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feat(stats)!: egress lag histogram and dropped counters - #6791
Implements quest/m2/qos/lag-histogram.md, and with it the QoS epic, whose only child it is. It ports the sampler kept on wip/4133-lag-histogram from #4133 onto main and fixes that PR's five open findings.
Status: draft, blocked on the ACK hook
Back to draft after review. The maintainer decided the group-granularity lag must not land: the frontier moves only when a whole group's FIN is acknowledged, and a tick with no FIN acknowledgement charges a full interval of stall. So a healthy zero-RTT viewer on 2 s groups reads 0.5 s to 5 s behind (lag_tests hides this by writing each group whole between ticks). This PR waits for poll_acked on moq-net's send stream and then moves the frontier at frame granularity, rather than reshaping the group-level definition now.
The dropped counters were considered for landing on their own and stay here instead. They have the same dependency on acknowledgement granularity as lag:
Delivery counts everything a group stream wrote as dropped unless its FIN is acknowledged. Live media always has an open, unacknowledged group, so every unsubscribe, rendition switch, or session close adds that group's content, most of which the viewer received. A healthy audience with churn reads a dropped baseline.
With the ACK hook, dropped counts only the frames written after the newest acknowledged one (starvation-frames). That changes the numbers on the wire by up to a group per abandoned stream, the reshaping the lag decision rejects.
Nothing reads them yet. Their planned consumer, the lag dashboard, charts them beside lag and needs both.
Decisions needed
How to park this while the hook lands. The hook needs QUIC driver poll waits first, and a draft cannot be marked blocked on a quest, so it resurfaces at every triage and needs a main merge each time it is touched.
(a) ✅ Recommended: close this PR, keep the branch as the starting point, and rewrite lag-histogram.md to require quic-ack-hook.md and frame granularity (folding in starvation-frames' frontier half). The quest tree then shows it blocked.
(b) Keep this draft open until the hook lands.
Backends without the hook.quic-ack-hook.md says qmux (and the browser transport) keep group granularity. Group granularity is now rejected as a definition.
(a) ✅ Recommended: omit lag and dropped for subscriptions on a backend that cannot see acknowledgements (absent, never zero), and update that quest's qmux note.
(b) Keep group granularity there, documented as a coarser resolution.
The far-future edge.Produced.newest is a lifetime fetch_max over the publisher's timestamps, so one far-future frame pins the track's edge and every later sample reads inf.
(a) ✅ Recommended: take the edge from the newest group rather than the track's lifetime, so a jump heals at the next group. Only the publisher's own broadcast is affected, so no refusal.
(b) Leave it: a publisher that lies about time only garbles its own broadcast's stats.
What changed in this round
Merged main (conflict in group.rs with sealed segments, perf(moq-net): store large frames as sealed segments #6628). Compressed and sealed frames still count at their stored size: a whole frame and a streamed scratch frame record the deflated slice at commit, a received compressed chunk its stored bytes, and a sealed frame's chunks as they arrive. A backfill copy, new on main, is bounded from the start and so never fed.
dropped is a Content (bytes, frames, groups, datagrams), the same type as stale. The Dropped type, its moq-stats re-export, the float duration, serde_with, and the counter-rule carve-out in doc/concept/stats.md are gone. It is a subset of the top-level payload counters, unlike stale. datagrams stays zero, since a datagram has no acknowledgement to miss.
Production is Produced, mirroring Delivered and group::Producer::produced(): the cache track's produced field and produced(), and Copy::produced.
Crate-private cleanups: Watch is Feed (Frontier::feed), Subscriber::delivery() is deliver(), a plain track's feed lives in its stats::Subscription so a Subscriber holds one guard, and Subscribing::produced() replaces the subscribe_produced tuple twin.
The delivery path (Delivery, deliver, and the Subscriber's guard field) is allowed as dead code without the async feature, which the net-features shape check requires.
Produced::record stamps a frame from Timestamp::as_nanos rather than a Duration round trip, halving its cost (below).
Write-path cost
perf stat user-space instructions per frame, from the difference between 300 and 100 groups so setup cancels. These are the workloads of benches/group.rs (group_write_frames single and batch32, 512 frames of 64 bytes per group) and a local chunked write through the same write_deferred path benches/frame.rs drives (16 KiB frames in 1 KiB chunks). Medians of three, each identical to within 0.1. Criterion wall time on this host was unusable: load ~29 on 24 threads swung unchanged cases by ±30-90% in both directions.
Workload
main
PR, Duration stamp
PR now
write_frame, 64 B
994
1,064 (+7.0%)
1,027 (+3.3%)
write_frames x32, 64 B
417
523 (+25%)
471 (+13%)
16 KiB frame, 16 chunks
12,957
14,304 (+10%)
13,690 (+5.7%)
What remains is one fetch_max, one release fetch_add, and the u128 rescale per timed write. Recording the raw track-scale value and rescaling in the sampler would remove the rescale; the frame-granularity rework is the place to decide it.
Approach
What is measured. Each tagged egress subscription keeps an acknowledged frontier: the newest frame timestamp on a group stream whose FIN the peer acknowledged. The frontier is seeded with the track's newest frame when the subscription opens.
Registry::report is the sampler. Each call weighs the bytes each of the subscription's tracks produced since the previous call at max(that track's newest - frontier, stall).
A compressed track's production is what it stores, so a frame streamed in plain chunks counts its deflated size when it commits, as a whole frame does.
It records them in lag, a byte-weighted cumulative histogram. Its keys are the bucket upper edges (50ms to 5s, then inf), and empty buckets are omitted.
A group stream that ends unacknowledged after carrying a frame adds to dropped: the frames it carried, the payload the transport accepted, and one group.
Time comes from the caller.Registry::report(&self, report, now) takes the drain's instant. moq-stats passes the time the drain runs, so a late tick's delay counts toward a stall; the scheduled instant still numbers the groups.
The stall grows by the time since the previous call, for each interval in which the tracks produced and the peer acknowledged no FIN. Any acknowledgement resets it.
Nothing else reads a clock: opening a frontier, an acknowledgement and the close path take no time.
The close path. When the last holder of a frontier drops, it is sampled once more. The holder is the subscription, or a Delivery still being written. The final sample weighs the bytes produced since the last sample, at the lag it has then and the stall as of the last report.
Untimed tracks.Produced records only timed frames, so an untimed track adds no weight and no lag.
Resume. A route copy is weighed against the subscription's frontier through a Feed guard that the copy holds, keyed to the track instance the copy subscribed to (Subscribing::produced). bound_at_end, observe and let_go each drop the guard. A frontier keeps at most eight retired copies apart between samples; past that, the latest share one entry at the later edge.
Where it lands.lag and dropped are Traffic fields beside stale, written only when non-empty, on the node's totals, a group's totals, and the prefix tracks. A group's per-path paths rows strip them, so those rows are unchanged on the wire.
The five findings left open on #4133 are fixed as before: a timeline that stops advancing cannot hide a stalled viewer, a copy served across a no-route gap stops being fed, a partial write is charged only what poll_write accepted, merged histograms saturate, and the frontier list is swept when it fills.
Choices made here, for review
dropped stays off the wire when empty, as lag does, so ingress, idle and per-path rows are unchanged.
dropped merges like stale: Content::add adds without saturating, as every other Traffic counter does. The old Dropped::add saturated; with no timestamp span left, its counters grow only by what a node wrote.
A stall is counted in whole report intervals, and the final sample charges no further stall. Both are moot under frame granularity's rework and stay until then.
The QoS epic is completed too, as its only child was this quest. Quest prose now says dropped has stale's four fields.
broadcast::Consumer::with_stats is pub(crate) (was pub(super)), so resume's tests can tag a consumer.
One level of routes. A copy is weighed at the production of the track it subscribed to.
Tests
stats::lag_tests, resume, lite::publisher, ietf::publisher, and moq-stats cover the sampler, the dropped counters, route copies, the close path, and the wire round trip, as in the first round. This round replaced the dropped-span tests with frame counts and dropped the span saturation test with the span. just check passes on the branch (Linux, 9,055 Rust tests, every lint and feature shape).
Impact
Breaking, moq-net:stats::Registry::report takes now: Instant; pass the instant the drain runs at. Additive: stats::Traffic (#[non_exhaustive]) gains lag: Histogram and dropped: Content, and stats::Histogram is new.
moq-stats: re-exports Histogram.
Wire: additive. Egress totals, group totals and prefix tracks gain lag and dropped ({bytes, frames, groups, datagrams}) when non-empty.
Cost: see the write-path table. Each tagged egress subscription holds one frontier, and each drain samples it; the stats/sample bench covers that.
Docs:doc/concept/stats.md documents both fields; the stats section of doc/bin/relay/config.md says what interval means for a stall.
P2 — Keep compressed-track histogram weights consistent across write APIs (rs/moq-net/src/model/frame.rs:571). This unconditionally records raw chunk lengths for a locally produced compressed frame, but group::Producer::write_frame and write_frames record compressed stored lengths (group.rs:1288,1372). Consequently, identical media receives different histogram weights depending on whether it is written whole or through create_frame/write. Highly compressible chunked media can dominate the lag distribution disproportionately. Follow the existing chunk_meter/frame_commit accounting: defer production weight for compression scratch buffers until the compressed size is known, while retaining per-chunk accounting for ordinary/stored payloads. Add a timed compressed-track regression comparing these write paths.
Overall direction is sound: caller-supplied sampling time and lifetime-bound watches keep clock and route-retirement behavior explicit, and additive fields avoid changing per-path rows. The compression case needs coverage alongside the substantial lifecycle and partial-write tests.
Verification: static inspection of the changed implementation, surrounding compression paths, and tests; no tests or builds executed.
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Saturate the dropped-duration atomic counter
When a timed group has a peer-controlled timestamp span above about 584 years, or ordinary dropped spans accumulate past that total, this converts the span to u64::MAX and then uses wrapping fetch_add; the next positive drop rolls nanos back near zero. Dropped is a cumulative counter and moq-stats::Traffic::regressed interprets a decrease as a new segment, so this lets a peer corrupt the published totals instead of saturating as Dropped::add does. Use a saturating atomic update here. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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Fixed in 845d68a. DroppedCounters::record now adds the span with fetch_update and saturating_add, so a span the peer's timestamps make larger than the counter pins it at u64::MAX nanoseconds instead of wrapping. a_dropped_span_past_the_counter_saturates drops two streams spanning timestamp 0 to 2^61 - 1 seconds; with a plain fetch_add it reads one nanosecond short of the maximum and fails.
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Sample each route-copy weight at its own edge
During a resume handoff while both the old and replacement copies are watched, this loop sums every source's byte delta into one weight but takes one maximum newest, including sources that contributed no new bytes, and later records the whole weight in that bucket. For example, bytes produced by an old copy at 100 ms are permanently placed in the replacement's 5 s bucket if both are live at the report, so route switches distort the cumulative histogram. Record each live source's delta at its own edge, as the folded-source path already does. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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Fixed in 845d68a. FrontierInner::sample now weighs each source's bytes at that source's own newest edge, as unwatch already did for a retired copy, rather than every source's bytes at the newest edge among them. live_copies_weigh_at_their_own_edges watches two productions 100 ms and 3 s ahead of the frontier and expects their bytes in the 250ms and 5s buckets; weighing both at the newer edge puts all of them in 5s and fails it.
The sample also returns before advancing any source when nothing has seeded the frontier yet, so bytes that land between the seed and the weighing pass are weighed next time rather than lost.
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Pass the actual drain time to the lag sampler
When the stats task wakes late because of runtime or CPU delay, Interval::tick returns the old scheduled deadline, while MissedTickBehavior::Delay schedules the following tick from the current time. Passing that stale deadline makes all production accumulated during the delay accrue only the nominal interval of stall; if the source then pauses, the missing delay is never corrected, and if it continues, later bytes are charged the gap instead. This mis-buckets lag precisely during relay stalls, so sample with the actual wake time and keep the scheduled instant only for publish/group numbering if needed. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)
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Fixed in 845d68a. The publish task now passes moq_clock::now() to collect, the lag sample's instant, and keeps the tick's scheduled instant for publish, which numbers the groups and needs instants at least an interval apart. a_late_drain_charges_the_stall_up_to_when_it_ran lets a drain due one interval later run 3 s later on paused time, and expects a stalled viewer's bytes in the 5s bucket; sampling at the scheduled instant charges only the gap between the two deadlines, the 2s bucket, and fails it.
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The change adds egress lag histograms and dropped-media counters to traffic statistics. Production and delivery tracking record frame timestamps, accepted bytes, and acknowledgment state. Reports sample lag at a supplied instant, and aggregation includes the new counters while group path rows omit them. The change also updates statistic documentation, benchmarks, tests, and quest plans, and removes the QoS quest documents.
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Saturate the dropped duration, which the peer's timestamps drive, and count a compressed track's streamed frame at its stored size as a whole one is. The sample bench now produces before each report, so it times weighing rather than an idle walk.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The compressed-frame weighting issue from my previous review #6791 (review) is fixed: scratch chunks defer production accounting until compression commits the stored size, with a regression comparing whole-frame and chunked writes.
The update also addresses the independently reported duration overflow (discussion_r4372077804), route-copy weighting (discussion_r4372077806) and late-drain sampling (discussion_r4372077810). These focused corrections preserve the design without unnecessary complexity; the benchmark now exercises actual production rather than only idle sampling.
No new actionable bugs found. Verification: static comparison against 6f61b87, relevant surrounding code and regression tests. No builds, tests or benchmarks run.
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Bound retired source samples between reports
When an enabled registry is only scraped with snapshot() or uses a very long reporting interval, a subscription that survives repeated route handoffs can make this vector grow without bound: every retired copy that produced bytes appends a Folded, while only sample (via report or final frontier drop) drains it. A publisher can alternate route copies while a viewer holds the subscription, so the weak-frontier sweep does not bound this per-frontier state and memory continues growing with each handoff; aggregate retired samples into bounded state instead.
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Fixed in 65a7476. A frontier now keeps at most MAX_FOLDED (eight) retired copies apart between samples. Past that, unwatch merges each further one into the last entry with Folded::absorb: the weights add, and the entry takes the later edge and the earlier first frame. A publisher that keeps moving its route therefore cannot grow the state however rarely report runs, every byte is still weighed, and lag past the cap reads high rather than low. retired_copies_stay_bounded_between_reports retires 1,000 copies of 10 bytes with no report between, and expects at most eight entries and 10,000 bytes weighed at the next report; pushing every copy holds 1,000 and fails it.
The independently reported unbounded retired-source samples (#6791 (comment)) are addressed: unwatch retains at most eight entries, then combines subsequent weights with saturating addition and conservative timestamp bounds. The regression covers 1,000 retirements without intervening reports and checks retained-state size and total weight.
This is a reasonable bounded-memory tradeoff: rapid route churn can bias merged samples toward higher lag, but does not discard their weight. Previously verified fixes remain unchanged. No new actionable bugs found in this update.
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…ced Produced
dropped now has stale's four Content fields (bytes, frames, groups,
datagrams), so the Dropped type, its float duration and serde_with go.
Production becomes Produced, mirroring Delivered and
group::Producer::produced(), and the crate-private names follow: Watch is
Feed, Subscriber::delivery() is deliver(), a plain track's feed lives in
its stats::Subscription, and Subscribing::produced() replaces the
subscribe_produced tuple.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Skips the Duration round trip, which halves what Produced::record adds to a
frame write: measured in instructions per frame against main, a whole
64 byte frame costs +33 rather than +70, a batched one +54 rather than +106.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closing without merging: this is parked on the ACK hook. The maintainer took the recommended option on all three decisions above.
Park. The branch t0ms:quest/m2/qos/lag-histogram at 9ed8b831f93f39565333a92d5dd4a5f24d2c3fc5 stays as the starting point. The viewer lag histogram quest now requires poll_acked on moq-net's send stream and measures lag and dropped at frame granularity (the frames after the newest acknowledged one), folding in the frontier half of starvation-frames. It keeps what this branch settled: the cache track's produced: Produced, dropped as a Content written only when non-empty (datagrams always zero), the write-path cost table, and the follow-up to store the raw track-scale value and rescale in the sampler.
Backends without the hook (qmux, the browser transport): lag and dropped are absent there, never zero. quic-ack-hook.md no longer promises group granularity.
Far-future timestamps: the lag edge comes from the newest group instead of a lifetime fetch_max, so a jumped timestamp clears at the next group rather than pinning every later sample to inf.
The quest rewrite is moq-dev/moq#6884. Thanks @t0ms for the port and the five #4133 fixes, which carry over with the branch.
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Implements quest/m2/qos/lag-histogram.md, and with it the QoS epic, whose only child it is. It ports the sampler kept on
wip/4133-lag-histogramfrom #4133 ontomainand fixes that PR's five open findings.Status: draft, blocked on the ACK hook
Back to draft after review. The maintainer decided the group-granularity
lagmust not land: the frontier moves only when a whole group's FIN is acknowledged, and a tick with no FIN acknowledgement charges a full interval of stall. So a healthy zero-RTT viewer on 2 s groups reads 0.5 s to 5 s behind (lag_testshides this by writing each group whole between ticks). This PR waits for poll_acked on moq-net's send stream and then moves the frontier at frame granularity, rather than reshaping the group-level definition now.The
droppedcounters were considered for landing on their own and stay here instead. They have the same dependency on acknowledgement granularity aslag:Deliverycounts everything a group stream wrote as dropped unless its FIN is acknowledged. Live media always has an open, unacknowledged group, so every unsubscribe, rendition switch, or session close adds that group's content, most of which the viewer received. A healthy audience with churn reads a dropped baseline.droppedcounts only the frames written after the newest acknowledged one (starvation-frames). That changes the numbers on the wire by up to a group per abandoned stream, the reshaping the lag decision rejects.lagand needs both.Decisions needed
mainmerge each time it is touched.lag-histogram.mdto requirequic-ack-hook.mdand frame granularity (folding in starvation-frames' frontier half). The quest tree then shows it blocked.quic-ack-hook.mdsays qmux (and the browser transport) keep group granularity. Group granularity is now rejected as a definition.laganddroppedfor subscriptions on a backend that cannot see acknowledgements (absent, never zero), and update that quest's qmux note.Produced.newestis a lifetimefetch_maxover the publisher's timestamps, so one far-future frame pins the track's edge and every later sample readsinf.What changed in this round
main(conflict ingroup.rswith sealed segments, perf(moq-net): store large frames as sealed segments #6628). Compressed and sealed frames still count at their stored size: a whole frame and a streamed scratch frame record the deflated slice at commit, a received compressed chunk its stored bytes, and a sealed frame's chunks as they arrive. A backfill copy, new onmain, is bounded from the start and so never fed.droppedis aContent(bytes,frames,groups,datagrams), the same type asstale. TheDroppedtype, itsmoq-statsre-export, the floatduration,serde_with, and the counter-rule carve-out indoc/concept/stats.mdare gone. It is a subset of the top-level payload counters, unlikestale.datagramsstays zero, since a datagram has no acknowledgement to miss.ProductionisProduced, mirroringDeliveredandgroup::Producer::produced(): the cache track'sproducedfield andproduced(), andCopy::produced.WatchisFeed(Frontier::feed),Subscriber::delivery()isdeliver(), a plain track's feed lives in itsstats::Subscriptionso aSubscriberholds one guard, andSubscribing::produced()replaces thesubscribe_producedtuple twin.Delivery,deliver, and theSubscriber's guard field) is allowed as dead code without theasyncfeature, which thenet-featuresshape check requires.Produced::recordstamps a frame fromTimestamp::as_nanosrather than aDurationround trip, halving its cost (below).Write-path cost
perf statuser-space instructions per frame, from the difference between 300 and 100 groups so setup cancels. These are the workloads ofbenches/group.rs(group_write_framessingle and batch32, 512 frames of 64 bytes per group) and a local chunked write through the samewrite_deferredpathbenches/frame.rsdrives (16 KiB frames in 1 KiB chunks). Medians of three, each identical to within 0.1. Criterion wall time on this host was unusable: load ~29 on 24 threads swung unchanged cases by ±30-90% in both directions.mainDurationstampwrite_frame, 64 Bwrite_framesx32, 64 BWhat remains is one
fetch_max, one releasefetch_add, and the u128 rescale per timed write. Recording the raw track-scale value and rescaling in the sampler would remove the rescale; the frame-granularity rework is the place to decide it.Approach
Registry::reportis the sampler. Each call weighs the bytes each of the subscription's tracks produced since the previous call atmax(that track's newest - frontier, stall).lag, a byte-weighted cumulative histogram. Its keys are the bucket upper edges (50msto5s, theninf), and empty buckets are omitted.dropped: the frames it carried, the payload the transport accepted, and one group.Registry::report(&self, report, now)takes the drain's instant.moq-statspasses the time the drain runs, so a late tick's delay counts toward a stall; the scheduled instant still numbers the groups.Deliverystill being written. The final sample weighs the bytes produced since the last sample, at the lag it has then and the stall as of the last report.Producedrecords only timed frames, so an untimed track adds no weight and no lag.Feedguard that the copy holds, keyed to the track instance the copy subscribed to (Subscribing::produced).bound_at_end,observeandlet_goeach drop the guard. A frontier keeps at most eight retired copies apart between samples; past that, the latest share one entry at the later edge.laganddroppedareTrafficfields besidestale, written only when non-empty, on the node's totals, a group's totals, and the prefix tracks. A group's per-pathpathsrows strip them, so those rows are unchanged on the wire.The five findings left open on #4133 are fixed as before: a timeline that stops advancing cannot hide a stalled viewer, a copy served across a no-route gap stops being fed, a partial write is charged only what
poll_writeaccepted, merged histograms saturate, and the frontier list is swept when it fills.Choices made here, for review
droppedstays off the wire when empty, aslagdoes, so ingress, idle and per-path rows are unchanged.droppedmerges likestale:Content::addadds without saturating, as every otherTrafficcounter does. The oldDropped::addsaturated; with no timestamp span left, its counters grow only by what a node wrote.droppedhasstale's four fields.broadcast::Consumer::with_statsispub(crate)(waspub(super)), soresume's tests can tag a consumer.Tests
stats::lag_tests,resume,lite::publisher,ietf::publisher, andmoq-statscover the sampler, the dropped counters, route copies, the close path, and the wire round trip, as in the first round. This round replaced the dropped-span tests with frame counts and dropped the span saturation test with the span.just checkpasses on the branch (Linux, 9,055 Rust tests, every lint and feature shape).Impact
moq-net:stats::Registry::reporttakesnow: Instant; pass the instant the drain runs at. Additive:stats::Traffic(#[non_exhaustive]) gainslag: Histogramanddropped: Content, andstats::Histogramis new.moq-stats: re-exportsHistogram.laganddropped({bytes, frames, groups, datagrams}) when non-empty.stats/samplebench covers that.doc/concept/stats.mddocuments both fields; the stats section ofdoc/bin/relay/config.mdsays whatintervalmeans for a stall.Follow-ups
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