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design/latency-reduction-2026-07.md T2.5's Linux half: the LINEAR dmabuf path (gamescope's only offer) fed NVENC RGB, paying its internal RGB->YUV CSC on the SM the game is saturating — the exact contention §5.A removed everywhere else. The Vulkan bridge now carries a buffer-to-buffer RGB->NV12 compute shader (rgb2nv12_buf.comp, BT.709 limited, coefficient-identical to pf-encode's rgb2yuv.comp; whole-word writes so no 8-bit-storage feature is needed): import dmabuf -> dispatch CSC into the exportable buffer -> CUDA de-strides both planes into a pooled two-plane NV12 buffer. PUNKTFUNK_NV12 (default-on) now covers LINEAR; a CSC failure latches RGB for the stream (mid-frame fallback, no dropped frame); 4:4:4 LINEAR sessions stay RGB (never silently subsample). New ImportKind::LinearNv12 rides the existing worker IPC (appended last per the wire-tag rule); cursor stays downstream (blend_nv12). Validated: .21 clippy -D warnings (pf-zerocopy/pf-capture/host+nvenc) + 17 zero-copy tests. Owed: on-glass gamescope session (visual + dmon sm% check). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>