Jinwoo Hong 0e7948fa6d feat(relay): pace the drain send during a same-cap cell roll (#21284)
* feat(relay): pace the drain send during a same-cap cell roll

A same-cap roll drains a cell with graceMs 0, which sends `drain` to all
~800 controls in one pass. Every desktop re-dials on receipt regardless of
graceMs, so the whole cell reconnects inside a second. On 2026-09-16 that
stampede hit a Cloud SQL stall: attaches timed out, each leaving 10 minutes
of late-arrival debt on connection headroom, and placement answered
relay_capacity_exhausted fleet-wide for ~13 minutes.

Spreading the sends spreads the re-dials. `HostSessionRegistry.drain` takes
an optional pacing window and schedules each session's send evenly across
it; admission is fenced for every session up front, and each host keeps its
own full grace after its own send. /v1/admin/drain accepts `paceWindowMs`
(<= 5 min) and echoes what it applied. The same-cap job asks for 120 s, and
the drain-completion wait grew by the same amount. A cell still on an older
image rejects the field, so the deploy script falls back to an unpaced
drain rather than failing the roll.

* fix(relay): scope the drain fence to the hosts already told

Review of the paced drain found two problems, both from treating "this cell
is draining" as one instant when pacing makes it a window.

Timers: the sends queued by a paced drain were neither cleared when a later
drain superseded them nor unref'd. A SIGTERM mid-window left up to 800 no-op
timers holding the event loop open until systemd escalated to SIGKILL. Drain
timers are now tracked, cleared on the next drain, and unref'd, so a retry
re-arms a session's teardown instead of stacking a second one.

Phones: the client fence read the global draining flag, so every phone was
refused for the whole window even though its own host had not been told yet
and was still serving. The director keeps pointing phones at this cell until
their host moves, so they would have looped for up to two minutes. A session
is now fenced when its drain is sent, not when the drain starts, and the
client paths key off that. New control connections and re-attaches stay
fenced globally: nothing new should land on a cell that is going away.
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