feat(rtps_embedded): Phase 4 — limit profiles, dynamic host memory, DATA_FRAG large payloads

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Phase 4 of the components/rtps_embedded refactor — see REFACTOR_PLAN.md. Makes the RTPS component scale from tiny MCU nodes to compute hosts (Jetson/laptop) that interoperate on the same DDS network: per-platform limits, dynamic memory on host, and large-payload (>64KB) fragmentation.

What's in it (4 commits, each interop-gated)

1. Per-platform limit profiles — embedded / host (relaxed default) / host_large, selected by a RTPS_LIMITS_PROFILE CMake option + ESP Kconfig on the existing RTPS_CONFIG_HEADER switch. config_esp32.hpp is byte-identical (MCU determinism preserved).
2. DataSize_t → uint32 — internal sample-size type widened so a sample can exceed 64KB (fixes a silent PayloadBuffer::spaceUsed() truncation). Wire-neutral: on-wire length fields stay 16-bit; golden byte-identical.
3. Dynamic value-pool storage — a compile-time StorageArray<T,N> policy (RTPS_STORAGE_DYNAMIC): host builds allocate on the heap and grow past the profile cap (std::deque, chosen because CacheChange isn't move-constructible); esp32 stays fully static (std::array, zero heap, RTPS_STORAGE_DYNAMIC absent from its compile DB). Entity pools stay static (Participant is non-movable).
4. Best-effort DATA_FRAG — samples >64KB fragment on send and reassemble on receive, interoperating with FastDDS / ROS 2 both directions. Config: WriterConfig::fragment_size (default 63000, configurable down to <MTU), Config::max_sample_size (host 8MB / esp32 256KB). RTPS_ENABLE_FRAGMENTATION is always-on for host, opt-in (default off) on esp32 so the MCU pays nothing for the non-frag path it uses today. Reliable fragment recovery (HEARTBEAT_FRAG/NACK_FRAG) is a tracked v2.

Verification

• Golden wire tests: existing sections byte-identical (never regenerated) under both host and embedded profiles; new data_frag section pins the fragment encoding.
• Docker interop matrix: 12/12 — incl. a 200KB byte-exact espp↔ROS 2 leg both directions (FastDDS reassembles espp's fragments; espp reassembles FastDDS's), plus a >64KB espp↔espp loopback.
• esp32: builds both frag-off (default — no frag code compiled) and frag-on (xtensa).
• Notable interop detail: FastDDS pads the last fragment's serializedData to 4-byte alignment, so reassembly clamps the copy to sampleSize rather than rejecting the final fragment.

API impact

Additive: existing RtpsParticipant/typed API unchanged; new optional WriterConfig::fragment_size and Config::max_sample_size with sensible defaults. max_payload_size rises to max_sample_size when fragmentation is enabled.

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components/rtps_embedded/src/entities/StatefulWriter.cpp:350

• This clamps a DATA_FRAG payload using the DATA limit. DATA_FRAG has a 36-byte raw header rather than DATA's 24-byte header, so its maximum fragment payload is 65,439 bytes, not MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD (65,451). A configured size in that 12-byte gap creates a UDP payload larger than 65,507 bytes and sendPacket cannot transmit it. Introduce a DATA_FRAG-specific maximum and clamp against it.

  const uint16_t fragmentSize = m_fragmentSize > MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD
                                    ? static_cast<uint16_t>(MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD)
                                    : m_fragmentSize;

components/rtps_embedded/src/entities/StatelessWriter.cpp:225

• This clamps a DATA_FRAG payload using the DATA limit. DATA_FRAG has a 36-byte raw header rather than DATA's 24-byte header, so its maximum fragment payload is 65,439 bytes, not MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD (65,451). A configured size in that 12-byte gap creates a UDP payload larger than 65,507 bytes and sendPacket cannot transmit it. Introduce a DATA_FRAG-specific maximum and clamp against it.

  const uint16_t fragmentSize = m_fragmentSize > MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD
                                    ? static_cast<uint16_t>(MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD)
                                    : m_fragmentSize;

components/rtps_embedded/src/entities/Reader.cpp:52

• A delayed fragment from an older sequence number is treated as a new sample and evicts a newer in-progress reassembly. UDP reordering across consecutive fragmented samples can therefore make both samples fail repeatedly, contrary to the stated “newer sample evicts older” policy. Ignore older sequence numbers from the same writer while a newer sample is active.

    const bool sameSample =
        m_reassembly.active && m_reassembly.writerGuid == writerGuid && m_reassembly.sn == sn;
    if (!sameSample) {
      m_reassembly.active = true;

components/rtps_embedded/CMakeLists.txt:35

• These ESP Kconfig selections include headers that unconditionally define RTPS_STORAGE_DYNAMIC (config_desktop.hpp:40 and config_host_large.hpp:40). Selecting either “host” profile on ESP therefore switches value pools to heap-backed std::deque, despite the Kconfig promise that all profiles remain fully static and the PR's MCU determinism guarantee. Separate limits selection from storage policy, or prevent these dynamic headers from enabling heap storage on ESP.

if(CONFIG_RTPS_LIMITS_PROFILE_HOST)
  target_compile_definitions(${COMPONENT_LIB} PUBLIC RTPS_CONFIG_HEADER="rtps/config_desktop.hpp")
elseif(CONFIG_RTPS_LIMITS_PROFILE_HOST_LARGE)
  target_compile_definitions(${COMPONENT_LIB} PUBLIC RTPS_CONFIG_HEADER="rtps/config_host_large.hpp")

components/rtps_embedded/interop/run_interop.sh:134

• This gate does not verify the claimed byte-exact 200 KB payload: any successful YAML output over 150 KB passes, including a truncated or corrupted sample. Replace the size heuristic with a subscriber/check that compares the received string against the deterministic 200,000-byte pattern, as the reverse-direction gate already does.

# Require the echo to succeed AND to have carried a large (fragment-reassembled)
# payload (>150 KB of YAML), proving the 200 KB sample crossed intact.
big1_rc=1
if [ "$echobig_rc" -eq 0 ] && [ "$(wc -c < /tmp/echobig.log)" -gt 150000 ]; then big1_rc=0; fi

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Addressed all review comments in cbc8ed4:

• max_payload_size too high (rtps_participant.hpp): the no-frag cap was 65535, which overflows the UDP datagram and wraps the 16-bit octetsToNextHeader. Now 65451 = the engine's MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD (65507 UDP − 20 RTPS − 12 INFO_TS − 24 DATA), with a static_assert keeping the two in sync.
• Reader::newFragment — unverified packed fragments: now rejects fragmentsInSubmessage == 0 and requires the serialized data to actually cover all advertised fragments (fragmentSize each, last ends at sampleSize; trailing 4-byte alignment padding allowed) before copying/marking — a short DATA_FRAG can no longer mark missing ranges complete and deliver zero-filled bytes.
• 16-bit ring indices vs dynamic growth (SimpleHistoryCache / HistoryCacheWithDeletion / ThreadSafeCircularBuffer): grow() now refuses to grow past uint16 max (the m_head/m_tail casts would truncate and corrupt the ring). The buffer then behaves as full — history drops-oldest, the queue's grow() returns false and the insert fails cleanly.
• fragment_size == 0 accepted (add_writer): now rejected up front, since the fragmented send paths treat 0 as failure and publish() would otherwise report success while silently dropping every large sample.

Verified: golden byte-identical; engine + facade + typed + >64KB frag loopbacks PASS; docker interop 12/12 (incl. both 200 KB ROS 2 directions — the reader validation preserves FastDDS's alignment-padded final fragment); esp32 builds frag-off (the static_assert) and frag-on; cppcheck clean on the changed files (no new findings).

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components/rtps_embedded/include/rtps/storages/MemoryPool.hpp:117

• The new growth path is bypassed for the unmatched-endpoint pools: SEDPAgent.cpp:109-124 returns as soon as isFull() is true, so add() is never called at the profile cap. Host discovery therefore still drops unmatched writers/readers instead of growing as promised. Remove those caller-side prechecks (and handle add()'s result), or otherwise make the full check trigger growth.

#ifdef RTPS_STORAGE_DYNAMIC
      // Host: grow past the profile cap instead of hard-failing.
      grow();

components/rtps_embedded/src/entities/StatelessWriter.cpp:225

• MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD accounts for the 24-byte DATA header, but DATA_FRAG has a 36-byte fixed header. Clamping to this value permits a 65,519-byte UDP payload (20 + 12 + 36 + 65,451), exceeding UDP's 65,507-byte maximum, so large configured fragment sizes are silently unsendable. Clamp using the DATA_FRAG overhead instead.

  const uint16_t fragmentSize = m_fragmentSize > MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD
                                    ? static_cast<uint16_t>(MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD)
                                    : m_fragmentSize;

components/rtps_embedded/src/entities/StatefulWriter.cpp:350

• This uses the unfragmented DATA limit even though DATA_FRAG has 12 more bytes of fixed overhead. A configured size above 65,439 is clamped to 65,451 and produces a 65,519-byte UDP payload, which exceeds the 65,507-byte protocol maximum and cannot be sent. Derive the clamp from the DATA_FRAG header size.

  const uint16_t fragmentSize = m_fragmentSize > MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD
                                    ? static_cast<uint16_t>(MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD)
                                    : m_fragmentSize;

components/rtps_embedded/interop/run_interop.sh:134

• This gate verifies only that ROS produced more than 150 KB of YAML, not that the received 200 KB pattern is byte-exact. A truncated or corrupted payload above that threshold still passes, contradicting the PR's stated byte-exact espp→ROS verification. Use a ROS subscriber that compares msg.data against the deterministic pattern, as the reverse-direction espp subscriber does.

# Require the echo to succeed AND to have carried a large (fragment-reassembled)
# payload (>150 KB of YAML), proving the 200 KB sample crossed intact.
big1_rc=1
if [ "$echobig_rc" -eq 0 ] && [ "$(wc -c < /tmp/echobig.log)" -gt 150000 ]; then big1_rc=0; fi

components/rtps_embedded/Kconfig:10

• This help text says every profile is fully static, but the host and host_large headers define RTPS_STORAGE_DYNAMIC, making value pools heap-backed and growable. That is especially misleading in ESP menuconfig, where selecting either profile introduces dynamic allocation. Describe the embedded/static versus host/dynamic distinction explicitly.

            Selects the compile-time capacity limits (profile header) used by the
            rtps_embedded engine. All profiles use the same fully-static,
            deterministic allocation model; only the capacity caps differ. These
            caps are pure capacity limits and do NOT change any bytes on the wire.

pc/tests/rtps_embedded_interop_pub.cpp:9

• The usage text omits the newly parsed ninth fragment_size argument, so users cannot discover how to override the fragment size from this CLI's own documentation.
  components/rtps_embedded/include/rtps_participant.hpp:152
• The PR describes an additive optional RtpsParticipant::Config::max_sample_size, but this implementation exposes only a compile-time RTPS_MAX_SAMPLE_SIZE/max_payload_size; the public Config has no such field and callers cannot configure the cap per participant. Either implement and enforce the advertised option on publish/reassembly or update the stated API impact to make the compile-time-only design explicit.

#if defined(RTPS_ENABLE_FRAGMENTATION)
  static constexpr std::size_t max_payload_size = RTPS_MAX_SAMPLE_SIZE;
#else

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Addressed the latest review comments (commit c9a33a2).

Writer cursor-advance vs dynamic-growth bug (the substantive one).
StatelessWriter/StatefulWriter::newChange() advanced m_nextSequenceNumberToSend whenever m_history.isFull(), on the assumption that the next addChange overwrites (drops) the oldest sample. That's true for the static ring (esp32), but the Phase 4 dynamic (host) storage path grows and retains the sample instead — so the writer skipped retained samples and never sent them under backlog. Fixed by guarding the drop/cursor-advance on the static path only (#ifndef RTPS_STORAGE_DYNAMIC); on the dynamic path nothing is dropped, so the cursor must not advance. esp32 behavior is unchanged.

New regression tests (docker-free, in pc/tests — the plain loopback tests never backlog the writer history, so they couldn't catch either hazard):

• rtps_facade_backlog — a reliable writer publishes 300 samples (≫ history depth), forcing the grow/backlog path; the subscriber must receive all 300 with no gaps (a skipped/never-sent sample shows up as a missing sequence number — the exact symptom of the bug). Also asserts add_writer rejects fragment_size == 0.
• rtps_facade_frag_sizes — DATA_FRAG reassembly with a non-exact final fragment (70003 and 205003 B @ frag 8000 → short last fragments), which the existing rtps_facade_frag (exact 25×8000) never exercises. Guards Reader::newFragment fragment-length handling.

The interop harness builds both new tests and runs backlog_no_skip as a CI leg.

The re-listed older comments (16-bit index overflow guards, fragment_size == 0, max_payload_size = 65451, Reader.cpp last-fragment clamp) were already fixed in cbc8ed4.

Gates: golden wire test byte-identical; docker ROS 2 interop 13/13 (incl. backlog_no_skip, 200KB espp↔ROS 2 both directions); esp32 builds green with fragmentation off and on; cppcheck clean.

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Suppressed comments (5)

components/rtps_embedded/Kconfig:23

• This ESP-IDF option selects config_desktop.hpp, which unconditionally defines RTPS_STORAGE_DYNAMIC; the same applies to host_large. Thus choosing either relaxed profile on ESP compiles deque-backed, growable heap storage, contrary to this Kconfig menu's claim that all profiles remain fully static and the PR's MCU determinism guarantee. Either make these choices unavailable on ESP or separate the limits profile from the storage policy so ESP always keeps static storage.

        config RTPS_LIMITS_PROFILE_HOST
            bool "host (relaxed static caps)"
            help
                Relaxed static caps suitable for small-to-medium DDS graphs
                (rtps/config_desktop.hpp). Larger footprint than embedded.

components/rtps_embedded/include/rtps/entities/Reader.hpp:162

• A reader may match multiple remote writers, but this single global slot evicts an incomplete sample whenever a fragment from another (writerGuid, sn) arrives. Interleaved DATA_FRAG streams from two publishers can therefore continually discard each other and never deliver either sample. Keep bounded reassembly state per writer/sample (with an explicit eviction limit) instead of one slot for the whole reader.

  // Single best-effort reassembly slot: accumulates the fragments of one sample
  // at a time (a newer sample or different writer evicts an older incomplete
  // one). Bounded by Config::MAX_SAMPLE_SIZE.

components/rtps_embedded/include/rtps_participant.hpp:81

• The new public fragmentation option and profile behavior are not reflected in the component documentation. components/rtps_embedded/README.md:86-116 still documents only two fixed config headers/old limits, while doc/en/protocols/rtps.rst:22-60 still says ROS 2 data exchange and reliable endpoints are unsupported. Update those user-facing docs with the new profiles, payload limits, and DATA_FRAG scope.

    /// Nominal per-fragment payload size (bytes) used when a published sample is
    /// too large for a single DATA submessage and is split into DATA_FRAG
    /// submessages. Default 63000 (large: fewer fragments). Lower it toward the
    /// path MTU (e.g. ~1400) for lossy links. Only relevant when fragmentation is
    /// compiled in (always on host; opt-in on ESP32). Ignored for samples that
    /// fit a single DATA submessage.
    uint16_t fragment_size{63000};

pc/tests/rtps_embedded_interop_pub.cpp:9

• The publisher now parses a ninth fragment_size argument, but the usage line omits it, so the interop harness interface is incomplete.
  components/rtps_embedded/interop/run_interop.sh:142
• This gate only checks that the YAML output exceeds 150 KB; it does not verify the advertised 200 KB length or any byte content. A truncated or corrupted payload can therefore pass, so this does not support the PR's claim of byte-exact large-payload interop in both directions. Parse/compare the echoed data against the deterministic 200,000-byte pattern (or use a ROS subscriber that performs that comparison) before recording success.

# Require the echo to succeed AND to have carried a large (fragment-reassembled)
# payload (>150 KB of YAML), proving the 200 KB sample crossed intact.
big1_rc=1
if [ "$echobig_rc" -eq 0 ] && [ "$(wc -c < /tmp/echobig.log)" -gt 150000 ]; then big1_rc=0; fi

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Addressed the DATA_FRAG fragment-size clamp comments (commit 356fa19).

Both writers clamped a configured fragment_size to MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD (65451), but DATA_FRAG's fixed submessage header is 36 bytes vs DATA's 24, so a per-fragment payload must be 12 bytes smaller. A configured size in 65440..65451 would therefore build a datagram of up to 65519 bytes (20 RTPS hdr + 12 INFO_TS + 36 DATA_FRAG hdr + 65451 payload), exceeding UDP's 65507-byte limit — and since sendPacket() discards the send error, every large sample would be silently lost.

Fix: added rtps::MAX_FRAGMENT_SIZE, derived symbolically from SubmessageDataFrag::getRawSize() exactly the way MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_PAYLOAD is derived from SubmessageData (= 65439), and clamp both the StatelessWriter and StatefulWriter fragment paths to it. Because it's constexpr-derived from the actual header layout, it auto-recomputes if any submessage size ever changes — a stronger guard than a hardcoded literal. A maximal single-fragment datagram is now exactly 65507 bytes (fits). Also updated the stale Writer::setFragmentSize doc comment.

Gates: golden wire test byte-identical; docker ROS 2 interop 13/13 (incl. 200KB espp↔ROS 2 both directions, cross_process_frag_200k, and backlog_no_skip); esp32 builds green with fragmentation on.