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BZLZHH 3a2555805a [Perf] (P12): the create window lands as the default - declared-answer retention replaces the ring, and the load frame goes 28.66 s -> 16.52 s (11.02 s at window 4)
The three things that made the deferral inert are all fixed, in the order they were
found: the reply ring could not hold an answer across the ~1,000 records between two
creates; a residency budget could not help because what displaces an answer is what
the SERVER sends, not what the client emits; and so the mechanism had to be retention.

WHAT LANDED
  * ILink::DeclareReplyRead + LinkCapabilities::RetainsReplies. The wire declares a
    seq will be read BEFORE it publishes, so the declaration cannot race its own
    answer; a link with the capability false ignores it, and the window does not
    defer on one (CreateWindowEffective() is gated on it).
  * StreamLink's ring of the last 8 answers becomes a declared-answer store: a
    monotone whitelist plus a cursor, answers kept until their reader TAKES them
    (take-and-delete under one lock, bytes swapped into the scratch), and a capacity
    of 24 that is FATAL to exceed rather than evicting. An evicted wanted answer is
    unrecoverable - re-latching by sending another create wipes the server's record
    (PipeApply.cpp:2033) and its PendingUploads (PipeApply.h:332) while the client
    cleared its dirty flags at emission (PipeApply.h:298-304) - so the capacity is
    sized so it cannot be reached and reaching it says its own name.
  * An answer nobody declared is DROPPED, which is what keeps the store bounded by the
    client's deferral depth instead of by the server's answer rate. Retain-on-arrival
    grows ~11.3 entries per create against a server that ignores the no-reply bit.
  * A read that fails after WaitForApplied has returned Reached is now Fatal{ReplyMissing}
    naming the seq: on the stream arm the reply frame strictly precedes the progress
    frame that publishes appliedSeq, so that combination is a broken invariant, and
    retrying it (what the row used to do) wedges the window for the rest of the
    process while leaving every deferred object latched on a provisional accept.
  * The residency budget is deleted (WireTables.cpp keeps its history), the window
    retirement branch drains once before falling back - it could otherwise strand the
    answers it was holding - and Detach clears the store.

MEASURED ON THE DEVICE, load frame, both ends rebuilt, frame-sent identical per op
(create 4,536, records 103,097) throughout:

    window 1 (R-5's shape)              4,536 takes   28.66 s
    window 2 explicit                   2,500         17.27 s
    window 2 AS THE SHIPPED DEFAULT     2,563         16.52 s
    window 4                            1,644         11.02 s
    window 2 against an OLD SERVER      2,663         16.38 s   (zero Fatals)

The last row is the version-skew case the design review named as a must: a server
built before the no-reply bit answers ~55,903 records a frame, the whitelist drops
every answer nobody declared, and the deferral still reads its own back.

GATES (172 + 15 green), and the important one is proved to go red:
  * ADeclaredAnswerSurvivesFarMoreInterveningAnswersThanAnyFixedBuffer - reverting the
    store to "keep the last 8 arrivals" fails it immediately with "the declared answer
    did not survive 64 intervening ones". That is the line between the ring-1024
    stand-in and a bounded mechanism.
  * AnAnswerNobodyDeclaredIsNotKeptAtAll - red if everything is retained.
  * TheWindowRefusesToDeferOnALinkThatCannotRetainAnswers - on the in-process (ShmLink)
    arm the knob at 4 must still block every create, red if the capability gate goes.
  * The refused-create case now reads the repair that exists on THAT arm (the latch),
    and asserts the window's own books are empty there.

NOT DONE, and named: the window has no unit gate on the STREAM arm yet - only the
device runs. Three rounds of this feature were green in the lanes while inert on the
device because the lanes and the device run different transports; the transport-level
retention gates close that for the store, and the window-level one should be built on
StreamClientPublicationTest's real stream session next.
2026-09-26 03:31:14 +08:00
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