Disc::decrypt_with now takes Device / Processing / Media / Volume keys in
addition to Unit. A caller hands in whatever level it resolved and the
library derives down the AACS chain to the per-CPS-unit keys, then
decrypts:
Device -> MKB walk -> media key -> VUK -> per-CPS unit keys
Processing -> MKB -> media key -> VUK -> per-CPS unit keys
Media -> Volume ID -> VUK -> per-CPS unit keys
Volume -> Unit_Key_RO.inf, one unit key per CPS unit
Unit -> used directly (terminal)
Derivation stays centralized in the version-dispatched resolver
(1.0 / 2.0 / 2.1), fed by a single-key provider built from the supplied
key — no new crypto. Volume notably does NOT stop at the volume key: it
decrypts every CPS unit's key.
Scan stashes the AACS inputs (Unit_Key_RO.inf and MKB) on AacsState so an
out-of-band decrypt_with can derive without re-reading the disc.
Non-breaking: Key is #[non_exhaustive] and the existing Unit path is
unchanged. New tests cover the Volume -> per-CPS derive-down, the
missing-inputs error, and the no-units rejection.
scan now stashes the raw Unit_Key_RO.inf + MKB bytes on AacsState (via
resolve_vid_only, the disable_keydb path), so an external key-resolver can
derive unit keys from a resolved VUK without re-reading the disc — the
foundation for moving lookup/derivation out of libfreemkv. Additive: the keydb
path is untouched, all existing constructors default the new fields empty.
584 lib tests green. Builds on the KeyOrigin rename + the Key/decrypt_with API.
Disambiguates the key vocabulary: Key (the input handed to decrypt_with),
key sources (the resolver's lookup list), and KeyOrigin (how a key was
resolved). Internal-only rename — no dependents import it.
Add libfreemkv::Key (non_exhaustive; Unit wired) + Disc::decrypt_with(Key) — the
caller resolves a key from any source and hands it in; the library decrypts with
no keydb/network of its own. inject_unit_keys now synthesizes a minimal
ExternalUk AACS state when a scan built none (no keydb at scan time), so a disc
keyed at sweep but scanned without a keydb still decrypts from its mapfile UK
instead of reporting E8005 and deferring the mux forever. Tests cover the
synthesize, replace, empty->None, and decrypt_with paths.
A keyed disc now writes its decrypted AACS unit keys to the mapfile header
(# freemkv-uk: <cps>:<hex>); an unresolved disc writes only the VID. The two are
mutually exclusive (set_unit_keys clears the VID) — unit keys are the final
answer, so deferred-mux / resume decrypts directly with no key lookup, while the
VID alone is the 'still unresolved, retry' marker. CopyOptions/SweepOptions carry
the keys (written when present, else the VID); Disc::inject_unit_keys applies
mapfile-recovered keys to a scanned disc. Round-trip test added.
Rename is_unit_encrypted -> is_aacs_scrambled and decide encryption from the unit's MPEG-TS sync bytes (destroyed by the encrypted body) instead of the TP_extra copy-control (byte 0) or TS scrambling-control (byte 7) flags, which discs do not set reliably. One shared predicate now backs the decrypt gate and out-of-band key validation, so callers agree on what 'encrypted' means. Decryption restores the syncs, so a decrypted unit reads as clear and there is no flag to clear.
is_unit_encrypted read the TP_extra copy-control bits (byte 0), which are a
copy-permission flag, not an encryption flag. On discs whose sampled units are
clear navigation packets (PAT/PMT) those bits can be set while the unit is not
scrambled, so a correct Unit Key was used to 'decrypt' already-plaintext data,
produced garbage, and the key was wrongly treated as failing.
Read the actual flag instead: the TS transport_scrambling_control bits (top two
of TS-header byte 3 = byte 7 of the aligned unit, inside the clear seed). AACS
encrypts whole aligned units, so this one packet's TSC reflects the unit.
decrypt_unit now clears the TSC bits of every packet on the way out so the
result is valid unscrambled TS. Tests updated to the TSC flag.
keydb stores Media Keys per-disc, but an MK is MKB-scoped (shared across a
pressing/MKB-family). A disc whose own hash/VID isn't keyed can still resolve
if any stored MK verifies against its MKB. New path 2.5 (between PK and the
VID lookup) collects the distinct MK pool from the providers, km_verifies each
against the disc MKB, and on a UNIQUE pass derives VUK (with the disc VID) then
the UK — matching the online resolver's behavior so local keydb mode resolves
the same discs (e.g. an MK present in keydb under a sibling pressing).
km_verifies is one AES-D + magic check per candidate (cheap). Adds
KeyProvider::media_keys() + a path-2.5 unit test.
- mkb_content_len walks the MKB record stream and returns where it ends,
so callers can drop the trailing zero padding. MKB files are allocated
to a fixed size (~128 MiB) with records at the front; both MKB_RO and
MKB_RW can be padded. read_aacs_inputs* now trim to the real records
(~few MB) instead of shipping ~128 MiB of zeros.
- decrypt_keys() returns None when unit_keys is empty: an AACS state that
carries only a VID (out-of-band resolution, pre-key) is 'encrypted, no
keys', not a usable empty key set.
- read_aacs_inputs / read_aacs_inputs_from_drive now read MKB_RO.inf first.
MKB_RW.inf is a fixed ~128 MiB rewritable region that is mostly zero
padding; reading it shipped 124 MiB of nothing. MKB_RO is the real,
correctly-sized MKB (a few MB). Fall back to RW only if RO is absent.
- disable_keydb no longer drops the Volume ID. A caller resolving Unit Keys
out-of-band needs the VID (on-disc content read during the handshake).
New resolve_vid_only builds a keys-free AacsState carrying just the VID +
version metadata, so the disc reports 'encrypted, no keys' (resolved
out-of-band) instead of discarding the VID.
A caller that resolves Unit Keys out-of-band can now set disable_keydb
so the scan consults no keydb at all — neither an explicit keydb_path
nor the standard search locations. Without it, a keydb that merely sits
in a default location ('~/.config/...') silently shadows the out-of-band
path. unit_key still takes precedence over everything.
The ScanOptions.unit_key path is a generic primitive — a caller-supplied Unit
Key that bypasses keydb lookup. Doc comments + a tracing log named a specific
external source; reworded to neutral 'out-of-band / external key service' so
the library makes no assumptions about where the key came from.
Add an optional 16-byte AACS Volume ID to the Mapfile, persisted as a
'# freemkv-vid: <32-hex>' header comment so it survives to deferred-mux
and resume without touching the ISO payload. ddrescue treats the line
as a comment, so the pos/size/status data parser is unaffected.
- Mapfile gains set_vid/vid accessors; save() emits the comment in the
header block, load() parses it back (malformed/absent -> None, never
errors the load). Load->save round-trip preserves it (patch pass).
- Thread vid through CopyOptions and SweepOptions; sweep persists it
when creating/opening the mapfile.
- Unit test: round-trips the VID, asserts the saved comment, and
confirms data ranges parse identically with and without the comment.
Two coherent additions to the AACS resolver:
KeyProvider abstraction (provider.rs) — key material comes from pluggable
backends; KeyDb implements it (device/processing keys, host certs,
disc-by-hash / disc-by-vid lookup) plus orphan-DK parsing. ResolveContext
takes a provider array. Adds the SD-tree PK walker
(derive_media_key_from_pk_walked) and a `probe` module (km_verifies MK
oracle, mkb_* record parsers) used for offline key verification. Cvalue
record selection prefers 0x05, falls back to 0x07.
External-UK key source — the second, mutually-exclusive key source for the
keyserver path. ScanOptions/InputOptions gain `unit_key`; when set,
resolve_encryption_static skips keydb entirely and uses the caller-supplied
Unit Key directly (KeySource::ExternalUk). Disc::read_aacs_inputs exposes a
disc's Unit_Key_RO.inf + MKB so a caller can fetch the UK out-of-band; the
library makes no network call itself.
CHANGELOG: redact test-disc title in historical notes.
Pixelogic discs that authored a SEG_MainFeature menu/preview segment
containing a stray commentary token made the parser anchor on that
segment instead of the real FPL_MainFeature playlist. Combined with
'Audio Stream N' placeholder tokens not advancing the audio counter, a
lone eng_ACOM_ commentary at STN slot 4 collapsed onto slot 1 — tagging
the main feature track as Commentary (seen on Wicked: For Good).
Fix:
- Anchor the feature section on the FPL_ playlist when present; only
fall back to SEG_MainFeature on discs with no FPL_ section.
- Count 'Audio Stream N' placeholders so editorial audio tokens get
their true STN ordinal. Subtitle (PG Stream N) numbering is left
unchanged — counting it regressed several corpus discs.
Extract the section/numbering loop into assign_labels with unit tests.
Verified: 11/11 labels-corpus discs still PASS; Wicked commentary now
lands on the AC-3 2.0 stereo track instead of the main TrueHD.
Adds a 5th key-resolution path that consumes pre-decrypted unit keys
directly from KEYDB when the entry has no VUK field. Covers ~4,572
entries in the public keydb (~2.5%), heavily skewed toward MKBv76+ UHD
discs where DVDFab/FindVUK can no longer extract a VUK but does extract
unit keys. Partial CPS-unit coverage is rejected so a disc is never
half-decrypted.
Resolver path order reordered root-to-leaf: DK (1) → PK (2) →
KEYDB-derived MK+VID (3) → KEYDB VUK (4) → KEYDB unit keys (5).
Previous order was leaf-first.
API:
- AacsState::vuk is now Option<[u8; 16]> (was [u8; 16])
- ResolvedKeys::vuk is now Option<[u8; 16]> (was [u8; 16])
- KeySource variants reordered + new KeyDbUnitKeys variant
3 new resolver tests (path 4 still works without VID; path 5 succeeds
with pre-decrypted unit keys; path 5 rejects partial CPS coverage).
When the drive is in extended-access state (unlocked), retrieve VID via
the per-drive `read_vid_cdb` from the bundled profile instead of the
cert-based AACS REPORT_KEY handshake. Cert handshake remains the
fallback for drives that don't enter extended-access state, or whose
profile lacks the required CDB.
Empirically verified on the BU40N (signature 999ec375) against
Barbie UHD: drive returns 36 bytes from buffer 0x44 at offset
0x10E291, VID at response[4..20]. The 16 bytes match Dune Part Two's
known VID in keydb.cfg byte-for-byte, cross-validating the path
against an independent oracle.
Architectural impact:
- Renames `Drive::is_libredrive_active()` → `Drive::is_unlocked()`.
Internal `Mt1959::libredrive_active` becomes `Mt1959::unlocked`;
the prior `unlocked` (init-success flag) becomes `init_complete`
to avoid the name collision.
- `disc/encrypt.rs::Disc::read_vid` is the single entry point.
When `is_unlocked()` is true, calls `read_vid_oem` (issues the
per-drive CDB, validates the response signature high-3-bytes
`00 22 00`, returns bytes [4..20]). Otherwise delegates to
`read_vid_cert` (the existing AACS REPORT_KEY format 0x80 path).
- `DriveProfile` gains the per-drive CDB templates and identifier
blocks extracted from each per-drive firmware payload — including
`read_vid_cdb`, `read_disc_keys_cdb`, `drive_nominal_speed_cdb`,
`set_speed_max_cdb`, two cache-prime canary CDBs, the buffer-0x45
verify CDB, the firmware-upload CDB, and the unlock probe CDB.
Variants A and B differ in which fields are populated. All optional;
consumers fall back to the cert/handshake path when fields are
absent.
- New error variants `Error::DriveProfileMissing` (E7020) and
`Error::VidCdbUnavailable` (E7021). Both treated as
"OEM unavailable → try cert path" by `read_vid`, not terminal.
Closes the v0.25.x gap where HRL-burned host certs (the public
libaacs leaked cert is on every recent drive's HRL) blocked all
post-handshake VID retrieval. With OEM-driven VID:
- AACS 1.0 BD on supported drives: rips end-to-end with our existing
DKs walking the MKB.
- AACS 2.x UHD: fails honestly at the DK wall (E7018 "No usable DK"
for v77+ MKBs) instead of the misleading E7017 "No Volume ID"
the prior code surfaced. We have VID; we just don't have v77+ DK
material — that gap is a key-acquisition problem, not a code
problem.
Empirically verified on rip1 (BU40N + Barbie UHD, MKB v77,
2026-05-21): error code flipped from E7017 to E7018 as predicted.
The DK wall is now correctly the proximate failure for unrippable
modern UHD discs, instead of the indirect VID-retrieval wall the
v0.25.x cert-only path produced.
Renames and comment scrubs eliminate upstream-RE-vocabulary
references in the public crate per `feedback_no_breadcrumbs.md`.
674 tests pass (565 lib + 109 integration). No tradename leaks in
any modified file.
- Introduce DrmScheme enum (Css/Aacs10/Aacs20/Aacs21) + drm module with
uniform detect/load dispatch across all four protection schemes.
- Land AACS 2.1 Media Key Variant framework in aacs::variants: chain
derivation, MKB record types 0x82/0x83, bit-0x02 SoftKCD and bit-0x04
online-challenge detection. Aacs21 dispatcher arm wired but commented
out pending validation against a Variant-scheme disc.
- Replace aacs2: bool with AacsVersion enum across ContentCertificate,
UnitKeyFile, ResolvedKeys. resolve_keys splits into _v1/_v2/_v21.
- Delete the libredrive raw-read VID shortcut from do_handshake; the
drive enforces the AGID requirement regardless of firmware-upload
state, so the shortcut spuriously dispatched E7017 instead of
surfacing the real downstream walls.
Three coherent threads landing for v0.25.11:
1. Libredrive raw-read VID path. When Mt1959::do_unlock sees both the
MMkv active-mode marker at [12..16] and the LbDr mode-ID marker at
[16..20], Drive::is_libredrive_active() returns true and
do_handshake skips the AACS cert dance — VID is retrieved via
READ_DISC_STRUCTURE format 0x80 with AGID=0 and bus encryption is
already off. This unblocks UHD ripping on drives whose leaked host
cert is on the AACS HRL.
- platform/mt1959/mod.rs: detection + active flag + 4 unit tests.
- platform/mod.rs: PlatformDriver::is_libredrive_active trait method.
- drive/mod.rs: Drive::is_libredrive_active accessor.
- disc/encrypt.rs: do_handshake branches on the flag; new
read_volume_id_libredrive helper. Return type widened to
(Option<HandshakeResult>, Option<Error>) so callers see which
specific failure happened.
- disc/mod.rs: scan_with plumbs the new tuple through and preserves
handshake errors as disc.aacs_error.
2. Revert v0.25.9 built-in AACS keys + plugin slot. Single source of
AACS truth: keydb.cfg. The compiled-in DKs/PKs were a slim
convenience that didn't move the hard problem (no v77+ DKs) and
added a maintenance surface. Plugin slot was overlapping
functionality with the main keydb.
- Deleted src/aacs/builtin_keys.rs (4 DKs + 3 PKs).
- Removed KeyDb::with_builtins, load_or_builtins, merge_from,
merge_local_plugin, local_plugin_path, internal dedup helpers.
KeyDb::empty kept for unit-test use.
- KeyDb::load reverts to pre-0.25.9 form: read file or return I/O
error; no fallback.
- disc::encrypt::resolve_encryption keydb_path back to required
(&Path), not Option<&Path>.
- disc::scan_with surfaces KeydbLoad { path: "<no keydb in search
paths>" } sentinel when encrypted + no keydb — same sentinel
autorip's message switch already handles.
- CSS player keys in src/css/auth.rs stay compiled in; they're
1999-era public inputs separate from AACS and pre-date the 0.25.9
additions.
3. Walker fix follow-through (libaacs-parity validate_processing_key,
cvalues 0x07-then-0x05 preference, path-2/3/4 short-circuit on
zero VID) + NIST AES-CMAC KAT + VID MAC round-trip / mutation /
zero-rejection tests.
5 new Error variants for finer-grained AACS failure reporting:
AacsHostCertRejected (E7015), AacsLibredriveUnsupported (E7016),
AacsVidUnavailable (E7017), AacsMkUnavailable (E7018),
AacsVukNotInKeydb (E7019). Lets CLIs/UIs render which piece of the
AACS chain failed instead of always saying "no keys."
Two changes that make AACS 1.0 / DVD self-sufficient:
1. MKB record-type identification bug fix. `mkb_find_mk_dv` was
searching for type 0x10 (which is Type-and-Version, 12 bytes)
when the Verify Media Key Record is actually type 0x81 for
AACS 1.0 or type 0x86 for AACS 2.0/2.1. `mkb_version` had the
inverse bug. PK and DK derivation paths therefore silently
failed on every disc, masking how often the fallback paths
could have worked. Fix searches the correct types; tests added
covering both the 0x81 and 0x86 verify-record forms and the
0x10 version record at offset 8 of the body.
2. Built-in AACS keys + operator plugin slot. Four device keys
(covering MKB v01-v82+) and three processing keys (covering
v63-v68) compiled directly into the library. Combined with the
31 CSS player keys already in css/auth.rs, DVDs and Blu-rays
(AACS 1.0) now decrypt with zero external files. New plugin
path at ~/.config/freemkv/local_keys.cfg (same syntax as
keydb.cfg) layered additively on top of built-ins and main
keydb. `Disc::scan` no longer errors when keydb.cfg is absent;
AACS 2.0 / UHD still surfaces a specific error when the disc
needs keys none of the layers provide.
Public docstrings in project docs + README updated to describe the
three additive layers (built-ins → keydb.cfg → local_keys.cfg).
Pre-0.25.7 the AACS authenticate loop fired up to 16 host-cert
attempts back-to-back with no pause. Each attempt is 5-10 SCSI
REPORT_KEY/SEND_KEY exchanges, so on a disc whose host cert isn't
in our KEYDB (or one the drive rejects), the drive saw 80-160 SCSI
commands in a few hundred ms and entered a fast-fail firmware
wedge state where every subsequent CDB returns sense 05/24 until
power-cycled.
Three defences:
- MAX_CERT_ATTEMPTS capped at 3 (was 16)
- 1-second sleep between attempts
- Bail immediately on any sense_key == 0x05 (ILLEGAL_REQUEST) so
the loop can't deepen the wedge if a regression undoes the
attempt cap.
- MkvTrack::audio emits A_DTS/MA, A_DTS/HR, A_DTS per the DTS family
instead of mislabelling everything as A_DTS. Plex transcoder and
strict hardware decoders reject DTS-HD MA payload under a plain
A_DTS track.
- PgsParser is now stateful: pairs display PCS with the following
empty PCS to compute a duration. Frame::duration_ns + PesFrame::duration_ns
carry it through; MkvMuxer::write_frame gains a final Option<u64>
parameter that emits BlockGroup + BlockDuration when set. Fixes
subtitle bitmaps lingering past their intended end-time.
* `PrefetchedSectorSource::new_with_events` adds an optional
`event_fn` callback that fires `BytesRead` after every successful
batch from the producer thread. The original `new()` becomes a
thin no-events wrapper. Lets autorip wire the highway and still
get UI progress events without polling the consumer side.
* `build_iso_pipeline` grows an `event_fn` arg so the autorip
multipass mux can pipe BytesRead straight through to its progress
UI.
* Stream trait gains a default `errors() -> u64` method (= 0) so
Box<dyn Stream> callers (autorip's mux loop) can read the
skip-on-error counter without downcasting. `DiscStream` overrides
to return its `errors` field.
* Delete `DiscStream::new_pipeline` and the pipeline-mode fields
(`demux_thread`, `demux_rx`) plus the `read_pipeline` helper.
All pipeline construction now goes through
`PipelinedPesStream` via `build_iso_pipeline`; `DiscStream`
becomes the single-thread-only inline path used by the drive
single-pass read.
* `lib.rs` re-exports `build_iso_pipeline`.
Introduces the freemkv mux throughput highway: a three-stage thread
pipeline that replaces the inline single-thread read path for any
file-backed source (ISO and m2ts file URLs both route through it).
Thread A: read + decrypt (PrefetchedSectorSource / BytePrefetcher)
Thread B: M2TS demux (DemuxThread)
Thread C: codec parse (PipelinedPesStream, on caller thread)
Each handoff uses a bounded crossbeam channel with a recycled buffer
pool — no allocations or memcpys in the steady-state hot loop.
Component map:
* io/byte_prefetcher.rs (new) — std::io::Read producer thread with
recycled Vec<u8> pool. Pairs with PrefetchedSectorSource (sector
side) so demux_thread::spawn_zero_copy can wire either upstream.
* sector/prefetched.rs — recycled buffer pool added; into_channels()
peels off the rx/recycle_tx/shell triple for zero-copy demux.
* mux/demux_thread.rs (new) — owns the TsDemuxer/PsDemuxer, runs
feed() on its thread, ships Vec<PesPacket> batches.
* mux/pipelined_stream.rs (new) — the read-side Stream impl. Pulls
packets from the demux thread and runs codec parse on the caller.
* mux/resolve.rs — build_iso_pipeline (public) / build_m2ts_pipeline
(private) assemble the three stages; iso:// and m2ts:// both
return PipelinedPesStream.
* mux/m2ts.rs — collapsed to a write-only sink (Mode::Read deleted;
the read direction lives on the highway now).
* mux/codec/h264.rs — find_start_code uses memchr SIMD memmem::find.
* mux/codec/hevc.rs — tightened frame_data initial capacity.
* mux/ts.rs — boundary-packet handling avoids the per-batch 16 MiB
remainder copy; PesAssembler starts at 16 KiB to dodge the 64-page
first-touch fault tax that the previous 256 KiB pre-alloc paid on
every PES boundary.
* mux/disc.rs — gains DiscStream::new_pipeline + read_pipeline as
the legacy autorip ingress (drive + multipass paths still need
on_event / skip_errors before they migrate to the highway).
* io/file_sector_source/* — per-OS prefetch() syscall hook
(Linux readahead, macOS F_RDADVISE, Windows/other no-op).
* decrypt.rs — FREEMKV_DECRYPT_THREADS renamed to FREEMKV_THREADS;
pool sized to all cores by default.
Measured on rip1 testbed (Civil War UHD, 62 GiB ISO → null://):
60 → 322 MB/s warm cache (old new_pipeline path)
60 → 660 MB/s warm cache (highway path, this commit)
60 → 126 MB/s sustained disk-bound
The IsoSectorReader baseline reader was deleted in favour of
FileSectorSource so the freemkv CLI and autorip exercise the same
read path.
MKV: cluster boundaries now require a video keyframe in addition to the
5s minimum, so every cluster has a CuePoint at its start. Pre-first-
keyframe frames are dropped. Adds a SeekHead at Segment start with
fixed-width back-patched SeekPositions for Info/Tracks/Chapters/Cues.
Before this change a 2h26m UHD rip had 52 CuePoints across ~1750
clusters and a 16.5-minute gap between adjacent seek entries; players
seeking inside that gap had to scan from the prior cue. After, one
CuePoint per cluster.
TS (tsmux production path + m2ts_mux): PesFrame.keyframe is plumbed
end-to-end. Codec-private parameter sets are prepended on the first
keyframe (not the first frame); non-key video before any keyframe is
dropped. The first TS packet of a keyframe video PES carries an
adaptation field with random_access_indicator=1. m2ts_mux previously
hardcoded RAI=1 on every PCR packet; that is now gated on the current
PES being a keyframe video PES, combining correctly with PCR when both
land on the same packet.
Adds 17 tests covering keyframe alignment, cue count/position/timing,
SeekHead correctness, RAI set/clear, codec_private gating, non-key drop,
and PCR+RAI combination.
iter13 strace finding: producer thread (mux ISO reader) spends 80%
of wall-clock in state D (NFS RPC wait), doing 207 preads/sec at
103 us each. Pipe is 78 MB/s isolated read; we use ~25 MB/s.
FileSectorSource was using direct per-sector pread (0.21.3 bypass).
That bypass was justified under Phase 2.5 + 0.21.7 producer-poll cap
("32 MiB refill bursts the TCP connection enough to starve the
writer thread"). Both of those conditions are gone now (iter8
baseline: no Phase 2.5, no producer poll cap).
The 4 MiB buffer infrastructure was preserved with #[allow(dead_code)]
in case re-engagement was ever wanted. iter14 just routes the hot
path through buffer_covers + refill + memcpy. Net diff: ~10 LOC of
business logic, 5 unit tests already cover the contract.
Expected: producer's effective read rate jumps from 25 → 60+ MB/s
(matches dd ceiling for 1+ MiB block reads). If consumer side keeps
up, mean mux climbs from 28.7 → 35-50 MB/s. If consumer is now the
cap, we see a clear ceiling around 30-35 and we know where to look
next.
Critically: this change ONLY affects mux-from-ISO. Disc→ISO sweep,
Pass N bad-sector retry, AACS, drive ops, mapfile, recovery — all
untouched (they use DriveSectorSource which is a separate impl).
iter12 revert restored chunk to 128 (iter11 value) by way of the
revert chain. Setting it back explicitly to 32 for iter13. We're
back to iter8 baseline config (no Phase 2.5, 32 MiB chunks,
DONTNEED, no app-level FileSectorSource buffer, channel depth 32).
iter13 is instrumentation: strace the mux thread during a known-dip
to see where time is actually going.
iter11 (128 MiB) crashed to 16.6 mean — chunk-size sweet spot is
firmly 32 MiB. Locking in.
iter12 hypothesis: each NFS write past the file's EOF triggers a
server-side SETATTR (metadata commit) to update the file length.
With ~62 GiB of MKV output and writes at chunk boundaries, that's
thousands of SETATTRs per rip. By using plain fallocate (mode 0)
the file is pre-extended to size_bytes up front; subsequent writes
overwrite the pre-extended region with no metadata ops.
Adds high_water tracking + truncate_at_sync so we ftruncate down
to actual content size if the size hint was an overestimate.
iter9 (64 MiB on top of no-P2.5) regressed -1.2 from iter8. 32 MiB
remains best on the no-P2.5 path. Net iter10 = iter8 minus DONTNEED
(via the prior commit re-applying f4a881b).
iter8 (Phase 2.5 disabled, 32 MiB chunks) hit 28.7 MB/s mean
— 1.3 MB/s below R2 floor. Without Phase 2.5, WAIT_AFTER blocks the
mux thread directly once per chunk. Halving the WAIT_AFTER frequency
(32 → 64 MiB chunks) should raise the mean without changing the
underlying architecture.
iter7's 64 MiB chunks didn't help (23.1 vs iter4's 24.0). Reverting
to 32 MiB so iter8 differs from iter4 by exactly one variable:
Phase 2.5 disabled / direct passthrough mux thread.
Test question: is Phase 2.5 helping at all? If iter8 mean > iter4,
Phase 2.5 has been a net negative on this rig the whole time. If
iter8 mean < iter4, Phase 2.5 is doing what it claimed.
iter6 (8 MiB chunks) regressed mean -8.2 MB/s vs iter4 (32 MiB).
Trend: bigger = better in this workload, against the page-age
theory. Try 64 MiB to see if fewer/larger syncs raise mean further.
0.21.14 went to 128 MiB and was reverted; 64 is between.
iter5 (256-frame channel) regressed -1.8 MB/s vs iter4. Reverting to
32 frames.
iter4 sample pattern shows clear ~30 s oscillation (peak 45 MB/s →
dip 3 MB/s → recovery). Matches Linux vm.dirty_expire_centisecs
default (30 s). 32 MiB chunks at 25 MB/s issue WAIT_AFTER every
~1.3 s, which can't outrun the kernel's own page-age limit, so
pages buildup then flush in bursts. Smaller 8 MiB chunks
(WAIT_AFTER every ~0.33 s) should keep the dirty-page set young
and eliminate the periodic flush-burst dip.
iter4 measurement (Phase 2.5 + DONTNEED, no FileSectorSource buffer)
showed mean 24.0 MB/s but with dips to 2.8 MB/s. Channel at 32 frames
(~1.6 MiB at 50 KB/frame avg) drains in <100 ms on any producer pause,
starving the consumer.
256 frames = ~12 MiB ≈ 3-4 sec of consumer drain at the rolling-avg
floor we want to hit. Should coast through producer micro-stalls
without idle gaps.
iter1 baseline (Phase 2.5 + DONTNEED restored) measured at 18.4 MB/s
mean on Civil War remux — well below the rig's 37 MB/s concurrent-r+w
ceiling. Per-sector pread is the producer-side bottleneck: ~50us per
pread on NFS = ~19k preads/sec = effective ceiling near what we see.
The 0.21.3 bypass commit cited an A/B test showing the buffer hurt
throughput on NFS bidirectional workloads. That test was taken under
the 0.21.7 producer polling cap; once the cap is gone, the cap was
the bottleneck, not the buffer. Same invalidation pattern as the
0.21.5 Phase 2.5 revert.
Restored the buffered path. DONTNEED page-cache eviction from 0.21.6
stays intact.
Three coupled changes that together meet the "stable max throughput
on any medium" bar:
1. Remove `is_nfs` from `skip_wait`. WAIT_AFTER runs on every medium
now. The `bounded_syscall` 30s safety net (already in place) covers
the wedged-FS case generically — no need to predict NFS-hangs at
compile time. Re-applies the 0.21.12 fix that landed the flat
25 MB/s on NFS in the first place.
2. Drop the `posix_fadvise(DONTNEED)` calls after WAIT_AFTER. Bounded
*dirty* pages (the actual invariant) does not require evicting
*clean* pages. DONTNEED was forcing read-modify-write on any
in-window seek-then-write — exactly the pattern matroska
cluster-size backpatches produce. Empirical 2026-05-15: write side
of mux fed NFS at 43 MB/s while the file grew at 25 MB/s, an 18
MB/s overhead almost certainly composed of those RMW cycles. The
kernel reclaims clean pages under LRU when memory is actually
needed — we don't have to ask.
3. Replace `detect_nfs(fd) -> bool` with `detect_storage_class(fd)
-> (StorageClass, chunk_bytes_seed)`. Medium detection happens
*once* at construction and produces *one* output: the initial
`chunk_bytes` seed for the autotuner. NFS gets 64 MiB (commit ack
~10-30 ms; needs bigger chunks to amortize); other media use the
caller's hint. No hot-path branches on medium. The autotuner drives
all subsequent decisions from measured WAIT_AFTER p95 latency,
identically on every (OS, FS) combination.
Module-level doc rewritten to match: no more "NFS escape hatch", no
"is_nfs" framing. The whole writeback module is now medium-agnostic
except for one labelled detection point.
MattJackson