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>
linux/zerocopy/* (CUDA context/buffers + EGL/Vulkan dmabuf import + the isolated
import worker) and linux/dmabuf_fence.rs move wholesale into crates/pf-zerocopy,
so the coming pf-frame vocabulary crate (FramePayload::Cuda owns a DeviceBuffer)
and the pf-encode/pf-capture subsystem crates can reach the GPU plumbing without
the host orchestrator in between (plan §W6). Content stays Linux-only; the crate
compiles to an empty lib elsewhere, so dependents carry a plain dependency.
drm_fourcc deliberately does NOT move: it consumes the frame vocabulary
(PixelFormat), which sits ABOVE pf-zerocopy — it lives with capture for now and
moves into pf-frame next. cuda's ffi re-export bumps pub(crate)->pub (the raw
CUdeviceptr vocabulary is consumed across the crate boundary by the encode
backends). A crate::zerocopy shim module keeps every existing path valid until
capture/encode themselves move out.
Verified: Linux clippy -D warnings (pf-zerocopy --all-targets + host
nvenc,vulkan-encode,pyrowave --all-targets) + 17/17 pf-zerocopy tests + 321/321
host tests; Windows clippy nvenc,amf-qsv --all-targets Finished exit 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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