fix(net): reuse compressed group encoders per track by kixelated · Pull Request #7690 · moq-dev/moq

kixelated · 2026-11-03T07:19:25Z

Problem

A compressed single-frame update allocated and discarded a DEFLATE encoder on every group. On the current backend, 24 updates requested 9,230,049 bytes.

Approach

Keep one finished encoder on its track's cache account and reset its window when the next group takes it. Transfer its existing pool charge without creating write debt. Concurrent groups retain separate encoders; finishing beyond the one spare frees the excess.

Correct the codec heap estimate for zlib-rs's hash and symbol buffers. Add accounting/lifecycle and cold-stream tests, the original 202-byte Annex-B input, and a benchmark over tracks and overlapping groups. Delete the completed quest and its parent link. It was the fuzz-findings epic's last child, so the epic README takes a size ([S]) and keeps its own remaining work: watch a few nightly sessions and add new findings as children.

Impact

Public API: none.
Wire: none. A reused encoder produces the same cold-group slices as a fresh encoder, independently decodable from frame zero.
An idle compressed publishing track retains one charged spare until its cache account's final owner drops. The bounded 384 KiB estimate per used account is the accepted reuse cost; no encoder is shared across tracks.

Alternatives

Fresh encoders preserve the allocation churn. A global pool introduces cross-track ownership and accounting. Neither a global pool nor a per-update fuzz allowance is needed.

Validation

Merged origin/main at f4f1c052f1 (no rebase) to clear GitHub's conflict. Locally the merge was clean, with the quest link-list driver resolving quest/m1/fuzz-findings/README.md. Main had finished the epic's other children, so this PR now deletes the last one. Per quest guide, the epic README was given [S] and its "after the last child" line was reworded (603fa997a6). git diff origin/main...HEAD outside quest/ matches the reviewed head 88840b0373's diff line for line.
quest gate nix develop --command just ci origin/main on 603fa997a6: every check module passed. Rust tests: 10,847 passed, 134 skipped.
quest check --fix --base origin/main: 586 documents ok.
Earlier, pre-merge: quest gate just rs test -p moq-net -p moq-mux --lib ran 5,304 passed, 16 skipped. The original 202-byte Annex-B input now stops earlier in the current parser and allocates 31,129 bytes, within the unchanged fuzz bound; it is committed for replay. A direct diagnostic of 24 compressed updates fell from 9,230,049 bytes / 472 allocations to 486,033 bytes / 426 allocations. The diagnostic instrumentation was removed.
Criterion group_compressed_updates, quick mode, shared host, 32 updates per track (pre-merge). The times are observational only: repeated runs varied a lot, so they show no stable CPU speedup or regression.

Tracks x overlapping groups	Before	Current screen 1	Current screen 2
1 x 1	237 us	153 us	154 us
1 x 4	1.14 ms	0.934 ms	1.78 ms
16 x 1	3.83 ms	2.78 ms	3.30 ms
16 x 4	16.55 ms	15.76 ms	15.88 ms

Review

Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, head 603fa997a61a22c053f4eaa2caf3df60c6438677, round 1 (quest review --base origin/main): no findings. It reviewed the whole branch, including the epic README edit.

Earlier: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort, head 88840b037351f4789e9693ae1b6602aab7e74c1d, round 2: no findings. Round 1 questioned the persistent cost of idle spares under a small pool budget. That was refuted using the explicitly requested billed account-lifetime spare and the pool's existing protected-live-edge/convergence-target contract (cache.rs:23-29,125-132). The cost is stated under Impact above, and the reviewer accepted the refutation.

(Written by GPT-6.1 Sol; merge, epic sizing, and validation update by Claude Opus 5.5)

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coderabbitai · 2026-11-05T06:00:29Z

Walkthrough

Compressed groups now reuse encoders held by a track account. The encoder resets for each group, and cache accounting tracks the encoder while it moves between a group and the track. The changes add tests for stream behavior and charge lifetimes, plus a benchmark for repeated compressed updates. The fuzz-findings README now states that known findings are fixed and describes nightly runs; the catalog-encoder finding document was removed.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 603fa

The no-default-features test workflow cannot compile the new test. Add the async feature guard before merging; retaining one charged spare encoder per account is the accepted memory tradeoff.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: reusing compressed group encoders per track.
Description check		The description directly explains the encoder reuse, accounting changes, tests, benchmark coverage, and related quest cleanup.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 87.50% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentati…
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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No actionable bugs found. The one-spare-per-account design reuses the encoder while keeping its charge accounted for, and the tests cover checkout, overlapping groups, abort and final-owner cleanup. The documented idle-spare memory tradeoff is an explicit decision.

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Per-track encoder spare — a finished compressed group parks its DEFLATE encoder on the track's cache account, and the next group takes it, resets the window, and moves the existing pool charge without creating write debt; a second finished encoder frees its charge, leaving at most one spare per track.
Group lifecycle — Flate::finish parks the encoder, abort still drops the in-flight encoder and releases or clears its charge, and Track::drop frees a parked spare with the account's final owner.
Heap estimate — ENCODER_HEAP rises from 8 * WINDOW to 12 * WINDOW, matching zlib-rs 0.6.8 at memLevel 8 (doubled window, prev, 128 KiB hash, pending buffer, separate 48 KiB symbol buffer, and inline state).
Coverage — accounting and cold-stream tests exercise the charge transfer, the one-spare limit, and byte-identical slices versus a fresh encoder; group_compressed_updates sweeps tracks and overlapping groups; the completed quest and its parent bullet are gone, and the 202-byte Annex-B input is committed for replay.

The spare's pool charge stays balanced across park/take/finish/abort and the account drop ordering; the non-saturating decrement in park_encoder is safe because a group holding a live encoder also holds a Content view, so a shared Plain bill cannot be cleared first. Reuse produces a cold stream, so the wire output is unchanged.

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coderabbitai · 2026-11-05T06:51:47Z

+			let mut raw = group.consume().compressed();
+			let mut decoder = flate::Decoder::new();
+			for (frame, expected) in frames.iter().zip(&slices) {
+				let Poll::Ready(Ok(Some(object))) = raw.poll_read_object(&kio::Waiter::noop()) else {


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Gate the new test on the async feature.

poll_read_object exists only when async is enabled, but reused_encoders_start_independent_group_streams has no cfg gate. With --no-default-features, cargo nextest run -p moq-net --no-default-features --tests fails to compile the test target. The neighboring tests that call this method carry #[cfg(feature = "async")].

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#[test] + #[cfg(feature = "async")] fn reused_encoders_start_independent_group_streams() {

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kio's Timer lints as a large enum variant only in builds without its sim clock, and a moq-net test from #7690 calls an async-only read; both fail on main too. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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chore(quest): claim quest/m1/fuzz-findings/catalog-encoder.md

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fix(net): reuse compressed group encoders per track

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kixelated changed the title ~~A catalog update reuses its encoder~~ fix(net): reuse compressed group encoders per track Nov 3, 2026

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test(mux): cover retained jitter clock rules independently #7722

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