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Quest: quest/m0/broadcast-epoch/resume-duplicates.md (deleted here as complete).

Problem

A logical track's reader remembered the last 1024 groups it handed out (MAX_DELIVERED) and dropped older ones. A reader that took group 0 from route A, switched to B, and read groups 1 through 1024 got group 0 a second time when B's delayed copy arrived.

A direct track::Subscriber had a related hole: a group the publisher aborts and re-creates gets a new arrival entry, so the reader got it twice ([0, 1, 1]).

Decisions

The first revision moved the record onto each route copy. Review found that a group aborted and re-created on the serving copy was then handed out twice. The maintainer replaced that design (2026-10-13):

• ✅ Contract: every reader, direct or resumed, receives each group sequence at most once. That includes a group aborted and re-created, and duplicates across routes. A genuinely unseen late group is still delivered within the reader's bounds and budget. Reason: a consumer should never have to dedupe itself.
  • Rejected: accept the re-delivery and pin it with a test (the earlier recommendation).
  • Rejected: record own deliveries per copy (unbounded).
• ✅ Mechanism: one record per reader on track::Subscriber, shared by direct and resumed reads. It is an interval set of delivered sequences (run-length encoded), with no fixed count. The per-copy records are gone, since the reader-wide set covers them.
• ✅ Floor: any group older than the reader's max delay or max age is forgotten. Once the lowest delivered group above a gap is past the budget, every group below it counts as delivered. Only gaps within the budget cost memory. The budget is the existing drift rule (TrackState::drifted, with max delay clamped by max age), so there is no new constant. The check is O(1) per hand-out: it judges only the lowest delivered group above a gap.
• ✅ Timestamp rewinds: group timestamps on a track never rewind, and which late groups are handed out after a rewind is unspecified. The floor keeps judging a gap by the delivered group above it. Reason: rewinds are never supported (maintainer, 2026-10-13). A rewind can make the floor drop a late group that the drift rule alone would still deliver; no test pins that as a guarantee.
  • Rejected: judge the gap by its own top sequence.
  • Rejected: check every reach boundary inside the gap (a slope on the hand-out path).
  • Rejected: pin the rewind drop with a test.
• ✅ Empty and frameless groups get no special case (maintainer, 2026-10-14): this PR no longer changes drift. A group that finished without a frame is handed out like any other, in O(1), and the reader discards it. The hard case is a group with no frames yet, and the wall-clock term in One max_age meaning sweeps both: a group is stale on either media time or wall time since its successor arrived, and an untimed group is judged by wall time alone. That quest is what retires a hostile run of empty or frameless groups.
  • Accepted until that quest lands: a group followed by an empty one can't prove drift from it, as on main. So on a timed track, the lowest delivered group above a gap, when followed by an empty group, pins every later gap in the reader's record.
  • ✅ Also accepted until that quest lands (maintainer, 2026-10-14; review finding): a gap retained within the budget below a run of N withheld groups, which have no frame yet, makes each later hand-out's floor check rescan the run in first_servable, so M hand-outs cost O(N·M). Main pays the same scan on each poll of a held group's GroupExpiry. The wall-clock term makes the group above the gap stale, which advances the floor and ends the scan.
  • Rejected: an index of shown groups, or a per-reader successor cache invalidated on landings and aborts. Either is new state for a case the wall-clock term retires.
  • Rejected: skip a finished empty successor in TrackState::reach (an earlier revision here). Skipping made every group judged against a run of N empty groups walk the rest of the run, O(N²) per reader (1.09 s for one poll at N = 16000).
  • Rejected: a per-track record of walked runs that keeps the skip linear (the previous head, 490408f). It took about 150 lines of interval bookkeeping, pruning, and wake fixes for a case the wall-clock term covers anyway.
  • Rejected: walk every gap newest first (tried in f6629aa). It rescans every retained gap per hand-out.
• ✅ Scope: the quadratic parked-group drain in track::Subscriber::poll_recv_group stays a separate quest.

Fix

• rs/moq-net/src/model/delivered.rs: Delivered, the interval set. The run starting at 0 is the floor.
• track::Subscriber holds a Delivered. Plain reads skip any sequence in it. Resumed reads pass it to the resume reader, which skips it on every copy and uses it to decide which replaced copies still have unread groups.
• After each hand-out, track::Subscriber::forget_past_budget checks the lowest delivered group above a gap. If that group is past the budget, the gap and everything below it are forgotten. It runs only while a gap exists. It resolves the budget and drift edge once for every gap one hand-out forgets, and reuses the successor it found for every gap below that successor, so a run of aborted but still cached groups is walked once, not once per gap (review finding). TrackState::drifted is split into live_above and PresentationEdge::behind for that.
• TrackState::drift_edge is None on an untimed track, so neither a poll nor the floor check scans the cache for a timestamp that cannot exist.
• An ordered reader never goes back, so its record is only a floor at its last group. That replaces the resume reader's separate ordered field. Cursor::next_sequence is None once u64::MAX was handed out, so an ordered read ends there.
• rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs loses MAX_DELIVERED, its own delivered set, and its ordered field.

Tests

All tests use media timestamps rather than the wall clock, poll synchronously, and run in the existing moq-net lane.

• resume::a_late_group_is_handed_out_once_however_late: the original regression. It fails on main with [1, 0]. It also checks that an unseen late group (1) beyond the old window is still delivered.
• resume::a_recreated_group_is_handed_out_once and track::a_recreated_group_is_handed_out_once: a group aborted and re-created on the serving copy is handed out once, to resumed and direct readers. The direct test fails on main with [1, 2].
• resume::route_flaps_hand_out_every_group_once: two routes trade places 16 times, and each also delivers the other's groups late and newest first. Every group is handed out once, and the record stays at one run.
• resume::held_groups_and_moved_bounds_hand_out_each_group_once: a held group keeps its replaced copy. Raising the cap and lowering the start neither repeats a group nor loses one.
• resume::an_ordered_reader_skips_a_late_group: ordered-reader control.
• track::a_gap_is_forgotten_once_a_group_above_it_is_past_the_budget: group 3 never arrives. The gap is kept until group 4 is past a 10 ms budget, then forgotten. A late group 3 is not handed out. The test runs once with max delay and once with max age.
• track::an_endless_track_with_gaps_stays_bounded and resume::a_resumed_reader_forgets_gaps_past_its_budget: 3000 groups with every third missing, across six route changes for the resumed reader. The range count peaks at 5 for a direct reader: the floor plus the four gaps a budget spans. It peaks at 9 for a resumed reader, because a new copy starts at its first group, so the gaps just before it wait for that group to fall past the budget. An unseen group within the budget is still delivered. One far past it is not.
• track::gaps_below_aborted_groups_are_forgotten_together: gaps below five groups aborted after hand-out are all forgotten by one hand-out that puts them past the budget, through the shared successor. The gap below a group still within the budget is kept.
• track::an_untimed_sparse_feed_keeps_its_gaps: an untimed sparse feed hands out every group and keeps every gap. Its cost is measured by track_sparse_read.
• delivered::*: interval-set unit tests, including u64::MAX.

Benchmark

origin/resume_overlap sweeps readers × groups every route holds × routes, with each replacement arriving in reverse order. Readers hold every group back with a local cap while the track swaps, so each one keeps a fully overlapping copy per route.

Local numbers for 1 reader and 64 groups, swept over copies. The columns are this PR's reader-wide set, the earlier per-copy revision, and main's bounded history:

copies	reader-wide	per-copy	main
2	433 Kelem/s	440 Kelem/s	442 Kelem/s
8	117 Kelem/s	68 Kelem/s	118 Kelem/s
32	29 Kelem/s	21 Kelem/s	29 Kelem/s

The reader-wide set matches main, and the per-copy revision's 1.4 to 1.7x cost is gone. The remaining slope over copies is pre-existing: each copy walks and skips the groups it holds. Over readers it is flat (447 Kelem/s at 32 readers, 397 at 256). The slope over retained groups (46 Kelem/s at 1024 groups against 433 at 64) is the pre-existing quadratic drain of parked groups, planned separately.

track_sparse_read (new) hands out one group from a feed with every odd sequence missing, after 16, 256, or 4096 remembered gaps, on an untimed track and on a timed one with an hour budget:

gaps	untimed	timed
16	888 Kelem/s	850 Kelem/s
256	885 Kelem/s	802 Kelem/s
4096	819 Kelem/s	819 Kelem/s

Flat over gaps. Before the untimed drift-edge change, untimed fell from 243 to 30 Kelem/s over the same sweep, because every poll scanned the cache for a timestamp.

track_gap_flush (new) remembers N gaps, each below a group handed out and then aborted but still cached, and measures the one hand-out two hours on that forgets them all:

gaps	one scan per gap	shared successor
64	10.7 Melem/s	15.3 Melem/s
512	2.74 Melem/s	13.9 Melem/s
4096	324 Kelem/s	9.43 Melem/s

Before, the time grew with N² (12.6 ms at 4096). After, it is linear, apart from the interval set's own log factor.

track_empty_run (new) drains group 0, a run of finished empty groups, and stamped groups after it, with a 10 ms budget, swept over run length and readers. stale stamps the groups after the run past the budget; fresh keeps them within it. Elements are run × readers. With the empty skip (c0a07c0) it was quadratic; this head hands each empty group out in O(1):

case	run 64	run 512	run 4096
stale, 1 reader, empty skip	2.10 Melem/s	450 Kelem/s	62.9 Kelem/s
stale, 1 reader, run record (f719f42)	3.72 Melem/s	3.60 Melem/s	3.48 Melem/s
stale, 1 reader, this head	2.17 Melem/s	2.15 Melem/s	2.08 Melem/s
stale, 64 readers, this head	2.18 Melem/s	2.21 Melem/s	2.06 Melem/s
fresh, 1 reader, empty skip	1.42 Melem/s	408 Kelem/s	61.9 Kelem/s
fresh, 1 reader, run record (f719f42)	2.00 Melem/s	1.95 Melem/s	1.88 Melem/s
fresh, 1 reader, this head	2.19 Melem/s	2.15 Melem/s	2.09 Melem/s
fresh, 64 readers, this head	2.15 Melem/s	2.21 Melem/s	2.04 Melem/s

Flat over both axes; the 8-reader rows match. Stale is slower than with the run record because each empty group is now handed out and dropped rather than written off in one poll, but it is linear. Fresh is as fast as the record.

Public API / wire

• Public API: no signature changes. Behavior: track::Subscriber::recv_group and Ordered hand out each group sequence at most once, including a re-created one. Once a group is past the budget, a gap below it is never filled. The docs on poll_recv_group say so, and that this assumes group timestamps never rewind. Drift is unchanged from main.
• Wire: none.

Quests

• Deleted quest/m0/broadcast-epoch/resume-duplicates.md and removed its references.
• quest/m1/js-group-handover.md now records the per-reader contract and floor rule for the JS port to mirror.
• quest/m1/cache-max-age.md is untouched here; that quest is worked in its own PR.

Follow-ups

• One max_age meaning retires a hostile run of empty or frameless groups. Its wall-clock term makes a group followed by one stale, so the reader's record stops pinning on it. Until it lands, an endless untimed track that skips groups, or a timed one that follows the lowest group above a gap with an empty group, grows the record by one range per gap.
• The quadratic parked-group drain in track::Subscriber::poll_recv_group (planned separately).
• One max_age meaning also ends the O(N·M) floor scan below a run of withheld groups (accepted above), and its wall term is what bounds the record on untimed tracks; that quest should carry the test.

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Outcome: the quest is implemented in full. The regression fails on main and passes here. just check passes, with 6254 tests on the full run.

No decisions are open for the maintainer.

Unrelated: on a loaded first run, moq-relay auth::refresh::tests::an_outage_refuses_transiently_and_never_extends_the_expiry failed once. It measured lived as 28.862s against a 29s lower bound. It passed alone and on the rerun. It looks timing-sensitive: start is taken after the grant's clock starts. I'm suggesting it as a follow-up rather than fixing it here.

Follow-ups:

• Fix the flaky relay auth refresh test above.
• JS track handover (quest/m1/js-group-handover.md) now carries the per-copy contract to mirror.

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Track and resume readers now share delivered-sequence history to suppress repeated groups across read paths and route copies. The tracker stores runs of delivered sequences and can forget gaps below a floor. Track reach selection handles empty successors, and cursor state represents exhaustion after u64::MAX. Tests cover duplicate suppression, budget-based history pruning, and empty-group behavior. New benchmarks measure route-swap draining and sparse reads. Quest documents update related requirements and links.

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Duplicate group delivery is fixed. However, on untimed tracks with gaps, each long-lived relay subscriber now keeps an ever-growing delivery record. Gaps occur when datagrams are interleaved with groups or when groups are lost. Add a size bound that does not depend on timestamps before merging, or explicitly accept the memory growth.

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Reviewed 5ff7dd5 against 52dbffa, including the full six-file change and underlying track/cursor/receiver paths.

One P2: excluding the originating copy from deduplication introduces repeated delivery when that copy re-creates an aborted or evicted sequence (inline).

Lifetime-scoped cross-copy bookkeeping is a sensible replacement for arbitrary 1024-entry eviction and preserves genuinely unseen late groups. However, its once-per-copy premise must be enforced or replaced by a proven retirement boundary; recording every own-copy delivery forever would defeat the memory objective. Added bounds/flap tests cover useful cases, but omit sequence re-creation. The two-copy benchmark checks delivery throughput, not a general memory bound.

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[P2] Preserve deduplication for the originating copy

A copy can yield a sequence twice: track::Producer::create_group allows re-creating an aborted/evicted sequence, assigns a fresh arrival stamp, and the subscriber advances by arrival index rather than unique sequence. With the existing test helpers, serve A, create/write/finish group 0, drain [0], abort that group with Error::Cancel, then re-create/write group 0 on A: the next unordered drain now returns [0] again. The previous reader-wide set suppressed it. The receiver can also abort a cancelled group without ending its track. Preserve once-only delivery for re-created sequences on the originating copy and add this regression, without replacing the bounded design with an indefinitely growing own-delivery set.

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Reproduced. See #5446 (comment) for the analysis and options. This is waiting on a maintainer decision.

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Fixed in 9a29f7f, which follows the maintainer's decision. The per-copy records are gone. Each track::Subscriber, direct or resumed, now holds one interval set of the sequences it handed out. A group aborted and re-created is handed out once, on the serving copy and on a plain subscriber alike. The set is bounded without an own-delivery history. Once a delivered group above a gap is past the reader's budget (max delay clamped by max age), every group below it counts as delivered, so only gaps within the budget cost memory. Regressions: resume::a_recreated_group_is_handed_out_once and track::a_recreated_group_is_handed_out_once. The direct one fails without the fix with [1, 2].

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Remember deliveries from the selected copy too

When the current route aborts or evicts a group after this reader receives it and then recreates the same sequence, TrackState::claim_sequence explicitly accepts the fresh incarnation and appends another arrival. Because this condition excludes the selected copy, its delivered set never records that sequence, so an unordered reader hands the recreated group out again even without a route change. Preserve once-only delivery for repeated incarnations from the same copy as well.

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Reproduced, and the same as the OpenAI review's P2 above. Serve A, write group 0, open group 1, drain, abort 1 with Cancel, then re-create and finish 1 on A. On this head, the resume reader hands out [0, 1] and then [1] again. On main, the reader-wide set suppressed the second 1, within its 1024 window.

A plain track::Subscriber on A does the same thing as this head: it yields [0, 1, 1], because claim_sequence gives the re-created incarnation a new arrival entry. So the PR now matches the direct track contract. The old suppression was a side effect of the bounded history.

There is no bounded way to keep the old behavior here. Recording a copy's own deliveries grows one entry per group for the copy's lifetime, which is what this quest set out to remove. An aborted or evicted sequence can be re-created at any depth, so no floor prunes it.

The decision goes to the maintainer. Options:

1. Accept the re-delivery. The re-created incarnation is a retry of a group the reader received only as an abort, and direct subscribers already see it. Add a regression test that pins this behavior. (recommended)
2. Settle once-only delivery of re-created sequences at the track layer for both direct and resumed readers, as a follow-up quest, and accept option 1 until then.
3. Record own deliveries on the originating copy. This is unbounded, and it contradicts the quest's goal.

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Fixed in 9a29f7f: the delivered record is now per reader rather than per copy, so the serving copy's re-created group is skipped too. See #5446 (comment).

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Sweep retained route copies in the delivery benchmark

The new hand_out path scans every retained copy for every delivered group, and held groups can keep one copy alive across each successive route change. However, the added origin/resume_overlap benchmark always constructs exactly two copies and sweeps readers against groups, so it cannot reveal delivery cost growing with the retained-route count. Add retained copies as an axis, including copies held by outstanding group leases, to measure the new fan-out slope.

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Added in b063974: origin/resume_overlap now sweeps routes too (1r_64g_{2,8,32}c, 32r_64g_8c). Readers hold every group back with a local cap while the track swaps, so each one keeps a copy per route with full overlap.

Local numbers for 1 reader and 64 groups, PR vs main's resume.rs:

copies	PR	main
2	440 Kelem/s	442 Kelem/s
8	68 Kelem/s	118 Kelem/s
32	21 Kelem/s	29 Kelem/s

Main has the same slope over copies, because each copy still walks and skips the groups it holds. The per-copy record adds a constant factor of about 1.4 to 1.7x at 8 to 32 copies. It does not add a new slope.

The capped setup also exposes a pre-existing slope over retained groups, on main too: 1r_1024g_2c runs at 47 Kelem/s against 440 at 64 groups. track::Subscriber::poll_recv_group runs parked.retain(..) over every parked group on every poll, so draining a raised cap is quadratic. I'm flagging that as a follow-up, outside this PR.

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Merge is on hold for one maintainer decision.

• Re-created groups on the same copy. Both the OpenAI and Codex reviews flagged this, and I reproduced it. A group that is aborted and re-created on the serving copy is now handed out again. Main suppressed it within its 1024 window. A direct track::Subscriber already re-delivers it, and keeping the old suppression would need an unbounded per-copy set. I recommend accepting the re-delivery and pinning it with a test. Options are in the inline thread.
• Benchmark. Fixed in b063974: the bench now sweeps routes. There is no new slope over copies, just a constant cost of about 1.4 to 1.7x at 8 to 32 copies. It also exposed a pre-existing quadratic drain of parked groups in track::Subscriber, which I'm suggesting as a follow-up.

CI was green on the previous head and is rerunning on b063974.

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Reviewed commit: b063974, compared with 5ff7dd5 (base unchanged).

The new capped 2/8/32-route benchmark retains the overlapping copies and addresses the missing route-count axis. No new actionable bugs found in this benchmark-only update.

The previous own-copy re-delivery P2 remains unchanged and acknowledged pending a contract decision. One important qualification: re-creation can also repeat a successfully consumed, completed group after later eviction/abort; it is broader than retrying a failed read. If re-delivery is accepted, pin that full behavior in tests and correct the once-per-copy premise. An indefinitely growing own-delivery set is not a suitable fix.

Direction: lifetime-scoped cross-copy records remain sensible. The benchmark improves fan-out evidence, but does not prove general memory bounds or held-lease cleanup.

Verification: GitHub-only static delta/surrounding-code review. No tests or benchmarks run; reported performance measurements were not independently reproduced.

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Reworked to the maintainer's 2026-10-13 decision, in 9a29f7f. Every reader, direct or resumed, hands out each group sequence at most once. The record is one interval set per track::Subscriber. Once a delivered group above a gap is past the reader's max delay or max age, the gap and everything below it count as delivered. The per-copy records, MAX_DELIVERED, and the resume reader's ordered field are gone.

• Tests: re-created groups for direct and resumed readers, the original regression, route flaps, held groups and moved bounds, the floor rule under both max delay and max age, and an endless track with every third group missing. That last one peaks at 5 runs for a direct reader and 9 across route changes. just check passes, with 6271 tests in the full run.
• Benchmark: origin/resume_overlap now matches main over copies (117 vs 118 Kelem/s at 8 copies, 29 vs 29 at 32). The per-copy revision's overhead is gone.
• Open: untimed tracks have no media time, so their gaps are not forgotten yet. The floor reuses the drift rule, so the wall-clock term planned in quest/m1/cache-max-age.md will bound them once it lands.

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Please review the final head 839061f, focused on the per-reader Delivered record (rs/moq-net/src/model/delivered.rs, track.rs, resume.rs) introduced in 9a29f7f.

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Stop retrying an ordered cursor after sequence u64::MAX

When an ordered reader has returned u64::MAX and is polled again while that group remains cached, Cursor::poll_next_group cannot advance its next_sequence because it uses saturating_add(1), so it returns the same group on every iteration. The new duplicate branch then repeatedly executes continue without yielding, causing the poll to hang. u64::MAX is explicitly supported by the existing end_at_maximum_group_is_unbounded test, so the ordered path needs to terminate after that sequence rather than synchronously retrying the unchanged cursor.

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Fixed in 557fce7. The ordered cursor now records exhaustion (next_sequence: Option<u64>) and returns Ok(None) once it has handed out u64::MAX, since no group can follow. On main the same poll returned group u64::MAX a second time. end_at_maximum_group_is_unbounded now polls again and expects the end.

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Merge is on hold for one maintainer decision.

Status. Merged main. Fixed the ordered u64::MAX busy loop that the Codex review flagged (557fce7). Committed the planned quest follow-ups: quest/m1/cache-max-age.md now has the untimed Delivered floor in its Plan and a test for it, and quest/m0/parked-drain.md drops its Required entry for this quest. quest check passes, and so does moq-net (2009 tests).

Decision: the floor drops a late group within budget after a timestamp rewind. A local Codex adversarial review flagged this, and I reproduced it. The budget is 50 ms. A direct subscriber reads 0@0ms, 2@1000ms, 3@10ms, then 4@100ms. Group 2 has drifted, because its successor starts at 10 ms. So hand_out forgets the gap at 1. Then 1@20ms arrives. Its successor 2 starts at 1000 ms, so the drift rule would deliver it, and main does. This head drops it. The floor rule assumes drift rises with sequence, and rewinds break that assumption. That conflicts with the contract that an unseen late group within budget is still delivered.

Options:

1. Judge the gap itself (recommended). Advance the floor once the gap's top sequence (oldest - 1) is past the budget, instead of the delivered group above it. Each missing sequence in a gap reaches the next servable group, so for a gap of groups that never arrived this is exactly the cursor's own drift verdict. It costs the same one check per hand-out. I tried it locally: it fixes the repro, and only the two gap-threshold tests move by one group. A gap that holds cached but unread groups is still judged at its top, so a rewind inside such a gap can still drop one. That needs a rewind and a reordered arrival at once.
2. Exact: check every reach boundary in the gap. That is the top plus each cached group's predecessor. It has no residual case. The cost grows with the cached groups inside a gap, and that includes the cache below a live reader's first group until that group ages out, which adds a slope to the hand-out path.
3. Accept it. Document that a rewind can drop a late group in a gap, and pin it with a test.

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Enqueued at 211c42e.

• Merged main (clean).
• Decision (maintainer): timestamp rewinds are never supported. The floor rule is unchanged. poll_recv_group, Delivered::above_gap, and quest/m1/js-group-handover.md now say that group timestamps on a track never rewind and that behavior after a rewind is unspecified. No test pins the rewind drop. Recorded with the rejected options in the PR body.
• just check: all passed except the two known-flaky moq-relay auth::refresh timing tests under load. They pass when run alone (11/11). CI is green.
• Review: the earlier Codex review covers this head. Its one finding was fixed in 557fce7. Nothing has changed since except the merge from main and doc lines.

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Untimed tracks with gaps let each reader's Delivered record grow without limit.

forget_past_budget is the only code that removes old gaps from Delivered. It needs state.drifted(oldest, ...) to return true. On an untimed track, drift_edge now always returns presentation: None. So drifted always returns false, and the code never removes a gap. Every group delivered above a gap then adds one BTreeMap entry, and nothing ever removes it. The new test an_untimed_sparse_feed_keeps_its_gaps confirms this: it ends with 1000 runs after 1000 groups.

This is easy to trigger:

• Datagrams take numbers from the same sequence counter as groups. On an untimed track that mixes append_group and append_datagram, every group sits above a gap.
• Upstream losses, evictions and start_at jumps also leave gaps.

Relay forwarders read in arrival order. Ordered readers are safe because forget_below removes everything behind them, but arrival-order readers are not. A long-lived relay subscription to such a track adds one entry per group for its whole life. At 30 groups/s that is about 2.6 million entries per subscriber per day. Before this PR, a plain subscriber kept no delivery state, and the resume reader was capped at MAX_DELIVERED.

Add a limit that does not depend on timestamps. For example, once the number of runs passes a fixed limit, forget everything below the oldest gap. That keeps the old behaviour of the MAX_DELIVERED cap: a group that arrives very late may be dropped once, which is the safe direction. The runs() accessor is currently #[cfg(test)], so it must also be available outside tests.

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 	fn forget_past_budget(&self, delivered: &mut Delivered) {
+		// Nothing is ever past the budget on an untimed track, so a limit on the
+		// number of runs bounds what a sparse feed costs.
+		while delivered.runs() > MAX_DELIVERED_RUNS
+			&& let Some(oldest) = delivered.above_gap()
+		{
+			delivered.forget_below(oldest);
+		}
 		if delivered.above_gap().is_none() {
 			return;
 		}

// In track.rs:
const MAX_DELIVERED_RUNS: usize = 1024;
// In delivered.rs: drop #[cfg(test)] from `runs`.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs around lines 4121 - 4138:
Update `forget_past_budget` to bound `Delivered` run growth independently of
timestamps: when the run count exceeds a fixed limit, repeatedly forget below
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Summary of this round (the quadratic poll fix, per the maintainer's 2026-10-14 decision):

• Shape: a per-track record of walked empty runs (TrackState::quiet, disjoint intervals) instead of a per-poll successor hint. The new track_empty_run/fresh case showed that handing a run out one group per poll is quadratic too, and a per-poll hint cannot reach that case. A per-reader record was rejected because its memory grows with readers × run length. The record is bounded at two runs per cached group, counted in CACHE_OVERHEAD.

• Numbers (track_empty_run, 1 reader, run 64 / 512 / 4096):

  • stale: 2.10M / 450K / 62.9K elem/s before, 3.72M / 3.60M / 3.48M after.
  • fresh: 1.42M / 408K / 61.9K before, 2.00M / 1.95M / 1.88M after.

  Flat over run length and over 1, 8, and 64 readers. Other track benches are unchanged within noise.

• Review: seven local Codex adversarial rounds. Rounds 1 to 6 found:

  • stale runs after landings, now split in O(log n);
  • memory bounds, now pruned on record, removal, and drop_open_groups;
  • newest-first empty reveals;
  • per-gap edge re-resolution, now in forget_past_budget;
  • a missed wake below a landing past an empty group, fixed with predecessor;
  • quadratic wakes on empty reveals.

  Each fix has a regression test that fails without it. Round 7 approved head 490408f with no findings.

• Merged the latest main, including fix(net): distinguish live feeds from retained caches #5505. The is_live guard is main's.

Follow-ups, not in this PR:

• TrackState::live_edge still scans trailing unstamped groups on each poll (pre-existing).
• The parked-group drain quest.
• Bounding the record on untimed tracks, via the cache-max-age quest.

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Reviewed commit: f1ef408, including the branch changes since my last published review at f719f42 and excluding merged main changes.

No new actionable bugs found. Removing Quiet and the extended successor walk eliminates my earlier empty-reveal wake finding by restoring immediate-servable-successor semantics. The newer per-pass successor reuse avoids repeatedly scanning the same aborted cached run while preserving caps, edge incarnation checks and the lowest-gap stopping rule. This is a simpler approach than persistent shared interval bookkeeping.

The latest three cfg removals correctly make the Timestamp/ts and untimed_producer helpers available to synchronous delivered-record tests without the async feature. They use model-only APIs; production behavior is unchanged by this last commit.

Known limits remain explicit: untimed sparse history and history pinned behind empty successors are not universally bounded here (see the existing untimed-history discussion and the PR's deferred cache-max-age work). These are not newly introduced findings in this update.

Verification: static GitHub review of isolated branch deltas, pruning/wake paths, benchmark construction and feature-gated test callers. No tests or benchmarks executed; performance measurements were not independently reproduced.

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Avoid rescanning withheld successors after every handout

When the lowest remembered gap is followed by N pending groups that have received headers but no first frame, each later servable group handed out within the delay budget calls first_servable from the same point and walks those N groups again. With M later handouts this makes the poll path O(N*M) while holding the track read guard, so a publisher can increasingly monopolize delivery by opening many groups without starting them. Cache or index the successor with proper invalidation, and extend the benchmarks with pending-group and subsequent-handout axes; the added sparse, gap-flush, and empty-run cases do not exercise pending groups. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Summary of the rework (maintainer decisions, 2026-10-14):

• Dropped the quiet-run record and the empty skip. reach, poll_drifted, landed and CACHE_OVERHEAD match main again. An empty group is handed out in O(1) and the reader drops it. Until One max_age meaning lands, a group followed by an empty one can't prove drift.
• Kept the once-per-sequence record (Delivered), its tests, forget_past_budget, and the untimed drift_edge.
• Fixed a Codex finding: the floor scanned for a successor once per forgotten gap, which was Θ(N²) when the gaps sat below aborted but still cached groups. It now reuses one successor for every gap below it.
  • track_gap_flush at 64 / 512 / 4096 gaps: 10.7M / 2.74M / 324K elem/s before, 15.3M / 13.9M / 9.43M after.
• Accepted (option 1): a gap kept within the budget below N withheld groups costs O(N) per later hand-out. Main pays the same scan in GroupExpiry, and cache-max-age's wall-clock term retires it.
• track_empty_run is flat over run length and readers for both stale and fresh, at about 2.0 to 2.2M elem/s.
• quest/m1/cache-max-age.md is reverted to main's version; that quest is in its own PR.
• Test helpers are no longer gated on the new async feature (Gate moq-net async helpers and sessions behind a default feature #5503).
• Reviewed by local Codex adversarial runs. CI is green on 5960144.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)