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Problem

#6744 removed broadcast::Demand for lack of an in-repo caller. A publisher still needs it to steer on whether anyone reads its broadcast at all, without owning every track's producer: tracks are often created inside a library (moq-mux's catalog producer, moq-transcode), so the publisher cannot watch each track::Demand itself. A typical use: announce or promote a derived broadcast on its first reader, and let it linger out once nobody reads it.

The chain under it had a gap too. A group handed out by a subscription held only a weak track reference, so once the subscription dropped, track::Demand::wanted went to None while a reader was still mid-group, and a publisher that pauses on demand could cut that group short.

Approach

• broadcast::Producer::demand() returns a broadcast::Demand shaped like group::Demand. It is wanted while any track's track::Demand::wanted is Some or a track request waits for a Requests handler, and errors once the broadcast closes.
• The handle keeps one watcher per track in a kio::Tasks and a count of wanted tracks, so a reader coming or going re-polls only its own track. New tracks reach each handle through a per-handle inbox filled when the broadcast caches a track, so nothing rescans the table. The old implementation polled every track on each wake, and registered the waiter on every idle track each time, which piles up duplicate waker entries past kio's 8 remembered lists.
• Each group a subscription or fetch hands out holds its track's demand until the group has finished and a reader reads its end (Ok(None) from a read, or poll_finished resolving), or every reader and frame of it drops. A reader stopping at its with_range cap on an open group keeps the hold, since the cap can be raised and other clones read on. That is the release point the origin front already used for a held group (a_held_group_continues_after_its_track_goes_unread), and matches a closed track owing no new work.
• The chain is stated once per type: group::Demand (a frame being read counts as a reader; a handed-out group keeps its track wanted until read to its end), track::Demand (a wanted track makes its broadcast wanted), broadcast::Demand (wanted while any track is), plus one sentence in doc/lib/rs/moq-net.md.

Chain audit

• Frame -> group: already held. A frame::Consumer holds the group's channel, so a frame being read keeps group::Demand::wanted true after its group::Consumer drops. Now tested.
• Group -> track: gap, fixed. See above. A group a publisher reads through its own group::Producer::consume is not a consumer-side read and does not count. The relay's upstream SUBSCRIBE still follows subscriptions, not demand, so a held group keeps a relay's copy from lingering out but does not hold an upstream subscription open; the lite publisher's Drain keeps holding its subscriber for that.
• Track -> broadcast: restored by broadcast::Demand.

Public API

Rust (additive on main):

impl broadcast::Producer {
    pub fn demand(&self) -> broadcast::Demand;
}

#[derive(Clone)] // each clone watches on its own
pub struct broadcast::Demand;

impl broadcast::Demand {
    pub fn wanted(&self) -> bool;
    pub async fn wanted_changed(&mut self) -> Result<bool>; // feature "async"
    pub fn poll_wanted_changed(&mut self, waiter: &kio::Waiter) -> Poll<Result<bool>>;
}

Against the last release (0.3.16), which still had the old type: is_used/used/unused/poll_used/poll_unused become wanted/wanted_changed/poll_wanted_changed, and broadcast::Consumer::demand() is not restored. MIGRATE.md replaces the #6744 removal bullet with that migration.

Behavior: a handed-out group keeps track::Demand::wanted at Some until read to its end, and track::Producer::abort_unused declines meanwhile. Noted in MIGRATE.md. Tests that pinned the old behavior now pin the chain: abort_unused_ends_a_pulled_open_group became abort_unused_waits_for_a_pulled_open_group, moq-e2ee's dropping_track_releases_demand_while_group_is_held became a_held_group_keeps_demand_after_the_track_drops, and grouped_failure_wakes_pending_reads_and_releases_demand checks track demand once the sibling group's woken read lets it go. moq-transcode's ended_demand_finishes_the_open_live_group held a cache reader in the open group and called it "not demand"; that reader is now demand, so the test reads the group from the cache after the live path leaves, which still fails if the live path aborts mid-group.

JS: no change. js/net already has an @internal broadcast.Demand (read only by tests and a bench) aggregated per track the same way; with no JS consumer there is nothing to export. quest/m1/api-audit/wanted.md now says the Rust one is back. Bindings: none. Wire: none.

Tests

• broadcast.rs: demand_follows_every_track (tracks before and after the handle, a bare handle is no demand, a reader arriving through a track producer wakes a parked poll, the last reader leaving wakes it, a clone reports first), a_pending_request_is_demand_until_its_reader_leaves (no gap when the handler takes the request), a_closed_track_is_not_demand, demand_errors_once_closed, a_frame_read_keeps_the_broadcast_wanted (the whole chain).
• track.rs: a_group_read_keeps_its_track_wanted_until_its_end (a clone reading the end releases for all), a_range_cap_is_not_the_groups_end (a capped clone keeps the hold, through abort_unused, until a raised cap reads the finished end), a_fetched_group_keeps_its_track_wanted.
• tests/loom.rs: broadcast_demand_sees_a_reader_return and broadcast_demand_sees_a_reader_leave, restored for the new shape; pass under just rs loom.
• benches/demand.rs: one reader's subscribe and leave on one track, read by every handle, swept over tracks and handles:

shape	per-track watchers (this PR)	scan every track (old)
1 track, 1 handle	0.73 µs	0.47 µs
100 tracks, 1 handle	0.73 µs	3.4 µs
10,000 tracks, 1 handle	2.1 µs	404 µs
1 track, 100 handles	32 µs	8.2 µs
10,000 tracks, 100 handles	173 µs	36 ms

The remaining slope is kio::Tasks sweeping its wake bitset, one word per 64 tracks.

Alternatives

• Restore the old scan. Simpler, but O(tracks) per wake and per edge, with duplicate waker registrations past 8 tracks.
• A counter maintained inside kio (a child channel's first/last consumer moving a parent's count). One atomic per edge, but kio's last-consumer decrement runs outside the channel lock, so ordering parent updates is a new concurrency design in a core primitive.
• Release a group's track demand when the group finishes rather than when a reader reads its end. Needs a per-group registry of holds the producer drains on finish and abort; a reader that never reads the end is a parked handle either way.

Choices made

• Producer side only: broadcast::Consumer::demand() stays gone until a reader-side consumer needs it.
• Closing reports Error::Dropped: a broadcast has no abort reason, and track and group demand report Dropped without one.
• wanted() is a point-in-time scan of the tracks; waiting goes through the per-track watchers.
• A read releases the group's hold only once the group's fin is set, rather than tracking capped readers apart: the track owes a finished group nothing, abort_unused keeps finished groups readable, and it needs no per-reader state. The check runs once per group end, so the benchmark above is unchanged.

Follow-ups

• @moq/net readers: whether a JS group read keeps its track wanted was not audited here.

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Distinguish a reader's range cap from the group's actual end

When a handed-out group is cloned and one copy reaches a with_range cap, its read returns Ok(None) even while the group is still open. This calls ended() on the expiry shared by both copies, releasing their track demand although the uncapped copy still needs future frames. After the subscription drops, track::Demand::wanted() consequently becomes None and abort_unused can abort the active reader's group. The new poll_finished release has the same problem because it also succeeds at a cursor cap. Release shared demand only when the group actually ends, or track capped readers independently.

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Agreed, reproduced with a_range_cap_is_not_the_groups_end: a clone capped with with_range(..1) reading its cap released the shared hold while the group was open, and abort_unused then succeeded.

Fixed by releasing only once the group itself has finished: on Ok(None) or a resolved poll_finished, the reader checks the group's fin before calling ended(). A cap reached on an open group keeps the hold for every clone and for a later raised cap. I picked this over tracking capped readers separately because the track owes a finished group nothing (abort_unused tears down only unfinished groups, so cached frames stay readable), and it needs no per-reader state. The check runs once per group end, not per frame.

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P2 — Confirmed the independently reported range-cap demand release at rs/moq-net/src/model/group.rs:2977–2980 (also poll_finished at 3122–3123); no duplicate inline comment. A capped clone can return EOF while the group remains open, releasing the shared hold and allowing abort_unused to cut off an uncapped sibling. Distinguish actual group completion from cursor-cap completion, or account for readers independently; add a capped/uncapped-clone regression. Removing a cap after EOF also needs coverage because with_range(..) permits continued reads.

Direction: restoring producer-side broadcast demand and closing the frame→group→track chain is useful. Per-track watchers/inboxes are more complex than a scan but have a clear scaling rationale; keeping that machinery private is appropriate. No additional actionable bugs found in the changed areas inspected.

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The change adds a cloneable broadcast::Demand handle that reports demand from queued requests and wanted tracks. Handed-out subscription and fetch groups retain track demand until a reader reaches the group end or the group is dropped. Tests, a Criterion benchmark, migration notes, and demand documentation cover these behaviors.

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This change restores broadcast demand reporting and keeps a track wanted until a handed-out group is finished and read to its end. The earlier concerns about releasing demand at a range cap or at group completion are addressed in the current code. The only remaining observation is a minor, bounded memory overhead in an idle demand handle, which does not need to block merging.

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Reviewed the substantive update since 5bbe951, accounting for the merge from main.

Fixed: the previous P2 range-cap finding. Both successful read-end and poll_finished paths now require the group's fin before releasing shared demand. The new regression covers a capped clone, abort_unused refusal, raising the cap, and release at the finished end. Finished-group cache retention in track teardown supports this simpler check; separate per-reader accounting is unnecessary for the reported case.

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Merge summary for 3bed108:

• The range-cap finding (r4393944442) is fixed: the shared demand hold is released only once the group itself has finished, covered by a_range_cap_is_not_the_groups_end.
• CodeRabbit's !expiry_pending() suggestion is declined: the hold backs continued production, not retention of a finished group's frames. CodeRabbit withdrew it.
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Major · Keep an independent track hold for each active replacement reader. · group.rs:5651-5652

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Keep an independent track hold for each active replacement reader.

Consumer::clone() shares the expiry object. If one clone reads the original group's end, GroupExpiry::ended() releases the shared Reading. When another clone then moves to a replacement, GroupExpiry::for_track() calls Reading::moved(), which creates no hold after that release.

Recover.copy does not keep track demand. track::Consumer stores only a weak TrackState, and only requests made from it join the track's consumer count. After the subscriber drops, track::Producer::abort_unused() can therefore abort the open replacement while the second clone is still reading.

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Re CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding on 1372942 (review), "Keep an independent track hold for each active replacement reader": declining, because it does not reproduce.

To test it, I wrote the scenario both ways. Two clones of one finished group: one reads the group's end, which releases the shared Reading. The original copy is then evicted before the other clone reads, so that clone recovers onto an open replacement on a second route. In one variant the group came from a fetch. In the other it came from a subscription, which is then dropped, and the first route fails. In both, abort_unused on the replacement copy is refused while the lagging clone reads, and demand ends once that clone reads the replacement's end.

Both variants still pass with Reading::moved changed to never take a hold. The replacement does not depend on that hold: the Recover the lagging clone carries keeps the copy it reads alive (its lease, its outstanding-read entry, and, for a fetch, the logical track). The released hold is therefore never what keeps the replacement wanted, and track::Producer::abort_unused() cannot abort the replacement the clone is reading.

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Merge summary for 514092b:

• Merged origin/main (no conflicts). It includes the runner VM fix (moq-dev/moq#7005), which addresses the checks.x86_64-linux.github-runner-vm failure that removed this PR from the merge queue twice.
• CodeRabbit's newest finding, about each replacement reader needing its own track hold, is declined because it does not reproduce. The details are in this comment. No code changed.
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Keep inbox pruning amortized when only one track closes

If an unpolled demand handle's inbox is full of live tracks except for one short-lived track, each replacement removes that single closed entry and immediately fills the inbox again. Every subsequent insertion therefore scans all N entries and locks each track's state while holding the broadcast lock, costing O(N × demand handles) per insertion indefinitely. This can stall unrelated broadcast operations during track churn. Use bounded incremental pruning or ensure proportional headroom after a full scan, and cover track insertion/churn in the fan-out benchmark; the current benchmark only exercises subscription edges. (Written by GPT-6.1 Sol)

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I removed this PR from the merge queue. Codex found a valid P2 on 514092b (r): cache_track prunes a Demand inbox only when it is at capacity. If that prune frees only one closed track, the next insert is at capacity again. Every insert then rescans all N entries under the broadcast lock, once per unpolled handle. This is the fourth review round, so the decision on how to proceed goes to the maintainer before the next fix. The fix I'd propose is to reserve headroom equal to the surviving length after each prune, which keeps pruning amortized. Codex also suggested adding a track-churn case to the demand benchmark.

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Fixed the Demand inbox pruning from Codex's review of 514092b290: after each prune, cache_track now reserves headroom equal to the surviving length, so the next scan waits until the inbox has grown by that much. Each O(len) scan is paid for by at least len inserts, so an inbox that is full of live tracks except for one closed track no longer rescans on every insert.

Added a demand/churn case to rs/moq-net/benches/demand.rs. A short-lived track is created and dropped while handles that never poll watch the broadcast. The live track counts sit one under a power of two, so they fill an inbox to one short of its capacity, the worst case. Per insert:

shape	before	after
3 tracks, 1 handle	968 ns	973 ns
127 tracks, 1 handle	1.92 µs	1.17 µs
16383 tracks, 1 handle	141 µs	1.62 µs
3 tracks, 100 handles	6.34 µs	4.60 µs
16383 tracks, 100 handles	10.7 ms	4.62 µs

Before the fix, cost grew with tracks × handles. After it, cost no longer grows with the track count. Also merged main.

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Fixed: the independently reported P2 inbox-pruning cost. rs/moq-net/src/model/broadcast.rs:149–155 now reserves proportional headroom after pruning, so losing one closed entry cannot force a full scan on every insertion. The added demand/churn benchmark retains unpolled handles and live tracks while repeatedly creating/dropping a short-lived track, exercising that case across fan-out sizes. The earlier range-cap fix remains in place.

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