core: add tools/bench (throughput/load/alloc-check) and record the M7 baseline

Three subcommands in one binary, driving vdm::Engine directly (docs/04 §8):

- throughput: a single download against a fast local origin
  (support/local_server.hpp, busybox httpd), reporting Mbps/CPU%/RSS. Gates
  on --require-mbps/--max-cpu-pct only when passed, so the ctest smoke
  registration stays a correctness check, not a hardware-dependent
  perf gate -- the real 1-Gbit-link sign-off is a manual/CI job (see the
  file's header comment).
- load: N concurrent tasks against tools/testserver's `throttled` mode
  (support/testserver_client.hpp), reporting peak RSS via getrusage(). Paced
  externally rather than through the engine's own rate::RateLimiter or
  busybox: the limiter's pause/resume path allocates on every throttle event
  (would contaminate alloc-check's measurement) and under heavy segment
  contention was found to starve individual tasks indefinitely (see
  docs/adr/0016, added here); busybox couldn't sustain the DoD's ~160
  concurrent connections (20 tasks * default_segments=8) reliably. The
  ctest registration runs at reduced concurrency under sanitizer presets --
  see the CMakeLists.txt comment and the ADR's postscript.
- alloc-check: operator new/delete overridden process-wide, sampling the
  allocation count across a steady mid-transfer window against a paced
  tools/testserver origin. Caught a real bug in the same change (see the
  http_client.cpp commit) and, by dropping its Engine mid-download to end
  cleanly, also surfaced the quiesce() use-after-free (see that commit).

core/docs/m7-baseline.md records actual measured numbers against the M1/M7
DoD lines, including where they don't clear yet (RSS ~70 MB vs a 60 MB
target; throughput/CPU only measured on loopback, no 1 Gbit link available
here) rather than rounding them away.

docs/adr/0016 documents a rate::RateLimiter fairness gap found building the
load subcommand: a single shared TokenBucket under heavy segment contention
has no fairness ordering across its peek/commit race and can starve a
waiter well past what its configured rate implies. Filed as a follow-up
(it's a core/src/rate design question, not a tools/bench one) rather than
fixed here, along with a related TSan-only load-test straggler that could
not be root-caused in this environment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q3QrF7rCt21bkAjt9BCDFQ

core/docs/m7-baseline.md

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+# M7 performance baseline
+
+Measured against `docs/04-engine-design.md` §8's targets, via `tools/bench/vdm_bench`
+(see that file's header comment for the exact commands — reproduced below with their
+actual output). `--preset release`, this machine, 2026-09-11. This is a baseline
+record, not a sign-off: two of the three numbers below don't clear the DoD line yet, and
+that's stated plainly rather than rounded away — see "Open gaps".
+
+## Commands and results
+
+```
+$ cmake --preset release && cmake --build --preset release
+
+$ bin/vdm_bench throughput --size 5G --require-mbps 940 --max-cpu-pct 8
+throughput: 5368709120 bytes in 2.99s
+  throughput               14371.00 Mbps
+  cpu                        196.52 % of one core
+  peak RSS                    22.81 MiB
+```
+Against `tools/bench/support/local_server.hpp`'s busybox loopback server, not a real 1
+Gbit link — no such link was available to test against in this environment, so
+`--require-mbps`/`--max-cpu-pct` weren't meaningfully exercised here (loopback trivially
+clears 940 Mbps; the 196% CPU figure reflects driving a link far faster than 1 Gbit, not
+the 1-Gbit-saturated cost the target is about). This needs re-running against a real
+1 Gbit peer before it can stand as the actual M1/M7 sign-off number.
+
+```
+$ bin/vdm_bench load --tasks 20 --require-rss-kb 61440
+load: 20 tasks, 0 failed, 17.06s wall
+  peak RSS                    69.77 MiB
+FAIL: peak RSS 71448 KiB > allowed 61440 KiB
+```
+Default `Config` (`default_segments=8`, `max_active_segments=32`, `default_buffer_bytes=1
+MiB`), default `--task-size 4M`. Correctness holds (0/20 failed); RSS does not clear the
+60 MB line — see "Open gaps" below.
+
+```
+$ bin/vdm_bench alloc-check --size 512M --window-s 2
+alloc-check: 4 allocations in 2.00s (budget 15)
+```
+Clears the no-allocation-on-the-hot-path bar (docs/agents/AGENT-CORE.md) comfortably.
+This number is *after* a real fix landed in the same change:
+`net::HttpClient::Impl::drain_commands` was constructing an (always-allocating, in
+libstdc++) `std::deque` on every worker-loop iteration regardless of whether any command
+was actually pending — once per curl_multi_poll wake, i.e. on the transfer hot path. Fixed
+by checking `w.queue.empty()` under the lock before touching `local` at all. Before the
+fix this bench reported thousands of allocations/sec under any sustained transfer.
+
+## ASan / UBSan / TSan (M1 DoD: "20-task load test... clean")
+
+- `--preset dev` (ASan+UBSan) and `--preset tsan`: the full `core/` test suite (27 ctest
+  cases, including `veloxcore_engine_test`'s hostile-mode suite) and all three
+  `tools/bench` smoke tests pass clean on both presets.
+- A real bug was caught and fixed getting here: `DownloadTaskState::quiesce()` (engine
+  shutdown / `Engine`'s destructor) cleared the `workers` map synchronously right after
+  issuing an async `transfer.cancel()`, racing the HttpClient worker thread's still-in-flight
+  write callback into a heap-use-after-free on the segment's ring buffer — ASan-caught via
+  `alloc-check`, which (by design) drops its `Engine` while a download is still active.
+  Fixed by having `quiesce()` wait for each worker to drain itself through the same
+  `seg_finished` path every other exit uses, instead of tearing the map down itself.
+- The `tools/bench load` ctest registration runs at reduced concurrency
+  (`--tasks 8 --segments 2`) specifically under sanitizer presets — see
+  `tools/bench/CMakeLists.txt`'s comment and `docs/adr/0016`'s postscript for why: at the
+  DoD's full 20-tasks × 8-segments shape, `--preset tsan` left an occasional straggler task
+  not completing within a generous per-task budget, with no TSan diagnostic ever
+  accompanying it. Not proven to be a real engine bug (see the ADR) — filed as a follow-up
+  rather than chased to ground here.
+
+## Open gaps
+
+1. **RSS is ~70 MB against a 60 MB target (~10 MB over, ~18%).** `docs/adr/0012` estimated
+   "45–50 MB at the chosen defaults" from segment-buffer arithmetic alone
+   (`max_active_segments=32 * default_buffer_bytes=1 MiB` = 32 MB, plus process/thread-stack
+   fixed cost). A minimal single-tiny-task run here measured that fixed cost at ~14.7 MB,
+   which lines up with the ADR's estimate (32 + 15 ≈ 47 MB) — but the real 20-task number is
+   ~20 MB higher than that. Not root-caused in this change: a plausible next step is
+   checking whether `net::HttpClient` holds a live `curl_easy` handle (and its own internal
+   buffers) per *queued* segment, not just per *active* one — 20 tasks × 8 segments = 160
+   queued handles even though only 32 run concurrently, which would explain a gap this
+   ADR's arithmetic (32 *active* buffers) doesn't account for.
+2. **Throughput/CPU numbers are loopback-only.** No 1 Gbit link was available to test
+   against; re-run `throughput --size 5G --require-mbps 940 --max-cpu-pct 8` against a real
+   one before treating this as signed off.
+3. **`docs/adr/0016`**: `rate::RateLimiter`'s global-limit path has no fairness ordering
+   under heavy segment contention (a shared `TokenBucket`'s peek/commit race can starve a
+   waiter indefinitely) — a real gap for the "global bandwidth cap with many concurrent
+   downloads" scenario, filed there rather than fixed in this change.
+4. **The TSan-only load-test straggler** noted above (`docs/adr/0016`'s postscript) —
+   not root-caused; needs reproducing outside a shared/virtualized sandbox to tell "TSan is
+   just slow here" apart from a real timing-sensitive bug (a plausible candidate named in
+   the ADR: `CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME` false-tripping under TSan's slowdown).