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9837315308 perf(display): dirty tracking in update_display + plugin FPS declaration (#406)
* perf(display): dirty tracking in update_display + plugin FPS declaration

update_display now skips SetImage+SwapOnVSync when the frame is
byte-identical to the last pushed one (adler32 digest) AND brightness
is unchanged — brightness is part of the digest, and set_brightness
additionally resets it, so a dim-schedule change can never be skipped.
clear() resets the digest (it writes to the matrix directly). Skipping
a swap is hardware-safe: the panel refreshes the current frame from the
driver's own thread; swaps only change content.

Kill switch: display.dirty_tracking: false restores always-push.

display_controller's high-FPS decision gains a precedence step: a
plugin exposing needs_high_fps is honored first (so static-image can
declare False for still PNGs and stop burning a 125fps loop on them);
static-image without the attribute keeps its historical forced
high-FPS (GIF back-compat); scrolling logic is otherwise unchanged.

Verified with 7 tests against the real DisplayManager on
RGBMatrixEmulator (identical-frame skip, pixel-change push, clear and
brightness invalidation, snapshot-through-skip, kill switch) plus the
202-test display/controller/vegas suites, and a clean devpi deploy.
Audit: every SetImage/SwapOnVSync/Clear/brightness call site is inside
display_manager — no external writer can bypass the digest.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FqzC1nzTWL4kaqgMaQZFam

* fix(display): serialize update_display, narrow brightness exception, log fixes

CodeRabbit review on #406, verified against current code:

- update_display() can genuinely be called from background threads (some
  sports base classes call it directly from inside update() for an
  immediate "live" refresh), not just the render loop — confirmed via the
  existing follower-mode gating wrapper in display_controller.py, which
  exists specifically because "background plugin threads" can reach it.
  Without a lock, two callers could both pass the digest check before
  either writes _last_pushed_digest back, causing a redundant push, or
  interleave the offscreen/current canvas swap. Added self._update_lock
  (RLock, in case of re-entrant callers) around the full method body so
  every call site is automatically covered — no caller changes needed.
  (No prior lock existed to reuse on DisplayManager; this adds one.)
- Narrowed the brightness-read exception handler to AttributeError,
  matching the established pattern in get_brightness()/set_brightness()
  — a getattr() with a default already swallows AttributeError, so the
  only case this guards is the property getter itself raising, and the
  established pattern treats that as an expected, specific failure mode
  rather than something to blanket-catch.
- FPS-check debug log now includes the plugin_id already in scope
  (previously only active_mode) and a "[DisplayController]" prefix for
  grep-ability, matching the sibling log two lines below it.
- test_display_dirty_tracking.py: dm fixture and test_config_flag_wires_through
  now reset the DisplayManager singleton on teardown, matching the pattern
  test_display_manager.py already uses elsewhere in the same file family.
- test_snapshot_still_written_on_skip previously only exercised the
  non-skip (push) path despite its name; now performs a second update that
  meets the skip conditions (identical frame) and asserts the snapshot is
  still written even though the panel push itself is skipped.

All 7 dirty-tracking tests pass, plus the full display_manager/
display_controller/vegas suite (140 passed). Full repo suite has only the
5 known pre-existing failures (double-sided config x2, state_reconciliation
x2, and test_circuit_breaker's conftest.py mock signature drift — the
latter fixed in #400, which this branch's base predates).

---------

Co-authored-by: Chuck <chuck@example.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 10:31:20 -04:00

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"""Tests for update_display dirty tracking (src/display_manager.py).
Runs against RGBMatrixEmulator (EMULATOR=true), exercising the REAL
DisplayManager — not a mock — so the skip logic, its invalidation hooks,
and the kill switch are verified off-Pi.
The invariants:
- identical frames are pushed exactly once (SwapOnVSync not re-called)
- ANY pixel change pushes
- clear() and set_brightness() invalidate (the two paths that alter panel
state outside the digest's view)
- the kill switch (display.dirty_tracking: false) restores always-push
"""
import os
import sys
import time
os.environ["EMULATOR"] = "true"
import pytest
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def dm():
"""One real DisplayManager on the emulator (it's a process singleton)."""
from src.display_manager import DisplayManager
DisplayManager._instance = None
DisplayManager._initialized = False
manager = DisplayManager({
"display": {
"hardware": {"rows": 32, "cols": 64, "chain_length": 2,
"parallel": 1, "brightness": 90},
"runtime": {"gpio_slowdown": 0},
},
}, suppress_test_pattern=True)
yield manager
DisplayManager._instance = None
DisplayManager._initialized = False
class _SwapSpy:
"""Counts SwapOnVSync calls through the real matrix object."""
def __init__(self, matrix):
self.matrix = matrix
self.count = 0
self._orig = matrix.SwapOnVSync
def __enter__(self):
def counting(canvas):
self.count += 1
return self._orig(canvas)
self.matrix.SwapOnVSync = counting
return self
def __exit__(self, *exc):
self.matrix.SwapOnVSync = self._orig
class TestDirtyTracking:
def test_identical_frames_push_once(self, dm):
dm.draw.rectangle([0, 0, 10, 10], fill=(255, 0, 0))
with _SwapSpy(dm.matrix) as spy:
dm.update_display()
dm.update_display()
dm.update_display()
assert spy.count == 1
def test_pixel_change_pushes(self, dm):
dm.update_display()
with _SwapSpy(dm.matrix) as spy:
dm.draw.point((5, 5), fill=(0, 255, 0))
dm.update_display()
dm.update_display() # unchanged again
assert spy.count == 1
def test_clear_invalidates(self, dm):
dm.draw.rectangle([0, 0, 20, 20], fill=(0, 0, 255))
dm.update_display()
dm.clear() # writes to the matrix directly; digest must reset
with _SwapSpy(dm.matrix) as spy:
dm.update_display() # black frame after clear must still push
assert spy.count == 1
def test_brightness_change_forces_push(self, dm):
dm.draw.rectangle([0, 0, 20, 20], fill=(200, 200, 200))
dm.update_display()
with _SwapSpy(dm.matrix) as spy:
dm.update_display() # identical -> skipped
assert spy.count == 0
dm.set_brightness(40) # dim schedule scenario
dm.update_display() # same image, new brightness -> push
assert spy.count == 1
dm.set_brightness(90)
def test_snapshot_still_written_on_skip(self, dm, tmp_path):
"""The web preview mirror must keep working through skipped panel
pushes: _write_snapshot_if_due() still runs on the dirty-tracking
skip path and applies its own write/touch policy rather than being
bypassed entirely (see src/common/snapshot_policy.py — an unchanged
frame is touched, not re-encoded, once TOUCH_INTERVAL elapses)."""
dm._snapshot_path = str(tmp_path / "snap.png")
dm._last_snapshot_ts = 0.0
dm._last_snapshot_touch_ts = 0.0
dm._last_snapshot_digest = None
dm.draw.rectangle([0, 0, 30, 8], fill=(255, 255, 0))
dm.update_display() # push + snapshot write (first frame)
assert os.path.exists(dm._snapshot_path)
first_mtime = os.path.getmtime(dm._snapshot_path)
# Age the write/touch bookkeeping past TOUCH_INTERVAL so the next
# identical frame is due for a touch, then push it again: dirty
# tracking must skip the panel write, but the snapshot mirror must
# still get its mtime bumped so the health check doesn't go stale.
from src.common import snapshot_policy
stale_ts = time.time() - snapshot_policy.TOUCH_INTERVAL - 1.0
dm._last_snapshot_ts = stale_ts
dm._last_snapshot_touch_ts = stale_ts
with _SwapSpy(dm.matrix) as spy:
dm.update_display() # identical frame -> panel push skipped
assert spy.count == 0
assert os.path.getmtime(dm._snapshot_path) > first_mtime
class TestKillSwitch:
def test_dirty_tracking_can_be_disabled(self, dm):
dm._dirty_tracking_enabled = False
try:
dm.draw.rectangle([0, 0, 10, 10], fill=(1, 2, 3))
with _SwapSpy(dm.matrix) as spy:
dm.update_display()
dm.update_display()
dm.update_display()
assert spy.count == 3 # always-push, exactly the old behavior
finally:
dm._dirty_tracking_enabled = True
dm._last_pushed_digest = None
def test_config_flag_wires_through(self):
from src.display_manager import DisplayManager
DisplayManager._instance = None
DisplayManager._initialized = False
try:
manager = DisplayManager({
"display": {
"hardware": {"rows": 32, "cols": 64, "chain_length": 1,
"parallel": 1},
"runtime": {"gpio_slowdown": 0},
"dirty_tracking": False,
},
}, suppress_test_pattern=True)
assert manager._dirty_tracking_enabled is False
finally:
DisplayManager._instance = None
DisplayManager._initialized = False
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(pytest.main([__file__, "-v"]))