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Finishes quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect.md (deleted here) after moq-dev/moq#7605.

Problem

The quest's last open work:

1. Public ingest (moq-dev/moq#6111) costs the relay +10.5k of main's +30.8k per frame on chat over io_uring, far above the model's +200, because each viewer's read now reaches a group before its first frame and blocks on it.
2. group_relay_frames is about 15% slower at f37d964 than at e7a5c10 on a loaded host; pacing explained about 4%.

Earlier rounds of this PR did the quest's re-measures (the ranged reads' session cost, qmux and receive leases, and main against the old endpoint); those results are in the report.

Decisions

Decided by the maintainer 2026-11-05 (/quest-unblock), on public ingest's relay cost:

• ✅ Keep cutting: count main's per-viewer read with just bench-fanout session and callgrind, fix what a live read pays for nothing, and record the rest in the epic.
• Accept it as the price of reading a group before its first frame.
• Hand it to the performance audit.

Previously recorded maintainer direction: remove, or make crate-private, public API on the code paths this work touches that no consumer outside its own crate uses. This is why poll_next_frame remains crate-private; chunked reading is available through async next_frame, and poll-only callers read complete frames through poll_read_frame.

• ✅ Decided 2026-11-05 (maintainer, /quest-plan): make the unused batch read side, frame::Buffer, and group::Producer::write_frames crate-private. Point group_relay_frames and the group scenario at the relay's poll_read_objects through hidden fuzz helpers. Rejected keeping it public or removing it and its benches.
• ✅ Decided 2026-11-05 (maintainer, /quest-plan): delete quest/m1/release-perf/pacing-report.md with quest rm; pacing adds only 2.0% per drain and does not justify a dedicated quest.

What changed

Instructions per delivered group, just bench-fanout, each against the commit before it (all counts and callgrind attributions in the evidence):

Change	Session, 512 viewers	Group drain
This branch before today (45351ac1d8, main at 246916845a)	110,581	173,231
A blocked read asks the logical reader's budget only once a group landed above it	-613
A reader's drop poll with nothing to report returns at once	-1,166
A drop poll right after a receive only collects what the receive queued; the frame read inlines again	-1,992	-4,106
A prefetched frame is read before the idle gate, the budget, and the route	0	-33,719
All (one run)	106,852 (-3.4%)	135,396 (-21.8%)

• The budget (model/group.rs, model/frame.rs, model/track.rs). Expiry::is_expired now takes the group's Recover and asks Recover::poll_budget only past its landing check, which answers "not expired" without a budget. The budget's reader sync was the reason not to skip it; it is redundant there: a preference update mirrors into every copy at once (Mirror::sync), a route change syncs every reader (serve_from), and the landing that makes the budget matter wakes the read through watch_landing. held_read_preferences_follow_the_reader asserted a wake on a preference update before anything landed, which can't change the verdict; it now asserts the update reaches the copy at once, and keeps its checks that the new budget applies once a group lands.
• The forward drop (model/resume.rs, model/track.rs, lite/publisher.rs). Reader::poll_drop returns before judging every copy (let_go) when no run is queued and no copy is replaced, the single-route case; a replaced copy is still judged there, since dropping the last group handed out from it wakes nothing else that lets it go (a_drop_poll_lets_go_a_replaced_copy_once_its_group_is_dropped). The relay's second drop poll after a parked receive, there to collect a stale skip the receive's probe queued, now uses the new crate-private track::Subscriber::poll_queued_drop instead of probing the live edge again with the same waiter. Drop probes fall from 5 to 3 per delivered group. Breaking the collect-only path fails a_late_stale_group_is_dropped_early.
• The frame read (model/group.rs). moq-dev/moq#7504 put an idle gate in front of every frame read and split the read into an out-of-line layer called from two branches: +19,319 per 512-frame drain (+12.7%), about 38 instructions per frame. A frame in the reader's prefetched batch now returns first (a read parks only with its batch drained, and a copy adopted mid-group starts empty), sharing read_frame's existing fast path, and the read below has one call site.
• A group fan-out scenario (bench/fanout/group): every subscriber drains a finished 512-frame group in relay object batches, as group_relay_objects/plain/512 does, so that bench's cost is counted exactly on any host and any revision since e7a5c10. Not run by default.
• The record: the report gains "Public ingest's per-viewer read on main" and "group_relay_frames since e7a5c10"; the release-perf epic accepts what remains of each viewer's live read (about 3.5k per group in the drop poll's probe, 3.5k in the receive's, and 0.9k in the expiry checks that park a blocked read on the next landing); the pacing quest is deleted after its counted 2.0% cost was accepted; the bisect quest is deleted.

group_relay_frames attribution

Per 512-frame drain: e7a5c10 149,368; pacing (moq-dev/moq#7388) +3,007 (+2.0%); idle frame reads (moq-dev/moq#7504) +19,319 (+12.7%); smaller group consumers (moq-dev/moq#7791) +511; f37d964 172,205 (+15.3%, matching the wall-clock report); this PR 135,396, 9.4% below e7a5c10 with pacing included. Nine other candidates between pacing and f37d964 count the same as their predecessor.

Approach

Keep the prefetched-frame fast path and avoid redundant live-edge probes and budget synchronization. Benchmark relay batches through poll_read_objects via the hidden fuzz module, retaining object metadata. Existing frame batch read/write benches use hidden helpers too. The object-batch bench is now named group_relay_objects so comparisons against older frame-batch revisions cannot report a mixed-harness delta.

Alternatives

Keeping the unused public batch API and removing it along with its benches were rejected by the maintainer. The private implementation and its measurements remain.

Impact

• Public API: breaking: group::Consumer::poll_next_frame is crate-private. Migrate to next_frame (async) or poll_read_frame; recorded in rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md. Also crate-private: group::Consumer::{read_frames, poll_read_frames, keep_alive}, frame::Buffer, and group::Producer::write_frames. Migrate batch reads to repeated read_frame / poll_read_frame calls and writes to write_frame; reads refresh cache access. All migrations are in rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md. New crate-private track::Subscriber::poll_queued_drop. Wire: none.
• Benchmark tooling: just bench-fanout <revisions> group counts the group drain.

The instruction figures above are historical measurements of the whole-frame batch harness. The revised relay object-batch harness retains metadata and is a different measurement; revisions lacking its hidden helper report unsupported.

Checks

• At f469f759a1, after merging origin/main: just ci origin/main through quest gate passed, 10,871 tests passed, 135 skipped.
• quest check --base origin/main --branch quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect: 586 documents pass.
• just ci through quest gate: passed; 10,870 Rust tests passed, 135 skipped. The first run caught an overly narrow test cfg on Buffer::is_empty; fixed before this passing run.
• cargo check -p moq-net --all-targets --all-features through quest gate: passed.
• just bench-fanout "" group "1 8 64" through quest gate: passed, 144,907 / 144,901 / 144,900 instructions per delivered 512-frame group. New relay object-batch baseline is in the evidence report.
• The subsequent evidence-only Markdown and JSON additions passed remark and Biome checks.
• Main was merged without rebasing. Resolved the completed waiter quest as deleted, kept the completed bisect quest deleted, combined migration entries, and retained both the frame fast path and main's opt-in async API.

Review

Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, via quest review --base origin/main --branch quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect.

• Round 2 reviewed head ba4977623b, the merge of origin/main (conflicts in group.rs and MIGRATE.md; kept main's recover() accessor and shed-frame flights note alongside this PR's lazy is_expired(recover) and inlined read): zero findings.
• Round 1 reviewed head f469f759a1: zero findings.
• CodeRabbit's three threads on 92300424fb:
  • The empty drop report skipping let_go: fixed. Reproduced as a failing test (2 copies left after the held group dropped); the early return now requires no replaced copy.
  • Run 4U16wN agreeing within 0.3k with S0G1Z7: fixed; 4U16wN is the tokio-workers run (146.9k), so only ssZrgC is named.
  • fanout_method naming group_relay_frames: fixed with different wording. The recorded group runs (harness 45351ac) used the frame reader, so the note now names both readers and says the new counts do not compare.

Previous round, Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort:

Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort, via quest review --base origin/main --branch quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect.

• Round 2 reviewed head 92300424fb: zero findings.
• Round 1 benchmark-ID finding fixed by renaming the revised harness group_relay_objects, preventing mixed frame/object comparisons under an identical ID.
• Round 1 request to restore public poll_next_frame refuted by the recorded maintainer decision to privatize unused API on touched paths; there is no current outside consumer. Async chunked reads remain available; poll-only callers use whole-frame reads. The reviewer accepted the response in round 2.

Follow-ups

None recommended. Pacing's measured 2.0% per-drain overhead does not justify a dedicated quest; its quest was deleted with quest rm.

(Written by GPT-6.1 Sol with high)

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Walkthrough

Relay read, drop, traversal, and expiry paths were updated. The changes add batch helpers and a group fan-out benchmark scenario, and revise benchmark records and performance reports with additional measurements and attribution.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 92300

The changes have bounded merge risk: a narrow slow-reader case can retain an obsolete subscription until another track event, and two benchmark statements need correction. Preserve retirement cleanup and clarify the measurements; the additional wake assertion improves regression coverage.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the full 19-file diff at 8fa7235a5: the four moq-net hot-path changes, the new group fan-out scenario, the bench-worktree persistence change, the evidence/report updates, and the quest deletion.

• Live-read budget: group::Expiry::is_expired takes Option<&Recover> and asks Recover::poll_budget only after watch_landing says a successor landed; the skipped reader sync is covered by Mirror::sync on preference updates and by the landing wake, and the waiter is registered before the early return.
• Forward drop: Reader::poll_drop returns early when nothing is queued, and the post-receive poll uses the new poll_queued_drop so it collects what the receive's probe queued instead of re-probing; the collect-only path is covered by a_late_stale_group_is_dropped_early.
• Frame read: take_prefetched now runs before the idle gate, budget, and route, and the read has one call site; safe because a read parks only with its batch drained and an adopted copy starts empty.
• Live walk: TrackState::live returns a two-variant LiveWalk rather than a flattened-option chain, and the single-run search scans it statically; equivalent iteration behavior for both cache and indexed modes.
• Bench tooling: the new bench/fanout/group scenario matches group_relay_frames/plain/512, is opt-in only, and the persistent .tmp/bench-revisions/<sha> worktree reuse checks the sha and cleanliness before reuse.
• Docs/quests: the report's new sections and cited counts match relay-cpu-bisect.json, the epic accepts the remaining cost, and no references to the deleted bisect quest remain in tracked files.

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Reviewed commit: 041808e

• [P2] Preserve replaced-route cleanup when no DROP is queued (rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs:1768–1769). The new empty-drop return bypasses let_go, which also removes obsolete route copies. After failover, a subscriber with continuously ready groups returns from poll_lowest before its other cleanup call; take/observe bound replaced copies but do not remove them. Healthy no-DROP delivery can therefore retain old upstream subscriptions and track state, with each receive scanning a growing copies list. Keep cleanup for replaced copies on this path while retaining the single-current-copy fast path.

The latest merge itself leaves this behavior unchanged; this finding concerns the original fast path, not a new merge regression. The targeted lazy-polling approach otherwise fits the performance goal.

Verification: GitHub-only static inspection of the changed paths and cleanup callers. I did not run tests or benchmarks.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the six commits since the prior Pullfrog review at 041808e95: the batch API privatization, the new fuzz helpers and bench rewiring, the benchmark rename, the evidence/report updates, and the pacing quest deletion.

• Merged main (d0c73e35) into the branch, adopting its opt-in async wrappers and Flate encoder reuse while keeping the frame fast path and the live-walk/drop changes intact.
• Made group::Consumer::{read_frames, poll_read_frames, keep_alive}, frame::Buffer, and group::Producer::write_frames crate-private, with test/fuzz gating on the frame-batch items. No callers outside moq-net remain.
• Added hidden fuzz::FrameBatch and fuzz::ObjectBatch helpers and rewired benches/group.rs and bench/fanout/group onto them, so the private batch read/write and relay object-batch paths stay measured.
• Moved the group bench target to required-features = ["fuzz"] (which implies async) and replaced the fan-out crate's futures dependency with kio, matching the other fan-out crates.
• Renamed the delivery benchmark to group_relay_objects and recorded the revised harness baseline (run Qn1sqT, 144,907 / 144,901 / 144,900 at 1/8/64 subscribers) in the bisect report and evidence JSON, alongside a note retiring the stopped run.
• Deleted quest/m1/release-perf/pacing-report.md after accepting pacing's 2.0% cost, and removed the completed bisect and pacing entries from the epic's ## Required section.
• Extended rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md with the batch read/write migration notes.

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Nitpick comments: 1

rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs: 1

6853-6859: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a wake check when the first successor lands.

The revised test no longer asserts that a successor landing wakes the parked read after the budget update. The explicit reading.poll after the successors are written returns the judged result whether or not a wake occurred. A missing successor-landing wake therefore does not fail this test.

Reset the wake flag before the successors are written. Assert the flag after the first successor is written. The read is parked before the update, so this wake is expected in every loop case.

Suggested test change

+					wake.0.store(false, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
 					for sequence in 1..=4 {
 						let mut next = source.create_group(group::Info { sequence }).unwrap();
 						next.write_frame(ts(sequence * 1000), b"next".as_ref()).unwrap();
+						if sequence == 1 {
+							assert!(
+								wake.0.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed),
+								"recovered={recovered}, widen={widen}, chunked={chunked}: successor landing did not wake the held read"
+							);
+						}
 						next.finish().unwrap();
 					}

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs around lines 6853 - 6859:
Update the successor-writing loop in the resume test so it verifies the parked
read is woken by the first successor in every loop case. Reset the `wake` flag
immediately before writing successors, then assert it after the first successor
has landed; keep the existing explicit `reading.poll` and subsequent successor
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.github/relay-cpu-bisect.json:
- Line 3483: Update the fanout_method description to accurately identify the
group scenario’s object-batch reader and retained object metadata; remove the
outdated whole-frame reader comparison. Keep the description aligned with the
current 16-object batch behavior.

Review comments at @.github/relay-cpu-bisect.md:
- Line 52: Correct the agreement claim in the sentence about run 4U16wN: remove
it from the within-0.3k comparison with run S0G1Z7, or state that its value
differs by 4.3k. Preserve the claim that ssZrgC agrees within 0.3k.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs:
- Around line 1768-1770: Update Reader::poll_drop to remove the early return
when self.drops is empty, allowing the polling flow to reach let_go after a
lease is released. Preserve the existing drop-processing behavior when drops are
present.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs:
- Around line 6853-6859: Update the successor-writing loop in the resume test so
it verifies the parked read is woken by the first successor in every loop case.
Reset the `wake` flag immediately before writing successors, then assert it
after the first successor has landed; keep the existing explicit `reading.poll`
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• .github/relay-cpu-bisect.json
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• bench/README.md
• bench/fanout.py
• bench/fanout/group/Cargo.toml
• bench/fanout/group/src/main.rs
• bench/run.sh
• quest/m1/release-perf/README.md
• quest/m1/release-perf/pacing-report.md
• quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect.md
• rs/moq-net/Cargo.toml
• rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md
• rs/moq-net/benches/group.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/fuzz.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/frame.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/group.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs

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• quest/m1/release-perf/relay-cpu-bisect.md
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Reviewed commit f469f75. No new actionable findings. The earlier replaced-route cleanup finding is addressed: the empty-DROP fast return now requires no replaced copies, allowing let_go cleanup after failover, with a regression covering the held and released group. Preserving the single-route fast path is a reasonable targeted fix.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of the update and base changes; I did not run tests or benchmarks.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the two commits since the prior Pullfrog review at 92300424fb: the drop-poll fix that answers the outstanding review finding, its regression test, two evidence corrections, and the merge of main.

• Narrowed the empty-drop early return in Reader::poll_drop so it applies only while no copy is replaced, restoring let_go for a replaced copy kept alive by a group still handed out from it (rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs:1769).
• Added a_drop_poll_lets_go_a_replaced_copy_once_its_group_is_dropped, which reproduces the leak: after the held group drops, one poll_drop must release the replaced copy.
• Corrected the bisect report's agreement claim so only io_uring run ssZrgC is compared with S0G1Z7, dropping tokio-workers run 4U16wN (146.9k vs 142.6k).
• Reworded fanout_method to distinguish the recorded whole-frame group runs from the current object-batch scenario and state that their counts do not compare.
• Merged main c76f9eb9f with no net change to the PR's files.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the single merge commit since the prior pullfrog review at f469f759a1: ba4977623 merges origin/main through 1c140ac9b, which brings in the flights feature (#7944), BBR3 loss reporting (#7952), and a quest update.

• recover accessor adopted: the four Consumer reads of the old self.recover field (poll_expiry's is_expired call, poll_next_frame, poll_read_as, poll_finished) now go through main's Consumer::recover(), which returns Option<&Recover> from the boxed carry that #7944 introduced. Behavior is unchanged; the lazy is_expired check and the inlined prefetch read survive the merge intact.
• MIGRATE.md conflict resolved in order: this PR's ## Unreleased batch/poll_next_frame section stays first, main's #7944 flights section follows, then the async opt-in section. No duplicate or lost entries.
• benches/group.rs kept both sides: the PR's group_relay_objects rename and fuzz-helper object-batch harness sit alongside main's new group_flights scenario.

Verified locally on the merged tree: cargo check -p moq-net --all-targets --all-features is clean, cargo test -p moq-net --features async --lib -- model::group model::track passes 571 tests, and cargo test -p moq-net --features async --test integration -- flights passes 4 tests. The flights tests matter here because #7944's poll_flown drops its Ride::skip frames per frame its inner read returns, while this PR's group-level take_prefetched now returns ahead of poll_flown; since adopt_copy hands the cursor a fresh, empty prefetch and a read parks only with its batch drained, the fast path cannot hand out a frame that should have been skipped.

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