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Opt-in native HEVC can overlap dependent raster-picture reconstruction through the existing thread setting, with bounded output lag selected from the active SPS.
Native output keeps the serial frame order and pending-byte semantics, and validated frames remain receivable after a terminal failure.
Direct decoder APIs, fallback, isolation and release feature selections are unchanged.
Background
Complete-reference and output barriers serialize many non-wavefront streams. Row publication lets a dependent job consume its predecessor's validated motion or fully filtered sample prefix without waiting for the whole picture.
Not covered: tile concurrency, new syntax, prediction or filter arithmetic, fallback selection, isolation or build defaults.
After merging: None.
How it works
sequenceDiagram
actor C as Caller
participant B as Native HEVC backend
participant D as Parser and DPB
participant W as Picture workers
C->>B: Existing thread setting and packet limits
B->>D: Parse NAL and advance normative metadata
D->>B: Prepare packed output at its serial event
D->>W: Owned slices and generation-identified references
W->>W: Publish motion and fully filtered row prefixes
W-->>D: Reconcile results in coded order
D->>B: Fill only the causally validated output prefix
C->>B: Receive without waiting for readiness
B-->>C: Next validated frame or bounded-lag None
C->>B: EOF
B->>W: Settle and join
B-->>C: Drain frames, then the terminal result
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Decisions
Only the native backend selects the documentation-hidden workspace bridge. Existing closure-based decoder methods keep their current contracts. Row conversion moves backing without copying and returns an unchanged whole-picture fallback when its private band cannot fit the existing allowance. Separate motion and filtered frontiers, descending coded dependencies and scoped read guards prevent premature access. Filtering preserves next-band vertical deblocking, saved unfiltered intra borders and pre-SAO neighbours.
Lag is the largest fitting value below the effective worker count. Its checked envelope includes every permitted continuation under the active SPS: retained owners, full caller-pending allowance, queue and plane capacities, parser and slice scratch, owned sources, row storage, synchronization and stacks. Pending, job and output-ring storage is reserved at admission and charged at its observed capacity, without later growth. One-shot size predictions use runtime probes of the active geometry, observed input sizes and configured bounds; a mismatch selects legacy output rather than a compiler gate or panic. This qualifies the selected sizes on the current allocator, not arbitrary unseen future lengths, and real allocations still charge their observed capacities. Atomic wavefront work settles first, fits under the admitted envelope and releases its optional cache before row scheduling resumes.
A changed active SPS settles prior work and outputs before choosing a new envelope, reducing future lag through zero while retaining unavoidable old debt. Debt can migrate into larger frames, so its bound covers every old-prefix replacement order. If no positive lag initially fits, ordinary admission is unchanged. A later activation can refuse a stream serial decoding could accept only when its new envelope and unavoidable debt cannot fit even at zero future lag. It does so before current-picture allocation and preserves every prior output. An unused SPS is not an admission event.
Output preparation applies discard, frame, pending and cumulative decoded-byte checks at the normative event. Ordinal frontiers track virtual serial receives independently of physical pops, so a withheld frame is pipeline memory rather than caller-pending memory. Filling requires every earlier coded operation in the event's causal fence, not just the output picture. Successful receive polls do not harvest or join workers. Existing terminal-error teardown settles with the sink alive, truncates speculative output, joins and drops the live core; the checked wrapper can move only the validated packed queue and latched error without copying.
Evidence
Local verification after the neighbour-cache and shared-row-scratch integrations passes 311 ordinary and 324 diagnostic HEVC tests with evidence support enabled, 52/53 kernel tests, 18 backend tests plus the process-wide allocation integration test, decode 8/15 tests and three reference example tests. Strict targeted Clippy passes in both diagnostic modes; forced-scalar HEVC, kernel and backend tests and Clippy also pass. The 312 HEVC Python checks pass with seven skips. Formatting, workflow checks and the unsafe inventory pass. Both release graphs exclude the private HEVC bridges. A forced capacity-probe mismatch preserves legacy frames and semantic summaries; bypassing that failure branch breaks the regression. A direct ordinal-offset test rejects charging the physical front while earlier virtual receives remain withheld. Zero-lag replacement and retirement release optional record capacities; retaining either empty allocation breaks its direct capacity regression. The neighbour cache retains scoped row sampling; replacing it with a full-frame plane read fails the nonzero-window regression. Prefix interpolation checks both owned and borrowed row storage and preserves dirty scratch on unpublished-support refusal.
A generated dependent reader is held before its predecessor's first publication and proves two executing raster jobs with serial-identical samples and semantic counters. A normal receive leaves that blocked producer untouched. Reinstating the complete-reference barrier fails the test. A later coded CRC failure catches an own-picture-only fence that otherwise leaks a frame. All 64 short receive cadences run at 1/2/4/8 requested workers. Growth regressions cover zero future lag, debt retirement, an unused larger SPS, a successful zero-debt continuation and a reachable debt-bearing refusal whose exact prior-output prefix matches a successful one-worker decode. The existing depth, framing, discard, wrapper-refusal and terminal-prefix matrix remains covered.
The actual-native reference driver passes generated 8/10-bit output checks at 1/2/4/8/automatic workers, in both hash and consume-only modes. Its encrypted Actions reports bind per-frame output and semantic work to observed worker counts, accounted memory and runtime admission records. A separate counter records overlapping Raster jobs issued under positive lag; complete-reference jobs never count. Replacing it with generic picture overlap fails the generated control, and accepting different streams' admission and legacy overlap fails the conformance regression. Timed calls with no row overlap are labelled as such. Earlier complete-reference results, read traces and conditional schedule models do not establish the new native bridge's correctness or throughput.
Complete native C1 passes at the integrated head f070a441fb083d8d9e162ec2533ad6bb868c5519: 144 streams, 8,227 decoded pictures and 8,195 identical output pictures at each of 1/2/4/8/automatic workers, including timestamps, typed colour, packing and semantic work. The retained 720 native calls contain 40,975 matching frame receipts. At four requested workers, 56 streams execute 2,355 overlapping positive-lag Raster jobs. The highest accounted memory is 653,757,708 bytes under the ordinary 8 GiB allowance. The C1 metadata binds the native binary hash to this head's selected-input report and the exact-head workflow checkout. Actual-row ThreadSanitizer stress passes twenty repetitions each of both scheduler groups, with successful dependent-row and capacity-mismatch witnesses in every scheduler repetition. Neither check is a throughput claim.
The packet-boundary preflight at f070a441fb083d8d9e162ec2533ad6bb868c5519 matches the pinned oracle and semantic work at every worker count on four inputs, each with eight decoded and output pictures. Across all five measured calls, both row-overlap inputs report four observed workers and seven or eight overlapping row jobs at four/automatic workers. Both no-row controls report one observed worker and zero row jobs despite positive-lag admission. One-worker calls report no row jobs. This is a functional preflight, not a broad performance result. Similarity at this same integrated head against the main allowlist passes: 112 spans of 50 or more tokens, zero not allowlisted, zero problems and zero stale entries.
The complete paired reference at 8a3f938c6dc53fb29691f5b2d34850e98229489f, before the neighbour-cache and row-scratch integrations, passes all 24 prepared inputs and 672 pictures, with five measured calls per arm. Automatic/native-one-thread wall-time ratio has a median of 0.7178; 12 inputs execute row jobs in every parallel call, while the 12 without row overlap are effectively flat. Automatic/default-FFmpeg ratio has a median of 5.4938, with only one of 24 input medians below 1.0. These are shared-host reference figures that include startup, framing, packing and teardown, not a claim of FFmpeg parity. They are not timings of the integrated head. The earlier complete C1 result also precedes both integrations and is superseded by the integrated-head correctness check above.
This change adds scheduled HEVC picture decoding and a native row-based reconstruction and output path. It adds diagnostic capture and dependency analysis, preserves validated frames before terminal errors, and updates workflows, scripts, tests, and design documentation.
Changes: HEVC picture threading, diagnostics, and terminal handling
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Summary
Reference publication and row reconstruction crates/coreav-hevc/src/{dpb.rs,reconstruction.rs,reconstruction/rows.rs,reconstruction/raster.rs,reconstruction/rows/store.rs,reconstruction/parallel.rs}, crates/coreav-kernels-hevc/src/{inter.rs,lib.rs}, crates/coreav-hevc/test-support/*
Adds shared picture publications, row-scoped reads, raster reconstruction, row stores, and capacity checks. Filtering and reference reads operate on row windows.
Scheduled decoding and row delivery crates/coreav-hevc/src/{decoder.rs,decoder/rows.rs,decoder/scheduler.rs,decoder/scheduler_tests.rs,native_rows.rs}, crates/coreav-hevc/src/reconstruction/{syntax.rs,inter.rs,filter.rs}
Adds scheduled picture reconstruction, worker and memory admission, bounded row output, and row-aware decoding, prediction, and filtering. Decode summaries include frame-parallel picture counts.
Thread diagnostics and dependency analysis crates/coreav-hevc/src/{lib.rs,thread_diagnostics.rs,thread_diagnostics/rows.rs,parser.rs,sei.rs}, bench/hevc-reference/decode.rs, scripts/{hevc_threading.py,hevc_dependency.py,hevc_row_dependency.py}, scripts/tests/*
Adds diagnostic counters and parser capture. Adds validation and analysis for header and row dependency traces, plus diagnostic and conformance commands and tests.
The native backend preserves queued validated frames before returning a terminal error. Workflows, scripts, tests, and design documents cover diagnostics, conformance, and native row decoding.
A newly added HEVC test may still overflow its stack and abort the conformance CI job. Run the test body on a thread with an explicit larger stack before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to f070a
Concurrent decoding of untrusted video changes when reference data becomes usable and how failures release resources. The examined paths preserve guarded reads and ordered output, but resource-limit and recovery coverage is incomplete. No specific introduced security defect was established.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated exposure is attacker-influenced video processing in the process hosting an enabled native decoder. Stream syntax influences reference selection and concurrent reconstruction work; the inspected change does not establish any new service identity or external authority. Application-level tenant sharing and deployment isolation remain unknown.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The security-relevant transition is from mutable, partially reconstructed reference state to consumer-visible samples. Identity and generation checks, separate motion and filtered frontiers, guarded reads, and bounded plane construction constrain that transition in the inspected path.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Decode errors settle and truncate output before session destruction. Scheduler failures remain terminal, outstanding publications are failed during teardown, and terminal-output ownership is moved rather than shared with a live backend. These controls limit exposure of speculative state after failure.
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scripts/hevc_decode.py: 1
275-282: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value
Missing frame_parallel_pictures is accepted silently, and one check is redundant.
Line 275 defaults a missing frame_parallel_pictures to 0. If the native decoder fails to emit the field, the frame-parallel coverage check passes without evidence. The native decode example emits the field at all supported call sites, so this is a small gap. The existing test suite covers the missing case only for the None value. Consider requiring the key when threads > 1 so that a dropped counter fails loudly.
The check on line 280 repeats the native_thread_counters reason used on line 277. It is correct and needs no change.
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Review comment at @scripts/hevc_decode.py around lines 275 - 282:
Update the `frame_parallel_pictures` lookup and `native_frame_thread_counters`
validation so that when `threads > 1`, a missing counter fails rather than
defaulting to zero; preserve existing validation for present values and avoid
changing the redundant `native_thread_counters` check.
scripts/hevc_threading.py: 1
82-95: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value
compare_conformance can raise KeyError or TypeError instead of a classified ValueError.
Line 94 reads row['summary']['decoded_pictures'] from each result. If a result entry is complete but lacks summary, the function raises KeyError. The passed and complete checks do not guarantee this shape for every row. compare_conformance is invoked directly from main(), which has no handler. The workflow step still fails, but without the thread_conformance_* reason code. Validate row.get('complete') is True and the presence of summary inside the require call.
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conformance.require(report.get('complete') is True and report.get('passed') is True
and report.get('scope') == 'complete_c1' and report.get('results')
+ and all(isinstance(row.get('summary'), dict) for row in report['results']),- ,
'thread_conformance_incomplete')
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Review comment at @scripts/hevc_threading.py around lines 82 - 95:
Update the validation in compare_conformance so the
thread_conformance_incomplete require rejects result rows that are not mappings,
are not complete, or lack a summary mapping before decoded_pictures is accessed.
Preserve the existing report-level checks and ensure malformed rows produce the
classified conformance error instead of KeyError or TypeError.
The test is correct, but add a check that the damaged case really fails with a reconstruction error.
The test asserts only that the error is not input_read and that the error is the same for all thread counts. It does not name the expected error. A future regression that fails earlier with a different error would still pass if all thread counts agree.
Assert the concrete expected variant, for example Error::InvalidData(..) from the truncated PCM NAL.
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Review comment at @crates/coreav-hevc/examples/decode.rs around lines 104 - 166:
Update scheduled_input_read_errors_preserve_earlier_reconstruction_failures to
assert that the damaged input returns the concrete reconstruction error expected
from the truncated PCM NAL, such as the appropriate Error::InvalidData variant
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Review comments at @crates/coreav-hevc/src/decoder.rs:
- Around line 1260-1335: The test body in
skipped_picture_scratch_preserves_cold_rbsp_and_entry_limits_with_idle_workers
exceeds the default test-thread stack because it constructs large StreamCore
values. Run the body on a thread with an explicitly larger stack, moving the
existing test logic into a helper if needed, and preserve propagation of both
its Result and any thread panic.
Review comments at @crates/coreav-hevc/src/dpb.rs:
- Around line 380-387: Update the lookup in `share` to select the real reference
picture rather than a generated placeholder: exclude generated pictures and
match both `identity.index` and `identity.poc`. Add a scheduled regression
covering a CRA picture that generates a foll reference, followed by a RADL
picture that uses the CRA picture.
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Review comments at @crates/coreav-hevc/examples/decode.rs:
- Around line 104-166: Update
scheduled_input_read_errors_preserve_earlier_reconstruction_failures to assert
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the truncated PCM NAL, such as the appropriate Error::InvalidData variant and
payload. Keep the existing checks that the result is not input_read and remains
consistent across thread counts.
Review comments at @scripts/hevc_decode.py:
- Around line 275-282: Update the `frame_parallel_pictures` lookup and
`native_frame_thread_counters` validation so that when `threads > 1`, a missing
counter fails rather than defaulting to zero; preserve existing validation for
present values and avoid changing the redundant `native_thread_counters` check.
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- Around line 82-95: Update the validation in compare_conformance so the
thread_conformance_incomplete require rejects result rows that are not mappings,
are not complete, or lack a summary mapping before decoded_pictures is accessed.
Preserve the existing report-level checks and ensure malformed rows produce the
classified conformance error instead of KeyError or TypeError.
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crates/coreav-backend-hevc/src/lib.rs
crates/coreav-backend-hevc/src/tests.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/examples/common/decoded.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/examples/decode.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/src/decoder.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/src/decoder/scheduler.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/src/decoder/scheduler_tests.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/src/dpb.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/src/parser.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/src/reconstruction.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/src/reconstruction/parallel.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/src/reconstruction/syntax.rs
crates/coreav-hevc/src/tests.rs
docs/agents/codecs.md
docs/agents/measurement.md
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Review: blocking at c9ffe05e83fdf05d92edb19551fffcede98bdc47 (production code reviewed at 25a3e061; the delta to c9ffe05e is the cfg(test) fixture split only, which I read).
The scheduling design holds up. I found no production defect, but one load-bearing ordering guard has no test, and a mutation that removes it produces a real divergence from serial output.
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1. The output-bump predictor is the only thing keeping the serial output prefix, and nothing tests it. See crates/coreav-hevc/src/dpb.rs:361 (picture_outputs) and its caller before_picture at crates/coreav-hevc/src/decoder.rs:628. output() at decoder.rs:966 drains only through the emitted picture's index, so a bump triggered by a later header is safe for samples. It is not safe for ordering: an in-flight job with a larger coded index can still fail after the earlier picture has been emitted. Making picture_outputs return false leaves all 277 library tests green, and so does removing it together with the output drain-through.
Here is a concrete case built from the existing stream(false) fixture (reorder 3, DPB 4): I0, then P1, P2 and P3 each referencing I0, with P1's slice data truncated. Serial decoding fails at P1 and emits nothing. Scheduled decoding without the predictor seals P1 as a job, and P3's header then bumps I0 (four pictures needed for output, reorder 3). It emits POC 0 and only reports P1's error afterwards: left: [0], right: []. At this head, with the predictor in place, the same test passes. Please add it, or an equivalent, so the guard is enforced:
A latency-driven variant (sps_max_latency_increase_plus1 != 0) would cover the other branch of the predictor cheaply.
Mutation results (the restored tree passes 277 tests, or 278 with the test above)
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Result
Drop the reference drains in required_references / references
10 tests fail
Drop the output drain-through in output()
all pass (redundant while the predictor is present)
picture_outputs always false
all pass; the new test fails (item 1)
resume_outputs always false
all pass
Remove reset_row
6 tests fail
Shrink the lower halo in reset_row
1 test fails
Drop the w·h·4 term in the job scratch reservation
all pass
Remove the SEI synchronization
1 test fails
Checked and fine
Reference readiness. Workers can't read an unfinished reference at all. Publication.samples is a OnceLock that only the caller sets, in drain, from a joined job's retain(), which requires complete() && filtered. Workers get samples.get() or an error. Since whole pictures are published after deblocking and SAO, row progress and MV, interpolation or chroma margins don't apply to this design. TMVP's collocated picture is in the RPS-derived set that is drained and pinned.
DPB lifetime. References are pinned by Arc and identified by (coded index, POC), so normative removal, POC reuse and no_output_of_prior_pics can't free or alias storage a job still reads. IRAP types 16–21 always synchronize first. Suppressed RASL and skipped pictures return before the scheduler. EOS and end of stream reconcile.
Entropy budget.Cabac::max_bins is an upper bound enforced by truncation, and a job is queued only when its bound fits both the stream and picture remainders. A job therefore can't hit cabac_bin_budget where serial wouldn't, and bin limits stay on the serial path.
Worker memory. Worker allocations stay inside their reservation by my count. Decode charges the frame heap, scratch and ranges. SAO copies one plane, at most 2·w·h bytes, which is under the 4·w·h term. Admission sums job reservations, the 2 MiB stacks and unpinned publications.
Workers and errors. Workers are min(requested, 16, available_parallelism) with the caller counted. WPP pictures synchronize and never nest. Panics are caught and mapped to Internal, the first error is latched in coded order, and Drop / with_threads join every handle.
No new unsafe, and PR text is clean. The diff adds no unsafe. Every commit is signed off with no co-author trailer. The PR text has no CoreAV-vs-FFmpeg figure.
Non-blocking
Conformance barely exercises picture jobs. Any SEI NAL that arrives while the scheduler holds input synchronizes at decoder.rs:923 and flushes that picture serially. That covers the previous picture's suffix MD5 and the next AU's prefix SEI. Most conformance streams carry MD5 SEI, so the 1/2/4/8 conformance identity check mostly exercises the synchronous path. Please report per-arm frame_parallel_pictures from compare-conformance and state in Evidence where frame-job identity actually comes from. Streams with per-AU SEI (picture timing, hashes) also get no picture overlap, which belongs in "Not covered".
resume_outputs looks dead. At decoder.rs:701, seal emits nothing, and every later bump goes through before_picture, reconcile or output(). Delete it, or give it a test that needs it.
The scratch term has no test. Small fixtures stay inside the 2 MiB stack term, so a test with a plane larger than 2 MiB and edge SAO in a scheduled picture would pin the w·h·4 term.
Teardown waits on running jobs. Dropping the decoder mid-stream blocks until running picture jobs finish, bounded only by the deadline, because there is no cancel flag. This is acceptable for whole-picture jobs and worth one line in the design note.
Pending: the head CI, conformance and reference run, and similarity. They don't change the item above.
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- Line 35: Update the session-drop description to state that workers check the
configured deadline cooperatively and that dropping a session can block until
they finish; do not imply the deadline interrupts `Scheduler::drop`’s worker
`join()` calls, and note that `DecodeLimits::default` sets the deadline to
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Review: no blocking issue at 8a1067d3664ccfd850d8f291d94c97e06ac43309. This is a delta review from c9ffe05e, covering e3de1411, 3014f881 and 8a1067d3.
The blocking item from my previous review is resolved. bump_after_failed_in_flight_job_keeps_serial_output_prefix is in the tree, and it fails when picture_outputs is forced to false.
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Informational SEI no longer synchronizes (decoder.rs:923). For an SEI without a picture hash, the old path did nothing observable: hash_reclaiming returned early and the skipped-picture counters added zero. The only effect it had was surfacing an earlier job error sooner, and the scheduled contract allows that error to be deferred. Returning early is equivalent.
Hash slot (queue_hash, Work::run). The hash is attached to the current picture's last queued slice and verified in slice order through the same hash_reclaiming → finalize_reclaiming path as serial. A misplaced or early hash therefore fails in the worker with the same error as serial: selected_picture_incomplete for an early hash, selected_picture_hash_placement for a duplicate. If a later header fails first, synchronize → flush replays the queued operations, hash included, so the earlier error still comes first. A second hash at the same position falls back to the reconciling path. Skipped pictures and pictures already flushed have no queued operations, so they keep the existing path. A later finalize on a frame the hash already finalized returns Ok(0), and retain still requires filtered. The hash work stays within the job reservation (one plane copy plus an in-place verify).
Generated-CRA lookup (Picture::matches_reference, dpb.rs). share() now uses the same predicate as reference(), so it can no longer pick a generated placeholder that shares the CRA's coded index. publication() and seal() already skipped generated entries.
Conformance coverage.compare-conformance now requires nonzero frame_parallel_pictures in the 2-, 4- and 8-thread arms and reports per-arm counts. That closes my earlier coverage note, since hashed conformance pictures now run as jobs.
Teardown. The note on cooperative deadlines and blocking teardown matches Scheduler::drop.
Mutations at this head (unmutated: 280 pass)
Mutation
Result
Worker skips the queued hash
2 tests fail
queue_hash overwrites a duplicate
1 test fails
picture_outputs always false
the new prefix test fails
share() looks up by index only
the new DPB test fails
queue_hash attaches to the first slice instead of the last
all pass
Non-blocking
No test schedules a multi-slice picture with a hash, so attaching the hash to the wrong slice goes undetected. In production that mistake would fail loudly as selected_picture_incomplete on multi-slice hashed streams, which the conformance arms now exercise. A two-slice picture with a trailing hash would pin it cheaply.
resume_outputs (decoder.rs:701) still looks redundant, as noted in my previous review.
Head CI was still pending when I reviewed, and the conformance, reference and similarity runs had not reported. This verdict covers the code only.
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Review: blocking at 53dba6d3f87649193f691c2b996cd4c23691b298. This is a design review of the "Deferred-output amendment" in docs/design/hevc-frame-threading.md only.
Scope note. The range 8a1067d3..53dba6d3 is not design-only. It also carries ad6c4f4c, cee68c4c, dd1a2aa0 and 9644f826: the diagnostics module and cfg, the capped entropy reservations, outcome stream-budget mapping, the sealing barrier, DPB constraint helpers, the SEI and parser hooks, and the workflows. No independent review covers those commits at this head, and this comment doesn't either.
The fence idea is right. Capturing the ordinal of all preceding submitted reconstruction, rather than just the output picture, is what the four-picture regression needs, and publishing only from the journal front keeps the order. The blocking gaps are in how that guarantee meets the backend's existing send/receive and limit contracts, in what the memory proofs can detect, and in what overlap the plan can deliver.
Blocking
1. The failure path drops frames the direct path delivers. The amendment says to reconcile, publish the journal prefix whose fences succeeded, and then choose the first error. But NativeDecoder::terminal_result calls fail(), which runs self.output.clear() (crates/coreav-backend-hevc/src/lib.rs), so anything published in the same call as the error is discarded.
Here is a case. A bump of E is triggered by N+1's header, and its fence N is still running. A caller that drains after every send gets Ok(None) from receive. It then sends N+2, whose header is malformed. The pipeline publishes E, returns the header error and clears the queue. Direct decoding pushed E during N+1's send, so that caller had already received it before the error.
The design needs two things:
An equivalence relation. Per-call receive timing necessarily differs, so define equality as the concatenated frames receive returns plus the terminal result, for every caller loop. State that explicitly.
A failure path that keeps published frames receivable. Records published during error reconciliation must stay receivable before the terminal error is reported, for example through a failed-draining state. The proof list needs a drain-after-every-send consumer that hits a header error, a framing error and a sink error while a satisfied record is still unpublished.
2. Deferred records can trip the backend output budget where direct decoding doesn't. Prepared slots count toward max_pending_bytes (in output.rs). Under direct decoding, the caller's receive between two events releases E1 before E2 is pushed. In the pipeline the same receive returns None, because E1 is prepared but not ready, so E2's prepare sees E1 and E2 together. With a one-frame pending budget and a drain-after-every-send caller, the pipeline returns "pending HEVC frames exceed the output budget" where direct decoding succeeds.
Reconciling doesn't help, because publishing doesn't reduce pending; only the caller's receive does. "Choose the direct path before optional work is queued" is the right direction, but the design needs the exact admission invariant: defer a record only while the published, deferred and journal-bound bytes, plus one more frame, fit the pending budget. It must also say how the switch back to direct happens without a spurious refusal.
The cumulative max_decoded_bytes charge must also be taken at prepare, not at publish, so its error position stays exact. Add tests with one- and two-frame pending budgets and a decoded-bytes budget that ends mid-journal.
3. The cold-admission mutations as written cannot catch omitted charges. "Compare both return values and the valid output prefix" at independent cold boundaries detects nothing when the pipeline under-accounts. The pipeline admits or falls back based on its own accounting, so at the serial boundary it returns the same result, while physical memory exceeds the limit unseen. That covers the mutations for omitted pins, uncharged transient packing capacity, early slot reuse and publication-time allocation.
The proof needs an allocator-observed bound: a counting global allocator in a dedicated test binary, so parallel tests don't interfere. It should assert that peak live bytes stay at or below the accounted peak, which stays at or below max_memory_bytes, across the pending-job and prepared-slot crossings. Each listed mutation must be shown failing that assertion, not just the return-value comparison.
4. Measure the overlap ceiling before building the journal. The corrected diagnostic attributes 648 of 864 pictures to output reorder but only 15 to unavailable references. Barriers are counted where a drain happens, and the output drain fires first, so the reference count is censored: it says nothing about how wide the reference graph is once outputs stop draining. The complete-reference rule stays, so immediate-predecessor chains still wait.
Many reorder>0 streams have usable width. In B-pyramid or I-P-B-B structures, P(n+1) needs only P(n) and can overlap that P's B pictures. But this roster's actual width is unknown. Per the crew's ceiling rule, compute it from headers alone before implementation. For each of the 30 inputs, replay the RPS (StCurrBefore, StCurrAfter, LtCurr) with output deferral and a 4-worker window, and report the reachable overlap per input. If it is near zero, the journal buys nothing on these inputs and the next lever is row-level reference publication instead.
Bridge (your conditions)
No existing PictureDecoder method or cold-admission change: the design states this, and nothing in it contradicts it.
Off in the default build and every published feature set: this holds today. release-default and release-full exclude native-hevc, and only the CLI's opt-in native-hevc pulls in coreav-backend-hevc. Please enforce it with a CI check that the bridge feature is absent from cargo tree -e features for the default, release-default and release-full CLI builds.
"Nothing outside the workspace can reach it without naming that feature": this cannot hold literally. Cargo has no workspace-only features, and features unify. In any build where coreav-backend-hevc/native-hevc is enabled, every crate in the graph sees the bridge without naming it, and a git dependent can name the feature directly. The practical containment is that every crate is publish = false, plus #[doc(hidden)], a __-prefixed module name and an explicit no-stability note. Please decide whether that wording is acceptable, or require the stricter form.
Non-blocking
Make NativeOutput::publish infallible. Do every validation, allocation and limit check in prepare. A fallible publish runs after later NALs and so can only report its error late; "an earlier sink failure wins" then depends on a reconciliation pass rather than holding by construction.
Add a fence mutation that advances on physical completion. Use a job that finishes physically but fails at reconciliation (the stream-budget mapping in drain is one such case). The output-picture-only mutation doesn't cover it.
"Reconfiguration joins work without publishing unresolved results" is ambiguous. It must keep the journal records and fences, not discard them. Otherwise with_threads mid-stream loses outputs that direct decoding delivers.
Report the next barriers. Once outputs stop synchronizing, expect reference_unavailable and window_full to dominate. The diagnostic should report them alongside the ordinary per-input overlap counts.
Verdict: hold implementation until item 4's ceiling is measured. Items 1–3 must be specified in the design before code is written.
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Review: no blocking issue at 9644f82 (delta from 8a1067d, which I cleared earlier). The current head 53dba6d adds only the design amendment on top. That amendment's four blockers, posted in my earlier comment, still stand, and this verdict does not cover them.
Scope read:ad6c4f4 (diagnostics), cee68c4 (reservation cap), dd1a2aa (CLI probe isolation), 9644f82 (sealing-barrier counter). I read every production hunk in scheduler.rs, dpb.rs, decoder.rs, parser.rs, sei.rs, lib.rs and thread_diagnostics.rs, the bench hook, the Cargo.toml lint line, and the workflow and script changes.
Diagnostics are off in normal builds.thread_diagnostic! expands to a #[cfg(hevc_thread_diagnostics)] statement. The module, Scheduler::has_work and the decoder/parser/SEI counter blocks all sit behind the same rustc cfg. A cfg is not a Cargo feature, so no dependent can turn it on, and the default and published feature sets are unchanged. The Cargo.toml line only registers it with check-cfg. The counters are thread-local, so concurrent tests do not pollute each other. No unsafe was added. All four commits are signed off with no co-author trailer.
Non-diagnostic behaviour changes, all checked:
scheduler.rs:579-588: the reservation is now min(entropy bound, picture_remaining - bound), and the separate picture-budget refusal is gone. Every job's budget equals the picture's remaining hard limit or a true upper bound on its work, so a job fails exactly where serial does. The stream check still refuses a reservation that does not fit.
scheduler.rs:225-234, 497, 727, 753: Outcome::result maps cabac_bin_budget to stream_cabac_bin_budget when the stream allowance is used up. It is now applied on drain and on the reserve-failure path as well as on forced flush.
dpb.rs:359-394, 1127-1143: resume_outputs, picture_outputs and must_bump now evaluate a constraint array with any. The predicates are identical and cannot panic, so dropping short-circuit evaluation is harmless.
Local run (macOS arm64, one build slot): 281 ordinary and 284 diagnostic-cfg HEVC lib tests pass. Mutations:
Mutation
Result
Remove the picture cap (.min(...))
caught by the picture-budget sweep and the cold entropy boundary test
Restore the pre-cee68c4c refusal
caught by the overlap assertion (picture_budget_caps_...:298)
Drop the stream-limit mapping in drain (scheduler.rs:497)
caught by both budget tests
Swap reorder/latency labels at picture sealing (decoder.rs:722)
caught by diagnostics_count_output_bumps_that_reconcile_at_picture_sealing (diagnostic cfg)
Drop the stream-limit mapping on the reserve-failure path (scheduler.rs:753)
not caught
resume_outputs ignores the latency constraint (dpb.rs:360)
not caught
Non-blocking:
The scheduler.rs:753 mapping runs only when jobs.try_reserve_exact(1) fails, and no test injects that failure. Its result matches drain by construction, but nothing pins it. The existing AdmissionFault hook could cover it cheaply.
Nothing exercises the latency arm of bump_constraints, whether in production resume_outputs or in the diagnostic OutputLatency count. The gap existed at 8a1067d too, because the refactor kept the semantics. A max_latency_increase_plus1 != 0 fixture would close it.
No CI job runs cargo test with --cfg hevc_thread_diagnostics. The diagnostic workflow only builds the example, so the two cfg-gated scheduler tests and the counter unit test (and the mutation-tested sealing hook) run only on a developer machine. A one-line lib-test step in an existing HEVC job would keep them live.
Still open from my 8a1067d review: no multi-slice hashed-picture test, and resume_outputs looks redundant with the sealing path.
Not verified by me: the Actions diagnostic and conformance figures quoted in the PR (they need R2 media and Actions). CI was not used, because of the known oracle outage. The PR text has no public CoreAV-vs-FFmpeg figure.
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Design ruling: pending-budget boundary for the deferred-output journal (design at 53dba6d and 9eeaa99; this is not a code review)
CORE-663's counterexample is valid. Under a two-frame max_pending_bytes budget, the sequence send, receive, send, send ends with serial holding E2 and E3 and the pipeline holding E1, E2 and E3. Joining or publishing at the later sends cannot fix that, because only the caller's receive releases a frame. A one-extra-frame guard therefore cannot be sufficient. The divergence starts at the receive that returned None, so that call is where the rule has to apply.
Ruling 1: reconstruction may be deferred, visibility may not. The design must state this invariant:
At the return of every send_packet, send_eof and receive_frame, up to the first error in serial order, the native HEVC pipeline has delivered the same frames as the serial decoder driven by the same call sequence. It also holds the same number of frames, with the same bytes, counted against max_pending_bytes and max_decoded_bytes.
This yields three concrete rules:
Charge each slot at its normative output event. The caller thread detects every output event at the same call as serial, because parsing and DPB transitions stay on the caller. At that event the pipeline prepares and charges the slot's full packed size, exactly where serial's push charges it. A budget Limit therefore fires at the same call in both modes. That event is the only place the pending and decoded budgets are charged; publication fills an already charged slot.
receive_frame returns Some exactly when serial would. Before EOF, if any output event has not yet been received, receive_frame blocks until the front record's fence (all reconstruction submitted before that event) is joined. It then publishes the record and returns it. It returns None only when no output event is outstanding, which is also when serial returns None. If that fence fails, receive_frame returns the serial first error.
Every refusal reconciles the causal prefix before reporting. Any refusal from the pipeline (a pending, decoded or memory Limit, or a journal-bound hit) joins the causal prefix first. An earlier reconstruction failure wins. This is the existing first-error-in-serial-order rule, restated so that it explicitly covers sends the pipeline accepted after a failure serial would already have reported.
Your leaning, "deferral is opportunistic and degrades to serial for that step instead of refusing", is accepted as the general principle. I'm replacing its trigger. The pipeline doesn't compare held frames at the next send. Rules 1 and 2 keep the counts equal at every call boundary, so pending frames never diverge and no separate frame guard is needed. Degrading to serial still applies to everything else the pipeline retains (pins, scratch, journal metadata, worker stacks). That is charged against max_memory_bytes under the existing cold-admission rule.
Ruling 2: receive_frame returning None where serial returns a frame is not acceptable, even for callers that receive once per send.
The Decoder trait does allow None before EOF "when no frame is ready". Native HEVC deliberately promises more, because the cold-admission proof and the equivalence (concatenated frames plus the terminal result) depend on it.
The counterexample changes the terminal result, from success to a pending Limit, so it already breaks that equivalence.
The debt is not limited to receive-once callers. A receive-until-None loop also ends early on the first premature None, and the debt can build up across sends before a later drain repays it.
Letting the pipeline exceed the limit by its withheld frames would weaken max_pending_bytes, which the design already rules out.
Error timing. The pipeline may report a deferred reconstruction failure at a later call than serial does. That is the existing scheduled-input behaviour, and terminal-result equivalence permits it. It is consistent only if blocker 1 of my 53dba6d review is resolved as "frames whose output event precedes the first failure stay receivable, then the terminal error", in both modes. If the backend's fail() keeps clearing the queue, the serial reference loses those frames. The pipeline would then have to join all outstanding work on every receive, and no overlap would survive. The design should state that blocker 1 is resolved this way.
What this costs the ceiling. The 122/672 model ignores output barriers, so it is an upper bound that rule 2 will lower. Take a caller that receives until None after each send, with an output bump at the slice header of picture n+1 (C.5.2.2). The receive joins pictures up to n, while picture n+1, submitted in the same send, keeps running. For that caller, about two pictures in flight is the realistic peak, not three. Before implementing, rerun the header-only model once with this barrier. That means a receive-until-None schedule in which every output event's receive joins all earlier submitted pictures. Pursue the journal only if d11/d15/d19 and c00 to c02 still show useful overlap. This is cheap and needs no media beyond the existing run.
Required tests (implementation):
Per-call differential against serial. Use generated streams that include CORE-663's two-frame counterexample and a reorder stream. Run every call schedule over {send, receive, eof} up to a small length, crossed with pending and decoded budgets at each frame boundary ±1. Compare each call's result: Some frame identity, None, error kind, and the retained bytes after the call. The only permitted difference is a deferred reconstruction error reported later, and in that window the pipeline may return only frames serial also delivers.
Mutations that must fail:receive_frame returns None while the front fence is pending; a slot is charged at publication instead of at its event; the fence is narrowed to the output picture alone (the existing early-output regression).
The four blockers from my 53dba6d review are unchanged. This ruling settles the boundary that blocker 2 left open.
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- Line 73: Separate the observable returned-frame contract from internal
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Review: no blocking issue: final delta bf7b2a21..14008baa
Scope: this review covers only the rebase identity and the new commit 14008baa ("fix(hevc): reclaim records with row epoch changes"). Every commit is signed off and none has a co-author trailer. It is not a merge-readiness review.
The rebase onto 68cbc803 (main with #537, #532 and #536) is an identity apart from one resolved file.git range-diff 1833cfff..bf7b2a21 68cbc803..5b22fd96 shows 5 of 6 commits as =. A per-file patch-id comparison over all 59 touched files matches everywhere except reconstruction/inter.rs. In that file, all 105 lines that #536 added are still present verbatim at 14008baa, including comparison_prediction_is_only_populated_for_nondefault_components and the nondefault guard. The only resolution change is that #536's test Walker now passes rows: SampleRows::full().
14008baa: no finding. Retirement and plan replacement now go through Scheduler::retire_rows and Scheduler::replace_row_plan. Both refuse while jobs are queued, and retire_rows also refuses while pending records remain, returning row_retirement or row_job_storage. Before this commit, those cases silently dropped the owner. The zero-lag replacement releases the pending and job capacity, and retirement releases the jobs. Mutation results:
Removing the zero-lag block in replace_row_plan: only zero_lag_and_retirement_release_optional_record_capacities fails.
Removing only release_row_jobs() in that block: the same test fails.
Removing release_row_jobs() in retire_rows: the same test fails.
Disabling the new row_retirement guard: the suite still passes. That is expected, because the guard is defensive and no current path reaches it.
What I ran at 14008baa, on macOS arm64 with rustc 1.99.1:
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Scope: this covers only the one signed commit d1b4cf01 ("test(hevc): exercise native row evidence"), which has no co-author trailer, and the three questions you asked. It is not a merge-readiness review.
B1: legacy complete-reference overlap can be credited as native row work.
frame_parallel_pictures cannot tell the two modes apart. Work::run sets overlap whenever another job is active (scheduler.rs, around line 410), for PictureWork::Whole and PictureWork::Raster alike. drain then adds it to the same counter (around line 857). Legacy jobs, whether rows is None or the plan is zero-lag and shares complete references through dpb.share, therefore add to the same number that row-mode jobs do.
In native_conformance, the gate native_rows_real_coverage_missing counts admitted_streams and overlap_streams separately across the whole set. So one stream that was admitted but never overlapped, plus a different stream whose overlap was entirely legacy (never admitted, for example WPP, tiles or a refused SPS), passes the gate for 2, 4 and 8 threads. The same thing happens inside one stream when it is admitted for one SPS and overlaps in legacy mode after retiring or after an ordered refusal.
native_rows_admission_bound accepts lag == 0. That is the zero-lag plan that only carries old debt, and it is recorded as an admission like any other.
In measure_native, the timed candidate_4 and candidate_0 arms copy admissions and frame_parallel_pictures into the receipt but never require them. A timing whose overlap was entirely legacy is still labelled "real native packet boundary".
Suggested fix:
Add a separate counter for overlap under a positive-lag row plan, for example incremented only for jobs whose references went through share_rows, and emit it from the driver.
Make coverage a per-stream conjunction: an admission with lag >= 1 and a nonzero row overlap in the same stream.
Either gate or explicitly label timed arms that have no row overlap.
This finding comes from reading the code. I did not reproduce it on corpus media.
Timings consume verified work without hashing: no finding. In decode mode the driver still drains every frame through receive_frame and black_box, so packing is included, and it skips the MD5. native_receipt(check=False) requires output_md5 and output_bytes to be null and the output to be exactly one summary record. Each timed candidate's pictures, decoded_pictures, bins and semantic must equal those of the checked run at the same head, which in turn must match the oracle's frames and MD5 through reference.verify.
Failed or incomplete runs cannot report success: no finding.
The driver writes complete: true only after EOF, after the backend check, and once the summary receipt is present and has not overflowed. Any error exits non-zero with a refusal on stderr. When the backend runs out of process, the thread-local receipt is missing and the run fails closed.
native_receipt requires the last record to be a complete summary.
native_conformance sets complete and passed only after every gate holds, and an exception propagates out.
native_reference returns 0 only when complete and passed are both true.
One minor note: when the failing file is the last one in its shard, results.json carries complete: true, passed: false and the exit code is 1. Consumers have to read passed.
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106-106: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
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Pass matrix.shard and inputs.only through env, not template expansion.
Line 106 expands ${{ matrix.shard }} and ${{ inputs.only != '' && 1 || 3 }} directly into the shell script. matrix.shard comes from a controlled JSON list, and the count expression yields only 1 or 3. Practical injection risk is therefore low. The step already passes ONLY and FRAMES through env, so using env here as well keeps the step consistent and removes the zizmor warning.
Add SHARD and SHARD_COUNT to this step's existing env block, which already holds the R2 variables.
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Review: no blocking issue: delta d1b4cf01..8a3f938c, which addresses B1 (native row overlap credit)
Scope: this covers only the one signed commit 8a3f938c ("test(hevc): distinguish native row overlap"), which has no co-author trailer. It is not a merge-readiness review.
B1 is cleared.
row_overlap is set only when the job was tagged row_mode at queue time (rows.plan.lag > 0), its outcome is PictureOutcome::Raster, and overlap was observed. Caller-run run_current Whole jobs are always tagged row_mode: false.
The count lives in a test-support thread-local. The decoder's ordinary layouts change only under cfg(test-support). The driver treats a missing or overflowed count as overflow and refuses.
native_receipt requires row_parallel_pictures <= frame_parallel_pictures, and rejects any row overlap that has no admission with lag > 0.
Coverage is now a per-stream conjunction: row_overlap_streams counts streams that have both an admission with lag > 0 and row_parallel_pictures > 0. Every timed native call carries row_overlap.
Mutations at 8a3f938c:
Replacing row_overlap with the generic overlap: only row_overlap_evidence_excludes_complete_reference_jobs fails.
Setting row_mode = false: only dependent_raster_job_reads_a_building_predecessor_before_its_first_publication fails.
Restoring the old disjoint coverage predicate: test_separate_admission_and_legacy_overlap_cannot_establish_row_coverage and the complete-conformance control fail.
Removing the positive-lag requirement on row overlap: test_counter_types_admission_bytes_and_timed_hashing_fail_closed fails.
Note (non-blocking): one mutation survives, and it is very likely equivalent. Widening the tag to row_mode = self.rows().is_some() (counting lag 0 too) passes every test. Under a zero-lag plan, the row job storage is released to capacity 0 while bounded is true, so no Raster job can be queued in that state, and the per-stream gate still requires an admission with lag > 0. A second, smaller point: a Raster row job can also be credited when the job it overlapped is a caller-run forced-flush picture. That picture still reads its references through share_rows under the positive-lag plan, so the credited picture is genuine row work.
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107-107: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Pass matrix.shard and the shard count through env, not through template expansion.
Line 107 expands ${{ matrix.shard }} and ${{ inputs.only != '' && 1 || 3 }} directly into the shell script. inputs.only is also a workflow_dispatch string. The expression here yields only 1 or 3, so injection is not practical today. The pattern is still fragile, because a later edit can add an attacker-controlled value to the same line. The file already passes CANDIDATE, ONLY and FRAMES through env. Do the same for these two values.
Add the env entries beside the existing R2_* entries in the same step.
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- Line 107: Update the workflow step that invokes the sharding command to pass
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Review: no blocking issue: integration delta 8a3f938c..f7d88d10 (merging main ba38f93e, which includes #538)
Scope: this covers only the signed merge commit f7d88d10 ("chore(hevc): integrate neighbour cache"), which has parents 8a3f938c and ba38f93e and no co-author trailer. Its tree e13bc852 matches the original 3769af28, so only the commit subject changed. This is not an overall readiness review.
What the merge contains.git diff 8a3f938c f7d88d10 touches only reconstruction/syntax.rs and docs/design/hevc-intra.md, which is #538's own footprint. git merge-tree 8a3f938c ba38f93e reports one conflict, in Walker::references. The only differences between the committed tree and the automatic merge are that conflict hunk and the two new #538Walker fixtures, which now pass rows: SampleRows::full().
The resolution is correct. It keeps all of main's logic: the per-4×4-cell availability cache, nx * scale < luma_width && ny * scale < luma_height, and the reconstructed-bit and constrained_intra predicate through self.neighbour. The only change is that the sample read goes through self.rows.sample(&self.frame.planes, block.component, width, nx, ny), which is the branch's windowed read with the unfiltered top border. As a mutation, I restored main's direct read plane.get(ny * width + nx). That fails private_row_intra_reads_use_unfiltered_top_border_and_local_cells and raster_intra_top_border_precedes_vertical_deblocking, and passes again once reverted.
The same command with --cfg hevc_thread_diagnostics: 323 + 18 passed.
Your 311 and 324 include the test-support-only row-overlap test, which this feature set leaves out. I did not rerun the kernels, decode, example, Python or Clippy suites, and I did not look at the Actions runs.
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Review: no blocking issue: integration delta f7d88d10..f070a441 (merging main 3951933e, which includes #539)
Scope: this covers only the signed merge commit f070a441 ("chore(hevc): integrate shared row scratch"), which has parents f7d88d10 and 3951933e and no co-author trailer. This is not a final readiness review.
What the merge contains. The files it touches match #539's own footprint: reconstruction/inter.rs, the kernel crate's inter.rs, inter_tests.rs and lib.rs, and the design note. Compared with git merge-tree f7d88d10 3951933e, the committed tree differs in two places:
reconstruction/inter.rs (the one conflict). It keeps the branch's config and reference construction, including the scoped support, read_reference and guard plane, and the diagnostic read observer. It then calls kernels::interpolate_inter_with_rows(config, reference, RectMut…, &mut walker.frame.scratch.residual), with the same residual buffer that main's own call site passes.
The kernel crate's inter.rs tests only. The seven private interpolate calls in the support and diagnostic tests gain the None row-storage argument. The prefix-reference test now runs with both owned and borrowed (pre-dirtied i32::MIN) rings, and requires row_storage to be unchanged after an Error::Buffer refusal on an unpublished row.
The public signatures interpolate_inter (three arguments), interpolate_inter_with_rows (four arguments, using the first 512 samples) and interpolate_inter_scalar are as on main. The private interpolate checks every support row's samples before it touches the ring, which is why the refusal leaves the ring unchanged.
cargo test -p coreav-kernels-hevc --features native-hevc --lib: 52 passed.
The same with native-hevc,scalar: 52 passed.
The same with --cfg hevc_thread_diagnostics: 53 passed.
I did not rerun the decode, example, Python or Clippy suites. I did not look at the Actions runs, or at the 24-input reference figures, which were measured at 8a3f938c before this integration.
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Independent final-gate evidence check of the 8a3f938c records, scoped to evidence metadata and labelling only. This is not a readiness verdict and I did not reread the implementation.
Reference (run 42538858547, three shards). Every shard is complete: true and passed: true, names candidate 8a3f938c6dc53fb29691f5b2d34850e98229489f, and uses the same native binary hash and pinned oracle. Recomputed from the per-call records, the shards cover 24 distinct inputs and 672 pictures, with 600 measured calls (5 arms, 5 repeats each) and 120 warmups. Every per-input median, every ratio and every row count in summary.json matches the raw calls with no discrepancies. The aggregates reproduce exactly:
auto/1T median 0.7177649 (4T/1T 0.7137);
row-overlap subset median 0.5569540, range 0.4758 to 0.6603;
no-row subset median 0.9963015;
auto/default-FFmpeg median 5.493847, with only c02 below 1.0;
auto/FFmpeg-1T median 4.0302, again only c02 below 1.0.
The row and no-row split is clean. All 12 row inputs have positive row jobs in all 10 of their 4T and automatic calls, and the other 12 have none. The row_overlap flag matches row_parallel_pictures > 0 on all 240 native parallel calls, and no call has row jobs exceeding frame-parallel pictures. One observation that does not block: 11 of the 12 no-row inputs report max_workers 1 and zero frame-parallel pictures in every parallel call, even with a lag-3 admission. Only c02 used 3 workers, which accounts for its 0.775. So "effectively flat" is accurate, but those 11 inputs are effectively serial controls. Shard 2 ran on an EPYC 9V74 and the other two on 9V45 hosts. The comparisons are paired within each host, and the drive report discloses the mix.
C1.complete/passed are true across 144 streams. Every arm (1/2/4/8/auto) has 8,227 decoded and 8,195 output pictures, and the semantic summaries agree across arms in all 144 streams. Row overlap appears in 56 streams: 2,244 row jobs at 2T and 2,355 at 4T/8T/auto, with every one of those streams also having a lag>0 admission. No arm has row jobs exceeding frame-parallel pictures. Peak memory_bytes is 653,757,708 against an 8 GiB limit. result.json has no head field of its own. Its link to 8a3f938c is the native hash e5a19d95…, which matches the reference shards from the same run. That is adequate, though indirect.
TSan. The log checks out 8a3f938c. It contains 40 test result: ok summaries: 20 rounds of the wavefront group (13 tests) and 20 of the scheduler group (22 tests). It has no ThreadSanitizer warnings, failures or panics. The dependent-row and forced-capacity-mismatch witnesses each print twice per round, once from cargo and once from the workflow's grep -F confirmation, so 40 lines each. The session-synchronization test also prints 40 lines, but for a different reason: the wavefront filter also selects it, so it runs in both groups.
Labelling against head f070a441. The design doc has protocol text only and no figures. The PR body ties the C1, TSan and reference figures to 8a3f938c "before the neighbour-cache integration" and states that the integrated head needs its own verification. That is accurate, because 8a3f938c also predates the #539 row-scratch integration. Adding "and row-scratch" there would be clearer, but it is not a blocker.
Gap that blocks a final verdict. In the Evidence section, the paragraph about the 8a3f938c preflight says "Exact-head similarity against the main allowlist passes: 112 spans…". That reads as the similarity result for 8a3f938c, and it is stale for f070a441. The body also says nothing yet about the exact-head C1/TSan or the eight-picture preflight. Once runs 42544942801, 42544945729 and 42544949055 pass, the body must name f070a441 with those results, replace "requires its own complete verification", and keep the 24-input timings marked as 8a3f938c-only. I found no other gaps.
Final readiness verdict at f070a441fb083d8d9e162ec2533ad6bb868c5519: ready, no blocking issues. This verdict rests on my earlier implementation and delta clearances, the last of which covered f7d88d10..f070a441 (comment 6729997278). This pass checked only the final gates and how the evidence is presented.
Gates. GitHub reports the PR head as f070a441. The rollup is 65 success, 0 pending, 0 failures. Mergeable state is clean against main. The CodeRabbit review is APPROVED, and no review thread is open. Runs 42544942801 (complete C1 and TSan) and 42544945729 (preflight) are completed/success, and both have head_shaf070a441.
C1 (recomputed from native-c1-f070/result.json). The result is complete/passed across 144 streams. Every arm (1/2/4/8/auto) has 8,195 output and 8,227 decoded pictures, and the semantic summaries are equal across arms in all 144 streams. Row overlap appears in 56 streams, each with a lag>0 admission, at 2,226/2,355/2,356/2,355 row jobs for 2T/4T/8T/auto. No arm has row jobs exceeding frame-parallel pictures. Peak memory_bytes is 653,757,708 against an 8 GiB limit. The native hash 9cd24ec9… equals the preflight report's, and that report names candidate f070a441. The reference hash b420c795… equals the sha256 of private/threads-1/result.json, which I streamed from the retained records.tgz without extracting anything. The 40,975 frame receipts equal 8,195 × 5. I did not recount the receipts themselves.
Preflight. The report is complete/passed at f070a441 on four inputs of 8 pictures each, with 5 calls per arm and 5 warmups. Every 4T and auto call reports 4 workers and 8 row jobs on d11, and 4 workers and 7 row jobs on c00. The 10-bit controls d23 and c03 report 1 worker and zero row jobs despite a lag-3 admission. The 1T arm reports zero row jobs everywhere.
TSan. The log checks out f070a44. It has 20 ok summaries for the 13-test group and 20 for the 22-test group, with no ThreadSanitizer warnings, failures or panics. The dependent-row and capacity-mismatch witnesses each print 40 lines, which is 20 rounds times 2 because the workflow's grep -F echoes each one.
Similarity. The log checks out f070a441 and reports 112 spans of 50+ tokens, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems and 0 stale entries. Run 42544949055 is not readable from the public API, so this rests on the retained log.
Body. The body now binds C1, TSan, the preflight and similarity to f070a441. It no longer contains pending-verification wording. It marks the 24-input timings and the earlier C1 as 8a3f938c, "before the neighbour-cache and row-scratch integrations", and says they are not timings of the integrated head. The gap I raised in comment 6730071293 is closed. The figures match the records.
The design doc carries protocol text only. Merging is the owner's call.
This verdict rests on my earlier implementation and delta clearances, the last of which covered f7d88d10..f070a441 (comment 6729997278). This pass checked only the final gates and how the evidence is presented.
Gates. GitHub reports the PR head as f070a441. The rollup is 65 success, 0 pending, 0 failures. Mergeable state is clean against main. The CodeRabbit review is APPROVED, and no review thread is open. Runs 42544942801 (complete C1 and TSan) and 42544945729 (preflight) are completed/success, and both have head_shaf070a441.
C1 (recomputed from native-c1-f070/result.json). The result is complete/passed across 144 streams. Every arm (1/2/4/8/auto) has 8,195 output and 8,227 decoded pictures, and the semantic summaries are equal across arms in all 144 streams. Row overlap appears in 56 streams, each with a lag>0 admission, at 2,226/2,355/2,356/2,355 row jobs for 2T/4T/8T/auto. No arm has row jobs exceeding frame-parallel pictures. Peak memory_bytes is 653,757,708 against an 8 GiB limit. The native hash 9cd24ec9… equals the preflight report's, and that report names candidate f070a441. The reference hash b420c795… equals the sha256 of private/threads-1/result.json, which I streamed from the retained records.tgz without extracting anything. The 40,975 frame receipts equal 8,195 × 5. I did not recount the receipts themselves.
Preflight. The report is complete/passed at f070a441 on four inputs of 8 pictures each, with 5 calls per arm and 5 warmups. Every 4T and auto call reports 4 workers and 8 row jobs on d11, and 4 workers and 7 row jobs on c00. The 10-bit controls d23 and c03 report 1 worker and zero row jobs despite a lag-3 admission. The 1T arm reports zero row jobs everywhere.
TSan. The log checks out f070a44. It has 20 ok summaries for the 13-test group and 20 for the 22-test group, with no ThreadSanitizer warnings, failures or panics. The dependent-row and capacity-mismatch witnesses each print 40 lines, which is 20 rounds times 2 because the workflow's grep -F echoes each one.
Similarity. The log checks out f070a441 and reports 112 spans of 50+ tokens, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems and 0 stale entries. Run 42544949055 is not readable from the public API, so this rests on the retained log.
Body. The body now binds C1, TSan, the preflight and similarity to f070a441. It no longer contains pending-verification wording. It marks the 24-input timings and the earlier C1 as 8a3f938c, "before the neighbour-cache and row-scratch integrations", and says they are not timings of the integrated head. The gap I raised in comment 6730071293 is closed. The figures match the records.
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TL;DR
Background
Complete-reference and output barriers serialize many non-wavefront streams. Row publication lets a dependent job consume its predecessor's validated motion or fully filtered sample prefix without waiting for the whole picture.
What changes
After merging: None.
How it works
Decisions
Only the native backend selects the documentation-hidden workspace bridge. Existing closure-based decoder methods keep their current contracts. Row conversion moves backing without copying and returns an unchanged whole-picture fallback when its private band cannot fit the existing allowance. Separate motion and filtered frontiers, descending coded dependencies and scoped read guards prevent premature access. Filtering preserves next-band vertical deblocking, saved unfiltered intra borders and pre-SAO neighbours.
Lag is the largest fitting value below the effective worker count. Its checked envelope includes every permitted continuation under the active SPS: retained owners, full caller-pending allowance, queue and plane capacities, parser and slice scratch, owned sources, row storage, synchronization and stacks. Pending, job and output-ring storage is reserved at admission and charged at its observed capacity, without later growth. One-shot size predictions use runtime probes of the active geometry, observed input sizes and configured bounds; a mismatch selects legacy output rather than a compiler gate or panic. This qualifies the selected sizes on the current allocator, not arbitrary unseen future lengths, and real allocations still charge their observed capacities. Atomic wavefront work settles first, fits under the admitted envelope and releases its optional cache before row scheduling resumes.
A changed active SPS settles prior work and outputs before choosing a new envelope, reducing future lag through zero while retaining unavoidable old debt. Debt can migrate into larger frames, so its bound covers every old-prefix replacement order. If no positive lag initially fits, ordinary admission is unchanged. A later activation can refuse a stream serial decoding could accept only when its new envelope and unavoidable debt cannot fit even at zero future lag. It does so before current-picture allocation and preserves every prior output. An unused SPS is not an admission event.
Output preparation applies discard, frame, pending and cumulative decoded-byte checks at the normative event. Ordinal frontiers track virtual serial receives independently of physical pops, so a withheld frame is pipeline memory rather than caller-pending memory. Filling requires every earlier coded operation in the event's causal fence, not just the output picture. Successful receive polls do not harvest or join workers. Existing terminal-error teardown settles with the sink alive, truncates speculative output, joins and drops the live core; the checked wrapper can move only the validated packed queue and latched error without copying.
Evidence
Local verification after the neighbour-cache and shared-row-scratch integrations passes 311 ordinary and 324 diagnostic HEVC tests with evidence support enabled, 52/53 kernel tests, 18 backend tests plus the process-wide allocation integration test, decode 8/15 tests and three reference example tests. Strict targeted Clippy passes in both diagnostic modes; forced-scalar HEVC, kernel and backend tests and Clippy also pass. The 312 HEVC Python checks pass with seven skips. Formatting, workflow checks and the unsafe inventory pass. Both release graphs exclude the private HEVC bridges. A forced capacity-probe mismatch preserves legacy frames and semantic summaries; bypassing that failure branch breaks the regression. A direct ordinal-offset test rejects charging the physical front while earlier virtual receives remain withheld. Zero-lag replacement and retirement release optional record capacities; retaining either empty allocation breaks its direct capacity regression. The neighbour cache retains scoped row sampling; replacing it with a full-frame plane read fails the nonzero-window regression. Prefix interpolation checks both owned and borrowed row storage and preserves dirty scratch on unpublished-support refusal.
A generated dependent reader is held before its predecessor's first publication and proves two executing raster jobs with serial-identical samples and semantic counters. A normal receive leaves that blocked producer untouched. Reinstating the complete-reference barrier fails the test. A later coded CRC failure catches an own-picture-only fence that otherwise leaks a frame. All 64 short receive cadences run at 1/2/4/8 requested workers. Growth regressions cover zero future lag, debt retirement, an unused larger SPS, a successful zero-debt continuation and a reachable debt-bearing refusal whose exact prior-output prefix matches a successful one-worker decode. The existing depth, framing, discard, wrapper-refusal and terminal-prefix matrix remains covered.
The actual-native reference driver passes generated 8/10-bit output checks at 1/2/4/8/automatic workers, in both hash and consume-only modes. Its encrypted Actions reports bind per-frame output and semantic work to observed worker counts, accounted memory and runtime admission records. A separate counter records overlapping Raster jobs issued under positive lag; complete-reference jobs never count. Replacing it with generic picture overlap fails the generated control, and accepting different streams' admission and legacy overlap fails the conformance regression. Timed calls with no row overlap are labelled as such. Earlier complete-reference results, read traces and conditional schedule models do not establish the new native bridge's correctness or throughput.
Complete native C1 passes at the integrated head
f070a441fb083d8d9e162ec2533ad6bb868c5519: 144 streams, 8,227 decoded pictures and 8,195 identical output pictures at each of 1/2/4/8/automatic workers, including timestamps, typed colour, packing and semantic work. The retained 720 native calls contain 40,975 matching frame receipts. At four requested workers, 56 streams execute 2,355 overlapping positive-lag Raster jobs. The highest accounted memory is 653,757,708 bytes under the ordinary 8 GiB allowance. The C1 metadata binds the native binary hash to this head's selected-input report and the exact-head workflow checkout. Actual-row ThreadSanitizer stress passes twenty repetitions each of both scheduler groups, with successful dependent-row and capacity-mismatch witnesses in every scheduler repetition. Neither check is a throughput claim.The packet-boundary preflight at
f070a441fb083d8d9e162ec2533ad6bb868c5519matches the pinned oracle and semantic work at every worker count on four inputs, each with eight decoded and output pictures. Across all five measured calls, both row-overlap inputs report four observed workers and seven or eight overlapping row jobs at four/automatic workers. Both no-row controls report one observed worker and zero row jobs despite positive-lag admission. One-worker calls report no row jobs. This is a functional preflight, not a broad performance result. Similarity at this same integrated head against the main allowlist passes: 112 spans of 50 or more tokens, zero not allowlisted, zero problems and zero stale entries.The complete paired reference at
8a3f938c6dc53fb29691f5b2d34850e98229489f, before the neighbour-cache and row-scratch integrations, passes all 24 prepared inputs and 672 pictures, with five measured calls per arm. Automatic/native-one-thread wall-time ratio has a median of 0.7178; 12 inputs execute row jobs in every parallel call, while the 12 without row overlap are effectively flat. Automatic/default-FFmpeg ratio has a median of 5.4938, with only one of 24 input medians below 1.0. These are shared-host reference figures that include startup, framing, packing and teardown, not a claim of FFmpeg parity. They are not timings of the integrated head. The earlier complete C1 result also precedes both integrations and is superseded by the integrated-head correctness check above.Links: picture scheduling, integrated-head native C1 and ThreadSanitizer, integrated-head preflight, pre-integration paired references. Refs #22.
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