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Problem

Idle QUIC connections retain hash-table and control-queue allocations sized for earlier stream bursts. The quest's readable-event queue was already removed by moq-dev/moq#7490; one-shot waiter lists now coalesce a burst into one wake per parked reader.

Approach

• Contract receive, send, unread-index, blocked-writer, end-result, and waiter tables geometrically as their streams disappear; empty tables release every slot.
• Drop drained control queues and obsolete stream-credit entries when no control work remains. Keep all sendable frames, including resets and stops, until serialized.
• Cover repeated read/cancel/reset bursts across uni/bidi streams, a surviving stream during contraction, control-frame draining, and waiter wake/free/connection-loss ownership.
• Add exact quiet/repeat heap deltas to receive_bursts; complete the quest and remove its links.

Impact

• No public API or wire changes. No version bump or new refusal policy. Live receive state remains bounded by stream concurrency and receive credit; notification state follows caller-owned waits.
• Inspected moq-dev/moq#7707's final relevant hunks. This change preserves its receive/driver poll design and does not depend on its transmit-hint removal.

Alternatives

Keep peak capacity for reuse, or drop tables only when entirely empty. Geometric contraction also prevents a surviving stream from pinning peak storage, with amortized linear contraction work. Wait tables contract on stream teardown rather than every wake to avoid repeated allocation while readers park.

Validation

• Reproduced retained receive slots (capacity 3 after one stream) and waiter slots (capacity 224 after 128 streams) with failing ownership tests before fixing them. A control-queue test also exposed obsolete credit entries surviving a full packet.
• quest check --base origin/main passed.
• quest gate nix develop --command just ci passed: 6,531 Rust tests passed, 116 skipped, and all selected lint/tooling checks passed. The focused QUIC run passed 734 tests, 19 skipped.
• receive_bursts swept 1/4 connections, 1/16/256/1,024 streams, and 1/16/256/2,048 packets per stream, within its existing total-packet budget. Empty per-stream table capacities are zero in the correctness tests. Total connection heap still includes packet/connection bookkeeping.

One connection, 16 packets per stream; total server-owned heap in KiB:

Mode	Streams	Quiet before / after	After resume + repeat, before / after
Ordered	16	40 / 39	40 / 39
Ordered	256	53 / 40	163 / 33
Ordered	1,024	85 / 33	551 / 33
Cancel	1,024	101 / 33	567 / 33
Loss	1,024	561 / 43	561 / 43

At four connections and 1,024 streams each, quiet heap fell from 285 to 74 KiB (ordered), 349 to 74 KiB (cancel), and 2,181 to 106 KiB (loss). Teardown remains zero after the same one-time 336-byte initialization in both versions.

Repeated Criterion server-thread CPU samples (10 samples, 0.2 s warmup, 1 s target) on the shared host: ordered 16x16 was 53.8 to 55.1 us; ordered 256x16 was 1.125 to 1.178 ms; ordered 256x256 was 23.52 to 23.51 ms. Cancellation was 58.2 to 60.2 us, 1.111 to 1.169 ms, and 22.84 to 22.40 ms for those shapes. Rebuilding freed tables costs about 2-5% for short bursts; large-burst differences are small relative to host contention. Loss scenarios exercise recovery and ownership, without a performance acceptance gate.

The added single-stream axis measures the common sequential stream case too: ordered one-packet server CPU was 1.515 to 1.583 us (+0.068 us), and cancellation was 2.536 to 2.692 us (+0.157 us). At 16 packets the changes were 3.988 to 4.041 us and 5.069 to 5.194 us. Ordered one-stream/one-packet retained heap delta fell from 136 to 0 bytes; resume allocations rose from 21 to 24. Freeing the last slot is deliberate under the quest's zero gone-stream storage goal. No allocator reuse floor or timer was added.

Follow-ups

The scheduler's separate Slab retains peak capacity for explicitly created send groups. Ordinary streams do not grow it, its ungrouped BTreeMap frees stream nodes, and its deferred datagram Vec already drops its allocation each packet. Group storage is outside this receive/stream-ID quest; no follow-up was created, per the task scope. No maintainer decision or background work remains at handoff.

Review

Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort, round 2 reviewed fe6a253431 against origin/main with no findings. Round 1's single-stream allocation concern was refuted with the explicit zero-storage goal and the added common-case measurements above; its broad README wording was narrowed to hash tables. The suggested stream-scheduler retention did not reproduce in its tree nodes or deferred datagram vector; explicit send-group Slab capacity is recorded under Follow-ups.

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Reviewed commit: fe6a253

No actionable issues found. Geometric contraction bounds retained hash-table capacity while preserving live entries, and clearing a drained retransmit set leaves sendable control obligations intact. The new burst and waiter tests exercise both teardown and reuse. Static review only; I did not independently run QUIC tests or the heap and CPU benchmarks.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the complete diff at fe6a253 (9 files, 3 commits) against main and ran the moq-quic lib suite (734 passed, 0 failed).

• Control-queue release: PacketSpace::can_send (now &mut self, mirrored by space_can_send) replaces a drained/obsolete Retransmits with Retransmits::default(), and write_control_frames does the same after serializing, so an idle connection keeps no control-queue capacity.
• Stream-table contraction: stream_freed geometrically shrinks send/connection_blocked (Send half) and recv/unlooked (Recv half), and send::Stream::release shrinks ends, so a burst's hash-table slots do not outlive its streams and a surviving stream cannot pin them.
• Waiter-map release: Waits::freed contracts the per-stream waiter map on stream teardown and Waits::lose takes the map (mem::take) to release the capacity drain retained.
• Tests and bench: new receive_bursts_release_stream_storage, control_bursts_release_stream_storage, and freed_and_lost_streams_release_waiter_storage tests cover repeated read/cancel/reset bursts across uni/bidi, a surviving stream during contraction, control draining, and waiter wake/free/connection-loss ownership; the receive_bursts bench adds a single-stream axis and exact quiet/repeat heap deltas.
• Docs and quest: the moq-quic README note is extended and the completed quest plus its README link are removed.

Only the pending reset and the mem::take in lose remove entries; every shrink_to_fit is allocation-only, and is_empty gates each Retransmits field (the three predicate-gated ones are monotonic-to-obsolete or re-queued on the next blocking event), so no queued obligation is lost. No public API or wire change.

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Walkthrough

The changes release excess capacity from stream and waiter collections and reset drained retransmission state. Tests cover receive-stream and control-frame bursts, collection capacity, and waiter wake counts. The receive-burst benchmark adds exact byte deltas and smaller sweep cases. Documentation updates describe the cleanup and remove a related quest and planning document.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to fe6a2

The capacity-reclamation changes are mergeable with normal checks. Handshake queue retention is pre-existing, and the remaining waiter-test improvement can be addressed without blocking this change.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 58.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: releasing retained capacity in QUIC stream tables and control queues when idle. The objectives and raw summary confirm that the change contracts receive, send, and wai…
Description check		The description states the problem (idle QUIC connections retain hash-table and control-queue allocations from stream bursts), the approach (contracting receive, send, and waiter tables, and dropping …
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The title names the main change: releasing retained capacity in QUIC stream tables and control queues when idle. The objectives and raw summary confirm that the change contracts receive, send, and waiter tables and drops drained control queues. The 'fix(quic)' prefix is a conventional commit form, and the title is concise and specific.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description states the problem (idle QUIC connections retain hash-table and control-queue allocations from stream bursts), the approach (contracting receive, send, and waiter tables, and dropping drained control queues), the validation steps, and benchmark results. It matches the changeset in the raw summary and the PR objectives.

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Docstring coverage is 58.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 12 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Follow-up Comments

Clear pending when keys are discarded.

174-177: Minor · Stability & Availability · Low value

Clear pending when keys are discarded.

Discarding Initial or Handshake keys does not clear pending. Keyless spaces skip PacketSpace::can_send, so the new reclaim never runs for them. Lost CRYPTO frames queued before a HANDSHAKE_DONE discard can stay allocated until the connection is dropped. Clear pending in discard_space, because frames for a space without keys cannot be sent.

Suggested fix

 		let space = &mut self.spaces[space_id];
 		space.crypto = None;
+		space.pending = Default::default();
 		space.time_of_last_ack_eliciting_packet = None;

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Review comment at @rs/moq-quic/src/connection/spaces.rs around lines 174 - 177:
Update discard_space to clear the discarded space’s pending retransmissions when
its keys are removed, so queued frames for a keyless space are released.
Preserve the existing cleanup of crypto and acknowledgment timing state.

Exercise the wake in Waits::freed in the normal-free test.

323-324: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Exercise the wake in Waits::freed in the normal-free test.

The loop calls wake before freed. wake removes the stream entry once it is empty, so freed finds no entry and its wake loop does not run. A regression that removes that loop would still pass this test. Removing the explicit wake makes freed provide the single wake. The wakes() == 1 and capacity assertions still hold.

🧪 Suggested fix

 				for index in 0..128 {
 					let id = StreamId::new(Side::Client, Dir::Uni, index);
-					waits.wake(id, Wait::Read);
 					waits.freed(id);
 					assert!(waits.streams.capacity() <= waits.streams.len() * 4);
 				}

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Review comment at @rs/moq-quic/src/connection/waits.rs around lines 323 - 324:
In the normal-free test loop, remove the explicit `Waits::wake` call before
`Waits::freed` so `freed` is responsible for the single wake; preserve the
existing wake-count and capacity assertions.

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• rs/moq-quic/src/connection/mod.rs
• rs/moq-quic/src/connection/spaces.rs
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