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Problem

Raising kio's waiter records from 8 to 16 exposed two subscription ordering bugs. A front converted successful metadata into a refusal if its copy aborted before the next poll, losing finished history that a local reader could still drain. The quiet-catalog test could tear down its links while a detached resume still awaited its handshake.

Completes the waiter-records quest, following the maintainer's direction in moq-dev/moq#7605.

Approach

• An aborted copy whose metadata resolves still splices when it delivered history, so its readers drain that history and then receive the abort error. One that delivered nothing stays a refusal, so a draining incumbent keeps serving rather than the track ending on the replacement's error.
• Drive both catalog handshakes together and hold their subscribers until both finish. Remove the detached task and its 60-second sleep.
• Set PARKED = 16, box the pending resume/stats variants, update the overflow test to 17 lists, and extend the waiter benchmark past the new capacity.
• Tests: an explicit-poll test where metadata, finished history, and an abort arrive before the front's next poll; and a takeover test where the replacement answers metadata and aborts with no groups before the front polls, after which the incumbent keeps delivering and its clean finish ends the track.
• The m2 quests that quoted PARKED (8) and the old waiter size now state 16 and the re-measured task_capacity figures.

Impact

• Public API: no symbol or signature changes. An already requested routed track keeps its known metadata and finished history after an abort, matching local reads.
• Wire: unchanged.
• Memory: each waiter stores 64 more bytes of records. Pending enum variants use heap storage so copies and stats nodes do not carry that padding throughout their lifetime. cargo bench -p kio --bench task_capacity now reports 248 B per peak slot (was 184 B).

Alternatives

Both original failures still reproduce when every Idle gate is forced to walk. This disproves the quest's initial idle-gate lead; no notification or idle-gate changes are needed for these failures. Retaining 8 records would preserve their dependence on polling order.

Splicing every aborted copy with known metadata (this PR's first head) let a replacement that delivered nothing displace a live incumbent, as the automated reviews found. Refusing it restores main's behavior for that case.

Scope

e6690144ca, a pullfrog fix for the sh/dispatch-query.test.py terminate flake pushed to this branch, is reverted here: main has since skipped that test and planned its fix as its own quest. The quest's Plan now records pullfrog's diagnosis and fix as a lead to verify.

Validation

• Both named integration tests fail at 16 on the unchanged implementation and pass at 8. Their assertions are preserved.
• The deterministic metadata/abort test fails with the original front check and passes with this fix.
• a_replacement_aborted_without_history_keeps_the_incumbent fails without the refusal check (the incumbent's finish surfaces as App(7)) and passes with it.
• just check origin/main on head 0d5b096c7d, after merging main at 246916845a: all selected checks passed, including 11,481 Rust tests (136 skipped). quest check --fix --base origin/main changed nothing (590 documents).

Performance

just bench-fanout 9a29bc1387 session "64 512", comparing main at 9a29bc1387 with the implementation at f9fc15c991. Retired user instructions per delivered group over the memory transport, median of three counts after subtracting setup:

Viewers	8 records (base)	16 records (this PR)	Change
64	115,036.3	110,399.4	-4.03%
512	113,179.5	108,649.3	-4.00%

The incumbent fix adds one completion check per metadata answer, off the per-group path.

Review

mechanical fix by codex / Codex: Merged base and preserved boxed pending resolver with the new snapshot API; passed cargo build --locked -p kio -p moq-net -p moq-stats --all-targets; cargo test --locked -p kio -p moq-net -p moq-stats; cargo fmt --check -p kio -p moq-net -p moq-stats. (head 74bd284)

Codex, GPT-6.1 Sol (gpt-6.1-sol), medium effort, round 1, reviewed head 0d5b096c7d. No findings.

Online findings on head e6690144ca: the incumbent-loss finding from the OpenAI review and CodeRabbit is fixed, with a regression test. Pullfrog's stale-quest finding is fixed: both m2 quests now quote 16 and the re-measured sizes.

Follow-ups

• A replacement that answers metadata and aborts with no groups after the front's poll still ends the track: Front::track_info clears draining on splice, so the later track_ended refusal has no incumbent to return to. This race predates this PR (main has it too); fixing it means holding the incumbent's copy until the replacement delivers. Worth a quest.
• The existing task-capacity quest covers retained task-slot memory after bursts, including larger waiter storage.

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Reviewed head: 10a16ed.

P2: Keep the live incumbent when a replacement already failed without history (rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs:4163–4175). Suppose source A is still serving a track while a better same-instance source B is queried. If B returns valid metadata but aborts without any groups before the front polls the answer, this now feeds successful TrackInfo to the machine. That clears the draining A and splices B; B's subsequent no-data error is then treated as a refusal with no incumbent to restore, so the logical track aborts even though A is still live. Previously the failed answer took the refusal path that kept A serving. Preserve the incumbent for a failed replacement with no history to drain, while still allowing an errored copy that has finished history to serve it. A takeover test that aborts B before the info poll and then delivers another group from A would cover the distinction.

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Walkthrough

The waiter now remembers registrations on up to 16 lists. Origin handling serves an errored copy when it has sequence history, while tests cover history delivery and replacements without history. The quiet-catalog test runs resumed subscription and fresh-reader checks concurrently. Pending subscription values are boxed in resume and aggregate reader state. Benchmarks, performance estimates, and project records are updated. A dispatch termination planning document adds a reported failure scenario.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 74bd2

A replacement that aborts before finishing its group can end a subscription while the incumbent is still serving. Fix that case before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(net): preserve errored history across metadata polling order" matches the main change. The PR keeps finished history from an aborted track copy when its metadata resolves, so readers ca…
Description check		The description gives the problem, approach, impact, alternatives, scope, validation, performance numbers, and follow-ups. It matches the changeset. It covers the origin.rs front change, the quiet_cat…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 80.00% 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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The title "fix(net): preserve errored history across metadata polling order" matches the main change. The PR keeps finished history from an aborted track copy when its metadata resolves, so readers can drain that history before the abort error. The title names the subsystem and the behavior, and it does not describe the waiter-record or quest-document changes. Those changes are secondary in the PR.

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The description gives the problem, approach, impact, alternatives, scope, validation, performance numbers, and follow-ups. It matches the changeset. It covers the origin.rs front change, the quiet_catalog test rewrite, the PARKED 8-to-16 change, the boxed pending variants, the idle and benchmark updates, and the quest document edits. It also explains the revert of the dispatch-query commit.

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- Around line 4166-4167: Update the Step::Info handling before staging or
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• .github/relay-cpu-bisect.md
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• rs/kio/benches/waiter.rs
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ℹ️ No critical issues. One stale-doc follow-up below.

Reviewed changes

• Errored metadata resolution: serve_front no longer converts a successful metadata answer into an error when the copy already aborted. The front splices the copy, readers drain the finished history, and then the abort surfaces through Step::Ended and Front::track_ended.
• Deterministic regression test: an_errored_copy_serves_history_before_its_outcome covers info, a finished group, and an abort arriving before the front's next poll.
• Quiet-catalog handshake: resume_then_fresh now drives the resume and fresh readers with futures::try_join! instead of a detached task and a 60 second sleep, holding both subscribers until the scenario completes.
• Waiter capacity: PARKED rises from 8 to 16, the idle retire test parks on 17 lists, the waiter bench sweeps to 32, and resume::Sub::Pending plus moq-stats::Reader::Subscribing are boxed.
• Docs and quests: the m0 quest is deleted and the relay CPU reports are updated for the completed work.

ℹ️ Two active quest docs still describe the 8-entry waiter

The constant is now 16, but two m2 quests still state the old threshold and waiter size. A maintainer picking either quest up will measure against numbers that no longer exist.

Technical details

# Stale quest docs after `PARKED` 8 -> 16

## Affected sites
- `quest/m2/perf/kio-waiter-costs.md:7` - goal bullet says "parked on more than `PARKED` (8) lists". The retire threshold is now 16, and raising `PARKED` (one option listed in this quest's plan) has partly landed.
- `quest/m2/perf/kio-waiter-costs.md:17` — plan item still says "a waiter parked on more than `PARKED = 8` lists is not [reusable]".
- `quest/m2/performance-survey/task-capacity.md:12` — says a `Park` holds an inline `Waiter` of about 100 B. Doubling `parked` adds about 64 B per waiter.
- `quest/m2/performance-survey/task-capacity.md:28-30` — the 184 B per peak slot and 188,912 B / 12,085,304 B retention figures were measured against the smaller waiter.

## Required outcome
- The active quests describe the current `PARKED` value and waiter size, or explicitly note the change and which measurements predate it.

## Suggested approach (optional)
- Update the two parentheticals to 16 and adjust the size figures in `task-capacity.md`. The PR body already points at that quest for the larger waiter storage, so recording the new size there is consistent with that follow-up.

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ℹ️ The only change since the prior review is a clean base merge; no new issues.

Reviewed changes

This incremental pass covers ea70199e1 (Merge origin/main), the only commit since 10a16ed79. It merges main at 2fd9bb5d7d without manual conflict resolution and leaves every implementation, test, and benchmark file unchanged. Main's new quest/m0/README.md entry lands beside this PR's deletion of the waiter-records entry.

The prior review's single doc follow-up still applies unchanged to this head.

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The Check failure was a flake in sh/dispatch-query.test.py::test_terminating_the_run_stops_the_running_phase, not in the PR's kio/moq-net changes. CI runs under bash 5.3.20; on cancellation, the dispatcher's EXIT trap runs wait, which can return a cancelled lane's status (143). With set -e, that aborts the trap before report, so the assertion expecting a check rs (cancelled) timing row fails (or, in some runs, the report is missing entirely).

Fixed at the source in sh/dispatch.sh by tolerating wait's status so report and cleanup always run. Before the fix I reproduced the failure on bash 5.3.20 (1 in 420 stress runs); after it, 420/420 runs passed, and the full 35-test dispatcher suite passes under both bash 5.3.20 and 5.2.21. shellcheck sh/dispatch.sh is clean.

Pushed commit e6690144c to quest/m0/kio-waiter-records on PR #7789.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head e669014, following 10a16ed.

The new dispatch cleanup tolerates a nonzero wait status so reporting and temporary-file cleanup can proceed. No new actionable finding in that change.

The earlier incumbent-loss finding remains: a replacement that has metadata but has already aborted without delivering can displace a still-live incumbent before its failure is handled.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of the dispatch delta and prior origin code. I did not run cancellation tests or benchmarks.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 0d5b096

The earlier incumbent-loss finding is fixed: an already-aborted replacement with no history is refused before splicing, and the new regression exercises preservation and clean completion of the incumbent. Copies with history still splice and drain. No new actionable findings in the update.

The later-abort race described in the PR remains pre-existing; the dispatch trap change was reverted and its diagnosis recorded for separate work. The targeted refusal check is a sensible fix for the reported case.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of the delta, surrounding state transitions and regression test. I did not run tests or benchmarks.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

This incremental pass covers the four commits since the prior pullfrog review (ea70199e1), through head 0d5b096c7.

• Incumbent refusal guard: Step::Info now refuses an aborted copy that delivered no group (latest_sequence().is_none()), restoring main's behavior for a replacement that never produced history while still splicing one whose history readers can drain. The check matches the delivered flag Step::Ended already derives from the same method.
• Regression test: a_replacement_aborted_without_history_keeps_the_incumbent accepts matching metadata then aborts with no groups before the front polls, and asserts the incumbent keeps serving and its clean finish ends the track. It guards the reverted "splice every aborted copy" head.
• Scope revert: the sh/dispatch.sh EXIT-trap change is dropped and its diagnosis recorded as a lead in quest/m0/test-flakes-2/dispatch-query-terminate.md; sh/ is untouched against main.
• Stale quest docs: both m2 quests now quote PARKED 16 and the re-measured task_capacity figures (248 B/slot, consistent with the old values plus 64 B/slot).
• Main merge and formatting: main at 246916845a merged in, plus a rustfmt-only commit on the new test.

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quest land watch: the merge queue removed this pull request at 0d5b096 because it conflicts with main (merge_conflict).

The land fixer works on it in the background, and the watcher re-enqueues it at the back of the queue once it is fixed or judged flaky, or hands it back here with what it needs.

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[moq-bot]

quest land watch: armed auto-merge on this pull request at 74bd284, so it joins the back of the merge queue once its required checks pass, with the land fixer's fix (codex / Codex): Merged base and preserved boxed pending resolver with the new snapshot API; passed cargo build --locked -p kio -p moq-net -p moq-stats --all-targets; cargo test --locked -p kio -p moq-net -p moq-stats; cargo fmt --check -p kio -p moq-net -p moq-stats..

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

This incremental pass covers the single commit since the prior pullfrog review (0d5b096c7), through head 74bd2845e.

• Base merge adapted: Merged main at bac6ab7b2, which brings in #7736 (snapshot consumers now subscribe themselves). The PR's boxed resolver is re-applied on that new API: moq-stats::Reader::Subscribing now holds Box<Pending<Resolving>>, keeping the pending resolver off every node's inline footprint.
• Consistent use: the lone construction site boxes track.info() and the poll/destructure arms still match the variant, so the type change is behavior-neutral.
• No other PR delta: the front incumbent logic, regression tests, waiter capacity, and quest docs are unchanged from the previously approved head.

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quest/m2/perf/kio-waiter-costs.md-7-7: 1

7-7: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Unverified finding
Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

Correct the waiter threshold description.

Park::hold still replaces a waiter when it has an unrecorded registration while another list retains it. With PARKED = 16, parking on more than 16 lists remains the retirement condition. This contradicts the statement on Line 7 and the rule on Line 17.

State that the threshold moved from 8 to 16, or that waiters parked on up to 16 lists avoid this churn.

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Check for retained history before splicing an aborted copy.

If a replacement appends a group and aborts before finishing it, latest_sequence() remains Some, but the abort removes the unfinished group. This guard then splices a copy with no readable history. Front::track_info clears the draining incumbent, and the replacement’s error ends the live subscription instead of leaving the incumbent serving. Base the refusal on retained readable history, and cover this unfinished-group case in the regression test. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

As per coding guidelines, “A subscription stays on the instance it started on while that instance has a route.”

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs at line 4227:
Update the aborted-copy guard that currently checks asked.copy.latest_sequence()
to refuse splicing unless the copy has retained readable history, using the
established history check rather than the latest sequence marker. Add a
regression test where a replacement appends a group and aborts before finishing
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