feat(scroll): report a panel that cannot reach its refresh cap, and suggest one it can hold (#759)

* feat(scroll): report a panel that cannot reach its refresh cap, and suggest one it can hold

Scroll speeds are solved against display.hardware.limit_refresh_rate_hz,
which is only a ceiling. A panel that cannot reach it still moves whole
pixels per frame, but every scroll runs slow by the shortfall and the
"smooth" ladder is the cap's, not the panel's. A user rig (Pi 4, 2x128x64,
adafruit-hat-pwm, pwm_bits 9, gpio_slowdown 5) measured 107.6-113.1 Hz under
a 120 Hz cap: 60 px/s ran at 55, and nothing said why.

- scroll_config: refresh_shortfall() (more than 3% under the planned rate),
  holdable_cap() (a multiple of 10, 5% under the measurement, since the
  measurement is the fast end of an uncapped panel's drift), and
  describe_refresh_shortfall().
- FrameTimingRecorder.plan_refresh(): once the measured period has held for
  three trusted windows, a shortfall is logged once as a warning naming the
  cap to use. DisplayManager calls it only for a real panel, not the
  emulator or the fallback canvas. The stats file records
  planned_refresh_hz (additive).
- GET /api/v3/config/refresh-rate, plus a hint under the Display tab's
  Limit Refresh Rate field (js/pages/display.js) with a button that fills in
  the suggested cap.
- _panel_refresh_hz (behind the Vegas slider's advice) ignores a measurement
  written under a different cap, so a changed cap stops being advised from
  the old rate before the display restarts.

Verified on ledpi with a temporary 200 Hz cap: the warning logged about a
minute after the restart ("about 132 Hz ... Set Limit Refresh Rate to
120 Hz"), the endpoint returned the same shortfall, and the Display tab
showed the hint; its button filled in 120. ledpi was restored afterwards.
Rebased onto main after the Display tab became an ES-module page (#771); the
hint moved from inline script into display.js, with a jsdom test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(scroll): count only agreeing windows toward the refresh shortfall; ignore a null planned rate

Review fixes on #759.

- A window the period estimate rejects (more than MAX_REFRESH_DROP faster
  than the adopted period) no longer counts toward the shortfall check, and
  it restarts the run. After a loaded start fixed a slow period, later
  windows at the real, faster rate were rejected yet still counted, so the
  warning could name the slow rate against a cap the panel was meeting. It
  now needs REFRESH_CHECK_WINDOWS consecutive windows that agree with the
  period.
- _panel_refresh_hz treats a stats file whose planned_refresh_hz key is
  present but null as no measurement. The emulator and the fallback canvas
  write it that way (DisplayManager never plans a refresh for them), and
  their frame rate says nothing about the cap. A file with no such key (an
  older display) keeps the old behaviour.

Three new tests fail on the previous code and pass now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ import time
import traceback
from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, TypedDict
from src.common import scroll_config
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
#: Bumped when a field changes meaning, so a reader can refuse stale files.
@@ -179,6 +181,12 @@ MAX_REFRESH_DROP = 0.2
#: trusted -- about a second of scrolling.
MIN_FRAMES_FOR_REFRESH = 90
#: Consecutive windows that agree with the adopted refresh period (the one
#: that adopted it counts) before a panel slower than its cap is reported. The
#: estimate can still fall by up to MAX_REFRESH_DROP per window early on; the
#: warning should not name a rate one more window would have corrected.
REFRESH_CHECK_WINDOWS = 3
FLUSH_INTERVAL = 10.0
#: A scroll's last frame older than this is a stall worth a stack dump.
@@ -441,6 +449,12 @@ class FrameTimingRecorder:
1.0 / refresh_hz if refresh_hz and refresh_hz > 0 else None)
# The first estimate, until a second window agrees with it.
self._refresh_candidate: Optional[float] = None
# The rate scroll speeds are solved against; see plan_refresh().
self.planned_refresh_hz: Optional[float] = None
# Trusted windows seen since the period was adopted, until the
# shortfall check has run.
self._refresh_windows = 0
self._shortfall_checked = True
self.totals: Dict[str, Any] = {
"static_frames": 0,
"scroll_frames": 0,
@@ -639,7 +653,20 @@ class FrameTimingRecorder:
self._refresh_candidate = estimate
elif current * (1.0 - MAX_REFRESH_DROP) <= estimate < current:
self.refresh_period = estimate
# Only a run of windows that agree with the period counts toward
# the shortfall check. One that disagrees (a faster one than the
# period may fall to, say, after a loaded start fixed a slow one)
# was rejected above, so the period does not reflect it, and a
# warning built on that period would name a rate the panel is not
# at. It resets the run; the check then waits for three that agree.
current = self.refresh_period
if current is not None:
agrees = abs(estimate - current) <= current * MAX_REFRESH_DROP
self._refresh_windows = self._refresh_windows + 1 if agrees else 0
period = self.refresh_period
if (period and not self._shortfall_checked
and self._refresh_windows >= REFRESH_CHECK_WINDOWS):
self._check_refresh_shortfall(1.0 / period)
histograms = self.histograms
for frame in batch:
@@ -688,6 +715,25 @@ class FrameTimingRecorder:
elif missed <= -1:
totals["early_frames"] += 1
def plan_refresh(self, hz: Optional[float]) -> None:
"""Say what rate scroll speeds are solved against, before frames arrive.
``DisplayManager.refresh_hz``: the configured cap. Once the measured
rate has held for :data:`REFRESH_CHECK_WINDOWS` windows in a row, a panel that
falls short of it is logged once, with a cap it can hold (see
:func:`src.common.scroll_config.refresh_shortfall`). The display
manager calls this only for a real panel.
"""
self.planned_refresh_hz = hz
self._shortfall_checked = not hz
def _check_refresh_shortfall(self, measured_hz: float) -> None:
"""Log, once, a panel that cannot reach the rate speeds assume."""
self._shortfall_checked = True
shortfall = scroll_config.refresh_shortfall(measured_hz, self.planned_refresh_hz)
if shortfall:
logger.warning(scroll_config.describe_refresh_shortfall(shortfall))
def snapshot(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
"""The JSON document: cumulative since this process started."""
if not self._binding_checked:
@@ -704,6 +750,9 @@ class FrameTimingRecorder:
"bucket_ms": BUCKET_MS,
"freeze_seconds": FREEZE_SECONDS,
"measured_refresh_hz": round(1.0 / period, 2) if period else None,
# Additive: what scroll speeds were solved against, so a reader can
# tell a stale file (written under another cap) from this one.
"planned_refresh_hz": self.planned_refresh_hz,
"binding_releases_gil": self._binding_gil,
"info": info,
"totals": copy.deepcopy(self.totals),