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The Mac/iOS client's wall around ~380 Mbps on a 2.5 G path is the receive drain, not the transport: a loopback speed-test pushes 380/600/1000 Mbps at 0.0% loss, but Darwin has no recvmmsg(2), so the macOS client was doing one recv() syscall per packet — ~40-90k syscalls/s on one core. When the recv loop can't drain fast enough the kernel socket buffer backs up and drops, which the client sees as a sustained stream stalling/freezing in the 300-400 Mbps range (and an immediate "session ended" when a 500 Mbps+ first keyframe bursts in). - core/transport: flip recvmsg_x (the batched Darwin recv, ~30x fewer syscalls) from opt-in to default ON, opt-out via PUNKTFUNK_RECVMSG_X=0. Keeps the auto-fallback to the scalar loop on any unexpected syscall error. The Apple CI swift-test loopback now exercises this path by default. - packaging/kde host.env: enable PUNKTFUNK_GSO=1 — UDP segmentation offload on the host send path (one sendmsg per ~64 packets), the dominant lever above ~1 Gbps. Already wired (send_sealed -> send_gso) with sendmmsg auto-fallback. - apple SpeedTestSheet: lengthen the bandwidth probe 2 s -> 5 s so the measured number stops swinging wildly (50 vs 900 Mbps on the same link) — long enough for steady-state send + recv drain to settle. Matches host MAX_PROBE_MS. - host capture: PUNKTFUNK_SYNTH_NOISE synthetic high-entropy source for reproducible throughput testing of the encode->FEC->send->recv path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Packaging punktfunk for Fedora / Bazzite
The punktfunk host is Linux-only and links system FFmpeg (NVENC), PipeWire, Opus and the NVIDIA driver. This directory packages it for the Fedora Atomic / Bazzite world (rpm-ostree + bootc), where most of those deps are already present.
👉 Ubuntu/Debian hosts install via
aptfrom Gitea's package registry — seedebian/README.md(apt update && apt upgradefor new builds).
👉 End-to-end Bazzite setup walkthrough (install → udev/group →
host.env→ service → firewall → verify → troubleshooting):bazzite/README.md. This file is the higher-level packaging rationale.
packaging/
rpm/punktfunk.spec # the RPM (builds punktfunk-host from source with cargo)
bazzite/host.env # gamescope-default config for a Bazzite appliance
bazzite/README.md # step-by-step Bazzite setup guide
bootc/Containerfile # bake punktfunk into a Bazzite-based atomic image
copr/ # COPR build-from-SCM settings
What's needed beyond base Fedora
| Dependency | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
ffmpeg-libs with NVENC |
RPM Fusion nonfree (ffmpeg, not ffmpeg-free) |
NVIDIA driver (libnvidia-encode, libEGL_nvidia) |
Bazzite -nvidia images ship it; plain Fedora: akmod-nvidia + xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda |
| gamescope, PipeWire, wireplumber | Bazzite ships these; plain Fedora: dnf install gamescope pipewire wireplumber |
opus, libei |
Fedora base / updates |
On Bazzite the only genuinely new runtime bits are ffmpeg-libs (RPM Fusion) + opus +
libei — the rest of the stack is already there. The default backend is gamescope
(packaging/bazzite/host.env), which the host spawns headless per session — no desktop login.
Option A — Gitea RPM registry (recommended; per-host, rpm-ostree)
The host's RPM is published to unom's self-hosted Gitea RPM registry (CI builds it on every
push), mirroring the Debian/apt setup. Add one repo file, install, and track
updates with rpm-ostree upgrade — no COPR account needed. Full guide: rpm/README.md.
# unsigned pkgs + Gitea-signed metadata → repo_gpgcheck=1, gpgcheck=0 (see rpm/README.md)
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/punktfunk.repo >/dev/null <<'REPO'
[gitea-unom-bazzite]
name=punktfunk (unom, Bazzite)
baseurl=https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/rpm/bazzite
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/rpm/repository.key
REPO
rpm-ostree install punktfunk && systemctl reboot
# updates: rpm-ostree upgrade && systemctl reboot
Option B — COPR (per-host, rpm-ostree install)
- Create a COPR project, enable build-from-SCM pointing at this repo, spec path
packaging/rpm/punktfunk.spec(seecopr/README.md). Under External Repositories add RPM Fusion nonfree soffmpeg-develresolves at build time. - On the Bazzite host:
# RPM Fusion (for the NVENC ffmpeg) — usually already enabled on Bazzite rpm-ostree install \ https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm \ https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm # enable the COPR + install punktfunk sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/_copr_punktfunk.repo \ https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/enricobuehler/punktfunk/repo/fedora-$(rpm -E %fedora)/ rpm-ostree install punktfunk systemctl reboot
Option B — bootc (image-based, atomic)
Layer punktfunk into a Bazzite image once, then rebase any number of hosts onto it — no
per-host drift. See bootc/Containerfile:
podman build -t ghcr.io/<you>/bazzite-punktfunk -f packaging/bootc/Containerfile .
podman push ghcr.io/<you>/bazzite-punktfunk
# on the target:
sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/<you>/bazzite-punktfunk && systemctl reboot
First-run setup (either option)
ujust add-user-to-input-group # virtual gamepads need /dev/uinput (then re-login).
# On Bazzite use ujust, NOT `usermod -aG input` (atomic OS — it won't stick).
mkdir -p ~/.config/punktfunk
cp /usr/share/punktfunk/host.env.bazzite ~/.config/punktfunk/host.env # edit (gamescope app, etc.)
systemctl --user enable --now punktfunk-host
Pair a stock Moonlight client (mDNS-discovered), or connect the native punktfunk/1 client.
Why not Flatpak?
The host needs unsandboxed access the zero-copy NVENC path, /dev/uinput, the PipeWire
graph and the compositor's privileged protocols — a Flatpak sandbox fights all of these.
An RPM (or the bootc layer) installs into the host system where those just work.
Building the SRPM/RPM locally (Fedora only)
git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=punktfunk-0.0.1/ -o ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/punktfunk-0.0.1.tar.gz HEAD
rpmbuild -ba packaging/rpm/punktfunk.spec # needs the BuildRequires from the spec
(Not buildable on Debian/Ubuntu — use a Fedora toolbox/container or COPR.)