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Summary

Plans the follow-ups that the 2026-11-01 /quest-afk run's PRs reported. Every decision was settled with the maintainer in an interview on 2026-11-01, and each quest's Plan records it with its reason. Quest-only: no code changes.

New quests

m0:

• quest/m0/ci/io-uring-test-group.md [XS]: every io_uring test runs in the nextest io-uring group, and a too-low RLIMIT_MEMLOCK fails clearly. From moq-dev/moq#7535 and moq-dev/moq#7211.

m1:

• quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect.md [M], in the release-perf epic: bisect, attribute, and fix the 18-56% rise in relay instructions per delivered frame (25-56% on io_uring, 18-38% on the tokio workers) since moq-dev/moq#5926, measured by moq-dev/moq#7505.
• quest/m1/pacer-low-rate.md [S]: the shared pacer stops sending up to 2x its pacing rate under 2 Mbit/s, landed with a BBR3 retune. From moq-dev/moq#7546.
• quest/m1/mkv-truncated-finish.md [XS]: a finish() that refuses truncated MKV still ends the tracks, as a refused decode does. From moq-dev/moq#7515.

m2:

• quest/m2/perf/kio-waiter-costs.md [S]: Park::hold's retire rule on drivers parked on more than 8 lists, one close watch per IETF fetch stream, and a short-lived kio::log's cleanup cost. From moq-dev/moq#7556 and moq-dev/moq#7531.
• quest/m2/perf/hot-path-waste.md [S]: the lite subscriber's double track-name copy (moq-dev/moq#7500), Subscriber.#drift's full-history walk (moq-dev/moq#7523), JS per-varint header buffers and the JS fetch paths (moq-dev/moq#7526).
• quest/m2/perf/cluster-route-memory.md [M]: about 3.7 KB per route per broadcast in a full mesh, the in-memory hop's ~140k instructions per group, and bench-profile lock lost records. From moq-dev/moq#7534 and moq-dev/moq#7533.
• quest/m2/probe/browser-send-estimate.md [M], in the probe epic: shipping Chrome and Safari publishers take the relay's PROBE estimate, since they have no WebTransport.getStats(). From moq-dev/moq#7524. Padding now requires it.
• quest/m2/quic-realtime/uring-controller.md [S], in the realtime epic: the io_uring workers run an application's own controller through a factory, instead of refusing it. Follows moq-dev/moq#7467.
• quest/m2/memory-bench-hang.md [XS]: the moq-net memory bench's allocation mode hangs at 1 MiB frames. From moq-dev/moq#7522.
• quest/m2/fmp4-declared-clock.md [S]: fMP4 decode times come from DeclaredClock, replacing moq-dev/moq#7491's cadence cap.
• quest/m2/import-metadata-policy.md [S]: one oversized-metadata policy for fMP4 (moq-dev/moq#7232) and MKV (moq-dev/moq#7234).
• quest/m2/pcm-bulk-encode.md [XS]: Pcm::encode converts a frame in bulk. From moq-dev/moq#7520.
• quest/m2/mp4-repair-lock.md [XS]: the recorder takes an advisory lock that moq repair checks. Waits on the draft moq-dev/moq#7560.
• quest/m2/goaway-migration-followups.md [S]: moq-tokio holds the early close of a migrated session until the replacement's announcements sync, and the JS Connection gets the same early close. From moq-dev/moq#7462.
• quest/m2/regrant-route-recheck.md [S]: a regrant re-checks only the routes the grant change can affect. From moq-dev/moq#7536.
• quest/m2/shaper-socket.md [XS]: moq-shaper's sockets get relay-sized buffers and report their own drops. From moq-dev/moq#7529.
• quest/m2/uring-bench-followups.md [XS]: a quiet-host just bench-runtime re-run and a QUIC request-reply worker_turns nightly series. From moq-dev/moq#7530.
• quest/m2/archive-lookup-withdrawal.md [XS]: a public withdrawal signal on Fill so moq-archive cancels an abandoned lookup's store read. From moq-dev/moq#7310.
• quest/m2/auth-session-index.md [S]: the auth server's session caps cost O(1) per connect (66.5k to 1.27M instructions at 0 to 16,384 sessions today). From moq-dev/moq#7512; waits on moq-dev/moq#7211.
• quest/m2/errqueue-truncation.md [XS]: the Linux MSG_ERRQUEUE reader keeps what fit on MSG_CTRUNC. From moq-dev/moq#7543.

m3:

• quest/m3/nvenc-cuda-arrays.md [M]: NVDEC and NVENC share SDK 13.1 CUDA arrays to drop the per-frame device copy. From moq-dev/moq#7464.

Each is linked from its milestone or epic README at a rank beside related work.

Edits

• quest/m2/quic-deadline.md (now "Per-stream and per-datagram deadlines"): datagrams expire at the subscription's max delay, from moq-dev/moq#7517's ~25% loss and ~8.2 s p99 behind a bottleneck.
• quest/m2/quic-realtime/README.md: the shared comparison runs every candidate under a bulk upload and an encoder following bandwidth_estimate, and weighs SCReAMv2's keyframe overshoot (241 kB/s on a 125 kB/s path) before trusting an estimate to re-enable rungs. From moq-dev/moq#7544, moq-dev/moq#7546, and moq-dev/moq#7547.
• quest/m1/quic-api/poll.md ([S] to [M]): remove the now-redundant ShouldTransmit, and test moq-tokio's close while the socket is blocked. From moq-dev/moq#7490.
• quest/m2/readers-range-live.md: moq play drops its one-group lookback floor and relies on the Delay start. From moq-dev/moq#7311.
• quest/m1/vendor-sync/uniffi.md: fix or drop kixelated/uniffi-dart's Testing and Test Downstream jobs, which fail on every PR.
• quest/m1/vendor-sync/vaapi.md: remove moq-dev/vaapi's workflow-level id-token: write on its PR checks, since PR CI must stay read-only.
• quest/m1/README.md records the 2026-11-01 additions. quest/m1/release-perf/README.md now says "children".

Choices made without asking

• mp4-repair-lock: neither the recorder nor repair runs without the lock. The recorder fails at startup and repair refuses where a filesystem can't lock, following AGENTS.md's supported-or-refused rule. The earlier draft repaired unlocked with a warning. Raised by Pullfrog, CodeRabbit, and the OpenAI review.
• quic-deadline's datagram bench passes on a relative check: datagrams delivered within the max delay don't fall below today's. CodeRabbit suggested a fixed received/offered ratio, which would be arbitrary here.
• relay-cpu-bisect went under quest/m1/release-perf/ because there is no m1 perf epic. Release-perf is the m1 epic that owns accidental per-frame cost.
• Quests that open PRs will delete (gcc.md, bbr-delay-bound.md, scream.md, quic-borrow-free.md, mp4-repair.md, archive-time-ranges.md, fmp4-bframe-decode-time.md, cmsg-windows-truncation.md) are cited by PR URL, not linked, so this PR leaves no dangling links when those PRs land. The same goes for quests planned only in open PRs: competing-cubic, archive-time-followups, and mkv-leaf-limits (moq-dev/moq#7440, moq-dev/moq#7468). competing-cubic.md is not in quest: plan follow-ups from the 2026-10-31 /quest-complete merges #7440's file list at the moment, so pacer-low-rate cites quest: plan follow-ups from the 2026-10-31 /quest-complete merges #7440 for the seed count.
• regrant-route-recheck describes the trigger as a regrant (a new AUTH_OK), which is what moq-dev/moq#7536 measured. The brief said "a SUBSCRIBE_NAMESPACE regrant".
• mkv-truncated-finish finishes the tracks with what was accepted, which is what a refused decode does today. It does not abort them, the alternative quest: delete mkv-fragments, the MKV importer no longer replays input #7515 also floated.
• quest/m2/probe/padding.md now lists browser-send-estimate under Required, because a probe cluster paces against an estimate that shipping browsers lack. rung-disable-js already requires padding, so it gets the dependency through padding.
• uring-bench-followups points the nightly series at the existing worker_turns bench (rs/moq-uring/benches/worker_turns.rs, already nightly) instead of a new one. It also notes that quest: report the replica spike, a conditional win #7533 and quest: report the cluster spike (relay per thread, nothing shared) #7534 found the load generator's ~1.4 s p99 is a startup artifact, which a quiet host alone may not fix.

Decisions

Interview with the maintainer, 2026-11-01:

• Perf follow-ups to plan:
  • ✅ Relay per-frame CPU bisect (quest(m2): profile the io_uring clock read #7505)
  • ✅ kio waiter costs (quest: delete adapter-waker-alloc, measured no-win #7556, quest: borrow-free QUIC state, mechanism prototypes and measurements #7531)
  • ✅ Hot-path waste (perf(moq-net): one allocation per long path join and per lite request track name #7500, perf(hang): keep a bulk max-delay skip linear in buffered groups #7523, perf(net): cut the JS publisher's per-frame races and rank streams with one sort #7526)
  • ✅ Cluster route memory and bench-profile lock (quest: report the cluster spike (relay per thread, nothing shared) #7534, quest: report the replica spike, a conditional win #7533)
• Transport follow-ups to plan:
  • ✅ Pacer under 2 Mbit/s with a BBR3 retune (feat(congestion): GCC candidate, GoogCC refreshed to WebRTC 556f7eec27 #7546)
  • ✅ Datagram deadlines in quic-deadline (bench(net): measure complete datagram delivery #7517)
  • ✅ Realtime comparison under both sender models, weighing SCReAMv2's overshoot (feat(congestion): BBR3 delay bound from the forward delay's trend #7544, feat(congestion): GCC candidate, GoogCC refreshed to WebRTC 556f7eec27 #7546, feat(congestion): SCReAMv2 delay-based controller candidate #7547)
  • ✅ io_uring application controller (feat(tokio): run an application's own congestion controller #7467)
• Media follow-ups to plan:
  • ✅ MKV truncated finish (quest: delete mkv-fragments, the MKV importer no longer replays input #7515)
  • ✅ fMP4 DeclaredClock (fix(moq-mux): keep fMP4 decode times increasing in sub-GOP fragments #7491)
  • ✅ One import metadata policy (fix(mux)!: stream fMP4 media payloads and bound held metadata #7232, fix(mux)!: stream MKV blocks and discard ignored elements in one pass #7234)
  • ✅ PCM bulk encode (perf(moq-audio): move the PCM remainder once per batch #7520)
• Relay/cluster follow-ups to plan:
  • ✅ GOAWAY migration follow-ups (fix(tokio): close a migrated session once it carries nothing #7462)
  • ✅ Regrant route re-check (bench(pattern): sweep the worst known peer grant shapes over AUTH_OK size #7536)
  • ✅ Archive lookup withdrawal (feat(net)!: resolve archive time ranges through a fill lookup #7310)
  • ✅ Auth session index, after feat(auth)!: share request-token grants and end attachment leases #7211 (bench(auth): attribute JWT verification cost and run it nightly #7512)
• Infra/test follow-ups to plan:
  • ✅ io_uring nextest group and memlock reporting (feat(relay)!: enforce bitrate caps on QUIC sessions #7535, feat(auth)!: share request-token grants and end attachment leases #7211)
  • ✅ Memory bench hang (perf(net): copy small whole frames out of shared receive buffers #7522)
  • ✅ moq-shaper socket (perf(sock): attribute UDP queue loss and keep the 8 MiB socket buffers #7529)
  • ✅ io_uring bench follow-ups (perf(moq-uring): run a turn's tasks to quiescence before submitting #7530)
• Misc follow-ups to plan:
  • ✅ Browser send estimate from PROBE (perf(net): sample the send-rate estimate only while a reservation reads it #7524)
  • ✅ mp4 repair lock, after feat(cli): moq repair finishes a cut-short mp4 recording #7560 (feat(cli): moq repair finishes a cut-short mp4 recording #7560)
  • ✅ errqueue truncation (fix(sock): notice truncated control data on Windows receives #7543)
  • ✅ ShouldTransmit removal and the close-while-blocked test (moq-quic owns its waits #7490)
• Other repos:
  • ✅ Land fixer lockfile (planned in moq-dev/quest separately)
  • ✅ uniffi-dart CI (in vendor-sync/uniffi.md)
  • ✅ vaapi id-token (in vendor-sync/vaapi.md)
• moq play's lookback floor:
  • ✅ Extend readers-range-live: drop the floor and rely on the Delay start
• Goal: ✅ Confirmed
• Milestones: ✅ Accept the proposed table (m0, m1, m2, and m3 as listed above)

Not planned (already covered)

• competing_cubic seed count: moq-dev/moq#7440 (quest/m0/nightly/competing-cubic.md)
• lite-03/04 replay: moq-dev/moq#7440 (relay-inflight-replay.md)
• Buffered audio across stop: moq-dev/moq#7440 (eager-encode/audio-across-stop.md)
• gate-quick's condition: quest/m0/ci/gate-quick.md
• max_delay to Delay rename: quest/m1/subscription-delay.md

The open plan PRs moq-dev/moq#7440 and moq-dev/moq#7468 touch nearby READMEs. This PR edits what is on main and accepts the merge conflicts.

Review

Local review skipped on head e0a4b5d66f33a85770c867478afd6b7e95304852 (and earlier on 685c6ffb57). This PR touches only quests, which makes it simple under the quest guide's simple-review rule (moq-dev/quest#364), so it relies on the online reviewers. The earlier Codex gpt-6.1-sol round 1 on 6d9f32136f had no findings.

Online review findings on 6d9f32136f (11 threads plus the review-body notes). Each was answered on its thread or in the summary comment, and every thread is resolved.

Fixed:

• io_uring group: the claim is narrowed to one invocation, and membership is checked with cargo nextest show-config test-groups instead of the suggested group() filterset, which I couldn't confirm exists in nextest 0.9.146.
• The relay CPU range is corrected to 18-56%.
• revalidate keeps the session index's counts.
• fmp4-declared-clock drops "exact": frames decode at their presentation slots.
• import-metadata-policy names the text sample as the one payload held whole, and records fix(mux)!: stream fMP4 media payloads and bound held metadata #7232 as merged.
• memory-bench-hang attaches gdb with -p.
• mp4-repair-lock refuses unlocked repairs and recordings.
• regrant-route-recheck defines a wildcard member's literal prefix.
• pcm-bulk-encode uses cfg(target_endian = "big").
• nvenc-cuda-arrays describes the opaque NVDEC path.
• quic-sim's link title is updated.

Partly fixed:

• quic-deadline reports offered, delivered, and expired datagrams and checks on-time delivery against today's, without the suggested fixed threshold.

Online review findings on 685c6ffb57: Pullfrog reported none. CodeRabbit opened one thread, fixed in e0a4b5d66f, answered and resolved:

• relay-cpu-bisect: a rise on both runtimes shows at least one shared cause, but it doesn't rule out a further io_uring-only cost (the clock read). The two rises can't be subtracted, because the tokio range also covers feat(uring)!: run the worker on moq-clock, reading the clock once per turn #5926. The bisect now attributes an io_uring-only rise separately. Thread.

Checks

• quest check --base origin/main --branch quest-plan/2026-11-01-afk-followups: 632 documents ok (head e0a4b5d66f)
• sh/markdown.sh check: not run locally (the disk is nearly full, so no bun install). The edit is one prose paragraph. CI runs it.

Merge with main

Merged origin/main at c13093f9c4 with no conflicts left; quest resolved the README link lists. Main deleted none of the quests this PR adds or links. #7232 landed meanwhile, so import-metadata-policy now treats the fMP4 side as settled.

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Reviewed commit: 6d9f32136ff6750ae52993a018087f3ba803bb75.

No actionable bugs found in this quest-only change. The direction is sound: reuse existing pacer, Fill withdrawal, controller-factory, and benchmark machinery; require measured wins rather than introduce speculative alternatives. The browser estimate prerequisite and explicit waits on unmerged work keep the follow-ups coordinated. No implementation, API, or wire behavior changes in this PR.

One implementation caveat: quest/m2/mp4-repair-lock.md:14 permits repair without locking on unsupported filesystems. Make the recorder's unsupported-lock behavior explicit before implementing that exception; otherwise a warning cannot establish that in-place repair is safe against a concurrent writer. This is a design clarification, not a demonstrated bug in this docs-only PR.

Verification: inspected all changed plans and their surrounding epic context, checked added repository links against the head tree, and spot-checked the referenced nextest, MKV finish, pacer, Fill, browser-estimate, and draft repair code. No tests, benchmarks, hardware checks, or browser validation were run; the cited historical measurements were not independently reproduced.

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ℹ️ Minor suggestions only. The plan set is well sourced; every cited PR, commit, file, and test name I checked matches the head tree.

Reviewed changes

• 22 new quests across m0–m3: each has Goal/Plan, a Decided line, and an index bullet in its milestone or epic README.
• quic-deadline retitled to "Per-stream and per-datagram deadlines", adding datagram expiry from #7517's bench.
• quic-realtime comparison: runs every candidate under bulk and encoder-following sender models, and weighs SCReAMv2's keyframe overshoot.
• quic-api/poll [S]→[M]: removes ShouldTransmit and adds a moq-tokio close-while-blocked test.
• readers-range-live: moq play drops its one-group lookback floor and relies on the Delay start.
• Vendor-sync CI: uniffi-dart's failing Testing/Test Downstream, and vaapi's workflow-level id-token: write.
• Probe ordering: padding now requires browser-send-estimate.

ℹ️ quic-sim.md still uses the old quest title

quest/m2/quic-sim.md:29 labels the quic-deadline.md link "Per-stream deadlines", but this PR retitles that quest to "Per-stream and per-datagram deadlines" and updates the other two references. The file is outside this diff, so it is not an inline comment.

Technical details

# Stale quest title in quic-sim's Related list

## Affected sites
- `quest/m2/quic-sim.md:29` — link text still says "Per-stream deadlines"

## Required outcome
- Match the retitled quest, as `quest/m2/README.md:139` and `quest/m2/quic-realtime/README.md:116` already do.

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Review comments at @quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect.md:
- Line 18: Update the attribution statement in the tokio rows discussion: say
that increases in both runtimes support at least one shared cause, but do not
rule out an additional io_uring-specific cost. Keep the io_uring clock in the
attribution possibilities until per-runtime confirmation is complete.

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• quest/m0/ci/README.md
• quest/m0/ci/io-uring-test-group.md
• quest/m1/README.md
• quest/m1/release-perf/README.md
• quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect.md
• quest/m2/README.md
• quest/m2/auth-session-index.md
• quest/m2/fmp4-declared-clock.md
• quest/m2/import-metadata-policy.md
• quest/m2/memory-bench-hang.md
• quest/m2/mp4-repair-lock.md
• quest/m2/pcm-bulk-encode.md
• quest/m2/perf/README.md
• quest/m2/quic-deadline.md
• quest/m2/quic-sim.md
• quest/m2/regrant-route-recheck.md
• quest/m3/nvenc-cuda-arrays.md

Files skipped from review as they are similar to previous changes: 11

• quest/m0/ci/README.md
• quest/m2/perf/README.md
• quest/m1/README.md
• quest/m3/nvenc-cuda-arrays.md
• quest/m2/pcm-bulk-encode.md
• quest/m2/memory-bench-hang.md
• quest/m2/mp4-repair-lock.md
• quest/m2/auth-session-index.md
• quest/m2/import-metadata-policy.md
• quest/m0/ci/io-uring-test-group.md
• quest/m2/README.md

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Walkthrough

The pull request updates quest roadmaps and adds planning documents across milestones M0 to M3. The plans cover CI workflows, session and transport behavior, media and file handling, performance investigations, and GPU processing. The changes document proposed work and measurements; they do not implement the planned code changes.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 685c6

The documentation-only PR is broadly mergeable, but two plan statements should be clarified before implementation relies on them.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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quest/m2/regrant-route-recheck.md-27-27: 1

27-27: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

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Fix the grammar in the related-plan note.

Replace this diffs against with the type against which this is diffed or the type this compares against.

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Use explicit target_endian predicates.

The plan says cfg(target_endian) for the big-endian path. Rust defines target_endian as a key-value option with "little" or "big" for both target classes. Use cfg(target_endian = "big") and cfg(target_endian = "little"). The current wording can select the wrong conversion path. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Specify the opaque NVDEC path.

The current path calls cuvidDecodePicture, maps a pitch-linear surface, copies it, and unmaps it. The direct-array path also requires an opaque output format, registered CUarray surfaces, and asynchronous decode. Event ordering alone does not remove the existing copy. Add these API and configuration changes to the plan. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @quest/m0/ci/io-uring-test-group.md:
- Line 9: Update the verification guidance to use group-aware nextest filters:
list tests assigned to `group(io-uring)` and separately inspect tests matching
`test(/uring/)` that are not in that group. Keep the existing inventory check
and avoid treating plain `cargo nextest list` as evidence of group assignment.

Review comments at @quest/m0/ci/README.md:
- Line 157: Narrow the `io_uring` criterion in the README and the Goal sentence
in `io-uring-test-group.md` to cover parallel tests within a single `just ci`
invocation, not concurrent invocations. Do not retain a separate
cross-invocation claim unless `quest gate` admission is extended to cover the
shared io_uring memory budget.

Review comments at @quest/m1/release-perf/README.md:
- Line 274: Update the regression range in the “Relay CPU per frame since #5926”
entry to match the measured rows in the linked quest: use approximately 18–56%
if the range covers all four rows, or explicitly scope 25–56% to io_uring if
that range applies only to io_uring.

Review comments at @quest/m2/auth-session-index.md:
- Line 13: Update the session-index plan to include `Sessions::revalidate` among
the operations that maintain token and remote counts. Specify that revalidation
updates counts when reinserting an aged-out slot or adding a previously unseen
token, while preserving the no-cap rule.

Review comments at @quest/m2/fmp4-declared-clock.md:
- Around line 9-15: Revise the fMP4 decode-time goal around DeclaredClock to
describe its count-based, declared-depth model rather than promise exact
variable-rate decode gaps from PTS and reorder depth alone; if the goal retains
exact VFR timing, specify explicit decode-duration input and require a long-gap
test.

Review comments at @quest/m2/import-metadata-policy.md:
- Around line 11-18: Clarify the fMP4 held-whole byte-cap policy in the metadata
plan: remove “one text sample” from the cap or explicitly identify it as an
exception to the rule that media payload remains unbounded. Keep the policy
consistent that this quest limits metadata, not media payload.

Review comments at @quest/m2/memory-bench-hang.md:
- Line 8: Update the documented GDB command for inspecting the hung benchmark to
attach to its existing process by accepting and passing a PID, so `thread apply
all bt` collects stacks from the benchmark rather than running without a target.

Review comments at @quest/m2/mp4-repair-lock.md:
- Around line 14-15: Update the `repair` behavior so unavailable advisory-lock
support causes it to refuse rather than proceed with a warning; repair must
continue only after acquiring the lock. Adjust the test expectations to verify
refusal and that the file remains untouched when locking is unsupported.

Review comments at @quest/m2/quic-deadline.md:
- Around line 73-74: Update the #7517 datagram_delivery acceptance criteria to
require a defined minimum slow-viewer received/offered rate or equivalent
maximum loss and expired-drop limit. Specify that latency percentiles are
calculated over delivered datagrams, and report expired drops separately when
distinguishing deadline expiry from other loss.

Review comments at @quest/m2/regrant-route-recheck.md:
- Around line 18-19: Clarify the candidate-route rule for changed grant members:
use the literal segments before the first `*` or `**` to locate routes in the
origin prefix structure, and use a wider walk when the member starts with a
wildcard. State how the wider-walk cost is reported and include tests for
wildcard members, removed members, and overlapping grants.

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These are the review-body findings that have no thread. All are fixed in 685c6ff.

• Pullfrog, quest/m2/quic-sim.md stale title: its Related link now reads "Per-stream and per-datagram deadlines", like the other two links.

• CodeRabbit, regrant-route-recheck.md:27 grammar: it now says "the received-grant type this compares against".

• CodeRabbit, pcm-bulk-encode.md:11: it now uses cfg(target_endian = "big").

• CodeRabbit, nvenc-cuda-arrays.md:13-15: the plan now describes the decoder side from the SDK 13.1 NVDEC guide:

  • the decoder outputs opaque block-linear frames;
  • application arrays from cuArray3DCreate with CUDA_ARRAY3D_VIDEO_ENCODE_DECODE are registered as its output surfaces;
  • the cuvidMapVideoFrame, copy, and unmap steps are removed.

  It also notes that event ordering alone removes no copy, and that a renderer can't read the opaque layout.

• The OpenAI review's caveat on mp4-repair-lock.md:14 is the same as the Pullfrog thread, and is fixed there.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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Reviewed commit: 685c6ffb57040ea71068136e6cda86a862aa8f85, compared with my previous review at 6d9f32136ff6750ae52993a018087f3ba803bb75, separating the main-branch merge from the plan changes.

No new actionable bugs found. The repair-lock caveat in my prior review is resolved: both recording and repair now refuse to run without the lock. The revalidation bookkeeping, declared-clock limits, wildcard-prefix scope, and delivered-versus-expired benchmark criteria clarify the existing designs without adding speculative machinery. Reusing the existing clock and CLI-owned locking remains the simpler direction. This PR changes plans, not implementation or wire behavior.

Verification: read the revised plans and review discussion, checked the merge ancestry, and spot-checked Sessions::revalidate and DeclaredClock against the clarified contracts. No tests, benchmarks, browser checks, or GPU validation were run; SDK-specific claims and historical measurements were not independently reproduced.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

The delta since the prior pullfrog review is the origin/main merge plus commit 685c6ffb57, which answers the 11 review threads. Quest-only; no code, API, or wire change.

• io_uring group narrowed: the Goal now claims only one just ci invocation's parallel tests, and membership is checked with cargo nextest show-config test-groups (a real command; the repo pins nextest 0.9.146).
• Relay CPU range corrected: Plan scopes 25-56% to io_uring since cdff3c8f95 and 18-38% to the tokio workers since 1dd9b83d1; the epic bullet reads 18-56%. Both match the table's rows.
• Auth session index: Sessions::revalidate (rs/moq-auth/src/serve.rs:425) added to the counts, correctly noting it re-inserts an aged-out/restart-lost slot, appends a new token, and enforces no cap.
• fmp4-declared-clock: dropped "exact"; now describes decode at the group's presentation slots with only the first depth frames one tick apart, matching DeclaredClock.
• import-metadata-policy: marks #7232 merged, names the fMP4 text sample as the sole held-whole payload, and states MKV refuses subtitle tracks (confirmed at rs/moq-mux/src/container/mkv/import.rs:559).
• mp4-repair-lock: both recorder and repair now refuse when the lock is unavailable, following the supported-or-refused rule. This resolves the prior pullfrog and OpenAI caveat.
• memory-bench-hang: gdb -batch -p <pid> attaches to the parked process.
• pcm-bulk-encode: cfg(target_endian = "big").
• quic-deadline: reports offered/delivered/expired and checks on-time delivery against today's.
• regrant-route-recheck: defines a wildcard member's literal prefix and scopes the wider walk; cites Patterns/Permit in rs/moq-net/src/auth.rs:523.
• nvenc-cuda-arrays: documents the opaque block-linear direct-output path; the linked SDK 13.1 NVDEC guide §5 confirms the design (opaque OutputFormat, cuvidRegisterDecodeSurfaces, no map/copy).
• quic-sim.md: link title now matches the retitle.

All prior pullfrog feedback is addressed, and no new issues were introduced. No em dashes in any changed file.

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Minor · Use one datagram-expiry predicate. · quic-deadline.md:13-15

quest/m2/quic-deadline.md:13-15
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Use one datagram-expiry predicate.

The Goal says to drop a datagram after its deadline passes. The Plan says to drop a datagram when its estimated arrival misses the deadline. These conditions differ. A datagram can be before its deadline but already be predicted to arrive late. Use the predicted-arrival condition in both places. Also write “instead of being sent late.”

Suggested wording

- A queued datagram past its deadline is dropped from the send buffer instead of sent late.
+ A queued datagram whose estimated arrival is after its deadline is dropped from the send buffer instead of being sent late.

- drops a queued datagram whose deadline has passed
+ drops a queued datagram whose estimated arrival is after its deadline

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Review comment at @quest/m2/quic-deadline.md around lines 13 - 15:
Update the Goal and Plan in the datagram-expiry description to use the same
condition: drop a queued datagram when its estimated arrival is after its
deadline, even if the deadline has not yet passed; state that it is dropped
instead of being sent late.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect.md:
- Line 18: Update the attribution statement in the tokio rows discussion: say
that increases in both runtimes support at least one shared cause, but do not
rule out an additional io_uring-specific cost. Keep the io_uring clock in the
attribution possibilities until per-runtime confirmation is complete.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @quest/m2/quic-deadline.md:
- Around line 13-15: Update the Goal and Plan in the datagram-expiry description
to use the same condition: drop a queued datagram when its estimated arrival is
after its deadline, even if the deadline has not yet passed; state that it is
dropped instead of being sent late.

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quest land removed this pull request from the queue: its head moved from 6d9f321 to 685c6ff after it was queued.

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Reviewed commit: e0a4b5d66f33a85770c867478afd6b7e95304852, against my last reviewed head 685c6ffb57040ea71068136e6cda86a862aa8f85; the base is unchanged.

No new actionable bugs found in the relay CPU attribution update. It addresses the existing independent finding: an io_uring-only rise now stays in scope and is attributed separately, while the mismatched historical baselines are not subtracted. Retaining the same bisect and per-runtime profiling procedure is simpler than adding speculative fixes. The earlier repair-lock clarification remains intact.

Verification: read the complete revised plan, its two-line delta, and the finding/reply. This is a planning-only change; no tests or benchmarks were run and the historical measurements were not reproduced.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

The delta since the prior pullfrog review (685c6ffb57) is a single commit, e0a4b5d66, touching only quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect.md. It addresses CodeRabbit's finding on that file.

• Shared-cause attribution softened: the summary paragraph now says "at least one cause is shared code" instead of ruling out an io_uring-specific cause.
• io_uring-only cost kept in scope: it explicitly retains a further io_uring-only cost (the clock read #7505 profiled) as a possibility.
• No-subtraction caveat added: notes the tokio range starts at #5926's base and so spans #5926 itself, so the two rises can't be subtracted to isolate one.
• Per-runtime attribution instruction: the Bisect bullet now says a rise that shows on io_uring but not on the tokio workers is attributed on its own, not folded into a shared culprit.

I verified 1dd9b83d1 is an ancestor of cdff3c8f95 (#5926), so the "the tokio range spans #5926 itself" claim holds. No em dashes in the changed file.

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• #7463: quest/m1/vendor-sync/vaapi.md

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