Pre-0.17.11 sweep ran strictly serialised: SCSI read → decrypt → seek
+ write → mapfile.record → next read. Drive idled for the post-read
work; throughput capped at the sum of both costs. On a healthy disc
that's ~7-12 ms read + ~5-15 ms write/record per 64 KB batch, limiting
sustained throughput to ~10-12 MB/s on the test bed (BU40N + UHD inner
zone), well below the ~14-16 MB/s drive ceiling.
Decouples them: producer thread (caller's) owns SectorReader +
read_error state + decrypt + set_speed + halt; consumer thread (one
spawn) owns Writer + Mapfile, receives WorkItem messages, applies
file write + mapfile record. Bounded mpsc::sync_channel(4) gives
natural back-pressure. While the consumer writes batch N, the
producer is already reading batch N+1 — steady-state throughput is
now bound by the slower of the two pipelines (drive on healthy
discs), not their sum.
Side effects:
- Bisect path now decrypts. Pre-0.17.11 the bisect inner loop wrote
raw cyphertext for single-sector recoveries on encrypted discs —
quiet correctness bug exercised only by batch-fail-then-
bisect-succeed on encrypted media. New producer-side decrypt
covers main + bisect success paths uniformly.
- All read_ctx state stays single-threaded on producer (damage
window, jump multiplier, etc.). No locking added.
- Mapfile remains single-writer on consumer. No locking.
- Halt latency: producer breaks loop, sends Finish, consumer drains
≤4 in-flight items + sync_all. ~1 batch (~12 ms) typical.
- BU40N + Initio bridge wedge concern unchanged: still single SCSI
command in flight, error-path timing identical, no new retries.
New module: src/disc/sweep_pipeline.rs (WorkItem, ProgressSnapshot,
ConsumerInputs, spawn_consumer, consumer_loop, helpers). Public API
unchanged — Disc::copy / CopyOptions / CopyResult identical.
Patch (Pass N) is NOT changed; it's bound by drive recovery time, not
the read/write serialisation.