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A resumed feed could skip retained groups even when its reader set no maximum delay. The cache's shared live floor hid those groups before the per-reader budget or missing-run accounting could judge them.

Judge the old cache in each subscription instead of hiding it behind a shared read floor. Finite budgets keep skipping that cache, while unlimited history reads take cached groups and fill or explicitly give up the holes. This also lets a finite reader's stale skips flow through the normal drop accounting. Bounded lite-07 resumes use the existing answer-ahead transition, since the reported Largest Group can lie outside their requested history.

Impact

  • Public API: unchanged. No exported items or migration.
  • Wire: unchanged. No new messages, fields, hole markers, or version-specific fallback paths. Multi-group moq-transport FETCHes remain refused until hole markers are supported.
  • No version bumps.

Decisions

  • Preserve the maintainer's multi-group past-FETCH refusal. Draft 18's missing run may be dropped whole; it is never retried group by group. Drafts 20/22 can receive the requested history on their absolute subscription.
  • Preserve finite-delay cache skips and relative live-edge anchoring in the shared model. For bounded lite-07 feeds whose resolved ranges stop short of the reported Largest, use the START answer to release the cache without waiting for Largest to arrive. A bounded feed whose range covers Largest still waits for it, matching the IETF subscriber.
  • Current main already settles the refused multi-group run, and the fetched-copy 1..3 history matrix now delivers both groups. The reproduced remaining failures were draft 18 losing the cached start after a live resume and lite-07-wip keeping that cache unreadable while waiting for Largest outside the bounded feed. Both expanded regressions failed before their source fixes and pass afterward.
  • The floor verdict needs no cached group: a finite reader skips a below-floor group even if eviction removes it between selection and judgment. A replaced copy's unread check applies the same floor, so a finite reader doesn't hold the copy until its budget expires. Applying the floor in Consumer::poll_stale was declined: that path judges a group the reader is already partway through, from another copy (see the reply).
  • The PUBLISH_DONE queued-miss grace correction recorded by moq-dev/moq#7680 remains separate. No shared root cause was demonstrated; this change does not modify the subscriber grace loop.

Validation

  • Explicit-time model coverage: cached history, a refused two-group run, the existing arrival grace, exactly-once drop reporting, bounded completion, and continued live delivery in both cursor orders. A finite-budget one-shot FETCH still reads the retained cache. Sparse-cache coverage also proves an ordered reader waits for fresh groups above a discarded old gap. Warm/cold-cache coverage clips a missing run at the finite budget's cache floor, preserves the fresh suffix, and verifies bounded completion. A budget narrowed under an outstanding fill gives up only the prefix below the floor (Misses::expired), and the fill then delivers the fresh suffix. An evicted below-floor group stays stale to a finite budget, and a replaced copy's unread check skips that cache for finite budgets only. Each of these three new regressions failed with its fix reverted. Wire-level NOT_SUPPORTED tests assert the complete drop span, exactly-once reporting, and no per-group fallback on drafts 18/20/22.
  • Mock-time session coverage: cached-start resumes on every supported wire and lite-07-wip; bounded draft-18/20/22 resumes; IETF-to-IETF and IETF-to-lite history behind a fetched copy.
  • On b1f8ac0ad5, only moq-net was built (host disk is low): cargo test -p moq-net --all-features passed (2,842 lib tests plus integration and doc tests); cargo clippy -p moq-net --all-targets with --all-features and with --no-default-features, -D warnings, was clean; cargo fmt was clean. The earlier head's full just check and just test interop --all runs passed. Since then, moq-net changed in this PR's fixes and in two merges of main. The second merge's only conflict was TrackState::owed: it keeps this PR's unclamped range with main's new two-argument find_landable closure. A lite-07 bounded-resume unit test (a_bounded_feed_goes_live_ahead_only_without_largest) covers the narrowed ahead transition.
  • Overlap with moq-dev/moq#7705: both edit rs/moq-net/src/model/track/miss.rs, in separate hunks. fix(net): wake every read a fill answer parks, so a drop poll can't strand it #7705 changes the Answered waker list; this PR changes the floor split in judge/expired and drops the low clamp. A trial merge of both is conflict-free, and the combined moq-net lib suite passed (2,836 tests). Whichever lands second needs no manual resolution.
  • Extended and ran the track fill benchmark with finite and unlimited budgets across 1/8/64 readers and 1/64/1024 missing runs.

Review

Codex (quest review), gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, session round 2, reviewed b1f8ac0ad5: no findings. Round 1 on faaf98210f had no findings either.

Online review findings on faaf98210f:

  • Fixed: bounded lite feeds went live ahead even when a resolved range covers Largest (OpenAI P2). Active::never_serves now limits that transition to ranges that stop short of Largest.
  • Refuted: pinning a zero stale count on a finished bounded below-floor ordered read (CodeRabbit). The "no seek_pending flush on None" rule predates this PR.
  • Pullfrog reported no new issues, and CodeRabbit withdrew its Consumer::poll_stale finding.

Online review findings on d78b3e4cf7:

  • Fixed: a below-floor group evicted between selection and verdict was delivered (Pullfrog).
  • Fixed: has_unread_group counted the skipped below-floor cache as unread for finite budgets (CodeRabbit).
  • Fixed: the Misses::expired prefix split had no direct test (Pullfrog review summary).
  • Refuted, then withdrawn by the reviewer: applying the floor in Consumer::poll_stale (CodeRabbit).
  • Refuted, then withdrawn by the reviewer: the ordered below-floor re-scan per wake (Pullfrog).

Earlier Claude Code rounds on the previous heads found three issues, all fixed: the sparse-cache ordered skip, the wire-level refusal coverage, and the cache-floor run split.

Follow-ups

Consider a release backport after this lands, first reproducing the cache-loss case on release's older cache model. The distinct PUBLISH_DONE correction remains tracked by the existing prerequisite. Separately clarify the contract for repeated reads after bounded EOF: the existing idle gate can park a subsequent read, although the first completion works; recommend separate API-contract work.

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@kixelated kixelated changed the title A resume more than one group behind never hangs fix(net): preserve owed groups across history resumes Nov 3, 2026
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The per-reader cache floor addresses unlimited history while preserving finite-budget skips; a single global floor would discard history owed to other readers. The added model and wire regressions cover the principal transitions. No actionable bugs found in this static review. I did not run tests or interop.

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Reader traversal and miss handling now distinguish finite-budget cache floors from unlimited reads. Bounded Lite subscriptions use the reported largest position to set the live position ahead. Tests cover refused multi-group FETCH requests, resumed cached history, and relay history across versions. Fill benchmarks compare aged and unlimited budgets. The resume-behind quest and work item were removed.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to faaf9

No concrete merge-blocking issue remains. The additional test would protect the intended zero stale count when bounded history ends without delivering a group.

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The description explains the PR's purpose: resumed feeds skipping retained groups when no maximum delay is set. It covers the shared live floor change, the per-subscription cache judgment, the finite and unlimited budget behavior, the bounded lite-07 resume transition, and the unchanged public and wire API. It also lists validation and review history. Its content matches the changeset, including the miss.rs, track.rs, subscriber, and test changes. The check passes.

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Comment thread rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs Resolved
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ℹ️ No critical issues — one narrow race, one performance question, and a test gap worth a look.

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Read the full 8-file diff for fix(net): preserve owed groups across history resumes (d78b3e4, base main). The PR replaces the shared TrackState::live_floor read clamp with a per-reader cache_floor(budget), so resumed unlimited-delay reads recover retained groups below the route's answered floor while finite-delay reads keep skipping them through normal drop accounting.

  • Per-reader cache floor — new cache_floor(budget) gates the old live_floor on budget != Duration::MAX; is_stale, poll_owed, expire_heads, and Misses use it, and the hard clamps leave owed/find_landable/poll_next_in_range, Cursor::next_owed, poll_recv_group's min_sequence, and has_unread_group.
  • Missing-run split — Misses splits a wanted/asked run at the cache floor, gives up the unjudgeable prefix, and keeps the fresh suffix requested.
  • Bounded lite answers — bounded SUBSCRIBE_STARTs use set_live_ahead so a bounded feed goes live at the answered Largest instead of waiting for a group it never serves.
  • Tests — wire-level refusal-drop span on drafts 18/20/22, resumed cache-start across every wire plus moq-lite-07-wip, a fetched-copy 1..3 history matrix, and model tests for a fresh gap above a discarded prefix and a fill crossing the floor.

ℹ️ The expire prefix split has no direct test

Misses::expired's new prefix split (miss.rs:971-984) only fires when live_floor rises (or a budget narrows to finite) after a fill was asked. The new regression a_fill_crossing_the_cache_floor_keeps_its_fresh_suffix calls set_live before subscribing, so the floor is already raised when the fill is asked and only the judge ask-split runs; wanted.overlapping(0..floor) is always empty there. The code comment at miss.rs:972 names this as the risky case. Please add a regression that raises the floor while a fill is outstanding.

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# `Misses::expired` floor split lacks coverage

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-net/src/model/track/miss.rs:971-984` — `expired` discards the `wanted` prefix below `cache_floor`; the only new test that reaches `expired` has an empty prefix.
- `rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs:12319` (`a_fill_crossing_the_cache_floor_keeps_its_fresh_suffix`) — raises the floor via `set_live` before `subscribe`, exercising `judge` (`miss.rs:917-927`) instead.

## Required outcome
- A test where a fill is asked for a run that spans the floor, then `live_floor` rises (or the reader's budget narrows to finite), proving `expired` gives up only the prefix, keeps the fresh suffix wanted, and the bounded read completes.

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A finite reader picks a group below the cache floor, then judges it with the
track lock released in between. An eviction in that window used to turn the
skip into a delivery, since the floor verdict was gated on the cache still
holding the group. The floor needs no cached group, so it now convicts first.

A replaced copy's unread check also counted that skipped cache as unread for a
finite budget, keeping the copy waiting until the budget expired. It now
applies the same floor as delivery.

Adds regressions for both, and for a fill whose wanted run a later floor cuts
through.

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[P2] Wait for Largest when a bounded feed can serve it — rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs:9538-9546. The new branch uses set_live_ahead for every bounded subscription, but that transition is documented for a feed that cannot serve Largest. Consider a finite-delay read of groups 0..11 on a resumed copy holding group 0: an upstream relay can report START at 0 and Largest 10 while group 10 is still in flight. This branch makes the old cache readable immediately, so the reader can receive group 0 against its own old timestamp as the apparent edge. When group 10 arrives with a timestamp far enough ahead, group 0 should instead have been skipped as stale. Previously set_live waited for the reported edge. Use the ahead transition only when the resolved bounded ranges cannot serve Largest; otherwise preserve the wait, and add a bounded in-range-Largest regression with a finite delay.

Since my previous review, the new tests and fixes address the reported eviction race, unread-copy floor, and outstanding-fill coverage. The prior ordered-rescan performance question remains discussed in its thread. Verification: GitHub-only static review of the base-aware PR and incremental changes; I did not run tests or interop.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Incremental re-review of the commits since the prior pullfrog review (d78b3e4), at faaf9821 on quest/m1/ietf-resume-behind.

  • is_stale applies the cache floor before the cache check — the floor arm now runs whether or not the group is still cached, so an eviction between selection and the verdict can no longer turn a finite reader's below-floor skip into a delivery; only the drift arm still needs the cached group. Matches expire_heads.
  • has_unread_group restores the finite-budget floor — the floor is now cursor.floor().max(cache_floor(budget)).max(unread.start) with budget clamped to the track's retention bound, so a finite reader no longer counts the skipped below-floor cache as unread, while an unlimited read still owes it.
  • Regressions added — a fill asked under unlimited history and then narrowed to a finite budget exercises Misses::expired's prefix split, an evicted below-floor group stays stale to a finite reader, and the below-floor cache is unread only to unlimited reads.

The prior race finding and test-coverage gap are addressed, and the earlier ordered-path re-scan question was answered as intended.

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Nitpick Cover the zero stale count for a finished bounded below-floor read.

12372-12374: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover the zero stale count for a finished bounded below-floor read.

On a finished track, a bounded ordered read whose window holds only below-floor groups returns None without committing seek_pending. Those groups do not add to take_stale(). No test asserts this count, so a change that flushes seek_pending on this path would not fail the suite.

Add a test beside a_bounded_read_ends_past_dropped_and_stale_groups:

  1. Finish the track with groups below the floor and none above it.
  2. Subscribe with a finite max delay over a range that covers only those groups.
  3. Assert that the read returns None, then assert that the stale count is zero:
assert_eq!(subscriber.take_stale().groups, 0, "undelivered convictions are not counted as stale");

Keep this test on a finished track. On an open track, the same read stays pending, so this path does not apply.

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Add a focused test beside a_bounded_read_ends_past_dropped_and_stale_groups that
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A bounded lite-07 resume went live at its SUBSCRIBE_START answer for every
bounded subscription. When a resolved range still covers the reported Largest,
the feed does deliver it, and a finite read must judge an old cached group
against that edge rather than against the cache's own newest group. Wait for
Largest then, as `set_live` did, and keep the ahead transition for ranges that
stop short of it, matching the IETF subscriber's rule.

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Responses to the automated reviews on faaf982:

  • [P2] Wait for Largest when a bounded feed can serve it (review): fixed in b1f8ac0ad5. The lite subscriber now goes live ahead only when no range, as SUBSCRIBE_START resolved it, contains the reported Largest. It reuses Active::covered(), which is exact here because our SUBSCRIBE ranges only carry absolute group-boundary ends (wire_ranges). That matches the IETF subscriber's end <= largest.group rule. A bounded read whose range covers Largest waits for it again, so a finite budget judges an old cached group against that edge. New unit test: a_bounded_feed_goes_live_ahead_only_without_largest.
  • CodeRabbit: cover the zero stale count for a finished bounded below-floor read (review): declined. The behavior it would pin, that an ordered read ending in None doesn't flush seek_pending, predates this PR and is documented where it returns None ("only a delivery commit may count a conviction"). Below-floor convictions follow that rule unchanged, so pinning it belongs with that design, not this fix.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Incremental re-review of the commits since the prior pullfrog review (faaf9821), at b1f8ac0a on quest/m1/ietf-resume-behind.

  • Bounded lite STARTs wait for a reachable Largest — SubStream::never_serves now allows the bounded set_live_ahead transition only when the subscription's resolved ranges (via covered()) stop short of the reported Largest; a range that covers Largest keeps set_live, so a finite-delay reader judges retained cache against the real edge. This addresses the OpenAI P2 finding on the previous head.
  • Answer recorded before the decision — active.served and active.starts are set before the has_largest branch so the predicate sees the per-range resolved starts.
  • Predicate regression — a_bounded_feed_goes_live_ahead_only_without_largest covers a covered range, a disjoint later range, a range resolved to nothing, an open range, and a missing Largest.
  • Second main merge — the TrackState::owed conflict keeps this PR's unclamped range with main's new two-argument find_landable closure; that closure signature is the merge's only net change to track.rs.

Prior pullfrog threads are resolved and no new behavior issues surfaced in the delta.

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Reviewed head b1f8ac0 against base 371dad1.

P2 — Do not treat an unknown updated range as unable to serve Largest (rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs:7614–7619). If a bounded range is widened to include Largest while an earlier START is in flight, that START may validly report no served group for its original range. active.updated is then true and active.served is None, so covered() deliberately returns None because the publisher may not yet have read the update. is_none_or nevertheless makes never_serves return Largest and selects set_live_ahead. For an idle copy holding group 9 and an answer naming Largest 10, there is no gap to raise the cache floor; a finite-delay reader can receive old group 9 before fresh group 10 arrives, recreating the earlier stale-cache issue. Treat unknown coverage conservatively, or otherwise account for the in-flight update, and add a scripted-peer test with an empty old START and a widened range containing Largest. The wire permits a no-group range; the repository's own publisher generally FINs an empty bounded range without START, so this scenario is not claimed as a reproduced native-to-native failure.

Verification: GitHub-only static inspection; I did not run tests or simulate the peer. The PR reports the moq-net suite and targeted regressions passing.

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…esumed floor

#7708 judges from the reader's floor rather than a resumed copy's
live floor, which can sit above history an unlimited reader still reads. The
fast path for a live arrival still took the higher floor: it forgot those
groups and left them out of the eviction inbox, so one evicted before the
reader took it was never asked again.

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Resolve the modify/delete conflicts on quests main finished
(m0/ci/shared-target.md in #7715, m1/resume-model-7542.md in #7705), and
drop or repoint links and Required edges to quests main deleted:
m1/ietf-resume-behind.md (#7708), m1/subscription-delay.md (#7697),
m1/unbounded-groups/log-lock-profile.md (#7742) and m1/moq-crypto.md
(#7702).

#7705 did not replay #7739's seed 17893651, which this PR had added to
the resume-model quest, so it moves to m1/resume-seed-17893651.md.

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The maintainer chose no backport (2026-11-04): release stays exposed to the
IETF resumed-history cache loss until the next main to release cut brings
#7708. Delete the backport quest and note the exposure beside the
MKV one in the cut's Plan so the cut checks both.

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