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ChuckBuildsandClaude Opus 5	571cc6fdac	fix(scroll,cache): resolve CodeRabbit review on #523 ... Eight findings, all reproduced before fixing. scroll_config.configure() read the refresh rate *after* resolve() had already used it. resolve() fills in target_fps, pixels_per_frame and the judder warning from that rate, so on a 60Hz panel every one of them described 100Hz -- and with snap_to_crisp=False nothing downstream corrected it, so set_target_fps() paced the helper to 100 FPS. The rate is now settled first, and falls back to the global config rather than straight to the default. refresh_hz_from_config() used `(cfg.get("display") or {}).get(...)`, which raises AttributeError when either level is truthy but not a mapping -- out of a function whose whole contract is a rate or a default. The frame-stats line reported the upper-middle sample as the median and the 96th sorted sample as p95 of 100. Both are also thresholds (stalls at 1.5x the median, skips at 0.5x), so the counts were biased too. The arithmetic is now in frame_stats()/format_frame_stats(), testable without a clock. configure()'s docstring and docs/SCROLL_PERFORMANCE.md still said it applies the frame hold and warns when it cannot. It deliberately does neither since "tie the frame hold to the scroll, not the plugin"; a caller following the old text would omit set_scrolling_state() and slow snapped speeds would still present every refresh. disk_cache had no policy for non-finite floats: orjson writes null, the stdlib writes NaN/Infinity, and orjson then rejects those legacy files so DiskCache.get deleted them as corrupt. One behaviour on both paths now -- write null, keep legacy records readable. allow_nan=False detects the values; the replacement walk runs only when there is one, so the ordinary write path is byte-identical and pays nothing. build_rgbmatrix_nogil.sh picked the build artifact with a glob piped to `head -1`, which sorts cpython-311 ahead of cpython-313, so a stale .so staged in from the source tree was installed as core.so while the GIL check -- which reads the generated core.cpp, not the .so -- still passed. It now requires the current interpreter's exact ABI name and fails closed. Its systemctl calls were also unchecked under `set -uo pipefail`: a failed stop left the old service running, the following start succeeded as a no-op, and the health check reported SUCCESS for a binding that was never loaded. orjson floor raised to 3.11.6 for CVE-2025-67221 (unbounded recursion in dumps); it covers the project's Python 3.10-3.13 range. Adds test/test_cache_nonfinite_floats.py (14) plus regression tests in test_scroll_config.py and test_scroll_helper.py. 9 of the cache tests and 9 of the scroll_config tests fail against the pre-fix code. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014RRtqXDCnvnY6EQwhT5CV9	2026-09-06 17:43:30 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5	6031e70525	fix(scroll): report the frame-time tail, and stop the row-major blit ... Two problems, both found by looking at the panel rather than the metric. The frame-stats line reported ONE instantaneous frame every 5 seconds -- about 1 frame in 500 -- printed beside a 100-frame average. Both hide exactly the fault they are used to chase: a 2ms duplicate and a 21ms double-wait average to precisely 10ms, so a ticker stalling on half its frames still reports a healthy "Avg FPS: 100.0". That reading cost several rounds of chasing the wrong layer. The line now aggregates every frame since the last log and reports median, p95, max, min, and explicit stall and skip rates (past 1.5x the median missed a refresh; under half never reached the panel, because dirty tracking skipped the swap so the frame never waited on vsync). On the hardware this now reads: leaderboard 100.0 fps over 501 frames | median 10.00ms p95 10.05ms max 10.34ms | stalls 0 (0.0%) skips 0 (0.0%) The binding rebuild's blit patch becomes opt-in (RGB_PATCH_BLIT=1, default off). Reordering that loop to row-major changes what a torn frame looks like: column-major tearing shows as a vertical seam, row-major as a horizontal split between the panel's upper and lower halves. On a 1/32 scan panel that reads as a one-pixel fold across the middle of every panel, which is what was reported on hardware and what went away when the blit was reverted. All of the measured gain comes from the SwapOnVSync change, so the risky half is simply not worth taking; the header says so. Also fixes --install resolving its paths against $HOME, which is /root under sudo, so it looked in /root/rgbmatrix-nogil-build and died with "no built module found" on a machine where the build had just succeeded. It now resolves SUDO_USER's home. Both build paths are verified on the Pi: default yields one GIL-release site, RGB_PATCH_BLIT=1 yields two. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-09-03 21:41:33 -04:00
ChuckandClaude Opus 5	7b4b07e313	perf(scroll): pace frames to the panel, not to a fixed sleep ... Scrolling ran at 44-46 fps on a 2x128x64 chain and 14-17% of frames took 41-53ms, which reads as judder. Four independent causes, each measured on the hardware; details and the diagnostic recipe are in docs/SCROLL_PERFORMANCE.md. The high-FPS loop slept a flat 8ms after every render. display() has already blocked on the panel's vsync by then, so that sleep was added to a wait that had happened: ~4ms of render plus 8ms put each iteration at ~12ms against a 10ms refresh grid, so every swap missed a refresh and the loop settled at 50fps while asking for 125 -- with no headroom, so a further 14% of frames slipped again. It now sleeps only the remainder, with a 1ms floor so plugin threads still get the GIL. ScrollHelper stepped position on a wall clock at 1/scroll_delay steps per second. Plugins set scroll_delay to the frame period, so that comparison sat exactly on its own threshold: a frame arriving a hair early moved zero pixels and rendered an identical frame, dirty-tracking skipped the swap, it returned in ~2ms, and the beat repeated. No scroll_delay value tunes that out -- a shorter delay trades stalled frames for periodic double-steps. Both modes now accumulate elapsed time at the same configured speed, so position stays proportional to real time. Sub-pixel blending goes back to off by default. It renders a half-step by mixing two adjacent columns, which on a coarse panel showing pixel-font text alternates crisp and smeared frames and reads as shimmer -- visibly worse than integer stepping on the hardware. Vegas mode still opts in. disk_cache uses orjson when importable, falling back to the stdlib. Encoding a ~1MB record drops from 14.8ms to 5.4ms end-to-end, and that work holds the GIL while a marquee is on screen. display_manager also checksummed the whole framebuffer twice per frame (dirty tracking, then the preview snapshot); the snapshot now takes the checksum the caller already computed. New src/common/scroll_config.py resolves scroll settings in one place. Five ticker plugins each hand-rolled this and disagreed: odds-ticker ranked the deprecated scroll_pixels_per_second above the documented scroll_speed/delay pair, and because that key carries a schema default the documented settings were dead for every user (ChuckBuilds/ledmatrix-plugins#408), while ledmatrix-leaderboard read the same key only as a fallback. The resolver also warns when a speed will not advance a whole number of pixels per refresh, which is the property that actually determines whether a scroll looks smooth. scripts/build_rgbmatrix_nogil.sh rebuilds the rgbmatrix binding so it releases the GIL. Upstream declares SwapOnVSync without nogil, unlike SetPixel/Clear/Fill beside it, so the render thread held the GIL for the whole vsync wait and starved background threads into long uninterruptible bursts. The script patches, builds and self-verifies into a scratch tree; --install backs up the original and rolls back if the service does not come back healthy. Measured after: 100 fps locked, no stalls observed, render thread down from 51% to 19% of one core. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-09-03 17:45:45 -04:00