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feat(container): bound decoded lookahead by a max buffer - #7056
Finishes quest/m1/container-backpressure.md. The Rust and JS container consumers now hold at most a byte cap of decoded frames, so a hostile publisher can no longer make them grow without limit. This follows the maintainer's 2026-10-27 decision on moq-dev/moq#6903: use backpressure in both languages, not a frame-count cap that refuses groups.
Changes
Rust (rs/moq-mux/src/container/consumer.rs):
New Consumer::set_max_buffer(bytes) and a public container::DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER.
Every buffered frame (payload plus its own entry), marker, and GroupBuffer is charged to a shared counter. Decoded payloads are views of their wire frame, so the last frame decoded from one also carries whatever of the wire payload the views leave out, such as a large LOC property block. Each frame keeps its charge for the refund. A group gives back its charge when its frames are read or when the group drops, by whatever path.
Once the cap is full, decoding ahead stops (look_once), and no new groups are pulled from the subscriber beyond one successor to the cursor's group. That one is always pulled, so a stalled group can be skipped however small the cap, zero included. The undecoded data stays in the net cache, which the pool already bounds.
JS (js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts): the same as a new maxBuffer prop and exported DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER, charging wire frames the same way. The track loop waits for room before recvGroup (again, past one successor to the head). Decoding has one owner, as in Rust:
Each group's task is now only a watcher. It awaits readable() and wakes the reader, and it never takes a frame, decodes, or marks a group done.
One synchronous #look() takes what the transport already holds, oldest group first, each frame only if the cap admits it. It then applies the age and duration skips. next() runs it at the top of every iteration, and each watcher wake runs it too.
next() alone decides completion, faults and the pressure skip. It reads the transport's state when it decides (consumer.done, consumer.closed.peek()), not a flag a task sets later. A fault is raised as soon as the frames ahead of it are read.
JS frames carry when they landed (js/net/src/group.ts, js/net/src/flate/group.ts): Group.Frame gains arrived, mirroring Rust's Frame::arrived(). The group stamps each frame as it's written, keeping the writer's frame behind the stamp rather than copying it. It returns the stamp on every read (tryReadFrame, readFrame, the sequence reads, compressed slices, resumed copies). A write ignores any arrived it's given. The container consumer stamps ReceivedFrame.arrival from it instead of decode time, so frames the max buffer leaves in the transport keep their true arrival.
Never stuck on its own look-ahead: past the cap, only the group being read can decode, and only while it holds nothing (Rust: the cursor's group, or the oldest pending group at startup; JS: the head). In JS, #look() checks admission in the same synchronous step as each decode and charge, so no two wakes can spend the same room.
Groups carry when they landed too (rs/moq-net/src/model/group.rs, js/net/src/group.ts): new group::Consumer::arrived() (Rust) and Group.Consumer.arrived (JS). Rust stamps it when the group is created at this hop, on the ambient clock Frame::arrived uses, and each consumer copies it. JS reads the per-track stamp it already kept (GroupState.arrived), which a mirror now inherits from its producer instead of starting at zero. Both keep the original group's arrival across an adopted replacement copy. Both container consumers seed a group's late, which starts the missing-sequence budget, from it instead of from when they pulled the group. So a hole that expired while the max buffer held pulls back is passed at once, not a full max delay later (Codex P2).
Each group's late stays the earliest arrival among it and the groups past it. A joining reader drains a backlog in sequence order, not arrival order, so an insert now also lowers the late of the groups below it (review).
A skip's fault is never read as a clean end (JS): next() rechecks for an error right after #look(). An age skip there can raise a fault after the track loop settled #closed with null, which next() read as EOF (Codex P2).
The existing span skip for latency is unchanged.
Tests, mirrored in both languages:
2,000 frames sharing one timestamp, queued behind a stalled group.
500 groups behind a stalled group.
Each test checks that the consumer holds about the cap after every read and still reaches the live edge. Both hang without this change.
Tests for cases the review found:
group overhead alone filling the cap behind a stalled group, including a stalled successor in front of a readable group (Rust and JS);
a successor whose endpoint markers fill the cap ahead of its media (Rust);
reads that complete together (JS);
caps of 0 and one group's overhead (Rust and JS);
a stalled backlog group below the cursor (JS);
a just-promoted head whose frame is already buffered (JS): #look() reads it before the pressure skip decides.
a malformed frame landing in the group a pressure skip moves to: the reader raises it instead of hanging (JS, mirrored in Rust);
a data-marker group that finished before a pressure skip reached it: its end is read before the next group (JS, mirrored in Rust);
a frame whose payload fails once read (as a compressed slice that will not inflate does) landing while the reader waits: the group reads as cut short instead of the reader hanging (JS).
wire frames of about 60 KB with a 1-byte payload behind a stalled group: they fill the cap, so the cursor moves past the stall, instead of the reader hanging on 1-byte charges (Rust and JS; review);
a frame held in the transport behind a full max buffer, read a second later: its arrival is when it landed (250 ms), not when it decoded (1000 ms) (JS);
a hole behind a full max buffer, read 1 s after groups 0, 1 and marker 3 landed with a 500 ms max delay: the gap and group 3's end follow groups 0 and 1 at once, instead of 500 ms later (Rust and JS; both fail without the fix);
a joining reader's backlog where group 5 landed before group 3: both holes pass at once (Rust and JS; the JS test fails without the fix, and the Rust one pins parity, since Rust's track hands a backlog out in arrival order);
a malformed group an age skip passes after the track finished: the read throws instead of returning EOF (JS; fails without the fix);
a group read late keeps the instant it was created, alone, through a track, and as a clone (Rust) or resumed onto a replacement copy (JS) (moq-net, @moq/net);
frames read late keep the instant they landed, for a plain group, a compressed group (including a frame written before compression bound), a sequence read, a compressed read, and a resumed copy; a write's own arrived is ignored (@moq/net).
Each JS test fails without its fix. The two new Rust tests pin parity: Rust's single poll loop never had these races.
Decisions
One decoding owner in JS, as in Rust (maintainer, 2026-10-28, on the design checkpoint):
✅ Rewrite the JS decode around a single owner: group tasks only watch and wake the reader, and the reader decodes.
Keep patching each finding.
Land Rust now and split JS into a follow-up quest.
Fix hole expiry behind the max buffer here, at the source (maintainer, 2026-10-28, on Codex's P2):
✅ Fix it here: expose a group's arrival as group::Consumer::arrived() (Rust) and Group.Consumer.arrived (JS), and seed both consumers' late from it, with a test in each.
Defer to a follow-up quest and land this PR as is.
Fix the arrival skew here, at its source (maintainer, 2026-10-28, on Codex's P2):
✅ Fix it in this PR: JS @moq/net frames carry their arrival as Rust's do, and the consumer uses it.
Defer it to a follow-up quest (this PR's earlier choice).
Choices made without asking
Charge the wire frame, not detach the views (review). Copying a small view out of its wire frame would also bound memory, but Rust can't see a Bytes' backing size, and a copy costs every frame. Charging the wire frame's remainder to the last frame decoded from it costs nothing on the normal path and works the same in both languages.
Watchers run the decode step too, not only next(). The decision said "only next() decodes". Taken literally, nothing would decode while the reader is parked. That breaks the audio decoder: its read loop holds a frame until consumer.buffered covers the playout target, so it would wait forever on a signal only its own next read could grow. It would also stamp jitter arrivals late, and stop the age skip from trimming stale groups while the reader is idle, which the existing skip-summary tests check. So each watcher wake runs the same synchronous #look() that next() runs. There is still one decode path, no task holds state across an await, and every completion, fault and pressure-skip decision stays in next(). That is what removes the race class.
A pressure skip past a marker group reads as a gap (JS), matching Rust's had_marker.
Frame.arrived is optional, not required: Frame is also what writeFrame takes, from hundreds of callers that have no stamp to give. Every frame a group returns carries it, so the consumer's ?? now() covers only frames built outside a group. The alternative is a separate read type with arrived required, at the cost of a second frame type.
The stamp wraps the writer's frame rather than copying it, so a lazy payload is still read only when a reader takes it. The test for a compressed slice that won't inflate relies on this.
The stamp is taken before deflating; Rust stamps after. Local DEFLATE is synchronous, so the two differ by the encode time only.
Rust stamps a group's arrival when it's created, not from the track slot. The track slot's arrived is on the cache pool's wall clock and is reached through a dozen hand-out paths. The group's own stamp is taken just before the slot's, on the same ambient clock as Frame::arrived and the consumer's now(), and one field on Consumer covers every path. JS already kept a per-track stamp on each mirror, so it uses that.
Rust propagates late backward too, though its track hands a backlog out in arrival order, so the invariant holds whatever the delivery order.
A resumed consumer keeps the original group's arrival in both languages, not the replacement copy's: the group landed when its first copy did.
Pressure skip (a design change in review; see the Design change: comment). If the cap is full while the cursor's group is stalled, the cursor moves on to the next pending group, whether or not anything of it has been read. That group reads as the cursor's group, and each skip gives back what the dropped group held, so progress never depends on decoding past the cap. The skip reads as a gap unless the next group's start proves the timeline continues. A missing group at the cursor expires the same way. Rust re-pulls the groups the cap held back once a skip frees room. Without this, a stalled group behind zero-span frames would hang forever, because the look-ahead that would trigger the age skip can't grow any further. The quest said "past it, reads wait"; this adds the one case where waiting can never end.
Default 32 MiB (moq_net::group::MAX_CACHE_BYTES): one group at the transport's size cap. Normal look-ahead is roughly max delay × bitrate, so the pressure skip should only fire on hostile or misconfigured streams.
Names max_buffer / maxBuffer, not "budget": the docs already use "budget" for max delay.
JS overhead is estimated: JS can't measure object sizes, so it uses constants of 64 bytes per frame and 256 per group. Rust uses size_of.
Group pulls are gated on the cap alone. I first exempted groups the cursor was still missing, but groups arrive newest-first, so that let every group in.
No wire change. Release keeps the gap until the next cut, per the quest; no backport.
Impact
Rust moq-mux: new container::Consumer::set_max_buffer and container::DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER.
JS @moq/hang: new container Consumer prop maxBuffer and exported DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER. ReceivedFrame.arrival is now when the frame landed in the transport, not when it was decoded.
JS @moq/net:Group.Frame gains an optional arrived: Instant, set on every frame a group returns, and Group.Consumer gains arrived. Additive; nothing to migrate. Its API report is regenerated.
Rust moq-net: new group::Consumer::arrived(). Additive.
Both container consumers: a missing group's budget now starts when the group past it landed, so a slow reader with a full max buffer gets a gap or pause sooner than before.
cargo test -p moq-mux --lib container::consumer: 100 passed. cargo test -p moq-net --lib: 2633 passed (at 8f587e7; moq-net is unchanged since).
bun test src/container/ in js/hang: 157 passed. bun test in js/net: 2556 passed (at 8f587e7; unchanged since). bun test in js/watch: 415 passed.
just check origin/main: passed. The js/net API report is regenerated.
Each new container test fails without its fix, except the Rust backlog test, which pins parity.
Suggested follow-ups
A stalled group with a present successor has no elapsed-time expiry (Rust and JS). Rust decodes only the newest group fully ahead. So with a stalled group 0, a packed group 1 and a tail group 2, the cap never fills, and the consumer waits on group 0 until the span reaches max delay. Zero-span frames never get there, so it waits forever. This predates this PR. Missing groups already expire on elapsed time; giving a stalled present group the same expiry would close it.
Check whether moq-net hands out frame payloads that are views of a larger receive buffer. The max buffer now charges each wire frame's full length. If that payload is itself a slice of a bigger stream chunk (JS) or segment (Rust), the consumer still keeps the bigger buffer alive without counting it.
Check that Rust and JS agree on a compressed slice that won't inflate. In JS the transport fails the group, and the consumer reads that as a cut tail (a gap), as it did before this PR. In Rust, GroupBuffer::buffer_once reads a read error as Lost only if the group has aborted, and as a decode error otherwise. Whether a failed inflate aborts the group in moq-net was not checked. If it doesn't, Rust ends the reader where JS reads a gap.
Pass max_buffer through the layers above (moq-watch, the hang Rust wrappers, CLI/config) if operators should tune it. Today every caller gets the default.
Export DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER, let the oldest group and the first group past the
cursor decode past a full cap, and gate group pulls on the cap alone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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JavaScript and Rust container consumers now account for buffered data against configurable byte limits. JavaScript uses a 32 MiB default, and Rust adds a runtime limit setter. When the buffer is full, consumers restrict lookahead or group intake and can advance past blocked groups. The changes add tests for buffer limits, arrival-time handling, delivery progress, and error outcomes. The default limit is publicly exported, and the related quest entry and planning document are removed.
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P1: Stop tasks for released groups (js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts:268–273). #discard clears frames and refunds the group, but group.released then exempts its task from backpressure rather than stopping it. Moq.Group.Consumer.close() explicitly drains cached frames, so the task can keep decoding and charging frames into a group no longer in #groups. Those charges can never be refunded (#release is one-shot), leaving #used permanently full and parking subsequent reads/groups. Exit on release, including after an awaited read, and test skipping a group with unread cached frames.
P1: Bound outstanding JS reads, not just their admission (js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts:268–273). Each group can pass #waitRoom while usage is below the cap and then wait inside readFrame(). If a publisher opens several empty groups first, then supplies a large same-timestamp frame to each, every pending read decodes and charges its frame without checking room again. Overshoot is therefore one wire frame per admitted group, rather than one bounded global overshoot. Account for outstanding reads/decoded batches in shared admission, and cover delayed first frames across multiple groups; checking only already-buffered bytes is insufficient.
P1: Stop the Rust lead exemption after buffered markers too (rs/moq-mux/src/container/consumer.rs:1040–1042). With a stalled current group and an endpoint-only first successor, lead=true keeps calling uncapped look_once until a media frame appears. Legacy audio/video endpoints append charged entries to markers, but never make buffered nonempty. A publisher can consequently keep accumulating endpoint markers beyond max_buffer. Bound this exception by buffered items/one wire batch, including markers, and test an endpoint-only successor behind a stalled group.
Direction: shared byte accounting and backpressure are appropriate, and Rust's drop-based refunds simplify ownership. The cap and progress exceptions need to cover every buffered item and in-flight task before the claimed hostile-publisher bound holds. The additive configuration/export changes do not change the wire.
Verification: static inspection of the diff, consumer lifecycles, Legacy endpoint decoding, and added tests. I did not execute tests or independently verify the PR's reported checks.
- JS: admit groups on room alone, let the head's successor lead so a pressure
skip always has a target, re-admit each read before decoding it, and stop
a dropped group's task instead of charging what no one refunds.
- Rust: end the lead exemption once a group buffers an endpoint marker.
- Tests: sync on task drains instead of wall-clock sleeps, cover a successor
behind group overhead and an endpoint-only successor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addressed the three additional findings from the automated review in 649e5c7:
Stop tasks for released groups: each group task re-admits before every read and again after it returns. Once the group is released it exits, so it never charges a group that is out of #groups. Its finally also no longer advances #active for a dropped group.
Bound outstanding JS reads: a read that comes back is admitted again before it is decoded. Past the cap, only the head and the group after it decode, each only while it holds nothing, so the overshoot is bounded globally, not per admitted group. A parked group can still hold one undecoded wire frame it already read; the net cache holds those bytes anyway, and admitted groups are bounded by their own charge.
Rust lead exemption with markers: the exemption now ends once the group holds an endpoint marker as well as a frame (capped = !lead || !self.markers.is_empty()). Covered by an_endpoint_only_successor_stays_within_the_max_buffer; without the fix it holds 48,976 bytes against a 1,024-byte cap.
Checks: cargo test -p moq-mux --lib container::consumer 93 passed, bun test src/container/ 143 passed, just check origin/main passed. The js/hang API report is regenerated for maxBuffer and DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER.
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Reviewed commit: 649e5c788e0dbf72746ddb85f1b97a9c08fc3cfa, compared with my previous review at e73242846d48a942cdcf6fab03d4b8c3d9a623ed (base unchanged).
P1, previous JS findings not fully fixed:js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts:269,559–565. Admission is still an asynchronous boolean, not a reservation. Simultaneously completed reads can all pass #waitRoom before any caller resumes to decode/charge. Ten pending groups (2,560 bytes) under a 4,096-byte cap can therefore still admit ten 1 MiB same-timestamp frames together. There is also an await between the released check and decode: after two admissions return true, a newer group's decode can age-skip/refund the older group before that older caller resumes and recharges it. Recheck release and acquire capacity synchronously with decode/charge, or use explicit reservations; add batched-completion tests. The simple already-released path is improved, but these are remaining cases of the earlier findings, not new issues.
P1, new progress regression in the Rust marker fix:rs/moq-mux/src/container/consumer.rs:1040–1042. A stalled current group plus a successor whose leading endpoint markers fill the cap now parks forever even if that successor has media and FIN already available. Markers make capped true, but do not populate min_timestamp; the later media cannot be decoded, so next_group stays absent and pressure skipping cannot advance. The new test only checks Pending and bounded bytes. Extend it with media/FIN after the markers and assert playback progresses, arranging a bounded skip target without needing to read an arbitrarily long marker run.
Resolved portions: Rust's unbounded marker accumulation is capped; JS now removes the missing-cursor group-admission exemption and permits a successor's first frame when metadata alone fills the cap. Those independently reported cases are addressed without duplicate inline comments.
Direction remains sound: shared byte accounting and backpressure fit this problem. Admission needs to be atomic, and the marker cap must preserve progress. No additional wire change.
Verification: GitHub diff/context inspection and an isolated JavaScript scheduling model confirming the admission race. Repository tests were not run; reported check results were not independently verified.
Design change: once the max buffer is full and the cursor's group stalls,
the cursor moves to the next pending group even with nothing of it read.
It reads as the cursor's group, and each skip refunds what the group left
behind held, so progress no longer depends on any later group decoding past
the cap. This drops the successor exemption.
- Rust: re-pull groups held back by a full cap once a skip refunds room.
- JS: check admission synchronously before each decode and charge, so tasks
woken together cannot all spend the same room.
- Tests: an endpoint-only successor with media past its markers, a stalled
successor in front of a readable group, and reads completing together.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Design change: once the max buffer is full and the cursor's group stalls, the consumer moves on to the next pending group even when nothing of it has been read yet. That group reads as the cursor's group, and each such skip gives back the charge of the group left behind. Progress therefore no longer depends on a later group decoding past the cap, and the successor exemption is gone, in both Rust and JS. Only the cursor's group (in Rust, also the oldest group at startup) decodes past a full cap, and only while it holds nothing.
This answers the round-two progress findings (cc5563a):
Rust, markers filling the cap ahead of media: the cursor moves on to the marker group, which reads as the cursor's group, so its markers and media play. an_endpoint_only_successor_stays_within_the_max_buffer now writes media and a FIN after 2,000 markers and checks that the media plays, while staying within the cap.
A stalled successor in front of a readable group (Codex P2): the cursor moves past each stalled group in turn. Rust now re-pulls the groups the cap held back once a skip gives back room, since nothing else wakes the reader for that. Covered by a_stalled_successor_does_not_hide_a_readable_group in Rust, which fails without the re-pull, and by the three-group JS test (maxBuffer: 768, maxDelay: 0).
JS admission is now atomic: each task checks admission synchronously right before it decodes and charges, with no await in between, so tasks woken together cannot all spend the same room. The release check sits in the same synchronous step. Covered by the batched-completion test, where ten parked reads get 2,000-byte frames at once and at most two decode. Adding a single await between check and decode makes it fail with 10.
Checks: cargo test -p moq-mux --lib container::consumer 94 passed, bun test src/container/ 145 passed, just check origin/main passed.
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Reviewed commit: cc5563a37d842aa1f21f44c070b91beaf29bf31d, against the last review at 649e5c788e0dbf72746ddb85f1b97a9c08fc3cfa (base unchanged).
The previously reported JS admission/discard races and Rust marker-cap deadlock are fixed: admission and release checks now run synchronously with decoding/charging, while pressure skipping can promote an unread successor. Rust also re-pulls groups after a skip refunds space. The new batched-completion and marker/media progress tests target those cases.
Two remaining actionable concerns are already independently reported, so I am referencing them rather than duplicating comments:
P1:Parked JS tasks retain uncharged wire payloads, js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts:271–278. The synchronous fix bounds decoded batches, but pending tasks still retain one next.payload each. In-flight ownership must be included in the memory bound; counting decoded frames alone does not establish it.
P2:Small caps prevent group-admission progress, js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts:214–215 and Rust poll_read_finish. A cap no larger than one group's overhead can prevent admitting the successor needed for pressure skipping; zero prevents startup. Support bounded progress or reject unsupported limits explicitly.
Direction: promoting the cursor under pressure is simpler than granting each successor a decoding exemption. No further distinct actionable bug found in this update; the remaining memory/progress concerns above still need resolution. No new wire impact.
Verification: static GitHub diff, surrounding lifecycle code, and test inspection, including an independent JS pass. Repository tests were not run and reported checks were not independently verified.
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- Around line 545-547: Update #full() so an empty buffer is never considered
full, including when #maxBuffer is zero or negative; preserve the cap check once
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- JS: wait for a frame with readable() and take it only once admitted, so a
group parked on the max buffer holds no wire payload.
- Rust and JS: always pull a successor to the cursor's group, so a stalled
group can be skipped however small the cap, zero included.
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Reviewed commit: bb0985e62618054a4d40d77c16a773e3799beb8c, compared with my previous review at cc5563a37d842aa1f21f44c070b91beaf29bf31d (base unchanged).
The remaining findings are addressed:
JS waits for readability without taking ownership of a payload, then checks capacity/release and consumes a buffered frame synchronously. Parked tasks no longer retain the earlier uncharged next.payload.
Both implementations admit the head and one successor even when group overhead fills a small or zero cap, preserving pressure-skip progress. Rust's retry uses the same gate; new tests cover zero/small limits.
No new actionable bugs found in this update. Direction is simpler and consistent with bounded backpressure: keep unread payloads in the transport cache, and allow only the limited group metadata needed for progress. Earlier admission/discard-race and marker-progress fixes remain intact. No additional API or wire change.
Verification: static inspection of the delta, transport readable/read/terminal semantics, and added tests, including an independent JS pass. Repository tests were not run; this does not independently confirm the reported checks.
JS admits groups below the cursor, so a stalled backlog head could hold the
max buffer while the pressure skip only looked at the active group.
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Reviewed commit: 0e9e8f9c8d874be6e7173c159c77d8115b2f68de, compared with my previous review at bb0985e62618054a4d40d77c16a773e3799beb8c (base unchanged).
The independently reported below-cursor backlog deadlock is addressed. Pressure skipping now discards/refunds a stalled delivery head below the cursor while preserving the active sequence and presentation endpoint, and records the resulting loss. The added groups 3 → 1 → 4 regression targets that case under a 512-byte cap.
No new actionable bugs found in this focused update. Extending the existing pressure-skip path is simpler than introducing a separate backlog mechanism; earlier buffer-accounting fixes remain intact. No API or wire change.
Verification: static delta and lifecycle/test inspection, including an independent JS pass. Tests were not run; reported checks were not independently verified.
Extract the per-frame decode into a synchronous #decodeBuffered, shared by
each group's task and the pressure skip, so a head whose task has not run
since its promotion reads what the transport already holds instead of being
skipped as stalled.
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Reviewed commit: e5fc4bc74b7ebc909fcbe6d65e97ec5436320eec, compared with my last review at 0e9e8f9c8d874be6e7173c159c77d8115b2f68de. Excluded the unrelated QUIC changes brought in by base 270395a337998a3295be0dfd514291cd80cc9d68.
Reading an already-buffered promoted head before declaring it stalled addresses the previous premature pressure-skip finding. The shared synchronous decoder preserves atomic charging and the per-group sample index. However, its new caller does not yet share the background task's terminal handling:
P1:Synchronous decode faults can hang instead of surfacing, js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts:544. A malformed payload sets fault, but not done; the task can wait for another frame while delivery waits for task completion.
P2:Finished data-marker groups can lose their end event, js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts:546. After synchronous marker decoding, pressure handling can discard the group before its background task recognizes FIN and delivery emits the marker.
Both are independently reported; no duplicate inline comments added. Settle faults/completion consistently before pressure-skipping, and test malformed payloads and bare markers through this new synchronous path.
Direction: sharing decoding is appropriate, but completion/error handling must be shared as well. Earlier accounting/progress fixes remain intact; no API or wire change in this delta.
Verification: static delta and lifecycle/test inspection, including an independent JS pass. Repository tests were not run; reported checks were not independently verified.
A full max buffer delays pulling a group, and its `late` was stamped at
the pull, so an already-expired hole waited another full max delay.
Expose when a group arrived at this hop as `group::Consumer::arrived()`
(Rust) and `Group.Consumer.arrived` (JS), and seed `late` from it.
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Reviewed commit: 8f587e710f2a8d58b1645dba453aa63db522b5d0, compared with my last review at 11ebbd252bbdd22e09dcd5ad1be075e9195175e7. Excluded unrelated changes merged from base 84d9b018b83d880d901cfd84a9064b4923d284b5.
The original delayed-admission hole-expiry case is fixed in both languages, but the new ingress stamps expose a remaining JS ordering case below. Recording arrival at the transport boundary is the right direction; the existing suffix-minimum maintenance must no longer assume admission order is chronological. The additive group-arrival APIs are justified by this consumer; no wire change.
Also note the independently reported latched-error/clean-EOF finding, still open. That unchanged path is not a new finding from this delta, and I have not duplicated its inline comment. Earlier wire-byte charging and frame-arrival fixes remain intact; larger backing-allocation accounting remains an acknowledged limitation.
Verification: static delta, transport ordering/replacement lifecycle and regression-test inspection, including an independent pass. Tests were not run; reported checks were not independently verified.
…nd raise a skip's fault
A drained backlog comes in sequence order, not arrival order, so an
arrival now lowers the `late` of the groups below it. In JS, a fault an
age skip in `#look()` raises after the track finished was read as a
clean end; `next()` now throws it.
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Both remaining findings are addressed:
The reordered-backlog hole expiry now propagates earlier arrivals backward, maintaining the suffix minimum in both languages. The JS regression covers the reported group 5-before-3 arrival order; Rust adds parity coverage.
The independently reported fault read as clean EOF now throws immediately after synchronous lookahead, before the settled track-close signal can produce EOF. The new malformed-group age-skip test targets that path.
No new actionable bugs found in this focused update. Direction: correcting the existing minimum invariant and checking the latched error at its mutation boundary are simpler than adding timers or completion state. No API or wire change in this delta. Earlier fixes remain intact; larger transport backing-allocation accounting remains the acknowledged limitation.
Verification: static delta, surrounding ordering/error lifecycle and regression-test inspection, including an independent pass. Tests were not run; reported checks were not independently verified.
Reviews: Codex reviewed 99a5924 and found no major issues (receipt). No review threads are unresolved.
CI: all 12 checks pass on this head, and GitHub reports it mergeable with main.
quest check: run against origin/main and passed. quest/m1/container-backpressure.md is deleted and nothing links to it.
Design checkpoint: the PR body records the maintainer's 2026-10-28 decisions: one decoding owner in JS, fixing hole expiry at the source, and fixing arrival skew at the source. Those decisions put the new public APIs in scope: Frame.arrived and Group.Consumer.arrived in @moq/net, and group::Consumer::arrived() in moq-net. They are additive. Nothing is waiting on a decision.
Follow-ups (listed in the PR body, to plan with /quest-plan): elapsed-time expiry for a stalled group whose successor is present; whether moq-net payloads are views of a larger receive buffer; Rust/JS parity on a compressed slice that won't inflate; passing max_buffer through the layers above.
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quest/m1/container-backpressure.md. The Rust and JS container consumers now hold at most a byte cap of decoded frames, so a hostile publisher can no longer make them grow without limit. This follows the maintainer's 2026-10-27 decision on moq-dev/moq#6903: use backpressure in both languages, not a frame-count cap that refuses groups.Changes
Rust (
rs/moq-mux/src/container/consumer.rs):Consumer::set_max_buffer(bytes)and a publiccontainer::DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER.GroupBufferis charged to a shared counter. Decoded payloads are views of their wire frame, so the last frame decoded from one also carries whatever of the wire payload the views leave out, such as a large LOC property block. Each frame keeps its charge for the refund. A group gives back its charge when its frames are read or when the group drops, by whatever path.look_once), and no new groups are pulled from the subscriber beyond one successor to the cursor's group. That one is always pulled, so a stalled group can be skipped however small the cap, zero included. The undecoded data stays in the net cache, which the pool already bounds.JS (
js/hang/src/container/consumer.ts): the same as a newmaxBufferprop and exportedDEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER, charging wire frames the same way. The track loop waits for room beforerecvGroup(again, past one successor to the head). Decoding has one owner, as in Rust:readable()and wakes the reader, and it never takes a frame, decodes, or marks a group done.#look()takes what the transport already holds, oldest group first, each frame only if the cap admits it. It then applies the age and duration skips.next()runs it at the top of every iteration, and each watcher wake runs it too.next()alone decides completion, faults and the pressure skip. It reads the transport's state when it decides (consumer.done,consumer.closed.peek()), not a flag a task sets later. A fault is raised as soon as the frames ahead of it are read.JS frames carry when they landed (
js/net/src/group.ts,js/net/src/flate/group.ts):Group.Framegainsarrived, mirroring Rust'sFrame::arrived(). The group stamps each frame as it's written, keeping the writer's frame behind the stamp rather than copying it. It returns the stamp on every read (tryReadFrame,readFrame, the sequence reads, compressed slices, resumed copies). A write ignores anyarrivedit's given. The container consumer stampsReceivedFrame.arrivalfrom it instead of decode time, so frames the max buffer leaves in the transport keep their true arrival.Never stuck on its own look-ahead: past the cap, only the group being read can decode, and only while it holds nothing (Rust: the cursor's group, or the oldest pending group at startup; JS: the head). In JS,
#look()checks admission in the same synchronous step as each decode and charge, so no two wakes can spend the same room.Groups carry when they landed too (
rs/moq-net/src/model/group.rs,js/net/src/group.ts): newgroup::Consumer::arrived()(Rust) andGroup.Consumer.arrived(JS). Rust stamps it when the group is created at this hop, on the ambient clockFrame::arriveduses, and each consumer copies it. JS reads the per-track stamp it already kept (GroupState.arrived), which a mirror now inherits from its producer instead of starting at zero. Both keep the original group's arrival across an adopted replacement copy. Both container consumers seed a group'slate, which starts the missing-sequence budget, from it instead of from when they pulled the group. So a hole that expired while the max buffer held pulls back is passed at once, not a full max delay later (Codex P2).latestays the earliest arrival among it and the groups past it. A joining reader drains a backlog in sequence order, not arrival order, so an insert now also lowers thelateof the groups below it (review).A skip's fault is never read as a clean end (JS):
next()rechecks for an error right after#look(). An age skip there can raise a fault after the track loop settled#closedwithnull, whichnext()read as EOF (Codex P2).The existing span skip for latency is unchanged.
Tests, mirrored in both languages:
Each test checks that the consumer holds about the cap after every read and still reaches the live edge. Both hang without this change.
Tests for cases the review found:
group overhead alone filling the cap behind a stalled group, including a stalled successor in front of a readable group (Rust and JS);
a successor whose endpoint markers fill the cap ahead of its media (Rust);
reads that complete together (JS);
caps of 0 and one group's overhead (Rust and JS);
a stalled backlog group below the cursor (JS);
a just-promoted head whose frame is already buffered (JS):
#look()reads it before the pressure skip decides.a malformed frame landing in the group a pressure skip moves to: the reader raises it instead of hanging (JS, mirrored in Rust);
a data-marker group that finished before a pressure skip reached it: its
endis read before the next group (JS, mirrored in Rust);a frame whose payload fails once read (as a compressed slice that will not inflate does) landing while the reader waits: the group reads as cut short instead of the reader hanging (JS).
wire frames of about 60 KB with a 1-byte payload behind a stalled group: they fill the cap, so the cursor moves past the stall, instead of the reader hanging on 1-byte charges (Rust and JS; review);
a frame held in the transport behind a full max buffer, read a second later: its
arrivalis when it landed (250 ms), not when it decoded (1000 ms) (JS);a hole behind a full max buffer, read 1 s after groups 0, 1 and marker 3 landed with a 500 ms max delay: the gap and group 3's end follow groups 0 and 1 at once, instead of 500 ms later (Rust and JS; both fail without the fix);
a joining reader's backlog where group 5 landed before group 3: both holes pass at once (Rust and JS; the JS test fails without the fix, and the Rust one pins parity, since Rust's track hands a backlog out in arrival order);
a malformed group an age skip passes after the track finished: the read throws instead of returning EOF (JS; fails without the fix);
a group read late keeps the instant it was created, alone, through a track, and as a clone (Rust) or resumed onto a replacement copy (JS) (
moq-net,@moq/net);frames read late keep the instant they landed, for a plain group, a compressed group (including a frame written before compression bound), a sequence read, a compressed read, and a resumed copy; a write's own
arrivedis ignored (@moq/net).Each JS test fails without its fix. The two new Rust tests pin parity: Rust's single poll loop never had these races.
Decisions
One decoding owner in JS, as in Rust (maintainer, 2026-10-28, on the design checkpoint):
This settles the two open findings (fault propagation, a finished marker group losing its end) and the race class behind them.
Fix hole expiry behind the max buffer here, at the source (maintainer, 2026-10-28, on Codex's P2):
group::Consumer::arrived()(Rust) andGroup.Consumer.arrived(JS), and seed both consumers'latefrom it, with a test in each.Fix the arrival skew here, at its source (maintainer, 2026-10-28, on Codex's P2):
@moq/netframes carry their arrival as Rust's do, and the consumer uses it.Choices made without asking
Charge the wire frame, not detach the views (review). Copying a small view out of its wire frame would also bound memory, but Rust can't see a
Bytes' backing size, and a copy costs every frame. Charging the wire frame's remainder to the last frame decoded from it costs nothing on the normal path and works the same in both languages.Watchers run the decode step too, not only
next(). The decision said "onlynext()decodes". Taken literally, nothing would decode while the reader is parked. That breaks the audio decoder: its read loop holds a frame untilconsumer.bufferedcovers the playout target, so it would wait forever on a signal only its own next read could grow. It would also stamp jitter arrivals late, and stop the age skip from trimming stale groups while the reader is idle, which the existing skip-summary tests check. So each watcher wake runs the same synchronous#look()thatnext()runs. There is still one decode path, no task holds state across anawait, and every completion, fault and pressure-skip decision stays innext(). That is what removes the race class.A pressure skip past a marker group reads as a gap (JS), matching Rust's
had_marker.Frame.arrivedis optional, not required:Frameis also whatwriteFrametakes, from hundreds of callers that have no stamp to give. Every frame a group returns carries it, so the consumer's?? now()covers only frames built outside a group. The alternative is a separate read type witharrivedrequired, at the cost of a second frame type.The stamp wraps the writer's frame rather than copying it, so a lazy payload is still read only when a reader takes it. The test for a compressed slice that won't inflate relies on this.
The stamp is taken before deflating; Rust stamps after. Local DEFLATE is synchronous, so the two differ by the encode time only.
Rust stamps a group's arrival when it's created, not from the track slot. The track slot's
arrivedis on the cache pool's wall clock and is reached through a dozen hand-out paths. The group's own stamp is taken just before the slot's, on the same ambient clock asFrame::arrivedand the consumer'snow(), and one field onConsumercovers every path. JS already kept a per-track stamp on each mirror, so it uses that.Rust propagates
latebackward too, though its track hands a backlog out in arrival order, so the invariant holds whatever the delivery order.A resumed consumer keeps the original group's arrival in both languages, not the replacement copy's: the group landed when its first copy did.
Pressure skip (a design change in review; see the
Design change:comment). If the cap is full while the cursor's group is stalled, the cursor moves on to the next pending group, whether or not anything of it has been read. That group reads as the cursor's group, and each skip gives back what the dropped group held, so progress never depends on decoding past the cap. The skip reads as a gap unless the next group's start proves the timeline continues. A missing group at the cursor expires the same way. Rust re-pulls the groups the cap held back once a skip frees room. Without this, a stalled group behind zero-span frames would hang forever, because the look-ahead that would trigger the age skip can't grow any further. The quest said "past it, reads wait"; this adds the one case where waiting can never end.Default
32 MiB(moq_net::group::MAX_CACHE_BYTES): one group at the transport's size cap. Normal look-ahead is roughly max delay × bitrate, so the pressure skip should only fire on hostile or misconfigured streams.Names
max_buffer/maxBuffer, not "budget": the docs already use "budget" for max delay.JS overhead is estimated: JS can't measure object sizes, so it uses constants of 64 bytes per frame and 256 per group. Rust uses
size_of.Group pulls are gated on the cap alone. I first exempted groups the cursor was still missing, but groups arrive newest-first, so that let every group in.
No wire change. Release keeps the gap until the next cut, per the quest; no backport.
Impact
moq-mux: newcontainer::Consumer::set_max_bufferandcontainer::DEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER.@moq/hang: new containerConsumerpropmaxBufferand exportedDEFAULT_MAX_BUFFER.ReceivedFrame.arrivalis now when the frame landed in the transport, not when it was decoded.@moq/net:Group.Framegains an optionalarrived: Instant, set on every frame a group returns, andGroup.Consumergainsarrived. Additive; nothing to migrate. Its API report is regenerated.moq-net: newgroup::Consumer::arrived(). Additive.Checks
At 99a5924, with
mainmerged in:cargo test -p moq-mux --lib container::consumer: 100 passed.cargo test -p moq-net --lib: 2633 passed (at 8f587e7;moq-netis unchanged since).bun test src/container/injs/hang: 157 passed.bun testinjs/net: 2556 passed (at 8f587e7; unchanged since).bun testinjs/watch: 415 passed.just check origin/main: passed. Thejs/netAPI report is regenerated.Suggested follow-ups
moq-nethands out frame payloads that are views of a larger receive buffer. The max buffer now charges each wire frame's full length. If that payload is itself a slice of a bigger stream chunk (JS) or segment (Rust), the consumer still keeps the bigger buffer alive without counting it.GroupBuffer::buffer_oncereads a read error asLostonly if the group has aborted, and as a decode error otherwise. Whether a failed inflate aborts the group inmoq-netwas not checked. If it doesn't, Rust ends the reader where JS reads a gap.max_bufferthrough the layers above (moq-watch, the hang Rust wrappers, CLI/config) if operators should tune it. Today every caller gets the default.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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