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Finishes quest/m2/unbounded-groups/paced-batch-fills.md and deletes it. Follow-up from moq-dev/moq#7339 and moq-dev/moq#7944.

Problem

A track::Requests handler serving a wide fill wrote the whole batch at once: Fill::wanted moved to the next group as soon as the last was accepted. On a pooled track, the batch evicted its own earlier groups before the reader took them. Reproduced with a fill of groups 0..40 on a pool holding 4 of them and a reader taking one group per poll: the reader got only groups 38, 39, and 40.

What changed

• Pacing (model/track/fill.rs). Each fill records the groups its handler accepted that no reader has picked up yet (Pending::unseen), before the group is cached. Fill::poll_wanted_changed / wanted_changed yields the next group only once that set is empty, so while let Some(sequence) = fill.wanted_changed().await writes one group at a time, at the fastest reader's pace. A reader picks a group up when it next reads (Misses::pick_up after the read paths' probe), not on a drop-only poll, so a publisher out of stream credit still holds the fill back. A fetch joined to the fill picks up its group as it resolves. A reader leaving or narrowing past the group also releases it.
• Fill::wanted is unchanged: it still names the next group owed without waiting. Its docs, and every wrapper's (moq-ffi, Python, Go, Swift), point handlers at wanted_changed.
• In-tree handlers:
  • moq-archive, moq-c, and moq-transcode now serve with wanted_changed instead of a wanted() loop. moq-transcode holds a fetch slot per group transcoded, not across a fill's wait on its readers. Once its rung retires, a fill serves what it still owes unpaced, so retirement's drain never waits on a reader that stopped reading.
  • The lite FETCH-per-group relay fill (FillServeRun) waits on the new Fill::poll_paced before its next fetch.
• Docs: MIGRATE.md notes for moq-net and every binding (moq-ffi, Go, Python, Swift, Kotlin, Dart); the epic README drops the quest from Required.

Choices made without asking

• The pace signal is "picked up", not "taken". Pacing on the reader taking the group first stalled the moq-hls archive replays. Their reader subscribes newest first (so the fill runs descending) but reads with ordered(), which can't take group 11 until group 0 arrives. Any reader polling for its next group picks up what the fill answered, so the two orders can't deadlock. When the orders match, picking up and taking happen in the same poll. When they don't, the batch accumulates until the oldest group lands, which is inherent to reading in the opposite order. a_fill_against_its_readers_order_still_finishes covers this case.
• Fastest reader, not slowest. Any one reader picking the group up releases the next. This matches the epic's fastest-reader pacing. A slower reader that loses a group to eviction falls back on the refill-once path from moq-dev/moq#7339.
• wanted() stays an unpaced snapshot rather than returning None while paced. None means "stop serving", and dropping a fill names the rest dropped, so a paced None would make every existing wanted() loop lose groups. The pace lives only in the API that waits.
• Run-based relay fills are not paced. The moq-transport ServeFill (FetchRun of a run) and lite-07 RangeFills still ask upstream for a whole run at once. Pacing them would cost a round trip per group (rejected for refills in moq-dev/moq#7339), or need backpressure on the upstream stream. A relay's reader is its own publisher session, which picks groups up as they land.
• JS unchanged. @moq/net's cache evicts only by idle time, never by a byte budget, so a batch can't evict itself there. Mirroring the pace would cost code with no consumer.

Tests

• a_batch_fill_waits_for_its_reader (new): a 40-group fill on a 4-group pool reaches a slow ordered reader whole, one group served per take. Without pacing it reads only 38..40.
• a_fill_against_its_readers_order_still_finishes (new): a descending fill read in sequence finishes.
• a_drop_poll_does_not_pick_up_a_filled_group (new): drop polls alone, as a publisher out of stream credit makes, never release the next group.
• a_fetch_picks_up_its_group_in_a_batch_fill (new): a kept fetch joined to a batch releases it once resolved.
• retirement_serves_a_fill_past_a_reader_that_stopped (new, moq-transcode): a fill parked behind a group its reader never picks up still serves its remaining groups and ends once the rung retires.
• fill_wanted_changed_follows_the_group_owed: now also asserts the pause until the reader picks the group up, and the wake when it does.
• read_slowly (the moq-dev/moq#7339 bufferbloat tests) serves through poll_wanted_changed.

Impact

• Public API (breaking, behavioral): track::Fill::wanted_changed / poll_wanted_changed, and MoqFill::wanted_changed across the bindings, wait until a reader picked up the last group served. Migrate by serving with wanted_changed rather than a wanted() loop, and serve fills concurrently. The terminal None never waits.
• Wire: none.

Validation

• just ci on 708d032caf: passes. Dart bindings' wanted_changed checksum regenerated for the doc change.
• The new pacing and retirement tests fail with their fix reverted.

Suggested follow-ups

• Pace run-based relay fills (moq-transport FETCH runs, lite-07 range fills) by backpressuring the upstream stream once relay evidence shows a downstream reader losing a batch to eviction.

Review

Codex (quest review), gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort. Latest round: on head 708d032cafff44399f9709de432fd2f1392a084b, no findings.

• Round 1 (head 0a4aaf49d2), high: on a multithreaded executor, a reader could pick up an accepted group before the fill recorded it as unseen. Fixed: recorded before the answer.
• Round 2 (head 4379684a2e): no findings.
• Online review on 4379684a2e (two [P1]s, six CodeRabbit, one Pullfrog), all fixed in 516b90e8f4: unseen recorded before the cache insert; drop-only probes no longer pick up; a resolved fetch picks up its group; docs for terminal None, the first call, pickup vs take, concurrency, and ready; binding MIGRATE.md notes; moq-transcode migrated.
• Round 3 (head 516b90e8f4), medium: moq-transcode held its fetch permit while a fill waited on readers. Fixed in 614670d66e: one permit per group transcoded.
• Round 4 (head 5111eb61c0, also merges main): no findings.
• Online review on 5111eb61c0: Pullfrog found that moq-transcode's retirement drain could wait forever on a paced fill whose reader stopped reading. Fixed in 708d032caf: a retired rung's fills serve what they still owe unpaced. CodeRabbit's two comments on rs/moq-ffi/src/producer.rs:482 and rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md:10 confirmed earlier fixes; nothing to do.
• Round 5 (head 708d032caf, also merges main): no findings.

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Reviewed commit: 4379684

Direction: address the two pacing correctness issues below before merging. The handler migrations are consistent with the new waiting API, but cache publication can still lose an acknowledgment, and drop-only probing can bypass backpressure.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the diff and relevant reader, cache, and publisher paths. I did not execute tests or reproduce these interleavings. The head's Check workflow was still in progress when checked.

[pullfrog]

Important

Two gaps worth closing before this ships: the pacing change reaches every SDK with no migration note outside moq-net, and moq-transcode's fill handler still writes its whole batch.

Reviewed changes

Read the full diff, the fill and miss reader paths, every in-tree fill handler, and the binding wrappers.

• Pacing model: Pending::unseen records sequences the handler accepted that no join has picked up, Inner::accept_from records them under the fills lock before the answer goes out, and Fill::poll_wanted_changed holds the next group until the set empties.
• Ack clearing: Join::saw clears on a picked-up answer; Pending::unwant clears on narrow, take, eviction, and leave, which every Join::release/drop path funnels through.
• Handlers: moq-archive and moq-c now loop wanted_changed; the lite FETCH-per-group FillServeRun waits on the new Fill::poll_paced.
• Docs and quest: moq-net's MIGRATE.md, Fill rustdoc, the FFI/Go/Python/Swift doc comments, and the deletion of quest/m2/unbounded-groups/paced-batch-fills.md with its ## Required entry.
• Tests: a_batch_fill_waits_for_its_reader, a_fill_against_its_readers_order_still_finishes, the paced read_slowly helper, and the extended fill_wanted_changed_follows_the_group_owed.

⚠️ SDK users get the breaking pacing change with no migration note

Only rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md records the new wanted_changed contract, yet the change reaches Go, Python, Swift, Kotlin, Dart, and C through moq-ffi, where the same call is the documented way to serve a fill. Besides the missing notes, the wrapper Fill docs touched here describe the per-group loop but not the concurrency requirement: a handler that takes one fill and serves it to completion before taking the next can now wait forever on a reader whose ordered read first needs another fill's group.

Technical details

# SDK migration surface for the paced fill

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-ffi/MIGRATE.md:3` — states that each language wrapper has its own `MIGRATE.md` in its own casing, so an FFI-level note alone does not reach them.
- `go/wrapper/MIGRATE.md`, `py/moq-rs/MIGRATE.md`, `swift/MIGRATE.md`, `kt/moq/MIGRATE.md`, `dart/moq/MIGRATE.md` — all have `## Unreleased` and already carry behavior-only entries (e.g. Go's "Authored tracks default to a zero max age"), but none mentions the fill pace.
- `go/wrapper/publish.go:320-324`, `py/moq-rs/moq/publish.py:211-217`, `swift/Sources/Moq/Requests.swift:42-46` — the updated class docs say to serve one group at a time as `WantedChanged`/`wantedChanged()` yields them, with no warning that fills must be served concurrently.

## Required outcome
- Each affected package records the change under `## Unreleased`: `wantedChanged` now waits for a reader to pick up the group served, looping `wanted()` still writes a batch the cache can evict, and fills must be served concurrently.
- The wrapper class docs state the concurrency requirement too, since that is the foot-gun a sequential handler hits.

## Suggested approach (optional)
- Mirror the wording already in `rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md`; it is accurate and short.

ℹ️ moq-transcode still writes a fill's whole batch

spawn_fill loops fill.wanted() and fetches, encodes, and writes each group as the source answers, which is the same batch write this PR paces in moq-archive and moq-c. The transcode output track is an ordinary broadcast track whose pool capacity the relay or CLI configures, so a slow downstream reader of a wide fetched range can still evict earlier groups and fall back on the refill-once path, which gives up and names a group dropped after a second eviction. Migrating it is small, or record it as a follow-up since the quest is being deleted here.

Technical details

# Transcode fill handler remains unpaced

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-transcode/src/rung.rs:567-577` — `spawn_fill` owns the `Fill` and loops `fill.wanted()`, one `fetch` per group with no wait for the reader.
- `rs/moq-transcode/src/rung.rs:589` — `fetch` accepts the group into the output track via the `GroupFill`, i.e. into the output broadcast's cache.
- `rs/moq-transcode/src/rung.rs:195` — the output track request (`request.accept(info)`) is what the fetched groups land on.
- `rs/moq-relay/src/cache.rs:106`, `rs/moq-relay/src/config.rs:103`; `rs/moq-cli` transcode output — the pool capacity is caller-configured, so this is a real byte budget in relay deployments.

## Required outcome
- A transcode fetch of a range wider than the output cache no longer evicts its own earlier groups before the downstream reader takes them.
- Either migrate the loop or leave a tracked follow-up naming it, rather than deleting the quest with this handler still unpaced.

## Suggested approach (optional)
- Take `mut fill`, loop `while let Some(sequence) = fill.wanted_changed().await`, and drop `last`; the task already owns the fill and the semaphore permit so a parked fill behaves like a slow fetch.

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Walkthrough

Fill state now tracks accepted groups until a reader picks them up. Wanted-change polling and serving loops wait for that pickup before advancing. Tests cover wake behavior and ordered reads. API documentation and migration notes describe the pacing behavior, quest references are updated, and Dart checksum expectations have changed.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 43796

Some fetch and reader combinations can stall batch delivery. Fix fetch pickup tracking and clarify concurrency requirements before merging the pacing change.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: pacing batch fills by reader progress.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 81.82% 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.
Description check		The description is related to the changes. It explains fill pacing, handler updates, tests, and migration guidance.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @go/wrapper/publish.go:
- Around line 368-369: Update the WantedChanged documentation and its Rust, FFI,
Python, and Swift descriptions to distinguish pacing from completion: a paced
next group may wait for reader pickup, but after the final accepted group,
terminal nil can return before any reader picks it up. Do not describe
completion as waiting for reader pickup.

Review comments at @rs/moq-ffi/src/producer.rs:
- Around line 540-541: Update the matching documentation in the producer method
and the `Fill` documentation to distinguish picking up a group from taking it:
retain the one-group-per-call behavior, but state that readers can pick up
groups before taking them, so several groups may remain cached until taken.
- Around line 539-540: Update the documentation for the first-call guarantee
near wanted_changed and in the corresponding binding documentation: clarify that
the first call returns immediately only if no group was accepted beforehand, and
may wait for a reader to pick up a previously accepted group. Keep the existing
behavior unchanged.
- Around line 481-482: Update the MoqFill documentation and the Go, Python, and
Swift binding descriptions to state that requested fills must be served
concurrently, so handling one fill cannot block waiting for a reader that needs
another fill.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md:
- Around line 9-10: Update the fill-serving guidance around Fill::wanted_changed
to explain that handlers should write accepted groups concurrently while
continuing to poll for the next group. Clarify that completing a newer group
inline may block on frame readiness while a reader waits for an older group,
preventing the handler from accepting that older group.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/track/fill.rs:
- Around line 1275-1282: Update the fill completion path that writes to
pending.unseen so fetch pickups are recorded before pacing the next group, and
synchronize that bookkeeping with cache publication. Ensure a fetch that
receives a group clears its corresponding unseen range even if the batch reader
narrows away from that group.

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• quest/m2/unbounded-groups/paced-batch-fills.md
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• rs/moq-c/src/publish.rs
• rs/moq-ffi/src/producer.rs
• rs/moq-net/MIGRATE.md
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs
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Addressed the Pullfrog review:

• SDK migration notes: added to the MIGRATE.md of moq-ffi, Go, Python, Swift, Kotlin, and Dart, and the wrapper Fill docs now say to serve fills concurrently (516b90e).
• moq-transcode batch writes: spawn_fill now serves with wanted_changed (516b90e). The local Codex review then found that its semaphore permit stayed held while a fill waited on its readers, so a few paused readers could block every other fetch. The permit now covers one group's transcode only (614670d).

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Reviewed commit: 5111eb6

Follow-up to my previous review: both P1 findings are addressed in the current source.

• Cache publication: accept_from registers unseen before the group becomes cache-visible, and rolls it back on insertion failure. A reader releasing the cached sequence can no longer acknowledge it before registration.
• Drop-only probes: Misses::resolve now queues pickups, and only the read paths flush them through pick_up. The new regression checks that repeated poll_drop calls leave the next group paced until a read occurs.

I also checked the explicit fetch acknowledgment, the binding migration guidance, and the transcode handler migration. The transcode permit now covers one group rather than a fill's wait for its reader.

No new actionable findings from this pass. Direction: no further code changes requested by this review; wait for the current Check workflow to finish before treating validation as complete.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the current PR diff, the substantive follow-up commits, and relevant fill, reader, publisher, and handler paths. I did not execute tests. The cache-publication interleaving still has no dedicated regression, and the drop-probe test is a model-level check rather than a blocked-QUIC, bounded-cache integration test. The current head's Check workflow was still in progress when inspected.

[pullfrog]

Important

moq-transcode's retirement drain can now wait forever on a paced fill, so a retired rung never ends its track.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta since the prior pullfrog review at 4379684a2e: the pickup-accounting rewrite in moq-net and the transcode handler migration, traced through the fill, miss, cursor, fetch and transcode paths.

• Reads own the pickup — Misses::resolve now stashes answered ranges in Misses::picked, and Cursor::poll_peek_recv/poll_peek_next flush them through pick_up in the same poll, so a drop-only probe no longer paces the fill.
• Acknowledgement recorded before caching — accept_from inserts unseen under the fills lock before TrackState::modify and rolls it back on a cache error, covering a reader that takes and releases the group before the answer goes out.
• Fetches acknowledge on resolve — Fetching::poll calls Join::saw for its sequence before returning, so a fetch that keeps its join no longer holds the batch.
• Transcode serves one group at a time — spawn_fill loops wanted_changed and takes a semaphore slot per group instead of holding one for the fill's life.
• SDK migration surface closed — every wrapper package now has a ## Unreleased note for the new wantedChanged contract and its class docs state the concurrency requirement.
• Coverage for the new rules — a_drop_poll_does_not_pick_up_a_filled_group and a_fetch_picks_up_its_group_in_a_batch_fill pin the pickup semantics; cargo test -p moq-net --lib --features async fill passes here.

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Reviewed commit: 708d032

Reviewed the substantive change since 5111eb6 and its interaction with the current PR diff.

The retirement stall identified in the Pullfrog review is addressed: each fill now watches retirement while waiting for pickup. Once retired, it serves the remaining owed groups without that wait, including fills spawned during the retirement drain. The per-group semaphore limit remains in place, and the repeated-sequence guard prevents retrying an unanswered group indefinitely.

The new regression exercises a fill parked behind an unread group, then retires the rung and verifies that the remaining source requests are processed and the fill task ends. My earlier cache-publication and drop-probe findings remain addressed.

No new actionable findings. Direction: no further code changes requested by this pass; wait for the current Check workflow to finish.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review; I did not run tests. The retirement test directly exercises the fill task and source refusals, not the complete serving/track-abort lifecycle or successful codec output. The current head's Check workflow was still in progress when inspected.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta since the prior pullfrog review at 5111eb61c: the retirement-drain fix in moq-transcode and its regression test.

• Retired fills stop waiting on readers — spawn_fill races Retire::fired() against wanted_changed() and, once retired, serves fill.wanted() unpaced. The drain is bounded by the fill's range again instead of parking behind a reader that stopped reading, so a retired rung's serve can reach the track abort that releases its subscribers.
• One attempt per owed group — the last guard keeps the unpaced drain from retrying a group the fill left unanswered, matching main's pre-PR loop.
• Regression coverage — retirement_serves_a_fill_past_a_reader_that_stopped parks a fill behind an unread group, retires the rung, and asserts the remaining groups are fetched and the task ends. I confirmed it passes at 708d032ca and fails with the race reverted (Elapsed at the post-retirement requested_fill expectation).
• Doc comments — fetches/fetch now state that the semaphore bounds groups transcoding at once, and that a fill waiting on its readers between groups holds no slot.

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The Check failure was the Python test test_tcp_rst_and_endpoint_close_are_errors, which expected moq.Error.Cancelled after a.close() but saw moq.Error.Closed. That is a pre-existing race between the stream's reset and the endpoint's retraction, not something this PR introduced: main already relaxed the assertion for exactly this case in f48bc940d ("quest: stop per-PR MIGRATE.md entries; four flakes join test-flakes-2", #8024), which this branch predates.

I merged origin/main (3 commits, including that fix) into the PR branch locally with no conflicts; the test now accepts either shutdown error. No source changes were needed.

I could not push the merge: GitHub rejected the update with GH006: Protected branch update failed for refs/heads/quest/m2/unbounded-groups/paced-batch-fills — A pull request for this branch has been added to a merge queue. Branches that are queued for merging cannot be updated. The branch is therefore still at 708d032caf. The merge queue's own build uses the latest main and so includes the flake fix, but if you want the branch itself updated, dequeue PR #8017 and the merge commit is ready to push.

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