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Problem

moq-transport FETCH collects the requested group slice and each frame before sending. Lite FETCH notices its last reader leaving only between frames, so an abandoned mid-frame payload can keep reading indefinitely.

Approach

• Keep a group reader and stream FETCH and fill objects through the existing chunk path, with transport backpressure and the ordinary group tail as the retention bound.
• Resolve end metadata without copying payloads. Bounded requests wait for their selected headers, then stream payloads; whole-group requests still wait for the final count. Once a bound's headers are buffered, a copy failing afterwards reaches the payload reads, which drain the buffer first, instead of refusing the answer. Metadata waits follow reader recovery, eviction, and expiry. Eviction fails an answer instead of pinning its payloads.
• Guard the shared lite frame pump with reader demand for the entire response. Closing the final coalesced reader aborts a stalled payload promptly.
• Release a stopped sender's pending chunk listener at the source of the wait.
• Wait for a streamed frame with a zero declared size to commit after writing its empty object, in FETCH and subgroup egress alike, so an aborted one resets the answer instead of being FIN'd.
• Stop a FETCH or subscription fill whose write is parked on flow control as soon as its group is given up (source failure, eviction, or expiry), through the same GivenUp verdict subgroup egress uses, and reset both streams.
• Add coverage for a slice and a single frame over the tail, mid-frame source/request/output failures, a source failure while a write is parked on flow control, coalesced cancellation, and listener disposal. Add a Nightly FETCH benchmark over cached group count, independent peers, and small or chunked frames.

Impact

• Public API: none. The new hooks and FETCH header option are internal wire-layer implementation details.
• Wire format and negotiation: none. Existing absolute object IDs, timestamps, empty objects, bounds, and end-of-track metadata remain covered.
• Bounded FETCH_OK can arrive before the requested payload is complete. A failed or evicted payload resets the accepted answer rather than completing a partial response.
• This PR finishes the quest and deletes it.

Decisions

• Reuse the existing fill writer for standalone and joining FETCH rather than add a second streaming loop.
• Preserve whole-group completion semantics, through a reader metadata operation that does not consume payloads. Keep normal eviction for slow readers.
• Inspected the published hunks in moq-dev/moq#7681 and moq-dev/moq#7696. moq-dev/moq#7681 has since landed; the merge adapts FETCH streaming to its bigint group IDs.

Choices made without asking, for review:

• Quiet host: kixtop (Apple M4, 10 cores, on AC). At the time nixos2 was running another agent's load-sensitive relay instruction-count bisect (just bench-profile instructions across five revisions) and nixos was at load 24–28, so neither was used. A first kixtop pass overlapped another agent's just ci; its timings were discarded and rerun. The memory numbers are byte counts after a forced GC and do not depend on load.
• A fourth head: current main (571c956a67, this PR's merge parent) was added beside the pre-moq-dev/moq#7411 base (3c0dd8a2af), the landed chunked storage (37b83061ce), and this head (74d02c03c8), so this PR's own effect is isolated from the other changes landed since moq-dev/moq#7411.
• FETCH timings too: frames.ts measures subscribe ingest, which this PR does not touch. The small-frame path this PR changes is FETCH egress, so bench/fetch.ts was also paired, main against this head.
• A bound met by buffered headers survives a later copy failure (from pullfrog). complete is claimed only on a clean close at exactly the bound.
• Declined: interrupting the FETCH_HEADER write on group give-up (from CodeRabbit). The write is unchanged from main, no group reader is held during it, and resetting before the header would break the fill-failure signal. Reply.
• A FETCH stops when its group is given up, until its stream is FIN'd (from review round 1). After stream.close() the watch is released, so a source failing later does not reset an answer that already holds every object.

Alternatives

Collecting one whole object still retains an arbitrarily large frame. Pinning a requested slice makes the slowest requester set retained memory. The existing chunk reader and transport writes provide the needed ownership and backpressure.

Validation

Chromium, quiet window

Headless Chromium (Playwright's build), one page and context per run, cross-origin isolated so performance.now() resolves to 5 µs. Each round runs every head once, rotating the order (ABCD, DCBA, BCDA, ...). There were 30 rounds, and the table gives the median of the per-round ratios with its IQR. No build or benchmark process ran during the window (25 samples, 30 s apart); load average 2.5–3.2, mostly Chromium itself.

js/net/bench/frames.ts, ns per frame. Ratios below 1 are faster.

protocol	frame B	chunk B	7411 / pre	main / 7411	head / main	head / pre
lite	16	24	1.002 [0.989–1.021]	0.992	1.001 [0.980–1.025]	0.997
lite	16	1200	1.016 [1.003–1.037]	0.992	1.003 [0.984–1.026]	1.014
lite	16	64 KiB	0.978 [0.964–0.996]	1.003	1.009 [0.990–1.022]	0.986
lite	100	1200	1.003 [0.990–1.022]	0.992	1.002 [0.985–1.012]	1.005
lite	1000	1200	0.993 [0.985–1.019]	1.001	1.004 [0.987–1.017]	1.000
ietf	16	24	1.029 [0.995–1.076]	1.027	1.012 [0.993–1.046]	1.072
ietf	16	1200	0.987 [0.918–1.029]	1.114 [1.066–1.215]	1.017 [0.968–1.082]	1.112
ietf	100	1200	1.005 [0.984–1.057]	1.037 [1.007–1.078]	1.013 [0.955–1.055]	1.048
ietf	1000	1200	0.988 [0.971–1.036]	1.032	0.985 [0.924–1.042]	1.002
ietf	1000	64 KiB	0.999 [0.879–1.045]	1.070 [1.037–1.217]	1.007 [0.897–1.065]	1.077

All 24 rows: lite stays within 0.98–1.02 for every pair. moq-transport ingest is 0.98–1.03 for moq-dev/moq#7411 and 0.99–1.04 for this head, both within noise. Between moq-dev/moq#7411 and current main, moq-transport ingest drifted 0–11% slower (median about 3%); all 12 rows are above 1, and the first, loaded pass agreed. Neither this PR nor moq-dev/moq#7411 causes it. See Follow-ups.

bench/fetch.ts, head / main, µs per FETCH round:

groups	peers	16 B	1000 B	2 MiB chunked
2	1	1.061 [0.970–1.144]	1.036 [0.983–1.084]	0.987 [0.964–1.006]
2	8	0.936 [0.913–0.982]	1.045 [1.015–1.111]	0.974 [0.957–0.986]
128	1	1.060 [1.000–1.120]	1.010 [0.944–1.090]	0.980 [0.965–0.998]
128	8	0.962 [0.920–1.004]	1.028 [0.986–1.059]	0.973 [0.952–0.992]

Small-object FETCH has mixed signs (geometric mean 1.016) and every interval but two spans 1; the two that do not point in opposite directions. Chunked objects are 1–3% faster. No small-frame regression is demonstrated, so none is fixed here.

Chromium group-tail memory

One Group.Producer per page writes the given total with fresh payloads. It runs either alone or with a reader that reads each frame as it is written. After three HeapProfiler.collectGarbage, Runtime.getHeapUsage().backingStorageSize is read, net of the empty page, in MiB. Readers do not change the result, and results are identical across 96, 192, and 384 MiB:

frames	written	pre-7411	7411	main	head
64 KiB	31 MiB	31.00	31.00	31.00	31.00
64 KiB	96 / 192 / 384 MiB	group aborts at 32 MiB (GroupTooLarge)	31.88	31.87	31.87
1 KiB	31–384 MiB	group aborts at 8192 frames	25.60	25.60	25.60
4 MiB, chunked	96 / 192 / 384 MiB	no createFrame	31.00	31.00	31.00

The tail holds near 32 MiB of payload however long the group runs, and 1 KiB frames retain less because each stored frame is also charged its overhead. This PR does not change group retention.

The harness (a Playwright driver bundling each checkout's own frames.ts, bench/fetch.ts from this head, and a group-tail probe) was run from the benchmark host's scratch directory and is not committed.

Functional and checks

• Before the fix, both new streaming and lite cancellation reproductions timed out while waiting for their observable result. The new flow-control regression stays pending after its group aborts on c1700448b1 and passes on 74d02c03c8.
• Focused FETCH, publisher, lite subscriber, group, and payload tests pass, including failure, recovery, eviction, and expiry cases.
• On 74d02c03c8: bun run check (with examples and bench), Biome, and bun test for @moq/net pass (2779 tests).
• On the merge c1700448b1: quest gate nix develop --command just ci origin/main passes. An earlier full bun test on this host at load 42 timed out integration: lite-07 serves sparse and relative ranges at 5 s. That test does not use FETCH, passed 3/3 alone, and passed in both later full runs.
• On 1959b4d2de (after merging main in 1c50108899): quest gate nix develop --command just ci origin/main passes. Both new regressions (a bounded group end wait is met by buffered headers despite a failed copy, and a FETCH of an unfinished empty frame waits for its finish/abort) fail with the source fixes reverted and pass with them.
• On 2d897d7ed6, which merges main with moq-dev/moq#7790, quest gate nix develop --command just ci origin/main passes, and so does the full bun test for @moq/net (2831 tests). Benchmarks were not rerun: the conflict resolution only adds a constant priority byte to the first fetch object's header.
• Benchmarks were not rerun for 1959b4d2de. Its changes touch only FETCH end metadata, which runs once per answer, and zero-size chunked frames. Neither is on the per-frame path the benches measure.
• quest check --base origin/main passes. Public API reports remain unchanged. Cross-language interop was not run: this changes neither the wire format nor a gateway or FFI API.

Review

Codex gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, via quest review --base origin/main --branch quest/m1/unbounded-groups/fetch-stream, session 01a1a3b5-0cf8-7111-8c58-d05fd94a7759. Round 2 reviewed head 2d897d7ed6 against origin/main (dc0bd09b11): no findings. That head merges main, and resolves by hand its conflict with moq-dev/moq#7790, which made a fetch stream state the track's Publisher Priority. FetchFrame keeps this branch's streamed length and gains main's priority. FetchAnswer keeps the held group/slice reader and gains publisherPriority. FetchWriter passes the priority into every object it writes, including streamed ones. Round 1 on 1959b4d2de also found nothing.

Online reviews on 1959b4d2de: pullfrog approved, and the OpenAI review confirmed its earlier finding fixed. Neither raised anything new.

Online reviews on the previous head fa2d5bf61c:

• pullfrog: #end refused a bounded FETCH whose headers were buffered once the copy failed. Fixed in 1959b4d2de, regression added.
• OpenAI review P2: zero-size streamed frames were FIN'd before they committed. Fixed in 1959b4d2de for FETCH and subgroup egress, regression added.
• CodeRabbit: interrupt the FETCH_HEADER write on give-up. Declined with evidence; see Decisions.

Earlier: Codex session 01a1a354-1498-7fa0-9d50-f1b0d1737603 ran two rounds. Round 1 fixed one finding (a write parked on flow control never saw the group abort). Round 2, on 74d02c03c8, found nothing. Before that, Claude Code reviewed 66375ef9c6 in two rounds: it fixed four findings and refuted one with source evidence.

Follow-ups

• moq-transport subgroup ingest in Chromium (frames.ts, ietf rows) is about 3% slower on main 571c956a67 than at 37b83061ce, and up to 11% slower for 16-byte frames in 1200-byte chunks; lite is unchanged. The bigint group IDs from moq-dev/moq#7681 are a likely first suspect. A quest could bisect it with the same paired Chromium method and fix what it finds.

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Reviewed head fa2d5bf.

P2: Wait for zero-byte streamed frames to commit. In js/net/src/ietf/publisher.ts:2776-2797, read.chunks?.size discards a chunk reader with size 0, so sendPayload never observes its completion or failure. For a bounded FETCH or fill of a freshly created createFrame({ size: 0 }), this emits the empty object and FINs before finish(); a later frame.abort() is lost after the group watch is released. finish() commits even an empty frame, and ending its group first fails it (js/net/src/group.ts:700-709, 735-741). Keep the zero-length chunk reader and wait for its terminal verdict before completing the answer; add a regression that aborts an unfinished empty frame.

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Walkthrough

Publisher FETCH responses now stream selected frames from retained group readers rather than buffering the selected slice. New group-end and payload-chunk hooks support this flow, and the lite subscriber uses group frame reading guarded by reader abandonment. Tests cover streaming, bounded responses, recovery, and cancellation. A FETCH benchmark and benchmark-list entry were added. The FETCH streaming quest documentation was removed.

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review fa2d5

The streaming changes have no established merge-blocking regression. A stalled subscription-fill header can still delay cancellation, but that limitation predates this PR.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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Follow-up Comments

Abort the FETCH header write when its group is given up.

1392-1394: Minor · Stability & Availability · Poor tradeoff

Abort the FETCH header write when its group is given up.

While FetchHeader.encode is parked on flow control, the fill waits only on cancelled. A group give-up does not interrupt it. The fill and await filling in the subscription path then stay blocked until the peer grants credit or the subscriber unsubscribes. The untilGivenUp signal is installed after the header write, so it cannot cover that window. The current code does not establish a safe remedy, because the header must still be sent before the reset when the group is unavailable.

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Review comment at @js/net/src/ietf/publisher.ts around lines 1392 - 1394:
Update the fill flow around FetchHeader.encode so a group give-up can interrupt
a header write parked on flow control, rather than waiting only on cancelled.
Establish a sequencing-safe way to preserve the requirement that the FETCH
header is sent before resetting when the group is unavailable; ensure the
subscription path’s await filling can then complete without waiting for credit
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Important

One ordering issue in the new FETCH end waiter: a bounded FETCH can be refused after its requested headers are already buffered, if the source copy fails before the wait resumes. Details inline.

Reviewed changes

• Streamed FETCH egress: #writeFetchGroup replaces the collecting readFetched/nextFrame/FetchedGroup; FetchWriter.object writes FetchFrame.streamed headers and pushes chunked payloads through sendPayload.
• End metadata without copying: Consumer.#end(until) resolves FETCH_OK's end from buffered headers through recovery, eviction, and expiry; #resume gains preferBuffered.
• Cancel abandoned writers: untilGivenUp folds a group's GivenUp verdict into the answer/fill stop signal from FETCH_OK until FIN, and #readChunk(closed) releases a parked payload wait at its source.
• Lite cancellation: #runFetchResponse guards readFrames with untilAbandoned, so the last coalesced reader aborts a stalled mid-frame payload.
• Joining FETCH: resolves synchronously from the saved Largest Object instead of reading the head.
• Coverage: new fetch/group-end/payload/lite tests, a nightly bench/fetch.ts, and the finished quest deleted.

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Re the OpenAI review:

Fixed in 1959b4d2de, for the P2 on zero-byte streamed frames: FetchWriter.object now keeps the chunk reader even when its declared size is 0. It writes the empty object's header, then awaits sendPayload for the frame's terminal verdict. A frame aborted after its header now resets the answer instead of being FIN'd as complete. Subgroup egress in #runGroup had the same read.chunks?.size pattern, so it now waits the same way.

The regression a FETCH of an unfinished empty frame waits for its finish/abort in js/net/src/ietf/fetch.test.ts fails on the previous head for both outcomes and passes now.

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Re the CodeRabbit review:

Re CodeRabbit's follow-up, Abort the FETCH header write when its group is given up (publisher.ts 1392–1394): declining, since this PR doesn't change that window.

• The header write is unchanged from main. At the merge base 571c956a67, js/net/src/ietf/publisher.ts:1385 already has await untilAborted(new FetchHeader({ requestId }).encode(stream, version), cancelled).
• No group reader is held during the write. hooks.cachedGroup(cache, fill.start.group) runs only after it (publisher.ts:1393). untilGivenUp exists to release a held group reader, so before then there is nothing for a give-up to release.
• As you note, folding a give-up into the header write could reset the stream before FETCH_HEADER is complete. That would break the draft's fill-failure signal (a reset right after the header, publisher.ts:1355-1359), and the subscriber could no longer tie the reset to its fill.
• The header is a few bytes on a freshly opened stream. It parks only when connection-level credit is exhausted, and then every group stream on that connection is parked too. Unsubscribing (cancelled) still bounds the wait.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes — commit 1959b4d2d resolves both findings from the previous head and adds regressions for each.

• Buffered FETCH bounds: Consumer.#end now returns the requested bound as soon as those headers are buffered, before consulting a failed copy's verdict, and claims complete only on a clean close at exactly the bound. Payload reads still drain buffered frames before a copy error, so a truncated payload resets the accepted answer after FETCH_OK.
• Empty streamed frames: FetchWriter.object and subgroup egress in #runGroup keep a zero-size chunk reader and wait for its terminal verdict after writing the object header, so a later abort resets the stream instead of FIN-ing an empty object.
• Coverage: regressions for a bounded end met despite a failed copy, and for an empty frame that finishes or aborts after its header.

Focused suites pass locally: 79 tests across group.test.ts, ietf/fetch.test.ts, and payload.test.ts.

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Reviewed head 1959b4d against the previous reviewed head fa2d5bf, accounting for the base merge.

My earlier zero-byte streamed-frame finding is fixed: FETCH and subgroup egress now retain the chunk reader and wait for its terminal verdict even for size zero, and a new FETCH regression exercises finish and abort. The buffered-header change also makes a bounded answer available before handling the subsequent source failure. No additional actionable findings in this delta; the approach preserves the existing failure and backpressure paths.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of the changes, surrounding sender code, and regression tests. I did not run tests or interop.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes — since the prior pullfrog review at 1959b4d2d, the only delta is the merge of origin/main (dc0bd09b1), including #7790, which adds a Publisher Priority to the fetch stream state. The conflict resolution in js/net/src/ietf/object.ts and js/net/src/ietf/publisher.ts was reviewed against both sides.

• Merged priority into FetchFrame: FetchFrame now carries priority beside this branch's streamed, and its constructor takes both.
• Threaded it through the streaming writer: FetchWriter takes the wire priority and stamps every FetchFrame; FetchAnswer gains publisherPriority, set by #fetchRange from toWire(info.priority) and by #fetchJoin from the subscription's already-converted join.publisherPriority, with the fill path passing it through unchanged. No double conversion.
• Preserved the branch's behavior: The streamed payload path, the end waiter, untilGivenUp, and the zero-size commit wait are unchanged by the merge.
• Coverage: The existing priority tests exercise the merged path, including a FETCH states the track's priority on its first object and the draft-18 joining FETCH assertion. The focused fetch suite passes locally (28 tests).

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