mkdir $dname; tar xzf $f --strip-components=1 -C $dname \
    || exit 1; rm -f $f; done
 RUN cd /ext-src/pgvector-src && patch -p1 <../pgvector.patch
-RUN cd /ext-src/rum-src && patch -p1 <../rum.patch
 # cmake is required for the h3 test
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y cmake
 RUN patch -p1 < /ext-src/pg_hintplan.patch
--- a/13
+++ b/13
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ CARGO_CMD_PREFIX += CARGO_TERM_PROGRESS_WHEN=never CI=1
 # Set PQ_LIB_DIR to make sure `storage_controller` get linked with bundled libpq (through diesel)
 CARGO_CMD_PREFIX += PQ_LIB_DIR=$(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/v16/lib

-CACHEDIR_TAG_CONTENTS := "Signature: 8a477f597d28d172789f06886806bc55"
-
 #
 # Top level Makefile to build Neon and PostgreSQL
 #
@@ -81,24 +79,15 @@ all: neon postgres neon-pg-ext
 #
 # The 'postgres_ffi' depends on the Postgres headers.
 .PHONY: neon
-neon: postgres-headers walproposer-lib cargo-target-dir
+neon: postgres-headers walproposer-lib
 	+@echo "Compiling Neon"
 	$(CARGO_CMD_PREFIX) cargo build $(CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS)
-.PHONY: cargo-target-dir
-cargo-target-dir:
-	# https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/14281
-	mkdir -p target
-	test -e target/CACHEDIR.TAG || echo "$(CACHEDIR_TAG_CONTENTS)" > target/CACHEDIR.TAG

 ### PostgreSQL parts
 # Some rules are duplicated for Postgres v14 and 15. We may want to refactor
 # to avoid the duplication in the future, but it's tolerable for now.
 #
 $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/build/%/config.status:
-
-	mkdir -p $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)
-	test -e $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/CACHEDIR.TAG || echo "$(CACHEDIR_TAG_CONTENTS)" > $(POSTGRES_INSTALL_DIR)/CACHEDIR.TAG
-
 	+@echo "Configuring Postgres $* build"
 	@test -s $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-$*/configure || { \
 		echo "\nPostgres submodule not found in $(ROOT_PROJECT_DIR)/vendor/postgres-$*/, execute "; \
--- a/compute_tools/Cargo.toml
+++ b/compute_tools/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true

-[features]
-default = []
-# Enables test specific features.
-testing = []
-
 [dependencies]
 anyhow.workspace = true
 async-compression.workspace = true
--- a/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
+++ b/compute_tools/src/compute.rs
@@ -400,15 +400,7 @@ impl ComputeNode {
    pub fn get_basebackup(&self, compute_state: &ComputeState, lsn: Lsn) -> Result<()> {
        let mut retry_period_ms = 500.0;
        let mut attempts = 0;
-        const DEFAULT_ATTEMPTS: u16 = 10;
-        #[cfg(feature = "testing")]
-        let max_attempts = if let Ok(v) = env::var("NEON_COMPUTE_TESTING_BASEBACKUP_RETRIES") {
-            u16::from_str(&v).unwrap()
-        } else {
-            DEFAULT_ATTEMPTS
-        };
-        #[cfg(not(feature = "testing"))]
-        let max_attempts = DEFAULT_ATTEMPTS;
+        let max_attempts = 10;
        loop {
            let result = self.try_get_basebackup(compute_state, lsn);
            match result {
--- a/control_plane/src/background_process.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/background_process.rs
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ fn fill_remote_storage_secrets_vars(mut cmd: &mut Command) -> &mut Command {

 fn fill_env_vars_prefixed_neon(mut cmd: &mut Command) -> &mut Command {
    for (var, val) in std::env::vars() {
-        if var.starts_with("NEON_") {
+        if var.starts_with("NEON_PAGESERVER_") {
            cmd = cmd.env(var, val);
        }
    }
--- a/control_plane/src/bin/neon_local.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/bin/neon_local.rs
@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ use pageserver_api::config::{
    DEFAULT_HTTP_LISTEN_PORT as DEFAULT_PAGESERVER_HTTP_PORT,
    DEFAULT_PG_LISTEN_PORT as DEFAULT_PAGESERVER_PG_PORT,
 };
-use pageserver_api::controller_api::{
-    NodeAvailabilityWrapper, PlacementPolicy, TenantCreateRequest,
-};
+use pageserver_api::controller_api::{PlacementPolicy, TenantCreateRequest};
 use pageserver_api::models::{ShardParameters, TimelineCreateRequest, TimelineInfo};
 use pageserver_api::shard::{ShardCount, ShardStripeSize, TenantShardId};
 use postgres_backend::AuthType;
@@ -1252,70 +1250,9 @@ async fn handle_start_all(
            exit(1);
        }
    }
-
-    neon_start_status_check(env, retry_timeout).await?;
-
    Ok(())
 }

-async fn neon_start_status_check(
-    env: &local_env::LocalEnv,
-    retry_timeout: &Duration,
-) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-    const RETRY_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(100);
-    const NOTICE_AFTER_RETRIES: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5);
-
-    if env.control_plane_api.is_none() {
-        return Ok(());
-    }
-
-    let storcon = StorageController::from_env(env);
-
-    let retries = retry_timeout.as_millis() / RETRY_INTERVAL.as_millis();
-    let notice_after_retries = retry_timeout.as_millis() / NOTICE_AFTER_RETRIES.as_millis();
-
-    println!("\nRunning neon status check");
-
-    for retry in 0..retries {
-        if retry == notice_after_retries {
-            println!("\nNeon status check has not passed yet, continuing to wait")
-        }
-
-        let mut passed = true;
-        let mut nodes = storcon.node_list().await?;
-        let mut pageservers = env.pageservers.clone();
-
-        if nodes.len() != pageservers.len() {
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        nodes.sort_by_key(|ps| ps.id);
-        pageservers.sort_by_key(|ps| ps.id);
-
-        for (idx, pageserver) in pageservers.iter().enumerate() {
-            let node = &nodes[idx];
-            if node.id != pageserver.id {
-                passed = false;
-                break;
-            }
-
-            if !matches!(node.availability, NodeAvailabilityWrapper::Active) {
-                passed = false;
-                break;
-            }
-        }
-
-        if passed {
-            println!("\nNeon started and passed status check");
-            return Ok(());
-        }
-
-        tokio::time::sleep(RETRY_INTERVAL).await;
-    }
-
-    anyhow::bail!("\nNeon passed status check")
-}
-
 async fn handle_stop_all(sub_match: &ArgMatches, env: &local_env::LocalEnv) -> Result<()> {
    let immediate =
        sub_match.get_one::<String>("stop-mode").map(|s| s.as_str()) == Some("immediate");
--- a/control_plane/src/local_env.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/local_env.rs
@@ -151,10 +151,7 @@ pub struct NeonBroker {
 pub struct NeonStorageControllerConf {
    /// Heartbeat timeout before marking a node offline
    #[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
-    pub max_offline: Duration,
-
-    #[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
-    pub max_warming_up: Duration,
+    pub max_unavailable: Duration,

    /// Threshold for auto-splitting a tenant into shards
    pub split_threshold: Option<u64>,
@@ -162,16 +159,14 @@ pub struct NeonStorageControllerConf {

 impl NeonStorageControllerConf {
    // Use a shorter pageserver unavailability interval than the default to speed up tests.
-    const DEFAULT_MAX_OFFLINE_INTERVAL: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(10);
-
-    const DEFAULT_MAX_WARMING_UP_INTERVAL: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(30);
+    const DEFAULT_MAX_UNAVAILABLE_INTERVAL: std::time::Duration =
+        std::time::Duration::from_secs(10);
 }

 impl Default for NeonStorageControllerConf {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self {
-            max_offline: Self::DEFAULT_MAX_OFFLINE_INTERVAL,
-            max_warming_up: Self::DEFAULT_MAX_WARMING_UP_INTERVAL,
+            max_unavailable: Self::DEFAULT_MAX_UNAVAILABLE_INTERVAL,
            split_threshold: None,
        }
    }
@@ -514,6 +509,7 @@ impl LocalEnv {
                #[derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
                // (allow unknown fields, unlike PageServerConf)
                struct PageserverConfigTomlSubset {
+                    id: NodeId,
                    listen_pg_addr: String,
                    listen_http_addr: String,
                    pg_auth_type: AuthType,
@@ -525,30 +521,18 @@ impl LocalEnv {
                        .with_context(|| format!("read {:?}", config_toml_path))?,
                )
                .context("parse pageserver.toml")?;
-                let identity_toml_path = dentry.path().join("identity.toml");
-                #[derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
-                struct IdentityTomlSubset {
-                    id: NodeId,
-                }
-                let identity_toml: IdentityTomlSubset = toml_edit::de::from_str(
-                    &std::fs::read_to_string(&identity_toml_path)
-                        .with_context(|| format!("read {:?}", identity_toml_path))?,
-                )
-                .context("parse identity.toml")?;
                let PageserverConfigTomlSubset {
+                    id: config_toml_id,
                    listen_pg_addr,
                    listen_http_addr,
                    pg_auth_type,
                    http_auth_type,
                } = config_toml;
-                let IdentityTomlSubset {
-                    id: identity_toml_id,
-                } = identity_toml;
                let conf = PageServerConf {
                    id: {
                        anyhow::ensure!(
-                            identity_toml_id == id,
-                            "id mismatch: identity.toml:id={identity_toml_id} pageserver_(.*) id={id}",
+                            config_toml_id == id,
+                            "id mismatch: config_toml.id={config_toml_id} id={id}",
                        );
                        id
                    },
--- a/control_plane/src/pageserver.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/pageserver.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ use pageserver_client::mgmt_api;
 use postgres_backend::AuthType;
 use postgres_connection::{parse_host_port, PgConnectionConfig};
 use utils::auth::{Claims, Scope};
-use utils::id::NodeId;
 use utils::{
    id::{TenantId, TimelineId},
    lsn::Lsn,
@@ -75,10 +74,6 @@ impl PageServerNode {
        }
    }

-    fn pageserver_make_identity_toml(&self, node_id: NodeId) -> toml_edit::Document {
-        toml_edit::Document::from_str(&format!("id={node_id}")).unwrap()
-    }
-
    fn pageserver_init_make_toml(
        &self,
        conf: NeonLocalInitPageserverConf,
@@ -127,13 +122,10 @@ impl PageServerNode {
        }

        // Apply the user-provided overrides
-        overrides.push({
-            let mut doc =
-                toml_edit::ser::to_document(&conf).expect("we deserialized this from toml earlier");
-            // `id` is written out to `identity.toml` instead of `pageserver.toml`
-            doc.remove("id").expect("it's part of the struct");
-            doc.to_string()
-        });
+        overrides.push(
+            toml_edit::ser::to_string_pretty(&conf)
+                .expect("we deserialized this from toml earlier"),
+        );

        // Turn `overrides` into a toml document.
        // TODO: above code is legacy code, it should be refactored to use toml_edit directly.
@@ -194,19 +186,6 @@ impl PageServerNode {
            .write_all(config.to_string().as_bytes())
            .context("write pageserver toml")?;
        drop(config_file);
-
-        let identity_file_path = datadir.join("identity.toml");
-        let mut identity_file = std::fs::OpenOptions::new()
-            .create_new(true)
-            .write(true)
-            .open(identity_file_path)
-            .with_context(|| format!("open identity toml for write: {config_file_path:?}"))?;
-        let identity_toml = self.pageserver_make_identity_toml(node_id);
-        identity_file
-            .write_all(identity_toml.to_string().as_bytes())
-            .context("write identity toml")?;
-        drop(identity_toml);
-
        // TODO: invoke a TBD config-check command to validate that pageserver will start with the written config

        // Write metadata file, used by pageserver on startup to register itself with
--- a/control_plane/src/storage_controller.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/storage_controller.rs
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ use crate::{
 use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};
 use pageserver_api::{
    controller_api::{
-        NodeConfigureRequest, NodeDescribeResponse, NodeRegisterRequest, TenantCreateRequest,
-        TenantCreateResponse, TenantLocateResponse, TenantShardMigrateRequest,
-        TenantShardMigrateResponse,
+        NodeConfigureRequest, NodeRegisterRequest, TenantCreateRequest, TenantCreateResponse,
+        TenantLocateResponse, TenantShardMigrateRequest, TenantShardMigrateResponse,
    },
    models::{
        TenantShardSplitRequest, TenantShardSplitResponse, TimelineCreateRequest, TimelineInfo,
@@ -354,10 +353,8 @@ impl StorageController {
            "--dev",
            "--database-url",
            &database_url,
-            "--max-offline-interval",
-            &humantime::Duration::from(self.config.max_offline).to_string(),
-            "--max-warming-up-interval",
-            &humantime::Duration::from(self.config.max_warming_up).to_string(),
+            "--max-unavailable-interval",
+            &humantime::Duration::from(self.config.max_unavailable).to_string(),
        ]
        .into_iter()
        .map(|s| s.to_string())
@@ -628,15 +625,6 @@ impl StorageController {
        .await
    }

-    pub async fn node_list(&self) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<NodeDescribeResponse>> {
-        self.dispatch::<(), Vec<NodeDescribeResponse>>(
-            Method::GET,
-            "control/v1/node".to_string(),
-            None,
-        )
-        .await
-    }
-
    #[instrument(skip(self))]
    pub async fn ready(&self) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        self.dispatch::<(), ()>(Method::GET, "ready".to_string(), None)
--- a/docker-compose/compute_wrapper/shell/compute.sh
+++ b/docker-compose/compute_wrapper/shell/compute.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ echo $result | jq .

 generate_id timeline_id
 PARAMS=(
-     -sbf
+     -sb 
     -X POST
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"
     -d "{\"new_timeline_id\": \"${timeline_id}\", \"pg_version\": ${PG_VERSION}}"
--- a/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose/docker-compose.yml
@@ -31,14 +31,25 @@ services:
    restart: always
    image: ${REPOSITORY:-neondatabase}/neon:${TAG:-latest}
    environment:
+      - BROKER_ENDPOINT='http://storage_broker:50051'
      - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=minio
      - AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=password
      #- RUST_BACKTRACE=1
    ports:
       #- 6400:6400  # pg protocol handler
       - 9898:9898 # http endpoints
-    volumes:
-      - ./pageserver_config:/data/.neon/
+    entrypoint:
+      - "/bin/sh"
+      - "-c"
+    command:
+      - "/usr/local/bin/pageserver -D /data/.neon/
+                                   -c \"broker_endpoint=$$BROKER_ENDPOINT\"
+                                   -c \"listen_pg_addr='0.0.0.0:6400'\"
+                                   -c \"listen_http_addr='0.0.0.0:9898'\"
+                                   -c \"remote_storage={endpoint='http://minio:9000',
+                                                        bucket_name='neon',
+                                                        bucket_region='eu-north-1',
+                                                        prefix_in_bucket='/pageserver/'}\""
    depends_on:
      - storage_broker
      - minio_create_buckets
--- a/docker-compose/docker_compose_test.sh
+++ b/docker-compose/docker_compose_test.sh
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ for pg_version in 14 15 16; do
        docker cp $TMPDIR/data $COMPUTE_CONTAINER_NAME:/ext-src/pg_hint_plan-src/
        rm -rf $TMPDIR
        # We are running tests now
-        if docker exec -e SKIP=timescaledb-src,rdkit-src,postgis-src,pgx_ulid-src,pgtap-src,pg_tiktoken-src,pg_jsonschema-src,pg_graphql-src,kq_imcx-src,wal2json_2_5-src \
+        if docker exec -e SKIP=rum-src,timescaledb-src,rdkit-src,postgis-src,pgx_ulid-src,pgtap-src,pg_tiktoken-src,pg_jsonschema-src,pg_graphql-src,kq_imcx-src,wal2json_2_5-src \
            $TEST_CONTAINER_NAME /run-tests.sh | tee testout.txt
        then
            cleanup
--- a/docker-compose/pageserver_config/identity.toml
+++ b/docker-compose/pageserver_config/identity.toml
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-id=1234
--- a/docker-compose/pageserver_config/pageserver.toml
+++ b/docker-compose/pageserver_config/pageserver.toml
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-broker_endpoint='http://storage_broker:50051'
-pg_distrib_dir='/usr/local/'
-listen_pg_addr='0.0.0.0:6400'
-listen_http_addr='0.0.0.0:9898'
-remote_storage={ endpoint='http://minio:9000', bucket_name='neon', bucket_region='eu-north-1', prefix_in_bucket='/pageserver' }
--- a/docker-compose/run-tests.sh
+++ b/docker-compose/run-tests.sh
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -x

-cd /ext-src || exit 2
+cd /ext-src
 FAILED=
-LIST=$( (echo "${SKIP//","/"\n"}"; ls -d -- *-src) | sort | uniq -u)
+LIST=$((echo ${SKIP} | sed 's/,/\n/g'; ls -d *-src) | sort | uniq -u)
 for d in ${LIST}
 do
-       [ -d "${d}" ] || continue
+       [ -d ${d} ] || continue
    psql -c "select 1" >/dev/null || break
-       USE_PGXS=1 make -C "${d}" installcheck || FAILED="${d} ${FAILED}"
+       make -C ${d} installcheck || FAILED="${d} ${FAILED}"
 done
 [ -z "${FAILED}" ] && exit 0
-echo "${FAILED}"
+echo ${FAILED}
 exit 1
--- a/docs/rfcs/034-timeline-archive.md
+++ b/docs/rfcs/034-timeline-archive.md
--- a/docs/synthetic-size.md
+++ b/docs/synthetic-size.md
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ implementation where we keep more data than we would need to, do not
 change the synthetic size or incur any costs to the user.

 The synthetic size is calculated for the whole project. It is not
-straightforward to attribute size to individual branches. See [What is
-the size of an individual branch?](#what-is-the-size-of-an-individual-branch)
-for a discussion of those difficulties.
+straightforward to attribute size to individual branches. See "What is
+the size of an individual branch?" for discussion on those
+difficulties.

 The synthetic size is designed to:

@@ -40,9 +40,8 @@ The synthetic size is designed to:
 - logical size is the size of a branch *at a given point in
  time*. It's the total size of all tables in all databases, as you
  see with "\l+" in psql for example, plus the Postgres SLRUs and some
-  small amount of metadata. Note that currently, Neon does not include
-  the SLRUs and metadata in the logical size. Refer to the comment in
-  [`get_current_logical_size_non_incremental()`](/pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs#L813-L814).
+  small amount of metadata. NOTE that currently, Neon does not include
+  the SLRUs and metadata in the logical size. See comment to `get_current_logical_size_non_incremental()`.

 - a "point in time" is defined as an LSN value. You can convert a
  timestamp to an LSN, but the storage internally works with LSNs.
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/src/controller_api.rs
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/src/controller_api.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-use std::collections::HashSet;
 use std::str::FromStr;
-use std::time::{Duration, Instant};

 /// Request/response types for the storage controller
 /// API (`/control/v1` prefix).  Implemented by the server
@@ -152,16 +150,11 @@ impl UtilizationScore {
    }
 }

-#[derive(Serialize, Clone, Copy, Debug)]
+#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone, Copy, Debug)]
 #[serde(into = "NodeAvailabilityWrapper")]
 pub enum NodeAvailability {
    // Normal, happy state
    Active(UtilizationScore),
-    // Node is warming up, but we expect it to become available soon. Covers
-    // the time span between the re-attach response being composed on the storage controller
-    // and the first successful heartbeat after the processing of the re-attach response
-    // finishes on the pageserver.
-    WarmingUp(Instant),
    // Offline: Tenants shouldn't try to attach here, but they may assume that their
    // secondary locations on this node still exist.  Newly added nodes are in this
    // state until we successfully contact them.
@@ -171,10 +164,7 @@ pub enum NodeAvailability {
 impl PartialEq for NodeAvailability {
    fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
        use NodeAvailability::*;
-        matches!(
-            (self, other),
-            (Active(_), Active(_)) | (Offline, Offline) | (WarmingUp(_), WarmingUp(_))
-        )
+        matches!((self, other), (Active(_), Active(_)) | (Offline, Offline))
    }
 }

@@ -186,7 +176,6 @@ impl Eq for NodeAvailability {}
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone, Copy, Debug)]
 pub enum NodeAvailabilityWrapper {
    Active,
-    WarmingUp,
    Offline,
 }

@@ -196,7 +185,6 @@ impl From<NodeAvailabilityWrapper> for NodeAvailability {
            // Assume the worst utilisation score to begin with. It will later be updated by
            // the heartbeats.
            NodeAvailabilityWrapper::Active => NodeAvailability::Active(UtilizationScore::worst()),
-            NodeAvailabilityWrapper::WarmingUp => NodeAvailability::WarmingUp(Instant::now()),
            NodeAvailabilityWrapper::Offline => NodeAvailability::Offline,
        }
    }
@@ -206,7 +194,6 @@ impl From<NodeAvailability> for NodeAvailabilityWrapper {
    fn from(val: NodeAvailability) -> Self {
        match val {
            NodeAvailability::Active(_) => NodeAvailabilityWrapper::Active,
-            NodeAvailability::WarmingUp(_) => NodeAvailabilityWrapper::WarmingUp,
            NodeAvailability::Offline => NodeAvailabilityWrapper::Offline,
        }
    }
@@ -295,42 +282,6 @@ pub enum PlacementPolicy {
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
 pub struct TenantShardMigrateResponse {}

-/// Metadata health record posted from scrubber.
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
-pub struct MetadataHealthRecord {
-    pub tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
-    pub healthy: bool,
-    pub last_scrubbed_at: chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
-pub struct MetadataHealthUpdateRequest {
-    pub healthy_tenant_shards: HashSet<TenantShardId>,
-    pub unhealthy_tenant_shards: HashSet<TenantShardId>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
-pub struct MetadataHealthUpdateResponse {}
-
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
-
-pub struct MetadataHealthListUnhealthyResponse {
-    pub unhealthy_tenant_shards: Vec<TenantShardId>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
-
-pub struct MetadataHealthListOutdatedRequest {
-    #[serde(with = "humantime_serde")]
-    pub not_scrubbed_for: Duration,
-}
-
-#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
-
-pub struct MetadataHealthListOutdatedResponse {
-    pub health_records: Vec<MetadataHealthRecord>,
-}
-
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
    use super::*;
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/src/key.rs
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/src/key.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ use crate::reltag::{BlockNumber, RelTag, SlruKind};
 ///
 /// The Repository treats this as an opaque struct, but see the code in pgdatadir_mapping.rs
 /// for what we actually store in these fields.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Hash, PartialEq, Eq, Ord, PartialOrd, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Hash, Eq, PartialEq, Ord, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct Key {
    pub field1: u8,
    pub field2: u32,
@@ -22,6 +22,41 @@ pub struct Key {
    pub field6: u32,
 }

+impl PartialOrd for Key {
+    fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &Self) -> Option<std::cmp::Ordering> {
+        if self.field1 == other.field1
+            && self.field2 == other.field2
+            && self.field3 == other.field3
+            && self.field4 == other.field4
+            && self.field5 == other.field5
+        {
+            self.field6.partial_cmp(&other.field6)
+        } else {
+            match self.field1.partial_cmp(&other.field1) {
+                Some(core::cmp::Ordering::Equal) => {}
+                ord => return ord,
+            }
+            match self.field2.partial_cmp(&other.field2) {
+                Some(core::cmp::Ordering::Equal) => {}
+                ord => return ord,
+            }
+            match self.field3.partial_cmp(&other.field3) {
+                Some(core::cmp::Ordering::Equal) => {}
+                ord => return ord,
+            }
+            match self.field4.partial_cmp(&other.field4) {
+                Some(core::cmp::Ordering::Equal) => {}
+                ord => return ord,
+            }
+            match self.field5.partial_cmp(&other.field5) {
+                Some(core::cmp::Ordering::Equal) => {}
+                ord => return ord,
+            }
+            self.field6.partial_cmp(&other.field6)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// The storage key size.
 pub const KEY_SIZE: usize = 18;

@@ -107,10 +142,7 @@ impl Key {
    /// As long as Neon does not support tablespace (because of lack of access to local file system),
    /// we can assume that only some predefined namespace OIDs are used which can fit in u16
    pub fn to_i128(&self) -> i128 {
-        assert!(
-            self.field2 <= 0xFFFF || self.field2 == 0xFFFFFFFF || self.field2 == 0x22222222,
-            "invalid key: {self}",
-        );
+        assert!(self.field2 <= 0xFFFF || self.field2 == 0xFFFFFFFF || self.field2 == 0x22222222);
        (((self.field1 & 0x7F) as i128) << 120)
            | (((self.field2 & 0xFFFF) as i128) << 104)
            | ((self.field3 as i128) << 72)
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/src/models.rs
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/src/models.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ pub mod utilization;
 pub use utilization::PageserverUtilization;

 use std::{
+    borrow::Cow,
    collections::HashMap,
    io::{BufRead, Read},
    num::{NonZeroU64, NonZeroUsize},
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use serde_with::serde_as;
 use utils::{
    completion,
+    history_buffer::HistoryBufferWithDropCounter,
    id::{NodeId, TenantId, TimelineId},
    lsn::Lsn,
    serde_system_time,
@@ -637,13 +639,6 @@ pub struct TenantInfo {
    pub current_physical_size: Option<u64>, // physical size is only included in `tenant_status` endpoint
    pub attachment_status: TenantAttachmentStatus,
    pub generation: u32,
-
-    /// Opaque explanation if gc is being blocked.
-    ///
-    /// Only looked up for the individual tenant detail, not the listing. This is purely for
-    /// debugging, not included in openapi.
-    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub gc_blocking: Option<String>,
 }

 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone)]
@@ -731,7 +726,58 @@ pub struct LayerMapInfo {
    pub historic_layers: Vec<HistoricLayerInfo>,
 }

-/// The residence status of a layer
+#[derive(Debug, Hash, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Copy, Serialize, Deserialize, enum_map::Enum)]
+#[repr(usize)]
+pub enum LayerAccessKind {
+    GetValueReconstructData,
+    Iter,
+    KeyIter,
+    Dump,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct LayerAccessStatFullDetails {
+    pub when_millis_since_epoch: u64,
+    pub task_kind: Cow<'static, str>,
+    pub access_kind: LayerAccessKind,
+}
+
+/// An event that impacts the layer's residence status.
+#[serde_as]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct LayerResidenceEvent {
+    /// The time when the event occurred.
+    /// NB: this timestamp is captured while the residence status changes.
+    /// So, it might be behind/ahead of the actual residence change by a short amount of time.
+    ///
+    #[serde(rename = "timestamp_millis_since_epoch")]
+    #[serde_as(as = "serde_with::TimestampMilliSeconds")]
+    pub timestamp: SystemTime,
+    /// The new residence status of the layer.
+    pub status: LayerResidenceStatus,
+    /// The reason why we had to record this event.
+    pub reason: LayerResidenceEventReason,
+}
+
+/// The reason for recording a given [`LayerResidenceEvent`].
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub enum LayerResidenceEventReason {
+    /// The layer map is being populated, e.g. during timeline load or attach.
+    /// This includes [`RemoteLayer`] objects created in [`reconcile_with_remote`].
+    /// We need to record such events because there is no persistent storage for the events.
+    ///
+    // https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/74481
+    /// [`RemoteLayer`]: ../../tenant/storage_layer/struct.RemoteLayer.html
+    /// [`reconcile_with_remote`]: ../../tenant/struct.Timeline.html#method.reconcile_with_remote
+    LayerLoad,
+    /// We just created the layer (e.g., freeze_and_flush or compaction).
+    /// Such layers are always [`LayerResidenceStatus::Resident`].
+    LayerCreate,
+    /// We on-demand downloaded or evicted the given layer.
+    ResidenceChange,
+}
+
+/// The residence status of the layer, after the given [`LayerResidenceEvent`].
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub enum LayerResidenceStatus {
    /// Residence status for a layer file that exists locally.
@@ -741,16 +787,23 @@ pub enum LayerResidenceStatus {
    Evicted,
 }

-#[serde_as]
+impl LayerResidenceEvent {
+    pub fn new(status: LayerResidenceStatus, reason: LayerResidenceEventReason) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            status,
+            reason,
+            timestamp: SystemTime::now(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct LayerAccessStats {
-    #[serde_as(as = "serde_with::TimestampMilliSeconds")]
-    pub access_time: SystemTime,
-
-    #[serde_as(as = "serde_with::TimestampMilliSeconds")]
-    pub residence_time: SystemTime,
-
-    pub visible: bool,
+    pub access_count_by_access_kind: HashMap<LayerAccessKind, u64>,
+    pub task_kind_access_flag: Vec<Cow<'static, str>>,
+    pub first: Option<LayerAccessStatFullDetails>,
+    pub accesses_history: HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<LayerAccessStatFullDetails, 16>,
+    pub residence_events_history: HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<LayerResidenceEvent, 16>,
 }

 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -947,8 +1000,6 @@ pub struct TopTenantShardsResponse {
 }

 pub mod virtual_file {
-    use std::path::PathBuf;
-
    #[derive(
        Copy,
        Clone,
@@ -967,53 +1018,6 @@ pub mod virtual_file {
        #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
        TokioEpollUring,
    }
-
-    /// Direct IO modes for a pageserver.
-    #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, serde::Deserialize, serde::Serialize, Default)]
-    #[serde(tag = "mode", rename_all = "kebab-case", deny_unknown_fields)]
-    pub enum DirectIoMode {
-        /// Direct IO disabled (uses usual buffered IO).
-        #[default]
-        Disabled,
-        /// Direct IO disabled (performs checks and perf simulations).
-        Evaluate {
-            /// Alignment check level
-            alignment_check: DirectIoAlignmentCheckLevel,
-            /// Latency padded for performance simulation.
-            latency_padding: DirectIoLatencyPadding,
-        },
-        /// Direct IO enabled.
-        Enabled {
-            /// Actions to perform on alignment error.
-            on_alignment_error: DirectIoOnAlignmentErrorAction,
-        },
-    }
-
-    #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, serde::Deserialize, serde::Serialize, Default)]
-    #[serde(rename_all = "kebab-case")]
-    pub enum DirectIoAlignmentCheckLevel {
-        #[default]
-        Error,
-        Log,
-        None,
-    }
-
-    #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, serde::Deserialize, serde::Serialize, Default)]
-    #[serde(rename_all = "kebab-case")]
-    pub enum DirectIoOnAlignmentErrorAction {
-        Error,
-        #[default]
-        FallbackToBuffered,
-    }
-
-    #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, serde::Deserialize, serde::Serialize, Default)]
-    #[serde(tag = "type", rename_all = "kebab-case")]
-    pub enum DirectIoLatencyPadding {
-        /// Pad virtual file operations with IO to a fake file.
-        FakeFileRW { path: PathBuf },
-        #[default]
-        None,
-    }
 }

 // Wrapped in libpq CopyData
@@ -1483,7 +1487,6 @@ mod tests {
            current_physical_size: Some(42),
            attachment_status: TenantAttachmentStatus::Attached,
            generation: 1,
-            gc_blocking: None,
        };
        let expected_active = json!({
            "id": original_active.id.to_string(),
@@ -1506,7 +1509,6 @@ mod tests {
            current_physical_size: Some(42),
            attachment_status: TenantAttachmentStatus::Attached,
            generation: 1,
-            gc_blocking: None,
        };
        let expected_broken = json!({
            "id": original_broken.id.to_string(),
--- a/libs/pageserver_api/src/models/detach_ancestor.rs
+++ b/libs/pageserver_api/src/models/detach_ancestor.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-use std::collections::HashSet;
-
 use utils::id::TimelineId;

 #[derive(Debug, Default, PartialEq, serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
 pub struct AncestorDetached {
-    pub reparented_timelines: HashSet<TimelineId>,
+    pub reparented_timelines: Vec<TimelineId>,
 }
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/src/controlfile_utils.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/src/controlfile_utils.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ use anyhow::{bail, Result};
 use bytes::{Bytes, BytesMut};

 /// Equivalent to sizeof(ControlFileData) in C
-const SIZEOF_CONTROLDATA: usize = size_of::<ControlFileData>();
+const SIZEOF_CONTROLDATA: usize = std::mem::size_of::<ControlFileData>();

 impl ControlFileData {
    /// Compute the offset of the `crc` field within the `ControlFileData` struct.
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/src/lib.rs
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ pub const RELSEG_SIZE: u32 = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 / (BLCKSZ as u32);
 pub const XLOG_BLCKSZ: usize = 8192;
 pub const WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE: usize = 16 * 1024 * 1024;

-pub const MAX_SEND_SIZE: usize = XLOG_BLCKSZ * 16;
+pub const MAX_SEND_SIZE: usize = XLOG_BLCKSZ * 128;

 // Export some version independent functions that are used outside of this mod
 pub use v14::xlog_utils::encode_logical_message;
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/src/pg_constants.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/src/pg_constants.rs
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ pub const SMGR_TRUNCATE_FSM: u32 = 0x0004;
 //

 // Assumes 8 byte alignment
-const SIZEOF_PAGE_HEADER_DATA: usize = size_of::<PageHeaderData>();
+const SIZEOF_PAGE_HEADER_DATA: usize = std::mem::size_of::<PageHeaderData>();
 pub const MAXALIGN_SIZE_OF_PAGE_HEADER_DATA: usize = (SIZEOF_PAGE_HEADER_DATA + 7) & !7;

 //
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ pub const XLR_RMGR_INFO_MASK: u8 = 0xF0;
 pub const XLOG_TBLSPC_CREATE: u8 = 0x00;
 pub const XLOG_TBLSPC_DROP: u8 = 0x10;

-pub const SIZEOF_XLOGRECORD: u32 = size_of::<XLogRecord>() as u32;
+pub const SIZEOF_XLOGRECORD: u32 = std::mem::size_of::<XLogRecord>() as u32;

 //
 // from xlogrecord.h
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/src/xlog_utils.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/src/xlog_utils.rs
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ pub const XLP_FIRST_IS_CONTRECORD: u16 = 0x0001;
 pub const XLP_REM_LEN_OFFS: usize = 2 + 2 + 4 + 8;
 pub const XLOG_RECORD_CRC_OFFS: usize = 4 + 4 + 8 + 1 + 1 + 2;

-pub const XLOG_SIZE_OF_XLOG_SHORT_PHD: usize = size_of::<XLogPageHeaderData>();
-pub const XLOG_SIZE_OF_XLOG_LONG_PHD: usize = size_of::<XLogLongPageHeaderData>();
-pub const XLOG_SIZE_OF_XLOG_RECORD: usize = size_of::<XLogRecord>();
+pub const XLOG_SIZE_OF_XLOG_SHORT_PHD: usize = std::mem::size_of::<XLogPageHeaderData>();
+pub const XLOG_SIZE_OF_XLOG_LONG_PHD: usize = std::mem::size_of::<XLogLongPageHeaderData>();
+pub const XLOG_SIZE_OF_XLOG_RECORD: usize = std::mem::size_of::<XLogRecord>();
 #[allow(clippy::identity_op)]
 pub const SIZE_OF_XLOG_RECORD_DATA_HEADER_SHORT: usize = 1 * 2;

@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ impl XLogLongPageHeaderData {
    }
 }

-pub const SIZEOF_CHECKPOINT: usize = size_of::<CheckPoint>();
+pub const SIZEOF_CHECKPOINT: usize = std::mem::size_of::<CheckPoint>();

 impl CheckPoint {
    pub fn encode(&self) -> Result<Bytes, SerializeError> {
--- a/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/src/xlog_utils_test.rs
+++ b/libs/postgres_ffi/wal_craft/src/xlog_utils_test.rs
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ pub fn test_find_end_of_wal_last_crossing_segment() {
 /// currently 1024.
 #[test]
 pub fn test_update_next_xid() {
-    let checkpoint_buf = [0u8; size_of::<CheckPoint>()];
+    let checkpoint_buf = [0u8; std::mem::size_of::<CheckPoint>()];
    let mut checkpoint = CheckPoint::decode(&checkpoint_buf).unwrap();

    checkpoint.nextXid = FullTransactionId { value: 10 };
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ pub fn test_update_next_xid() {

 #[test]
 pub fn test_update_next_multixid() {
-    let checkpoint_buf = [0u8; size_of::<CheckPoint>()];
+    let checkpoint_buf = [0u8; std::mem::size_of::<CheckPoint>()];
    let mut checkpoint = CheckPoint::decode(&checkpoint_buf).unwrap();

    // simple case
--- a/libs/remote_storage/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ license.workspace = true
 [dependencies]
 anyhow.workspace = true
 async-trait.workspace = true
-async-stream.workspace = true
 once_cell.workspace = true
 aws-smithy-async.workspace = true
 aws-smithy-types.workspace = true
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/azure_blob.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/azure_blob.rs
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ use std::time::SystemTime;
 use super::REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR;
 use anyhow::Result;
 use azure_core::request_options::{MaxResults, Metadata, Range};
-use azure_core::{Continuable, RetryOptions};
+use azure_core::RetryOptions;
 use azure_identity::DefaultAzureCredential;
 use azure_storage::StorageCredentials;
 use azure_storage_blobs::blob::CopyStatus;
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ use tracing::debug;
 use utils::backoff;

 use crate::metrics::{start_measuring_requests, AttemptOutcome, RequestKind};
-use crate::ListingObject;
 use crate::{
    config::AzureConfig, error::Cancelled, ConcurrencyLimiter, Download, DownloadError, Listing,
    ListingMode, RemotePath, RemoteStorage, StorageMetadata, TimeTravelError, TimeoutOrCancel,
@@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ use crate::{

 pub struct AzureBlobStorage {
    client: ContainerClient,
-    container_name: String,
    prefix_in_container: Option<String>,
    max_keys_per_list_response: Option<NonZeroU32>,
    concurrency_limiter: ConcurrencyLimiter,
@@ -87,7 +85,6 @@ impl AzureBlobStorage {

        Ok(AzureBlobStorage {
            client,
-            container_name: azure_config.container_name.to_owned(),
            prefix_in_container: azure_config.prefix_in_container.to_owned(),
            max_keys_per_list_response,
            concurrency_limiter: ConcurrencyLimiter::new(azure_config.concurrency_limit.get()),
@@ -241,10 +238,6 @@ impl AzureBlobStorage {
            _ = cancel.cancelled() => Err(Cancelled),
        }
    }
-
-    pub fn container_name(&self) -> &str {
-        &self.container_name
-    }
 }

 fn to_azure_metadata(metadata: StorageMetadata) -> Metadata {
@@ -268,30 +261,30 @@ fn to_download_error(error: azure_core::Error) -> DownloadError {
 }

 impl RemoteStorage for AzureBlobStorage {
-    fn list_streaming(
+    async fn list(
        &self,
        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
        mode: ListingMode,
        max_keys: Option<NonZeroU32>,
        cancel: &CancellationToken,
-    ) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Listing, DownloadError>> {
-        // get the passed prefix or if it is not set use prefix_in_bucket value
-        let list_prefix = prefix
-            .map(|p| self.relative_path_to_name(p))
-            .or_else(|| self.prefix_in_container.clone())
-            .map(|mut p| {
-                // required to end with a separator
-                // otherwise request will return only the entry of a prefix
-                if matches!(mode, ListingMode::WithDelimiter)
-                    && !p.ends_with(REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR)
-                {
-                    p.push(REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR);
-                }
-                p
-            });
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<Listing, DownloadError> {
+        let _permit = self.permit(RequestKind::List, cancel).await?;

-        async_stream::stream! {
-            let _permit = self.permit(RequestKind::List, cancel).await?;
+        let op = async {
+            // get the passed prefix or if it is not set use prefix_in_bucket value
+            let list_prefix = prefix
+                .map(|p| self.relative_path_to_name(p))
+                .or_else(|| self.prefix_in_container.clone())
+                .map(|mut p| {
+                    // required to end with a separator
+                    // otherwise request will return only the entry of a prefix
+                    if matches!(mode, ListingMode::WithDelimiter)
+                        && !p.ends_with(REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR)
+                    {
+                        p.push(REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR);
+                    }
+                    p
+                });

            let mut builder = self.client.list_blobs();

@@ -307,43 +300,21 @@ impl RemoteStorage for AzureBlobStorage {
                builder = builder.max_results(MaxResults::new(limit));
            }

-            let mut next_marker = None;
+            let response = builder.into_stream();
+            let response = response.into_stream().map_err(to_download_error);
+            let response = tokio_stream::StreamExt::timeout(response, self.timeout);
+            let response = response.map(|res| match res {
+                Ok(res) => res,
+                Err(_elapsed) => Err(DownloadError::Timeout),
+            });

-            'outer: loop {
-                let mut builder = builder.clone();
-                if let Some(marker) = next_marker.clone() {
-                    builder = builder.marker(marker);
-                }
-                let response = builder.into_stream();
-                let response = response.into_stream().map_err(to_download_error);
-                let response = tokio_stream::StreamExt::timeout(response, self.timeout);
-                let response = response.map(|res| match res {
-                    Ok(res) => res,
-                    Err(_elapsed) => Err(DownloadError::Timeout),
-                });
+            let mut response = std::pin::pin!(response);

-                let mut response = std::pin::pin!(response);
+            let mut res = Listing::default();

-                let mut max_keys = max_keys.map(|mk| mk.get());
-                let next_item = tokio::select! {
-                    op = response.next() => Ok(op),
-                    _ = cancel.cancelled() => Err(DownloadError::Cancelled),
-                }?;
-                let Some(entry) = next_item else {
-                    // The list is complete, so yield it.
-                    break;
-                };
-
-                let mut res = Listing::default();
-                let entry = match entry {
-                    Ok(entry) => entry,
-                    Err(e) => {
-                        // The error is potentially retryable, so we must rewind the loop after yielding.
-                        yield Err(e);
-                        continue;
-                    }
-                };
-                next_marker = entry.continuation();
+            let mut max_keys = max_keys.map(|mk| mk.get());
+            while let Some(entry) = response.next().await {
+                let entry = entry?;
                let prefix_iter = entry
                    .blobs
                    .prefixes()
@@ -353,12 +324,7 @@ impl RemoteStorage for AzureBlobStorage {
                let blob_iter = entry
                    .blobs
                    .blobs()
-                    .map(|k| ListingObject{
-                        key: self.name_to_relative_path(&k.name),
-                        last_modified: k.properties.last_modified.into(),
-                        size: k.properties.content_length,
-                    }
-                    );
+                    .map(|k| self.name_to_relative_path(&k.name));

                for key in blob_iter {
                    res.keys.push(key);
@@ -367,19 +333,19 @@ impl RemoteStorage for AzureBlobStorage {
                        assert!(mk > 0);
                        mk -= 1;
                        if mk == 0 {
-                            yield Ok(res); // limit reached
-                            break 'outer;
+                            return Ok(res); // limit reached
                        }
                        max_keys = Some(mk);
                    }
                }
-                yield Ok(res);
-
-                // We are done here
-                if next_marker.is_none() {
-                    break;
-                }
            }
+
+            Ok(res)
+        };
+
+        tokio::select! {
+            res = op => res,
+            _ = cancel.cancelled() => Err(DownloadError::Cancelled),
        }
    }

--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/lib.rs
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ use anyhow::Context;
 use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};

 use bytes::Bytes;
-use futures::{stream::Stream, StreamExt};
+use futures::stream::Stream;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use tokio::sync::Semaphore;
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
@@ -144,23 +144,15 @@ impl RemotePath {
 ///
 /// The WithDelimiter mode will populate `prefixes` and `keys` in the result.  The
 /// NoDelimiter mode will only populate `keys`.
-#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
 pub enum ListingMode {
    WithDelimiter,
    NoDelimiter,
 }

-#[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Debug)]
-pub struct ListingObject {
-    pub key: RemotePath,
-    pub last_modified: SystemTime,
-    pub size: u64,
-}
-
 #[derive(Default)]
 pub struct Listing {
    pub prefixes: Vec<RemotePath>,
-    pub keys: Vec<ListingObject>,
+    pub keys: Vec<RemotePath>,
 }

 /// Storage (potentially remote) API to manage its state.
@@ -168,18 +160,13 @@ pub struct Listing {
 /// providing basic CRUD operations for storage files.
 #[allow(async_fn_in_trait)]
 pub trait RemoteStorage: Send + Sync + 'static {
-    /// List objects in remote storage, with semantics matching AWS S3's [`ListObjectsV2`].
-    ///
-    /// The stream is guaranteed to return at least one element, even in the case of errors
-    /// (in that case it's an `Err()`), or an empty `Listing`.
-    ///
-    /// The stream is not ending if it returns an error, as long as [`is_permanent`] returns false on the error.
-    /// The `next` function can be retried, and maybe in a future retry, there will be success.
+    /// List objects in remote storage, with semantics matching AWS S3's ListObjectsV2.
+    /// (see `<https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObjectsV2.html>`)
    ///
    /// Note that the prefix is relative to any `prefix_in_bucket` configured for the client, not
    /// from the absolute root of the bucket.
    ///
-    /// `mode` configures whether to use a delimiter.  Without a delimiter, all keys
+    /// `mode` configures whether to use a delimiter.  Without a delimiter all keys
    /// within the prefix are listed in the `keys` of the result.  With a delimiter, any "directories" at the top level of
    /// the prefix are returned in the `prefixes` of the result, and keys in the top level of the prefix are
    /// returned in `keys` ().
@@ -188,32 +175,13 @@ pub trait RemoteStorage: Send + Sync + 'static {
    /// will iteratively call listobjects until it runs out of keys.  Note that this is not safe to use on
    /// unlimted size buckets, as the full list of objects is allocated into a monolithic data structure.
    ///
-    /// [`ListObjectsV2`]: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObjectsV2.html>
-    /// [`is_permanent`]: DownloadError::is_permanent
-    fn list_streaming(
-        &self,
-        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
-        mode: ListingMode,
-        max_keys: Option<NonZeroU32>,
-        cancel: &CancellationToken,
-    ) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Listing, DownloadError>> + Send;
-
    async fn list(
        &self,
        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
-        mode: ListingMode,
+        _mode: ListingMode,
        max_keys: Option<NonZeroU32>,
        cancel: &CancellationToken,
-    ) -> Result<Listing, DownloadError> {
-        let mut stream = std::pin::pin!(self.list_streaming(prefix, mode, max_keys, cancel));
-        let mut combined = stream.next().await.expect("At least one item required")?;
-        while let Some(list) = stream.next().await {
-            let list = list?;
-            combined.keys.extend(list.keys.into_iter());
-            combined.prefixes.extend_from_slice(&list.prefixes);
-        }
-        Ok(combined)
-    }
+    ) -> Result<Listing, DownloadError>;

    /// Streams the local file contents into remote into the remote storage entry.
    ///
@@ -320,8 +288,8 @@ impl Debug for Download {

 /// Every storage, currently supported.
 /// Serves as a simple way to pass around the [`RemoteStorage`] without dealing with generics.
-// Require Clone for `Other` due to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/26925
 #[derive(Clone)]
+// Require Clone for `Other` due to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/26925
 pub enum GenericRemoteStorage<Other: Clone = Arc<UnreliableWrapper>> {
    LocalFs(LocalFs),
    AwsS3(Arc<S3Bucket>),
@@ -330,14 +298,13 @@ pub enum GenericRemoteStorage<Other: Clone = Arc<UnreliableWrapper>> {
 }

 impl<Other: RemoteStorage> GenericRemoteStorage<Arc<Other>> {
-    // See [`RemoteStorage::list`].
    pub async fn list(
        &self,
        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
        mode: ListingMode,
        max_keys: Option<NonZeroU32>,
        cancel: &CancellationToken,
-    ) -> Result<Listing, DownloadError> {
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<Listing, DownloadError> {
        match self {
            Self::LocalFs(s) => s.list(prefix, mode, max_keys, cancel).await,
            Self::AwsS3(s) => s.list(prefix, mode, max_keys, cancel).await,
@@ -346,23 +313,6 @@ impl<Other: RemoteStorage> GenericRemoteStorage<Arc<Other>> {
        }
    }

-    // See [`RemoteStorage::list_streaming`].
-    pub fn list_streaming<'a>(
-        &'a self,
-        prefix: Option<&'a RemotePath>,
-        mode: ListingMode,
-        max_keys: Option<NonZeroU32>,
-        cancel: &'a CancellationToken,
-    ) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Listing, DownloadError>> + 'a + Send {
-        match self {
-            Self::LocalFs(s) => Box::pin(s.list_streaming(prefix, mode, max_keys, cancel))
-                as Pin<Box<dyn Stream<Item = Result<Listing, DownloadError>> + Send>>,
-            Self::AwsS3(s) => Box::pin(s.list_streaming(prefix, mode, max_keys, cancel)),
-            Self::AzureBlob(s) => Box::pin(s.list_streaming(prefix, mode, max_keys, cancel)),
-            Self::Unreliable(s) => Box::pin(s.list_streaming(prefix, mode, max_keys, cancel)),
-        }
-    }
-
    /// See [`RemoteStorage::upload`]
    pub async fn upload(
        &self,
@@ -554,16 +504,6 @@ impl GenericRemoteStorage {
            None => self.download(from, cancel).await,
        }
    }
-
-    /// The name of the bucket/container/etc.
-    pub fn bucket_name(&self) -> Option<&str> {
-        match self {
-            Self::LocalFs(_s) => None,
-            Self::AwsS3(s) => Some(s.bucket_name()),
-            Self::AzureBlob(s) => Some(s.container_name()),
-            Self::Unreliable(_s) => None,
-        }
-    }
 }

 /// Extra set of key-value pairs that contain arbitrary metadata about the storage entry.
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/local_fs.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/local_fs.rs
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ use tokio_util::{io::ReaderStream, sync::CancellationToken};
 use utils::crashsafe::path_with_suffix_extension;

 use crate::{
-    Download, DownloadError, Listing, ListingMode, ListingObject, RemotePath, TimeTravelError,
-    TimeoutOrCancel, REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR,
+    Download, DownloadError, Listing, ListingMode, RemotePath, TimeTravelError, TimeoutOrCancel,
+    REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR,
 };

 use super::{RemoteStorage, StorageMetadata};
@@ -331,17 +331,6 @@ impl LocalFs {
 }

 impl RemoteStorage for LocalFs {
-    fn list_streaming(
-        &self,
-        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
-        mode: ListingMode,
-        max_keys: Option<NonZeroU32>,
-        cancel: &CancellationToken,
-    ) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Listing, DownloadError>> {
-        let listing = self.list(prefix, mode, max_keys, cancel);
-        futures::stream::once(listing)
-    }
-
    async fn list(
        &self,
        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
@@ -357,29 +346,19 @@ impl RemoteStorage for LocalFs {
                .list_recursive(prefix)
                .await
                .map_err(DownloadError::Other)?;
-            let objects = keys
+            let keys = keys
                .into_iter()
-                .filter_map(|k| {
+                .filter(|k| {
                    let path = k.with_base(&self.storage_root);
-                    if path.is_dir() {
-                        None
-                    } else {
-                        Some(ListingObject {
-                            key: k.clone(),
-                            // LocalFs is just for testing, so just specify a dummy time
-                            last_modified: SystemTime::now(),
-                            size: 0,
-                        })
-                    }
+                    !path.is_dir()
                })
                .collect();

            if let ListingMode::NoDelimiter = mode {
-                result.keys = objects;
+                result.keys = keys;
            } else {
                let mut prefixes = HashSet::new();
-                for object in objects {
-                    let key = object.key;
+                for key in keys {
                    // If the part after the prefix includes a "/", take only the first part and put it in `prefixes`.
                    let relative_key = if let Some(prefix) = prefix {
                        let mut prefix = prefix.clone();
@@ -408,12 +387,9 @@ impl RemoteStorage for LocalFs {
                            .to_owned();
                        prefixes.insert(first_part);
                    } else {
-                        result.keys.push(ListingObject {
-                            key: RemotePath::from_string(&relative_key).unwrap(),
-                            // LocalFs is just for testing
-                            last_modified: SystemTime::now(),
-                            size: 0,
-                        });
+                        result
+                            .keys
+                            .push(RemotePath::from_string(&relative_key).unwrap());
                    }
                }
                result.prefixes = prefixes
@@ -963,11 +939,7 @@ mod fs_tests {
            .await?;
        assert!(listing.prefixes.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(
-            listing
-                .keys
-                .into_iter()
-                .map(|o| o.key)
-                .collect::<HashSet<_>>(),
+            listing.keys.into_iter().collect::<HashSet<_>>(),
            HashSet::from([uncle.clone(), child.clone(), child_sibling.clone()])
        );

@@ -992,7 +964,7 @@ mod fs_tests {
            )
            .await?;
        assert_eq!(
-            listing.keys.into_iter().map(|o| o.key).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+            listing.keys,
            [RemotePath::from_string("uncle").unwrap()].to_vec()
        );
        assert_eq!(
@@ -1009,7 +981,7 @@ mod fs_tests {
                &cancel,
            )
            .await?;
-        assert_eq!(listing.keys, vec![]);
+        assert_eq!(listing.keys, [].to_vec());
        assert_eq!(
            listing.prefixes,
            [RemotePath::from_string("grandparent").unwrap()].to_vec()
@@ -1024,7 +996,7 @@ mod fs_tests {
                &cancel,
            )
            .await?;
-        assert_eq!(listing.keys, vec![]);
+        assert_eq!(listing.keys, [].to_vec());
        assert_eq!(
            listing.prefixes,
            [RemotePath::from_string("grandparent").unwrap()].to_vec()
@@ -1057,7 +1029,7 @@ mod fs_tests {
                &cancel,
            )
            .await?;
-        assert_eq!(listing.keys, vec![]);
+        assert_eq!(listing.keys, [].to_vec());

        let mut found_prefixes = listing.prefixes.clone();
        found_prefixes.sort();
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/s3_bucket.rs
@@ -44,9 +44,8 @@ use crate::{
    error::Cancelled,
    metrics::{start_counting_cancelled_wait, start_measuring_requests},
    support::PermitCarrying,
-    ConcurrencyLimiter, Download, DownloadError, Listing, ListingMode, ListingObject, RemotePath,
-    RemoteStorage, TimeTravelError, TimeoutOrCancel, MAX_KEYS_PER_DELETE,
-    REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR,
+    ConcurrencyLimiter, Download, DownloadError, Listing, ListingMode, RemotePath, RemoteStorage,
+    TimeTravelError, TimeoutOrCancel, MAX_KEYS_PER_DELETE, REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR,
 };

 use crate::metrics::AttemptOutcome;
@@ -387,10 +386,6 @@ impl S3Bucket {
        }
        Ok(())
    }
-
-    pub fn bucket_name(&self) -> &str {
-        &self.bucket_name
-    }
 }

 pin_project_lite::pin_project! {
@@ -468,16 +463,17 @@ impl<S: Stream<Item = std::io::Result<Bytes>>> Stream for TimedDownload<S> {
 }

 impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
-    fn list_streaming(
+    async fn list(
        &self,
        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
        mode: ListingMode,
        max_keys: Option<NonZeroU32>,
        cancel: &CancellationToken,
-    ) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Listing, DownloadError>> {
+    ) -> Result<Listing, DownloadError> {
        let kind = RequestKind::List;
        // s3 sdk wants i32
        let mut max_keys = max_keys.map(|mk| mk.get() as i32);
+        let mut result = Listing::default();

        // get the passed prefix or if it is not set use prefix_in_bucket value
        let list_prefix = prefix
@@ -489,119 +485,89 @@ impl RemoteStorage for S3Bucket {
                })
            });

-        async_stream::stream! {
-            let _permit = self.permit(kind, cancel).await?;
+        let _permit = self.permit(kind, cancel).await?;

-            let mut continuation_token = None;
-            'outer: loop {
-                let started_at = start_measuring_requests(kind);
+        let mut continuation_token = None;

-                // min of two Options, returning Some if one is value and another is
-                // None (None is smaller than anything, so plain min doesn't work).
-                let request_max_keys = self
-                    .max_keys_per_list_response
-                    .into_iter()
-                    .chain(max_keys.into_iter())
-                    .min();
-                let mut request = self
-                    .client
-                    .list_objects_v2()
-                    .bucket(self.bucket_name.clone())
-                    .set_prefix(list_prefix.clone())
-                    .set_continuation_token(continuation_token.clone())
-                    .set_max_keys(request_max_keys);
+        loop {
+            let started_at = start_measuring_requests(kind);

-                if let ListingMode::WithDelimiter = mode {
-                    request = request.delimiter(REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR.to_string());
-                }
+            // min of two Options, returning Some if one is value and another is
+            // None (None is smaller than anything, so plain min doesn't work).
+            let request_max_keys = self
+                .max_keys_per_list_response
+                .into_iter()
+                .chain(max_keys.into_iter())
+                .min();
+            let mut request = self
+                .client
+                .list_objects_v2()
+                .bucket(self.bucket_name.clone())
+                .set_prefix(list_prefix.clone())
+                .set_continuation_token(continuation_token)
+                .set_max_keys(request_max_keys);

-                let request = request.send();
-
-                let response = tokio::select! {
-                    res = request => Ok(res),
-                    _ = tokio::time::sleep(self.timeout) => Err(DownloadError::Timeout),
-                    _ = cancel.cancelled() => Err(DownloadError::Cancelled),
-                }?;
-
-                let response = response
-                    .context("Failed to list S3 prefixes")
-                    .map_err(DownloadError::Other);
-
-                let started_at = ScopeGuard::into_inner(started_at);
-
-                crate::metrics::BUCKET_METRICS
-                    .req_seconds
-                    .observe_elapsed(kind, &response, started_at);
-
-                let response = match response {
-                    Ok(response) => response,
-                    Err(e) => {
-                        // The error is potentially retryable, so we must rewind the loop after yielding.
-                        yield Err(e);
-                        continue 'outer;
-                    },
-                };
-
-                let keys = response.contents();
-                let prefixes = response.common_prefixes.as_deref().unwrap_or_default();
-
-                tracing::debug!("list: {} prefixes, {} keys", prefixes.len(), keys.len());
-                let mut result = Listing::default();
-
-                for object in keys {
-                    let key = object.key().expect("response does not contain a key");
-                    let key = self.s3_object_to_relative_path(key);
-
-                    let last_modified = match object.last_modified.map(SystemTime::try_from) {
-                        Some(Ok(t)) => t,
-                        Some(Err(_)) => {
-                            tracing::warn!("Remote storage last_modified {:?} for {} is out of bounds",
-                                object.last_modified, key
-                        );
-                            SystemTime::now()
-                        },
-                        None => {
-                            SystemTime::now()
-                        }
-                    };
-
-                    let size = object.size.unwrap_or(0) as u64;
-
-                    result.keys.push(ListingObject{
-                        key,
-                        last_modified,
-                        size,
-                    });
-                    if let Some(mut mk) = max_keys {
-                        assert!(mk > 0);
-                        mk -= 1;
-                        if mk == 0 {
-                            // limit reached
-                            yield Ok(result);
-                            break 'outer;
-                        }
-                        max_keys = Some(mk);
-                    }
-                }
-
-                // S3 gives us prefixes like "foo/", we return them like "foo"
-                result.prefixes.extend(prefixes.iter().filter_map(|o| {
-                    Some(
-                        self.s3_object_to_relative_path(
-                            o.prefix()?
-                                .trim_end_matches(REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR),
-                        ),
-                    )
-                }));
-
-                yield Ok(result);
-
-                continuation_token = match response.next_continuation_token {
-                    Some(new_token) => Some(new_token),
-                    None => break,
-                };
+            if let ListingMode::WithDelimiter = mode {
+                request = request.delimiter(REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR.to_string());
            }
+
+            let request = request.send();
+
+            let response = tokio::select! {
+                res = request => res,
+                _ = tokio::time::sleep(self.timeout) => return Err(DownloadError::Timeout),
+                _ = cancel.cancelled() => return Err(DownloadError::Cancelled),
+            };
+
+            let response = response
+                .context("Failed to list S3 prefixes")
+                .map_err(DownloadError::Other);
+
+            let started_at = ScopeGuard::into_inner(started_at);
+
+            crate::metrics::BUCKET_METRICS
+                .req_seconds
+                .observe_elapsed(kind, &response, started_at);
+
+            let response = response?;
+
+            let keys = response.contents();
+            let empty = Vec::new();
+            let prefixes = response.common_prefixes.as_ref().unwrap_or(&empty);
+
+            tracing::debug!("list: {} prefixes, {} keys", prefixes.len(), keys.len());
+
+            for object in keys {
+                let object_path = object.key().expect("response does not contain a key");
+                let remote_path = self.s3_object_to_relative_path(object_path);
+                result.keys.push(remote_path);
+                if let Some(mut mk) = max_keys {
+                    assert!(mk > 0);
+                    mk -= 1;
+                    if mk == 0 {
+                        return Ok(result); // limit reached
+                    }
+                    max_keys = Some(mk);
+                }
+            }
+
+            // S3 gives us prefixes like "foo/", we return them like "foo"
+            result.prefixes.extend(prefixes.iter().filter_map(|o| {
+                Some(
+                    self.s3_object_to_relative_path(
+                        o.prefix()?
+                            .trim_end_matches(REMOTE_STORAGE_PREFIX_SEPARATOR),
+                    ),
+                )
+            }));
+
+            continuation_token = match response.next_continuation_token {
+                Some(new_token) => Some(new_token),
+                None => break,
+            };
        }
+
+        Ok(result)
    }

    async fn upload(
--- a/libs/remote_storage/src/simulate_failures.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/src/simulate_failures.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 //! testing purposes.
 use bytes::Bytes;
 use futures::stream::Stream;
-use futures::StreamExt;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::num::NonZeroU32;
 use std::sync::Mutex;
@@ -108,23 +107,6 @@ impl UnreliableWrapper {
 type VoidStorage = crate::LocalFs;

 impl RemoteStorage for UnreliableWrapper {
-    fn list_streaming(
-        &self,
-        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
-        mode: ListingMode,
-        max_keys: Option<NonZeroU32>,
-        cancel: &CancellationToken,
-    ) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Listing, DownloadError>> + Send {
-        async_stream::stream! {
-            self.attempt(RemoteOp::ListPrefixes(prefix.cloned()))
-                .map_err(DownloadError::Other)?;
-            let mut stream = self.inner
-                .list_streaming(prefix, mode, max_keys, cancel);
-            while let Some(item) = stream.next().await {
-                yield item;
-            }
-        }
-    }
    async fn list(
        &self,
        prefix: Option<&RemotePath>,
--- a/libs/remote_storage/tests/common/mod.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/tests/common/mod.rs
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn upload_remote_data(
    let mut upload_tasks = JoinSet::new();
    let cancel = CancellationToken::new();

-    for i in 1..=upload_tasks_count {
+    for i in 1..upload_tasks_count + 1 {
        let task_client = Arc::clone(client);
        let cancel = cancel.clone();

--- a/libs/remote_storage/tests/common/tests.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/tests/common/tests.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 use anyhow::Context;
 use camino::Utf8Path;
-use futures::StreamExt;
 use remote_storage::ListingMode;
 use remote_storage::RemotePath;
 use std::sync::Arc;
@@ -30,10 +29,10 @@ use super::{
 /// * with no prefix, it lists everything after its `${random_prefix_part}/` — that should be `${base_prefix_str}` value only
 /// * with `${base_prefix_str}/` prefix, it lists every `sub_prefix_${i}`
 ///
-/// In the `MaybeEnabledStorageWithTestBlobs::setup`, we set the `max_keys_in_list_response` param to limit the keys in a single response.
-/// This way, we are able to test the pagination, by ensuring all results are returned from the remote storage and avoid uploading too many blobs to S3,
-/// as the current default AWS S3 pagination limit is 1000.
-/// (see <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObjectsV2.html#API_ListObjectsV2_RequestSyntax>).
+/// With the real S3 enabled and `#[cfg(test)]` Rust configuration used, the S3 client test adds a `max-keys` param to limit the response keys.
+/// This way, we are able to test the pagination implicitly, by ensuring all results are returned from the remote storage and avoid uploading too many blobs to S3,
+/// since current default AWS S3 pagination limit is 1000.
+/// (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_ListObjectsV2.html#API_ListObjectsV2_RequestSyntax)
 ///
 /// Lastly, the test attempts to clean up and remove all uploaded S3 files.
 /// If any errors appear during the clean up, they get logged, but the test is not failed or stopped until clean up is finished.
@@ -88,41 +87,6 @@ async fn pagination_should_work(ctx: &mut MaybeEnabledStorageWithTestBlobs) -> a
        "remote storage nested prefixes list mismatches with the uploads. Remote only prefixes: {remote_only_prefixes:?}, missing uploaded prefixes: {missing_uploaded_prefixes:?}",
    );

-    // list_streaming
-
-    let prefix_with_slash = base_prefix.add_trailing_slash();
-    let mut nested_remote_prefixes_st = test_client.list_streaming(
-        Some(&prefix_with_slash),
-        ListingMode::WithDelimiter,
-        None,
-        &cancel,
-    );
-    let mut nested_remote_prefixes_combined = HashSet::new();
-    let mut segments = 0;
-    let mut segment_max_size = 0;
-    while let Some(st) = nested_remote_prefixes_st.next().await {
-        let st = st?;
-        segment_max_size = segment_max_size.max(st.prefixes.len());
-        nested_remote_prefixes_combined.extend(st.prefixes.into_iter());
-        segments += 1;
-    }
-    assert!(segments > 1, "less than 2 segments: {segments}");
-    assert!(
-        segment_max_size * 2 <= nested_remote_prefixes_combined.len(),
-        "double of segment_max_size={segment_max_size} larger number of remote prefixes of {}",
-        nested_remote_prefixes_combined.len()
-    );
-    let remote_only_prefixes = nested_remote_prefixes_combined
-        .difference(&expected_remote_prefixes)
-        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
-    let missing_uploaded_prefixes = expected_remote_prefixes
-        .difference(&nested_remote_prefixes_combined)
-        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
-    assert_eq!(
-        remote_only_prefixes.len() + missing_uploaded_prefixes.len(), 0,
-        "remote storage nested prefixes list mismatches with the uploads. Remote only prefixes: {remote_only_prefixes:?}, missing uploaded prefixes: {missing_uploaded_prefixes:?}",
-    );
-
    Ok(())
 }

@@ -156,7 +120,6 @@ async fn list_no_delimiter_works(
        .context("client list root files failure")?
        .keys
        .into_iter()
-        .map(|o| o.key)
        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
    assert_eq!(
        root_files,
@@ -183,7 +146,6 @@ async fn list_no_delimiter_works(
        .context("client list nested files failure")?
        .keys
        .into_iter()
-        .map(|o| o.key)
        .collect::<HashSet<_>>();
    let trim_remote_blobs: HashSet<_> = ctx
        .remote_blobs
--- a/libs/remote_storage/tests/test_real_s3.rs
+++ b/libs/remote_storage/tests/test_real_s3.rs
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ async fn s3_time_travel_recovery_works(ctx: &mut MaybeEnabledStorage) -> anyhow:
                .context("list root files failure")?
                .keys
                .into_iter()
-                .map(|o| o.key)
                .collect::<HashSet<_>>(),
        )
    }
--- a/libs/utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ bincode.workspace = true
 bytes.workspace = true
 camino.workspace = true
 chrono.workspace = true
+heapless.workspace = true
 hex = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"] }
 humantime.workspace = true
 hyper = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ routerify.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 signal-hook.workspace = true
+smallvec.workspace = true
 thiserror.workspace = true
 tokio.workspace = true
 tokio-tar.workspace = true
--- a/libs/utils/src/auth.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/auth.rs
@@ -18,20 +18,20 @@ const STORAGE_TOKEN_ALGORITHM: Algorithm = Algorithm::EdDSA;
 #[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]
 pub enum Scope {
-    /// Provides access to all data for a specific tenant (specified in `struct Claims` below)
+    // Provides access to all data for a specific tenant (specified in `struct Claims` below)
    // TODO: join these two?
    Tenant,
-    /// Provides blanket access to all tenants on the pageserver plus pageserver-wide APIs.
-    /// Should only be used e.g. for status check/tenant creation/list.
+    // Provides blanket access to all tenants on the pageserver plus pageserver-wide APIs.
+    // Should only be used e.g. for status check/tenant creation/list.
    PageServerApi,
-    /// Provides blanket access to all data on the safekeeper plus safekeeper-wide APIs.
-    /// Should only be used e.g. for status check.
-    /// Currently also used for connection from any pageserver to any safekeeper.
+    // Provides blanket access to all data on the safekeeper plus safekeeper-wide APIs.
+    // Should only be used e.g. for status check.
+    // Currently also used for connection from any pageserver to any safekeeper.
    SafekeeperData,
-    /// The scope used by pageservers in upcalls to storage controller and cloud control plane
+    // The scope used by pageservers in upcalls to storage controller and cloud control plane
    #[serde(rename = "generations_api")]
    GenerationsApi,
-    /// Allows access to control plane managment API and some storage controller endpoints.
+    // Allows access to control plane managment API and some storage controller endpoints.
    Admin,

    /// Allows access to storage controller APIs used by the scrubber, to interrogate the state
--- a/libs/utils/src/history_buffer.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/history_buffer.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+//! A heapless buffer for events of sorts.
+
+use std::ops;
+
+use heapless::HistoryBuffer;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<T, const L: usize> {
+    buffer: HistoryBuffer<T, L>,
+    drop_count: u64,
+}
+
+impl<T, const L: usize> HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<T, L> {
+    pub fn write(&mut self, data: T) {
+        let len_before = self.buffer.len();
+        self.buffer.write(data);
+        let len_after = self.buffer.len();
+        self.drop_count += u64::from(len_before == len_after);
+    }
+    pub fn drop_count(&self) -> u64 {
+        self.drop_count
+    }
+    pub fn map<U, F: Fn(&T) -> U>(&self, f: F) -> HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<U, L> {
+        let mut buffer = HistoryBuffer::new();
+        buffer.extend(self.buffer.oldest_ordered().map(f));
+        HistoryBufferWithDropCounter::<U, L> {
+            buffer,
+            drop_count: self.drop_count,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T, const L: usize> Default for HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<T, L> {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            buffer: HistoryBuffer::default(),
+            drop_count: 0,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T, const L: usize> ops::Deref for HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<T, L> {
+    type Target = HistoryBuffer<T, L>;
+
+    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
+        &self.buffer
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
+struct SerdeRepr<T> {
+    buffer: Vec<T>,
+    buffer_size: usize,
+    drop_count: u64,
+}
+
+impl<'a, T, const L: usize> From<&'a HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<T, L>> for SerdeRepr<T>
+where
+    T: Clone + serde::Serialize,
+{
+    fn from(value: &'a HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<T, L>) -> Self {
+        let HistoryBufferWithDropCounter { buffer, drop_count } = value;
+        SerdeRepr {
+            buffer: buffer.iter().cloned().collect(),
+            buffer_size: L,
+            drop_count: *drop_count,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T, const L: usize> serde::Serialize for HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<T, L>
+where
+    T: Clone + serde::Serialize,
+{
+    fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
+    where
+        S: serde::Serializer,
+    {
+        SerdeRepr::from(self).serialize(serializer)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'de, T, const L: usize> serde::de::Deserialize<'de> for HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<T, L>
+where
+    T: Clone + serde::Deserialize<'de>,
+{
+    fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
+    where
+        D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
+    {
+        let SerdeRepr {
+            buffer: des_buffer,
+            drop_count,
+            buffer_size,
+        } = SerdeRepr::<T>::deserialize(deserializer)?;
+        if buffer_size != L {
+            use serde::de::Error;
+            return Err(D::Error::custom(format!(
+                "invalid buffer_size, expecting {L} got {buffer_size}"
+            )));
+        }
+        let mut buffer = HistoryBuffer::new();
+        buffer.extend(des_buffer);
+        Ok(HistoryBufferWithDropCounter { buffer, drop_count })
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod test {
+    use super::HistoryBufferWithDropCounter;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_basics() {
+        let mut b = HistoryBufferWithDropCounter::<usize, 2>::default();
+        b.write(1);
+        b.write(2);
+        b.write(3);
+        assert!(b.iter().any(|e| *e == 2));
+        assert!(b.iter().any(|e| *e == 3));
+        assert!(!b.iter().any(|e| *e == 1));
+
+        // round-trip serde
+        let round_tripped: HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<usize, 2> =
+            serde_json::from_str(&serde_json::to_string(&b).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            round_tripped.iter().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+            b.iter().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>()
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_drop_count_works() {
+        let mut b = HistoryBufferWithDropCounter::<_, 2>::default();
+        b.write(1);
+        assert_eq!(b.drop_count(), 0);
+        b.write(2);
+        assert_eq!(b.drop_count(), 0);
+        b.write(3);
+        assert_eq!(b.drop_count(), 1);
+        b.write(4);
+        assert_eq!(b.drop_count(), 2);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_clone_works() {
+        let mut b = HistoryBufferWithDropCounter::<_, 2>::default();
+        b.write(1);
+        b.write(2);
+        b.write(3);
+        assert_eq!(b.drop_count(), 1);
+        let mut c = b.clone();
+        assert_eq!(c.drop_count(), 1);
+        assert!(c.iter().any(|e| *e == 2));
+        assert!(c.iter().any(|e| *e == 3));
+        assert!(!c.iter().any(|e| *e == 1));
+
+        c.write(4);
+        assert!(c.iter().any(|e| *e == 4));
+        assert!(!b.iter().any(|e| *e == 4));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_map() {
+        let mut b = HistoryBufferWithDropCounter::<_, 2>::default();
+
+        b.write(1);
+        assert_eq!(b.drop_count(), 0);
+        {
+            let c = b.map(|i| i + 10);
+            assert_eq!(c.oldest_ordered().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>(), vec![11]);
+            assert_eq!(c.drop_count(), 0);
+        }
+
+        b.write(2);
+        assert_eq!(b.drop_count(), 0);
+        {
+            let c = b.map(|i| i + 10);
+            assert_eq!(
+                c.oldest_ordered().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+                vec![11, 12]
+            );
+            assert_eq!(c.drop_count(), 0);
+        }
+
+        b.write(3);
+        assert_eq!(b.drop_count(), 1);
+        {
+            let c = b.map(|i| i + 10);
+            assert_eq!(
+                c.oldest_ordered().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+                vec![12, 13]
+            );
+            assert_eq!(c.drop_count(), 1);
+        }
+    }
+}
--- a/libs/utils/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/lib.rs
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ pub mod signals;

 pub mod fs_ext;

+pub mod history_buffer;
+
 pub mod measured_stream;

 pub mod serde_percent;
--- a/libs/utils/src/shard.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/shard.rs
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ pub struct TenantShardId {

 impl ShardCount {
    pub const MAX: Self = Self(u8::MAX);
-    pub const MIN: Self = Self(0);

    /// The internal value of a ShardCount may be zero, which means "1 shard, but use
    /// legacy format for TenantShardId that excludes the shard suffix", also known
--- a/libs/utils/src/sync/gate.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/sync/gate.rs
@@ -78,9 +78,8 @@ impl Drop for GateGuard {
    }
 }

-#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
+#[derive(Debug)]
 pub enum GateError {
-    #[error("gate is closed")]
    GateClosed,
 }

--- a/libs/utils/src/vec_map.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/vec_map.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 use std::{alloc::Layout, cmp::Ordering, ops::RangeBounds};

+use smallvec::SmallVec;
+
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum VecMapOrdering {
    Greater,
    GreaterOrEqual,
 }

+const INLINE_ELEMENTS: usize = 1;
+
 /// Ordered map datastructure implemented in a Vec.
 /// Append only - can only add keys that are larger than the
 /// current max key.
@@ -13,7 +17,7 @@ pub enum VecMapOrdering {
 /// during `VecMap` construction.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
 pub struct VecMap<K, V> {
-    data: Vec<(K, V)>,
+    data: SmallVec<[(K, V); INLINE_ELEMENTS]>,
    ordering: VecMapOrdering,
 }

@@ -37,14 +41,18 @@ pub enum VecMapError {
 impl<K: Ord, V> VecMap<K, V> {
    pub fn new(ordering: VecMapOrdering) -> Self {
        Self {
-            data: Vec::new(),
+            data: Default::default(),
            ordering,
        }
    }

+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.data.len()
+    }
+
    pub fn with_capacity(capacity: usize, ordering: VecMapOrdering) -> Self {
        Self {
-            data: Vec::with_capacity(capacity),
+            data: SmallVec::with_capacity(capacity),
            ordering,
        }
    }
@@ -119,6 +127,11 @@ impl<K: Ord, V> VecMap<K, V> {
        Ok((None, delta_size))
    }

+    /// Where the key is known to be unique, and we don't want any instrumentation
+    pub fn append2(&mut self, key: K, value: V) {
+        self.data.push((key, value));
+    }
+
    /// Split the map into two.
    ///
    /// The left map contains everything before `cutoff` (exclusive).
@@ -135,11 +148,11 @@ impl<K: Ord, V> VecMap<K, V> {

        (
            VecMap {
-                data: self.data[..split_idx].to_vec(),
+                data: SmallVec::from(&self.data[..split_idx]),
                ordering: self.ordering,
            },
            VecMap {
-                data: self.data[split_idx..].to_vec(),
+                data: SmallVec::from(&self.data[split_idx..]),
                ordering: self.ordering,
            },
        )
@@ -186,7 +199,10 @@ impl<K: Ord, V> VecMap<K, V> {
    /// Instrument an operation on the underlying [`Vec`].
    /// Will panic if the operation decreases capacity.
    /// Returns the increase in memory usage caused by the op.
-    fn instrument_vec_op(&mut self, op: impl FnOnce(&mut Vec<(K, V)>)) -> usize {
+    fn instrument_vec_op(
+        &mut self,
+        op: impl FnOnce(&mut SmallVec<[(K, V); INLINE_ELEMENTS]>),
+    ) -> usize {
        let old_cap = self.data.capacity();
        op(&mut self.data);
        let new_cap = self.data.capacity();
@@ -226,7 +242,7 @@ impl<K: Ord, V> VecMap<K, V> {

 impl<K: Ord, V> IntoIterator for VecMap<K, V> {
    type Item = (K, V);
-    type IntoIter = std::vec::IntoIter<(K, V)>;
+    type IntoIter = smallvec::IntoIter<[(K, V); INLINE_ELEMENTS]>;

    fn into_iter(self) -> Self::IntoIter {
        self.data.into_iter()
--- a/pageserver/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pageserver/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ postgres_backend.workspace = true
 postgres-protocol.workspace = true
 postgres-types.workspace = true
 rand.workspace = true
-range-set-blaze = { version = "0.1.16", features = ["alloc"] }
 regex.workspace = true
 scopeguard.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true
@@ -108,7 +107,3 @@ harness = false
 [[bench]]
 name = "bench_walredo"
 harness = false
-
-[[bench]]
-name = "bench_ingest"
-harness = false
--- a/pageserver/benches/bench_ingest.rs
+++ b/pageserver/benches/bench_ingest.rs
@@ -1,239 +0,0 @@
-use std::{env, num::NonZeroUsize};
-
-use bytes::Bytes;
-use camino::Utf8PathBuf;
-use criterion::{criterion_group, criterion_main, Criterion};
-use pageserver::{
-    config::PageServerConf,
-    context::{DownloadBehavior, RequestContext},
-    l0_flush::{L0FlushConfig, L0FlushGlobalState},
-    page_cache,
-    repository::Value,
-    task_mgr::TaskKind,
-    tenant::storage_layer::InMemoryLayer,
-    virtual_file,
-};
-use pageserver_api::{key::Key, shard::TenantShardId};
-use utils::{
-    bin_ser::BeSer,
-    id::{TenantId, TimelineId},
-};
-
-// A very cheap hash for generating non-sequential keys.
-fn murmurhash32(mut h: u32) -> u32 {
-    h ^= h >> 16;
-    h = h.wrapping_mul(0x85ebca6b);
-    h ^= h >> 13;
-    h = h.wrapping_mul(0xc2b2ae35);
-    h ^= h >> 16;
-    h
-}
-
-enum KeyLayout {
-    /// Sequential unique keys
-    Sequential,
-    /// Random unique keys
-    Random,
-    /// Random keys, but only use the bits from the mask of them
-    RandomReuse(u32),
-}
-
-enum WriteDelta {
-    Yes,
-    No,
-}
-
-async fn ingest(
-    conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-    put_size: usize,
-    put_count: usize,
-    key_layout: KeyLayout,
-    write_delta: WriteDelta,
-) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-    let mut lsn = utils::lsn::Lsn(1000);
-    let mut key = Key::from_i128(0x0);
-
-    let timeline_id = TimelineId::generate();
-    let tenant_id = TenantId::generate();
-    let tenant_shard_id = TenantShardId::unsharded(tenant_id);
-
-    tokio::fs::create_dir_all(conf.timeline_path(&tenant_shard_id, &timeline_id)).await?;
-
-    let ctx = RequestContext::new(TaskKind::DebugTool, DownloadBehavior::Error);
-
-    let gate = utils::sync::gate::Gate::default();
-    let entered = gate.enter().unwrap();
-
-    let layer =
-        InMemoryLayer::create(conf, timeline_id, tenant_shard_id, lsn, entered, &ctx).await?;
-
-    let data = Value::Image(Bytes::from(vec![0u8; put_size])).ser()?;
-    let ctx = RequestContext::new(
-        pageserver::task_mgr::TaskKind::WalReceiverConnectionHandler,
-        pageserver::context::DownloadBehavior::Download,
-    );
-
-    for i in 0..put_count {
-        lsn += put_size as u64;
-
-        // Generate lots of keys within a single relation, which simulates the typical bulk ingest case: people
-        // usually care the most about write performance when they're blasting a huge batch of data into a huge table.
-        match key_layout {
-            KeyLayout::Sequential => {
-                // Use sequential order to illustrate the experience a user is likely to have
-                // when ingesting bulk data.
-                key.field6 = i as u32;
-            }
-            KeyLayout::Random => {
-                // Use random-order keys to avoid giving a false advantage to data structures that are
-                // faster when inserting on the end.
-                key.field6 = murmurhash32(i as u32);
-            }
-            KeyLayout::RandomReuse(mask) => {
-                // Use low bits only, to limit cardinality
-                key.field6 = murmurhash32(i as u32) & mask;
-            }
-        }
-
-        layer.put_value(key, lsn, &data, &ctx).await?;
-    }
-    layer.freeze(lsn + 1).await;
-
-    if matches!(write_delta, WriteDelta::Yes) {
-        let l0_flush_state = L0FlushGlobalState::new(L0FlushConfig::Direct {
-            max_concurrency: NonZeroUsize::new(1).unwrap(),
-        });
-        let (_desc, path) = layer
-            .write_to_disk(&ctx, None, l0_flush_state.inner())
-            .await?
-            .unwrap();
-        tokio::fs::remove_file(path).await?;
-    }
-
-    Ok(())
-}
-
-/// Wrapper to instantiate a tokio runtime
-fn ingest_main(
-    conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-    put_size: usize,
-    put_count: usize,
-    key_layout: KeyLayout,
-    write_delta: WriteDelta,
-) {
-    let runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
-        .enable_all()
-        .build()
-        .unwrap();
-
-    runtime.block_on(async move {
-        let r = ingest(conf, put_size, put_count, key_layout, write_delta).await;
-        if let Err(e) = r {
-            panic!("{e:?}");
-        }
-    });
-}
-
-/// Declare a series of benchmarks for the Pageserver's ingest write path.
-///
-/// This benchmark does not include WAL decode: it starts at InMemoryLayer::put_value, and ends either
-/// at freezing the ephemeral layer, or writing the ephemeral layer out to an L0 (depending on whether WriteDelta is set).
-///
-/// Genuine disk I/O is used, so expect results to differ depending on storage.  However, when running on
-/// a fast disk, CPU is the bottleneck at time of writing.
-fn criterion_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
-    let temp_dir_parent: Utf8PathBuf = env::current_dir().unwrap().try_into().unwrap();
-    let temp_dir = camino_tempfile::tempdir_in(temp_dir_parent).unwrap();
-    eprintln!("Data directory: {}", temp_dir.path());
-
-    let conf: &'static PageServerConf = Box::leak(Box::new(
-        pageserver::config::PageServerConf::dummy_conf(temp_dir.path().to_path_buf()),
-    ));
-    virtual_file::init(16384, virtual_file::io_engine_for_bench());
-    page_cache::init(conf.page_cache_size);
-
-    {
-        let mut group = c.benchmark_group("ingest-small-values");
-        let put_size = 100usize;
-        let put_count = 128 * 1024 * 1024 / put_size;
-        group.throughput(criterion::Throughput::Bytes((put_size * put_count) as u64));
-        group.sample_size(10);
-        group.bench_function("ingest 128MB/100b seq", |b| {
-            b.iter(|| {
-                ingest_main(
-                    conf,
-                    put_size,
-                    put_count,
-                    KeyLayout::Sequential,
-                    WriteDelta::Yes,
-                )
-            })
-        });
-        group.bench_function("ingest 128MB/100b rand", |b| {
-            b.iter(|| {
-                ingest_main(
-                    conf,
-                    put_size,
-                    put_count,
-                    KeyLayout::Random,
-                    WriteDelta::Yes,
-                )
-            })
-        });
-        group.bench_function("ingest 128MB/100b rand-1024keys", |b| {
-            b.iter(|| {
-                ingest_main(
-                    conf,
-                    put_size,
-                    put_count,
-                    KeyLayout::RandomReuse(0x3ff),
-                    WriteDelta::Yes,
-                )
-            })
-        });
-        group.bench_function("ingest 128MB/100b seq, no delta", |b| {
-            b.iter(|| {
-                ingest_main(
-                    conf,
-                    put_size,
-                    put_count,
-                    KeyLayout::Sequential,
-                    WriteDelta::No,
-                )
-            })
-        });
-    }
-
-    {
-        let mut group = c.benchmark_group("ingest-big-values");
-        let put_size = 8192usize;
-        let put_count = 128 * 1024 * 1024 / put_size;
-        group.throughput(criterion::Throughput::Bytes((put_size * put_count) as u64));
-        group.sample_size(10);
-        group.bench_function("ingest 128MB/8k seq", |b| {
-            b.iter(|| {
-                ingest_main(
-                    conf,
-                    put_size,
-                    put_count,
-                    KeyLayout::Sequential,
-                    WriteDelta::Yes,
-                )
-            })
-        });
-        group.bench_function("ingest 128MB/8k seq, no delta", |b| {
-            b.iter(|| {
-                ingest_main(
-                    conf,
-                    put_size,
-                    put_count,
-                    KeyLayout::Sequential,
-                    WriteDelta::No,
-                )
-            })
-        });
-    }
-}
-
-criterion_group!(benches, criterion_benchmark);
-criterion_main!(benches);
--- a/pageserver/benches/bench_layer_map.rs
+++ b/pageserver/benches/bench_layer_map.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-use criterion::measurement::WallTime;
 use pageserver::keyspace::{KeyPartitioning, KeySpace};
 use pageserver::repository::Key;
 use pageserver::tenant::layer_map::LayerMap;
@@ -16,11 +15,7 @@ use utils::id::{TenantId, TimelineId};

 use utils::lsn::Lsn;

-use criterion::{black_box, criterion_group, criterion_main, BenchmarkGroup, Criterion};
-
-fn fixture_path(relative: &str) -> PathBuf {
-    PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join(relative)
-}
+use criterion::{black_box, criterion_group, criterion_main, Criterion};

 fn build_layer_map(filename_dump: PathBuf) -> LayerMap {
    let mut layer_map = LayerMap::default();
@@ -114,7 +109,7 @@ fn uniform_key_partitioning(layer_map: &LayerMap, _lsn: Lsn) -> KeyPartitioning
 // between each test run.
 fn bench_from_captest_env(c: &mut Criterion) {
    // TODO consider compressing this file
-    let layer_map = build_layer_map(fixture_path("benches/odd-brook-layernames.txt"));
+    let layer_map = build_layer_map(PathBuf::from("benches/odd-brook-layernames.txt"));
    let queries: Vec<(Key, Lsn)> = uniform_query_pattern(&layer_map);

    // Test with uniform query pattern
@@ -144,7 +139,7 @@ fn bench_from_captest_env(c: &mut Criterion) {
 fn bench_from_real_project(c: &mut Criterion) {
    // Init layer map
    let now = Instant::now();
-    let layer_map = build_layer_map(fixture_path("benches/odd-brook-layernames.txt"));
+    let layer_map = build_layer_map(PathBuf::from("benches/odd-brook-layernames.txt"));
    println!("Finished layer map init in {:?}", now.elapsed());

    // Choose uniformly distributed queries
@@ -247,72 +242,7 @@ fn bench_sequential(c: &mut Criterion) {
    group.finish();
 }

-fn bench_visibility_with_map(
-    group: &mut BenchmarkGroup<WallTime>,
-    layer_map: LayerMap,
-    read_points: Vec<Lsn>,
-    bench_name: &str,
-) {
-    group.bench_function(bench_name, |b| {
-        b.iter(|| black_box(layer_map.get_visibility(read_points.clone())));
-    });
-}
-
-// Benchmark using synthetic data. Arrange image layers on stacked diagonal lines.
-fn bench_visibility(c: &mut Criterion) {
-    let mut group = c.benchmark_group("visibility");
-    {
-        // Init layer map. Create 100_000 layers arranged in 1000 diagonal lines.
-        let now = Instant::now();
-        let mut layer_map = LayerMap::default();
-        let mut updates = layer_map.batch_update();
-        for i in 0..100_000 {
-            let i32 = (i as u32) % 100;
-            let zero = Key::from_hex("000000000000000000000000000000000000").unwrap();
-            let layer = PersistentLayerDesc::new_img(
-                TenantShardId::unsharded(TenantId::generate()),
-                TimelineId::generate(),
-                zero.add(10 * i32)..zero.add(10 * i32 + 1),
-                Lsn(i),
-                0,
-            );
-            updates.insert_historic(layer);
-        }
-        updates.flush();
-        println!("Finished layer map init in {:?}", now.elapsed());
-
-        let mut read_points = Vec::new();
-        for i in (0..100_000).step_by(1000) {
-            read_points.push(Lsn(i));
-        }
-
-        bench_visibility_with_map(&mut group, layer_map, read_points, "sequential");
-    }
-
-    {
-        let layer_map = build_layer_map(fixture_path("benches/odd-brook-layernames.txt"));
-        let read_points = vec![Lsn(0x1C760FA190)];
-        bench_visibility_with_map(&mut group, layer_map, read_points, "real_map");
-
-        let layer_map = build_layer_map(fixture_path("benches/odd-brook-layernames.txt"));
-        let read_points = vec![
-            Lsn(0x1C760FA190),
-            Lsn(0x000000931BEAD539),
-            Lsn(0x000000931BF63011),
-            Lsn(0x000000931B33AE68),
-            Lsn(0x00000038E67ABFA0),
-            Lsn(0x000000931B33AE68),
-            Lsn(0x000000914E3F38F0),
-            Lsn(0x000000931B33AE68),
-        ];
-        bench_visibility_with_map(&mut group, layer_map, read_points, "real_map_many_branches");
-    }
-
-    group.finish();
-}
-
 criterion_group!(group_1, bench_from_captest_env);
 criterion_group!(group_2, bench_from_real_project);
 criterion_group!(group_3, bench_sequential);
-criterion_group!(group_4, bench_visibility);
-criterion_main!(group_1, group_2, group_3, group_4);
+criterion_main!(group_1, group_2, group_3);
--- a/pageserver/src/bin/pageserver.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/bin/pageserver.rs
@@ -2,36 +2,35 @@

 //! Main entry point for the Page Server executable.

-use std::env;
 use std::env::{var, VarError};
 use std::io::Read;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Duration;
+use std::{env, ops::ControlFlow, str::FromStr};

 use anyhow::{anyhow, Context};
 use camino::Utf8Path;
 use clap::{Arg, ArgAction, Command};

 use metrics::launch_timestamp::{set_launch_timestamp_metric, LaunchTimestamp};
-use pageserver::config::PageserverIdentity;
 use pageserver::control_plane_client::ControlPlaneClient;
 use pageserver::disk_usage_eviction_task::{self, launch_disk_usage_global_eviction_task};
 use pageserver::metrics::{STARTUP_DURATION, STARTUP_IS_LOADING};
-use pageserver::task_mgr::{COMPUTE_REQUEST_RUNTIME, WALRECEIVER_RUNTIME};
+use pageserver::task_mgr::WALRECEIVER_RUNTIME;
 use pageserver::tenant::{secondary, TenantSharedResources};
-use pageserver::{CancellableTask, ConsumptionMetricsTasks, HttpEndpointListener};
 use remote_storage::GenericRemoteStorage;
 use tokio::signal::unix::SignalKind;
 use tokio::time::Instant;
-use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
 use tracing::*;

 use metrics::set_build_info_metric;
 use pageserver::{
-    config::PageServerConf,
+    config::{defaults::*, PageServerConf},
+    context::{DownloadBehavior, RequestContext},
    deletion_queue::DeletionQueue,
    http, page_cache, page_service, task_mgr,
-    task_mgr::{BACKGROUND_RUNTIME, MGMT_REQUEST_RUNTIME},
+    task_mgr::TaskKind,
+    task_mgr::{BACKGROUND_RUNTIME, COMPUTE_REQUEST_RUNTIME, MGMT_REQUEST_RUNTIME},
    tenant::mgr,
    virtual_file,
 };
@@ -85,13 +84,18 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        .with_context(|| format!("Error opening workdir '{workdir}'"))?;

    let cfg_file_path = workdir.join("pageserver.toml");
-    let identity_file_path = workdir.join("identity.toml");

    // Set CWD to workdir for non-daemon modes
    env::set_current_dir(&workdir)
        .with_context(|| format!("Failed to set application's current dir to '{workdir}'"))?;

-    let conf = initialize_config(&identity_file_path, &cfg_file_path, &workdir)?;
+    let conf = match initialize_config(&cfg_file_path, arg_matches, &workdir)? {
+        ControlFlow::Continue(conf) => conf,
+        ControlFlow::Break(()) => {
+            info!("Pageserver config init successful");
+            return Ok(());
+        }
+    };

    // Initialize logging.
    //
@@ -123,10 +127,8 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {

    // after setting up logging, log the effective IO engine choice and read path implementations
    info!(?conf.virtual_file_io_engine, "starting with virtual_file IO engine");
-    info!(?conf.virtual_file_direct_io, "starting with virtual_file Direct IO settings");
    info!(?conf.get_impl, "starting with get page implementation");
    info!(?conf.get_vectored_impl, "starting with vectored get page implementation");
-    info!(?conf.compact_level0_phase1_value_access, "starting with setting for compact_level0_phase1_value_access");

    let tenants_path = conf.tenants_path();
    if !tenants_path.exists() {
@@ -148,55 +150,70 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 }

 fn initialize_config(
-    identity_file_path: &Utf8Path,
    cfg_file_path: &Utf8Path,
+    arg_matches: clap::ArgMatches,
    workdir: &Utf8Path,
-) -> anyhow::Result<&'static PageServerConf> {
-    // The deployment orchestrator writes out an indentity file containing the node id
-    // for all pageservers. This file is the source of truth for the node id. In order
-    // to allow for rolling back pageserver releases, the node id is also included in
-    // the pageserver config that the deployment orchestrator writes to disk for the pageserver.
-    // A rolled back version of the pageserver will get the node id from the pageserver.toml
-    // config file.
-    let identity = match std::fs::File::open(identity_file_path) {
+) -> anyhow::Result<ControlFlow<(), &'static PageServerConf>> {
+    let init = arg_matches.get_flag("init");
+
+    let file_contents: Option<toml_edit::Document> = match std::fs::File::open(cfg_file_path) {
        Ok(mut f) => {
-            let md = f.metadata().context("stat config file")?;
-            if !md.is_file() {
-                anyhow::bail!("Pageserver found identity file but it is a dir entry: {identity_file_path}. Aborting start up ...");
+            if init {
+                anyhow::bail!("config file already exists: {cfg_file_path}");
            }
-
-            let mut s = String::new();
-            f.read_to_string(&mut s).context("read identity file")?;
-            toml_edit::de::from_str::<PageserverIdentity>(&s)?
-        }
-        Err(e) => {
-            anyhow::bail!("Pageserver could not read identity file: {identity_file_path}: {e}. Aborting start up ...");
-        }
-    };
-
-    let config: toml_edit::Document = match std::fs::File::open(cfg_file_path) {
-        Ok(mut f) => {
            let md = f.metadata().context("stat config file")?;
            if md.is_file() {
                let mut s = String::new();
                f.read_to_string(&mut s).context("read config file")?;
-                s.parse().context("parse config file toml")?
+                Some(s.parse().context("parse config file toml")?)
            } else {
                anyhow::bail!("directory entry exists but is not a file: {cfg_file_path}");
            }
        }
+        Err(e) if e.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => None,
        Err(e) => {
            anyhow::bail!("open pageserver config: {e}: {cfg_file_path}");
        }
    };

-    debug!("Using pageserver toml: {config}");
+    let mut effective_config = file_contents.unwrap_or_else(|| {
+        DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE
+            .parse()
+            .expect("unit tests ensure this works")
+    });
+
+    // Patch with overrides from the command line
+    if let Some(values) = arg_matches.get_many::<String>("config-override") {
+        for option_line in values {
+            let doc = toml_edit::Document::from_str(option_line).with_context(|| {
+                format!("Option '{option_line}' could not be parsed as a toml document")
+            })?;
+
+            for (key, item) in doc.iter() {
+                effective_config.insert(key, item.clone());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    debug!("Resulting toml: {effective_config}");

    // Construct the runtime representation
-    let conf = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(identity.id, &config, workdir)
+    let conf = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(&effective_config, workdir)
        .context("Failed to parse pageserver configuration")?;

-    Ok(Box::leak(Box::new(conf)))
+    if init {
+        info!("Writing pageserver config to '{cfg_file_path}'");
+
+        std::fs::write(cfg_file_path, effective_config.to_string())
+            .with_context(|| format!("Failed to write pageserver config to '{cfg_file_path}'"))?;
+        info!("Config successfully written to '{cfg_file_path}'")
+    }
+
+    Ok(if init {
+        ControlFlow::Break(())
+    } else {
+        ControlFlow::Continue(Box::leak(Box::new(conf)))
+    })
 }

 struct WaitForPhaseResult<F: std::future::Future + Unpin> {
@@ -288,7 +305,6 @@ fn start_pageserver(
    // Create and lock PID file. This ensures that there cannot be more than one
    // pageserver process running at the same time.
    let lock_file_path = conf.workdir.join(PID_FILE_NAME);
-    info!("Claiming pid file at {lock_file_path:?}...");
    let lock_file =
        utils::pid_file::claim_for_current_process(&lock_file_path).context("claim pid file")?;
    info!("Claimed pid file at {lock_file_path:?}");
@@ -414,10 +430,8 @@ fn start_pageserver(

    // Scan the local 'tenants/' directory and start loading the tenants
    let deletion_queue_client = deletion_queue.new_client();
-    let background_purges = mgr::BackgroundPurges::default();
    let tenant_manager = BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.block_on(mgr::init_tenant_mgr(
        conf,
-        background_purges.clone(),
        TenantSharedResources {
            broker_client: broker_client.clone(),
            remote_storage: remote_storage.clone(),
@@ -509,7 +523,7 @@ fn start_pageserver(
        }
    });

-    let (secondary_controller, secondary_controller_tasks) = secondary::spawn_tasks(
+    let secondary_controller = secondary::spawn_tasks(
        tenant_manager.clone(),
        remote_storage.clone(),
        background_jobs_barrier.clone(),
@@ -522,19 +536,18 @@ fn start_pageserver(
    // been configured.
    let disk_usage_eviction_state: Arc<disk_usage_eviction_task::State> = Arc::default();

-    let disk_usage_eviction_task = launch_disk_usage_global_eviction_task(
+    launch_disk_usage_global_eviction_task(
        conf,
        remote_storage.clone(),
        disk_usage_eviction_state.clone(),
        tenant_manager.clone(),
        background_jobs_barrier.clone(),
-    );
+    )?;

    // Start up the service to handle HTTP mgmt API request. We created the
    // listener earlier already.
-    let http_endpoint_listener = {
-        let _rt_guard = MGMT_REQUEST_RUNTIME.enter(); // for hyper
-        let cancel = CancellationToken::new();
+    {
+        let _rt_guard = MGMT_REQUEST_RUNTIME.enter();

        let router_state = Arc::new(
            http::routes::State::new(
@@ -555,49 +568,108 @@ fn start_pageserver(
        let service = utils::http::RouterService::new(router).unwrap();
        let server = hyper::Server::from_tcp(http_listener)?
            .serve(service)
-            .with_graceful_shutdown({
-                let cancel = cancel.clone();
-                async move { cancel.clone().cancelled().await }
-            });
+            .with_graceful_shutdown(task_mgr::shutdown_watcher());

-        let task = MGMT_REQUEST_RUNTIME.spawn(task_mgr::exit_on_panic_or_error(
+        task_mgr::spawn(
+            MGMT_REQUEST_RUNTIME.handle(),
+            TaskKind::HttpEndpointListener,
+            None,
+            None,
            "http endpoint listener",
-            server,
-        ));
-        HttpEndpointListener(CancellableTask { task, cancel })
-    };
+            true,
+            async {
+                server.await?;
+                Ok(())
+            },
+        );
+    }

-    let consumption_metrics_tasks = {
-        let cancel = shutdown_pageserver.child_token();
-        let task = crate::BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.spawn({
-            let tenant_manager = tenant_manager.clone();
-            let cancel = cancel.clone();
-            async move {
-                // first wait until background jobs are cleared to launch.
-                //
-                // this is because we only process active tenants and timelines, and the
-                // Timeline::get_current_logical_size will spawn the logical size calculation,
-                // which will not be rate-limited.
-                tokio::select! {
-                    _ = cancel.cancelled() => { return; },
-                    _ = background_jobs_barrier.wait() => {}
-                };
+    if let Some(metric_collection_endpoint) = &conf.metric_collection_endpoint {
+        let metrics_ctx = RequestContext::todo_child(
+            TaskKind::MetricsCollection,
+            // This task itself shouldn't download anything.
+            // The actual size calculation does need downloads, and
+            // creates a child context with the right DownloadBehavior.
+            DownloadBehavior::Error,
+        );

-                pageserver::consumption_metrics::run(conf, tenant_manager, cancel).await;
-            }
-        });
-        ConsumptionMetricsTasks(CancellableTask { task, cancel })
-    };
+        let local_disk_storage = conf.workdir.join("last_consumption_metrics.json");
+
+        task_mgr::spawn(
+            crate::BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.handle(),
+            TaskKind::MetricsCollection,
+            None,
+            None,
+            "consumption metrics collection",
+            true,
+            {
+                let tenant_manager = tenant_manager.clone();
+                async move {
+                    // first wait until background jobs are cleared to launch.
+                    //
+                    // this is because we only process active tenants and timelines, and the
+                    // Timeline::get_current_logical_size will spawn the logical size calculation,
+                    // which will not be rate-limited.
+                    let cancel = task_mgr::shutdown_token();
+
+                    tokio::select! {
+                        _ = cancel.cancelled() => { return Ok(()); },
+                        _ = background_jobs_barrier.wait() => {}
+                    };
+
+                    pageserver::consumption_metrics::collect_metrics(
+                        tenant_manager,
+                        metric_collection_endpoint,
+                        &conf.metric_collection_bucket,
+                        conf.metric_collection_interval,
+                        conf.synthetic_size_calculation_interval,
+                        conf.id,
+                        local_disk_storage,
+                        cancel,
+                        metrics_ctx,
+                    )
+                    .instrument(info_span!("metrics_collection"))
+                    .await?;
+                    Ok(())
+                }
+            },
+        );
+    }

    // Spawn a task to listen for libpq connections. It will spawn further tasks
    // for each connection. We created the listener earlier already.
-    let page_service = page_service::spawn(conf, tenant_manager.clone(), pg_auth, {
-        let _entered = COMPUTE_REQUEST_RUNTIME.enter(); // TcpListener::from_std requires it
-        pageserver_listener
-            .set_nonblocking(true)
-            .context("set listener to nonblocking")?;
-        tokio::net::TcpListener::from_std(pageserver_listener).context("create tokio listener")?
-    });
+    {
+        let libpq_ctx = RequestContext::todo_child(
+            TaskKind::LibpqEndpointListener,
+            // listener task shouldn't need to download anything. (We will
+            // create a separate sub-contexts for each connection, with their
+            // own download behavior. This context is used only to listen and
+            // accept connections.)
+            DownloadBehavior::Error,
+        );
+        task_mgr::spawn(
+            COMPUTE_REQUEST_RUNTIME.handle(),
+            TaskKind::LibpqEndpointListener,
+            None,
+            None,
+            "libpq endpoint listener",
+            true,
+            {
+                let tenant_manager = tenant_manager.clone();
+                async move {
+                    page_service::libpq_listener_main(
+                        tenant_manager,
+                        pg_auth,
+                        pageserver_listener,
+                        conf.pg_auth_type,
+                        libpq_ctx,
+                        task_mgr::shutdown_token(),
+                    )
+                    .await
+                }
+            },
+        );
+    }

    let mut shutdown_pageserver = Some(shutdown_pageserver.drop_guard());

@@ -623,18 +695,7 @@ fn start_pageserver(
            // Right now that tree doesn't reach very far, and `task_mgr` is used instead.
            // The plan is to change that over time.
            shutdown_pageserver.take();
-            pageserver::shutdown_pageserver(
-                http_endpoint_listener,
-                page_service,
-                consumption_metrics_tasks,
-                disk_usage_eviction_task,
-                &tenant_manager,
-                background_purges,
-                deletion_queue.clone(),
-                secondary_controller_tasks,
-                0,
-            )
-            .await;
+            pageserver::shutdown_pageserver(&tenant_manager, deletion_queue.clone(), 0).await;
            unreachable!()
        })
    }
@@ -673,12 +734,28 @@ fn cli() -> Command {
    Command::new("Neon page server")
        .about("Materializes WAL stream to pages and serves them to the postgres")
        .version(version())
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("init")
+                .long("init")
+                .action(ArgAction::SetTrue)
+                .help("Initialize pageserver with all given config overrides"),
+        )
        .arg(
            Arg::new("workdir")
                .short('D')
                .long("workdir")
                .help("Working directory for the pageserver"),
        )
+        // See `settings.md` for more details on the extra configuration patameters pageserver can process
+        .arg(
+            Arg::new("config-override")
+                .long("config-override")
+                .short('c')
+                .num_args(1)
+                .action(ArgAction::Append)
+                .help("Additional configuration overrides of the ones from the toml config file (or new ones to add there). \
+                Any option has to be a valid toml document, example: `-c=\"foo='hey'\"` `-c=\"foo={value=1}\"`"),
+        )
        .arg(
            Arg::new("enabled-features")
                .long("enabled-features")
--- a/pageserver/src/config.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/config.rs
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 use anyhow::{anyhow, bail, ensure, Context, Result};
 use pageserver_api::{models::ImageCompressionAlgorithm, shard::TenantShardId};
 use remote_storage::{RemotePath, RemoteStorageConfig};
+use serde;
 use serde::de::IntoDeserializer;
-use serde::{self, Deserialize};
 use std::env;
 use storage_broker::Uri;
 use utils::crashsafe::path_with_suffix_extension;
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ use utils::{
    logging::LogFormat,
 };

-use crate::tenant::timeline::compaction::CompactL0Phase1ValueAccess;
 use crate::tenant::vectored_blob_io::MaxVectoredReadBytes;
 use crate::tenant::{config::TenantConfOpt, timeline::GetImpl};
 use crate::tenant::{TENANTS_SEGMENT_NAME, TIMELINES_SEGMENT_NAME};
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ pub mod defaults {
    use pageserver_api::models::ImageCompressionAlgorithm;
    pub use storage_broker::DEFAULT_ENDPOINT as BROKER_DEFAULT_ENDPOINT;

-    pub const DEFAULT_WAIT_LSN_TIMEOUT: &str = "300 s";
+    pub const DEFAULT_WAIT_LSN_TIMEOUT: &str = "60 s";
    pub const DEFAULT_WAL_REDO_TIMEOUT: &str = "60 s";

    pub const DEFAULT_SUPERUSER: &str = "cloud_admin";
@@ -84,16 +83,16 @@ pub mod defaults {
    #[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))]
    pub const DEFAULT_VIRTUAL_FILE_IO_ENGINE: &str = "std-fs";

-    pub const DEFAULT_GET_VECTORED_IMPL: &str = "vectored";
+    pub const DEFAULT_GET_VECTORED_IMPL: &str = "sequential";

-    pub const DEFAULT_GET_IMPL: &str = "vectored";
+    pub const DEFAULT_GET_IMPL: &str = "legacy";

    pub const DEFAULT_MAX_VECTORED_READ_BYTES: usize = 128 * 1024; // 128 KiB

    pub const DEFAULT_IMAGE_COMPRESSION: ImageCompressionAlgorithm =
        ImageCompressionAlgorithm::Disabled;

-    pub const DEFAULT_VALIDATE_VECTORED_GET: bool = false;
+    pub const DEFAULT_VALIDATE_VECTORED_GET: bool = true;

    pub const DEFAULT_EPHEMERAL_BYTES_PER_MEMORY_KB: usize = 0;

@@ -296,13 +295,6 @@ pub struct PageServerConf {
    pub ephemeral_bytes_per_memory_kb: usize,

    pub l0_flush: L0FlushConfig,
-
-    /// This flag is temporary and will be removed after gradual rollout.
-    /// See <https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8184>.
-    pub compact_level0_phase1_value_access: CompactL0Phase1ValueAccess,
-
-    /// Direct IO settings
-    pub virtual_file_direct_io: virtual_file::DirectIoMode,
 }

 /// We do not want to store this in a PageServerConf because the latter may be logged
@@ -364,6 +356,8 @@ struct PageServerConfigBuilder {
    auth_validation_public_key_path: BuilderValue<Option<Utf8PathBuf>>,
    remote_storage_config: BuilderValue<Option<RemoteStorageConfig>>,

+    id: BuilderValue<NodeId>,
+
    broker_endpoint: BuilderValue<Uri>,
    broker_keepalive_interval: BuilderValue<Duration>,

@@ -409,17 +403,9 @@ struct PageServerConfigBuilder {
    ephemeral_bytes_per_memory_kb: BuilderValue<usize>,

    l0_flush: BuilderValue<L0FlushConfig>,
-
-    compact_level0_phase1_value_access: BuilderValue<CompactL0Phase1ValueAccess>,
-
-    virtual_file_direct_io: BuilderValue<virtual_file::DirectIoMode>,
 }

 impl PageServerConfigBuilder {
-    fn new() -> Self {
-        Self::default()
-    }
-
    #[inline(always)]
    fn default_values() -> Self {
        use self::BuilderValue::*;
@@ -445,6 +431,7 @@ impl PageServerConfigBuilder {
            pg_auth_type: Set(AuthType::Trust),
            auth_validation_public_key_path: Set(None),
            remote_storage_config: Set(None),
+            id: NotSet,
            broker_endpoint: Set(storage_broker::DEFAULT_ENDPOINT
                .parse()
                .expect("failed to parse default broker endpoint")),
@@ -502,8 +489,6 @@ impl PageServerConfigBuilder {
            validate_vectored_get: Set(DEFAULT_VALIDATE_VECTORED_GET),
            ephemeral_bytes_per_memory_kb: Set(DEFAULT_EPHEMERAL_BYTES_PER_MEMORY_KB),
            l0_flush: Set(L0FlushConfig::default()),
-            compact_level0_phase1_value_access: Set(CompactL0Phase1ValueAccess::default()),
-            virtual_file_direct_io: Set(virtual_file::DirectIoMode::default()),
        }
    }
 }
@@ -576,6 +561,10 @@ impl PageServerConfigBuilder {
        self.broker_keepalive_interval = BuilderValue::Set(broker_keepalive_interval)
    }

+    pub fn id(&mut self, node_id: NodeId) {
+        self.id = BuilderValue::Set(node_id)
+    }
+
    pub fn log_format(&mut self, log_format: LogFormat) {
        self.log_format = BuilderValue::Set(log_format)
    }
@@ -687,15 +676,7 @@ impl PageServerConfigBuilder {
        self.l0_flush = BuilderValue::Set(value);
    }

-    pub fn compact_level0_phase1_value_access(&mut self, value: CompactL0Phase1ValueAccess) {
-        self.compact_level0_phase1_value_access = BuilderValue::Set(value);
-    }
-
-    pub fn virtual_file_direct_io(&mut self, value: virtual_file::DirectIoMode) {
-        self.virtual_file_direct_io = BuilderValue::Set(value);
-    }
-
-    pub fn build(self, id: NodeId) -> anyhow::Result<PageServerConf> {
+    pub fn build(self) -> anyhow::Result<PageServerConf> {
        let default = Self::default_values();

        macro_rules! conf {
@@ -728,6 +709,7 @@ impl PageServerConfigBuilder {
                pg_auth_type,
                auth_validation_public_key_path,
                remote_storage_config,
+                id,
                broker_endpoint,
                broker_keepalive_interval,
                log_format,
@@ -752,12 +734,9 @@ impl PageServerConfigBuilder {
                image_compression,
                ephemeral_bytes_per_memory_kb,
                l0_flush,
-                compact_level0_phase1_value_access,
-                virtual_file_direct_io,
            }
            CUSTOM LOGIC
            {
-                id: id,
                // TenantConf is handled separately
                default_tenant_conf: TenantConf::default(),
                concurrent_tenant_warmup: ConfigurableSemaphore::new({
@@ -902,12 +881,8 @@ impl PageServerConf {
    /// validating the input and failing on errors.
    ///
    /// This leaves any options not present in the file in the built-in defaults.
-    pub fn parse_and_validate(
-        node_id: NodeId,
-        toml: &Document,
-        workdir: &Utf8Path,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
-        let mut builder = PageServerConfigBuilder::new();
+    pub fn parse_and_validate(toml: &Document, workdir: &Utf8Path) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
+        let mut builder = PageServerConfigBuilder::default();
        builder.workdir(workdir.to_owned());

        let mut t_conf = TenantConfOpt::default();
@@ -938,6 +913,7 @@ impl PageServerConf {
                "tenant_config" => {
                    t_conf = TenantConfOpt::try_from(item.to_owned()).context(format!("failed to parse: '{key}'"))?;
                }
+                "id" => builder.id(NodeId(parse_toml_u64(key, item)?)),
                "broker_endpoint" => builder.broker_endpoint(parse_toml_string(key, item)?.parse().context("failed to parse broker endpoint")?),
                "broker_keepalive_interval" => builder.broker_keepalive_interval(parse_toml_duration(key, item)?),
                "log_format" => builder.log_format(
@@ -1026,17 +1002,11 @@ impl PageServerConf {
                "l0_flush" => {
                    builder.l0_flush(utils::toml_edit_ext::deserialize_item(item).context("l0_flush")?)
                }
-                "compact_level0_phase1_value_access" => {
-                    builder.compact_level0_phase1_value_access(utils::toml_edit_ext::deserialize_item(item).context("compact_level0_phase1_value_access")?)
-                }
-                "virtual_file_direct_io" => {
-                    builder.virtual_file_direct_io(utils::toml_edit_ext::deserialize_item(item).context("virtual_file_direct_io")?)
-                }
                _ => bail!("unrecognized pageserver option '{key}'"),
            }
        }

-        let mut conf = builder.build(node_id).context("invalid config")?;
+        let mut conf = builder.build().context("invalid config")?;

        if conf.http_auth_type == AuthType::NeonJWT || conf.pg_auth_type == AuthType::NeonJWT {
            let auth_validation_public_key_path = conf
@@ -1116,18 +1086,10 @@ impl PageServerConf {
            validate_vectored_get: defaults::DEFAULT_VALIDATE_VECTORED_GET,
            ephemeral_bytes_per_memory_kb: defaults::DEFAULT_EPHEMERAL_BYTES_PER_MEMORY_KB,
            l0_flush: L0FlushConfig::default(),
-            compact_level0_phase1_value_access: CompactL0Phase1ValueAccess::default(),
-            virtual_file_direct_io: virtual_file::DirectIoMode::default(),
        }
    }
 }

-#[derive(Deserialize)]
-#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
-pub struct PageserverIdentity {
-    pub id: NodeId,
-}
-
 // Helper functions to parse a toml Item

 fn parse_toml_string(name: &str, item: &Item) -> Result<String> {
@@ -1275,6 +1237,7 @@ max_file_descriptors = 333

 # initial superuser role name to use when creating a new tenant
 initial_superuser_name = 'zzzz'
+id = 10

 metric_collection_interval = '222 s'
 metric_collection_endpoint = 'http://localhost:80/metrics'
@@ -1291,11 +1254,12 @@ background_task_maximum_delay = '334 s'
        let (workdir, pg_distrib_dir) = prepare_fs(&tempdir)?;
        let broker_endpoint = storage_broker::DEFAULT_ENDPOINT;
        // we have to create dummy values to overcome the validation errors
-        let config_string =
-            format!("pg_distrib_dir='{pg_distrib_dir}'\nbroker_endpoint = '{broker_endpoint}'",);
+        let config_string = format!(
+            "pg_distrib_dir='{pg_distrib_dir}'\nid=10\nbroker_endpoint = '{broker_endpoint}'",
+        );
        let toml = config_string.parse()?;

-        let parsed_config = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(NodeId(10), &toml, &workdir)
+        let parsed_config = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(&toml, &workdir)
            .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("Failed to parse config '{config_string}', reason: {e:?}"));

        assert_eq!(
@@ -1359,8 +1323,6 @@ background_task_maximum_delay = '334 s'
                image_compression: defaults::DEFAULT_IMAGE_COMPRESSION,
                ephemeral_bytes_per_memory_kb: defaults::DEFAULT_EPHEMERAL_BYTES_PER_MEMORY_KB,
                l0_flush: L0FlushConfig::default(),
-                compact_level0_phase1_value_access: CompactL0Phase1ValueAccess::default(),
-                virtual_file_direct_io: virtual_file::DirectIoMode::default(),
            },
            "Correct defaults should be used when no config values are provided"
        );
@@ -1379,7 +1341,7 @@ background_task_maximum_delay = '334 s'
        );
        let toml = config_string.parse()?;

-        let parsed_config = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(NodeId(10), &toml, &workdir)
+        let parsed_config = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(&toml, &workdir)
            .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("Failed to parse config '{config_string}', reason: {e:?}"));

        assert_eq!(
@@ -1435,8 +1397,6 @@ background_task_maximum_delay = '334 s'
                image_compression: defaults::DEFAULT_IMAGE_COMPRESSION,
                ephemeral_bytes_per_memory_kb: defaults::DEFAULT_EPHEMERAL_BYTES_PER_MEMORY_KB,
                l0_flush: L0FlushConfig::default(),
-                compact_level0_phase1_value_access: CompactL0Phase1ValueAccess::default(),
-                virtual_file_direct_io: virtual_file::DirectIoMode::default(),
            },
            "Should be able to parse all basic config values correctly"
        );
@@ -1471,13 +1431,12 @@ broker_endpoint = '{broker_endpoint}'

            let toml = config_string.parse()?;

-            let parsed_remote_storage_config =
-                PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(NodeId(10), &toml, &workdir)
-                    .unwrap_or_else(|e| {
-                        panic!("Failed to parse config '{config_string}', reason: {e:?}")
-                    })
-                    .remote_storage_config
-                    .expect("Should have remote storage config for the local FS");
+            let parsed_remote_storage_config = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(&toml, &workdir)
+                .unwrap_or_else(|e| {
+                    panic!("Failed to parse config '{config_string}', reason: {e:?}")
+                })
+                .remote_storage_config
+                .expect("Should have remote storage config for the local FS");

            assert_eq!(
                parsed_remote_storage_config,
@@ -1533,13 +1492,12 @@ broker_endpoint = '{broker_endpoint}'

            let toml = config_string.parse()?;

-            let parsed_remote_storage_config =
-                PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(NodeId(10), &toml, &workdir)
-                    .unwrap_or_else(|e| {
-                        panic!("Failed to parse config '{config_string}', reason: {e:?}")
-                    })
-                    .remote_storage_config
-                    .expect("Should have remote storage config for S3");
+            let parsed_remote_storage_config = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(&toml, &workdir)
+                .unwrap_or_else(|e| {
+                    panic!("Failed to parse config '{config_string}', reason: {e:?}")
+                })
+                .remote_storage_config
+                .expect("Should have remote storage config for S3");

            assert_eq!(
                parsed_remote_storage_config,
@@ -1601,6 +1559,7 @@ broker_endpoint = '{broker_endpoint}'
            r#"pg_distrib_dir = "{pg_distrib_dir}"
 metric_collection_endpoint = "http://sample.url"
 metric_collection_interval = "10min"
+id = 222

 [disk_usage_based_eviction]
 max_usage_pct = 80
@@ -1617,7 +1576,7 @@ threshold = "20m"
 "#,
        );
        let toml: Document = pageserver_conf_toml.parse()?;
-        let conf = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(NodeId(333), &toml, &workdir)?;
+        let conf = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(&toml, &workdir)?;

        assert_eq!(conf.pg_distrib_dir, pg_distrib_dir);
        assert_eq!(
@@ -1633,11 +1592,7 @@ threshold = "20m"
                .evictions_low_residence_duration_metric_threshold,
            Duration::from_secs(20 * 60)
        );
-
-        // Assert that the node id provided by the indentity file (threaded
-        // through the call to [`PageServerConf::parse_and_validate`] is
-        // used.
-        assert_eq!(conf.id, NodeId(333));
+        assert_eq!(conf.id, NodeId(222));
        assert_eq!(
            conf.disk_usage_based_eviction,
            Some(DiskUsageEvictionTaskConfig {
@@ -1646,7 +1601,7 @@ threshold = "20m"
                period: Duration::from_secs(10),
                #[cfg(feature = "testing")]
                mock_statvfs: None,
-                eviction_order: Default::default(),
+                eviction_order: crate::disk_usage_eviction_task::EvictionOrder::AbsoluteAccessed,
            })
        );

@@ -1670,6 +1625,7 @@ threshold = "20m"
            r#"pg_distrib_dir = "{pg_distrib_dir}"
 metric_collection_endpoint = "http://sample.url"
 metric_collection_interval = "10min"
+id = 222

 [tenant_config]
 evictions_low_residence_duration_metric_threshold = "20m"
@@ -1681,7 +1637,7 @@ threshold = "20m"
 "#,
        );
        let toml: Document = pageserver_conf_toml.parse().unwrap();
-        let conf = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(NodeId(222), &toml, &workdir).unwrap();
+        let conf = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(&toml, &workdir).unwrap();

        match &conf.default_tenant_conf.eviction_policy {
            EvictionPolicy::OnlyImitiate(t) => {
@@ -1700,7 +1656,7 @@ threshold = "20m"
 remote_storage = {}
        "#;
        let doc = toml_edit::Document::from_str(input).unwrap();
-        let err = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(NodeId(222), &doc, &workdir)
+        let err = PageServerConf::parse_and_validate(&doc, &workdir)
            .expect_err("empty remote_storage field should fail, don't specify it if you want no remote_storage");
        assert!(format!("{err}").contains("remote_storage"), "{err}");
    }
--- a/pageserver/src/consumption_metrics.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/consumption_metrics.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 //! Periodically collect consumption metrics for all active tenants
 //! and push them to a HTTP endpoint.
-use crate::config::PageServerConf;
 use crate::context::{DownloadBehavior, RequestContext};
 use crate::task_mgr::{self, TaskKind, BACKGROUND_RUNTIME};
 use crate::tenant::size::CalculateSyntheticSizeError;
@@ -40,74 +39,49 @@ type RawMetric = (MetricsKey, (EventType, u64));
 /// for deduplication, but that is no longer needed.
 type Cache = HashMap<MetricsKey, (EventType, u64)>;

-pub async fn run(
-    conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-    tenant_manager: Arc<TenantManager>,
-    cancel: CancellationToken,
-) {
-    let Some(metric_collection_endpoint) = conf.metric_collection_endpoint.as_ref() else {
-        return;
-    };
-
-    let local_disk_storage = conf.workdir.join("last_consumption_metrics.json");
-
-    let metrics_ctx = RequestContext::todo_child(
-        TaskKind::MetricsCollection,
-        // This task itself shouldn't download anything.
-        // The actual size calculation does need downloads, and
-        // creates a child context with the right DownloadBehavior.
-        DownloadBehavior::Error,
-    );
-    let collect_metrics = BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.spawn(task_mgr::exit_on_panic_or_error(
-        "consumption metrics collection",
-        collect_metrics(
-            tenant_manager.clone(),
-            metric_collection_endpoint,
-            &conf.metric_collection_bucket,
-            conf.metric_collection_interval,
-            conf.id,
-            local_disk_storage,
-            cancel.clone(),
-            metrics_ctx,
-        )
-        .instrument(info_span!("metrics_collection")),
-    ));
-
-    let worker_ctx =
-        RequestContext::todo_child(TaskKind::CalculateSyntheticSize, DownloadBehavior::Download);
-    let synthetic_size_worker = BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.spawn(task_mgr::exit_on_panic_or_error(
-        "synthetic size calculation",
-        calculate_synthetic_size_worker(
-            tenant_manager.clone(),
-            conf.synthetic_size_calculation_interval,
-            cancel.clone(),
-            worker_ctx,
-        )
-        .instrument(info_span!("synthetic_size_worker")),
-    ));
-
-    let (collect_metrics, synthetic_size_worker) =
-        futures::future::join(collect_metrics, synthetic_size_worker).await;
-    collect_metrics
-        .expect("unreachable: exit_on_panic_or_error would catch the panic and exit the process");
-    synthetic_size_worker
-        .expect("unreachable: exit_on_panic_or_error would catch the panic and exit the process");
-}
-
 /// Main thread that serves metrics collection
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
-async fn collect_metrics(
+pub async fn collect_metrics(
    tenant_manager: Arc<TenantManager>,
    metric_collection_endpoint: &Url,
    metric_collection_bucket: &Option<RemoteStorageConfig>,
    metric_collection_interval: Duration,
+    synthetic_size_calculation_interval: Duration,
    node_id: NodeId,
    local_disk_storage: Utf8PathBuf,
    cancel: CancellationToken,
    ctx: RequestContext,
 ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    // spin up background worker that caclulates tenant sizes
+    let worker_ctx =
+        ctx.detached_child(TaskKind::CalculateSyntheticSize, DownloadBehavior::Download);
+    task_mgr::spawn(
+        BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.handle(),
+        TaskKind::CalculateSyntheticSize,
+        None,
+        None,
+        "synthetic size calculation",
+        false,
+        {
+            let tenant_manager = tenant_manager.clone();
+            async move {
+                calculate_synthetic_size_worker(
+                    tenant_manager,
+                    synthetic_size_calculation_interval,
+                    &cancel,
+                    &worker_ctx,
+                )
+                .instrument(info_span!("synthetic_size_worker"))
+                .await?;
+                Ok(())
+            }
+        },
+    );
+
    let path: Arc<Utf8PathBuf> = Arc::new(local_disk_storage);

+    let cancel = task_mgr::shutdown_token();
+
    let restore_and_reschedule = restore_and_reschedule(&path, metric_collection_interval);

    let mut cached_metrics = tokio::select! {
@@ -194,9 +168,11 @@ async fn collect_metrics(
            BackgroundLoopKind::ConsumptionMetricsCollectMetrics,
        );

-        let res =
-            tokio::time::timeout_at(started_at + metric_collection_interval, cancel.cancelled())
-                .await;
+        let res = tokio::time::timeout_at(
+            started_at + metric_collection_interval,
+            task_mgr::shutdown_token().cancelled(),
+        )
+        .await;
        if res.is_ok() {
            return Ok(());
        }
@@ -296,8 +272,8 @@ async fn reschedule(
 async fn calculate_synthetic_size_worker(
    tenant_manager: Arc<TenantManager>,
    synthetic_size_calculation_interval: Duration,
-    cancel: CancellationToken,
-    ctx: RequestContext,
+    cancel: &CancellationToken,
+    ctx: &RequestContext,
 ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    info!("starting calculate_synthetic_size_worker");
    scopeguard::defer! {
@@ -337,7 +313,7 @@ async fn calculate_synthetic_size_worker(
            // there is never any reason to exit calculate_synthetic_size_worker following any
            // return value -- we don't need to care about shutdown because no tenant is found when
            // pageserver is shut down.
-            calculate_and_log(&tenant, &cancel, &ctx).await;
+            calculate_and_log(&tenant, cancel, ctx).await;
        }

        crate::tenant::tasks::warn_when_period_overrun(
--- a/pageserver/src/control_plane_client.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/control_plane_client.rs
@@ -171,14 +171,14 @@ impl ControlPlaneGenerationsApi for ControlPlaneClient {
            register,
        };

+        fail::fail_point!("control-plane-client-re-attach");
+
        let response: ReAttachResponse = self.retry_http_forever(&re_attach_path, request).await?;
        tracing::info!(
            "Received re-attach response with {} tenants",
            response.tenants.len()
        );

-        failpoint_support::sleep_millis_async!("control-plane-client-re-attach");
-
        Ok(response
            .tenants
            .into_iter()
--- a/pageserver/src/disk_usage_eviction_task.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/disk_usage_eviction_task.rs
@@ -59,14 +59,13 @@ use utils::{completion, id::TimelineId};
 use crate::{
    config::PageServerConf,
    metrics::disk_usage_based_eviction::METRICS,
-    task_mgr::{self, BACKGROUND_RUNTIME},
+    task_mgr::{self, TaskKind, BACKGROUND_RUNTIME},
    tenant::{
        mgr::TenantManager,
        remote_timeline_client::LayerFileMetadata,
        secondary::SecondaryTenant,
        storage_layer::{AsLayerDesc, EvictionError, Layer, LayerName},
    },
-    CancellableTask, DiskUsageEvictionTask,
 };

 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -84,9 +83,17 @@ pub struct DiskUsageEvictionTaskConfig {

 /// Selects the sort order for eviction candidates *after* per tenant `min_resident_size`
 /// partitioning.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Default, Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 #[serde(tag = "type", content = "args")]
 pub enum EvictionOrder {
+    /// Order the layers to be evicted by how recently they have been accessed in absolute
+    /// time.
+    ///
+    /// This strategy is unfair when some tenants grow faster than others towards the slower
+    /// growing.
+    #[default]
+    AbsoluteAccessed,
+
    /// Order the layers to be evicted by how recently they have been accessed relatively within
    /// the set of resident layers of a tenant.
    RelativeAccessed {
@@ -101,14 +108,6 @@ pub enum EvictionOrder {
    },
 }

-impl Default for EvictionOrder {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        Self::RelativeAccessed {
-            highest_layer_count_loses_first: true,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 fn default_highest_layer_count_loses_first() -> bool {
    true
 }
@@ -118,6 +117,11 @@ impl EvictionOrder {
        use EvictionOrder::*;

        match self {
+            AbsoluteAccessed => {
+                candidates.sort_unstable_by_key(|(partition, candidate)| {
+                    (*partition, candidate.last_activity_ts)
+                });
+            }
            RelativeAccessed { .. } => candidates.sort_unstable_by_key(|(partition, candidate)| {
                (*partition, candidate.relative_last_activity)
            }),
@@ -130,6 +134,7 @@ impl EvictionOrder {
        use EvictionOrder::*;

        match self {
+            AbsoluteAccessed => finite_f32::FiniteF32::ZERO,
            RelativeAccessed {
                highest_layer_count_loses_first,
            } => {
@@ -187,34 +192,36 @@ pub fn launch_disk_usage_global_eviction_task(
    state: Arc<State>,
    tenant_manager: Arc<TenantManager>,
    background_jobs_barrier: completion::Barrier,
-) -> Option<DiskUsageEvictionTask> {
+) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    let Some(task_config) = &conf.disk_usage_based_eviction else {
        info!("disk usage based eviction task not configured");
-        return None;
+        return Ok(());
    };

    info!("launching disk usage based eviction task");

-    let cancel = CancellationToken::new();
-    let task = BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.spawn(task_mgr::exit_on_panic_or_error(
+    task_mgr::spawn(
+        BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.handle(),
+        TaskKind::DiskUsageEviction,
+        None,
+        None,
        "disk usage based eviction",
-        {
-            let cancel = cancel.clone();
-            async move {
-                // wait until initial load is complete, because we cannot evict from loading tenants.
-                tokio::select! {
-                    _ = cancel.cancelled() => { return anyhow::Ok(()); },
-                    _ = background_jobs_barrier.wait() => { }
-                };
+        false,
+        async move {
+            let cancel = task_mgr::shutdown_token();

-                disk_usage_eviction_task(&state, task_config, &storage, tenant_manager, cancel)
-                    .await;
-                anyhow::Ok(())
-            }
+            // wait until initial load is complete, because we cannot evict from loading tenants.
+            tokio::select! {
+                _ = cancel.cancelled() => { return Ok(()); },
+                _ = background_jobs_barrier.wait() => { }
+            };
+
+            disk_usage_eviction_task(&state, task_config, &storage, tenant_manager, cancel).await;
+            Ok(())
        },
-    ));
+    );

-    Some(DiskUsageEvictionTask(CancellableTask { cancel, task }))
+    Ok(())
 }

 #[instrument(skip_all)]
--- a/pageserver/src/http/openapi_spec.yml
+++ b/pageserver/src/http/openapi_spec.yml
@@ -308,45 +308,6 @@ paths:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: string
-
-  /v1/tenant/{tenant_shard_id}/timeline/{timeline_id}/block_gc:
-    parameters:
-      - name: tenant_shard_id
-        in: path
-        required: true
-        schema:
-          type: string
-      - name: timeline_id
-        in: path
-        required: true
-        schema:
-          type: string
-          format: hex
-    post:
-      description: Persistently add a gc blocking at the tenant level because of this timeline
-      responses:
-        "200":
-          description: OK
-
-  /v1/tenant/{tenant_shard_id}/timeline/{timeline_id}/unblock_gc:
-    parameters:
-      - name: tenant_shard_id
-        in: path
-        required: true
-        schema:
-          type: string
-      - name: timeline_id
-        in: path
-        required: true
-        schema:
-          type: string
-          format: hex
-    post:
-      description: Persistently remove a tenant level gc blocking for this timeline
-      responses:
-        "200":
-          description: OK
-
  /v1/tenant/{tenant_shard_id}/location_config:
    parameters:
      - name: tenant_shard_id
@@ -453,7 +414,7 @@ paths:
        Either archives or unarchives the given timeline.
        An archived timeline may not have any non-archived children.
      requestBody:
-        required: true
+        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
@@ -932,7 +893,7 @@ components:
          description: Whether to poll remote storage for layers to download.  If false, secondary locations don't download anything.
    ArchivalConfigRequest:
      type: object
-      required:
+      required
        - state
      properties:
        state:
--- a/pageserver/src/http/routes.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/http/routes.rs
@@ -296,11 +296,6 @@ impl From<GetActiveTenantError> for ApiError {
            GetActiveTenantError::WaitForActiveTimeout { .. } => {
                ApiError::ResourceUnavailable(format!("{}", e).into())
            }
-            GetActiveTenantError::SwitchedTenant => {
-                // in our HTTP handlers, this error doesn't happen
-                // TODO: separate error types
-                ApiError::ResourceUnavailable("switched tenant".into())
-            }
        }
    }
 }
@@ -935,7 +930,6 @@ async fn tenant_list_handler(
            generation: (*gen)
                .into()
                .expect("Tenants are always attached with a generation"),
-            gc_blocking: None,
        })
        .collect::<Vec<TenantInfo>>();

@@ -987,7 +981,6 @@ async fn tenant_status(
                    .generation()
                    .into()
                    .expect("Tenants are always attached with a generation"),
-                gc_blocking: tenant.gc_block.summary().map(|x| format!("{x:?}")),
            },
            walredo: tenant.wal_redo_manager_status(),
            timelines: tenant.list_timeline_ids(),
@@ -1162,10 +1155,7 @@ async fn layer_map_info_handler(
    let timeline =
        active_timeline_of_active_tenant(&state.tenant_manager, tenant_shard_id, timeline_id)
            .await?;
-    let layer_map_info = timeline
-        .layer_map_info(reset)
-        .await
-        .map_err(|_shutdown| ApiError::ShuttingDown)?;
+    let layer_map_info = timeline.layer_map_info(reset).await;

    json_response(StatusCode::OK, layer_map_info)
 }
@@ -1231,72 +1221,6 @@ async fn evict_timeline_layer_handler(
    }
 }

-async fn timeline_gc_blocking_handler(
-    request: Request<Body>,
-    _cancel: CancellationToken,
-) -> Result<Response<Body>, ApiError> {
-    block_or_unblock_gc(request, true).await
-}
-
-async fn timeline_gc_unblocking_handler(
-    request: Request<Body>,
-    _cancel: CancellationToken,
-) -> Result<Response<Body>, ApiError> {
-    block_or_unblock_gc(request, false).await
-}
-
-/// Adding a block is `POST ../block_gc`, removing a block is `POST ../unblock_gc`.
-///
-/// Both are technically unsafe because they might fire off index uploads, thus they are POST.
-async fn block_or_unblock_gc(
-    request: Request<Body>,
-    block: bool,
-) -> Result<Response<Body>, ApiError> {
-    use crate::tenant::{
-        remote_timeline_client::WaitCompletionError, upload_queue::NotInitialized,
-    };
-    let tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId = parse_request_param(&request, "tenant_shard_id")?;
-    check_permission(&request, Some(tenant_shard_id.tenant_id))?;
-    let timeline_id: TimelineId = parse_request_param(&request, "timeline_id")?;
-    let state = get_state(&request);
-
-    let tenant = state
-        .tenant_manager
-        .get_attached_tenant_shard(tenant_shard_id)?;
-
-    tenant.wait_to_become_active(ACTIVE_TENANT_TIMEOUT).await?;
-
-    let timeline = tenant.get_timeline(timeline_id, true)?;
-
-    let fut = async {
-        if block {
-            timeline.block_gc(&tenant).await.map(|_| ())
-        } else {
-            timeline.unblock_gc(&tenant).await
-        }
-    };
-
-    let span = tracing::info_span!(
-        "block_or_unblock_gc",
-        tenant_id = %tenant_shard_id.tenant_id,
-        shard_id = %tenant_shard_id.shard_slug(),
-        timeline_id = %timeline_id,
-        block = block,
-    );
-
-    let res = fut.instrument(span).await;
-
-    res.map_err(|e| {
-        if e.is::<NotInitialized>() || e.is::<WaitCompletionError>() {
-            ApiError::ShuttingDown
-        } else {
-            ApiError::InternalServerError(e)
-        }
-    })?;
-
-    json_response(StatusCode::OK, ())
-}
-
 /// Get tenant_size SVG graph along with the JSON data.
 fn synthetic_size_html_response(
    inputs: ModelInputs,
@@ -1726,9 +1650,7 @@ async fn timeline_compact_handler(
            .await
            .map_err(|e| ApiError::InternalServerError(e.into()))?;
        if wait_until_uploaded {
-            timeline.remote_client.wait_completion().await
-            // XXX map to correct ApiError for the cases where it's due to shutdown
-            .context("wait completion").map_err(ApiError::InternalServerError)?;
+            timeline.remote_client.wait_completion().await.map_err(ApiError::InternalServerError)?;
        }
        json_response(StatusCode::OK, ())
    }
@@ -1754,10 +1676,6 @@ async fn timeline_checkpoint_handler(
    if Some(true) == parse_query_param::<_, bool>(&request, "force_image_layer_creation")? {
        flags |= CompactFlags::ForceImageLayerCreation;
    }
-
-    // By default, checkpoints come with a compaction, but this may be optionally disabled by tests that just want to flush + upload.
-    let compact = parse_query_param::<_, bool>(&request, "compact")?.unwrap_or(true);
-
    let wait_until_uploaded =
        parse_query_param::<_, bool>(&request, "wait_until_uploaded")?.unwrap_or(false);

@@ -1774,22 +1692,18 @@ async fn timeline_checkpoint_handler(

                }
            })?;
-        if compact {
-            timeline
-                .compact(&cancel, flags, &ctx)
-                .await
-                .map_err(|e|
-                    match e {
-                        CompactionError::ShuttingDown => ApiError::ShuttingDown,
-                        CompactionError::Other(e) => ApiError::InternalServerError(e)
-                    }
-                )?;
-        }
+        timeline
+            .compact(&cancel, flags, &ctx)
+            .await
+            .map_err(|e|
+                match e {
+                    CompactionError::ShuttingDown => ApiError::ShuttingDown,
+                    CompactionError::Other(e) => ApiError::InternalServerError(e)
+                }
+            )?;

        if wait_until_uploaded {
-            timeline.remote_client.wait_completion().await
-            // XXX map to correct ApiError for the cases where it's due to shutdown
-            .context("wait completion").map_err(ApiError::InternalServerError)?;
+            timeline.remote_client.wait_completion().await.map_err(ApiError::InternalServerError)?;
        }

        json_response(StatusCode::OK, ())
@@ -2205,24 +2119,14 @@ async fn secondary_download_handler(

    let timeout = wait.unwrap_or(Duration::MAX);

-    let result = tokio::time::timeout(
+    let status = match tokio::time::timeout(
        timeout,
        state.secondary_controller.download_tenant(tenant_shard_id),
    )
-    .await;
-
-    let progress = secondary_tenant.progress.lock().unwrap().clone();
-
-    let status = match result {
-        Ok(Ok(())) => {
-            if progress.layers_downloaded >= progress.layers_total {
-                // Download job ran to completion
-                StatusCode::OK
-            } else {
-                // Download dropped out without errors because it ran out of time budget
-                StatusCode::ACCEPTED
-            }
-        }
+    .await
+    {
+        // Download job ran to completion.
+        Ok(Ok(())) => StatusCode::OK,
        // Edge case: downloads aren't usually fallible: things like a missing heatmap are considered
        // okay.  We could get an error here in the unlikely edge case that the tenant
        // was detached between our check above and executing the download job.
@@ -2232,6 +2136,8 @@ async fn secondary_download_handler(
        Err(_) => StatusCode::ACCEPTED,
    };

+    let progress = secondary_tenant.progress.lock().unwrap().clone();
+
    json_response(status, progress)
 }

@@ -2975,14 +2881,6 @@ pub fn make_router(
            "/v1/tenant/:tenant_shard_id/timeline/:timeline_id/layer/:layer_file_name",
            |r| api_handler(r, evict_timeline_layer_handler),
        )
-        .post(
-            "/v1/tenant/:tenant_shard_id/timeline/:timeline_id/block_gc",
-            |r| api_handler(r, timeline_gc_blocking_handler),
-        )
-        .post(
-            "/v1/tenant/:tenant_shard_id/timeline/:timeline_id/unblock_gc",
-            |r| api_handler(r, timeline_gc_unblocking_handler),
-        )
        .post("/v1/tenant/:tenant_shard_id/heatmap_upload", |r| {
            api_handler(r, secondary_upload_handler)
        })
--- a/pageserver/src/l0_flush.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/l0_flush.rs
@@ -2,29 +2,19 @@ use std::{num::NonZeroUsize, sync::Arc};

 use crate::tenant::ephemeral_file;

-#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, serde::Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Default, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, serde::Deserialize)]
 #[serde(tag = "mode", rename_all = "kebab-case", deny_unknown_fields)]
 pub enum L0FlushConfig {
+    #[default]
    PageCached,
    #[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
-    Direct {
-        max_concurrency: NonZeroUsize,
-    },
-}
-
-impl Default for L0FlushConfig {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        Self::Direct {
-            // TODO: using num_cpus results in different peak memory usage on different instance types.
-            max_concurrency: NonZeroUsize::new(usize::max(1, num_cpus::get())).unwrap(),
-        }
-    }
+    Direct { max_concurrency: NonZeroUsize },
 }

 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct L0FlushGlobalState(Arc<Inner>);

-pub enum Inner {
+pub(crate) enum Inner {
    PageCached,
    Direct { semaphore: tokio::sync::Semaphore },
 }
@@ -40,7 +30,7 @@ impl L0FlushGlobalState {
        }
    }

-    pub fn inner(&self) -> &Arc<Inner> {
+    pub(crate) fn inner(&self) -> &Arc<Inner> {
        &self.0
    }
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/lib.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/lib.rs
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ pub mod disk_usage_eviction_task;
 pub mod http;
 pub mod import_datadir;
 pub mod l0_flush;
-
-use futures::{stream::FuturesUnordered, StreamExt};
 pub use pageserver_api::keyspace;
-use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
 pub mod aux_file;
 pub mod metrics;
 pub mod page_cache;
@@ -32,13 +29,11 @@ pub mod walingest;
 pub mod walrecord;
 pub mod walredo;

+use crate::task_mgr::TaskKind;
 use camino::Utf8Path;
 use deletion_queue::DeletionQueue;
-use tenant::{
-    mgr::{BackgroundPurges, TenantManager},
-    secondary,
-};
-use tracing::{info, info_span};
+use tenant::mgr::TenantManager;
+use tracing::info;

 /// Current storage format version
 ///
@@ -59,111 +54,17 @@ static ZERO_PAGE: bytes::Bytes = bytes::Bytes::from_static(&[0u8; 8192]);

 pub use crate::metrics::preinitialize_metrics;

-pub struct CancellableTask {
-    pub task: tokio::task::JoinHandle<()>,
-    pub cancel: CancellationToken,
-}
-pub struct HttpEndpointListener(pub CancellableTask);
-pub struct ConsumptionMetricsTasks(pub CancellableTask);
-pub struct DiskUsageEvictionTask(pub CancellableTask);
-impl CancellableTask {
-    pub async fn shutdown(self) {
-        self.cancel.cancel();
-        self.task.await.unwrap();
-    }
-}
-
 #[tracing::instrument(skip_all, fields(%exit_code))]
-#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 pub async fn shutdown_pageserver(
-    http_listener: HttpEndpointListener,
-    page_service: page_service::Listener,
-    consumption_metrics_worker: ConsumptionMetricsTasks,
-    disk_usage_eviction_task: Option<DiskUsageEvictionTask>,
    tenant_manager: &TenantManager,
-    background_purges: BackgroundPurges,
    mut deletion_queue: DeletionQueue,
-    secondary_controller_tasks: secondary::GlobalTasks,
    exit_code: i32,
 ) {
    use std::time::Duration;
-
-    // If the orderly shutdown below takes too long, we still want to make
-    // sure that all walredo processes are killed and wait()ed on by us, not systemd.
-    //
-    // (Leftover walredo processes are the hypothesized trigger for the systemd freezes
-    //  that we keep seeing in prod => https://github.com/neondatabase/cloud/issues/11387.
-    //
-    // We use a thread instead of a tokio task because the background runtime is likely busy
-    // with the final flushing / uploads. This activity here has priority, and due to lack
-    // of scheduling priority feature sin the tokio scheduler, using a separate thread is
-    // an effective priority booster.
-    let walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread_span = {
-        let span = info_span!(parent: None, "walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread");
-        span.follows_from(tracing::Span::current());
-        span
-    };
-    let walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread_cancel = CancellationToken::new();
-    let walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread = std::thread::spawn({
-        let walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread_cancel =
-            walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread_cancel.clone();
-        move || {
-            let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
-                .enable_all()
-                .build()
-                .unwrap();
-            let _entered = rt.enter();
-            let _entered = walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread_span.enter();
-            if let Ok(()) = rt.block_on(tokio::time::timeout(
-                Duration::from_secs(8),
-                walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread_cancel.cancelled(),
-            )) {
-                info!("cancellation requested");
-                return;
-            }
-            let managers = tenant::WALREDO_MANAGERS
-                .lock()
-                .unwrap()
-                // prevents new walredo managers from being inserted
-                .take()
-                .expect("only we take()");
-            // Use FuturesUnordered to get in queue early for each manager's
-            // heavier_once_cell semaphore wait list.
-            // Also, for idle tenants that for some reason haven't
-            // shut down yet, it's quite likely that we're not going
-            // to get Poll::Pending once.
-            let mut futs: FuturesUnordered<_> = managers
-                .into_iter()
-                .filter_map(|(_, mgr)| mgr.upgrade())
-                .map(|mgr| async move { tokio::task::unconstrained(mgr.shutdown()).await })
-                .collect();
-            info!(count=%futs.len(), "built FuturesUnordered");
-            let mut last_log_at = std::time::Instant::now();
-            #[derive(Debug, Default)]
-            struct Results {
-                initiated: u64,
-                already: u64,
-            }
-            let mut results = Results::default();
-            while let Some(we_initiated) = rt.block_on(futs.next()) {
-                if we_initiated {
-                    results.initiated += 1;
-                } else {
-                    results.already += 1;
-                }
-                if last_log_at.elapsed() > Duration::from_millis(100) {
-                    info!(remaining=%futs.len(), ?results, "progress");
-                    last_log_at = std::time::Instant::now();
-                }
-            }
-            info!(?results, "done");
-        }
-    });
-
    // Shut down the libpq endpoint task. This prevents new connections from
    // being accepted.
-    let remaining_connections = timed(
-        page_service.stop_accepting(),
+    timed(
+        task_mgr::shutdown_tasks(Some(TaskKind::LibpqEndpointListener), None, None),
        "shutdown LibpqEndpointListener",
        Duration::from_secs(1),
    )
@@ -181,7 +82,7 @@ pub async fn shutdown_pageserver(
    // Shut down any page service tasks: any in-progress work for particular timelines or tenants
    // should already have been canclled via mgr::shutdown_all_tenants
    timed(
-        remaining_connections.shutdown(),
+        task_mgr::shutdown_tasks(Some(TaskKind::PageRequestHandler), None, None),
        "shutdown PageRequestHandlers",
        Duration::from_secs(1),
    )
@@ -190,44 +91,16 @@ pub async fn shutdown_pageserver(
    // Best effort to persist any outstanding deletions, to avoid leaking objects
    deletion_queue.shutdown(Duration::from_secs(5)).await;

-    timed(
-        consumption_metrics_worker.0.shutdown(),
-        "shutdown consumption metrics",
-        Duration::from_secs(1),
-    )
-    .await;
-
-    timed(
-        futures::future::OptionFuture::from(disk_usage_eviction_task.map(|t| t.0.shutdown())),
-        "shutdown disk usage eviction",
-        Duration::from_secs(1),
-    )
-    .await;
-
-    timed(
-        background_purges.shutdown(),
-        "shutdown background purges",
-        Duration::from_secs(1),
-    )
-    .await;
-
    // Shut down the HTTP endpoint last, so that you can still check the server's
    // status while it's shutting down.
    // FIXME: We should probably stop accepting commands like attach/detach earlier.
    timed(
-        http_listener.0.shutdown(),
+        task_mgr::shutdown_tasks(Some(TaskKind::HttpEndpointListener), None, None),
        "shutdown http",
        Duration::from_secs(1),
    )
    .await;

-    timed(
-        secondary_controller_tasks.wait(), // cancellation happened in caller
-        "secondary controller wait",
-        Duration::from_secs(1),
-    )
-    .await;
-
    // There should be nothing left, but let's be sure
    timed(
        task_mgr::shutdown_tasks(None, None, None),
@@ -235,12 +108,6 @@ pub async fn shutdown_pageserver(
        Duration::from_secs(1),
    )
    .await;
-
-    info!("cancel & join walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread");
-    walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread_cancel.cancel();
-    walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread.join().unwrap();
-    info!("walredo_extraordinary_shutdown_thread done");
-
    info!("Shut down successfully completed");
    std::process::exit(exit_code);
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/metrics.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/metrics.rs
@@ -525,15 +525,6 @@ static RESIDENT_PHYSICAL_SIZE: Lazy<UIntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
    .expect("failed to define a metric")
 });

-static VISIBLE_PHYSICAL_SIZE: Lazy<UIntGaugeVec> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    register_uint_gauge_vec!(
-        "pageserver_visible_physical_size",
-        "The size of the layer files present in the pageserver's filesystem.",
-        &["tenant_id", "shard_id", "timeline_id"]
-    )
-    .expect("failed to define a metric")
-});
-
 pub(crate) static RESIDENT_PHYSICAL_SIZE_GLOBAL: Lazy<UIntGauge> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_uint_gauge!(
        "pageserver_resident_physical_size_global",
@@ -622,23 +613,7 @@ pub(crate) static CIRCUIT_BREAKERS_UNBROKEN: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
 pub(crate) static COMPRESSION_IMAGE_INPUT_BYTES: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
    register_int_counter!(
        "pageserver_compression_image_in_bytes_total",
-        "Size of data written into image layers before compression"
-    )
-    .expect("failed to define a metric")
-});
-
-pub(crate) static COMPRESSION_IMAGE_INPUT_BYTES_CONSIDERED: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    register_int_counter!(
-        "pageserver_compression_image_in_bytes_considered",
-        "Size of potentially compressible data written into image layers before compression"
-    )
-    .expect("failed to define a metric")
-});
-
-pub(crate) static COMPRESSION_IMAGE_INPUT_BYTES_CHOSEN: Lazy<IntCounter> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    register_int_counter!(
-        "pageserver_compression_image_in_bytes_chosen",
-        "Size of data whose compressed form was written into image layers"
+        "Size of uncompressed data written into image layers"
    )
    .expect("failed to define a metric")
 });
@@ -2213,7 +2188,6 @@ pub(crate) struct TimelineMetrics {
    pub(crate) layer_count_delta: UIntGauge,
    pub standby_horizon_gauge: IntGauge,
    pub resident_physical_size_gauge: UIntGauge,
-    pub visible_physical_size_gauge: UIntGauge,
    /// copy of LayeredTimeline.current_logical_size
    pub current_logical_size_gauge: UIntGauge,
    pub aux_file_size_gauge: IntGauge,
@@ -2336,9 +2310,6 @@ impl TimelineMetrics {
        let resident_physical_size_gauge = RESIDENT_PHYSICAL_SIZE
            .get_metric_with_label_values(&[&tenant_id, &shard_id, &timeline_id])
            .unwrap();
-        let visible_physical_size_gauge = VISIBLE_PHYSICAL_SIZE
-            .get_metric_with_label_values(&[&tenant_id, &shard_id, &timeline_id])
-            .unwrap();
        // TODO: we shouldn't expose this metric
        let current_logical_size_gauge = CURRENT_LOGICAL_SIZE
            .get_metric_with_label_values(&[&tenant_id, &shard_id, &timeline_id])
@@ -2393,7 +2364,6 @@ impl TimelineMetrics {
            layer_count_delta,
            standby_horizon_gauge,
            resident_physical_size_gauge,
-            visible_physical_size_gauge,
            current_logical_size_gauge,
            aux_file_size_gauge,
            directory_entries_count_gauge,
@@ -2445,7 +2415,6 @@ impl TimelineMetrics {
            RESIDENT_PHYSICAL_SIZE_GLOBAL.sub(self.resident_physical_size_get());
            let _ = RESIDENT_PHYSICAL_SIZE.remove_label_values(&[tenant_id, shard_id, timeline_id]);
        }
-        let _ = VISIBLE_PHYSICAL_SIZE.remove_label_values(&[tenant_id, shard_id, timeline_id]);
        let _ = CURRENT_LOGICAL_SIZE.remove_label_values(&[tenant_id, shard_id, timeline_id]);
        if let Some(metric) = Lazy::get(&DIRECTORY_ENTRIES_COUNT) {
            let _ = metric.remove_label_values(&[tenant_id, shard_id, timeline_id]);
@@ -3135,8 +3104,6 @@ pub fn preinitialize_metrics() {
        &tokio_epoll_uring::THREAD_LOCAL_LAUNCH_SUCCESSES,
        &REMOTE_ONDEMAND_DOWNLOADED_LAYERS,
        &REMOTE_ONDEMAND_DOWNLOADED_BYTES,
-        &CIRCUIT_BREAKERS_BROKEN,
-        &CIRCUIT_BREAKERS_UNBROKEN,
    ]
    .into_iter()
    .for_each(|c| {
--- a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
--- a/pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ impl Timeline {
            pending_deletions: Vec::new(),
            pending_nblocks: 0,
            pending_directory_entries: Vec::new(),
+            latest_rel_sizes: Default::default(),
            lsn,
        }
    }
@@ -284,16 +285,6 @@ impl Timeline {
        if let Some(_nblocks) = self.get_cached_rel_size(&tag, version.get_lsn()) {
            return Ok(true);
        }
-        // then check if the database was already initialized.
-        // get_rel_exists can be called before dbdir is created.
-        let buf = version.get(self, DBDIR_KEY, ctx).await?;
-        let dbdirs = match DbDirectory::des(&buf).context("deserialization failure") {
-            Ok(dir) => Ok(dir.dbdirs),
-            Err(e) => Err(PageReconstructError::from(e)),
-        }?;
-        if !dbdirs.contains_key(&(tag.spcnode, tag.dbnode)) {
-            return Ok(false);
-        }
        // fetch directory listing
        let key = rel_dir_to_key(tag.spcnode, tag.dbnode);
        let buf = version.get(self, key, ctx).await?;
@@ -1055,6 +1046,11 @@ pub struct DatadirModification<'a> {
    pending_deletions: Vec<(Range<Key>, Lsn)>,
    pending_nblocks: i64,

+    // We update relation sizes when appending.  Since writing is single threaded, once we
+    // have updated a relation size we may be sure that its size is unchanged within the
+    // same DatadirModification
+    latest_rel_sizes: HashMap<RelTag, u32>,
+
    /// For special "directory" keys that store key-value maps, track the size of the map
    /// if it was updated in this modification.
    pending_directory_entries: Vec<(DirectoryKind, usize)>,
@@ -1417,7 +1413,10 @@ impl<'a> DatadirModification<'a> {

        // Put size
        let size_key = rel_size_to_key(rel);
-        let old_size = self.get(size_key, ctx).await?.get_u32_le();
+        let old_size = match self.latest_rel_sizes.get(&rel) {
+            Some(s) => *s,
+            None => self.get(size_key, ctx).await?.get_u32_le(),
+        };

        // only extend relation here. never decrease the size
        if nblocks > old_size {
@@ -1428,6 +1427,8 @@ impl<'a> DatadirModification<'a> {
            self.tline.set_cached_rel_size(rel, self.lsn, nblocks);

            self.pending_nblocks += nblocks as i64 - old_size as i64;
+
+            self.latest_rel_sizes.insert(rel, nblocks);
        }
        Ok(())
    }
--- a/pageserver/src/repository.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/repository.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 pub use pageserver_api::key::{Key, KEY_SIZE};

 /// A 'value' stored for a one Key.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[cfg_attr(test, derive(PartialEq))]
 pub enum Value {
    /// An Image value contains a full copy of the value
    Image(Bytes),
--- a/pageserver/src/task_mgr.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/task_mgr.rs
@@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ pub fn spawn<F>(
    tenant_shard_id: Option<TenantShardId>,
    timeline_id: Option<TimelineId>,
    name: &str,
+    shutdown_process_on_error: bool,
    future: F,
 ) -> PageserverTaskId
 where
@@ -436,6 +437,7 @@ where
        task_id,
        task_cloned,
        cancel,
+        shutdown_process_on_error,
        future,
    ));
    task_mut.join_handle = Some(join_handle);
@@ -452,78 +454,82 @@ async fn task_wrapper<F>(
    task_id: u64,
    task: Arc<PageServerTask>,
    shutdown_token: CancellationToken,
+    shutdown_process_on_error: bool,
    future: F,
 ) where
    F: Future<Output = anyhow::Result<()>> + Send + 'static,
 {
    debug!("Starting task '{}'", task_name);

-    // wrap the future so we log panics and errors
-    let tenant_shard_id = task.tenant_shard_id;
-    let timeline_id = task.timeline_id;
-    let fut = async move {
-        // We use AssertUnwindSafe here so that the payload function
-        // doesn't need to be UnwindSafe. We don't do anything after the
-        // unwinding that would expose us to unwind-unsafe behavior.
-        let result = AssertUnwindSafe(future).catch_unwind().await;
+    let result = SHUTDOWN_TOKEN
+        .scope(
+            shutdown_token,
+            CURRENT_TASK.scope(task, {
+                // We use AssertUnwindSafe here so that the payload function
+                // doesn't need to be UnwindSafe. We don't do anything after the
+                // unwinding that would expose us to unwind-unsafe behavior.
+                AssertUnwindSafe(future).catch_unwind()
+            }),
+        )
+        .await;
+    task_finish(result, task_name, task_id, shutdown_process_on_error).await;
+}
+
+async fn task_finish(
+    result: std::result::Result<
+        anyhow::Result<()>,
+        std::boxed::Box<dyn std::any::Any + std::marker::Send>,
+    >,
+    task_name: String,
+    task_id: u64,
+    shutdown_process_on_error: bool,
+) {
+    // Remove our entry from the global hashmap.
+    let task = TASKS
+        .lock()
+        .unwrap()
+        .remove(&task_id)
+        .expect("no task in registry");
+
+    let mut shutdown_process = false;
+    {
        match result {
            Ok(Ok(())) => {
                debug!("Task '{}' exited normally", task_name);
            }
            Ok(Err(err)) => {
-                error!(
-                    "Task '{}' tenant_shard_id: {:?}, timeline_id: {:?} exited with error: {:?}",
-                    task_name, tenant_shard_id, timeline_id, err
-                );
+                if shutdown_process_on_error {
+                    error!(
+                        "Shutting down: task '{}' tenant_shard_id: {:?}, timeline_id: {:?} exited with error: {:?}",
+                        task_name, task.tenant_shard_id, task.timeline_id, err
+                    );
+                    shutdown_process = true;
+                } else {
+                    error!(
+                        "Task '{}' tenant_shard_id: {:?}, timeline_id: {:?} exited with error: {:?}",
+                        task_name, task.tenant_shard_id, task.timeline_id, err
+                    );
+                }
            }
            Err(err) => {
-                error!(
-                    "Task '{}' tenant_shard_id: {:?}, timeline_id: {:?} panicked: {:?}",
-                    task_name, tenant_shard_id, timeline_id, err
-                );
+                if shutdown_process_on_error {
+                    error!(
+                        "Shutting down: task '{}' tenant_shard_id: {:?}, timeline_id: {:?} panicked: {:?}",
+                        task_name, task.tenant_shard_id, task.timeline_id, err
+                    );
+                    shutdown_process = true;
+                } else {
+                    error!(
+                        "Task '{}' tenant_shard_id: {:?}, timeline_id: {:?} panicked: {:?}",
+                        task_name, task.tenant_shard_id, task.timeline_id, err
+                    );
+                }
            }
        }
-    };
+    }

-    // add the task-locals
-    let fut = CURRENT_TASK.scope(task, fut);
-    let fut = SHUTDOWN_TOKEN.scope(shutdown_token, fut);
-
-    // poll future to completion
-    fut.await;
-
-    // Remove our entry from the global hashmap.
-    TASKS
-        .lock()
-        .unwrap()
-        .remove(&task_id)
-        .expect("no task in registry");
-}
-
-pub async fn exit_on_panic_or_error<T, E>(
-    task_name: &'static str,
-    future: impl Future<Output = Result<T, E>>,
-) -> T
-where
-    E: std::fmt::Debug,
-{
-    // We use AssertUnwindSafe here so that the payload function
-    // doesn't need to be UnwindSafe. We don't do anything after the
-    // unwinding that would expose us to unwind-unsafe behavior.
-    let result = AssertUnwindSafe(future).catch_unwind().await;
-    match result {
-        Ok(Ok(val)) => val,
-        Ok(Err(err)) => {
-            error!(
-                task_name,
-                "Task exited with error, exiting process: {err:?}"
-            );
-            std::process::exit(1);
-        }
-        Err(panic_obj) => {
-            error!(task_name, "Task panicked, exiting process: {panic_obj:?}");
-            std::process::exit(1);
-        }
+    if shutdown_process {
+        std::process::exit(1);
    }
 }

--- a/pageserver/src/tenant.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant.rs
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/blob_io.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/blob_io.rs
@@ -28,12 +28,6 @@ use crate::virtual_file::VirtualFile;
 use std::cmp::min;
 use std::io::{Error, ErrorKind};

-#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug)]
-pub struct CompressionInfo {
-    pub written_compressed: bool,
-    pub compressed_size: Option<usize>,
-}
-
 impl<'a> BlockCursor<'a> {
    /// Read a blob into a new buffer.
    pub async fn read_blob(
@@ -279,10 +273,8 @@ impl<const BUFFERED: bool> BlobWriter<BUFFERED> {
        srcbuf: B,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> (B::Buf, Result<u64, Error>) {
-        let (buf, res) = self
-            .write_blob_maybe_compressed(srcbuf, ctx, ImageCompressionAlgorithm::Disabled)
-            .await;
-        (buf, res.map(|(off, _compression_info)| off))
+        self.write_blob_maybe_compressed(srcbuf, ctx, ImageCompressionAlgorithm::Disabled)
+            .await
    }

    /// Write a blob of data. Returns the offset that it was written to,
@@ -292,12 +284,8 @@ impl<const BUFFERED: bool> BlobWriter<BUFFERED> {
        srcbuf: B,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
        algorithm: ImageCompressionAlgorithm,
-    ) -> (B::Buf, Result<(u64, CompressionInfo), Error>) {
+    ) -> (B::Buf, Result<u64, Error>) {
        let offset = self.offset;
-        let mut compression_info = CompressionInfo {
-            written_compressed: false,
-            compressed_size: None,
-        };

        let len = srcbuf.bytes_init();

@@ -340,9 +328,7 @@ impl<const BUFFERED: bool> BlobWriter<BUFFERED> {
                        encoder.write_all(&slice[..]).await.unwrap();
                        encoder.shutdown().await.unwrap();
                        let compressed = encoder.into_inner();
-                        compression_info.compressed_size = Some(compressed.len());
                        if compressed.len() < len {
-                            compression_info.written_compressed = true;
                            let compressed_len = compressed.len();
                            compressed_buf = Some(compressed);
                            (BYTE_ZSTD, compressed_len, slice.into_inner())
@@ -373,7 +359,7 @@ impl<const BUFFERED: bool> BlobWriter<BUFFERED> {
        } else {
            self.write_all(srcbuf, ctx).await
        };
-        (srcbuf, res.map(|_| (offset, compression_info)))
+        (srcbuf, res.map(|_| offset))
    }
 }

@@ -430,14 +416,12 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
            let mut wtr = BlobWriter::<BUFFERED>::new(file, 0);
            for blob in blobs.iter() {
                let (_, res) = if compression {
-                    let res = wtr
-                        .write_blob_maybe_compressed(
-                            blob.clone(),
-                            ctx,
-                            ImageCompressionAlgorithm::Zstd { level: Some(1) },
-                        )
-                        .await;
-                    (res.0, res.1.map(|(off, _)| off))
+                    wtr.write_blob_maybe_compressed(
+                        blob.clone(),
+                        ctx,
+                        ImageCompressionAlgorithm::Zstd { level: Some(1) },
+                    )
+                    .await
                } else {
                    wtr.write_blob(blob.clone(), ctx).await
                };
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/disk_btree.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/disk_btree.rs
@@ -296,19 +296,13 @@ where
            let mut stack = Vec::new();
            stack.push((self.root_blk, None));
            let block_cursor = self.reader.block_cursor();
-            let mut node_buf = [0_u8; PAGE_SZ];
            while let Some((node_blknum, opt_iter)) = stack.pop() {
-                // Read the node, through the PS PageCache, into local variable `node_buf`.
-                // We could keep the page cache read guard alive, but, at the time of writing,
-                // we run quite small PS PageCache s => can't risk running out of
-                // PageCache space because this stream isn't consumed fast enough.
-                let page_read_guard = block_cursor
+                // Locate the node.
+                let node_buf = block_cursor
                    .read_blk(self.start_blk + node_blknum, ctx)
                    .await?;
-                node_buf.copy_from_slice(page_read_guard.as_ref());
-                drop(page_read_guard); // drop page cache read guard early

-                let node = OnDiskNode::deparse(&node_buf)?;
+                let node = OnDiskNode::deparse(node_buf.as_ref())?;
                let prefix_len = node.prefix_len as usize;
                let suffix_len = node.suffix_len as usize;

@@ -351,7 +345,6 @@ where
                    Either::Left(idx..node.num_children.into())
                };

-
                // idx points to the first match now. Keep going from there
                while let Some(idx) = iter.next() {
                    let key_off = idx * suffix_len;
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/ephemeral_file.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/ephemeral_file.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ impl EphemeralFile {
        conf: &PageServerConf,
        tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
        timeline_id: TimelineId,
-        gate_guard: utils::sync::gate::GateGuard,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> Result<EphemeralFile, io::Error> {
        static NEXT_FILENAME: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(1);
@@ -52,12 +51,10 @@ impl EphemeralFile {
        )
        .await?;

-        let prewarm = conf.l0_flush.prewarm_on_write();
-
        Ok(EphemeralFile {
            _tenant_shard_id: tenant_shard_id,
            _timeline_id: timeline_id,
-            rw: page_caching::RW::new(file, prewarm, gate_guard),
+            rw: page_caching::RW::new(file, conf.l0_flush.prewarm_on_write()),
        })
    }

@@ -164,11 +161,7 @@ mod tests {
    async fn test_ephemeral_blobs() -> Result<(), io::Error> {
        let (conf, tenant_id, timeline_id, ctx) = harness("ephemeral_blobs")?;

-        let gate = utils::sync::gate::Gate::default();
-
-        let entered = gate.enter().unwrap();
-
-        let mut file = EphemeralFile::create(conf, tenant_id, timeline_id, entered, &ctx).await?;
+        let mut file = EphemeralFile::create(conf, tenant_id, timeline_id, &ctx).await?;

        let pos_foo = file.write_blob(b"foo", &ctx).await?;
        assert_eq!(
@@ -222,38 +215,4 @@ mod tests {

        Ok(())
    }
-
-    #[tokio::test]
-    async fn ephemeral_file_holds_gate_open() {
-        const FOREVER: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(5);
-
-        let (conf, tenant_id, timeline_id, ctx) =
-            harness("ephemeral_file_holds_gate_open").unwrap();
-
-        let gate = utils::sync::gate::Gate::default();
-
-        let file = EphemeralFile::create(conf, tenant_id, timeline_id, gate.enter().unwrap(), &ctx)
-            .await
-            .unwrap();
-
-        let mut closing = tokio::task::spawn(async move {
-            gate.close().await;
-        });
-
-        // gate is entered until the ephemeral file is dropped
-        // do not start paused tokio-epoll-uring has a sleep loop
-        tokio::time::pause();
-        tokio::time::timeout(FOREVER, &mut closing)
-            .await
-            .expect_err("closing cannot complete before dropping");
-
-        // this is a requirement of the reset_tenant functionality: we have to be able to restart a
-        // tenant fast, and for that, we need all tenant_dir operations be guarded by entering a gate
-        drop(file);
-
-        tokio::time::timeout(FOREVER, &mut closing)
-            .await
-            .expect("closing completes right away")
-            .expect("closing does not panic");
-    }
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/ephemeral_file/page_caching.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/ephemeral_file/page_caching.rs
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ use super::zero_padded_read_write;
 pub struct RW {
    page_cache_file_id: page_cache::FileId,
    rw: super::zero_padded_read_write::RW<PreWarmingWriter>,
-    /// Gate guard is held on as long as we need to do operations in the path (delete on drop).
-    _gate_guard: utils::sync::gate::GateGuard,
 }

 /// When we flush a block to the underlying [`crate::virtual_file::VirtualFile`],
@@ -31,11 +29,7 @@ pub enum PrewarmOnWrite {
 }

 impl RW {
-    pub fn new(
-        file: VirtualFile,
-        prewarm_on_write: PrewarmOnWrite,
-        _gate_guard: utils::sync::gate::GateGuard,
-    ) -> Self {
+    pub fn new(file: VirtualFile, prewarm_on_write: PrewarmOnWrite) -> Self {
        let page_cache_file_id = page_cache::next_file_id();
        Self {
            page_cache_file_id,
@@ -44,7 +38,6 @@ impl RW {
                file,
                prewarm_on_write,
            )),
-            _gate_guard,
        }
    }

@@ -152,7 +145,6 @@ impl Drop for RW {
        // We leave them there, [`crate::page_cache::PageCache::find_victim`] will evict them when needed.

        // unlink the file
-        // we are clear to do this, because we have entered a gate
        let res = std::fs::remove_file(&self.rw.as_writer().file.path);
        if let Err(e) = res {
            if e.kind() != std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/ephemeral_file/zero_padded_read_write.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/ephemeral_file/zero_padded_read_write.rs
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ use crate::{
    },
 };

-const TAIL_SZ: usize = 64 * 1024;
+const TAIL_SZ: usize = 4096 * 1024;

 /// See module-level comment.
 pub struct RW<W: OwnedAsyncWriter> {
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/gc_block.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/gc_block.rs
@@ -1,213 +0,0 @@
-use std::collections::HashMap;
-
-use utils::id::TimelineId;
-
-use super::remote_timeline_client::index::GcBlockingReason;
-
-type Storage = HashMap<TimelineId, enumset::EnumSet<GcBlockingReason>>;
-
-#[derive(Default)]
-pub(crate) struct GcBlock {
-    /// The timelines which have current reasons to block gc.
-    ///
-    /// LOCK ORDER: this is held locked while scheduling the next index_part update. This is done
-    /// to keep the this field up to date with RemoteTimelineClient `upload_queue.dirty`.
-    reasons: std::sync::Mutex<Storage>,
-    blocking: tokio::sync::Mutex<()>,
-}
-
-impl GcBlock {
-    /// Start another gc iteration.
-    ///
-    /// Returns a guard to be held for the duration of gc iteration to allow synchronizing with
-    /// it's ending, or if not currently possible, a value describing the reasons why not.
-    ///
-    /// Cancellation safe.
-    pub(super) async fn start(&self) -> Result<Guard<'_>, BlockingReasons> {
-        let reasons = {
-            let g = self.reasons.lock().unwrap();
-
-            // TODO: the assumption is that this method gets called periodically. in prod, we use 1h, in
-            // tests, we use everything. we should warn if the gc has been consecutively blocked
-            // for more than 1h (within single tenant session?).
-            BlockingReasons::clean_and_summarize(g)
-        };
-
-        if let Some(reasons) = reasons {
-            Err(reasons)
-        } else {
-            Ok(Guard {
-                _inner: self.blocking.lock().await,
-            })
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn summary(&self) -> Option<BlockingReasons> {
-        let g = self.reasons.lock().unwrap();
-
-        BlockingReasons::summarize(&g)
-    }
-
-    /// Start blocking gc for this one timeline for the given reason.
-    ///
-    /// This is not a guard based API but instead it mimics set API. The returned future will not
-    /// resolve until an existing gc round has completed.
-    ///
-    /// Returns true if this block was new, false if gc was already blocked for this reason.
-    ///
-    /// Cancellation safe: cancelling after first poll will keep the reason to block gc, but will
-    /// keep the gc blocking reason.
-    pub(crate) async fn insert(
-        &self,
-        timeline: &super::Timeline,
-        reason: GcBlockingReason,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<bool> {
-        let (added, uploaded) = {
-            let mut g = self.reasons.lock().unwrap();
-            let set = g.entry(timeline.timeline_id).or_default();
-            let added = set.insert(reason);
-
-            // LOCK ORDER: intentionally hold the lock, see self.reasons.
-            let uploaded = timeline
-                .remote_client
-                .schedule_insert_gc_block_reason(reason)?;
-
-            (added, uploaded)
-        };
-
-        uploaded.await?;
-
-        // ensure that any ongoing gc iteration has completed
-        drop(self.blocking.lock().await);
-
-        Ok(added)
-    }
-
-    /// Remove blocking gc for this one timeline and the given reason.
-    pub(crate) async fn remove(
-        &self,
-        timeline: &super::Timeline,
-        reason: GcBlockingReason,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-        use std::collections::hash_map::Entry;
-
-        super::span::debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id();
-
-        let (remaining_blocks, uploaded) = {
-            let mut g = self.reasons.lock().unwrap();
-            match g.entry(timeline.timeline_id) {
-                Entry::Occupied(mut oe) => {
-                    let set = oe.get_mut();
-                    set.remove(reason);
-                    if set.is_empty() {
-                        oe.remove();
-                    }
-                }
-                Entry::Vacant(_) => {
-                    // we must still do the index_part.json update regardless, in case we had earlier
-                    // been cancelled
-                }
-            }
-
-            let remaining_blocks = g.len();
-
-            // LOCK ORDER: intentionally hold the lock while scheduling; see self.reasons
-            let uploaded = timeline
-                .remote_client
-                .schedule_remove_gc_block_reason(reason)?;
-
-            (remaining_blocks, uploaded)
-        };
-        uploaded.await?;
-
-        // no need to synchronize with gc iteration again
-
-        if remaining_blocks > 0 {
-            tracing::info!(remaining_blocks, removed=?reason, "gc blocking removed, but gc remains blocked");
-        } else {
-            tracing::info!("gc is now unblocked for the tenant");
-        }
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn before_delete(&self, timeline: &super::Timeline) {
-        let unblocked = {
-            let mut g = self.reasons.lock().unwrap();
-            if g.is_empty() {
-                return;
-            }
-
-            g.remove(&timeline.timeline_id);
-
-            BlockingReasons::clean_and_summarize(g).is_none()
-        };
-
-        if unblocked {
-            tracing::info!("gc is now unblocked following deletion");
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// Initialize with the non-deleted timelines of this tenant.
-    pub(crate) fn set_scanned(&self, scanned: Storage) {
-        let mut g = self.reasons.lock().unwrap();
-        assert!(g.is_empty());
-        g.extend(scanned.into_iter().filter(|(_, v)| !v.is_empty()));
-
-        if let Some(reasons) = BlockingReasons::clean_and_summarize(g) {
-            tracing::info!(summary=?reasons, "initialized with gc blocked");
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-pub(super) struct Guard<'a> {
-    _inner: tokio::sync::MutexGuard<'a, ()>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-pub(crate) struct BlockingReasons {
-    timelines: usize,
-    reasons: enumset::EnumSet<GcBlockingReason>,
-}
-
-impl std::fmt::Display for BlockingReasons {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        write!(
-            f,
-            "{} timelines block for {:?}",
-            self.timelines, self.reasons
-        )
-    }
-}
-
-impl BlockingReasons {
-    fn clean_and_summarize(mut g: std::sync::MutexGuard<'_, Storage>) -> Option<Self> {
-        let mut reasons = enumset::EnumSet::empty();
-        g.retain(|_key, value| {
-            reasons = reasons.union(*value);
-            !value.is_empty()
-        });
-        if !g.is_empty() {
-            Some(BlockingReasons {
-                timelines: g.len(),
-                reasons,
-            })
-        } else {
-            None
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn summarize(g: &std::sync::MutexGuard<'_, Storage>) -> Option<Self> {
-        if g.is_empty() {
-            None
-        } else {
-            let reasons = g
-                .values()
-                .fold(enumset::EnumSet::empty(), |acc, next| acc.union(*next));
-            Some(BlockingReasons {
-                timelines: g.len(),
-                reasons,
-            })
-        }
-    }
-}
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/layer_map.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/layer_map.rs
@@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ use crate::keyspace::KeyPartitioning;
 use crate::repository::Key;
 use crate::tenant::storage_layer::InMemoryLayer;
 use anyhow::Result;
-use pageserver_api::keyspace::{KeySpace, KeySpaceAccum};
-use range_set_blaze::{CheckSortedDisjoint, RangeSetBlaze};
+use pageserver_api::keyspace::KeySpaceAccum;
 use std::collections::{HashMap, VecDeque};
 use std::iter::Peekable;
 use std::ops::Range;
@@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ use utils::lsn::Lsn;
 use historic_layer_coverage::BufferedHistoricLayerCoverage;
 pub use historic_layer_coverage::LayerKey;

-use super::storage_layer::{LayerVisibilityHint, PersistentLayerDesc};
+use super::storage_layer::PersistentLayerDesc;

 ///
 /// LayerMap tracks what layers exist on a timeline.
@@ -464,7 +463,7 @@ impl LayerMap {
    pub(self) fn insert_historic_noflush(&mut self, layer_desc: PersistentLayerDesc) {
        // TODO: See #3869, resulting #4088, attempted fix and repro #4094

-        if Self::is_l0(&layer_desc.key_range) {
+        if Self::is_l0(&layer_desc) {
            self.l0_delta_layers.push(layer_desc.clone().into());
        }

@@ -483,7 +482,7 @@ impl LayerMap {
        self.historic
            .remove(historic_layer_coverage::LayerKey::from(layer_desc));
        let layer_key = layer_desc.key();
-        if Self::is_l0(&layer_desc.key_range) {
+        if Self::is_l0(layer_desc) {
            let len_before = self.l0_delta_layers.len();
            let mut l0_delta_layers = std::mem::take(&mut self.l0_delta_layers);
            l0_delta_layers.retain(|other| other.key() != layer_key);
@@ -599,9 +598,8 @@ impl LayerMap {
        coverage
    }

-    /// Check if the key range resembles that of an L0 layer.
-    pub fn is_l0(key_range: &Range<Key>) -> bool {
-        key_range == &(Key::MIN..Key::MAX)
+    pub fn is_l0(layer: &PersistentLayerDesc) -> bool {
+        layer.get_key_range() == (Key::MIN..Key::MAX)
    }

    /// This function determines which layers are counted in `count_deltas`:
@@ -628,7 +626,7 @@ impl LayerMap {
    ///      than just the current partition_range.
    pub fn is_reimage_worthy(layer: &PersistentLayerDesc, partition_range: &Range<Key>) -> bool {
        // Case 1
-        if !Self::is_l0(&layer.key_range) {
+        if !Self::is_l0(layer) {
            return true;
        }

@@ -846,8 +844,8 @@ impl LayerMap {
    }

    /// Return all L0 delta layers
-    pub fn level0_deltas(&self) -> &Vec<Arc<PersistentLayerDesc>> {
-        &self.l0_delta_layers
+    pub fn get_level0_deltas(&self) -> Result<Vec<Arc<PersistentLayerDesc>>> {
+        Ok(self.l0_delta_layers.to_vec())
    }

    /// debugging function to print out the contents of the layer map
@@ -872,183 +870,11 @@ impl LayerMap {
        println!("End dump LayerMap");
        Ok(())
    }
-
-    /// `read_points` represent the tip of a timeline and any branch points, i.e. the places
-    /// where we expect to serve reads.
-    ///
-    /// This function is O(N) and should be called infrequently.  The caller is responsible for
-    /// looking up and updating the Layer objects for these layer descriptors.
-    pub fn get_visibility(
-        &self,
-        mut read_points: Vec<Lsn>,
-    ) -> (
-        Vec<(Arc<PersistentLayerDesc>, LayerVisibilityHint)>,
-        KeySpace,
-    ) {
-        // This is like a KeySpace, but this type is intended for efficient unions with image layer ranges, whereas
-        // KeySpace is intended to be composed statically and iterated over.
-        struct KeyShadow {
-            // Map of range start to range end
-            inner: RangeSetBlaze<i128>,
-        }
-
-        impl KeyShadow {
-            fn new() -> Self {
-                Self {
-                    inner: Default::default(),
-                }
-            }
-
-            fn contains(&self, range: Range<Key>) -> bool {
-                let range_incl = range.start.to_i128()..=range.end.to_i128() - 1;
-                self.inner.is_superset(&RangeSetBlaze::from_sorted_disjoint(
-                    CheckSortedDisjoint::from([range_incl]),
-                ))
-            }
-
-            /// Add the input range to the keys covered by self.
-            ///
-            /// Return true if inserting this range covered some keys that were previously not covered
-            fn cover(&mut self, insert: Range<Key>) -> bool {
-                let range_incl = insert.start.to_i128()..=insert.end.to_i128() - 1;
-                self.inner.ranges_insert(range_incl)
-            }
-
-            fn reset(&mut self) {
-                self.inner = Default::default();
-            }
-
-            fn to_keyspace(&self) -> KeySpace {
-                let mut accum = KeySpaceAccum::new();
-                for range_incl in self.inner.ranges() {
-                    let range = Range {
-                        start: Key::from_i128(*range_incl.start()),
-                        end: Key::from_i128(range_incl.end() + 1),
-                    };
-                    accum.add_range(range)
-                }
-
-                accum.to_keyspace()
-            }
-        }
-
-        // The 'shadow' will be updated as we sweep through the layers: an image layer subtracts from the shadow,
-        // and a ReadPoint
-        read_points.sort_by_key(|rp| rp.0);
-        let mut shadow = KeyShadow::new();
-
-        // We will interleave all our read points and layers into a sorted collection
-        enum Item {
-            ReadPoint { lsn: Lsn },
-            Layer(Arc<PersistentLayerDesc>),
-        }
-
-        let mut items = Vec::with_capacity(self.historic.len() + read_points.len());
-        items.extend(self.iter_historic_layers().map(Item::Layer));
-        items.extend(
-            read_points
-                .into_iter()
-                .map(|rp| Item::ReadPoint { lsn: rp }),
-        );
-
-        // Ordering: we want to iterate like this:
-        // 1. Highest LSNs first
-        // 2. Consider images before deltas if they end at the same LSNs (images cover deltas)
-        // 3. Consider ReadPoints before image layers if they're at the same LSN (readpoints make that image visible)
-        items.sort_by_key(|item| {
-            std::cmp::Reverse(match item {
-                Item::Layer(layer) => {
-                    if layer.is_delta() {
-                        (Lsn(layer.get_lsn_range().end.0 - 1), 0)
-                    } else {
-                        (layer.image_layer_lsn(), 1)
-                    }
-                }
-                Item::ReadPoint { lsn } => (*lsn, 2),
-            })
-        });
-
-        let mut results = Vec::with_capacity(self.historic.len());
-
-        let mut maybe_covered_deltas: Vec<Arc<PersistentLayerDesc>> = Vec::new();
-
-        for item in items {
-            let (reached_lsn, is_readpoint) = match &item {
-                Item::ReadPoint { lsn } => (lsn, true),
-                Item::Layer(layer) => (&layer.lsn_range.start, false),
-            };
-            maybe_covered_deltas.retain(|d| {
-                if *reached_lsn >= d.lsn_range.start && is_readpoint {
-                    // We encountered a readpoint within the delta layer: it is visible
-
-                    results.push((d.clone(), LayerVisibilityHint::Visible));
-                    false
-                } else if *reached_lsn < d.lsn_range.start {
-                    // We passed the layer's range without encountering a read point: it is not visible
-                    results.push((d.clone(), LayerVisibilityHint::Covered));
-                    false
-                } else {
-                    // We're still in the delta layer: continue iterating
-                    true
-                }
-            });
-
-            match item {
-                Item::ReadPoint { lsn: _lsn } => {
-                    // TODO: propagate the child timeline's shadow from their own run of this function, so that we don't have
-                    // to assume that the whole key range is visible at the branch point.
-                    shadow.reset();
-                }
-                Item::Layer(layer) => {
-                    let visibility = if layer.is_delta() {
-                        if shadow.contains(layer.get_key_range()) {
-                            // If a layer isn't visible based on current state, we must defer deciding whether
-                            // it is truly not visible until we have advanced past the delta's range: we might
-                            // encounter another branch point within this delta layer's LSN range.
-                            maybe_covered_deltas.push(layer);
-                            continue;
-                        } else {
-                            LayerVisibilityHint::Visible
-                        }
-                    } else {
-                        let modified = shadow.cover(layer.get_key_range());
-                        if modified {
-                            // An image layer in a region which wasn't fully covered yet: this layer is visible, but layers below it will be covered
-                            LayerVisibilityHint::Visible
-                        } else {
-                            // An image layer in a region that was already covered
-                            LayerVisibilityHint::Covered
-                        }
-                    };
-
-                    results.push((layer, visibility));
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Drain any remaining maybe_covered deltas
-        results.extend(
-            maybe_covered_deltas
-                .into_iter()
-                .map(|d| (d, LayerVisibilityHint::Covered)),
-        );
-
-        (results, shadow.to_keyspace())
-    }
 }

 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use crate::tenant::{storage_layer::LayerName, IndexPart};
-    use pageserver_api::{
-        key::DBDIR_KEY,
-        keyspace::{KeySpace, KeySpaceRandomAccum},
-    };
-    use std::{collections::HashMap, path::PathBuf};
-    use utils::{
-        id::{TenantId, TimelineId},
-        shard::TenantShardId,
-    };
+    use pageserver_api::keyspace::KeySpace;

    use super::*;

@@ -1175,299 +1001,4 @@ mod tests {
            }
        }
    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn layer_visibility_basic() {
-        // A simple synthetic input, as a smoke test.
-        let tenant_shard_id = TenantShardId::unsharded(TenantId::generate());
-        let timeline_id = TimelineId::generate();
-        let mut layer_map = LayerMap::default();
-        let mut updates = layer_map.batch_update();
-
-        const FAKE_LAYER_SIZE: u64 = 1024;
-
-        let inject_delta = |updates: &mut BatchedUpdates,
-                            key_start: i128,
-                            key_end: i128,
-                            lsn_start: u64,
-                            lsn_end: u64| {
-            let desc = PersistentLayerDesc::new_delta(
-                tenant_shard_id,
-                timeline_id,
-                Range {
-                    start: Key::from_i128(key_start),
-                    end: Key::from_i128(key_end),
-                },
-                Range {
-                    start: Lsn(lsn_start),
-                    end: Lsn(lsn_end),
-                },
-                1024,
-            );
-            updates.insert_historic(desc.clone());
-            desc
-        };
-
-        let inject_image =
-            |updates: &mut BatchedUpdates, key_start: i128, key_end: i128, lsn: u64| {
-                let desc = PersistentLayerDesc::new_img(
-                    tenant_shard_id,
-                    timeline_id,
-                    Range {
-                        start: Key::from_i128(key_start),
-                        end: Key::from_i128(key_end),
-                    },
-                    Lsn(lsn),
-                    FAKE_LAYER_SIZE,
-                );
-                updates.insert_historic(desc.clone());
-                desc
-            };
-
-        //
-        // Construct our scenario: the following lines go in backward-LSN order, constructing the various scenarios
-        // we expect to handle.  You can follow these examples through in the same order as they would be processed
-        // by the function under test.
-        //
-
-        let mut read_points = vec![Lsn(1000)];
-
-        // A delta ahead of any image layer
-        let ahead_layer = inject_delta(&mut updates, 10, 20, 101, 110);
-
-        // An image layer is visible and covers some layers beneath itself
-        let visible_covering_img = inject_image(&mut updates, 5, 25, 99);
-
-        // A delta layer covered by the image layer: should be covered
-        let covered_delta = inject_delta(&mut updates, 10, 20, 90, 100);
-
-        // A delta layer partially covered by an image layer: should be visible
-        let partially_covered_delta = inject_delta(&mut updates, 1, 7, 90, 100);
-
-        // A delta layer not covered by an image layer: should be visible
-        let not_covered_delta = inject_delta(&mut updates, 1, 4, 90, 100);
-
-        // An image layer covered by the image layer above: should be covered
-        let covered_image = inject_image(&mut updates, 10, 20, 89);
-
-        // An image layer partially covered by an image layer: should be visible
-        let partially_covered_image = inject_image(&mut updates, 1, 7, 89);
-
-        // An image layer not covered by an image layer: should be visible
-        let not_covered_image = inject_image(&mut updates, 1, 4, 89);
-
-        // A read point: this will make subsequent layers below here visible, even if there are
-        // more recent layers covering them.
-        read_points.push(Lsn(80));
-
-        // A delta layer covered by an earlier image layer, but visible to a readpoint below that covering layer
-        let covered_delta_below_read_point = inject_delta(&mut updates, 10, 20, 70, 79);
-
-        // A delta layer whose end LSN is covered, but where a read point is present partway through its LSN range:
-        // the read point should make it visible, even though its end LSN is covered
-        let covering_img_between_read_points = inject_image(&mut updates, 10, 20, 69);
-        let covered_delta_between_read_points = inject_delta(&mut updates, 10, 15, 67, 69);
-        read_points.push(Lsn(65));
-        let covered_delta_intersects_read_point = inject_delta(&mut updates, 15, 20, 60, 69);
-
-        let visible_img_after_last_read_point = inject_image(&mut updates, 10, 20, 65);
-
-        updates.flush();
-
-        let (layer_visibilities, shadow) = layer_map.get_visibility(read_points);
-        let layer_visibilities = layer_visibilities.into_iter().collect::<HashMap<_, _>>();
-
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&ahead_layer),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Visible)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&visible_covering_img),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Visible)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&covered_delta),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Covered)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&partially_covered_delta),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Visible)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&not_covered_delta),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Visible)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&covered_image),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Covered)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&partially_covered_image),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Visible)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&not_covered_image),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Visible)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&covered_delta_below_read_point),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Visible)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&covering_img_between_read_points),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Visible)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&covered_delta_between_read_points),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Covered)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&covered_delta_intersects_read_point),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Visible)
-        );
-        assert_eq!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&visible_img_after_last_read_point),
-            Some(&LayerVisibilityHint::Visible)
-        );
-
-        // Shadow should include all the images below the last read point
-        let expected_shadow = KeySpace {
-            ranges: vec![Key::from_i128(10)..Key::from_i128(20)],
-        };
-        assert_eq!(shadow, expected_shadow);
-    }
-
-    fn fixture_path(relative: &str) -> PathBuf {
-        PathBuf::from(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join(relative)
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn layer_visibility_realistic() {
-        // Load a large example layermap
-        let index_raw = std::fs::read_to_string(fixture_path(
-            "test_data/indices/mixed_workload/index_part.json",
-        ))
-        .unwrap();
-        let index: IndexPart = serde_json::from_str::<IndexPart>(&index_raw).unwrap();
-
-        let tenant_id = TenantId::generate();
-        let tenant_shard_id = TenantShardId::unsharded(tenant_id);
-        let timeline_id = TimelineId::generate();
-
-        let mut layer_map = LayerMap::default();
-        let mut updates = layer_map.batch_update();
-        for (layer_name, layer_metadata) in index.layer_metadata {
-            let layer_desc = match layer_name {
-                LayerName::Image(layer_name) => PersistentLayerDesc {
-                    key_range: layer_name.key_range.clone(),
-                    lsn_range: layer_name.lsn_as_range(),
-                    tenant_shard_id,
-                    timeline_id,
-                    is_delta: false,
-                    file_size: layer_metadata.file_size,
-                },
-                LayerName::Delta(layer_name) => PersistentLayerDesc {
-                    key_range: layer_name.key_range,
-                    lsn_range: layer_name.lsn_range,
-                    tenant_shard_id,
-                    timeline_id,
-                    is_delta: true,
-                    file_size: layer_metadata.file_size,
-                },
-            };
-            updates.insert_historic(layer_desc);
-        }
-        updates.flush();
-
-        let read_points = vec![index.metadata.disk_consistent_lsn()];
-        let (layer_visibilities, shadow) = layer_map.get_visibility(read_points);
-        for (layer_desc, visibility) in &layer_visibilities {
-            tracing::info!("{layer_desc:?}: {visibility:?}");
-            eprintln!("{layer_desc:?}: {visibility:?}");
-        }
-
-        // The shadow should be non-empty, since there were some image layers
-        assert!(!shadow.ranges.is_empty());
-
-        // At least some layers should be marked covered
-        assert!(layer_visibilities
-            .iter()
-            .any(|i| matches!(i.1, LayerVisibilityHint::Covered)));
-
-        let layer_visibilities = layer_visibilities.into_iter().collect::<HashMap<_, _>>();
-
-        // Brute force validation: a layer should be marked covered if and only if there are image layers above it in LSN order which cover it
-        for (layer_desc, visible) in &layer_visibilities {
-            let mut coverage = KeySpaceRandomAccum::new();
-            let mut covered_by = Vec::new();
-
-            for other_layer in layer_map.iter_historic_layers() {
-                if &other_layer == layer_desc {
-                    continue;
-                }
-                if !other_layer.is_delta()
-                    && other_layer.image_layer_lsn() >= Lsn(layer_desc.get_lsn_range().end.0 - 1)
-                    && other_layer.key_range.start <= layer_desc.key_range.end
-                    && layer_desc.key_range.start <= other_layer.key_range.end
-                {
-                    coverage.add_range(other_layer.get_key_range());
-                    covered_by.push((*other_layer).clone());
-                }
-            }
-            let coverage = coverage.to_keyspace();
-
-            let expect_visible = if coverage.ranges.len() == 1
-                && coverage.contains(&layer_desc.key_range.start)
-                && coverage.contains(&Key::from_i128(layer_desc.key_range.end.to_i128() - 1))
-            {
-                LayerVisibilityHint::Covered
-            } else {
-                LayerVisibilityHint::Visible
-            };
-
-            if expect_visible != *visible {
-                eprintln!(
-                    "Layer {}..{} @ {}..{} (delta={}) is {visible:?}, should be {expect_visible:?}",
-                    layer_desc.key_range.start,
-                    layer_desc.key_range.end,
-                    layer_desc.lsn_range.start,
-                    layer_desc.lsn_range.end,
-                    layer_desc.is_delta()
-                );
-                if expect_visible == LayerVisibilityHint::Covered {
-                    eprintln!("Covered by:");
-                    for other in covered_by {
-                        eprintln!(
-                            "  {}..{} @ {}",
-                            other.get_key_range().start,
-                            other.get_key_range().end,
-                            other.image_layer_lsn()
-                        );
-                    }
-                    if let Some(range) = coverage.ranges.first() {
-                        eprintln!(
-                            "Total coverage from contributing layers: {}..{}",
-                            range.start, range.end
-                        );
-                    } else {
-                        eprintln!(
-                            "Total coverage from contributing layers: {:?}",
-                            coverage.ranges
-                        );
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            assert_eq!(expect_visible, *visible);
-        }
-
-        // Sanity: the layer that holds latest data for the DBDIR key should always be visible
-        // (just using this key as a key that will always exist for any layermap fixture)
-        let dbdir_layer = layer_map
-            .search(DBDIR_KEY, index.metadata.disk_consistent_lsn())
-            .unwrap();
-        assert!(matches!(
-            layer_visibilities.get(&dbdir_layer.layer).unwrap(),
-            LayerVisibilityHint::Visible
-        ));
-    }
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/layer_map/historic_layer_coverage.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/layer_map/historic_layer_coverage.rs
@@ -521,10 +521,6 @@ impl<Value: Clone> BufferedHistoricLayerCoverage<Value> {

        Ok(&self.historic_coverage)
    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn len(&self) -> usize {
-        self.layers.len()
-    }
 }

 #[test]
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/metadata.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/metadata.rs
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ impl TryFrom<&TimelineMetadataBodyV2> for TimelineMetadataHeader {
 #[error("re-serializing for crc32 failed")]
 struct Crc32CalculationFailed(#[source] utils::bin_ser::SerializeError);

-const METADATA_HDR_SIZE: usize = size_of::<TimelineMetadataHeader>();
+const METADATA_HDR_SIZE: usize = std::mem::size_of::<TimelineMetadataHeader>();

 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 struct TimelineMetadataBodyV2 {
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/mgr.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/mgr.rs
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ use pageserver_api::upcall_api::ReAttachResponseTenant;
 use rand::{distributions::Alphanumeric, Rng};
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::cmp::Ordering;
-use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashMap, HashSet};
+use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashMap};
 use std::ops::Deref;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Duration;
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ use crate::control_plane_client::{
 use crate::deletion_queue::DeletionQueueClient;
 use crate::http::routes::ACTIVE_TENANT_TIMEOUT;
 use crate::metrics::{TENANT, TENANT_MANAGER as METRICS};
-use crate::task_mgr::{TaskKind, BACKGROUND_RUNTIME};
+use crate::task_mgr::{self, TaskKind};
 use crate::tenant::config::{
    AttachedLocationConfig, AttachmentMode, LocationConf, LocationMode, SecondaryLocationConfig,
 };
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ use utils::id::{TenantId, TimelineId};
 use super::remote_timeline_client::remote_tenant_path;
 use super::secondary::SecondaryTenant;
 use super::timeline::detach_ancestor::PreparedTimelineDetach;
-use super::{GlobalShutDown, TenantSharedResources};
+use super::TenantSharedResources;

 /// For a tenant that appears in TenantsMap, it may either be
 /// - `Attached`: has a full Tenant object, is elegible to service
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ pub(crate) enum ShardSelector {
    /// Only return the 0th shard, if it is present.  If a non-0th shard is present,
    /// ignore it.
    Zero,
+    /// Pick the first shard we find for the TenantId
+    First,
    /// Pick the shard that holds this key
    Page(Key),
    /// The shard ID is known: pick the given shard
@@ -223,98 +225,26 @@ async fn safe_rename_tenant_dir(path: impl AsRef<Utf8Path>) -> std::io::Result<U
    Ok(tmp_path)
 }

-/// See [`Self::spawn`].
-#[derive(Clone)]
-pub struct BackgroundPurges(Arc<std::sync::Mutex<BackgroundPurgesInner>>);
-enum BackgroundPurgesInner {
-    Open(tokio::task::JoinSet<()>),
-    // we use the async mutex for coalescing
-    ShuttingDown(Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<tokio::task::JoinSet<()>>>),
-}
+/// When we have moved a tenant's content to a temporary directory, we may delete it lazily in
+/// the background, and thereby avoid blocking any API requests on this deletion completing.
+fn spawn_background_purge(tmp_path: Utf8PathBuf) {
+    // Although we are cleaning up the tenant, this task is not meant to be bound by the lifetime of the tenant in memory.
+    // After a tenant is detached, there are no more task_mgr tasks for that tenant_id.
+    let task_tenant_id = None;

-impl Default for BackgroundPurges {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        Self(Arc::new(std::sync::Mutex::new(
-            BackgroundPurgesInner::Open(JoinSet::new()),
-        )))
-    }
-}
-
-impl BackgroundPurges {
-    /// When we have moved a tenant's content to a temporary directory, we may delete it lazily in
-    /// the background, and thereby avoid blocking any API requests on this deletion completing.
-    ///
-    /// Although we are cleaning up the tenant, this task is not meant to be bound by the lifetime of the tenant in memory.
-    /// Thus the [`BackgroundPurges`] type to keep track of these tasks.
-    pub fn spawn(&self, tmp_path: Utf8PathBuf) {
-        let mut guard = self.0.lock().unwrap();
-        let jset = match &mut *guard {
-            BackgroundPurgesInner::Open(ref mut jset) => jset,
-            BackgroundPurgesInner::ShuttingDown(_) => {
-                warn!("trying to spawn background purge during shutdown, ignoring");
-                return;
-            }
-        };
-        jset.spawn_on(
-            async move {
-                if let Err(error) = fs::remove_dir_all(tmp_path.as_path()).await {
-                    // should we fatal_io_error here?
-                    warn!(%error, path=%tmp_path, "failed to purge tenant directory");
-                }
-            }
-            .instrument(info_span!(parent: None, "background_purge")),
-            BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.handle(),
-        );
-    }
-
-    /// When this future completes, all background purges have completed.
-    /// The first poll of the future will already lock out new background purges spawned via [`Self::spawn`].
-    ///
-    /// Concurrent calls will coalesce.
-    ///
-    /// # Cancellation-Safety
-    ///
-    /// If this future is dropped before polled to completion, concurrent and subsequent
-    /// instances of this future will continue to be correct.
-    #[instrument(skip_all)]
-    pub async fn shutdown(&self) {
-        let jset = {
-            let mut guard = self.0.lock().unwrap();
-            match &mut *guard {
-                BackgroundPurgesInner::Open(jset) => {
-                    *guard = BackgroundPurgesInner::ShuttingDown(Arc::new(tokio::sync::Mutex::new(
-                        std::mem::take(jset),
-                    )))
-                }
-                BackgroundPurgesInner::ShuttingDown(_) => {
-                    // calling shutdown multiple times is most likely a bug in pageserver shutdown code
-                    warn!("already shutting down");
-                }
-            };
-            match &mut *guard {
-                BackgroundPurgesInner::ShuttingDown(ref mut jset) => jset.clone(),
-                BackgroundPurgesInner::Open(_) => {
-                    unreachable!("above code transitions into shut down state");
-                }
-            }
-        };
-        let mut jset = jset.lock().await; // concurrent callers coalesce here
-        while let Some(res) = jset.join_next().await {
-            match res {
-                Ok(()) => {}
-                Err(e) if e.is_panic() => {
-                    // If it panicked, the error is already logged by the panic hook.
-                }
-                Err(e) if e.is_cancelled() => {
-                    unreachable!("we don't cancel the joinset or runtime")
-                }
-                Err(e) => {
-                    // No idea when this can happen, but let's log it.
-                    warn!(%e, "background purge task failed or panicked");
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
+    task_mgr::spawn(
+        task_mgr::BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.handle(),
+        TaskKind::MgmtRequest,
+        task_tenant_id,
+        None,
+        "tenant_files_delete",
+        false,
+        async move {
+            fs::remove_dir_all(tmp_path.as_path())
+                .await
+                .with_context(|| format!("tenant directory {:?} deletion", tmp_path))
+        },
+    );
 }

 static TENANTS: Lazy<std::sync::RwLock<TenantsMap>> =
@@ -340,8 +270,6 @@ pub struct TenantManager {
    // tenants have their own cancellation tokens, which we fire individually in [`Self::shutdown`], or
    // when the tenant detaches.
    cancel: CancellationToken,
-
-    background_purges: BackgroundPurges,
 }

 fn emergency_generations(
@@ -519,7 +447,6 @@ pub(crate) enum DeleteTenantError {
 #[instrument(skip_all)]
 pub async fn init_tenant_mgr(
    conf: &'static PageServerConf,
-    background_purges: BackgroundPurges,
    resources: TenantSharedResources,
    init_order: InitializationOrder,
    cancel: CancellationToken,
@@ -585,7 +512,7 @@ pub async fn init_tenant_mgr(

                    match safe_rename_tenant_dir(&tenant_dir_path).await {
                        Ok(tmp_path) => {
-                            background_purges.spawn(tmp_path);
+                            spawn_background_purge(tmp_path);
                        }
                        Err(e) => {
                            error!(tenant_id=%tenant_shard_id.tenant_id, shard_id=%tenant_shard_id.shard_slug(),
@@ -665,20 +592,17 @@ pub async fn init_tenant_mgr(
        let tenant_dir_path = conf.tenant_path(&tenant_shard_id);
        let shard_identity = location_conf.shard;
        let slot = match location_conf.mode {
-            LocationMode::Attached(attached_conf) => TenantSlot::Attached(
-                tenant_spawn(
-                    conf,
-                    tenant_shard_id,
-                    &tenant_dir_path,
-                    resources.clone(),
-                    AttachedTenantConf::new(location_conf.tenant_conf, attached_conf),
-                    shard_identity,
-                    Some(init_order.clone()),
-                    SpawnMode::Lazy,
-                    &ctx,
-                )
-                .expect("global shutdown during init_tenant_mgr cannot happen"),
-            ),
+            LocationMode::Attached(attached_conf) => TenantSlot::Attached(tenant_spawn(
+                conf,
+                tenant_shard_id,
+                &tenant_dir_path,
+                resources.clone(),
+                AttachedTenantConf::new(location_conf.tenant_conf, attached_conf),
+                shard_identity,
+                Some(init_order.clone()),
+                SpawnMode::Lazy,
+                &ctx,
+            )),
            LocationMode::Secondary(secondary_conf) => {
                info!(
                    tenant_id = %tenant_shard_id.tenant_id,
@@ -710,7 +634,6 @@ pub async fn init_tenant_mgr(
        tenants: &TENANTS,
        resources,
        cancel: CancellationToken::new(),
-        background_purges,
    })
 }

@@ -726,7 +649,7 @@ fn tenant_spawn(
    init_order: Option<InitializationOrder>,
    mode: SpawnMode,
    ctx: &RequestContext,
-) -> Result<Arc<Tenant>, GlobalShutDown> {
+) -> Arc<Tenant> {
    // All these conditions should have been satisfied by our caller: the tenant dir exists, is a well formed
    // path, and contains a configuration file.  Assertions that do synchronous I/O are limited to debug mode
    // to avoid impacting prod runtime performance.
@@ -1193,10 +1116,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
                    None,
                    spawn_mode,
                    ctx,
-                )
-                .map_err(|_: GlobalShutDown| {
-                    UpsertLocationError::Unavailable(TenantMapError::ShuttingDown)
-                })?;
+                );

                TenantSlot::Attached(tenant)
            }
@@ -1317,7 +1237,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
            None,
            SpawnMode::Eager,
            ctx,
-        )?;
+        );

        slot_guard.upsert(TenantSlot::Attached(tenant))?;

@@ -1388,32 +1308,33 @@ impl TenantManager {
        tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
    ) -> Result<(), DeleteTenantError> {
        let remote_path = remote_tenant_path(&tenant_shard_id);
-        let mut keys_stream = self.resources.remote_storage.list_streaming(
-            Some(&remote_path),
-            remote_storage::ListingMode::NoDelimiter,
-            None,
-            &self.cancel,
-        );
-        while let Some(chunk) = keys_stream.next().await {
-            let keys = match chunk {
-                Ok(listing) => listing.keys,
-                Err(remote_storage::DownloadError::Cancelled) => {
-                    return Err(DeleteTenantError::Cancelled)
-                }
-                Err(remote_storage::DownloadError::NotFound) => return Ok(()),
-                Err(other) => return Err(DeleteTenantError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(other))),
-            };
-
-            if keys.is_empty() {
-                tracing::info!("Remote storage already deleted");
-            } else {
-                tracing::info!("Deleting {} keys from remote storage", keys.len());
-                let keys = keys.into_iter().map(|o| o.key).collect::<Vec<_>>();
-                self.resources
-                    .remote_storage
-                    .delete_objects(&keys, &self.cancel)
-                    .await?;
+        let keys = match self
+            .resources
+            .remote_storage
+            .list(
+                Some(&remote_path),
+                remote_storage::ListingMode::NoDelimiter,
+                None,
+                &self.cancel,
+            )
+            .await
+        {
+            Ok(listing) => listing.keys,
+            Err(remote_storage::DownloadError::Cancelled) => {
+                return Err(DeleteTenantError::Cancelled)
            }
+            Err(remote_storage::DownloadError::NotFound) => return Ok(()),
+            Err(other) => return Err(DeleteTenantError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(other))),
+        };
+
+        if keys.is_empty() {
+            tracing::info!("Remote storage already deleted");
+        } else {
+            tracing::info!("Deleting {} keys from remote storage", keys.len());
+            self.resources
+                .remote_storage
+                .delete_objects(&keys, &self.cancel)
+                .await?;
        }

        Ok(())
@@ -1432,7 +1353,6 @@ impl TenantManager {

        async fn delete_local(
            conf: &PageServerConf,
-            background_purges: &BackgroundPurges,
            tenant_shard_id: &TenantShardId,
        ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
            let local_tenant_directory = conf.tenant_path(tenant_shard_id);
@@ -1441,7 +1361,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
                .with_context(|| {
                    format!("local tenant directory {local_tenant_directory:?} rename")
                })?;
-            background_purges.spawn(tmp_dir);
+            spawn_background_purge(tmp_dir);
            Ok(())
        }

@@ -1459,12 +1379,12 @@ impl TenantManager {
                        barrier.wait().await;
                    }
                }
-                delete_local(self.conf, &self.background_purges, &tenant_shard_id).await?;
+                delete_local(self.conf, &tenant_shard_id).await?;
            }
            Some(TenantSlot::Secondary(secondary_tenant)) => {
                secondary_tenant.shutdown().await;

-                delete_local(self.conf, &self.background_purges, &tenant_shard_id).await?;
+                delete_local(self.conf, &tenant_shard_id).await?;
            }
            Some(TenantSlot::InProgress(_)) => unreachable!(),
            None => {}
@@ -1735,7 +1655,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
        let tmp_path = safe_rename_tenant_dir(&local_tenant_directory)
            .await
            .with_context(|| format!("local tenant directory {local_tenant_directory:?} rename"))?;
-        self.background_purges.spawn(tmp_path);
+        spawn_background_purge(tmp_path);

        fail::fail_point!("shard-split-pre-finish", |_| Err(anyhow::anyhow!(
            "failpoint"
@@ -1767,9 +1687,14 @@ impl TenantManager {
            let parent_timelines = timelines.keys().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>();
            for timeline in timelines.values() {
                tracing::info!(timeline_id=%timeline.timeline_id, "Loading list of layers to hardlink");
-                let layers = timeline.layers.read().await;
+                let timeline_layers = timeline
+                    .layers
+                    .read()
+                    .await
+                    .likely_resident_layers()
+                    .collect::<Vec<_>>();

-                for layer in layers.likely_resident_layers() {
+                for layer in timeline_layers {
                    let relative_path = layer
                        .local_path()
                        .strip_prefix(&parent_path)
@@ -1906,7 +1831,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
        let tmp_path = self
            .detach_tenant0(conf, tenant_shard_id, deletion_queue_client)
            .await?;
-        self.background_purges.spawn(tmp_path);
+        spawn_background_purge(tmp_path);

        Ok(())
    }
@@ -1966,8 +1891,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
        timeline_id: TimelineId,
        prepared: PreparedTimelineDetach,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> Result<HashSet<TimelineId>, anyhow::Error> {
-        // FIXME: this is unnecessary, slotguard already has these semantics
+    ) -> Result<Vec<TimelineId>, anyhow::Error> {
        struct RevertOnDropSlot(Option<SlotGuard>);

        impl Drop for RevertOnDropSlot {
@@ -2047,7 +1971,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
            None,
            SpawnMode::Eager,
            ctx,
-        )?;
+        );

        slot_guard.upsert(TenantSlot::Attached(tenant))?;

@@ -2088,6 +2012,7 @@ impl TenantManager {
                    };

                    match selector {
+                        ShardSelector::First => return ShardResolveResult::Found(tenant.clone()),
                        ShardSelector::Zero if slot.0.shard_number == ShardNumber(0) => {
                            return ShardResolveResult::Found(tenant.clone())
                        }
@@ -2169,9 +2094,6 @@ pub(crate) enum GetActiveTenantError {
    /// never happen.
    #[error("Tenant is broken: {0}")]
    Broken(String),
-
-    #[error("reconnect to switch tenant id")]
-    SwitchedTenant,
 }

 #[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client.rs
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ use camino::Utf8Path;
 use chrono::{NaiveDateTime, Utc};

 pub(crate) use download::download_initdb_tar_zst;
-use pageserver_api::models::{AuxFilePolicy, TimelineArchivalState};
+use pageserver_api::models::AuxFilePolicy;
 use pageserver_api::shard::{ShardIndex, TenantShardId};
 use scopeguard::ScopeGuard;
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
@@ -287,14 +287,6 @@ pub enum PersistIndexPartWithDeletedFlagError {
    Other(#[from] anyhow::Error),
 }

-#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
-pub enum WaitCompletionError {
-    #[error(transparent)]
-    NotInitialized(NotInitialized),
-    #[error("wait_completion aborted because upload queue was stopped")]
-    UploadQueueShutDownOrStopped,
-}
-
 /// A client for accessing a timeline's data in remote storage.
 ///
 /// This takes care of managing the number of connections, and balancing them
@@ -457,17 +449,6 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
            .unwrap_or(false)
    }

-    /// Returns whether the timeline is archived.
-    /// Return None if the remote index_part hasn't been downloaded yet.
-    pub(crate) fn is_archived(&self) -> Option<bool> {
-        self.upload_queue
-            .lock()
-            .unwrap()
-            .initialized_mut()
-            .map(|q| q.clean.0.archived_at.is_some())
-            .ok()
-    }
-
    fn update_remote_physical_size_gauge(&self, current_remote_index_part: Option<&IndexPart>) {
        let size: u64 = if let Some(current_remote_index_part) = current_remote_index_part {
            current_remote_index_part
@@ -628,7 +609,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
        Ok(())
    }

-    /// Launch an index-file upload operation in the background, with only the `aux_file_policy` flag updated.
+    /// Launch an index-file upload operation in the background, with only aux_file_policy flag updated.
    pub(crate) fn schedule_index_upload_for_aux_file_policy_update(
        self: &Arc<Self>,
        last_aux_file_policy: Option<AuxFilePolicy>,
@@ -639,48 +620,6 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
        self.schedule_index_upload(upload_queue)?;
        Ok(())
    }
-
-    /// Launch an index-file upload operation in the background, with only the `archived_at` field updated.
-    ///
-    /// Returns whether it is required to wait for the queue to be empty to ensure that the change is uploaded,
-    /// so either if the change is already sitting in the queue, but not commited yet, or the change has not
-    /// been in the queue yet.
-    pub(crate) fn schedule_index_upload_for_timeline_archival_state(
-        self: &Arc<Self>,
-        state: TimelineArchivalState,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<bool> {
-        let mut guard = self.upload_queue.lock().unwrap();
-        let upload_queue = guard.initialized_mut()?;
-
-        /// Returns Some(_) if a change is needed, and Some(true) if it's a
-        /// change needed to set archived_at.
-        fn need_change(
-            archived_at: &Option<NaiveDateTime>,
-            state: TimelineArchivalState,
-        ) -> Option<bool> {
-            match (archived_at, state) {
-                (Some(_), TimelineArchivalState::Archived)
-                | (None, TimelineArchivalState::Unarchived) => {
-                    // Nothing to do
-                    tracing::info!("intended state matches present state");
-                    None
-                }
-                (None, TimelineArchivalState::Archived) => Some(true),
-                (Some(_), TimelineArchivalState::Unarchived) => Some(false),
-            }
-        }
-        let need_upload_scheduled = need_change(&upload_queue.dirty.archived_at, state);
-
-        if let Some(archived_at_set) = need_upload_scheduled {
-            let intended_archived_at = archived_at_set.then(|| Utc::now().naive_utc());
-            upload_queue.dirty.archived_at = intended_archived_at;
-            self.schedule_index_upload(upload_queue)?;
-        }
-
-        let need_wait = need_change(&upload_queue.clean.0.archived_at, state).is_some();
-        Ok(need_wait)
-    }
-
    ///
    /// Launch an index-file upload operation in the background, if necessary.
    ///
@@ -691,7 +630,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
    ///
    /// Like schedule_index_upload_for_metadata_update(), this merely adds
    /// the upload to the upload queue and returns quickly.
-    pub fn schedule_index_upload_for_file_changes(self: &Arc<Self>) -> Result<(), NotInitialized> {
+    pub fn schedule_index_upload_for_file_changes(self: &Arc<Self>) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        let mut guard = self.upload_queue.lock().unwrap();
        let upload_queue = guard.initialized_mut()?;

@@ -706,7 +645,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
    fn schedule_index_upload(
        self: &Arc<Self>,
        upload_queue: &mut UploadQueueInitialized,
-    ) -> Result<(), NotInitialized> {
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        let disk_consistent_lsn = upload_queue.dirty.metadata.disk_consistent_lsn();
        // fix up the duplicated field
        upload_queue.dirty.disk_consistent_lsn = disk_consistent_lsn;
@@ -714,7 +653,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
        // make sure it serializes before doing it in perform_upload_task so that it doesn't
        // look like a retryable error
        let void = std::io::sink();
-        serde_json::to_writer(void, &upload_queue.dirty).expect("serialize index_part.json");
+        serde_json::to_writer(void, &upload_queue.dirty).context("serialize index_part.json")?;

        let index_part = &upload_queue.dirty;

@@ -760,9 +699,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
            self.schedule_barrier0(upload_queue)
        };

-        Self::wait_completion0(receiver)
-            .await
-            .context("wait completion")
+        Self::wait_completion0(receiver).await
    }

    /// Schedules uploading a new version of `index_part.json` with the given layers added,
@@ -795,126 +732,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
            barrier
        };

-        Self::wait_completion0(barrier)
-            .await
-            .context("wait completion")
-    }
-
-    /// Adds a gc blocking reason for this timeline if one does not exist already.
-    ///
-    /// A retryable step of timeline detach ancestor.
-    ///
-    /// Returns a future which waits until the completion of the upload.
-    pub(crate) fn schedule_insert_gc_block_reason(
-        self: &Arc<Self>,
-        reason: index::GcBlockingReason,
-    ) -> Result<impl std::future::Future<Output = Result<(), WaitCompletionError>>, NotInitialized>
-    {
-        let maybe_barrier = {
-            let mut guard = self.upload_queue.lock().unwrap();
-            let upload_queue = guard.initialized_mut()?;
-
-            if let index::GcBlockingReason::DetachAncestor = reason {
-                if upload_queue.dirty.metadata.ancestor_timeline().is_none() {
-                    drop(guard);
-                    panic!("cannot start detach ancestor if there is nothing to detach from");
-                }
-            }
-
-            let wanted = |x: Option<&index::GcBlocking>| x.is_some_and(|x| x.blocked_by(reason));
-
-            let current = upload_queue.dirty.gc_blocking.as_ref();
-            let uploaded = upload_queue.clean.0.gc_blocking.as_ref();
-
-            match (current, uploaded) {
-                (x, y) if wanted(x) && wanted(y) => None,
-                (x, y) if wanted(x) && !wanted(y) => Some(self.schedule_barrier0(upload_queue)),
-                // Usual case: !wanted(x) && !wanted(y)
-                //
-                // Unusual: !wanted(x) && wanted(y) which means we have two processes waiting to
-                // turn on and off some reason.
-                (x, y) => {
-                    if !wanted(x) && wanted(y) {
-                        // this could be avoided by having external in-memory synchronization, like
-                        // timeline detach ancestor
-                        warn!(?reason, op="insert", "unexpected: two racing processes to enable and disable a gc blocking reason");
-                    }
-
-                    // at this point, the metadata must always show that there is a parent
-                    upload_queue.dirty.gc_blocking = current
-                        .map(|x| x.with_reason(reason))
-                        .or_else(|| Some(index::GcBlocking::started_now_for(reason)));
-                    self.schedule_index_upload(upload_queue)?;
-                    Some(self.schedule_barrier0(upload_queue))
-                }
-            }
-        };
-
-        Ok(async move {
-            if let Some(barrier) = maybe_barrier {
-                Self::wait_completion0(barrier).await?;
-            }
-            Ok(())
-        })
-    }
-
-    /// Removes a gc blocking reason for this timeline if one exists.
-    ///
-    /// A retryable step of timeline detach ancestor.
-    ///
-    /// Returns a future which waits until the completion of the upload.
-    pub(crate) fn schedule_remove_gc_block_reason(
-        self: &Arc<Self>,
-        reason: index::GcBlockingReason,
-    ) -> Result<impl std::future::Future<Output = Result<(), WaitCompletionError>>, NotInitialized>
-    {
-        let maybe_barrier = {
-            let mut guard = self.upload_queue.lock().unwrap();
-            let upload_queue = guard.initialized_mut()?;
-
-            if let index::GcBlockingReason::DetachAncestor = reason {
-                if !upload_queue
-                    .clean
-                    .0
-                    .lineage
-                    .is_detached_from_original_ancestor()
-                {
-                    drop(guard);
-                    panic!("cannot complete timeline_ancestor_detach while not detached");
-                }
-            }
-
-            let wanted = |x: Option<&index::GcBlocking>| {
-                x.is_none() || x.is_some_and(|b| !b.blocked_by(reason))
-            };
-
-            let current = upload_queue.dirty.gc_blocking.as_ref();
-            let uploaded = upload_queue.clean.0.gc_blocking.as_ref();
-
-            match (current, uploaded) {
-                (x, y) if wanted(x) && wanted(y) => None,
-                (x, y) if wanted(x) && !wanted(y) => Some(self.schedule_barrier0(upload_queue)),
-                (x, y) => {
-                    if !wanted(x) && wanted(y) {
-                        warn!(?reason, op="remove", "unexpected: two racing processes to enable and disable a gc blocking reason (remove)");
-                    }
-
-                    upload_queue.dirty.gc_blocking =
-                        current.as_ref().and_then(|x| x.without_reason(reason));
-                    assert!(wanted(upload_queue.dirty.gc_blocking.as_ref()));
-                    // FIXME: bogus ?
-                    self.schedule_index_upload(upload_queue)?;
-                    Some(self.schedule_barrier0(upload_queue))
-                }
-            }
-        };
-
-        Ok(async move {
-            if let Some(barrier) = maybe_barrier {
-                Self::wait_completion0(barrier).await?;
-            }
-            Ok(())
-        })
+        Self::wait_completion0(barrier).await
    }

    /// Launch an upload operation in the background; the file is added to be included in next
@@ -922,7 +740,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
    pub(crate) fn schedule_layer_file_upload(
        self: &Arc<Self>,
        layer: ResidentLayer,
-    ) -> Result<(), NotInitialized> {
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        let mut guard = self.upload_queue.lock().unwrap();
        let upload_queue = guard.initialized_mut()?;

@@ -1008,7 +826,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
        self: &Arc<Self>,
        upload_queue: &mut UploadQueueInitialized,
        names: I,
-    ) -> Result<Vec<(LayerName, LayerFileMetadata)>, NotInitialized>
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<(LayerName, LayerFileMetadata)>>
    where
        I: IntoIterator<Item = LayerName>,
    {
@@ -1134,7 +952,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
        self: &Arc<Self>,
        compacted_from: &[Layer],
        compacted_to: &[ResidentLayer],
-    ) -> Result<(), NotInitialized> {
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        let mut guard = self.upload_queue.lock().unwrap();
        let upload_queue = guard.initialized_mut()?;

@@ -1151,12 +969,10 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
    }

    /// Wait for all previously scheduled uploads/deletions to complete
-    pub(crate) async fn wait_completion(self: &Arc<Self>) -> Result<(), WaitCompletionError> {
+    pub(crate) async fn wait_completion(self: &Arc<Self>) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        let receiver = {
            let mut guard = self.upload_queue.lock().unwrap();
-            let upload_queue = guard
-                .initialized_mut()
-                .map_err(WaitCompletionError::NotInitialized)?;
+            let upload_queue = guard.initialized_mut()?;
            self.schedule_barrier0(upload_queue)
        };

@@ -1165,9 +981,9 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {

    async fn wait_completion0(
        mut receiver: tokio::sync::watch::Receiver<()>,
-    ) -> Result<(), WaitCompletionError> {
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        if receiver.changed().await.is_err() {
-            return Err(WaitCompletionError::UploadQueueShutDownOrStopped);
+            anyhow::bail!("wait_completion aborted because upload queue was stopped");
        }

        Ok(())
@@ -1495,18 +1311,6 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
                .dirty
                .layer_metadata
                .drain()
-                .filter(|(_file_name, meta)| {
-                    // Filter out layers that belonged to an ancestor shard.  Since we are deleting the whole timeline from
-                    // all shards anyway, we _could_ delete these, but
-                    // - it creates a potential race if other shards are still
-                    //   using the layers while this shard deletes them.
-                    // - it means that if we rolled back the shard split, the ancestor shards would be in a state where
-                    //   these timelines are present but corrupt (their index exists but some layers don't)
-                    //
-                    // These layers will eventually be cleaned up by the scrubber when it does physical GC.
-                    meta.shard.shard_number == self.tenant_shard_id.shard_number
-                        && meta.shard.shard_count == self.tenant_shard_id.shard_count
-                })
                .map(|(file_name, meta)| {
                    remote_layer_path(
                        &self.tenant_shard_id.tenant_id,
@@ -1562,13 +1366,12 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
        // marker via its deleted_at attribute
        let latest_index = remaining
            .iter()
-            .filter(|o| {
-                o.key
-                    .object_name()
+            .filter(|p| {
+                p.object_name()
                    .map(|n| n.starts_with(IndexPart::FILE_NAME))
                    .unwrap_or(false)
            })
-            .filter_map(|o| parse_remote_index_path(o.key.clone()).map(|gen| (o.key.clone(), gen)))
+            .filter_map(|path| parse_remote_index_path(path.clone()).map(|gen| (path, gen)))
            .max_by_key(|i| i.1)
            .map(|i| i.0.clone())
            .unwrap_or(
@@ -1579,12 +1382,14 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {

        let remaining_layers: Vec<RemotePath> = remaining
            .into_iter()
-            .filter_map(|o| {
-                if o.key == latest_index || o.key.object_name() == Some(INITDB_PRESERVED_PATH) {
-                    None
-                } else {
-                    Some(o.key)
+            .filter(|p| {
+                if p == &latest_index {
+                    return false;
                }
+                if p.object_name() == Some(INITDB_PRESERVED_PATH) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+                true
            })
            .inspect(|path| {
                if let Some(name) = path.object_name() {
@@ -1720,6 +1525,7 @@ impl RemoteTimelineClient {
                Some(self.tenant_shard_id),
                Some(self.timeline_id),
                "remote upload",
+                false,
                async move {
                    self_rc.perform_upload_task(task).await;
                    Ok(())
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/download.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/download.rs
@@ -295,11 +295,10 @@ where
        };
    }

-    for object in listing.keys {
-        let object_name = object
-            .key
+    for key in listing.keys {
+        let object_name = key
            .object_name()
-            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("object name for key {}", object.key))?;
+            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("object name for key {key}"))?;
        other_prefixes.insert(object_name.to_string());
    }

@@ -460,7 +459,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn download_index_part(
    // is <= our own.  See "Finding the remote indices for timelines" in docs/rfcs/025-generation-numbers.md
    let max_previous_generation = indices
        .into_iter()
-        .filter_map(|o| parse_remote_index_path(o.key))
+        .filter_map(parse_remote_index_path)
        .filter(|g| g <= &my_generation)
        .max();

--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/index.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/remote_timeline_client/index.rs
@@ -32,10 +32,6 @@ pub struct IndexPart {
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    pub deleted_at: Option<NaiveDateTime>,

-    #[serde(default)]
-    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
-    pub archived_at: Option<NaiveDateTime>,
-
    /// Per layer file name metadata, which can be present for a present or missing layer file.
    ///
    /// Older versions of `IndexPart` will not have this property or have only a part of metadata
@@ -60,9 +56,6 @@ pub struct IndexPart {
    #[serde(default)]
    pub(crate) lineage: Lineage,

-    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none", default)]
-    pub(crate) gc_blocking: Option<GcBlocking>,
-
    /// Describes the kind of aux files stored in the timeline.
    ///
    /// The value is modified during file ingestion when the latest wanted value communicated via tenant config is applied if it is acceptable.
@@ -87,12 +80,10 @@ impl IndexPart {
    /// - 5: lineage was added
    /// - 6: last_aux_file_policy is added.
    /// - 7: metadata_bytes is no longer written, but still read
-    /// - 8: added `archived_at`
-    /// - 9: +gc_blocking
-    const LATEST_VERSION: usize = 9;
+    const LATEST_VERSION: usize = 7;

    // Versions we may see when reading from a bucket.
-    pub const KNOWN_VERSIONS: &'static [usize] = &[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];
+    pub const KNOWN_VERSIONS: &'static [usize] = &[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7];

    pub const FILE_NAME: &'static str = "index_part.json";

@@ -103,9 +94,7 @@ impl IndexPart {
            disk_consistent_lsn: metadata.disk_consistent_lsn(),
            metadata,
            deleted_at: None,
-            archived_at: None,
            lineage: Default::default(),
-            gc_blocking: None,
            last_aux_file_policy: None,
        }
    }
@@ -256,64 +245,6 @@ impl Lineage {
    }
 }

-#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
-pub(crate) struct GcBlocking {
-    pub(crate) started_at: NaiveDateTime,
-    pub(crate) reasons: enumset::EnumSet<GcBlockingReason>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug, enumset::EnumSetType, serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
-#[enumset(serialize_repr = "list")]
-pub(crate) enum GcBlockingReason {
-    Manual,
-    DetachAncestor,
-}
-
-impl GcBlocking {
-    pub(super) fn started_now_for(reason: GcBlockingReason) -> Self {
-        GcBlocking {
-            started_at: chrono::Utc::now().naive_utc(),
-            reasons: enumset::EnumSet::only(reason),
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// Returns true if the given reason is one of the reasons why the gc is blocked.
-    pub(crate) fn blocked_by(&self, reason: GcBlockingReason) -> bool {
-        self.reasons.contains(reason)
-    }
-
-    /// Returns a version of self with the given reason.
-    pub(super) fn with_reason(&self, reason: GcBlockingReason) -> Self {
-        assert!(!self.blocked_by(reason));
-        let mut reasons = self.reasons;
-        reasons.insert(reason);
-
-        Self {
-            started_at: self.started_at,
-            reasons,
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// Returns a version of self without the given reason. Assumption is that if
-    /// there are no more reasons, we can unblock the gc by returning `None`.
-    pub(super) fn without_reason(&self, reason: GcBlockingReason) -> Option<Self> {
-        assert!(self.blocked_by(reason));
-
-        if self.reasons.len() == 1 {
-            None
-        } else {
-            let mut reasons = self.reasons;
-            assert!(reasons.remove(reason));
-            assert!(!reasons.is_empty());
-
-            Some(Self {
-                started_at: self.started_at,
-                reasons,
-            })
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;
@@ -353,9 +284,7 @@ mod tests {
            disk_consistent_lsn: "0/16960E8".parse::<Lsn>().unwrap(),
            metadata: TimelineMetadata::from_bytes(&[113,11,159,210,0,54,0,4,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,232,1,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]).unwrap(),
            deleted_at: None,
-            archived_at: None,
            lineage: Lineage::default(),
-            gc_blocking: None,
            last_aux_file_policy: None,
        };

@@ -397,9 +326,7 @@ mod tests {
            disk_consistent_lsn: "0/16960E8".parse::<Lsn>().unwrap(),
            metadata: TimelineMetadata::from_bytes(&[113,11,159,210,0,54,0,4,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,232,1,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]).unwrap(),
            deleted_at: None,
-            archived_at: None,
            lineage: Lineage::default(),
-            gc_blocking: None,
            last_aux_file_policy: None,
        };

@@ -442,9 +369,7 @@ mod tests {
            disk_consistent_lsn: "0/16960E8".parse::<Lsn>().unwrap(),
            metadata: TimelineMetadata::from_bytes(&[113,11,159,210,0,54,0,4,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,232,1,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]).unwrap(),
            deleted_at: Some(parse_naive_datetime("2023-07-31T09:00:00.123000000")),
-            archived_at: None,
            lineage: Lineage::default(),
-            gc_blocking: None,
            last_aux_file_policy: None,
        };

@@ -490,9 +415,7 @@ mod tests {
            ])
            .unwrap(),
            deleted_at: None,
-            archived_at: None,
            lineage: Lineage::default(),
-            gc_blocking: None,
            last_aux_file_policy: None,
        };

@@ -533,9 +456,7 @@ mod tests {
            disk_consistent_lsn: "0/16960E8".parse::<Lsn>().unwrap(),
            metadata: TimelineMetadata::from_bytes(&[113,11,159,210,0,54,0,4,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,232,1,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]).unwrap(),
            deleted_at: Some(parse_naive_datetime("2023-07-31T09:00:00.123000000")),
-            archived_at: None,
            lineage: Lineage::default(),
-            gc_blocking: None,
            last_aux_file_policy: None,
        };

@@ -575,13 +496,11 @@ mod tests {
            disk_consistent_lsn: Lsn::from_str("0/15A7618").unwrap(),
            metadata: TimelineMetadata::from_bytes(&[226,88,25,241,0,46,0,4,0,0,0,0,1,90,118,24,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,78,244,32,0,0,0,0,1,78,244,32,0,0,0,16,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]).unwrap(),
            deleted_at: None,
-            archived_at: None,
            lineage: Lineage {
                reparenting_history_truncated: false,
                reparenting_history: vec![TimelineId::from_str("e1bfd8c633d713d279e6fcd2bcc15b6d").unwrap()],
                original_ancestor: Some((TimelineId::from_str("e2bfd8c633d713d279e6fcd2bcc15b6d").unwrap(), Lsn::from_str("0/15A7618").unwrap(), parse_naive_datetime("2024-05-07T18:52:36.322426563"))),
            },
-            gc_blocking: None,
            last_aux_file_policy: None,
        };

@@ -626,13 +545,11 @@ mod tests {
            disk_consistent_lsn: "0/16960E8".parse::<Lsn>().unwrap(),
            metadata: TimelineMetadata::from_bytes(&[113,11,159,210,0,54,0,4,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,232,1,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,0,1,105,96,112,0,0,0,14,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]).unwrap(),
            deleted_at: Some(parse_naive_datetime("2023-07-31T09:00:00.123000000")),
-            archived_at: None,
            lineage: Lineage {
                reparenting_history_truncated: false,
                reparenting_history: vec![TimelineId::from_str("e1bfd8c633d713d279e6fcd2bcc15b6d").unwrap()],
                original_ancestor: Some((TimelineId::from_str("e2bfd8c633d713d279e6fcd2bcc15b6d").unwrap(), Lsn::from_str("0/15A7618").unwrap(), parse_naive_datetime("2024-05-07T18:52:36.322426563"))),
            },
-            gc_blocking: None,
            last_aux_file_policy: Some(AuxFilePolicy::V2),
        };

@@ -686,9 +603,7 @@ mod tests {
                14,
            ).with_recalculated_checksum().unwrap(),
            deleted_at: Some(parse_naive_datetime("2023-07-31T09:00:00.123000000")),
-            archived_at: None,
            lineage: Default::default(),
-            gc_blocking: None,
            last_aux_file_policy: Default::default(),
        };

@@ -696,125 +611,6 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(part, expected);
    }

-    #[test]
-    fn v8_indexpart_is_parsed() {
-        let example = r#"{
-            "version": 8,
-            "layer_metadata":{
-                "000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__0000000001696070-00000000016960E9": { "file_size": 25600000 },
-                "000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__00000000016B59D8-00000000016B5A51": { "file_size": 9007199254741001 }
-            },
-            "disk_consistent_lsn":"0/16960E8",
-            "metadata": {
-                "disk_consistent_lsn": "0/16960E8",
-                "prev_record_lsn": "0/1696070",
-                "ancestor_timeline": "e45a7f37d3ee2ff17dc14bf4f4e3f52e",
-                "ancestor_lsn": "0/0",
-                "latest_gc_cutoff_lsn": "0/1696070",
-                "initdb_lsn": "0/1696070",
-                "pg_version": 14
-            },
-            "deleted_at": "2023-07-31T09:00:00.123",
-            "archived_at": "2023-04-29T09:00:00.123"
-        }"#;
-
-        let expected = IndexPart {
-            version: 8,
-            layer_metadata: HashMap::from([
-                ("000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__0000000001696070-00000000016960E9".parse().unwrap(), LayerFileMetadata {
-                    file_size: 25600000,
-                    generation: Generation::none(),
-                    shard: ShardIndex::unsharded()
-                }),
-                ("000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__00000000016B59D8-00000000016B5A51".parse().unwrap(), LayerFileMetadata {
-                    file_size: 9007199254741001,
-                    generation: Generation::none(),
-                    shard: ShardIndex::unsharded()
-                })
-            ]),
-            disk_consistent_lsn: "0/16960E8".parse::<Lsn>().unwrap(),
-            metadata: TimelineMetadata::new(
-                Lsn::from_str("0/16960E8").unwrap(),
-                Some(Lsn::from_str("0/1696070").unwrap()),
-                Some(TimelineId::from_str("e45a7f37d3ee2ff17dc14bf4f4e3f52e").unwrap()),
-                Lsn::INVALID,
-                Lsn::from_str("0/1696070").unwrap(),
-                Lsn::from_str("0/1696070").unwrap(),
-                14,
-            ).with_recalculated_checksum().unwrap(),
-            deleted_at: Some(parse_naive_datetime("2023-07-31T09:00:00.123000000")),
-            archived_at: Some(parse_naive_datetime("2023-04-29T09:00:00.123000000")),
-            lineage: Default::default(),
-            gc_blocking: None,
-            last_aux_file_policy: Default::default(),
-        };
-
-        let part = IndexPart::from_s3_bytes(example.as_bytes()).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(part, expected);
-    }
-
-    #[test]
-    fn v9_indexpart_is_parsed() {
-        let example = r#"{
-            "version": 9,
-            "layer_metadata":{
-                "000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__0000000001696070-00000000016960E9": { "file_size": 25600000 },
-                "000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__00000000016B59D8-00000000016B5A51": { "file_size": 9007199254741001 }
-            },
-            "disk_consistent_lsn":"0/16960E8",
-            "metadata": {
-                "disk_consistent_lsn": "0/16960E8",
-                "prev_record_lsn": "0/1696070",
-                "ancestor_timeline": "e45a7f37d3ee2ff17dc14bf4f4e3f52e",
-                "ancestor_lsn": "0/0",
-                "latest_gc_cutoff_lsn": "0/1696070",
-                "initdb_lsn": "0/1696070",
-                "pg_version": 14
-            },
-            "gc_blocking": {
-                "started_at": "2024-07-19T09:00:00.123",
-                "reasons": ["DetachAncestor"]
-            }
-        }"#;
-
-        let expected = IndexPart {
-            version: 9,
-            layer_metadata: HashMap::from([
-                ("000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__0000000001696070-00000000016960E9".parse().unwrap(), LayerFileMetadata {
-                    file_size: 25600000,
-                    generation: Generation::none(),
-                    shard: ShardIndex::unsharded()
-                }),
-                ("000000000000000000000000000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF__00000000016B59D8-00000000016B5A51".parse().unwrap(), LayerFileMetadata {
-                    file_size: 9007199254741001,
-                    generation: Generation::none(),
-                    shard: ShardIndex::unsharded()
-                })
-            ]),
-            disk_consistent_lsn: "0/16960E8".parse::<Lsn>().unwrap(),
-            metadata: TimelineMetadata::new(
-                Lsn::from_str("0/16960E8").unwrap(),
-                Some(Lsn::from_str("0/1696070").unwrap()),
-                Some(TimelineId::from_str("e45a7f37d3ee2ff17dc14bf4f4e3f52e").unwrap()),
-                Lsn::INVALID,
-                Lsn::from_str("0/1696070").unwrap(),
-                Lsn::from_str("0/1696070").unwrap(),
-                14,
-            ).with_recalculated_checksum().unwrap(),
-            deleted_at: None,
-            lineage: Default::default(),
-            gc_blocking: Some(GcBlocking {
-                started_at: parse_naive_datetime("2024-07-19T09:00:00.123000000"),
-                reasons: enumset::EnumSet::from_iter([GcBlockingReason::DetachAncestor]),
-            }),
-            last_aux_file_policy: Default::default(),
-            archived_at: None,
-        };
-
-        let part = IndexPart::from_s3_bytes(example.as_bytes()).unwrap();
-        assert_eq!(part, expected);
-    }
-
    fn parse_naive_datetime(s: &str) -> NaiveDateTime {
        chrono::NaiveDateTime::parse_from_str(s, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f").unwrap()
    }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/secondary.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/secondary.rs
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ use pageserver_api::{
 };
 use remote_storage::GenericRemoteStorage;

-use tokio::task::JoinHandle;
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
 use tracing::instrument;
 use utils::{completion::Barrier, id::TimelineId, sync::gate::Gate};
@@ -294,50 +293,15 @@ impl SecondaryController {
    }
 }

-pub struct GlobalTasks {
-    cancel: CancellationToken,
-    uploader: JoinHandle<()>,
-    downloader: JoinHandle<()>,
-}
-
-impl GlobalTasks {
-    /// Caller is responsible for requesting shutdown via the cancellation token that was
-    /// passed to [`spawn_tasks`].
-    ///
-    /// # Panics
-    ///
-    /// This method panics if that token is not cancelled.
-    /// This is low-risk because we're calling this during process shutdown, so, a panic
-    /// will be informative but not cause undue downtime.
-    pub async fn wait(self) {
-        let Self {
-            cancel,
-            uploader,
-            downloader,
-        } = self;
-        assert!(
-            cancel.is_cancelled(),
-            "must cancel cancellation token, otherwise the tasks will not shut down"
-        );
-
-        let (uploader, downloader) = futures::future::join(uploader, downloader).await;
-        uploader.expect(
-            "unreachable: exit_on_panic_or_error would catch the panic and exit the process",
-        );
-        downloader.expect(
-            "unreachable: exit_on_panic_or_error would catch the panic and exit the process",
-        );
-    }
-}
-
 pub fn spawn_tasks(
    tenant_manager: Arc<TenantManager>,
    remote_storage: GenericRemoteStorage,
    background_jobs_can_start: Barrier,
    cancel: CancellationToken,
-) -> (SecondaryController, GlobalTasks) {
+) -> SecondaryController {
    let mgr_clone = tenant_manager.clone();
    let storage_clone = remote_storage.clone();
+    let cancel_clone = cancel.clone();
    let bg_jobs_clone = background_jobs_can_start.clone();

    let (download_req_tx, download_req_rx) =
@@ -345,9 +309,17 @@ pub fn spawn_tasks(
    let (upload_req_tx, upload_req_rx) =
        tokio::sync::mpsc::channel::<CommandRequest<UploadCommand>>(16);

-    let cancel_clone = cancel.clone();
-    let downloader = BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.spawn(task_mgr::exit_on_panic_or_error(
+    let downloader_task_ctx = RequestContext::new(
+        TaskKind::SecondaryDownloads,
+        crate::context::DownloadBehavior::Download,
+    );
+    task_mgr::spawn(
+        BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.handle(),
+        downloader_task_ctx.task_kind(),
+        None,
+        None,
        "secondary tenant downloads",
+        false,
        async move {
            downloader_task(
                mgr_clone,
@@ -355,41 +327,49 @@ pub fn spawn_tasks(
                download_req_rx,
                bg_jobs_clone,
                cancel_clone,
-                RequestContext::new(
-                    TaskKind::SecondaryDownloads,
-                    crate::context::DownloadBehavior::Download,
-                ),
+                downloader_task_ctx,
            )
            .await;
-            anyhow::Ok(())
-        },
-    ));

-    let cancel_clone = cancel.clone();
-    let uploader = BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.spawn(task_mgr::exit_on_panic_or_error(
+            Ok(())
+        },
+    );
+
+    task_mgr::spawn(
+        BACKGROUND_RUNTIME.handle(),
+        TaskKind::SecondaryUploads,
+        None,
+        None,
        "heatmap uploads",
+        false,
        async move {
            heatmap_uploader_task(
                tenant_manager,
                remote_storage,
                upload_req_rx,
                background_jobs_can_start,
-                cancel_clone,
+                cancel,
            )
            .await;
-            anyhow::Ok(())
-        },
-    ));

-    (
-        SecondaryController {
-            upload_req_tx,
-            download_req_tx,
+            Ok(())
        },
-        GlobalTasks {
-            cancel,
-            uploader,
-            downloader,
-        },
-    )
+    );
+
+    SecondaryController {
+        download_req_tx,
+        upload_req_tx,
+    }
+}
+
+/// For running with remote storage disabled: a SecondaryController that is connected to nothing.
+pub fn null_controller() -> SecondaryController {
+    let (download_req_tx, _download_req_rx) =
+        tokio::sync::mpsc::channel::<CommandRequest<DownloadCommand>>(16);
+    let (upload_req_tx, _upload_req_rx) =
+        tokio::sync::mpsc::channel::<CommandRequest<UploadCommand>>(16);
+    SecondaryController {
+        upload_req_tx,
+        download_req_tx,
+    }
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/size.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/size.rs
@@ -264,10 +264,10 @@ pub(super) async fn gather_inputs(
        let mut lsns: Vec<(Lsn, LsnKind)> = gc_info
            .retain_lsns
            .iter()
-            .filter(|(lsn, _child_id)| lsn > &ancestor_lsn)
+            .filter(|&&lsn| lsn > ancestor_lsn)
            .copied()
            // this assumes there are no other retain_lsns than the branchpoints
-            .map(|(lsn, _child_id)| (lsn, LsnKind::BranchPoint))
+            .map(|lsn| (lsn, LsnKind::BranchPoint))
            .collect::<Vec<_>>();

        lsns.extend(lease_points.iter().map(|&lsn| (lsn, LsnKind::LeasePoint)));
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer.rs
@@ -8,23 +8,31 @@ mod layer_desc;
 mod layer_name;
 pub mod merge_iterator;

-#[cfg(test)]
-pub mod split_writer;
-
 use crate::context::{AccessStatsBehavior, RequestContext};
 use crate::repository::Value;
+use crate::task_mgr::TaskKind;
 use crate::walrecord::NeonWalRecord;
 use bytes::Bytes;
+use enum_map::EnumMap;
+use enumset::EnumSet;
+use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use pageserver_api::key::Key;
 use pageserver_api::keyspace::{KeySpace, KeySpaceRandomAccum};
+use pageserver_api::models::{
+    LayerAccessKind, LayerResidenceEvent, LayerResidenceEventReason, LayerResidenceStatus,
+};
+use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::cmp::{Ordering, Reverse};
 use std::collections::hash_map::Entry;
 use std::collections::{BinaryHeap, HashMap};
 use std::ops::Range;
-use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
+use tracing::warn;
+use utils::history_buffer::HistoryBufferWithDropCounter;
+use utils::rate_limit::RateLimit;

-use utils::lsn::Lsn;
+use utils::{id::TimelineId, lsn::Lsn};

 pub use delta_layer::{DeltaLayer, DeltaLayerWriter, ValueRef};
 pub use image_layer::{ImageLayer, ImageLayerWriter};
@@ -67,9 +75,9 @@ where
 /// call, to collect more records.
 ///
 #[derive(Debug, Default)]
-pub(crate) struct ValueReconstructState {
-    pub(crate) records: Vec<(Lsn, NeonWalRecord)>,
-    pub(crate) img: Option<(Lsn, Bytes)>,
+pub struct ValueReconstructState {
+    pub records: Vec<(Lsn, NeonWalRecord)>,
+    pub img: Option<(Lsn, Bytes)>,
 }

 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, Eq, PartialEq)]
@@ -435,86 +443,109 @@ impl ReadableLayer {
    }
 }

-/// Layers contain a hint indicating whether they are likely to be used for reads.  This is a hint rather
-/// than an authoritative value, so that we do not have to update it synchronously when changing the visibility
-/// of layers (for example when creating a branch that makes some previously covered layers visible).  It should
-/// be used for cache management but not for correctness-critical checks.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
-pub enum LayerVisibilityHint {
-    /// A Visible layer might be read while serving a read, because there is not an image layer between it
-    /// and a readable LSN (the tip of the branch or a child's branch point)
-    Visible,
-    /// A Covered layer probably won't be read right now, but _can_ be read in future if someone creates
-    /// a branch or ephemeral endpoint at an LSN below the layer that covers this.
-    Covered,
+/// Return value from [`Layer::get_value_reconstruct_data`]
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)]
+pub enum ValueReconstructResult {
+    /// Got all the data needed to reconstruct the requested page
+    Complete,
+    /// This layer didn't contain all the required data, the caller should look up
+    /// the predecessor layer at the returned LSN and collect more data from there.
+    Continue,
+
+    /// This layer didn't contain data needed to reconstruct the page version at
+    /// the returned LSN. This is usually considered an error, but might be OK
+    /// in some circumstances.
+    Missing,
 }

-pub(crate) struct LayerAccessStats(std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64);
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct LayerAccessStats(Mutex<LayerAccessStatsLocked>);
+
+/// This struct holds two instances of [`LayerAccessStatsInner`].
+/// Accesses are recorded to both instances.
+/// The `for_scraping_api`instance can be reset from the management API via [`LayerAccessStatsReset`].
+/// The `for_eviction_policy` is never reset.
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone)]
+struct LayerAccessStatsLocked {
+    for_scraping_api: LayerAccessStatsInner,
+    for_eviction_policy: LayerAccessStatsInner,
+}
+
+impl LayerAccessStatsLocked {
+    fn iter_mut(&mut self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &mut LayerAccessStatsInner> {
+        [&mut self.for_scraping_api, &mut self.for_eviction_policy].into_iter()
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone)]
+struct LayerAccessStatsInner {
+    first_access: Option<LayerAccessStatFullDetails>,
+    count_by_access_kind: EnumMap<LayerAccessKind, u64>,
+    task_kind_flag: EnumSet<TaskKind>,
+    last_accesses: HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<LayerAccessStatFullDetails, 16>,
+    last_residence_changes: HistoryBufferWithDropCounter<LayerResidenceEvent, 16>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
+pub(crate) struct LayerAccessStatFullDetails {
+    pub(crate) when: SystemTime,
+    pub(crate) task_kind: TaskKind,
+    pub(crate) access_kind: LayerAccessKind,
+}

 #[derive(Clone, Copy, strum_macros::EnumString)]
-pub(crate) enum LayerAccessStatsReset {
+pub enum LayerAccessStatsReset {
    NoReset,
+    JustTaskKindFlags,
    AllStats,
 }

-impl Default for LayerAccessStats {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        // Default value is to assume resident since creation time, and visible.
-        let (_mask, mut value) = Self::to_low_res_timestamp(Self::RTIME_SHIFT, SystemTime::now());
-        value |= 0x1 << Self::VISIBILITY_SHIFT;
+fn system_time_to_millis_since_epoch(ts: &SystemTime) -> u64 {
+    ts.duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)
+        .expect("better to die in this unlikely case than report false stats")
+        .as_millis()
+        .try_into()
+        .expect("64 bits is enough for few more years")
+}

-        Self(std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64::new(value))
+impl LayerAccessStatFullDetails {
+    fn as_api_model(&self) -> pageserver_api::models::LayerAccessStatFullDetails {
+        let Self {
+            when,
+            task_kind,
+            access_kind,
+        } = self;
+        pageserver_api::models::LayerAccessStatFullDetails {
+            when_millis_since_epoch: system_time_to_millis_since_epoch(when),
+            task_kind: Cow::Borrowed(task_kind.into()), // into static str, powered by strum_macros
+            access_kind: *access_kind,
+        }
    }
 }

-// Efficient store of two very-low-resolution timestamps and some bits.  Used for storing last access time and
-// last residence change time.
 impl LayerAccessStats {
-    // How many high bits to drop from a u32 timestamp?
-    // - Only storing up to a u32 timestamp will work fine until 2038 (if this code is still in use
-    //   after that, this software has been very successful!)
-    // - Dropping the top bit is implicitly safe because unix timestamps are meant to be
-    // stored in an i32, so they never used it.
-    // - Dropping the next two bits is safe because this code is only running on systems in
-    // years >= 2024, and these bits have been 1 since 2021
-    //
-    // Therefore we may store only 28 bits for a timestamp with one second resolution.  We do
-    // this truncation to make space for some flags in the high bits of our u64.
-    const TS_DROP_HIGH_BITS: u32 = u32::count_ones(Self::TS_ONES) + 1;
-    const TS_MASK: u32 = 0x1f_ff_ff_ff;
-    const TS_ONES: u32 = 0x60_00_00_00;
-
-    const ATIME_SHIFT: u32 = 0;
-    const RTIME_SHIFT: u32 = 32 - Self::TS_DROP_HIGH_BITS;
-    const VISIBILITY_SHIFT: u32 = 64 - 2 * Self::TS_DROP_HIGH_BITS;
-
-    fn write_bits(&self, mask: u64, value: u64) -> u64 {
-        self.0
-            .fetch_update(
-                // TODO: decide what orderings are correct
-                std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed,
-                std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed,
-                |v| Some((v & !mask) | (value & mask)),
-            )
-            .expect("Inner function is infallible")
+    /// Create an empty stats object.
+    ///
+    /// The caller is responsible for recording a residence event
+    /// using [`record_residence_event`] before calling `latest_activity`.
+    /// If they don't, [`latest_activity`] will return `None`.
+    ///
+    /// [`record_residence_event`]: Self::record_residence_event
+    /// [`latest_activity`]: Self::latest_activity
+    pub(crate) fn empty_will_record_residence_event_later() -> Self {
+        LayerAccessStats(Mutex::default())
    }

-    fn to_low_res_timestamp(shift: u32, time: SystemTime) -> (u64, u64) {
-        // Drop the low three bits of the timestamp, for an ~8s accuracy
-        let timestamp = time.duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH).unwrap().as_secs() & (Self::TS_MASK as u64);
-
-        ((Self::TS_MASK as u64) << shift, timestamp << shift)
-    }
-
-    fn read_low_res_timestamp(&self, shift: u32) -> Option<SystemTime> {
-        let read = self.0.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
-
-        let ts_bits = (read & ((Self::TS_MASK as u64) << shift)) >> shift;
-        if ts_bits == 0 {
-            None
-        } else {
-            Some(UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::from_secs(ts_bits | (Self::TS_ONES as u64)))
-        }
+    /// Create an empty stats object and record a [`LayerLoad`] event with the given residence status.
+    ///
+    /// See [`record_residence_event`] for why you need to do this while holding the layer map lock.
+    ///
+    /// [`LayerLoad`]: LayerResidenceEventReason::LayerLoad
+    /// [`record_residence_event`]: Self::record_residence_event
+    pub(crate) fn for_loading_layer(status: LayerResidenceStatus) -> Self {
+        let new = LayerAccessStats(Mutex::new(LayerAccessStatsLocked::default()));
+        new.record_residence_event(status, LayerResidenceEventReason::LayerLoad);
+        new
    }

    /// Record a change in layer residency.
@@ -530,70 +561,117 @@ impl LayerAccessStats {
    /// - Eviction: imitate access logical size calculation. This accesses the L0 layers because the L1 layer is not yet in the layer map.
    /// - Compact: Grab layer map lock, add the new L1 to layer map and remove the L0s, release layer map lock.
    /// - Eviction: observes the new L1 layer whose only activity timestamp is the LayerCreate event.
-    pub(crate) fn record_residence_event_at(&self, now: SystemTime) {
-        let (mask, value) = Self::to_low_res_timestamp(Self::RTIME_SHIFT, now);
-        self.write_bits(mask, value);
+    ///
+    pub(crate) fn record_residence_event(
+        &self,
+        status: LayerResidenceStatus,
+        reason: LayerResidenceEventReason,
+    ) {
+        let mut locked = self.0.lock().unwrap();
+        locked.iter_mut().for_each(|inner| {
+            inner
+                .last_residence_changes
+                .write(LayerResidenceEvent::new(status, reason))
+        });
    }

-    pub(crate) fn record_residence_event(&self) {
-        self.record_residence_event_at(SystemTime::now())
-    }
-
-    fn record_access_at(&self, now: SystemTime) -> bool {
-        let (mut mask, mut value) = Self::to_low_res_timestamp(Self::ATIME_SHIFT, now);
-
-        // A layer which is accessed must be visible.
-        mask |= 0x1 << Self::VISIBILITY_SHIFT;
-        value |= 0x1 << Self::VISIBILITY_SHIFT;
-
-        let old_bits = self.write_bits(mask, value);
-        !matches!(
-            self.decode_visibility(old_bits),
-            LayerVisibilityHint::Visible
-        )
-    }
-
-    /// Returns true if we modified the layer's visibility to set it to Visible implicitly
-    /// as a result of this access
-    pub(crate) fn record_access(&self, ctx: &RequestContext) -> bool {
+    fn record_access(&self, access_kind: LayerAccessKind, ctx: &RequestContext) {
        if ctx.access_stats_behavior() == AccessStatsBehavior::Skip {
-            return false;
+            return;
        }

-        self.record_access_at(SystemTime::now())
+        let this_access = LayerAccessStatFullDetails {
+            when: SystemTime::now(),
+            task_kind: ctx.task_kind(),
+            access_kind,
+        };
+
+        let mut locked = self.0.lock().unwrap();
+        locked.iter_mut().for_each(|inner| {
+            inner.first_access.get_or_insert(this_access);
+            inner.count_by_access_kind[access_kind] += 1;
+            inner.task_kind_flag |= ctx.task_kind();
+            inner.last_accesses.write(this_access);
+        })
    }

    fn as_api_model(
        &self,
        reset: LayerAccessStatsReset,
    ) -> pageserver_api::models::LayerAccessStats {
+        let mut locked = self.0.lock().unwrap();
+        let inner = &mut locked.for_scraping_api;
+        let LayerAccessStatsInner {
+            first_access,
+            count_by_access_kind,
+            task_kind_flag,
+            last_accesses,
+            last_residence_changes,
+        } = inner;
        let ret = pageserver_api::models::LayerAccessStats {
-            access_time: self
-                .read_low_res_timestamp(Self::ATIME_SHIFT)
-                .unwrap_or(UNIX_EPOCH),
-            residence_time: self
-                .read_low_res_timestamp(Self::RTIME_SHIFT)
-                .unwrap_or(UNIX_EPOCH),
-            visible: matches!(self.visibility(), LayerVisibilityHint::Visible),
+            access_count_by_access_kind: count_by_access_kind
+                .iter()
+                .map(|(kind, count)| (kind, *count))
+                .collect(),
+            task_kind_access_flag: task_kind_flag
+                .iter()
+                .map(|task_kind| Cow::Borrowed(task_kind.into())) // into static str, powered by strum_macros
+                .collect(),
+            first: first_access.as_ref().map(|a| a.as_api_model()),
+            accesses_history: last_accesses.map(|m| m.as_api_model()),
+            residence_events_history: last_residence_changes.clone(),
        };
        match reset {
-            LayerAccessStatsReset::NoReset => {}
+            LayerAccessStatsReset::NoReset => (),
+            LayerAccessStatsReset::JustTaskKindFlags => {
+                inner.task_kind_flag.clear();
+            }
            LayerAccessStatsReset::AllStats => {
-                self.write_bits((Self::TS_MASK as u64) << Self::ATIME_SHIFT, 0x0);
-                self.write_bits((Self::TS_MASK as u64) << Self::RTIME_SHIFT, 0x0);
+                *inner = LayerAccessStatsInner::default();
            }
        }
        ret
    }

-    /// Get the latest access timestamp, falling back to latest residence event.  The latest residence event
-    /// will be this Layer's construction time, if its residence hasn't changed since then.
-    pub(crate) fn latest_activity(&self) -> SystemTime {
-        if let Some(t) = self.read_low_res_timestamp(Self::ATIME_SHIFT) {
-            t
-        } else {
-            self.read_low_res_timestamp(Self::RTIME_SHIFT)
-                .expect("Residence time is set on construction")
+    /// Get the latest access timestamp, falling back to latest residence event, further falling
+    /// back to `SystemTime::now` for a usable timestamp for eviction.
+    pub(crate) fn latest_activity_or_now(&self) -> SystemTime {
+        self.latest_activity().unwrap_or_else(SystemTime::now)
+    }
+
+    /// Get the latest access timestamp, falling back to latest residence event.
+    ///
+    /// This function can only return `None` if there has not yet been a call to the
+    /// [`record_residence_event`] method. That would generally be considered an
+    /// implementation error. This function logs a rate-limited warning in that case.
+    ///
+    /// TODO: use type system to avoid the need for `fallback`.
+    /// The approach in <https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/3775>
+    /// could be used to enforce that a residence event is recorded
+    /// before a layer is added to the layer map. We could also have
+    /// a layer wrapper type that holds the LayerAccessStats, and ensure
+    /// that that type can only be produced by inserting into the layer map.
+    ///
+    /// [`record_residence_event`]: Self::record_residence_event
+    fn latest_activity(&self) -> Option<SystemTime> {
+        let locked = self.0.lock().unwrap();
+        let inner = &locked.for_eviction_policy;
+        match inner.last_accesses.recent() {
+            Some(a) => Some(a.when),
+            None => match inner.last_residence_changes.recent() {
+                Some(e) => Some(e.timestamp),
+                None => {
+                    static WARN_RATE_LIMIT: Lazy<Mutex<(usize, RateLimit)>> =
+                        Lazy::new(|| Mutex::new((0, RateLimit::new(Duration::from_secs(10)))));
+                    let mut guard = WARN_RATE_LIMIT.lock().unwrap();
+                    guard.0 += 1;
+                    let occurences = guard.0;
+                    guard.1.call(move || {
+                        warn!(parent: None, occurences, "latest_activity not available, this is an implementation bug, using fallback value");
+                    });
+                    None
+                }
+            },
        }
    }

@@ -602,53 +680,30 @@ impl LayerAccessStats {
    /// This indicates whether the layer has been used for some purpose that would motivate
    /// us to keep it on disk, such as for serving a getpage request.
    fn accessed(&self) -> bool {
+        let locked = self.0.lock().unwrap();
+        let inner = &locked.for_eviction_policy;
+
        // Consider it accessed if the most recent access is more recent than
        // the most recent change in residence status.
        match (
-            self.read_low_res_timestamp(Self::ATIME_SHIFT),
-            self.read_low_res_timestamp(Self::RTIME_SHIFT),
+            inner.last_accesses.recent(),
+            inner.last_residence_changes.recent(),
        ) {
            (None, _) => false,
            (Some(_), None) => true,
-            (Some(a), Some(r)) => a >= r,
+            (Some(a), Some(r)) => a.when >= r.timestamp,
        }
    }
-
-    /// Helper for extracting the visibility hint from the literal value of our inner u64
-    fn decode_visibility(&self, bits: u64) -> LayerVisibilityHint {
-        match (bits >> Self::VISIBILITY_SHIFT) & 0x1 {
-            1 => LayerVisibilityHint::Visible,
-            0 => LayerVisibilityHint::Covered,
-            _ => unreachable!(),
-        }
-    }
-
-    /// Returns the old value which has been replaced
-    pub(crate) fn set_visibility(&self, visibility: LayerVisibilityHint) -> LayerVisibilityHint {
-        let value = match visibility {
-            LayerVisibilityHint::Visible => 0x1 << Self::VISIBILITY_SHIFT,
-            LayerVisibilityHint::Covered => 0x0,
-        };
-
-        let old_bits = self.write_bits(0x1 << Self::VISIBILITY_SHIFT, value);
-        self.decode_visibility(old_bits)
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn visibility(&self) -> LayerVisibilityHint {
-        let read = self.0.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
-        self.decode_visibility(read)
-    }
 }

 /// Get a layer descriptor from a layer.
-pub(crate) trait AsLayerDesc {
+pub trait AsLayerDesc {
    /// Get the layer descriptor.
    fn layer_desc(&self) -> &PersistentLayerDesc;
 }

 pub mod tests {
    use pageserver_api::shard::TenantShardId;
-    use utils::id::TimelineId;

    use super::*;

--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/delta_layer.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/delta_layer.rs
@@ -36,12 +36,13 @@ use crate::tenant::block_io::{BlockBuf, BlockCursor, BlockLease, BlockReader, Fi
 use crate::tenant::disk_btree::{
    DiskBtreeBuilder, DiskBtreeIterator, DiskBtreeReader, VisitDirection,
 };
+use crate::tenant::storage_layer::{Layer, ValueReconstructResult, ValueReconstructState};
 use crate::tenant::timeline::GetVectoredError;
 use crate::tenant::vectored_blob_io::{
    BlobFlag, MaxVectoredReadBytes, StreamingVectoredReadPlanner, VectoredBlobReader, VectoredRead,
    VectoredReadPlanner,
 };
-use crate::tenant::PageReconstructError;
+use crate::tenant::{PageReconstructError, Timeline};
 use crate::virtual_file::{self, VirtualFile};
 use crate::{walrecord, TEMP_FILE_SUFFIX};
 use crate::{DELTA_FILE_MAGIC, STORAGE_FORMAT_VERSION};
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};
 use futures::StreamExt;
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use pageserver_api::keyspace::KeySpace;
-use pageserver_api::models::ImageCompressionAlgorithm;
+use pageserver_api::models::{ImageCompressionAlgorithm, LayerAccessKind};
 use pageserver_api::shard::TenantShardId;
 use rand::{distributions::Alphanumeric, Rng};
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
@@ -71,7 +72,10 @@ use utils::{
    lsn::Lsn,
 };

-use super::{AsLayerDesc, LayerName, PersistentLayerDesc, ValuesReconstructState};
+use super::{
+    AsLayerDesc, LayerAccessStats, LayerName, PersistentLayerDesc, ResidentLayer,
+    ValuesReconstructState,
+};

 ///
 /// Header stored in the beginning of the file
@@ -196,6 +200,7 @@ impl DeltaKey {
 pub struct DeltaLayer {
    path: Utf8PathBuf,
    pub desc: PersistentLayerDesc,
+    access_stats: LayerAccessStats,
    inner: OnceCell<Arc<DeltaLayerInner>>,
 }

@@ -260,7 +265,7 @@ impl DeltaLayer {
            return Ok(());
        }

-        let inner = self.load(ctx).await?;
+        let inner = self.load(LayerAccessKind::Dump, ctx).await?;

        inner.dump(ctx).await
    }
@@ -293,7 +298,12 @@ impl DeltaLayer {
    /// Open the underlying file and read the metadata into memory, if it's
    /// not loaded already.
    ///
-    async fn load(&self, ctx: &RequestContext) -> Result<&Arc<DeltaLayerInner>> {
+    async fn load(
+        &self,
+        access_kind: LayerAccessKind,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> Result<&Arc<DeltaLayerInner>> {
+        self.access_stats.record_access(access_kind, ctx);
        // Quick exit if already loaded
        self.inner
            .get_or_try_init(|| self.load_inner(ctx))
@@ -301,10 +311,12 @@ impl DeltaLayer {
            .with_context(|| format!("Failed to load delta layer {}", self.path()))
    }

-    async fn load_inner(&self, ctx: &RequestContext) -> anyhow::Result<Arc<DeltaLayerInner>> {
+    async fn load_inner(&self, ctx: &RequestContext) -> Result<Arc<DeltaLayerInner>> {
        let path = self.path();

-        let loaded = DeltaLayerInner::load(&path, None, None, ctx).await?;
+        let loaded = DeltaLayerInner::load(&path, None, None, ctx)
+            .await
+            .and_then(|res| res)?;

        // not production code
        let actual_layer_name = LayerName::from_str(path.file_name().unwrap()).unwrap();
@@ -344,6 +356,7 @@ impl DeltaLayer {
                summary.lsn_range,
                metadata.len(),
            ),
+            access_stats: LayerAccessStats::empty_will_record_residence_event_later(),
            inner: OnceCell::new(),
        })
    }
@@ -366,6 +379,7 @@ impl DeltaLayer {
 /// 3. Call `finish`.
 ///
 struct DeltaLayerWriterInner {
+    conf: &'static PageServerConf,
    pub path: Utf8PathBuf,
    timeline_id: TimelineId,
    tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
@@ -376,9 +390,6 @@ struct DeltaLayerWriterInner {
    tree: DiskBtreeBuilder<BlockBuf, DELTA_KEY_SIZE>,

    blob_writer: BlobWriter<true>,
-
-    // Number of key-lsns in the layer.
-    num_keys: usize,
 }

 impl DeltaLayerWriterInner {
@@ -412,6 +423,7 @@ impl DeltaLayerWriterInner {
        let tree_builder = DiskBtreeBuilder::new(block_buf);

        Ok(Self {
+            conf,
            path,
            timeline_id,
            tenant_shard_id,
@@ -419,7 +431,6 @@ impl DeltaLayerWriterInner {
            lsn_range,
            tree: tree_builder,
            blob_writer,
-            num_keys: 0,
        })
    }

@@ -449,12 +460,7 @@ impl DeltaLayerWriterInner {
        will_init: bool,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> (Vec<u8>, anyhow::Result<()>) {
-        assert!(
-            self.lsn_range.start <= lsn,
-            "lsn_start={}, lsn={}",
-            self.lsn_range.start,
-            lsn
-        );
+        assert!(self.lsn_range.start <= lsn);
        // We don't want to use compression in delta layer creation
        let compression = ImageCompressionAlgorithm::Disabled;
        let (val, res) = self
@@ -462,7 +468,7 @@ impl DeltaLayerWriterInner {
            .write_blob_maybe_compressed(val, ctx, compression)
            .await;
        let off = match res {
-            Ok((off, _)) => off,
+            Ok(off) => off,
            Err(e) => return (val, Err(anyhow::anyhow!(e))),
        };

@@ -470,9 +476,6 @@ impl DeltaLayerWriterInner {

        let delta_key = DeltaKey::from_key_lsn(&key, lsn);
        let res = self.tree.append(&delta_key.0, blob_ref.0);
-
-        self.num_keys += 1;
-
        (val, res.map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!(e)))
    }

@@ -486,10 +489,11 @@ impl DeltaLayerWriterInner {
    async fn finish(
        self,
        key_end: Key,
+        timeline: &Arc<Timeline>,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<(PersistentLayerDesc, Utf8PathBuf)> {
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<ResidentLayer> {
        let temp_path = self.path.clone();
-        let result = self.finish0(key_end, ctx).await;
+        let result = self.finish0(key_end, timeline, ctx).await;
        if result.is_err() {
            tracing::info!(%temp_path, "cleaning up temporary file after error during writing");
            if let Err(e) = std::fs::remove_file(&temp_path) {
@@ -502,8 +506,9 @@ impl DeltaLayerWriterInner {
    async fn finish0(
        self,
        key_end: Key,
+        timeline: &Arc<Timeline>,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<(PersistentLayerDesc, Utf8PathBuf)> {
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<ResidentLayer> {
        let index_start_blk =
            ((self.blob_writer.size() + PAGE_SZ as u64 - 1) / PAGE_SZ as u64) as u32;

@@ -568,9 +573,11 @@ impl DeltaLayerWriterInner {
        // fsync the file
        file.sync_all().await?;

-        trace!("created delta layer {}", self.path);
+        let layer = Layer::finish_creating(self.conf, timeline, desc, &self.path)?;

-        Ok((desc, self.path))
+        trace!("created delta layer {}", layer.local_path());
+
+        Ok(layer)
    }
 }

@@ -671,20 +678,14 @@ impl DeltaLayerWriter {
    pub(crate) async fn finish(
        mut self,
        key_end: Key,
+        timeline: &Arc<Timeline>,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<(PersistentLayerDesc, Utf8PathBuf)> {
-        self.inner.take().unwrap().finish(key_end, ctx).await
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(test)]
-    pub(crate) fn num_keys(&self) -> usize {
-        self.inner.as_ref().unwrap().num_keys
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(test)]
-    pub(crate) fn estimated_size(&self) -> u64 {
-        let inner = self.inner.as_ref().unwrap();
-        inner.blob_writer.size() + inner.tree.borrow_writer().size() + PAGE_SZ as u64
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<ResidentLayer> {
+        self.inner
+            .take()
+            .unwrap()
+            .finish(key_end, timeline, ctx)
+            .await
    }
 }

@@ -758,24 +759,27 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
        &self.layer_lsn_range
    }

+    /// Returns nested result following Result<Result<_, OpErr>, Critical>:
+    /// - inner has the success or transient failure
+    /// - outer has the permanent failure
    pub(super) async fn load(
        path: &Utf8Path,
        summary: Option<Summary>,
        max_vectored_read_bytes: Option<MaxVectoredReadBytes>,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
-        let file = VirtualFile::open(path, ctx)
-            .await
-            .context("open layer file")?;
-
+    ) -> Result<Result<Self, anyhow::Error>, anyhow::Error> {
+        let file = match VirtualFile::open(path, ctx).await {
+            Ok(file) => file,
+            Err(e) => return Ok(Err(anyhow::Error::new(e).context("open layer file"))),
+        };
        let file_id = page_cache::next_file_id();

        let block_reader = FileBlockReader::new(&file, file_id);

-        let summary_blk = block_reader
-            .read_blk(0, ctx)
-            .await
-            .context("read first block")?;
+        let summary_blk = match block_reader.read_blk(0, ctx).await {
+            Ok(blk) => blk,
+            Err(e) => return Ok(Err(anyhow::Error::new(e).context("read first block"))),
+        };

        // TODO: this should be an assertion instead; see ImageLayerInner::load
        let actual_summary =
@@ -797,7 +801,7 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
            }
        }

-        Ok(DeltaLayerInner {
+        Ok(Ok(DeltaLayerInner {
            file,
            file_id,
            index_start_blk: actual_summary.index_start_blk,
@@ -805,7 +809,96 @@ impl DeltaLayerInner {
            max_vectored_read_bytes,
            layer_key_range: actual_summary.key_range,
            layer_lsn_range: actual_summary.lsn_range,
-        })
+        }))
+    }
+
+    pub(super) async fn get_value_reconstruct_data(
+        &self,
+        key: Key,
+        lsn_range: Range<Lsn>,
+        reconstruct_state: &mut ValueReconstructState,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<ValueReconstructResult> {
+        let mut need_image = true;
+        // Scan the page versions backwards, starting from `lsn`.
+        let block_reader = FileBlockReader::new(&self.file, self.file_id);
+        let tree_reader = DiskBtreeReader::<_, DELTA_KEY_SIZE>::new(
+            self.index_start_blk,
+            self.index_root_blk,
+            &block_reader,
+        );
+        let search_key = DeltaKey::from_key_lsn(&key, Lsn(lsn_range.end.0 - 1));
+
+        let mut offsets: Vec<(Lsn, u64)> = Vec::new();
+
+        tree_reader
+            .visit(
+                &search_key.0,
+                VisitDirection::Backwards,
+                |key, value| {
+                    let blob_ref = BlobRef(value);
+                    if key[..KEY_SIZE] != search_key.0[..KEY_SIZE] {
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                    let entry_lsn = DeltaKey::extract_lsn_from_buf(key);
+                    if entry_lsn < lsn_range.start {
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                    offsets.push((entry_lsn, blob_ref.pos()));
+
+                    !blob_ref.will_init()
+                },
+                &RequestContextBuilder::extend(ctx)
+                    .page_content_kind(PageContentKind::DeltaLayerBtreeNode)
+                    .build(),
+            )
+            .await?;
+
+        let ctx = &RequestContextBuilder::extend(ctx)
+            .page_content_kind(PageContentKind::DeltaLayerValue)
+            .build();
+
+        // Ok, 'offsets' now contains the offsets of all the entries we need to read
+        let cursor = block_reader.block_cursor();
+        let mut buf = Vec::new();
+        for (entry_lsn, pos) in offsets {
+            cursor
+                .read_blob_into_buf(pos, &mut buf, ctx)
+                .await
+                .with_context(|| {
+                    format!("Failed to read blob from virtual file {}", self.file.path)
+                })?;
+            let val = Value::des(&buf).with_context(|| {
+                format!(
+                    "Failed to deserialize file blob from virtual file {}",
+                    self.file.path
+                )
+            })?;
+            match val {
+                Value::Image(img) => {
+                    reconstruct_state.img = Some((entry_lsn, img));
+                    need_image = false;
+                    break;
+                }
+                Value::WalRecord(rec) => {
+                    let will_init = rec.will_init();
+                    reconstruct_state.records.push((entry_lsn, rec));
+                    if will_init {
+                        // This WAL record initializes the page, so no need to go further back
+                        need_image = false;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // If an older page image is needed to reconstruct the page, let the
+        // caller know.
+        if need_image {
+            Ok(ValueReconstructResult::Continue)
+        } else {
+            Ok(ValueReconstructResult::Complete)
+        }
    }

    // Look up the keys in the provided keyspace and update
@@ -1580,9 +1673,8 @@ pub(crate) mod test {
    use super::*;
    use crate::repository::Value;
    use crate::tenant::harness::TIMELINE_ID;
-    use crate::tenant::storage_layer::{Layer, ResidentLayer};
    use crate::tenant::vectored_blob_io::StreamingVectoredReadPlanner;
-    use crate::tenant::{Tenant, Timeline};
+    use crate::tenant::Tenant;
    use crate::{
        context::DownloadBehavior,
        task_mgr::TaskKind,
@@ -1876,8 +1968,9 @@ pub(crate) mod test {
            res?;
        }

-        let (desc, path) = writer.finish(entries_meta.key_range.end, &ctx).await?;
-        let resident = Layer::finish_creating(harness.conf, &timeline, desc, &path)?;
+        let resident = writer
+            .finish(entries_meta.key_range.end, &timeline, &ctx)
+            .await?;

        let inner = resident.get_as_delta(&ctx).await?;

@@ -1957,7 +2050,6 @@ pub(crate) mod test {
            .await
            .likely_resident_layers()
            .next()
-            .cloned()
            .unwrap();

        {
@@ -2032,8 +2124,7 @@ pub(crate) mod test {
            .read()
            .await
            .likely_resident_layers()
-            .find(|&x| x != &initdb_layer)
-            .cloned()
+            .find(|x| x != &initdb_layer)
            .unwrap();

        // create a copy for the timeline, so we don't overwrite the file
@@ -2068,8 +2159,7 @@ pub(crate) mod test {
                .await
                .unwrap();

-            let (desc, path) = writer.finish(Key::MAX, ctx).await.unwrap();
-            let copied_layer = Layer::finish_creating(tenant.conf, &branch, desc, &path).unwrap();
+            let copied_layer = writer.finish(Key::MAX, &branch, ctx).await.unwrap();

            copied_layer.get_as_delta(ctx).await.unwrap();

@@ -2197,9 +2287,7 @@ pub(crate) mod test {
        for (key, lsn, value) in deltas {
            writer.put_value(key, lsn, value, ctx).await?;
        }
-
-        let (desc, path) = writer.finish(key_end, ctx).await?;
-        let delta_layer = Layer::finish_creating(tenant.conf, tline, desc, &path)?;
+        let delta_layer = writer.finish(key_end, tline, ctx).await?;

        Ok::<_, anyhow::Error>(delta_layer)
    }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/image_layer.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/image_layer.rs
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ use crate::tenant::block_io::{BlockBuf, BlockReader, FileBlockReader};
 use crate::tenant::disk_btree::{
    DiskBtreeBuilder, DiskBtreeIterator, DiskBtreeReader, VisitDirection,
 };
+use crate::tenant::storage_layer::{
+    LayerAccessStats, ValueReconstructResult, ValueReconstructState,
+};
 use crate::tenant::timeline::GetVectoredError;
 use crate::tenant::vectored_blob_io::{
    BlobFlag, MaxVectoredReadBytes, StreamingVectoredReadPlanner, VectoredBlobReader, VectoredRead,
@@ -46,6 +49,7 @@ use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};
 use hex;
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use pageserver_api::keyspace::KeySpace;
+use pageserver_api::models::LayerAccessKind;
 use pageserver_api::shard::{ShardIdentity, TenantShardId};
 use rand::{distributions::Alphanumeric, Rng};
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
@@ -134,6 +138,7 @@ pub struct ImageLayer {
    pub desc: PersistentLayerDesc,
    // This entry contains an image of all pages as of this LSN, should be the same as desc.lsn
    pub lsn: Lsn,
+    access_stats: LayerAccessStats,
    inner: OnceCell<ImageLayerInner>,
 }

@@ -223,7 +228,7 @@ impl ImageLayer {
            return Ok(());
        }

-        let inner = self.load(ctx).await?;
+        let inner = self.load(LayerAccessKind::Dump, ctx).await?;

        inner.dump(ctx).await?;

@@ -250,7 +255,12 @@ impl ImageLayer {
    /// Open the underlying file and read the metadata into memory, if it's
    /// not loaded already.
    ///
-    async fn load(&self, ctx: &RequestContext) -> Result<&ImageLayerInner> {
+    async fn load(
+        &self,
+        access_kind: LayerAccessKind,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> Result<&ImageLayerInner> {
+        self.access_stats.record_access(access_kind, ctx);
        self.inner
            .get_or_try_init(|| self.load_inner(ctx))
            .await
@@ -260,8 +270,9 @@ impl ImageLayer {
    async fn load_inner(&self, ctx: &RequestContext) -> Result<ImageLayerInner> {
        let path = self.path();

-        let loaded =
-            ImageLayerInner::load(&path, self.desc.image_layer_lsn(), None, None, ctx).await?;
+        let loaded = ImageLayerInner::load(&path, self.desc.image_layer_lsn(), None, None, ctx)
+            .await
+            .and_then(|res| res)?;

        // not production code
        let actual_layer_name = LayerName::from_str(path.file_name().unwrap()).unwrap();
@@ -301,6 +312,7 @@ impl ImageLayer {
                metadata.len(),
            ), // Now we assume image layer ALWAYS covers the full range. This may change in the future.
            lsn: summary.lsn,
+            access_stats: LayerAccessStats::empty_will_record_residence_event_later(),
            inner: OnceCell::new(),
        })
    }
@@ -378,16 +390,17 @@ impl ImageLayerInner {
        summary: Option<Summary>,
        max_vectored_read_bytes: Option<MaxVectoredReadBytes>,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
-        let file = VirtualFile::open(path, ctx)
-            .await
-            .context("open layer file")?;
+    ) -> Result<Result<Self, anyhow::Error>, anyhow::Error> {
+        let file = match VirtualFile::open(path, ctx).await {
+            Ok(file) => file,
+            Err(e) => return Ok(Err(anyhow::Error::new(e).context("open layer file"))),
+        };
        let file_id = page_cache::next_file_id();
        let block_reader = FileBlockReader::new(&file, file_id);
-        let summary_blk = block_reader
-            .read_blk(0, ctx)
-            .await
-            .context("read first block")?;
+        let summary_blk = match block_reader.read_blk(0, ctx).await {
+            Ok(blk) => blk,
+            Err(e) => return Ok(Err(anyhow::Error::new(e).context("read first block"))),
+        };

        // length is the only way how this could fail, so it's not actually likely at all unless
        // read_blk returns wrong sized block.
@@ -412,7 +425,7 @@ impl ImageLayerInner {
            }
        }

-        Ok(ImageLayerInner {
+        Ok(Ok(ImageLayerInner {
            index_start_blk: actual_summary.index_start_blk,
            index_root_blk: actual_summary.index_root_blk,
            lsn,
@@ -420,7 +433,47 @@ impl ImageLayerInner {
            file_id,
            max_vectored_read_bytes,
            key_range: actual_summary.key_range,
-        })
+        }))
+    }
+
+    pub(super) async fn get_value_reconstruct_data(
+        &self,
+        key: Key,
+        reconstruct_state: &mut ValueReconstructState,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<ValueReconstructResult> {
+        let block_reader = FileBlockReader::new(&self.file, self.file_id);
+        let tree_reader =
+            DiskBtreeReader::new(self.index_start_blk, self.index_root_blk, &block_reader);
+
+        let mut keybuf: [u8; KEY_SIZE] = [0u8; KEY_SIZE];
+        key.write_to_byte_slice(&mut keybuf);
+        if let Some(offset) = tree_reader
+            .get(
+                &keybuf,
+                &RequestContextBuilder::extend(ctx)
+                    .page_content_kind(PageContentKind::ImageLayerBtreeNode)
+                    .build(),
+            )
+            .await?
+        {
+            let blob = block_reader
+                .block_cursor()
+                .read_blob(
+                    offset,
+                    &RequestContextBuilder::extend(ctx)
+                        .page_content_kind(PageContentKind::ImageLayerValue)
+                        .build(),
+                )
+                .await
+                .with_context(|| format!("failed to read value from offset {}", offset))?;
+            let value = Bytes::from(blob);
+
+            reconstruct_state.img = Some((self.lsn, value));
+            Ok(ValueReconstructResult::Complete)
+        } else {
+            Ok(ValueReconstructResult::Missing)
+        }
    }

    // Look up the keys in the provided keyspace and update
@@ -688,29 +741,11 @@ struct ImageLayerWriterInner {
    // Total uncompressed bytes passed into put_image
    uncompressed_bytes: u64,

-    // Like `uncompressed_bytes`,
-    // but only of images we might consider for compression
-    uncompressed_bytes_eligible: u64,
-
-    // Like `uncompressed_bytes`, but only of images
-    // where we have chosen their compressed form
-    uncompressed_bytes_chosen: u64,
-
-    // Number of keys in the layer.
-    num_keys: usize,
-
    blob_writer: BlobWriter<false>,
    tree: DiskBtreeBuilder<BlockBuf, KEY_SIZE>,
-
-    #[cfg_attr(not(feature = "testing"), allow(dead_code))]
-    last_written_key: Key,
 }

 impl ImageLayerWriterInner {
-    fn size(&self) -> u64 {
-        self.tree.borrow_writer().size() + self.blob_writer.size()
-    }
-
    ///
    /// Start building a new image layer.
    ///
@@ -762,10 +797,6 @@ impl ImageLayerWriterInner {
            tree: tree_builder,
            blob_writer,
            uncompressed_bytes: 0,
-            uncompressed_bytes_eligible: 0,
-            uncompressed_bytes_chosen: 0,
-            num_keys: 0,
-            last_written_key: Key::MIN,
        };

        Ok(writer)
@@ -784,33 +815,18 @@ impl ImageLayerWriterInner {
    ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        ensure!(self.key_range.contains(&key));
        let compression = self.conf.image_compression;
-        let uncompressed_len = img.len() as u64;
-        self.uncompressed_bytes += uncompressed_len;
-        self.num_keys += 1;
+        self.uncompressed_bytes += img.len() as u64;
        let (_img, res) = self
            .blob_writer
            .write_blob_maybe_compressed(img, ctx, compression)
            .await;
        // TODO: re-use the buffer for `img` further upstack
-        let (off, compression_info) = res?;
-        if compression_info.compressed_size.is_some() {
-            // The image has been considered for compression at least
-            self.uncompressed_bytes_eligible += uncompressed_len;
-        }
-        if compression_info.written_compressed {
-            // The image has been compressed
-            self.uncompressed_bytes_chosen += uncompressed_len;
-        }
+        let off = res?;

        let mut keybuf: [u8; KEY_SIZE] = [0u8; KEY_SIZE];
        key.write_to_byte_slice(&mut keybuf);
        self.tree.append(&keybuf, off)?;

-        #[cfg(feature = "testing")]
-        {
-            self.last_written_key = key;
-        }
-
        Ok(())
    }

@@ -821,7 +837,6 @@ impl ImageLayerWriterInner {
        self,
        timeline: &Arc<Timeline>,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-        end_key: Option<Key>,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<ResidentLayer> {
        let index_start_blk =
            ((self.blob_writer.size() + PAGE_SZ as u64 - 1) / PAGE_SZ as u64) as u32;
@@ -829,9 +844,6 @@ impl ImageLayerWriterInner {
        // Calculate compression ratio
        let compressed_size = self.blob_writer.size() - PAGE_SZ as u64; // Subtract PAGE_SZ for header
        crate::metrics::COMPRESSION_IMAGE_INPUT_BYTES.inc_by(self.uncompressed_bytes);
-        crate::metrics::COMPRESSION_IMAGE_INPUT_BYTES_CONSIDERED
-            .inc_by(self.uncompressed_bytes_eligible);
-        crate::metrics::COMPRESSION_IMAGE_INPUT_BYTES_CHOSEN.inc_by(self.uncompressed_bytes_chosen);
        crate::metrics::COMPRESSION_IMAGE_OUTPUT_BYTES.inc_by(compressed_size);

        let mut file = self.blob_writer.into_inner();
@@ -872,23 +884,11 @@ impl ImageLayerWriterInner {
        let desc = PersistentLayerDesc::new_img(
            self.tenant_shard_id,
            self.timeline_id,
-            if let Some(end_key) = end_key {
-                self.key_range.start..end_key
-            } else {
-                self.key_range.clone()
-            },
+            self.key_range.clone(),
            self.lsn,
            metadata.len(),
        );

-        #[cfg(feature = "testing")]
-        if let Some(end_key) = end_key {
-            assert!(
-                self.last_written_key < end_key,
-                "written key violates end_key range"
-            );
-        }
-
        // Note: Because we open the file in write-only mode, we cannot
        // reuse the same VirtualFile for reading later. That's why we don't
        // set inner.file here. The first read will have to re-open it.
@@ -965,18 +965,6 @@ impl ImageLayerWriter {
        self.inner.as_mut().unwrap().put_image(key, img, ctx).await
    }

-    #[cfg(test)]
-    /// Estimated size of the image layer.
-    pub(crate) fn estimated_size(&self) -> u64 {
-        let inner = self.inner.as_ref().unwrap();
-        inner.blob_writer.size() + inner.tree.borrow_writer().size() + PAGE_SZ as u64
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(test)]
-    pub(crate) fn num_keys(&self) -> usize {
-        self.inner.as_ref().unwrap().num_keys
-    }
-
    ///
    /// Finish writing the image layer.
    ///
@@ -985,26 +973,7 @@ impl ImageLayerWriter {
        timeline: &Arc<Timeline>,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> anyhow::Result<super::ResidentLayer> {
-        self.inner.take().unwrap().finish(timeline, ctx, None).await
-    }
-
-    #[cfg(test)]
-    /// Finish writing the image layer with an end key, used in [`super::split_writer::SplitImageLayerWriter`]. The end key determines the end of the image layer's covered range and is exclusive.
-    pub(super) async fn finish_with_end_key(
-        mut self,
-        timeline: &Arc<Timeline>,
-        end_key: Key,
-        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> anyhow::Result<super::ResidentLayer> {
-        self.inner
-            .take()
-            .unwrap()
-            .finish(timeline, ctx, Some(end_key))
-            .await
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn size(&self) -> u64 {
-        self.inner.as_ref().unwrap().size()
+        self.inner.take().unwrap().finish(timeline, ctx).await
    }
 }

--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/inmemory_layer.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/inmemory_layer.rs
@@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ use crate::page_cache::PAGE_SZ;
 use crate::repository::{Key, Value};
 use crate::tenant::block_io::{BlockCursor, BlockReader, BlockReaderRef};
 use crate::tenant::ephemeral_file::EphemeralFile;
+use crate::tenant::storage_layer::ValueReconstructResult;
 use crate::tenant::timeline::GetVectoredError;
-use crate::tenant::PageReconstructError;
+use crate::tenant::{PageReconstructError, Timeline};
 use crate::{l0_flush, page_cache, walrecord};
-use anyhow::{anyhow, Result};
-use camino::Utf8PathBuf;
+use anyhow::{anyhow, ensure, Result};
 use pageserver_api::keyspace::KeySpace;
 use pageserver_api::models::InMemoryLayerInfo;
 use pageserver_api::shard::TenantShardId;
-use std::collections::BTreeMap;
+use std::collections::{BTreeMap, BinaryHeap, HashSet};
 use std::sync::{Arc, OnceLock};
 use std::time::Instant;
 use tracing::*;
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, AtomicUsize};
 use tokio::sync::{RwLock, RwLockWriteGuard};

 use super::{
-    DeltaLayerWriter, PersistentLayerDesc, ValueReconstructSituation, ValuesReconstructState,
+    DeltaLayerWriter, ResidentLayer, ValueReconstructSituation, ValueReconstructState,
+    ValuesReconstructState,
 };

 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Copy, Hash)]
@@ -54,6 +55,9 @@ pub struct InMemoryLayer {
    /// Writes are only allowed when this is `None`.
    pub(crate) end_lsn: OnceLock<Lsn>,

+    /// Used for traversal path. Cached representation of the in-memory layer before frozen.
+    local_path_str: Arc<str>,
+
    /// Used for traversal path. Cached representation of the in-memory layer after frozen.
    frozen_local_path_str: OnceLock<Arc<str>>,

@@ -244,6 +248,12 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
        self.start_lsn..self.end_lsn_or_max()
    }

+    pub(crate) fn local_path_str(&self) -> &Arc<str> {
+        self.frozen_local_path_str
+            .get()
+            .unwrap_or(&self.local_path_str)
+    }
+
    /// debugging function to print out the contents of the layer
    ///
    /// this is likely completly unused
@@ -293,6 +303,60 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
        Ok(())
    }

+    /// Look up given value in the layer.
+    pub(crate) async fn get_value_reconstruct_data(
+        &self,
+        key: Key,
+        lsn_range: Range<Lsn>,
+        reconstruct_state: &mut ValueReconstructState,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<ValueReconstructResult> {
+        ensure!(lsn_range.start >= self.start_lsn);
+        let mut need_image = true;
+
+        let ctx = RequestContextBuilder::extend(ctx)
+            .page_content_kind(PageContentKind::InMemoryLayer)
+            .build();
+
+        let inner = self.inner.read().await;
+
+        let reader = inner.file.block_cursor();
+
+        // Scan the page versions backwards, starting from `lsn`.
+        if let Some(vec_map) = inner.index.get(&key) {
+            let slice = vec_map.slice_range(lsn_range);
+            for (entry_lsn, pos) in slice.iter().rev() {
+                let buf = reader.read_blob(*pos, &ctx).await?;
+                let value = Value::des(&buf)?;
+                match value {
+                    Value::Image(img) => {
+                        reconstruct_state.img = Some((*entry_lsn, img));
+                        return Ok(ValueReconstructResult::Complete);
+                    }
+                    Value::WalRecord(rec) => {
+                        let will_init = rec.will_init();
+                        reconstruct_state.records.push((*entry_lsn, rec));
+                        if will_init {
+                            // This WAL record initializes the page, so no need to go further back
+                            need_image = false;
+                            break;
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // release lock on 'inner'
+
+        // If an older page image is needed to reconstruct the page, let the
+        // caller know.
+        if need_image {
+            Ok(ValueReconstructResult::Continue)
+        } else {
+            Ok(ValueReconstructResult::Complete)
+        }
+    }
+
    // Look up the keys in the provided keyspace and update
    // the reconstruct state with whatever is found.
    //
@@ -311,6 +375,15 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
        let inner = self.inner.read().await;
        let reader = inner.file.block_cursor();

+        #[derive(Eq, PartialEq, Ord, PartialOrd)]
+        struct BlockRead {
+            key: Key,
+            lsn: Lsn,
+            block_offset: u64,
+        }
+
+        let mut planned_block_reads = BinaryHeap::new();
+
        for range in keyspace.ranges.iter() {
            for (key, vec_map) in inner.index.range(range.start..range.end) {
                let lsn_range = match reconstruct_state.get_cached_lsn(key) {
@@ -319,32 +392,49 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
                };

                let slice = vec_map.slice_range(lsn_range);
-
                for (entry_lsn, pos) in slice.iter().rev() {
-                    // TODO: this uses the page cache => https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8183
-                    let buf = reader.read_blob(*pos, &ctx).await;
-                    if let Err(e) = buf {
-                        reconstruct_state
-                            .on_key_error(*key, PageReconstructError::from(anyhow!(e)));
-                        break;
-                    }
-
-                    let value = Value::des(&buf.unwrap());
-                    if let Err(e) = value {
-                        reconstruct_state
-                            .on_key_error(*key, PageReconstructError::from(anyhow!(e)));
-                        break;
-                    }
-
-                    let key_situation =
-                        reconstruct_state.update_key(key, *entry_lsn, value.unwrap());
-                    if key_situation == ValueReconstructSituation::Complete {
-                        break;
-                    }
+                    planned_block_reads.push(BlockRead {
+                        key: *key,
+                        lsn: *entry_lsn,
+                        block_offset: *pos,
+                    });
                }
            }
        }

+        let keyspace_size = keyspace.total_raw_size();
+
+        let mut completed_keys = HashSet::new();
+        while completed_keys.len() < keyspace_size && !planned_block_reads.is_empty() {
+            let block_read = planned_block_reads.pop().unwrap();
+            if completed_keys.contains(&block_read.key) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            // TODO: this uses the page cache => https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8183
+            let buf = reader.read_blob(block_read.block_offset, &ctx).await;
+            if let Err(e) = buf {
+                reconstruct_state
+                    .on_key_error(block_read.key, PageReconstructError::from(anyhow!(e)));
+                completed_keys.insert(block_read.key);
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            let value = Value::des(&buf.unwrap());
+            if let Err(e) = value {
+                reconstruct_state
+                    .on_key_error(block_read.key, PageReconstructError::from(anyhow!(e)));
+                completed_keys.insert(block_read.key);
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            let key_situation =
+                reconstruct_state.update_key(&block_read.key, block_read.lsn, value.unwrap());
+            if key_situation == ValueReconstructSituation::Complete {
+                completed_keys.insert(block_read.key);
+            }
+        }
+
        reconstruct_state.on_lsn_advanced(&keyspace, self.start_lsn);

        Ok(())
@@ -385,17 +475,20 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
        timeline_id: TimelineId,
        tenant_shard_id: TenantShardId,
        start_lsn: Lsn,
-        gate_guard: utils::sync::gate::GateGuard,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
    ) -> Result<InMemoryLayer> {
        trace!("initializing new empty InMemoryLayer for writing on timeline {timeline_id} at {start_lsn}");

-        let file =
-            EphemeralFile::create(conf, tenant_shard_id, timeline_id, gate_guard, ctx).await?;
+        let file = EphemeralFile::create(conf, tenant_shard_id, timeline_id, ctx).await?;
        let key = InMemoryLayerFileId(file.page_cache_file_id());

        Ok(InMemoryLayer {
            file_id: key,
+            local_path_str: {
+                let mut buf = String::new();
+                inmem_layer_log_display(&mut buf, timeline_id, start_lsn, Lsn::MAX).unwrap();
+                buf.into()
+            },
            frozen_local_path_str: OnceLock::new(),
            conf,
            timeline_id,
@@ -415,7 +508,8 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {

    /// Common subroutine of the public put_wal_record() and put_page_image() functions.
    /// Adds the page version to the in-memory tree
-    pub async fn put_value(
+
+    pub(crate) async fn put_value(
        &self,
        key: Key,
        lsn: Lsn,
@@ -427,6 +521,30 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
        self.put_value_locked(&mut inner, key, lsn, buf, ctx).await
    }

+    pub(crate) async fn put_values(
+        &self,
+        mut values: Vec<(Lsn, Key, smallvec::SmallVec<[u8; 256]>, u64)>,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        let mut inner = self.inner.write().await;
+        self.assert_writable();
+        for (_lsn, _key, buf, off) in &mut values {
+            *off = self.put_value_locked2(&mut inner, &buf, ctx).await?;
+        }
+
+        for (lsn, key, _buf, off) in values.into_iter() {
+            let vec_map = inner.index.entry(key).or_default();
+
+            // Use fast version of append, since we know our LSNs are already sorted
+            vec_map.append2(lsn, off);
+        }
+
+        let size = inner.file.len();
+        inner.resource_units.maybe_publish_size(size);
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
    async fn put_value_locked(
        &self,
        locked_inner: &mut RwLockWriteGuard<'_, InMemoryLayerInner>,
@@ -462,6 +580,27 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
        Ok(())
    }

+    async fn put_value_locked2(
+        &self,
+        locked_inner: &mut RwLockWriteGuard<'_, InMemoryLayerInner>,
+        buf: &[u8],
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> Result<u64> {
+        let off = {
+            locked_inner
+                .file
+                .write_blob(
+                    buf,
+                    &RequestContextBuilder::extend(ctx)
+                        .page_content_kind(PageContentKind::InMemoryLayer)
+                        .build(),
+                )
+                .await?
+        };
+
+        Ok(off)
+    }
+
    pub(crate) fn get_opened_at(&self) -> Instant {
        self.opened_at
    }
@@ -502,7 +641,7 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
            let inner = self.inner.write().await;
            for vec_map in inner.index.values() {
                for (lsn, _pos) in vec_map.as_slice() {
-                    assert!(*lsn < end_lsn);
+                    debug_assert!(*lsn < end_lsn);
                }
            }
        }
@@ -513,12 +652,12 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
    /// if there are no matching keys.
    ///
    /// Returns a new delta layer with all the same data as this in-memory layer
-    pub async fn write_to_disk(
+    pub(crate) async fn write_to_disk(
        &self,
+        timeline: &Arc<Timeline>,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
        key_range: Option<Range<Key>>,
-        l0_flush_global_state: &l0_flush::Inner,
-    ) -> Result<Option<(PersistentLayerDesc, Utf8PathBuf)>> {
+    ) -> Result<Option<ResidentLayer>> {
        // Grab the lock in read-mode. We hold it over the I/O, but because this
        // layer is not writeable anymore, no one should be trying to acquire the
        // write lock on it, so we shouldn't block anyone. There's one exception
@@ -530,8 +669,9 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
        // rare though, so we just accept the potential latency hit for now.
        let inner = self.inner.read().await;

+        let l0_flush_global_state = timeline.l0_flush_global_state.inner().clone();
        use l0_flush::Inner;
-        let _concurrency_permit = match l0_flush_global_state {
+        let _concurrency_permit = match &*l0_flush_global_state {
            Inner::PageCached => None,
            Inner::Direct { semaphore, .. } => Some(semaphore.acquire().await),
        };
@@ -561,7 +701,7 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
        )
        .await?;

-        match l0_flush_global_state {
+        match &*l0_flush_global_state {
            l0_flush::Inner::PageCached => {
                let ctx = RequestContextBuilder::extend(ctx)
                    .page_content_kind(PageContentKind::InMemoryLayer)
@@ -626,7 +766,7 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
        }

        // MAX is used here because we identify L0 layers by full key range
-        let (desc, path) = delta_layer_writer.finish(Key::MAX, ctx).await?;
+        let delta_layer = delta_layer_writer.finish(Key::MAX, timeline, ctx).await?;

        // Hold the permit until all the IO is done, including the fsync in `delta_layer_writer.finish()``.
        //
@@ -638,6 +778,6 @@ impl InMemoryLayer {
        // we dirtied when writing to the filesystem have been flushed and marked !dirty.
        drop(_concurrency_permit);

-        Ok(Some((desc, path)))
+        Ok(Some(delta_layer))
    }
 }
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 use anyhow::Context;
 use camino::{Utf8Path, Utf8PathBuf};
 use pageserver_api::keyspace::KeySpace;
-use pageserver_api::models::HistoricLayerInfo;
+use pageserver_api::models::{
+    HistoricLayerInfo, LayerAccessKind, LayerResidenceEventReason, LayerResidenceStatus,
+};
 use pageserver_api::shard::{ShardIdentity, ShardIndex, TenantShardId};
 use std::ops::Range;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, AtomicUsize, Ordering};
@@ -17,14 +19,14 @@ use crate::context::{DownloadBehavior, RequestContext};
 use crate::repository::Key;
 use crate::span::debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id;
 use crate::task_mgr::TaskKind;
-use crate::tenant::timeline::{CompactionError, GetVectoredError};
+use crate::tenant::timeline::GetVectoredError;
 use crate::tenant::{remote_timeline_client::LayerFileMetadata, Timeline};

 use super::delta_layer::{self, DeltaEntry};
 use super::image_layer::{self};
 use super::{
    AsLayerDesc, ImageLayerWriter, LayerAccessStats, LayerAccessStatsReset, LayerName,
-    LayerVisibilityHint, PersistentLayerDesc, ValuesReconstructState,
+    PersistentLayerDesc, ValueReconstructResult, ValueReconstructState, ValuesReconstructState,
 };

 use utils::generation::Generation;
@@ -158,10 +160,13 @@ impl Layer {
            metadata.file_size,
        );

+        let access_stats = LayerAccessStats::for_loading_layer(LayerResidenceStatus::Evicted);
+
        let owner = Layer(Arc::new(LayerInner::new(
            conf,
            timeline,
            local_path,
+            access_stats,
            desc,
            None,
            metadata.generation,
@@ -188,6 +193,8 @@ impl Layer {
            metadata.file_size,
        );

+        let access_stats = LayerAccessStats::for_loading_layer(LayerResidenceStatus::Resident);
+
        let mut resident = None;

        let owner = Layer(Arc::new_cyclic(|owner| {
@@ -202,6 +209,7 @@ impl Layer {
                conf,
                timeline,
                local_path,
+                access_stats,
                desc,
                Some(inner),
                metadata.generation,
@@ -237,6 +245,11 @@ impl Layer {
                version: 0,
            });
            resident = Some(inner.clone());
+            let access_stats = LayerAccessStats::empty_will_record_residence_event_later();
+            access_stats.record_residence_event(
+                LayerResidenceStatus::Resident,
+                LayerResidenceEventReason::LayerCreate,
+            );

            let local_path = local_layer_path(
                conf,
@@ -250,6 +263,7 @@ impl Layer {
                conf,
                timeline,
                local_path,
+                access_stats,
                desc,
                Some(inner),
                timeline.generation,
@@ -300,6 +314,44 @@ impl Layer {
        self.0.delete_on_drop();
    }

+    /// Return data needed to reconstruct given page at LSN.
+    ///
+    /// It is up to the caller to collect more data from the previous layer and
+    /// perform WAL redo, if necessary.
+    ///
+    /// # Cancellation-Safety
+    ///
+    /// This method is cancellation-safe.
+    pub(crate) async fn get_value_reconstruct_data(
+        &self,
+        key: Key,
+        lsn_range: Range<Lsn>,
+        reconstruct_data: &mut ValueReconstructState,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<ValueReconstructResult> {
+        use anyhow::ensure;
+
+        let layer = self.0.get_or_maybe_download(true, Some(ctx)).await?;
+        self.0
+            .access_stats
+            .record_access(LayerAccessKind::GetValueReconstructData, ctx);
+
+        if self.layer_desc().is_delta {
+            ensure!(lsn_range.start >= self.layer_desc().lsn_range.start);
+            ensure!(self.layer_desc().key_range.contains(&key));
+        } else {
+            ensure!(self.layer_desc().key_range.contains(&key));
+            ensure!(lsn_range.start >= self.layer_desc().image_layer_lsn());
+            ensure!(lsn_range.end >= self.layer_desc().image_layer_lsn());
+        }
+
+        layer
+            .get_value_reconstruct_data(key, lsn_range, reconstruct_data, &self.0, ctx)
+            .instrument(tracing::debug_span!("get_value_reconstruct_data", layer=%self))
+            .await
+            .with_context(|| format!("get_value_reconstruct_data for layer {self}"))
+    }
+
    pub(crate) async fn get_values_reconstruct_data(
        &self,
        keyspace: KeySpace,
@@ -312,13 +364,13 @@ impl Layer {
            .get_or_maybe_download(true, Some(ctx))
            .await
            .map_err(|err| match err {
-                DownloadError::TimelineShutdown | DownloadError::DownloadCancelled => {
-                    GetVectoredError::Cancelled
-                }
+                DownloadError::DownloadCancelled => GetVectoredError::Cancelled,
                other => GetVectoredError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(other)),
            })?;

-        self.record_access(ctx);
+        self.0
+            .access_stats
+            .record_access(LayerAccessKind::GetValueReconstructData, ctx);

        layer
            .get_values_reconstruct_data(keyspace, lsn_range, reconstruct_data, &self.0, ctx)
@@ -385,7 +437,7 @@ impl Layer {
    }

    /// Downloads if necessary and creates a guard, which will keep this layer from being evicted.
-    pub(crate) async fn download_and_keep_resident(&self) -> Result<ResidentLayer, DownloadError> {
+    pub(crate) async fn download_and_keep_resident(&self) -> anyhow::Result<ResidentLayer> {
        let downloaded = self.0.get_or_maybe_download(true, None).await?;

        Ok(ResidentLayer {
@@ -398,18 +450,18 @@ impl Layer {
        self.0.info(reset)
    }

-    pub(crate) fn latest_activity(&self) -> SystemTime {
-        self.0.access_stats.latest_activity()
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn visibility(&self) -> LayerVisibilityHint {
-        self.0.access_stats.visibility()
+    pub(crate) fn access_stats(&self) -> &LayerAccessStats {
+        &self.0.access_stats
    }

    pub(crate) fn local_path(&self) -> &Utf8Path {
        &self.0.path
    }

+    pub(crate) fn debug_str(&self) -> &Arc<str> {
+        &self.0.debug_str
+    }
+
    pub(crate) fn metadata(&self) -> LayerFileMetadata {
        self.0.metadata()
    }
@@ -452,57 +504,13 @@ impl Layer {
            }
        }
    }
-
-    fn record_access(&self, ctx: &RequestContext) {
-        if self.0.access_stats.record_access(ctx) {
-            // Visibility was modified to Visible
-            tracing::info!(
-                "Layer {} became visible as a result of access",
-                self.0.desc.key()
-            );
-            if let Some(tl) = self.0.timeline.upgrade() {
-                tl.metrics
-                    .visible_physical_size_gauge
-                    .add(self.0.desc.file_size)
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    pub(crate) fn set_visibility(&self, visibility: LayerVisibilityHint) {
-        let old_visibility = self.0.access_stats.set_visibility(visibility.clone());
-        use LayerVisibilityHint::*;
-        match (old_visibility, visibility) {
-            (Visible, Covered) => {
-                // Subtract this layer's contribution to the visible size metric
-                if let Some(tl) = self.0.timeline.upgrade() {
-                    debug_assert!(
-                        tl.metrics.visible_physical_size_gauge.get() >= self.0.desc.file_size
-                    );
-                    tl.metrics
-                        .visible_physical_size_gauge
-                        .sub(self.0.desc.file_size)
-                }
-            }
-            (Covered, Visible) => {
-                // Add this layer's contribution to the visible size metric
-                if let Some(tl) = self.0.timeline.upgrade() {
-                    tl.metrics
-                        .visible_physical_size_gauge
-                        .add(self.0.desc.file_size)
-                }
-            }
-            (Covered, Covered) | (Visible, Visible) => {
-                // no change
-            }
-        }
-    }
 }

 /// The download-ness ([`DownloadedLayer`]) can be either resident or wanted evicted.
 ///
 /// However when we want something evicted, we cannot evict it right away as there might be current
 /// reads happening on it. For example: it has been searched from [`LayerMap::search`] but not yet
-/// read with [`Layer::get_values_reconstruct_data`].
+/// read with [`Layer::get_value_reconstruct_data`].
 ///
 /// [`LayerMap::search`]: crate::tenant::layer_map::LayerMap::search
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -583,6 +591,9 @@ struct LayerInner {
    /// Full path to the file; unclear if this should exist anymore.
    path: Utf8PathBuf,

+    /// String representation of the layer, used for traversal id.
+    debug_str: Arc<str>,
+
    desc: PersistentLayerDesc,

    /// Timeline access is needed for remote timeline client and metrics.
@@ -693,16 +704,6 @@ impl Drop for LayerInner {
                timeline.metrics.layer_count_image.dec();
                timeline.metrics.layer_size_image.sub(self.desc.file_size);
            }
-
-            if matches!(self.access_stats.visibility(), LayerVisibilityHint::Visible) {
-                debug_assert!(
-                    timeline.metrics.visible_physical_size_gauge.get() >= self.desc.file_size
-                );
-                timeline
-                    .metrics
-                    .visible_physical_size_gauge
-                    .sub(self.desc.file_size);
-            }
        }

        if !*self.wanted_deleted.get_mut() {
@@ -785,6 +786,7 @@ impl LayerInner {
        conf: &'static PageServerConf,
        timeline: &Arc<Timeline>,
        local_path: Utf8PathBuf,
+        access_stats: LayerAccessStats,
        desc: PersistentLayerDesc,
        downloaded: Option<Arc<DownloadedLayer>>,
        generation: Generation,
@@ -811,18 +813,15 @@ impl LayerInner {
            timeline.metrics.layer_size_image.add(desc.file_size);
        }

-        // New layers are visible by default. This metric is later updated on drop or in set_visibility
-        timeline
-            .metrics
-            .visible_physical_size_gauge
-            .add(desc.file_size);
-
        LayerInner {
            conf,
+            debug_str: {
+                format!("timelines/{}/{}", timeline.timeline_id, desc.layer_name()).into()
+            },
            path: local_path,
            desc,
            timeline: Arc::downgrade(timeline),
-            access_stats: Default::default(),
+            access_stats,
            wanted_deleted: AtomicBool::new(false),
            inner,
            version: AtomicUsize::new(version),
@@ -1177,7 +1176,10 @@ impl LayerInner {
                    LAYER_IMPL_METRICS.record_redownloaded_after(since_last_eviction);
                }

-                self.access_stats.record_residence_event();
+                self.access_stats.record_residence_event(
+                    LayerResidenceStatus::Resident,
+                    LayerResidenceEventReason::ResidenceChange,
+                );

                Ok(self.initialize_after_layer_is_on_disk(permit))
            }
@@ -1296,7 +1298,7 @@ impl LayerInner {
                lsn_end: lsn_range.end,
                remote: !resident,
                access_stats,
-                l0: crate::tenant::layer_map::LayerMap::is_l0(&self.layer_desc().key_range),
+                l0: crate::tenant::layer_map::LayerMap::is_l0(self.layer_desc()),
            }
        } else {
            let lsn = self.desc.image_layer_lsn();
@@ -1531,7 +1533,10 @@ impl LayerInner {
            }
        }

-        self.access_stats.record_residence_event();
+        self.access_stats.record_residence_event(
+            LayerResidenceStatus::Evicted,
+            LayerResidenceEventReason::ResidenceChange,
+        );

        self.status.as_ref().unwrap().send_replace(Status::Evicted);

@@ -1664,9 +1669,8 @@ impl Drop for DownloadedLayer {
 }

 impl DownloadedLayer {
-    /// Initializes the `DeltaLayerInner` or `ImageLayerInner` within [`LayerKind`].
-    /// Failure to load the layer is sticky, i.e., future `get()` calls will return
-    /// the initial load failure immediately.
+    /// Initializes the `DeltaLayerInner` or `ImageLayerInner` within [`LayerKind`], or fails to
+    /// initialize it permanently.
    ///
    /// `owner` parameter is a strong reference at the same `LayerInner` as the
    /// `DownloadedLayer::owner` would be when upgraded. Given how this method ends up called,
@@ -1697,7 +1701,7 @@ impl DownloadedLayer {
                    ctx,
                )
                .await
-                .map(LayerKind::Delta)
+                .map(|res| res.map(LayerKind::Delta))
            } else {
                let lsn = owner.desc.image_layer_lsn();
                let summary = Some(image_layer::Summary::expected(
@@ -1714,29 +1718,54 @@ impl DownloadedLayer {
                    ctx,
                )
                .await
-                .map(LayerKind::Image)
+                .map(|res| res.map(LayerKind::Image))
            };

            match res {
-                Ok(layer) => Ok(layer),
-                Err(err) => {
+                Ok(Ok(layer)) => Ok(Ok(layer)),
+                Ok(Err(transient)) => Err(transient),
+                Err(permanent) => {
                    LAYER_IMPL_METRICS.inc_permanent_loading_failures();
-                    // We log this message once over the lifetime of `Self`
-                    // => Ok and good to log backtrace and path here.
-                    tracing::error!(
-                        "layer load failed, assuming permanent failure: {}: {err:?}",
-                        owner.path
-                    );
-                    Err(err)
+                    // TODO(#5815): we are not logging all errors, so temporarily log them **once**
+                    // here as well
+                    let permanent = permanent.context("load layer");
+                    tracing::error!("layer loading failed permanently: {permanent:#}");
+                    Ok(Err(permanent))
                }
            }
        };
        self.kind
-            .get_or_init(init)
-            .await
+            .get_or_try_init(init)
+            // return transient errors using `?`
+            .await?
            .as_ref()
-            // We already logged the full backtrace above, once. Don't repeat that here.
-            .map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!("layer load failed earlier: {e}"))
+            .map_err(|e| {
+                // errors are not clonabled, cannot but stringify
+                // test_broken_timeline matches this string
+                anyhow::anyhow!("layer loading failed: {e:#}")
+            })
+    }
+
+    async fn get_value_reconstruct_data(
+        &self,
+        key: Key,
+        lsn_range: Range<Lsn>,
+        reconstruct_data: &mut ValueReconstructState,
+        owner: &Arc<LayerInner>,
+        ctx: &RequestContext,
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<ValueReconstructResult> {
+        use LayerKind::*;
+
+        match self.get(owner, ctx).await? {
+            Delta(d) => {
+                d.get_value_reconstruct_data(key, lsn_range, reconstruct_data, ctx)
+                    .await
+            }
+            Image(i) => {
+                i.get_value_reconstruct_data(key, reconstruct_data, ctx)
+                    .await
+            }
+        }
    }

    async fn get_values_reconstruct_data(
@@ -1749,11 +1778,7 @@ impl DownloadedLayer {
    ) -> Result<(), GetVectoredError> {
        use LayerKind::*;

-        match self
-            .get(owner, ctx)
-            .await
-            .map_err(GetVectoredError::Other)?
-        {
+        match self.get(owner, ctx).await.map_err(GetVectoredError::from)? {
            Delta(d) => {
                d.get_values_reconstruct_data(keyspace, lsn_range, reconstruct_data, ctx)
                    .await
@@ -1837,7 +1862,9 @@ impl ResidentLayer {
                // this is valid because the DownloadedLayer::kind is a OnceCell, not a
                // Mutex<OnceCell>, so we cannot go and deinitialize the value with OnceCell::take
                // while it's being held.
-                self.owner.record_access(ctx);
+                owner
+                    .access_stats
+                    .record_access(LayerAccessKind::KeyIter, ctx);

                delta_layer::DeltaLayerInner::load_keys(d, ctx)
                    .await
@@ -1855,24 +1882,12 @@ impl ResidentLayer {
        shard_identity: &ShardIdentity,
        writer: &mut ImageLayerWriter,
        ctx: &RequestContext,
-    ) -> Result<usize, CompactionError> {
+    ) -> anyhow::Result<usize> {
        use LayerKind::*;

-        match self
-            .downloaded
-            .get(&self.owner.0, ctx)
-            .await
-            .map_err(CompactionError::Other)?
-        {
-            Delta(_) => {
-                return Err(CompactionError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(format!(
-                    "cannot filter() on a delta layer {self}"
-                ))));
-            }
-            Image(i) => i
-                .filter(shard_identity, writer, ctx)
-                .await
-                .map_err(CompactionError::Other),
+        match self.downloaded.get(&self.owner.0, ctx).await? {
+            Delta(_) => anyhow::bail!(format!("cannot filter() on a delta layer {self}")),
+            Image(i) => i.filter(shard_identity, writer, ctx).await,
        }
    }

--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer/tests.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer/tests.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-use std::time::UNIX_EPOCH;
-
 use pageserver_api::key::CONTROLFILE_KEY;
 use tokio::task::JoinSet;
 use utils::{
@@ -9,7 +7,7 @@ use utils::{

 use super::failpoints::{Failpoint, FailpointKind};
 use super::*;
-use crate::{context::DownloadBehavior, tenant::storage_layer::LayerVisibilityHint};
+use crate::context::DownloadBehavior;
 use crate::{task_mgr::TaskKind, tenant::harness::TenantHarness};

 /// Used in tests to advance a future to wanted await point, and not futher.
@@ -39,7 +37,7 @@ async fn smoke_test() {
    let layer = {
        let mut layers = {
            let layers = timeline.layers.read().await;
-            layers.likely_resident_layers().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>()
+            layers.likely_resident_layers().collect::<Vec<_>>()
        };

        assert_eq!(layers.len(), 1);
@@ -50,26 +48,13 @@ async fn smoke_test() {
    // all layers created at pageserver are like `layer`, initialized with strong
    // Arc<DownloadedLayer>.

-    let controlfile_keyspace = KeySpace {
-        ranges: vec![CONTROLFILE_KEY..CONTROLFILE_KEY.next()],
-    };
-
    let img_before = {
-        let mut data = ValuesReconstructState::default();
+        let mut data = ValueReconstructState::default();
        layer
-            .get_values_reconstruct_data(
-                controlfile_keyspace.clone(),
-                Lsn(0x10)..Lsn(0x11),
-                &mut data,
-                &ctx,
-            )
+            .get_value_reconstruct_data(CONTROLFILE_KEY, Lsn(0x10)..Lsn(0x11), &mut data, &ctx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
-        data.keys
-            .remove(&CONTROLFILE_KEY)
-            .expect("must be present")
-            .expect("should not error")
-            .img
+        data.img
            .take()
            .expect("tenant harness writes the control file")
    };
@@ -87,24 +72,13 @@ async fn smoke_test() {

    // on accesses when the layer is evicted, it will automatically be downloaded.
    let img_after = {
-        let mut data = ValuesReconstructState::default();
+        let mut data = ValueReconstructState::default();
        layer
-            .get_values_reconstruct_data(
-                controlfile_keyspace.clone(),
-                Lsn(0x10)..Lsn(0x11),
-                &mut data,
-                &ctx,
-            )
+            .get_value_reconstruct_data(CONTROLFILE_KEY, Lsn(0x10)..Lsn(0x11), &mut data, &ctx)
            .instrument(download_span.clone())
            .await
            .unwrap();
-        data.keys
-            .remove(&CONTROLFILE_KEY)
-            .expect("must be present")
-            .expect("should not error")
-            .img
-            .take()
-            .expect("tenant harness writes the control file")
+        data.img.take().unwrap()
    };

    assert_eq!(img_before, img_after);
@@ -176,7 +150,7 @@ async fn smoke_test() {
    {
        let layers = &[layer];
        let mut g = timeline.layers.write().await;
-        g.open_mut().unwrap().finish_gc_timeline(layers);
+        g.finish_gc_timeline(layers);
        // this just updates the remote_physical_size for demonstration purposes
        rtc.schedule_gc_update(layers).unwrap();
    }
@@ -216,7 +190,7 @@ async fn evict_and_wait_on_wanted_deleted() {
    let layer = {
        let mut layers = {
            let layers = timeline.layers.read().await;
-            layers.likely_resident_layers().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>()
+            layers.likely_resident_layers().collect::<Vec<_>>()
        };

        assert_eq!(layers.len(), 1);
@@ -260,7 +234,7 @@ async fn evict_and_wait_on_wanted_deleted() {
    // the deletion of the layer in remote_storage happens.
    {
        let mut layers = timeline.layers.write().await;
-        layers.open_mut().unwrap().finish_gc_timeline(&[layer]);
+        layers.finish_gc_timeline(&[layer]);
    }

    SpawnBlockingPoolHelper::consume_and_release_all_of_spawn_blocking_threads(&handle).await;
@@ -301,7 +275,7 @@ fn read_wins_pending_eviction() {
        let layer = {
            let mut layers = {
                let layers = timeline.layers.read().await;
-                layers.likely_resident_layers().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>()
+                layers.likely_resident_layers().collect::<Vec<_>>()
            };

            assert_eq!(layers.len(), 1);
@@ -433,7 +407,7 @@ fn multiple_pending_evictions_scenario(name: &'static str, in_order: bool) {
        let layer = {
            let mut layers = {
                let layers = timeline.layers.read().await;
-                layers.likely_resident_layers().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>()
+                layers.likely_resident_layers().collect::<Vec<_>>()
            };

            assert_eq!(layers.len(), 1);
@@ -602,7 +576,7 @@ async fn cancelled_get_or_maybe_download_does_not_cancel_eviction() {
    let layer = {
        let mut layers = {
            let layers = timeline.layers.read().await;
-            layers.likely_resident_layers().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>()
+            layers.likely_resident_layers().collect::<Vec<_>>()
        };

        assert_eq!(layers.len(), 1);
@@ -682,7 +656,7 @@ async fn evict_and_wait_does_not_wait_for_download() {
    let layer = {
        let mut layers = {
            let layers = timeline.layers.read().await;
-            layers.likely_resident_layers().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>()
+            layers.likely_resident_layers().collect::<Vec<_>>()
        };

        assert_eq!(layers.len(), 1);
@@ -801,9 +775,9 @@ async fn eviction_cancellation_on_drop() {
    let (evicted_layer, not_evicted) = {
        let mut layers = {
            let mut guard = timeline.layers.write().await;
-            let layers = guard.likely_resident_layers().cloned().collect::<Vec<_>>();
+            let layers = guard.likely_resident_layers().collect::<Vec<_>>();
            // remove the layers from layermap
-            guard.open_mut().unwrap().finish_gc_timeline(&layers);
+            guard.finish_gc_timeline(&layers);

            layers
        };
@@ -852,9 +826,9 @@ async fn eviction_cancellation_on_drop() {
 #[test]
 #[cfg(target_arch = "x86_64")]
 fn layer_size() {
-    assert_eq!(size_of::<LayerAccessStats>(), 8);
-    assert_eq!(size_of::<PersistentLayerDesc>(), 104);
-    assert_eq!(size_of::<LayerInner>(), 296);
+    assert_eq!(std::mem::size_of::<LayerAccessStats>(), 2040);
+    assert_eq!(std::mem::size_of::<PersistentLayerDesc>(), 104);
+    assert_eq!(std::mem::size_of::<LayerInner>(), 2344);
    // it also has the utf8 path
 }

@@ -994,46 +968,3 @@ fn spawn_blocking_pool_helper_actually_works() {
        println!("joined");
    });
 }
-
-/// Drop the low bits from a time, to emulate the precision loss in LayerAccessStats
-fn lowres_time(hires: SystemTime) -> SystemTime {
-    let ts = hires.duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH).unwrap().as_secs();
-    UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::from_secs(ts)
-}
-
-#[test]
-fn access_stats() {
-    let access_stats = LayerAccessStats::default();
-    // Default is visible
-    assert_eq!(access_stats.visibility(), LayerVisibilityHint::Visible);
-
-    access_stats.set_visibility(LayerVisibilityHint::Covered);
-    assert_eq!(access_stats.visibility(), LayerVisibilityHint::Covered);
-    access_stats.set_visibility(LayerVisibilityHint::Visible);
-    assert_eq!(access_stats.visibility(), LayerVisibilityHint::Visible);
-
-    let rtime = UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::from_secs(2000000000);
-    access_stats.record_residence_event_at(rtime);
-    assert_eq!(access_stats.latest_activity(), lowres_time(rtime));
-
-    let atime = UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::from_secs(2100000000);
-    access_stats.record_access_at(atime);
-    assert_eq!(access_stats.latest_activity(), lowres_time(atime));
-
-    // Setting visibility doesn't clobber access time
-    access_stats.set_visibility(LayerVisibilityHint::Covered);
-    assert_eq!(access_stats.latest_activity(), lowres_time(atime));
-    access_stats.set_visibility(LayerVisibilityHint::Visible);
-    assert_eq!(access_stats.latest_activity(), lowres_time(atime));
-}
-
-#[test]
-fn access_stats_2038() {
-    // The access stats structure uses a timestamp representation that will run out
-    // of bits in 2038.  One year before that, this unit test will start failing.
-
-    let one_year_from_now = SystemTime::now().duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH).unwrap()
-        + Duration::from_secs(3600 * 24 * 365);
-
-    assert!(one_year_from_now.as_secs() < (2 << 31));
-}
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer_desc.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer_desc.rs
@@ -41,20 +41,6 @@ pub struct PersistentLayerKey {
    pub is_delta: bool,
 }

-impl std::fmt::Display for PersistentLayerKey {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        write!(
-            f,
-            "{}..{} {}..{} is_delta={}",
-            self.key_range.start,
-            self.key_range.end,
-            self.lsn_range.start,
-            self.lsn_range.end,
-            self.is_delta
-        )
-    }
-}
-
 impl PersistentLayerDesc {
    pub fn key(&self) -> PersistentLayerKey {
        PersistentLayerKey {
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer_name.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/storage_layer/layer_name.rs
@@ -248,14 +248,6 @@ impl LayerName {
            Image(_) => "image",
        }
    }
-
-    /// Gets the key range encoded in the layer name.
-    pub fn key_range(&self) -> &Range<Key> {
-        match &self {
-            LayerName::Image(layer) => &layer.key_range,
-            LayerName::Delta(layer) => &layer.key_range,
-        }
-    }
 }

 impl fmt::Display for LayerName {
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John Spray	a56bef7d9c	Set MAX_SEND_SIZE to 1MB	2024-07-20 23:24:34 +01:00
John Spray	6162506162	Set default batch size to 1000	2024-07-20 23:09:36 +01:00
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John Spray	b0147d96ea	utils: use SmallVec in VecMap	2024-07-20 20:55:13 +01:00
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John Spray	2afcc58ce0	faster vecmap appends	2024-07-20 20:27:31 +01:00
John Spray	6a267cf9e3	avoid some allocs	2024-07-20 20:21:31 +01:00
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