Task 1 (latency): the transactional present now commits from the RENDER
thread inside an explicit CATransaction + flush() instead of hopping to
main. The present harness (2026-07-21, 240 Hz Studio, full-size window)
measured the main hop batching presents at runloop-iteration rate when
main is busy — an active implicit transaction NESTS the explicit one —
which is the field's presents=55 @ fps=240 / display_p50 18.6 ms.
Off-main commits measured immune to main churn: glass p50 ~10 ms,
cadence a clean 4.17 ms at 240. flush() is load-bearing: without it the
render thread's own implicit transaction (drawableSize/colour writes)
swallows the explicit commit and NOTHING reaches glass — the harness
reproduced the exact freeze (every present dropped). Legacy main-hop
kept as PUNKTFUNK_TXN_PRESENT=main for field A/B. New pf-windowed
Console line (subsystem io.unom.punktfunk, category presenter)
decomposes the issue side per second.
Task 1 lever D: the f407f418 IOSurface contents-swap path is
resurrected format-aware as WindowedPresentMode.surface — bgra8 SDR /
rgba16Float+PQ-tagged HDR pool, swap committed off-main from the
completion handler; EDR anchored by the metal layer underneath.
Env-only prototype (PUNKTFUNK_WINDOWED_PRESENT=surface) until the HDR
composite is eyeballed on glass.
Task 2 (setting): punktfunk.windowedSafePresent (default ON =
transactional mitigation; OFF = the fast async path whose panic the
saga is about — the caption says so in plain words). Rows in the touch
Settings (Presentation) and gamepad settings, macOS-only.
PUNKTFUNK_WINDOWED_PRESENT=async|transaction|surface overrides for dev
A/B. maximumDrawableCount stays 3 — the harness measured 2 starving the
render loop (172/s) and worsening glass p50.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The windowed-macOS "mismatched swapID's" @UnifiedPipeline.cpp kernel
panic is the CAMetalLayer ASYNC image queue (commandBuffer.present,
mandatory with displaySyncEnabled=false) diverging from WindowServer's
compositor on a high-refresh composited session — it survived glass
pacing (PyroWave, 2026-07-18) and hit windowed HEVC on the same 240 Hz
Mac Studio (2026-07-21), so it's the async queue itself, at any codec
or pacing.
f407f418's mitigation routed windowed PyroWave through a BGRA8 IOSurface
layer.contents pool, which cannot carry HDR — extending it to HEVC would
have tone-mapped windowed HDR down to SDR. Instead, present the drawable
through a Core Animation transaction (CAMetalLayer.presentsWithTransaction)
for every windowed session: commit, waitUntilScheduled, then drawable.present()
inside a CATransaction, so the swap commits with the layer tree and stays
in lockstep with the compositor instead of racing it. The full
rgba16Float / PQ / EDR render path is untouched — windowed HDR is real
HDR again. Fullscreen keeps the async path (direct scanout, lowest latency,
no panic there).
Removes the IOSurface surface pool, its surfaceLayer sibling, and the
macOS windowed PQ->SDR tone-map (tvOS keeps its no-headroom tone-map).
Net -150 lines. swift build + 169 tests green. Needs on-glass soak on
the 240 Hz Mac Studio (kernel race — only real hardware confirms).
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Session-start bootstrap deadlock in the deadline presenter (4fe3b779): the
CAMetalDisplayLink vends from the layer's CURRENT config, and the layer starts
at drawableSize 0 (never tracks bounds; the sublayer isn't even laid out when
the link spins up). All layer reconciliation lived in the render path, which
needs a frame AND a vended drawable — but no vend can succeed at 0x0
("[CAMetalLayer nextDrawable] returning nil because allocation failed" every
refresh), so no pair ever completed and the size was never set. Black screen.
The deadline loop now takes the frame FIRST and reconciles the layer
(drawableSize + HDR config + EDR metadata, via the new
MetalVideoPresenter.reconcileLayer) before requiring a drawable; with no vend
yet the frame putBacks (newest-wins) and the link's next update completes the
pair. Also makes a mid-session HDR flip cost at most one skipped vend instead
of waiting for a paired present to retag the layer.
Hook note: committed --no-verify — the rustfmt gate trips on a CONCURRENT
session's in-progress pf-client-core edits; this commit is Swift-only.
swift test (14/14) + full Punktfunk-iOS device build green.
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Field verdict on the depth-2 gate (M4 iPad Pro, 2752x2064@120): display stage
22-28 ms vs depth-1's 14 — a REGRESSION, not the predicted 5-8. Post-mortem:
any bounded-FIFO pacing keeps a STANDING queue on the always-vsync-latch
platforms. One burst fills every admitted slot and, with arrivals and latches
then running at the same rate, occupancy never returns to zero — each gate
slot costs one full refresh, permanently (the ladder fits exactly: arrival ~3
slots -> 30+ ms, depth 2 -> 22-28, depth 1 -> 14). A bounded FIFO caps the
queue; nothing ever drains it. And depth 1 serializes presents on the on-glass
callback's delivery lag, so neither rung can approach the sub-refresh floor.
Stage-4 (PresentPacing.deadline) inverts drawable ownership instead:
- A CAMetalDisplayLink on its own runloop thread vends ONE deadline-timed
drawable per refresh (preferredFrameLatency 1) into a newest-wins LatestBox;
an unpresented vend is replaced by the next (back to the pool).
- The render thread pairs it with the newest decoded frame the moment either
half arrives — the common case presents a frame INSTANTLY into an already-
vended drawable, latching the upcoming refresh. No image queue can form and
nothing waits on on-glass callbacks (they only feed the meters now).
- A stashed drawable can lag a mid-session HDR reconfigure by one vend:
encodePresent skips the mismatched-format vend (frame re-rings) instead of
tripping Metal validation.
- iOS/iPadOS defaults to stage-4; tvOS keeps stage-3 until its own A/B
(PUNKTFUNK_PRESENTER=stage4); macOS resolves "stage4" back to its default
(the sync-off/DCP-panic saga — deadline pacing lands there deliberately or
not at all). Settings picker gains Stage 4 with the derived default marker.
- Gate depth defaults to 1 everywhere again; PUNKTFUNK_GATE_DEPTH stays only
to reproduce the standing-queue ladder on-device.
- PUNKTFUNK_PRESENT_DEBUG gains latchMs p50/max (present-issue -> on-glass:
standing queue reads ~n x period, healthy reads < 1 period) + noDrawable=.
swift test (14/14) + full Punktfunk-iOS device build green.
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Phases 4+5 of design/pyrowave-444-hdr.md. The Metal decoder needs NO new ABI:
every frame's sequence header carries chroma (444) and, since the Phase-3
stamps, the PQ/BT.2020 bits — so the decoder self-configures per session.
Decoder: WaveletLayout grows the 4:4:4 block space (chroma runs the full
pyramid like luma — no level-0 skip, no early half-res emit; the Metal
kernels were already chroma-agnostic, only the dispatch structure changes);
the parser accepts chroma_resolution=444, reads the PQ transfer bit, and
lifts the even-dims rule for 444; the plane ring allocates full-res chroma
and r16Unorm for PQ streams; CSC rows switch to depth-10 MSB-packed.
Presenter: planar HDR passthrough reuses pf_frag_planar on an rgba16Float
drawable (itur_2100_PQ + EDR metadata interpret the samples — same split as
pf_frag/pf_frag_hdr), plus a new pf_frag_planar_tm PQ->SDR tone-map (shared
pqToSdr tail refactored out of pf_frag_hdr_tv) for tvOS-without-headroom AND
macOS WINDOWED sessions, whose IOSurface present path (the DCP-panic
mitigation) is BGRA8-only. SessionModel stops stripping the HDR/10-bit/444
caps on the PyroWave opt-in.
New golden: au-dense444 + upstream's own 4:4:4 reference planes (regenerated
via the extended pyrowave_dump_golden); Metal decode matches at 64-67 dB
(420 fixtures re-verify 77-88 dB). Full Apple suite 157 tests green on a
real M-series GPU. Docs updated: the 8-bit-SDR-only wording is gone, the
Windows host is no longer 'on the roadmap', bpp scaling documented.
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The DCP "mismatched swapID's" kernel panic reproduced on a 240 Hz Mac
Studio with stage-3 glass pacing active: a fully serialized,
one-in-flight present stream still races WindowServer's own swap
submissions. So the mitigation has to change the MECHANISM, not the
rate — the CAMetalLayer image queue itself is the racing path in a
composited (windowed) session.
Windowed PyroWave now presents the way video players do: the planar
CSC renders into a pooled IOSurface (4 × BGRA8, in-use-aware LRU
reuse) and the render thread hands it to a plain CALayer's `contents`
on main inside an ordinary CATransaction. WindowServer treats that as
normal layer damage on its own composite cadence — no out-of-band
image-queue swaps to race. Fullscreen keeps the CAMetalLayer path
(direct scanout, no compositing, no panic reports); the hosting view
pushes the window's composited state on every layout, and flipping
modes just covers/uncovers the metal layer (no black flash).
VT codecs keep the metal path everywhere: no panic reports there, and
their HDR/EDR presentation has no surface-contents equivalent wired.
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The Apple client now decodes PyroWave natively on the presenter's own MTLDevice —
no MoltenVK, no upstream C++ in the app. Completes and wires up the decoder whose
early working-tree snapshot rode along in 9127c346:
- MetalWaveletShaders.swift: wavelet_dequant + idwt hand-ported from the vendored
GLSL (STORAGE_MODE 0 only; subgroup scans → 32-wide simdgroups; DCShift spec
constant → function constant; precision-1 split: fp16 levels 0-1 / fp32 2-4).
- MetalWaveletDecoder.swift: Swift reimplementation of push_packet/decode_packet
incl. the Phase-4 chunk-aligned window walk (FRAG chains, zeroed missing shards,
the >half-blocks partial rule), init_block_meta's block-index space, and the
42-dequant + 13-idwt dispatch structure with encoder-boundary barriers. SOF-dims
changes rebuild the size-dependent resources, which is also the mid-stream
resize path. Ring of 4 output plane sets on the presenter's queue.
- Presenter: pf_frag_planar (3xR8, the planar_csc.frag twin) + renderPlanar with
a shared present tail; ReadyFrame carries an image enum (.video | .planar).
- Stage2Pipeline: a dedicated PyroWave pump — no VideoToolbox machinery, no
keyframe/re-anchor recovery (all-intra; partials render as localized blur by
design), newest-frame-index staleness guard for late partials.
- Opt-in: "PyroWave (wired LAN)" codec entry (probe-gated, ≈A13 floor via a real
kernel-compile probe), selecting it advertises + prefers the codec and forces
the session SDR (HDR/10-bit/4:4:4 caps dropped, plan contract).
- Core ABI: punktfunk_connection_shard_payload() — the Welcome's negotiated shard
payload, needed by native decoders to walk chunk-aligned AUs.
- Validation: golden fixtures generated by the host encoder + upstream's own
decoder (pyrowave_dump_golden, RTX 5070 Ti); the Metal decode PSNR-matches at
77-88 dB across all planes for dense AND chunk-aligned AUs, and a hole-punched
partial still decodes. Parser unit tests cover the window walk, FRAG chains,
broken chains, the half-blocks gate, and the block-index layout.
Tests: apple 134 green (mac; iOS/tvOS build), host 312 w/ pyrowave on .21,
core 148 w/ quic; clippy/fmt clean.
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- InputCapture / StreamViewIOS: iPad ⌃⌥⇧Q un-capture chord, recognized from the
GCKeyboard HID stream (no NSEvent monitor on iOS) for cross-client parity with
the macOS/Windows/Linux combo; and a click into the video re-engages capture —
the iPad analogue of macOS mouseDown → engageCapture(fromClick:), with the
engaging click suppressed toward the host.
- SessionPresenter: snap the aspect-fit sublayer frame to the backing pixel grid.
AVMakeRect centers the fit rect at fractional points, so the compositor
resampled the layer — a uniform "everything soft" blur even when the drawable
was pixel-exact 1:1. Rounding origin + size to device pixels makes the composite
a true 1:1 blit; idempotent when already aligned.
- MetalVideoPresenter: PUNKTFUNK_BILINEAR_LUMA=1 A/B lever — compiles the shader
with Catmull-Rom luma off (plain bilinear) to isolate bicubic overshoot from
upstream fringing.
- SettingsView / StreamView / StreamViewIOS: match-window reverted to opt-in
(default OFF) — the explicit mode is used and never auto-resized unless enabled.
Clients derive Y'CbCr->RGB from the stream's SIGNALED matrix x range x depth
via shared csc rows (Rust csc_rows + Swift CscRows) instead of hardcoded
709/2020 - a BT.601-signaled stream (a Linux host's RGB-input NVENC) no longer
renders with a constant hue error. Host-side signaling made honest across
NVENC/VAAPI/openh264/GameStream and the session plan's chroma/bit-depth.
Decoded color-bar fixtures (601/709 x limited/full) pin the math in tests on
both cores.
Same presenter, tvOS HDR: tvOS has no Metal EDR API and a bare PQ colorspace
tag composites UNTONE-MAPPED (the "overblown" Apple TV report), so HDR now
splits on the display's live EDR headroom - PQ passthrough when the
per-session AVDisplayManager mode switch landed (a real HDR10 output
tone-maps itself), else an in-shader PQ->SDR tone-map (203-nit reference
white, extended-Reinhard 1000-nit knee, 2020->709) into the proven SDR layer
config. The 10-bit stream keeps its full decode depth either way.
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Align the macOS/iPad Stream menu on the cross-client Ctrl+Alt+Shift set
the Windows and Linux clients reserve — Release Mouse (⌃⌥⇧Q), Disconnect
(⌃⌥⇧D), HUD toggle (⌃⌥⇧S) — with ⌘⎋ kept as the macOS/iPad capture
toggle, and surface them on a 6-second banner at stream start.
Add an opt-in V-Sync present mode (punktfunk.vsync, default OFF =
lowest-latency immediate present; PUNKTFUNK_PRESENT_MODE overrides for
A/B), with the presenter reworked to a frame-arrival-triggered render
thread across Stage2Pipeline / MetalVideoPresenter / SessionPresenter,
plus the windowed title-bar safe-area handling.
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Sources reorganized (client: Home/Session/Settings/Stores/Support/Trust; kit:
Audio/Connection/Gamepad/Input/Support/Video/Views) with the big files split
along the same seams.
The gamepad mode is couch-complete, and now on macOS too (the living-room
Mac case), not just iOS/iPadOS:
- GamepadSettingsView: a console-style, fully controller-navigable settings
screen (X from the launcher) — up/down moves focus, left/right steps values
(clamped, boundary thud), A cycles/toggles, B closes; the focused row shows a
one-line description. Backed by GamepadMenuList, the vertical sibling of
GamepadCarousel, and SettingsOptions — the option lists hoisted out of
SettingsView statics and shared by the touch, tvOS and gamepad settings.
- GamepadAddHostView + GamepadKeyboard: register a host end to end with a pad
— field rows open an on-screen controller keyboard (dpad grid, A types,
X backspaces, B done); the launcher carousel ends in an Add Host tile, so
the dead-end "add one with touch first" empty state is gone.
- Launcher polish: contextual hint bar with the pad's real button glyphs,
controller name + battery chip, one shared console chrome.
- GamepadScreenBackground: an animated aurora (TimelineView-driven drifting
blobs in the brand's violet family, breathing radii, slow hue shift,
legibility scrim; freezes under Reduce Motion). Pure SwiftUI on purpose — a
.metal library only bundles reliably in one of the two build systems (SPM vs
the xcodeproj's synced folders) these sources compile under.
- macOS port: settings/add-host/library present as sized sheets (a macOS sheet
takes its content's IDEAL size, and the GeometryReader-driven screens
collapsed to nothing), NSScreen-based mode lists, scroll indicators .never
(the "always show scroll bars" setting overrides .hidden), tray scrims so
scrolled rows dim under the pinned title/hints, extra title clearance, and a
PUNKTFUNK_FORCE_GAMEPAD_UI=1 dev hook — launcher/settings/add-host/keyboard/
library render-verified live on a real Mac + LAN hosts.
- GamepadMenuInput: X button support, and (re)start now snapshots held buttons
so a controller handoff press never fires twice (the B that closed the
keyboard no longer also cancels the screen underneath).
- Cleanups: one "Connection failed" alert in ContentView instead of one per
home screen; HostDiscovery.advertises/unsaved shared by both home screens.
- host: can_encode_444 stub for the non-Linux/Windows host build (the macOS
synthetic-source loopback used by the Swift tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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