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Closes the quest quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/relay-receive.md (deleted here).

Problem

moq-dev/moq#8293 made the origin and each stream's presentation incremental, but a relay receiving a route batch still did work linear in the origin's size: it cloned the heard view, merged the whole view (View::merge), retired the whole view (View::retire), and Node::home re-served every shown claim of the identity. One claim change on a large origin cost a pass over all its claims at every relay that heard it.

Approach

• Merge by disagreement. Each Heard view keeps differs: the claims within its floors where the merged view holds something else. A merge can only change a claim whose state differs, so a batch merges just those (View::merge_claims), and none at all when every floor of the heard view lies within a strictly newer merged floor. differs is kept per changed claim, and recomputed only where a view is replaced wholesale: a new stream, a restarted route, moved floors, a prune, a retire, or a rotation.
• No heard clone. An unscoped neighbor's view is its raw view (Heard::kept is set only for a scoped presentation or the certified remainder after ROUTE_END). A scoped presentation updates per changed claim plus its regions' covering claims (View::represent).
• Retire only when needed. retire runs only while a merged floor lies outside the interest; otherwise it is the identity.
• Home by change. Router::changed now reports, per identity, the claims whose shown state changed. Node::home re-serves only those, unless the identity's usable routes (stream, metric, peer name) changed, in which case it re-serves all of them as before.
• Under cfg(test), every batch asserts the incremental merge, the scoped view, and the skipped retire against the full computation, and Node::home checks that every shown claim is served as re-serving it would. The sweep_handoff/sweep_scoped_handoff churn exercises all of it.

Benchmarks

rs/moq-net/benches/routes.rs gains two sweeps, run with cargo bench -p moq-net --features fuzz --bench routes. Numbers are criterion means on one host.

• routes/received: a relay hears one batch from the origin, serves it into its origin, and forwards it on, swept over claims per origin × claims changed per batch.
• routes/lagging: a relay hears the origin on two streams, the second replaying the first's one-claim batches lag behind, and each stream hears its next batch. Swept over claims × lag. It covers multipath where one stream lags the other.

received: claims × changes	base (bad28cefd5)	branch
100 × 1	28.6 µs	1.43 µs
10,000 × 1	4.77 ms	1.58 µs
100 × 100	123 µs	144 µs
10,000 × 100	4.95 ms	258 µs

lagging: claims × lag	base	branch
100 × 1	65.7 µs	3.57 µs
10,000 × 1	11.2 ms	4.60 µs
100 × 100	65.9 µs	3.64 µs
10,000 × 10,000	9.21 ms	4.73 µs

Cost now follows the changes. At 100 changes, the remaining growth along the claims axis is BTreeMap depth: the profile is dominated by path memcmp in map lookups. The one slower shape is 100 × 100, a batch that changes every claim of the origin, where per-claim bookkeeping costs about 17% more than one linear pass. Review round 1 found that a lagging stream rescanned every claim the faster stream had moved, which made the cost linear in lag (81 µs at 10,000 before the fix). A merge now returns before scanning when every floor of the heard view lies within a strictly newer merged floor. The origin-side watched/unwatched groups are unchanged within noise. Interleaved reruns of watched/10000c_1000s gave base 3.56 then 5.21 ms and branch 6.49 then 4.28 ms on a loaded host.

Impact

• Public API: none. Wire: none. Router::routes drops its claim parameter in favor of Router::carries (crate-private).

Alternatives

• Per-claim revisions in the merged view in place of differs. Rejected: presented views move covering claims onto interest prefixes, so one revision doesn't pin one item per path across neighbors (the exact rule). Tracking the actual disagreement is exact by construction.
• Merging only the batch's named claims. Wrong: a floor rise also certifies claims the batch didn't name, which can retake a claim another neighbor's older floor left stale.

Choices made without asking

• Kept the heard raw/view pair as one raw view plus an optional kept view, which removes a full copy per unscoped neighbor.
• Accepted the ~17% cost on a batch that rewrites every claim, in exchange for flat cost in origin size.

Overlaps checked

• moq-dev/moq#8358 adds a chain field to route::node::Claim. No logic overlap; the new fuzz::RouteRelay claim constructor will need the field when one of the two lands second.
• moq-dev/moq#8325's route diff is mostly feat(net)!: routes scoped to interested streams, presented incrementally; hop chains private #8293's, now on main; its self-dial guard doesn't touch batch folding or homing.
• moq-dev/moq#8366 (instance provenance) is separate; public types and wire unchanged here.

Caused by

None: #8293 scoped this receive-side work out as a follow-up, so no PR got it wrong.

Follow-ups

None.

Models

Size: L
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, high effort

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5 with high)

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort
• Session: 01a1c0bb-70a2-71e1-8864-d42d01dcd85e, round 2
• Head: 12bbeef
• Base: origin/main at bad28ce
• Score: 10/10, Static review confirms the lagged-multipath scan is fixed and benchmarked across claims and lag, with no new findings; builds and tests were not run.
• Findings: none
• The last round's findings, at ee6308c:
  • Fixed: medium, rs/moq-net/src/route/mod.rs:897: Skip dominated views before scanning their differences; rs/moq-net/src/route/view.rs:160 checks strict floor domination and returns before enumerating disagreements, preserving equal-revision tie handling, while routes/lagging adds the requested benchmark sweep.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Merge by disagreement — Heard keeps differs, the claims within its floors where the merged view holds something else, so View::merge_claims folds a batch over just those and a lagging view returns before scanning.
• One view per neighbor — a scoped presentation lives in kept alongside the raw view, so an unscoped neighbor merges without a clone, and View::represent moves a scoped view per changed claim plus each region's covering claim.
• Conditional retire — retire runs only while a merged floor lies outside the interest, which is exactly when it is not the identity.
• Change-driven homing — Router::changed reports the claims whose shown state changed and Node::home re-serves only those, unless the identity's usable routes (stream, metric, peer name) changed, in which case it re-serves all as before.
• Fixtures and benches — a new fuzz::RouteRelay drives routes/received and routes/lagging; test-only assertions pin the incremental merge, the scoped view, the skipped retire and homing against the full computation, and the churn sweeps exercise them.

I traced the differs invariant end to end: a merge can only change a claim that the heard view certifies and whose item differs (exact needs equal revisions and self.floors.contains_key(claim), which implies as_of is Some), and that set only moves when heard floors change keys, merged items change, or heard items change, each of which resyncs or re-compares the affected claims. Node::home's route vector covers every input to a claim's served state other than the shown state itself, since carries depends only on per-stream asked/scope.

Verification was static: cargo test could not get the shared target/release build lock this run, and the Check suite was still running at submission. No behavior findings.

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Walkthrough

The router now reconciles selected claims in route views and reports which shown claims changed. The node uses those changes and cached usable routes to update claim servings. New relay fixtures and benchmarks cover received batches and lagging streams. The relay route-folding planning document and its README link were removed.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 12bbe

No blocking defect is established. The scoped-view comparison would benefit from an independent reference test; merging remains reasonable after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: a relay folds received route batches by the claims they change. The raw summary and objectives confirm that the PR makes relay batch handling track changed claims, mer…
Description check		The description is closely related to the changeset. It explains the problem with relay receive-side work, the approach (merge by disagreement, no heard clone, retire only when needed, home by change)…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 91.30% 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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Explanation

The title names the main change: a relay folds received route batches by the claims they change. The raw summary and objectives confirm that the PR makes relay batch handling track changed claims, merging only differing claims and re-serving only changed claims. The title is specific and follows the conventional-commit style, and it is not vague.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description is closely related to the changeset. It explains the problem with relay receive-side work, the approach (merge by disagreement, no heard clone, retire only when needed, home by change), benchmark results for the new routes/received and routes/lagging sweeps, API impact, and the removed planning document. It matches the file summaries and objectives.

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Nitpick comments: 1

rs/moq-net/src/route/view.rs: 1

64-64: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value

Restore an independent scoped-view reference.

If represent copies an out-of-scope claim, both sides of the incremental assertion can contain it. Build the full reference from present for each region, and add a case with claims inside and outside the scope.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/route/view.rs at line 64:
The reference in the `represent` call must be independent of the scoped view:
build the full reference by calling `present` for each region instead of
deriving it from `self.items`. Add a test case with claims both inside and
outside the scope, and verify the scoped result against that independent
reference.

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Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/route/view.rs:
- Line 64: The reference in the `represent` call must be independent of the
scoped view: build the full reference by calling `present` for each region
instead of deriving it from `self.items`. Add a test case with claims both
inside and outside the scope, and verify the scoped result against that
independent reference.

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• rs/moq-net/src/fuzz.rs
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Reviewed head: 12bbeef7eeb55d7c9a516bcc02a00885a90f580e.

[P2] Skip stale regions within partially fresh views (rs/moq-net/src/route/view.rs:160–169). Two feasible sessions can prove the same route key with scopes [a] and [a,b]. Let the fast session reach revision F after many b-only revisions followed by updates to N distinct a claims, while the slow session remains at R. As the slow session replays those one-claim b batches below F, b's floor is newer than the merged b floor, so the whole-view stale check fails. Its Heard::differs still contains all N stale a disagreements, and every batch scans them even though none can win. compare(id, changed) only revisits the changed b paths, and pruning retains both certified regions. Thus one-claim batches still cost O(N) under valid overlapping grants; the root-only lag benchmark misses this case.

Index/range candidate differences by certified region and skip dominated regions before traversing their entries, preserving equal-revision tie handling. Add a partially overlapping scoped lag benchmark swept over claim count and lag.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of the changes and surrounding callers; no local tests or benchmarks run, and no timing claim independently reproduced. GitHub's Check run completed successfully.