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Problem

The native rung rule landed in moq-dev/moq#7029, but its shaped-uplink proof was unreliable: the top rendition sometimes never came back, both at cold start and after the grant fell below the lowest rung. The cause was the native bandwidth probe. Once only the lowest rung is left sending (250 kbit/s, probing for the 1.25 Mbit/s the rungs reserve over a 40ms round trip), it could not raise the estimate far enough to clear the resume margin.

A deterministic reproduction in moq-quic's probe harness found two causes:

1. Packet granularity ate the probe's gain. The probe fills up to BBR3's ProbeBW_UP inflight, 1.25 BDP. Each probe packet had to fit a whole segment under that bound. With a BDP of a few packets, every round stopped most of a packet short, which is the whole 25% gain. The estimate stalled at about 0.94 Mbit/s and never reached 1.25 Mbit/s on a 2 Mbit/s path. The resume margin is 0.775 Mbit/s, so whether a rung came back depended on noise.
2. The stall judgment ran on wall-clock round trips. An attempt counted as a miss two smoothed RTTs after its last raise. At the low estimate a deep drop leaves behind, BBR3 paces one packet about every round trip, and the peer's ACK delay holds a sparse sender's ACKs back. Rounds that were still raising the estimate got judged as misses, and each miss sat out four seconds. Recovery crawled at about 25% per four seconds. One seed stayed below the margin for 28 s, and a real run stayed below it for 70 s.

Approach

• moq-quic (connection/bandwidth_probe.rs): the probe packet that reaches the inflight bound may now cross it, by less than one packet. An attempt now stalls once two rounds are acknowledged without a raise, counted by packet number (the round in flight at the raise, then the one sent at the inflight it allowed), not after two round trips. A round that pacing or ACK delay spreads out still gets judged as a whole round.
• Probe harness: the media rate is now a Scenario field. A new gate test, sparse_rises_to_target, reproduces the sparse case. It fails without the fix: the estimate stops at 0.94 Mbit/s. batch_within_probe_inflight now allows the last packet to cross the bound.
• moq-ffi: the ignored acceptance test test::rung::shaped_uplink_disables_and_resumes runs nightly through just rs rung-disable. It now compiles against main's MoqMediaProducer lower. It sends over real sockets with BBR3 through a moq-shaper uplink that steps 2 Mbit/s → 500 kbit/s → 100 kbit/s → 2 Mbit/s. It checks initial delivery, disable and its catalog update, a below-lowest grant, a resume at the band boundary that starts with a keyframe, no media produced while disabled, and queue overflow.
• The quest is finished, so its file and every link to it are removed. quest/m1/c/api-gaps.md is now unblocked.

Decisions

• Maintainer, 2026-11-04 (/quest-unblock): ✅ hosted CI is enough for the strict Nix gate. Local check flake failing on a host that refuses user-namespace mapping is expected since moq-dev/moq#7763. Not chosen: requiring a local builder that supports namespaces.
• Choices made without asking, listed here for review:
  • Fix the probe at the source rather than loosen the acceptance test, as the previous round recommended.
  • Judge stalls in acknowledged packet-number rounds. I tried two smoothed RTTs plus the peer's max_ack_delay first, and it still misjudged rounds that BBR3 paces slowly.
  • Don't hold sparse_rises_to_target to OVERHEAD (10%). That budget assumes a target twice the media rate. Keeping an estimate five times the media rate fresh resends about 20% of the media bytes over 10 s (19.6%; a 30 s run measured 18%). The old code resent 9.9% without ever reaching the target. All existing budgets still hold.

Impact

• Public API: none. The doc for moq_congestion::Metrics::probe_inflight now says the last packet may cross the bound. Wire: none. Package versions: none.
• Probe behavior: an application-limited sender's probe may overshoot probe_inflight by less than one packet, and attempts last until two rounds come back flat.

Checks

• quest gate just ci on d5aa7e8: every module passed, including C/C++ (the pkg-config repair has landed), Kotlin/Gradle, Dart, Go, Python, OBS compilation, and 11,692 Rust tests. The only failure was check flake: unshare: write failed /proc/self/uid_map: Operation not permitted while building the github-runner image. The maintainer decision above covers this, and hosted CI runs the strict Nix gate.
• quest gate just check after merging origin/main (8b9fe6f): passed, 11,699 Rust tests.
• Probe acceptance suite, release build with debug assertions (tests::probe::, tests::scream::, bandwidth_probe::, including the nightly cases): 33 tests ran. All pass once batch_within_probe_inflight allows the overshoot.
• just rs rung-disable: passed 6 out of 6 real runs, the last on 8b9fe6f, each 37–41 s. The top rung resumes 3.3–6.4 s after the path reopens.
• quest check: 594 documents passed.

Review

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, via quest review --base origin/main. Session 01a1a8f3-223c-78d0-b467-04ba2fc16e2b, round 1.
• Reviewed head: 8b9fe6f.
• Findings: none.

Follow-ups

• In the sparse harness, after the path fell from 2 Mbit/s to 100 kbit/s, the estimate stayed at 1.32 Mbit/s for about 11 s. The probe sits idle while the estimate covers the target, and BBR3's reported estimate (max_bw.min(bw_delay)) ignores its loss bound, so a collapsing uplink takes seconds to lower the grant. In the FFI run, the top rung disabled 5.6 s after the 500 kbit/s step. Worth a quest so the bandwidth estimate follows the collapse within a few rounds.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 8b9fe6f

No actionable findings. Addressing sparse-probe recovery in the transport rather than weakening the acceptance criteria is a reasonable direction; the bounded overshoot remains subject to the ordinary congestion and pacing limits.

Static GitHub review only; I did not run builds or tests. The current-head Check was in progress when inspected.

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — one minor documentation note below.

Reviewed changes

• Probe inflight overshoot — the packet that reaches BBR3's probe_inflight may now cross it by less than one packet, so a small BDP no longer loses nearly the whole 25% gain to packet granularity (bandwidth_probe.rs:229-233).
• Packet-number stall judging — Attempt now tracks round/flat and stalls after two acknowledged packet rounds instead of two wall-clock RTTs, so a round that pacing or peer ACK delay spreads out is judged whole (bandwidth_probe.rs:63-90, 139-170).
• Sparse probe gate test — Scenario::media is added and sparse_rises_to_target reproduces the 250 kbit/s → 1.25 Mbit/s case; I confirmed it fails at 0.94 Mbit/s when the overshoot condition is reverted and passes with the PR (tests/probe.rs:787-811).
• FFI rung acceptance test — a new ignored nightly test (just rs rung-disable) over real sockets and a stepped moq-shaper uplink, checking disable, the below-lowest grant, and a boundary resume that starts with a keyframe (test/rung.rs, rs/justfile, nightly.yml, nextest.toml).
• Quest retirement — deletes simulcast-rung-disable.md and rewrites every reference; a repo-wide grep for the path is clean.

ℹ️ The crate README still describes the old two-round-trip stall

rs/moq-quic/README.md:103 still says an attempt "raises nothing for two round trips" before it backs off. That is the precise mechanism this PR replaces with two acknowledged packet-number rounds, so the README (and the stall helper comment at bandwidth_probe.rs:399, which now reads "Miss two round trips after now") contradicts the code and the PR's own rationale. The updated public Metrics::probe_inflight doc shows the intent to keep mechanism docs in sync.

Technical details

# Update the probe's stall description outside the changed module

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-quic/README.md:103` — "An attempt that raises nothing for two round trips, or ends short of the target, sits out 3 s and then 4 s…" now conflicts with `bandwidth_probe.rs:142-145`, which counts two acknowledged packet numbers regardless of elapsed time.
- `rs/moq-quic/src/connection/bandwidth_probe.rs:399` — the `stall` test helper's doc says "Miss two round trips after `now`", but `judge` no longer uses `now` for the stall, only for the backoff.

## Required outcome
- Both descriptions state the new rule: an attempt misses after two acknowledged rounds without a raise (counted by packet number), and the inflight bound may be crossed by the last packet.

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Walkthrough

The change adds an ignored FFI integration test for simulcast rendition disable and recovery over a shaped uplink, with a recipe and nightly test-matrix entry. Quest documents remove the separate rung-disable quest and update related references. QUIC bandwidth-probe stall detection now counts acknowledged packet-number rounds. Probe readiness and pacing account separately for untracked bytes and segment size. Probe tests add packet-round coverage, a sparse-media scenario, and an allowance for packet-sized in-flight overshoot.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 8b9fe

Mergeable with bounded follow-up: ACK-only traffic can prematurely delay a bandwidth probe, and unusually slow setup can falsely fail the rendition test. Stronger delivery and probe-boundary assertions would improve regression protection.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 77.78% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the change: the QUIC bandwidth probe is fixed so a sparse sender's probe reaches its target, and the fix is tied to native rung recovery. The changeset matches this. It changes bandwid…
Description check		The description is closely related to the changeset. It explains the problem (native bandwidth probe stalling on sparse senders), the two causes, and the approach in moq-quic's bandwidth_probe.rs and …
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the change: the QUIC bandwidth probe is fixed so a sparse sender's probe reaches its target, and the fix is tied to native rung recovery. The changeset matches this. It changes bandwidth_probe.rs and the probe harness (sparse_rises_to_target gate test), and it adds the rung-disable acceptance test and recipe. The title is specific and omits the moq-ffi test and quest cleanup, which is acceptable.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description is closely related to the changeset. It explains the problem (native bandwidth probe stalling on sparse senders), the two causes, and the approach in moq-quic's bandwidth_probe.rs and the probe harness. It also covers the moq-ffi rung-disable acceptance test, the quest file removal, and test results, all of which match the raw summary.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

Nitpick comments: 3

rs/moq-ffi/src/test/rung.rs: 1

200-203: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Assert lowest-rendition delivery after narrowing.

After NARROW, the low.next() arm only increments received[0], and no assertion reads that count after the initial phase. The loop can exit once the high-rendition milestones hold, so a lowest-rendition receive that stalls after NARROW would not fail the test. Record the lowest-rendition count when NARROW is reached, then assert that it increased before the final assertions.

Suggested change

 	let mut stopped_at = None;
+	let mut low_at_narrow = None;
 	let mut resumed_at = None;
@@
 				if elapsed >= NARROW && elapsed < BELOW_LOWEST && remote_enabled == Some(false) {
 					disabled = true;
 				}
+				if elapsed >= NARROW && low_at_narrow.is_none() {
+					low_at_narrow = Some(received[0]);
+				}
@@
 	assert!(
 		resumed && resumed_frame,
 		"the top rendition never advertised and delivered its resume"
 	);
+	let low_at_narrow = low_at_narrow.expect("the loop ended before the bandwidth narrowed");
+	assert!(
+		received[0] > low_at_narrow,
+		"the lowest rendition stopped delivering after the bandwidth narrowed"
+	);
 	for track in tracks {

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Review comment at @rs/moq-ffi/src/test/rung.rs around lines 200 - 203:
In the test loop, record received[0] the first time elapsed reaches NARROW, then
before the final assertions require that the count has increased; fail clearly
if the loop ends before the count is recorded. Keep the existing low.next()
counting behavior and high-rendition checks unchanged.

rs/moq-quic/src/tests/probe.rs: 2

921-923: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff

Tighten the overshoot assertion in batch_within_probe_inflight to the doc comment's bound.

The doc comment at rs/moq-quic/src/tests/probe.rs:894-896 says the batch crosses probe_inflight by less than its last packet. The assertion at lines 921-923 allows up to path_mtu(). It rejects a large overshoot, but it accepts an overshoot that the doc comment excludes. A change that sends one extra probe packet after the crossing passes whenever the first overshoot is small enough.

Checking against the last probe packet's size needs a value the test cannot read today. sent_bandwidth_probe_bytes is a running total. Recording the size of the most recent probe packet would allow the tighter check.

Prompt for AI Agents

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Review comment at @rs/moq-quic/src/tests/probe.rs around lines 921 - 923:
Update `batch_within_probe_inflight` to record the size of the most recently
sent probe packet and assert that the batch’s overshoot beyond `probe_inflight`
is strictly less than that size. Do not use `path_mtu()` as the bound, since it
can be larger than the final probe packet.

---

922-926: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Pin the crossing in the probe batch test.

The upper bound bytes_in_flight() < inflight + mtu also holds when bytes_in_flight() is at most inflight. A change that rejects the packet that would cross the bound still passes this assertion. The docstring describes a crossing, but no assertion in this test requires a probe packet to cross probe_inflight. Add a lower-bound check on bytes_in_flight() only after this fixture is shown to produce a crossing packet.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Review comment at @rs/moq-quic/src/tests/probe.rs around lines 922 - 926:
In the probe batch test, preserve the existing upper-bound assertion and
establish that the fixture produces a packet crossing probe_inflight; only then
add a lower-bound assertion requiring bytes_in_flight() to exceed inflight.

---

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
Review comments at @rs/moq-ffi/src/test/rung.rs:
- Around line 39-40: Update the timing around Shaper::bind and the subscription
setup so the initial-delivery window begins only after both subscriptions are
ready; keep the shaper’s run origin aligned with that readiness instant so the
capacity schedule and window share the same start. Preserve the existing NARROW
threshold and rendition assertions.

Review comments at @rs/moq-quic/src/connection/bandwidth_probe.rs:
- Around line 213-215: Update the Rounds accounting in the bandwidth probe so
ACK-only packets without a congestion record cannot advance a round boundary;
derive progress only from packets the probe sent, preserving the existing
probe-round judgment behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @rs/moq-ffi/src/test/rung.rs:
- Around line 200-203: In the test loop, record received[0] the first time
elapsed reaches NARROW, then before the final assertions require that the count
has increased; fail clearly if the loop ends before the count is recorded. Keep
the existing low.next() counting behavior and high-rendition checks unchanged.

Review comments at @rs/moq-quic/src/tests/probe.rs:
- Around line 921-923: Update `batch_within_probe_inflight` to record the size
of the most recently sent probe packet and assert that the batch’s overshoot
beyond `probe_inflight` is strictly less than that size. Do not use `path_mtu()`
as the bound, since it can be larger than the final probe packet.
- Around line 922-926: In the probe batch test, preserve the existing
upper-bound assertion and establish that the fixture produces a packet crossing
probe_inflight; only then add a lower-bound assertion requiring
bytes_in_flight() to exceed inflight.

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• .config/nextest.toml
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• quest/m1/c/api-gaps.md
• quest/m1/simulcast-rung-disable.md
• quest/m2/2848-follow-the-bandwidth-grant-in-moq-audio-instead-of.md
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• quest/m2/probe/padding.md
• quest/m2/probe/rung-disable-js.md
• quest/m2/quic-realtime/README.md
• rs/justfile
• rs/moq-congestion/src/lib.rs
• rs/moq-ffi/Cargo.toml
• rs/moq-ffi/src/test.rs
• rs/moq-ffi/src/test/rung.rs
• rs/moq-quic/src/connection/bandwidth_probe.rs
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