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TL;DR

• Reuse existing decoder workspace for temporary HEVC interpolation rows without adding storage or changing filtered samples.

Background

Each interpolation call creates a zeroed intermediate row ring, then overwrites every active horizontal result before reading it. The decoder already owns a residual buffer that is not live during prediction.

What changes

• Covered: an additive checked row-workspace entry point, the decoder call that borrows existing residual samples, and dirty-workspace, equation and rejection regressions.
• Not covered: new allocations, frame or worker fields, memory admission changes, column/source initialization, filter arithmetic, SIMD, boundary replication or removal of horizontal-only output copies.

After merging: None.

Decisions

• Borrow the first 512 residual samples only during one synchronous interpolation call. Later coded transforms overwrite the active residual through inverse reconstruction, and uncoded transforms zero it before use.
• Preserve the existing entry points and their owned scratch. The new entry point checks its workspace extent, keeps support validation before writes and touches neither workspace beyond 512 samples nor output padding.
• Keep the existing ring dimensions and 9,224-byte scratch envelope. No frame layout, allocation, worker refresh or decoder admission calculation changes.

Evidence

Verification run: Complete automatic and forced-scalar conformance pass at 96e03c167c2218db0ff64abe557a1bc8eac40a84, including all four profile-census shards in each mode. Both modes' required jobs, proof steps and actual build flags were checked independently, and the exact-head verifier passes. Linux arm64 development builds also pass 48 kernel and 259 decoder tests in each mode, plus strict code Clippy. The new regressions reuse dirty rows across successive shapes, both depths, every luma/chroma phase, interior and extreme edge motion, and compare with literal equations and the scalar path. Short workspace and invalid support preserve outputs and workspace. Formatting and diff checks pass.

The instruction comparison builds exact baseline 68cbc80372fb15e9876e6c062f187b1677bb398a and product 96e03c167c2218db0ff64abe557a1bc8eac40a84 separately with identical release settings. On an AMD EPYC 9V74 reference runner, each cell decodes eight pictures and both arms match qualified FFmpeg n9.0.2-17-g2a571b6068 samples and completed work. Horizontal and vertical SIMD filter instruction counts are exactly unchanged in every cell.

Input	Depth	Baseline instructions	Candidate instructions	Removed	Reduction
c00	8	7,646,641,073	7,242,909,376	403,731,697	5.2799%
c01	8	9,163,594,589	8,916,388,735	247,205,854	2.6977%
c02	10	314,906,012	293,843,582	21,062,430	6.6885%
c03	10	206,105,274	202,817,151	3,288,123	1.5954%

These are whole-process instruction reductions on four reference prefixes, not wall-time speedups or wins against FFmpeg. The count builds the actual row-only product, not the earlier broader scratch-reuse diagnostic.

The wall-time reference uses those same exact commits, release builds, Rust 1.99.1 and qualified FFmpeg n9.0.2-17-g2a571b6068 with one decoder thread on an AMD EPYC 9V74 shared Linux runner. Each arm has one warmup followed by five rotated same-host calls. Both decoder arms match exact oracle samples before timing, and every timed call checks completed frame counts and work. All selected cells are disclosed below.

Wall times are milliseconds, shown as median [minimum, maximum]. Throughput is baseline median / candidate median. Candidate / FFmpeg is the median wall-time ratio, so values above one mean CoreAV is slower.

Input	Depth	Pictures	Baseline wall	Candidate wall	FFmpeg wall	Throughput	Candidate / FFmpeg
c00	8	17	1066.507 [1063.754, 1068.099]	1040.837 [1037.171, 1050.796]	229.545 [227.394, 230.291]	1.02466x	4.53434x
c01	8	17	1386.549 [1382.149, 1396.804]	1389.817 [1388.247, 1400.363]	292.866 [285.645, 297.212]	0.99765x	4.74557x
c02	10	8	26.585269 [26.470506, 26.879003]	26.191224 [26.147687, 26.602455]	22.019416 [21.874786, 22.147549]	1.01504x	1.18946x
c03	10	32	66.024194 [65.854968, 66.061941]	64.699171 [64.320538, 66.622149]	19.412864 [19.307584, 19.736403]	1.02048x	3.33280x

The arithmetic mean of the four per-cell throughput ratios is 1.014459x, a 1.446% reference gain. c00 improves 2.466% with disjoint observed ranges. c01 regresses 0.235% at the median, and its ranges overlap. c02 and c03 improve 1.504% and 2.048% at the median, but their ranges also overlap, so those cells do not individually establish an improvement. No cell was rerun. These four shared-runner figures are not a general HEVC speed claim or a win against FFmpeg.

Exact-head similarity at 96e03c167c2218db0ff64abe557a1bc8eac40a84 passes: 112 spans, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems and 0 stale entries.

Links: Refs #22. Design.

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Walkthrough

The interpolation kernel adds an entry point that uses caller-owned row storage. Decoder prediction passes its residual scratch buffer to that entry point. Tests cover output equivalence, workspace bounds, and error cases.

Changes: HEVC interpolation row workspace

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Caller-owned row storage in the interpolation kernel crates/coreav-kernels-hevc/src/inter.rs, crates/coreav-kernels-hevc/src/lib.rs, crates/coreav-kernels-hevc/src/inter_tests.rs	The new interpolate_inter_with_rows entry point requires at least 512 i32 samples and uses them for the eight-row intermediate ring. Existing entry points retain local scratch storage. Tests check results, unchanged sentinel regions, and failure behavior.
Decoder integration and design documentation crates/coreav-hevc/src/reconstruction/inter.rs, docs/design/hevc-interpolation-row-scratch.md	predict passes the frame’s residual scratch buffer to the new entry point. The design document describes workspace use, lifetime requirements, and verification.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 96e03

The row-workspace change has no established issue that blocks merging after normal checks; full conformance and performance comparisons remain pending.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 96e03

The workspace is size-checked and borrowed synchronously, with active values overwritten before reuse. No introduced vulnerability was established in the inspected paths, but incomplete security coverage limits assurance.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed mutable-state exposure is temporary row data in the current frame's residual scratch. The inspected decoder substitution does not introduce another reference-selection path or broader authority; its additional mutation is confined to the checked workspace prefix.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new API uses the same checked reference-plane and output types and retains origin, rectangle and support-sample validation before writes. Scalar and AVX2 vertical filtering consume only active output columns, so dirty inactive row columns are not incorporated into the predictor.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The decoder's outer read-error path enters Failed state and releases the session. Subsequent reads reject the closed decoder rather than resuming the failed frame with its modified scratch.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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Title check		The title "perf(hevc): reuse interpolation row scratch" follows Conventional Commits and names the main change: HEVC interpolation row scratch now reuses the decoder's existing residual buffer instead…
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The title "perf(hevc): reuse interpolation row scratch" follows Conventional Commits and names the main change: HEVC interpolation row scratch now reuses the decoder's existing residual buffer instead of allocating a zeroed intermediate ring per call. The raw summary confirms the new interpolate_inter_with_rows entry point and the residual workspace borrow in reconstruction/inter.rs, and the objectives describe the same goal. The title is short, specific, and under 50 characters.

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Files selected for processing: 5

• crates/coreav-hevc/src/reconstruction/inter.rs
• crates/coreav-kernels-hevc/src/inter.rs
• crates/coreav-kernels-hevc/src/inter_tests.rs
• crates/coreav-kernels-hevc/src/lib.rs
• docs/design/hevc-interpolation-row-scratch.md

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Review: no blocking issue

Reviewed head 96e03c167c2218db0ff64abe557a1bc8eac40a84.

Aliasing and lifetime. The residual buffer holds no live data when inter::predict runs. Its only reader is add_residual in the transform-unit path (reconstruction/syntax.rs around line 1669). That path writes the residual just before reading it, through inverse_residual or fill(0), in the same function. Every inverse_residual path (bypass, transform skip and the DCT/DST cases) writes all N×N samples before it returns Ok, so nothing from the ring can reach a reconstructed sample. Predictions go to scratch.predictors[list], not to the residual, so bi-prediction and the luma, Cb and Cr calls only reuse the ring one after another. The &mut borrow lasts one synchronous kernel call, and reset_private only copies the buffer, so worker semantics are unchanged.

Stale ring data. In one call, each row slot (y + j) % 8 with j < row_count <= 8 is written in the next_row loop before the vertical pass reads it, and no slot is overwritten while it is still live. The horizontal pass writes row[..width]. The scalar vertical pass reads x < width, and the AVX2 vertical pass reads x < width / 8 * 8. So the stale values at width..64 in each 64-sample row slice are never read.

AVX2 and unsafe-sites. vertical_avx2 now loads from the borrowed ring, but the slices still have 64 elements and Avx2::vertical still checks row.len() >= output.len(). The simd.rs row in docs/unsafe-sites.md ("every used row covers the complete output", no padding read) still holds as written, and no new unsafe code is added. The columns and source arrays stay local and zeroed.

Main10 and 8-bit. Sample validation over the clipped support still runs before any scratch or output write. Shifts and taps are unchanged.

Differential. I ran this in Docker linux/amd64 with AVX2 detected, for development only. Over 60,000 random calls, interpolate_inter_with_rows reused one 1,024-sample workspace that started with random values (including i32::MIN and i32::MAX) and got new random values every fifth call. The calls covered 8 and 10 bits, luma and chroma, random widths and heights up to the limits, motion vectors over the full i16 range, odd strides and output padding. Results and outputs were identical to interpolate_inter_scalar and the owned interpolate_inter, and workspace[512..] stayed untouched. On the same platform, coreav-kernels-hevc (52 tests) and coreav-hevc (259 tests) pass with native-hevc,test-support.

Non-blocking:

• The Removed and Reduction columns in the table recompute exactly from the baseline and candidate counts. I could not reproduce the counts themselves, because the PR names no run that produced them.
• The PR body says complete automatic and forced-scalar conformance is still pending, and the design note asks for it before shipping. This review does not replace that run.
• Overlap with perf(hevc): decode ready pictures concurrently #516: both PRs rewrite the same kernels::interpolate_inter(...) call in reconstruction/inter.rs::predict. perf(hevc): decode ready pictures concurrently #516's new kernel tests also call the private interpolate(config, reference, output, automatic) with four arguments, and this PR adds a fifth. Whichever lands second has a compile conflict to fix. I found no semantic clash: perf(hevc): decode ready pictures concurrently #516 changes where reference rows come from (RefPlane::prefix and scoped reads) and how the destination is offset, not the row ring or residual ownership. The second PR to land should keep &mut walker.frame.scratch.residual on the rewritten call.
• PR text: the title is 43 characters, the commits are signed off with no extra trailers, the FFmpeg mention is limited to oracle sample matching with no speed figures, and the input labels are neutral.