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perf(moq-audio): move the PCM remainder once per batch - #7520
Large PCM writes repeatedly moved their remaining samples, making batching cost quadratic.
Approach
encode::Producer::publish_full_frames and Resampler::convert drained the front of their buffer once per codec frame or filter chunk. Each drain moved every sample behind it, so one write of N samples split into frames of F moved about N²/2F samples. Both now read each frame or chunk in place and move the leftover to the front once per call. The producer also stops allocating a Vec per packet.
New bench rs/moq-audio/benches/batches.rs. It sends the same 4 s of audio through the public encode::Producer in different write sizes: 32 frames, 10 ms, 100 ms, 1 s, and the whole 4 s in one write. It sweeps input rate (48 kHz with no resampling, and 44.1 and 96 kHz resampled to 48 kHz), 1/2/6 channels, and 1 or 8 independent producers.
PCM is the codec, so buffering and resampling cost isn't hidden by encoder work. Four Opus cases show the same cost next to a real codec.
It first prints a table: user-space instructions per input sample (via perf-event2), allocation count, bytes allocated, and the slowest single write. Instruction/allocation counts use an untimed pass; worst-write latency uses a separate pass. Criterion also runs without per-write clock reads.
It runs nightly in the rust-extra leg (just gh nightly rust-extra, sh/gh/nightly.sh). It is not in CodSpeed: the cost is in memmove, which barely shows up in instruction counts.
New test batch_size_does_not_change_the_published_track. It writes PCM in batches of 1, 7, 959, 961, 1921, 4410 frames and all at once, with and without resampling. The published track must be identical every time: payloads, timestamps, keyframes, groups, the end marker, and the zero-padded final partial frame. At 48 kHz the payload must also equal the input exactly. The test passes on the baseline commit too.
Merged with moq-dev/moq#7238, which added a raw-PCM backlog in front of the encoder. publish_full_frames still reads each codec frame in place. A frame is encoded straight from pending when the producer is active and nothing waits; only a frame that joins the backlog is copied into its own Raw. The remainder moves to the front once per call.
Measurements
The tables below are historical paired measurements at the cited commits. That harness timed every write inside both its count and Criterion passes. The current benchmark measures latency separately, so absolute cross-batch instruction and throughput values will differ. The recorded base/candidate pairs used identical instrumentation; the allocation savings and copied-byte calculation are unchanged.
Machine: Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus (8 P-cores + 16 E-cores), Linux 7.0, rustc 1.98.1, bench profile (fat LTO, one codegen unit), glibc malloc. The host was shared with other jobs (load average 8 to 33).
Baseline is 46ce27ae7e (bench and test added on main) with the bench updated in 4fa62dc8de. Candidate is 2cc2f43472. Both binaries come from the same bench source; only producer.rs and resample.rs differ. The numbers predate the merge with moq-dev/moq#7238. The merged producer takes the same in-place path whenever the backlog is empty, which is every case the bench runs.
Timing: taskset -c 5 batches --bench --noplot <filter> in four alternating pairs, pinned to one P-core. Unpinned runs split into two speed clusters depending on whether the scheduler picked a P-core or an E-core.
Deterministic counts (one pass per case)
Repeat runs give identical allocation counts and bytes. PCM instruction counts repeat within 0.1 insn/sample, and Opus within 0.1%.
case
insn/sample
allocs
bytes allocated
pcm 48k 2ch, 10 ms
21.4 → 20.4
3041 → 2841
7.25 → 5.72 MB
pcm 48k 2ch, burst
20.3 → 19.2
2641 → 2441
8.78 → 7.24 MB
pcm 44.1k 2ch, burst
408.3 → 407.2
2653 → 2453
14.00 → 12.46 MB
pcm 96k 6ch, burst
138.5 → 138.0
2653 → 2453
49.79 → 45.18 MB
pcm 48k 2ch, 10 ms, 8 producers
22.0 → 20.9
26044 → 24444
58.31 → 46.02 MB
opus 48k 2ch, burst
841.3 → 839.8
127689 → 127489
31.02 → 29.49 MB
Every case saves exactly 200 allocations and 1.54 MB per producer: one Vec per 20 ms packet.
Instruction counts can't see the main cost. glibc copies with rep movsb, which retires as a handful of instructions no matter how many bytes it moves. That is why instructions/sample is the same for 10 ms writes and the 4 s burst on the baseline.
The roughly 1 insn/sample change comes from code generation, not from this change:
Another bench build of the same library code measured -3.1 in one and +0.9 in the other.
perf annotate shows the cause. After LTO, Pcm::encode's per-sample loop was compiled with a stack spill in one build and without it in the other, even though its source is identical in both.
Bytes moved by the old per-frame drain, from the formula Σₖ (N − kF) × 4 B:
write
moved by the old code
4 s burst, 48k stereo (producer)
153 MB
4 s burst, 44.1k stereo
140 MB in the resampler + 153 MB in the producer
4 s burst, 96k 6ch
917 MB in the resampler + 458 MB in the producer
one 1 s write, 48k stereo
9.4 MB
The new code moves less than one frame per call. 10 ms writes always leave less than one frame behind, so they moved almost nothing before either.
Criterion, pinned, 4 alternating pairs (ms per 4 s of audio; median cand/base)
case
base runs
cand runs
ratio
pcm 48k 2ch, burst
2.30 2.24 2.19 2.26
0.63 0.61 0.61 0.62
0.27
pcm 48k 2ch, 1 s
0.93 0.93 0.92 0.92
0.54 0.53 0.54 0.54
0.58
pcm 48k 6ch, burst
9.21 9.52 9.45 9.41
1.60 1.32 1.49 1.35
0.15
pcm 44.1k 2ch, burst
10.64 10.37 10.28 10.55
7.40 7.07 7.55 7.52
0.71
pcm 96k 2ch, burst
12.19 12.07 11.83 12.02
6.64 6.16 6.48 6.24
0.53
pcm 96k 6ch, burst
43.6 43.3 43.1 43.5
16.9 16.2 16.8 15.1
0.38
pcm 48k 2ch, burst, 8 producers
20.1 19.4 19.5 19.4
6.95 6.45 6.96 6.66
0.35
pcm 44.1k 2ch, burst, 8 producers
85.4 83.7 84.8 84.6
60.1 58.8 60.0 57.2
0.70
opus 48k 2ch, burst
20.8 20.6 20.5 20.6
19.0 18.9 19.0 19.5
0.92
opus 44.1k 2ch, burst
29.2 28.9 29.1 29.2
26.1 25.8 26.1 25.8
0.89
pcm 48k 2ch, 32 frames
0.76 0.72 0.72 0.73
0.72 0.70 0.78 0.73
1.00
pcm 48k 2ch, 10 ms
0.58 0.58 0.58 0.58
0.55 0.54 0.57 0.61
0.97
pcm 44.1k 2ch, 10 ms
7.02 7.11 6.99 7.05
6.97 6.86 6.98 7.11
0.99
pcm 96k 6ch, 10 ms
13.4 13.2 13.6 13.8
13.5 12.8 13.4 13.4
0.99
opus 48k 2ch, 10 ms
19.0 18.9 19.2 19.1
18.8 18.8 18.9 18.9
0.99
The other cases agree: no steady-batch regression (ratios 0.84 to 1.00), and 100 ms writes at 0.92 to 0.98.
Count-pass worst single write, unpinned, so only indicative:
96k 6ch burst: 47.3 → 21.4 ms
48k 6ch burst: 11.6 → 3.2 ms
What this means for real consumers:
Capture and the bus deliver about 10 ms periods. They see the allocation saving and no throughput change.
The gain is for callers that hand over large buffers: moq-c and binding producers fed from files or decoders, or a capture ring drained after a stall. With one-second or larger writes, the old code spent most of its non-codec time moving the tail. That is 8% to 11% of an Opus burst, and 1.4x to 6.6x on the PCM path.
Raw outputs, commands and summaries were kept in the checkout's .tmp/ while measuring and deleted at handoff, per the workspace rules. Every number above is reproducible with the bench at these commits.
Impact
Public API: none. Wire: none.
New Linux-only dev-dependency perf-event2 0.7.4 (MIT OR Apache-2.0) for the bench's instruction counter. It adds perf-event-data, perf-event-open-sys2 and c-enum to the lockfile. cargo deny passes bans and licenses. The one advisories error, proc-macro-error2 via moq-e2ee's libcrux, is already on main.
Alternatives
Kept the existing buffers and compacted once per call. No new queue abstraction or capture-period policy was needed. The independent networking race exposed by the landing attempt was repaired separately in moq-dev/moq#7634, merged 2026-11-03 and now merged into this branch.
Choices made without asking
Used perf-event2 rather than writing raw perf_event_open code. On a hybrid CPU a generic event only counts on one core type, so the bench opens one counter per core PMU (cpu_core and cpu_atom) and adds them, without pinning the thread. Where perf is unavailable it prints -.
One bench target prints the count table and then runs Criterion, in the same style as moq-json's allocations and window tables. It joins the rust-extra nightly leg next to bus.
The producer counts a frame whose encode or publish fails as consumed, so it is never encoded twice, as before. The resampler keeps a chunk the filter rejects in its buffer, also as before.
aec.rs needed no change: main already rewrote its stride loop to drain once per pass (rs/moq-audio/src/aec/processor.rs).
Follow-ups
Pcm::encode grows its payload with extend_from_slice one sample at a time. Its instruction count shifts with LTO code generation, which makes the PCM control noisier than it needs to be. A single bulk conversion would make it both cheaper and stable. This is codec CPU and out of scope here.
The performance-survey epic README should record this result when it reconciles the children's measurements: large-batch PCM was a real quadratic cost (up to 6.6x on PCM at 48k 6ch), small batches were unaffected, and the nightly batches series covers it.
Landing failures
The 2026-11-02 merge-queue failures were in networking tests this PR doesn't touch. The land fixer's notes name moq-tokio's backend::quic_client_close_drains_finished_track (subscribe failed: Unroutable), and in its local rerun moq-relay's shutdown_signal::a_reconnecting_client_rides_out_a_restart (a reconnect timeout that passed on rerun). shutdown_signal::a_signal_right_after_ready_drains appears in the fixer's log only as source it read. GitHub no longer has the failed batch runs.
moq-dev/moq#7634 fixed the Unroutable close-drain race on main, and this branch now includes it. On the merged head, a 10-iteration stress of every shutdown_signal test plus quic_client_close_drains_finished_track passed 90/90 (cargo nextest run -p moq-relay -p moq-tokio --features moq-relay/test-support --test integration --stress-count 10). No networking code changed here.
Validation
Merged origin/main (e5ec95ce15). One textual conflict in sh/gh/nightly.sh: kept --bench batches beside main's new receive_bursts, ladder and fanout benches. One semantic conflict: moq-dev/moq#7597 replaced Subscription::with_max_delay, so batch_size_does_not_change_the_published_track now uses with_delay(Delay::default().with_max(..)).
just check origin/main: all 11,517 Rust tests passed (132 skipped), and every lint module passed. The check quest module failed only because the quest 0.1.0 on this host's PATH predates main's ## Waiting heading (moq-dev/moq#7648). It flagged 18 quest files this PR doesn't touch. The repo-pinned nix run .#quest -- check --base origin/main --branch quest/m2/performance-survey/audio-batches passed (585 documents ok).
Head 07f26cc68f also merges cleanly with origin/main at 9ac02f9a27.
Review
Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, quest review --base origin/main, session 01a1a26a-d82a-7180-b28a-39043814620e, round 1, reviewed head 07f26cc68fc2cd2609003d753bfbb41afd25a86f against 9ac02f9a27ff21547d3e5e712aacaa7aeae08491: no findings.
The online reviews on the previous head c31c0deff8 (pullfrog, OpenAI review, CodeRabbit) reported no actionable issues.
Sweep one constant duration of audio across batch sizes, channels, input
rates and independent producers, with PCM isolating buffering from codec
CPU. Print instructions, allocations and the slowest write, then time each
case with Criterion. Run it nightly in the rust-extra leg, and check that
batching leaves the published track unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…core type
A hybrid CPU counts a generic event on one core type only, so sum one
counter per core PMU instead of hand-rolling perf_event_open and pinning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Producer::publish_full_frames and Resampler::convert drained the front
of their buffer for every codec frame or filter chunk, moving the rest
each time, so one large batch copied a triangular number of samples.
Read each frame in place and compact only the remainder at the end.
The producer no longer allocates a Vec per packet either.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Producer frame processing now uses indexed reads from a temporarily taken buffer, and resampler conversion removes consumed samples after processing chunks. A new test checks that published packets, timestamps, and group boundaries are consistent across input batch sizes. A new benchmark measures audio cases using instruction counts when available, allocation counts, write duration, and Criterion. The nightly script runs the benchmark. The survey plan and its README requirement were removed.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 07f26
The change is mergeable with a bounded benchmark overhead caveat: filtered and smoke runs still process every reporting case. The suggested audio-test additions are optional coverage improvements.
Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1
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No actionable bugs found. Reading slices and compacting once addresses the quadratic copying directly, without adding a queue abstraction or changing public API/wire behavior. The producer still consumes a failed frame, while the resampler retains a rejected chunk; the surrounding finish/reset paths remain consistent. The batch-invariance test and steady/burst benchmark coverage are useful complements.
Verification: static inspection of the changed code and relevant encoder, resampler, flush/reset, test and nightly integration paths. I did not run tests or benchmarks or independently reproduce the performance measurements.
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Important
The new batches bench fails the workspace clippy gate. It uses std::time::Instant, which clippy.toml bans, and just rs check runs cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings. Every existing bench silences the same lints with a crate-level #![expect(...)].
Reviewed changes
Reviewed the two drain-loop refactors, the new equivalence test, the new bench, and the dependency/nightly wiring. The refactors are semantically equivalent to the old code (verified against the branch source) and remove the quadratic copy as claimed.
producer.rs in-place frame encode — publish_full_frames now tracks a consumed cursor, encodes each frame in place via the new publish_frame, and does a single self.pending.drain(..consumed) at the end, dropping the per-packet Vec. A frame that fails is still consumed, matching the old drain-before-encode order.
resample.rs in-place chunk convert — same cursor pattern in convert, extracted to convert_chunk; a chunk the filter rejects stays buffered, matching the old ?-before-drain order.
Equivalence test — batch_size_does_not_change_the_published_track compares the full published track across batch sizes 1 through burst at 48 kHz and 44.1 kHz (resampled), and pins the 48 kHz payload to the input plus zero padding.
New bench — benches/batches.rs sweeps write size, rate, channels and producer count, with a perf-event2 instruction counter, wired into the rust-extra nightly leg.
The refactors themselves look correct. The only issue is the clippy failure on the new bench, flagged inline.
…survey/audio-batches
Resolves the publish_full_frames conflict with the raw-PCM backlog from
#7238: each codec frame is read in place, encoded straight from pending when
nothing waits, and copied into a Raw only when it joins the backlog. The
remainder still moves to the front once per call.
Also adds the crate-level clippy expect the batches bench needs for its
host-clock timing, as the other benches do.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
No actionable bugs found in this update. Compared with my prior review at 7264343, the substantive change is the merge integration with raw-PCM history. The active, empty-backlog path still encodes directly from the pending slice; queued frames own their samples and preserve timestamps, reset/discontinuity flags, and replay order. Single compaction remains the simpler fix for the copying cost, with no new public API or wire change. Pullfrog's earlier bench-lint finding is addressed by the added crate-level expectation.
Verification: static inspection of the merge integration, backlog ownership/expiry, replay and finish paths, and related tests. I did not run tests, clippy, or benchmarks, or reproduce the performance measurements.
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✅ No new issues found.
Reviewed changes
Re-reviewed the two commits since the prior pullfrog review (7264343): the clippy fix for the new bench and the merge of origin/main that integrated the in-place cursor with the raw-PCM backlog. Read the final producer.rs and resample.rs sources on the branch.
Clippy fix on benches/batches.rs — added the crate-level #![expect(clippy::disallowed_methods, clippy::disallowed_types, ...)], matching rs/moq-json/benches/window.rs. This resolves the prior blocking finding; the thread is now resolved.
publish_full_frames merged with the backlog — the in-place consumed cursor now coexists with main's raw-PCM backlog: pending is taken, walked by cursor, and restored after one drain(..consumed); a frame is encoded straight from the taken buffer when active && backlog.is_empty() and copied into its own Raw only when it waits. encode_raw(&mut self, Raw) became encode_frame(&mut self, samples, timestamp, reset, discontinuity). The take/restore is balanced on every path, and finish/set_active pass the Raw's stored reset/discontinuity.
resample.rsconvert — unchanged since the prior review; the cursor only advances on a successful chunk, so a filter-rejected chunk stays buffered and drain(..consumed) runs before result?.
The error-order and drain semantics match the reviewed base, so the merge resolution introduced no behavioral regression. Nothing to anchor a comment to.
The batch failed in the unchanged test backend::quic_client_close_drains_finished_track with subscribe failed: Unroutable. Neither PR changes that test or its production path. All 774 audio and transport tests passed on this pinned branch, including that test, and the new audio benchmark target compiled. Requeue unchanged; follow up the intermittent QUIC test separately.
codex / Codex land fixer: This maintainer pick already used its mechanical fi·x attempt. Run /quest-iterate to diagnose the repeated failure, then pick it again. Recommendation: run /quest-iterate before picking it again.
.expect("relay task panicked")
.expect("relay exited with an error");
assert!(
signalled.elapsed() >= DRAIN_TIMEOUT,
"relay exited after {:?}, short of the {DRAIN_TIMEOUT:?} drain window",
signalled.elapsed()
);
}
async fn a_signal_right_after_ready_drains_inner() {
let _ = rustls::crypto::aws_lc_rs::default_provider().install_default();
let relay = Relay::load(relay_config()).await.expect("load relay");
let port = relay.tcp_addr().expect("TCP listener bound").port();
let ready = relay.ready();
let run = tokio::spawn(relay.run());
ready.wait().await.expect("relay ready");
Checking moq-tokio v0.19.23 (/work/rs/moq-tokio)
Checking moq-stats v0.2.12 (/work/rs/moq-stats)
Checking moq-relay v0.17.2 (/work/rs/moq-relay)
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 4m 04s
codex
The run finished with 4,229 passes and one different failure: `shutdown_signal::a_reconnecting_client_rides_out_a_restart` exceeded its reconnect timeout. That test is unchanged by #7517. Both session benchmark checks passed. I’ll rerun the suite with the repository’s local limit of four test workers to see whether the timeout was transient.
exec
/bin/bash -lc 'cargo nextest run --locked --tests -p moq-net -p moq-relay -p moq-tokio --features moq-net/fuzz,moq-relay/test-support --profile ci --no-fail-fast -j 4 > /tmp/land-7517-retest.log 2>&1' in /work
exec
/bin/bash -lc "tail -5 /tmp/land-7517-retest.log; rg 'FAIL|TIMEOUT|quic_client_close_drains_finished_track|a_reconnecting_client_rides_out_a_restart' /tmp/land-7517-retest.log" in /work
exited 1 in 0ms:
PASS [ 0.023s] (2966/4230) moq-net::integration lazy_discovery::requesting_an_unwatched_path_discovers_its_instance
PASS [ 0.020s] (2967/4230) moq-net::integration lazy_discovery::serving_the_peer_asks_nothing
PASS [ 0.026s] (2968/4230) moq-net::integration lazy_discovery::waiting_on_a_path_asks_about_it
PASS [ 0.105s] (2969/4230) moq-net::integration mesh_withdraw::cross_node_close_retracts_once_lite06
PASS [ 0.103s] (2970/4230) moq-net::integration mesh_withdraw::cross_node_close_retracts_once_lite07
exec
/bin/bash -lc "tail -6 /tmp/land-7517-retest.log; rg 'FAIL|TIMEOUT|quic_client_close_drains_finished_track|a_reconnecting_client_rides_out_a_restart' /tmp/land-7517-retest.log" in /work
succeeded in 0ms:
PASS [ 0.026s] (3952/4230) moq-tokio server::tests::serving_nothing_is_an_error
PASS [ 0.091s] (3953/4230) moq-tokio server::tests::close_releases_quic_socket
PASS [ 0.029s] (3954/4230) moq-tokio server::tests::stalled_setup_reply_is_closed_at_the_deadline
PASS [ 0.029s] (3955/4230) moq-tokio server::tests::stalled_setup_is_closed_at_the_deadline
PASS [ 0.019s] (3956/4230) moq-tokio server::tests::stream_listener_config_parses
PASS [ 0.021s] (3957/4230) moq-tokio server::tests::stream_only_config_has_no_quic
PASS [ 1.157s] (3624/4230) moq-relay::integration shutdown_signal::a_reconnecting_client_rides_out_a_restart
codex
The relay restart test passed on the rerun, which has reached more than 3,900 passing tests with no failures. If the remaining tests pass, I’ll record both PRs for unchanged requeue and name the observed flaky tests in the result.
succeeded in 88875ms:
exec
/bin/bash -lc "tail -5 /tmp/land-7517-retest.log; rg 'quic_client_close_drains_finished_track' /tmp/land-7517-retest.log; git rev-parse pr-7520 pr-7517; git status --short" in /work
succeeded in 0ms:
PASS [ 0.060s] (4228/4230) moq-tokio::integration worker::the_other_wildcard_spelling_is_refused
PASS [ 0.191s] (4229/4230) moq-tokio::integration worker::spawner_contains_a_factory_panic
PASS [ 3.106s] (4230/4230) moq-tokio::integration reconnect::two_peers_redirecting_to_each_other_escalate_the_backoff
────────────
Summary [ 85.873s] 4230 tests run: 4230 passed, 38 skipped
PASS [ 0.088s] (4070/4230) moq-tokio::integration backend::quic_client_close_drains_finished_track
f19b868b7407552e18a2453129e065028da07e6b
dec0914ef77034a134adc091c6947226faad8b25
exec
/bin/bash -lc "git switch base; python3 - <<'PY'
import json
from pathlib import Path
result = [
{
\"number\": 7520,
\"action\": \"requeue\",
\"reason\": \"Healthy unchanged; batch flake moq-tokio::integration backend::quic_client_close_drains_finished_track passed. Passed: cargo nextest run --locked --tests -p moq-audio -p moq-tokio --profile ci --no-fail-fast (774 tests); cargo check --locked -p moq-audio --bench batches; bash -n sh/gh/nightly.sh.\",
\"comment\": \"The batch failed in the unchanged test "'`backend::quic_client_close_drains_finished_track` with `subscribe failed: Unroutable`. Neither PR changes that test or its production path. All 774 audio and transport tests passed on this pinned branch, including that test, and the new audio benchmark target compiled. Requeue unchanged; follow up the intermittent QUIC test separately."
},
{
"number": 7517,
"action": "requeue",
"reason": "Healthy unchanged; batch flake moq-tokio::integration backend::quic_client_close_drains_finished_track passed. Local flake moq-relay::integration shutdown_signal::a_reconnecting_client_rides_out_a_restart passed on full rerun. Passed: cargo nextest run --locked --tests -p moq-net -p moq-relay -p moq-tokio --features moq-net/fuzz,moq-relay/test-support --profile ci --no-fail-fast -j 4 (4230 tests); cargo check --locked -p moq-net -p moq-relay --bench session --features moq-net/fuzz,moq-relay/test-support; bash -n sh/gh/nightly.sh.",
"comment": "The batch'"'s unchanged test "'`backend::quic_client_close_drains_finished_track` passed on this pinned branch. The initial local suite had 4,229 passes and one failure in the unchanged relay test `shutdown_signal::a_reconnecting_client_rides_out_a_restart`: `the publisher gave up during the restart: Err(Reconnect('"\\\"reconnect timed out after 333.333333ms: cancelled\\\"))"'`. A complete rerun with four test workers passed all 4,230 tests, including both tests. Both modified session benchmark targets compiled. Requeue unchanged; follow up both intermittent tests separately."
}
]
Path('"'quest-land-result.json').write_text(json.dumps(result, indent=2) + '\\n')
assert len(result) == 2
assert {x['number'] for x in result} == {7520, 7517}
PY
git status --short" in /work
succeeded in 145ms:
Switched to branch 'base'
?? quest-land-result.json
codex
Wrote [quest-land-result.json](/work/quest-land-result.json): both PRs requeue unchanged, with no blame assigned.
All 774 audio/transport tests and 4,230 network/relay/transport tests passed, along with benchmark compilation checks. Recorded both observed flaky tests. Branches remain unchanged; the result file is uncommitted.
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All 774 audio/transport tests and 4,230 network/relay/transport tests passed, along with benchmark compilation checks. Recorded both observed flaky tests. Branches remain unchanged; the result file is uncommitted.
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Design change: separate the networking repair exposed by the landing failure from this audio optimization. The front now explicitly tells the driver which pending queries to drain, replacing the extra route-table lookup. Preserved requests wait for actual metadata, and standalone metadata queries still cancel on withdrawal. The unchanged QUIC close test and all 3,856 network and transport tests pass; the isolated repair is undergoing its own final gate and local review.
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✅ No new issues found.
Reviewed changes
Re-reviewed the commits since the prior pullfrog review (ca56dee80): a merge of origin/main, then the split of the bench's latency measurement into its own pass. The range-diff confirms the only PR-authored change is in the bench; producer.rs and resample.rs are unchanged from the reviewed revision.
Separate latency pass in benches/batches.rs — run is now generic over TIMED. The count pass runs untimed (run::<false>) so Instant::now no longer sits inside the instruction and allocation measurement, and counts() builds a fresh producer set for a dedicated timed pass that produces the reported slowest_us. Criterion also uses the untimed specialization; the header doc now describes the split. This fixes the round-1 finding that per-write clock reads contaminated the counts.
Merge of origin/main — no PR-authored product changes; net-zero for the reviewed refactors.
No actionable bugs found in this update. Compared with my last published review at ca56dee, accounting for merged base changes, the substantive change is separating per-write latency timing from instruction/allocation counting and Criterion throughput. The shared const-specialized runner keeps both passes doing the same audio work without duplicating the workload; fresh producers and disabled allocation counting isolate the latency pass. This is a proportionate correction to the benchmark evidence, with no new public API or wire change. The earlier bench-lint finding remains fixed; the previously reviewed producer/resampler refactors are unchanged.
Verification: static inspection of the benchmark, base-relative patches, dependency/nightly integration and prior reviews. I did not run tests or benchmarks or independently reproduce the measurements.
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Follow-up Comments
Skip the full counts() pass for filtered or --test runs.
330-330: Minor · Performance & Scalability · Low value
Skip the full counts() pass for filtered or --test runs.
main runs counts() on every invocation except --list. counts() does not read Criterion's filter, so it runs all 35 cases twice before benches() starts. A single-case or --test run still pays for that full pass. Gate counts() on an unfiltered, non---test run, or move it behind an explicit flag.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-audio/benches/batches.rs at line 330:
Update main’s call to counts() so it runs only for unfiltered, non---test
invocations, or behind an explicit opt-in flag. Preserve the existing counts()
behavior when that condition is met.
Add a multi-packet groupduration pass to the batch test.
Add a multi-packet group_duration pass to the batch test.
The batch test compares group identifiers, so it does observe grouping. At the default 20 ms group_duration, each PCM packet closes its own group, so packets never share a group. A batching change that mishandles group accumulation across packets written in one call would still match the batch=1 reference. Add a pass with a longer group duration, such as 100 ms, so packets share groups across batch sizes.
Suggested change
- for input_rate in [48_000u32, 44_100] {+ for (input_rate, group_ms) in [(48_000u32, 20), (44_100, 20), (48_000, 100)] {
let input = Input::new(input_rate, Layout::Stereo);
...
let mut options = Options {
track: Some("audio".to_string()),
config: Config::from_input(super::super::Codec::Pcm, &input),
+ group_duration: Duration::from_millis(group_ms),
..Options::default()
};
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Review comment at @rs/moq-audio/src/encode/producer.rs around lines 1236 - 1240:
Extend the batch test’s input cases with a multi-packet group duration, such as
100 ms, and set `Options.group_duration` for each case. Preserve the existing 20
ms cases so the test compares grouping across batch sizes under both default and
longer group durations.
Assert that the 44.1 kHz PCM case publishes audio.
1273-1285: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Assert that the 44.1 kHz PCM case publishes audio.
The 44.1 kHz arm checks only that every batch size produces the same track. Two empty tracks pass that check. A regression that stops PCM output at 44.1 kHz would not fail this test. The 48 kHz arm checks the payload length and bytes, but the 44.1 kHz arm has no content check. Add a nonempty assertion before the equality check.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-audio/src/encode/producer.rs around lines 1273 - 1285:
Add a nonempty assertion for `published` in the batch-size test before the
equality check against `reference`, so the 44.1 kHz case fails if it produces no
audio. Preserve the existing track-equality check and the 48 kHz payload
assertions.
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Problem
Large PCM writes repeatedly moved their remaining samples, making batching cost quadratic.
Approach
encode::Producer::publish_full_framesandResampler::convertdrained the front of their buffer once per codec frame or filter chunk. Each drain moved every sample behind it, so one write of N samples split into frames of F moved about N²/2F samples. Both now read each frame or chunk in place and move the leftover to the front once per call. The producer also stops allocating aVecper packet.rs/moq-audio/benches/batches.rs. It sends the same 4 s of audio through the publicencode::Producerin different write sizes: 32 frames, 10 ms, 100 ms, 1 s, and the whole 4 s in one write. It sweeps input rate (48 kHz with no resampling, and 44.1 and 96 kHz resampled to 48 kHz), 1/2/6 channels, and 1 or 8 independent producers.perf-event2), allocation count, bytes allocated, and the slowest single write. Instruction/allocation counts use an untimed pass; worst-write latency uses a separate pass. Criterion also runs without per-write clock reads.rust-extraleg (just gh nightly rust-extra, sh/gh/nightly.sh). It is not in CodSpeed: the cost is in memmove, which barely shows up in instruction counts.batch_size_does_not_change_the_published_track. It writes PCM in batches of 1, 7, 959, 961, 1921, 4410 frames and all at once, with and without resampling. The published track must be identical every time: payloads, timestamps, keyframes, groups, the end marker, and the zero-padded final partial frame. At 48 kHz the payload must also equal the input exactly. The test passes on the baseline commit too.Merged with moq-dev/moq#7238, which added a raw-PCM backlog in front of the encoder.
publish_full_framesstill reads each codec frame in place. A frame is encoded straight frompendingwhen the producer is active and nothing waits; only a frame that joins the backlog is copied into its ownRaw. The remainder moves to the front once per call.Measurements
The tables below are historical paired measurements at the cited commits. That harness timed every write inside both its count and Criterion passes. The current benchmark measures latency separately, so absolute cross-batch instruction and throughput values will differ. The recorded base/candidate pairs used identical instrumentation; the allocation savings and copied-byte calculation are unchanged.
Machine: Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus (8 P-cores + 16 E-cores), Linux 7.0, rustc 1.98.1, bench profile (fat LTO, one codegen unit), glibc malloc. The host was shared with other jobs (load average 8 to 33).
Baseline is
46ce27ae7e(bench and test added on main) with the bench updated in4fa62dc8de. Candidate is2cc2f43472. Both binaries come from the same bench source; onlyproducer.rsandresample.rsdiffer. The numbers predate the merge with moq-dev/moq#7238. The merged producer takes the same in-place path whenever the backlog is empty, which is every case the bench runs.Commands:
batches --bench __none__, alternating base, cand, base, cand.taskset -c 5 batches --bench --noplot <filter>in four alternating pairs, pinned to one P-core. Unpinned runs split into two speed clusters depending on whether the scheduler picked a P-core or an E-core.Deterministic counts (one pass per case)
Repeat runs give identical allocation counts and bytes. PCM instruction counts repeat within 0.1 insn/sample, and Opus within 0.1%.
Every case saves exactly 200 allocations and 1.54 MB per producer: one
Vecper 20 ms packet.Instruction counts can't see the main cost. glibc copies with
rep movsb, which retires as a handful of instructions no matter how many bytes it moves. That is why instructions/sample is the same for 10 ms writes and the 4 s burst on the baseline.The roughly 1 insn/sample change comes from code generation, not from this change:
perf annotateshows the cause. After LTO,Pcm::encode's per-sample loop was compiled with a stack spill in one build and without it in the other, even though its source is identical in both.Bytes moved by the old per-frame drain, from the formula Σₖ (N − kF) × 4 B:
The new code moves less than one frame per call. 10 ms writes always leave less than one frame behind, so they moved almost nothing before either.
Criterion, pinned, 4 alternating pairs (ms per 4 s of audio; median cand/base)
The other cases agree: no steady-batch regression (ratios 0.84 to 1.00), and 100 ms writes at 0.92 to 0.98.
Count-pass worst single write, unpinned, so only indicative:
What this means for real consumers:
moq-cand binding producers fed from files or decoders, or a capture ring drained after a stall. With one-second or larger writes, the old code spent most of its non-codec time moving the tail. That is 8% to 11% of an Opus burst, and 1.4x to 6.6x on the PCM path.Raw outputs, commands and summaries were kept in the checkout's
.tmp/while measuring and deleted at handoff, per the workspace rules. Every number above is reproducible with the bench at these commits.Impact
perf-event20.7.4 (MIT OR Apache-2.0) for the bench's instruction counter. It addsperf-event-data,perf-event-open-sys2andc-enumto the lockfile.cargo denypasses bans and licenses. The one advisories error,proc-macro-error2viamoq-e2ee's libcrux, is already on main.Alternatives
Kept the existing buffers and compacted once per call. No new queue abstraction or capture-period policy was needed. The independent networking race exposed by the landing attempt was repaired separately in moq-dev/moq#7634, merged 2026-11-03 and now merged into this branch.
Choices made without asking
perf-event2rather than writing rawperf_event_opencode. On a hybrid CPU a generic event only counts on one core type, so the bench opens one counter per core PMU (cpu_coreandcpu_atom) and adds them, without pinning the thread. Where perf is unavailable it prints-.moq-json'sallocationsandwindowtables. It joins therust-extranightly leg next tobus.aec.rsneeded no change: main already rewrote its stride loop to drain once per pass (rs/moq-audio/src/aec/processor.rs).Follow-ups
Pcm::encodegrows its payload withextend_from_sliceone sample at a time. Its instruction count shifts with LTO code generation, which makes the PCM control noisier than it needs to be. A single bulk conversion would make it both cheaper and stable. This is codec CPU and out of scope here.batchesseries covers it.Landing failures
The 2026-11-02 merge-queue failures were in networking tests this PR doesn't touch. The land fixer's notes name
moq-tokio'sbackend::quic_client_close_drains_finished_track(subscribe failed: Unroutable), and in its local rerunmoq-relay'sshutdown_signal::a_reconnecting_client_rides_out_a_restart(a reconnect timeout that passed on rerun).shutdown_signal::a_signal_right_after_ready_drainsappears in the fixer's log only as source it read. GitHub no longer has the failed batch runs.moq-dev/moq#7634 fixed the
Unroutableclose-drain race on main, and this branch now includes it. On the merged head, a 10-iteration stress of everyshutdown_signaltest plusquic_client_close_drains_finished_trackpassed 90/90 (cargo nextest run -p moq-relay -p moq-tokio --features moq-relay/test-support --test integration --stress-count 10). No networking code changed here.Validation
origin/main(e5ec95ce15). One textual conflict insh/gh/nightly.sh: kept--bench batchesbeside main's newreceive_bursts,ladderandfanoutbenches. One semantic conflict: moq-dev/moq#7597 replacedSubscription::with_max_delay, sobatch_size_does_not_change_the_published_tracknow useswith_delay(Delay::default().with_max(..)).just check origin/main: all 11,517 Rust tests passed (132 skipped), and every lint module passed. Thecheck questmodule failed only because thequest0.1.0 on this host's PATH predates main's## Waitingheading (moq-dev/moq#7648). It flagged 18 quest files this PR doesn't touch. The repo-pinnednix run .#quest -- check --base origin/main --branch quest/m2/performance-survey/audio-batchespassed (585 documents ok).07f26cc68falso merges cleanly withorigin/mainat9ac02f9a27.Review
Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort,
quest review --base origin/main, session01a1a26a-d82a-7180-b28a-39043814620e, round 1, reviewed head07f26cc68fc2cd2609003d753bfbb41afd25a86fagainst9ac02f9a27ff21547d3e5e712aacaa7aeae08491: no findings.The online reviews on the previous head
c31c0deff8(pullfrog, OpenAI review, CodeRabbit) reported no actionable issues.(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)