An online room this build hosts asks the lobby server for transport "host"
(match_caps.relay): the host carries the match on its own UDP port and
guests dial it; the server's relay (SFU) is the fallback when a guest's
probe fails (recomp-net-server WS_LOBBY.md "Host relay"). The mechanics are
recomp-net's recomp_net/host_relay.h, pinned here (lib/recomp-net b0751b7);
this engine's own lobby-client copy gets the same glue as rnet_lobby_client:
the cap (emitted only when asked), the launch's transport ->
PsxLobbyJoinInfo.transport_host (force_input_relay 0; the host accepts
first / hubs instead of dialling the guest's LAN address), each seat's
published path / path_fresh, host_relay_step() from psx_lobby_pump, and
unmap on leave / disconnect.
psx_netplay: transport_host takes the LAN / hub path instead of the "MotK
online needs the SFU" rule. main.cpp: relay_host_get/set + relay_status
for recomp-ui (Network Settings / MATCH SETTINGS / ROOM "Match Relay"),
transport_host on the launch and into PsxNetplayConfig, and the
host==guest-advertise SFU inference skipped on a host launch; all under
RECOMP_LAUNCHER_HAS_HOST_RELAY so older recomp-ui pins still build.
Compile-checked against workspace recomp-ui 58604b0 (MOTK scratch
configure: full build and link).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hub holds the lobby seat; the game settles everything itself
(retcomm-launcher docs/NETPLAY_HANDOFF.md):
- psx_lobby_ingest_record replays the hub's seat/room/launch messages
through handle_server_json, so fill_launch answers as in-game.
- --netplay-query answers what this build's lobby would send: disc_fp,
set_ready (BIOS offer), start (default caps; settled from a room).
- set_ready/start builders and the host start-caps settle are factored out
unchanged and shared by in-game PLAY and the query.
- A handed-off match ends the process (the hub holds the room).
Two CTR processes from records, local relay: all 80 live digests equal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Preserve current segmented dispatch, active-plan mod hooks and software scale limits. Extend function filters through the active plan, retain the last-store pointer with overlay ABI 25, and keep default config fingerprints stable. Refresh BIOS emitter stamps after byte-identical regeneration and reconcile regression fixtures.
A buildable dump used to verify as usable and then block at Play behind a
modal while the module compiled. Now:
- ae_bios_verify reports a buildable, not-yet-cached dump as needs_regen,
and the runtime wires recomp-ui's new bios_prepare_with_progress job
(ae_bios_prepare) whenever the toolchain is present and no Generate host
is: the launcher runs the build as a progress job from the wizard's
"Prepare BIOS" button or the Play prompt, re-verifies, and resumes the
wizard. Generate & rebuild is never offered for a BIOS in a bundled build.
- psx_bios_module.c gains a progress sink fed from the builder's output
lines (dump / emit / compile / self-check / published map to stage
percentages with readable messages); run_command streams lines on both
platforms.
- The launch-time build stays as the fallback for --bios / --no-launcher.
Requires recomp-ui 9f86c49 (GameInfo.bios_prepare_with_progress).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bundled releases link OpenBIOS only; retail-BIOS-derived C never ships.
"Bring your own BIOS" now works without it: when a dump matching a shipped
profile (psx_bios_known_images.h) is selected, the runtime builds that
backend on the player's machine with the overlay toolchain the release
already carries, caches it, and loads it as one more registered backend.
- runtime/include/psx_bios_module.h: the module contract. An overlay-style
self-contained shared library (no imports from the executable) exporting
psx_bios_module_{abi,codegen_hash,init,backend}; reaches the runtime only
through OverlayCallbacks plus a new PsxBiosModuleCallbacks table (traps,
dirty-RAM/kernel-bless probes, fntrace, log_probe) and pointer aliases of
the globals the generated dispatcher touches. Its #defines rewrite the
emitter's own extern lines, so the generated C compiles unchanged.
- runtime/include/psx_bios_module_glue.c.inc: module-side forwarders and the
four exports, compiled after overlay_dispatch_preamble.c.inc.
- runtime/src/psx_bios_module.c: host side. Cache path
<exe>/cache/bios/<os-arch>/bm<abi>_<codegen hash>_f<flavor>/<STEM>_<crc>,
ABI + codegen-hash gated load, callback fill, and a blocking build via
overlay_toolchain/bios_module_build.py (gcc via compiler.txt or PATH,
else tcc), then psx_bios_register().
- psx_bios_backend.c: the registry is now a mutable table seeded from the
CMake-generated psx_bios_builtin_registry by a constructor, with
psx_bios_register(); every existing walker keeps working.
- main.cpp: validate_bios_for_launch acquires a module (announcing a first
build) before declaring a mismatch; discovery accepts a buildable dump;
the launcher verify reports it usable ("ready" / "compiled on first
launch") with no Generate & rebuild; the BIOS row shows whenever the
toolchain is present; bundled_only respects module support.
- emitter: the CPS-marker constructor is not emitted in a module build.
- overlay_api.h: OverlayCallbacks gains a struct tag;
overlay_loader_callbacks() exposes the host table before loader init.
- tools/bios_module_build.py (ships in the toolchain): identity + profile
SHA-256 gate, staged emitter tree, emit, three-TU compile, ctypes
self-check, atomic publish. release_stage.py stages psxrecomp-bios, every
bios/*.toml, the seeds and the builder into overlay_toolchain/.
- Tests: runtime/tests/test_bios_module_host.c against three fake modules
(good / wrong ABI / wrong hash) on real dlopen; recompiler/tests/
test_bios_module_build.py builds the bundled OpenBIOS end to end and reads
the descriptor back; guards extended.
Verified on Twisted Metal 4 (bundled build + staged toolchain, headless):
first launch with --bios SCPH1001.BIN builds and loads the module and boots
on image=SCPH-1001; the second launch loads it from cache.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A netplay match that ends early returns both players to the lobby. The
runtime knew why (netplay_soft_exit's origin) but only printed it to
stdout, so players saw the lobby again with no reason. A boot-digest
mismatch (peers booted different BIOS images or boot settings) first
held a black window for the full 20 s admit-stall watchdog.
netplay_soft_exit now records a sentence for its origin, and the soft
return to the lobby puts it on the launcher's status line through
last_error (the room and browser views already show it). The dig0 gate
timestamps a mismatch; once the same pair of digests has held for 3 s,
the watchdog ends the match with its own reason. A peer that gets the
other side's BYE while it sees the same mismatch reports the mismatch,
not "the other player left". A CLI match prints the sentence to stderr.
The origin-to-text map and the grace decision live in
netplay_exit_reason.c, covered by netplay_exit_reason_test. Builds on
the previous commit's psx_lobby_set_last_error.
The lobby's BIOS identity was a two-value token, openbios or scph1001,
and scph1001 meant "some retail dump". An SCPH-5552 peer and an
SCPH-1001 peer both offered it, the host settled it, each peer booted
its own image, and the rollback boot digest never matched: about 20 s
of black window, then both players back in the lobby with no reason
(reported in #243).
Each offer now carries the CRC-32 of the retail image that peer would
boot (online bios_offer.retail_crc; LAN JOIN line 6). The host settles
retail only when every seat offers the same CRC, else OpenBIOS when
every seat links it, else refuses to start and puts the reason on the
launcher's status line ("Players use different BIOS images (SCPH-5552
and SCPH-1001) ..."). The settled CRC ships in match_caps
(session_bios_crc) and on MOTK1 START line 7, and each peer boots only a
dump with that CRC. Rooms where every peer has the same image keep
working, including SCPH-5552-only builds with no OpenBIOS. Old peers
send no CRC, so a mixed old/new room falls back to OpenBIOS or refuses;
a session from an old host still accepts any retail dump. The lobby
server relays bios_offer and match_caps as opaque objects, so it needs
no change.
The rule lives in netplay_bios_settle.c, shared by the online and LAN
paths and covered by netplay_bios_settle_test. last_error grows to fit
one sentence, with psx_lobby_set_last_error to set it.
docs/SEGMENT_AWARE_CODE.md §5.7 (decision 4). #417 made every KUSEG and
KSEG1 overlay dispatch fall to the interpreter, because every shard was
compiled for KSEG0. The loader now keys shards by segment, so a shard
compiled for KUSEG or KSEG1 runs for PCs of that segment.
Cache layout. KSEG0 shards keep their directory and {phys}_{crc} names, so
no existing cache is invalidated. KUSEG and KSEG1 shards live in the cache
tag's seg-kuseg/ and seg-kseg1/ subdirectories, under the same names; both
tiers scan them, and a shard's segment is its directory's
(cache_seg_from_path).
Manifest. A KUSEG or KSEG1 manifest starts with `S <segment>` (00000000 or
A0000000) before its first F. F entries are full VAs in that segment; the
parser no longer forces them to KSEG0. R records stay KSEG0-spelled byte
extents. Without S a manifest is KSEG0, as before. Refused, when indexing,
when loading and through live publication alike:
- a manifest whose segment differs from its directory's;
- an F entry outside its segment;
- S after an F, S twice, or S that is not a RAM segment base.
Dispatch. Each candidate records its segment. The physical indexes stay (the
bytes are one identity), and every lookup matches the PC's segment:
- the entry chain (idx_head_seg);
- CPS continuation ownership;
- the lazy manifest index and try_load_region;
- the interpreter's native-call contract.
The lazy-miss and range-owner memos are keyed by the full PC. A PC in a
segment that maps no RAM never runs a shard. Exports are resolved by their
full VA.
Counters. segment_alias_interp (from #417) now counts KUSEG/KSEG1 dispatches
the loader leaves to the interpreter because no shard of their segment is
cached or valid yet. The new segment_native counts those a shard of their
own segment runs. Both are in the TCP overlay_loader_status reply. A warm
cache takes the first to 0.
Full-VA compares:
- the overlay idle note's return test compares the resume PC with $ra
exactly, and counts it as internal only for a running shard of its segment;
- the shadow diff's two "returned to the caller" tests compare the exact PC;
- the diff mode's kernel-window exclusion tests the physical address, so
KSEG0 and KUSEG kernel candidates are treated alike. Before, it tested the
full PC, so only a KUSEG PC ever matched, and #417's gate never let one reach
it. This is opt-in (PSX_OVERLAY_DIFF).
Tests (loader harness, overlay_segment_gate):
- a KUSEG shard runs natively for its KUSEG PCs, entry and continuation,
while KSEG0/KSEG1 aliases are interpreted;
- one shard per segment for the same word, preloaded and lazy;
- a stale own-segment shard is interpreted rather than handed to another
segment's;
- a KUSEG continuation where KSEG0 has an entry at that word, and a lazy one
whose competing KSEG0 bundle is newer;
- refused manifests, including through live publication;
- the native-call contract;
- a source check that the interpreter records the segment from the full PC,
and that no site clears dispatch evidence without its segment bits.
The harness gains a segment-run scenario that drives real compiled shards
through a CPS dispatch loop. overlay_init_guard and overlay_retry_c11 follow
the per-segment lookup, and so do the disabled interpreter_perf_guards'
negative-miss and try_load_region checks (it still stops where it did on D).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/SEGMENT_AWARE_CODE.md §5.7. Overlay bytes are segment-free, but a PC
is not: a KUSEG, KSEG0 or KSEG1 entry of the same word links, traps, fetches
and stamps store PCs in its own segment, so each needs a shard compiled for
that segment. Capture kept only the physical word, so every shard was
compiled for KSEG0 and #417's gate interpreted the other segments forever.
dirty_ram_interp.h adds one sibling bitmap per segment that maps RAM
(g_dirty_ram_dispatch_seg_bitmap[3]; 768 KiB for the 8 MiB backing).
dirty_ram_dispatch_inner sets the bit for the full PC next to the existing
any-segment bit, once per interpreted dispatch. A PC in 0x20000000-0x7FFFFFFF
or KSEG2 addresses no RAM in Beetle and gets no bit.
dirty_ram_dispatch_evidence_clear() drops both together at every site that
dropped dispatch evidence: boot reset, a store into an executed page, DMA
preservation and the autocapture epoch. Snapshot jobs copy the siblings.
Capture schema v3 adds, per region,
"dispatch_entry_segments": {"kuseg": [...], "kseg0": [...], "kseg1": [...]}
with each PC spelled in its segment. dispatch_entry_pcs keeps its v2 meaning
(dispatched in any segment) and KSEG0 spelling, so existing readers are
unaffected. A record without the field is KSEG0 only.
Guest behaviour is unchanged: the bitmaps are host-only capture evidence and
are not saved in savestates. overlay_capture_retry_test checks the v3 record
through both writers (the background epoch and the synchronous final
capture), including that a cleared epoch's segment does not outlive it.
psx_ram_runtime_map_stubs.c defines the new bitmap, which memory.c's write
paths now reference, so psx_ram_runtime_map_test still links on GNU
toolchains. The disabled interpreter_perf_guards check follows the evidence
clear (it would otherwise contradict overlay_segment_gate's wiring check).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
psx_call_contract and the BIOS dispatch loop compared a return PC with the
call's link physically ((a ^ b) & 0x1FFFFFFF). A PC carries a segment, and
the link a call writes is in the segment of the body that made it
(docs/SEGMENT_AWARE_CODE.md §5.5). A guest that returns to another
segment's alias of the call site did not return to that body, so letting
the suspended C continuation run there would execute it with the wrong
segment's PCs. §5.5 deferred these checks to this PR so one call contract
has one rule. All five are exact now:
- psx_call_contract (cpu_state.h): the bail-resolve PC and the $ra check;
- the emitted BIOS dispatch loop: the return boundary, the bail resolve, the
wild-return test and the exception-stack straddle.
Since B routes every baked link through runtime_pc() and C/D compile each
body for the segment it runs in, a legitimate return always matches in
full. The ledger gains the exact-return-contract guard: it compiles
psx_call_contract and checks that another segment's alias starts a bail and
resolves nothing, and that the emitted OpenBIOS dispatch has the four exact
checks and no masked one.
OpenBIOS and SCPH-1001 dispatch C change in those four lines; game C does
not change. cpu_state.h is in the codegen hash.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SCPH-1001's reset code enters its relocated kernel through the uncached
alias (lui $a0,0xA000; addiu $a0,$a0,0x500; jr $a0 at ROM 0xBFC0044C).
Beetle charges those four instructions as uncached fetches, 20 cycles; the
BIOS dispatch normalized 0xA0000500 to the kernel body compiled for runtime
0x00000500, which charges cached fetches, 11. That is the -9 cycles left at
SCPH-1001's kernel entry since #429 (docs/SEGMENT_AWARE_CODE.md §3.3).
A BIOS seed that is a runtime PC inside a relocated copy window, in another
segment than the window runs in, now asks for a segment variant (§5.4): the
function at those ROM bytes and its direct-edge closure (branch and J/JAL
targets that leave it, the call return and fall-through past its end) are
emitted again with the seed's segment. Every PC a variant computes from its
own PCs is in that segment (links, fetch tags and the uncached test, IRQ
resume, branch, J and fallthrough targets, store and exception PCs), a KSEG1
variant charges a fetch per instruction, and a jump-table case in another
segment is dispatched instead of continuing locally. Variants and their
continuations get exact-PC rows in a segment_variant_table. A variant seed
that names no emitted function entry stops the build, and so does one in a
segment that does not map physical memory (0x20000000-0x7FFFFFFF, KSEG2).
The dispatch still finds the word by its normalized key (and applies the
kernel-bless guard); a new psx_bios_hit_body() then picks the body for the
exact PC. A variant compiled for that PC runs. Any other PC in another
segment than the one the word's home body was compiled for still runs the
home body, as before, but is now recorded as a BIOS segment miss in the
segment-miss ring (kind "bios", with the home PC), so a new alias entry is
loud instead of silent (§5.5). psx_bios_key_home_pc(), emitted from the
address model, gives each key's home runtime PC: its copy window's runtime
address, or the ROM run in place. The ring, TCP segment_misses and the exit
report carry each entry's kind; tools/collect_game_misses.py lists a BIOS
segment miss for the BIOS seeds instead of writing it into the game's.
SCPH-1001's seeds gain 0xA0000500 (kernel_entry_kseg1): a 4-instruction
KSEG1 variant of kernel_trampoline_0. Every BIOS's dispatch C gains the two
helpers and calls psx_bios_hit_body() where it called the home body. A BIOS
without variant seeds (OpenBIOS, SCPH-101, SCPH-5552) keeps its full C;
SCPH-1001's full C gains the variant body and its dispatch C the one-row
segment_variant_table.
New bios_segment_variants test: OpenBIOS with KSEG1 variants of kernel
0x12BC (closure 0x6F8 by jal and 0x70C by fall-through) and 0x13F4 (0x1424
by a conditional branch only) and a KSEG0 variant of kernel memset 0x540 (a
KUSEG jump table), plus a static check of SCPH-1001's seed. It compiles the
emitted lookup, with and without variants, and queries every variant row,
every home key's home PC (checked against the PC each function body was
compiled for) and every other segment's alias of it. Seeds in a segment
that does not map physical memory stop the build, and a runtime PC in its
window's own segment stays a discovery seed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A PC carries a segment, and the game dispatch table is about to be keyed by
the full PC (docs/SEGMENT_AWARE_CODE.md §5.5). A PC whose physical word has a
compiled row only in another segment then has no body of its own: dispatch
interprets it through the existing clean-text-miss path and never runs the
other segment's body. Decision 2 in §10 is to interpret such a miss loudly
until the title is regenerated, so record it:
- psx_segment_miss.{c,h}: classification (the other segment's row at the
same word, through psx_game_is_function_entry), an always-on ring with the
full PC, the row that exists, $ra, $sp and the frame, and a per-PC count.
- dirty_ram_dispatch_inner hands every clean-text miss to
psx_segment_miss_note(), which records it when the PC has no row of its
own while another segment's alias does.
- TCP: new `segment_misses` (summary, or {"tail":N}); `dispatch_stats`
gains segment_miss_total/_unique; the emu-thread ping reports the total.
- psx_last_run_report.json gains a `segment_misses` section (top 50 PCs).
- psx_segment_miss_test covers classification, the note helper, the ring,
wrap-around and the summary order. segment_miss_wiring_test (a source
guard) pins the helper's call in dirty_ram_dispatch_inner, the TCP
command and its summary row shape, the dispatch_stats and ping fields and
the exit-report section, which no unit test can reach.
Nothing is recorded with a dispatcher generated before the exact lookup: its
physical lookup finds a row for every alias, so the check never fires.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Only CPU stores are cache-isolated. Mods, the FMV skip, debug pokes, the
bg2d ring fill and the exception sentinel write guest memory from the host;
they now go through psx_host_write_*, which bypasses isc_store the way DMA
does, so a host store inside a FlushCache window reaches memory instead of
rewriting an I-cache tag. The render-pass checkpoint restores the new depth
counter like the DMA depth. isc_store_test covers it (a lane-0 host store in
tag-test mode would otherwise mark a cold line valid).
Docs: the SCPH-1001 residual starts at kernel init 0x598, and without #429
the fix removes 113 of the 126 OpenBIOS flush cycles.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
memory.c dropped every store made while SR.IsC was set. Beetle's
PS_CPU::WriteMemory sends them to the caches instead
(mednafen/psx/cpu.cpp:482-512), before any address decode:
- I-cache enabled (BIU bit 11) with a tag-test, invalidate or lock mode
bit: the store rewrites the tag and valid bits of its line. This is how
FlushCache (A 44h) and the boot cache init invalidate the I-cache.
- D-cache enabled with lock mode clear ((BIU & 0x81) == 0x80): the store
lands in the scratchpad at addr & 0x3FF.
- Nothing reaches the bus, the BIU register at 0xFFFE0130 included.
psx_icache_isc_store transcribes the tag write; memory.c's three store
chokepoints call it (and the scratchpad write) first, so compiled code,
overlay shards and both interpreters share it. DMA writes are not CPU
stores and now bypass IsC, as in Beetle. A render pass applies the same
effect (its checkpoint restores tags and scratchpad), and the overlay
shadow record fails closed on an isolated store, which its replay
cannot redo.
isc_store_test drives the real memory.c and psx_icache.c: 15 of its
checks fail on master.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Beetle's ReadInstruction never fills an I-cache line for a fetch at
0xA0000000 or above: every such fetch costs +4 and clears the pending load
give-back. The dirty-RAM interpreter charges that by fetching at every PC.
Both static emitters emitted psx_icache_fetch only at cache-line leaders,
which is exact for cached code only. In OpenBIOS, 5,477 of the 9,592
in-place ROM (KSEG1) instruction sites were uncharged: 21,908 cycles short
per pass through that code, each also missing its give-back clear.
Both emitters now charge a fetch before every instruction whose runtime PC
is uncached. The predicate is psx_fetch_uncached in psx_instr_cost.h, which
psx_icache.c now uses too. The A0/B0/C0 call-vector native stubs charge one
fetch per executed word, so a KSEG1 call pays like the interpreter. Cached
code keeps the leader rule. R4's regenerated game C is byte-identical, and
the OpenBIOS diff is insertions only. psx_instr_cost.h joins the codegen
hash list, since the emitters fold it into emitted code.
Tests:
- ctest uncached_fetch_charge runs psxrecomp-bios on OpenBIOS and compares
per-instruction fetch charges three ways: the compiled fetches, the
interpreter's fetch path (psx_icache_fetch_interp) at every PC, and a
Beetle transcription.
- uncached_fetch_codegen_test checks the game emitter at KSEG1 and KSEG0.
Both tests fail on master. This closes bios-kseg1-fetch-charge in the
segment_aware_codegen ledger (#419).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Only passes that run are measured. The first passes of a race can all run in
a transient (a busy host, code run for the first time): in earlier Grand
Prix runs the three warm-up passes measured 13-15 ms against a steady 3-7 ms
at the same setting. An estimate that high prices most plans out, no pass
runs to correct it, and a plugin that crossfades while passes are shed (R4
Frame Rate) stayed on the crossfade for most or all of the run: 4, 9 and 29
passes in 22 s at 300 Hz, 7 in a verify run at 120 Hz, against about 1400
when the first passes were fast.
render_pass_cost_note_plan() (render_pass_plan.c) counts the plans that
wanted passes since the last measured pass. After 30 (about a second of a
30 Hz game) the warm-up restarts, so plans ask for one pass until three have
been measured again. When the new median is more than 3/4 of the old
estimate, the old one was right (a size that is truly too expensive, or a
host at its limit) and the next wait doubles, up to 960 plans, so these
one-pass warm-ups stay rare; a re-measure that finds the estimate stale
keeps the wait at 30. render_pass_stats reports cost_rewarms.
render_pass_plan_test covers the restart after 30 plans, an estimate that
passes keep measuring never restarting, the minimum wait after a stale
estimate, and the doubling waits when re-measures confirm the estimate
(47 ms at 4K, 10 ms re-measured as 9); render_pass_guards pins the planner's
call and its one-pass re-plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The emitter writes both helpers at a listed bgez_sites or
clip_edge_x_load_sites address whose instruction matches in overlay code
too, but overlay_dispatch_preamble.c.inc did not define them, so such a
shard failed to link (macOS, Windows) or to load (Linux dlopen RTLD_NOW)
and its overlay stayed interpreted.
The preamble now defines both over psx_ws_x_margin(), with the same pure
math gpu.c uses (ws_cull_edge.h, stdint-only, staged with the other
runtime headers). ws_cull_edge.h joins the shard compile surface in
codegen_hash_sources.cmake. overlay_shim_compile_contract links a shim
that calls both with the emitter's extern declarations, and
overlay_widescreen_callbacks runs them in an executable: identity with no
margin callback, widened at margin 120, interior clip edges unchanged.
Both fail without the definitions.
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render_pass_plan_phases() treated an unknown pass cost (0) as free, so the
first plans of a process scheduled every phase up to the slot cap. The
passes that allocate textures are left out of the average (up to 8 in a
row), so the first two frames ran at full count, and after an aspect or
resolution change the stale cost of the old size stayed in force. Passes
run on the emulation thread: at 4K (46.9 ms a pass) the first race frames
stalled the guest by several passes each.
- An unknown cost with a budget now plans one pass: it measures the cost
and costs the guest at most one pass per frame while it is learnt.
- The cost is a RenderPassCost (render_pass_plan.c), replacing
render_pass_cost_sample: the same allocation rule, then a warm-up of
three kept samples whose median seeds the average. Until then the
estimate is unknown. With one-pass plans a single slow first pass (a busy
host) would otherwise set the average alone, and a plan that sheds every
pass never measures again.
- The renderer keys the cost to the presented image size: a plan at
another size passes an unknown cost, and the first pass there starts the
cost over.
- RENDER_PASSES.md no longer claims passes never slow the guest, and says
a cost above every frame's budget keeps passes shed until the size
changes.
render_pass_plan_test covers the one-pass plan (none without budget), the
warm-up median (one outlier ignored; a truly expensive size still prices
itself out) and the allocation rule; render_pass_guards pins the size key.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Matthew Stanley