The expand loops broke out of the batch sweep on the first failing read,
overshooting the good/dead boundary by up to a batch and leaving the
readable sectors adjacent to a dead edge for the re-bisect to re-pin. On
top of that, early-yield counted those boundary-probe failures as a
stall, so the forward expand quit early AND the backward expand inherited
a poisoned unproductive counter and yielded instantly.
Now on a failed expand batch we halve the step (down to a single sector)
to recover right up to the dead edge in ~log2(batch) reads, drive the
expand loops off the deadline only (they self-terminate via halving), and
clear the unproductive streak once an island is located. patch_recovers_
good_middle_of_a_bad_range now recovers 50/50 good-middle sectors.
Matthew Jackson
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