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On an irx (Iroh v2) phone connection, the Mac sent render-grid frames for every terminal, plus every event topic, over one uni QUIC stream drained by one loop (MobileHostIrxEventWriter, MobileHostConnection.drainQueuedEvents). QUIC delivers a stream in order, so a large replay or output burst on terminal A held back the keystroke echo for terminal B until A's bytes were through. Following iroh's guidance (using QUIC: streams are cheap, split independent flows, use priorities), each terminal's render-grid output now gets its own stream.

Host. MobileHostConnectionEventQueue keeps one global admission and shedding budget but tags each render-grid frame with a lane (.shared or .surface(id)), and every lane has its own drain task, so a write stalled on one surface's stream no longer blocks any other lane. MobileHostIrxEventWriter writes surface lanes through the new IrxSurfaceEventLanes (CmuxIrxTransport), which:

  • opens a surface's uni stream lazily (events descriptor with resource: terminal:<id>), capped at 16 per connection with LRU reuse (beyond the cap, the surface rides the shared lane)
  • retires only that surface's stream on a write error or a 15 s stall and reopens on a new stream generation, without touching the connection; three consecutive failures pin the surface to the shared lane until renegotiation
  • runs the surface that last received input (ordered terminal-input RPCs or the irx input lane) at priority 100; other surfaces share 50 with the bulk events lane. Priority changes never wait on a lane's in-flight write (iroh-ffi serializes every call on a stream behind one lock, including reset and set_priority), so noting focus can't delay input.

Ordering and integrity. All of a surface's frames stay on one stream, so the revision chain, replay barriers, stale-frame drop (MobileTerminalRenderGridRevisionContinuity.classify) and frame pacer keep working per surface. The queue records which route (shared, or surface stream generation N) each surface's chain was last admitted on. A delta whose base travelled a different route is refused and the surface is poisoned until a full frame, using the existing poison/requestRenderGridFullResync path. That covers negotiation mid-chain, fallback to control, a retired stream, and LRU reuse. A full frame can never be overtaken by an older delta on the old stream in a way the phone can't handle: the old frame has a lower revision in the same epoch, so classify drops it as stale. terminal.bytes (byte-tee seq continuity) and every other topic stay on the shared lane.

Phone. MobileIrxRuntimeComposition now owns one IrxServerEventLaneHub per admitted session. It accepts the shared events lane and every surface lane for the connection's lifetime, reads each on its own task, and forwards only whole mobile-sync frames into the existing MobileCoreRPCSession independent-event reader, so dispatch by topic and surface_id is unchanged. One acceptor per connection also stops a replaced reader from leaving an accept loop behind that steals the next lane. Uni stream credit goes from 4 to 40. MobileCoreRPCSession is not modified.

Compatibility

The phone adds surface_event_lanes: "v1" to mobile.events.subscribe only when its runtime declares independentEventsMergeSurfaceLanes (the irx hub; set in cmuxApp.swift). The Mac grants it, and echoes the key in the acknowledgement, only for a subscription on the independent irx events path with a writer that supports surface lanes. The legacy cmux/mobile/1 dialect writer does not.

  • Old phone + new Mac: the phone never asks, so the Mac never opens a second stream it wouldn't read.
  • New phone + old Mac: the Mac ignores the field, and the hub just reads the single shared lane.
  • Any independent-lane failure still downgrades to control. Surface lanes are torn down with it and every surface re-bases with a full frame.

Testing

Regression pair:

  • a828560 adds only MobileHostSurfaceEventLaneTests/stalledSurfaceOutputDoesNotDelayAnotherSurfacesRenderGrid(). It stalls surface A's render-grid write and asserts surface B's frame still reaches the writer. Focused CI run on that commit (expected red): https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/36182181160, failed as expected ("surface-b's render grid waited behind surface-a's stalled write")
  • 5029f0e is the fix. The same test plus six more (grant only on request, per-surface failure recovery on a new generation without closing the connection, fallback re-basing, route-crossing delta refusal, independent per-lane drains with overflow to shared, failure pinning) run in this PR's CI changed-suites lane and in a focused run on the fix commit: https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux/actions/runs/36182223936, 7 tests passed. I did not run app-host tests locally.

Local, on 5029f0e:

  • swift test in Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport: 197 tests passed, including 16 new IrxServerEventLaneHubTests / IrxSurfaceEventLanesTests. They cover the phone HOL case (a surface frame is delivered while another lane is stalled mid-frame), frame alignment across interleaved chunks, the lane cap, subscriber replacement, stall recovery onto a fresh stream while the stuck stream's reset waits behind its write, generation bumps, focus priority that never waits on a stuck write, and LRU eviction.
  • swift test --filter "MobileCoreRPCIndependentEventTests|MobileTerminalDTODecodeTests" in Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileRPC: 33 passed, including that the opt-in is sent only with a merging reader, and decoding of the grant.
  • Mac cmux-unit build-for-testing (tagged DerivedData cmux-psos) succeeded, and cmux-ios built for the iOS Simulator (arm64).
  • python3 scripts/verify-local.py passed.

Not verified: a live phone against a tagged Mac, and the iOS connectivity soak (scripts/run-iroh-release-gate.sh). The soak exercises this terminal I/O and independent-events path, so it's the right follow-up before merge. Its fleet lease path is currently retired, so I couldn't run it here.

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  • Behavior changes have added or updated tests
  • iOS connectivity, auth, lifecycle, workspace action, terminal I/O or mobile RPC contract change: soak not run (see Testing)
  • Reviewed with a subagent before merge

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  • New Features

    • Added optional per-terminal event streams for render updates, allowing activity on one terminal to be delivered independently of others.
    • Event-stream support is negotiated during subscription, with compatibility for hosts that don’t support it.
    • Focused terminals receive higher stream priority, while inactive streams are managed within configurable limits.
    • Event updates from shared and per-terminal streams are combined for delivery.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved recovery from stalled or failed terminal streams, including full-frame resynchronization when needed.
    • Kept event delivery available through the shared stream when per-terminal streams are unavailable or disabled.

azooz2003-bit and others added 2 commits September 25, 2026 12:29
Adds a behavior test that stalls one terminal surface's render-grid write on
the phone connection and asserts another surface's frame still reaches the
wire. It fails today: every surface's frames share one QUIC events stream and
one drain loop, so the stalled write head-of-line-blocks the other surface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Mac sent render-grid frames for every terminal, plus every event topic,
over one uni QUIC stream drained by one loop. QUIC delivers a stream in
order, so a replay or burst for one terminal head-of-line-blocked the
keystroke echo for another.

Host: the per-connection event queue now routes render-grid frames onto
per-surface lanes, each with its own drain, under the existing global
shedding budget. MobileHostIrxEventWriter opens one uni stream per surface
(IrxSurfaceEventLanes): lazy open, bounded at 16 with LRU reuse, stall
deadline, per-surface retire and reopen on a new stream generation, and the
surface that last received input scheduled at priority 100 above the bulk
events lane (50). A delta may only follow its base on the same stream; a
route change (negotiation, fallback, failure, reuse) poisons the surface and
re-bases it with a full frame, so the phone's revision chain and stale-frame
drop keep working per surface.

Phone: the irx composition now owns one IrxServerEventLaneHub per session
that accepts the shared events lane and every surface lane, reads each on
its own task, and forwards only whole frames into the existing RPC event
reader. It raises uni stream credit to 40.

Compatibility: the phone opts in with surface_event_lanes=v1 on
mobile.events.subscribe only when its reader merges lanes; the Mac grants
(and echoes) it only for an irx connection. An old phone never asks, an old
Mac ignores the field, and any independent-lane failure falls back to the
shared lane or control as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The change adds negotiated per-surface event streams for render-grid delivery. The mobile host routes events through independent lanes, tracks lane generations and failures, and reports interactive surfaces for prioritization. The iOS client can request the lane protocol and merge lane frames through a session-scoped hub.

Changes

Surface event lane flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lane transport and framing
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxEventLaneIO.swift, IrxServerEventLaneHub.swift, Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Tests/CmuxIrxTransportTests/IrxSurfaceEventLaneTests.swift
The transport adds event-lane read/write protocols, surface descriptors, and frame alignment. The hub accepts lanes, aligns frames, and yields complete frames. Tests cover lane limits, frame handling, and subscriber behavior.
Host lane writer and focus reporting
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxSurfaceEventLanes.swift, Sources/Mobile/MobileHostIrxEventWriter.swift, Sources/Mobile/MobileHostIrxRuntime.swift, Sources/Mobile/MobileHostIrxTerminalLaneServer.swift, Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Tests/CmuxIrxTransportTests/IrxSurfaceEventLaneTests.swift
The host opens or reuses lanes by surface and generation, handles capacity and deadlines, and updates lane priorities. Terminal input reports interactive surfaces. Tests cover writes, generation changes, eviction, and priorities.
Per-surface queue and host delivery
Sources/Mobile/MobileHostConnectionEventQueue.swift, Sources/Mobile/MobileHostService.swift, Sources/Mobile/MobileHostTransportAuthorization.swift, cmuxTests/MobileHostSurfaceEventLaneTests.swift, cmux.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
The queue tracks lane assignments, generations, and per-lane drains. The host grants lanes to qualifying subscriptions, routes events, and requests resynchronization after lane failures or route changes. Tests cover routing, drain independence, and lane failure behavior.
Client negotiation and event merging
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileRPC/Sources/CmuxMobileRPC/*, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileRPC/Tests/CmuxMobileRPCTests/*, ios/cmux/cmuxApp.swift, ios/cmuxPackage/Sources/cmuxFeature/CMUXMobileRuntime.swift, ios/cmuxPackage/Sources/cmuxFeature/MobileIrxRuntimeComposition*.swift
The runtime declares whether its event provider merges surface lanes. The client conditionally requests the lane protocol and decodes the response grant. The iOS composition manages session-scoped hubs and uses them to supply merged event streams.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MobileCoreRPCClient
  participant MobileHostService
  participant MobileHostConnectionEventQueue
  participant MobileHostIrxEventWriter
  participant IrxServerEventLaneHub
  participant serverEventByteStream
  MobileCoreRPCClient->>MobileHostService: Request surface_event_lanes=v1
  MobileHostService->>MobileHostConnectionEventQueue: Enqueue render-grid event
  MobileHostConnectionEventQueue->>MobileHostIrxEventWriter: Send surface frame with generation
  MobileHostIrxEventWriter->>IrxServerEventLaneHub: Open and write event lane
  IrxServerEventLaneHub->>serverEventByteStream: Yield complete frame
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ad1bc

A connection ending can leave lane reads retained, and lane eviction can deliver a terminal delta without its base, leaving its render grid out of sync. Resolve these concrete current-head risks before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ad1bc

The new streams remain behind the existing connection and have a fallback path. Under heavy terminal churn, however, stream eviction can bypass the ordering recovery intended to keep a terminal’s display current. No broader security compromise was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The host queue and stream writer can choose different eviction victims. A writer-evicted surface can reopen on another stream without a queue generation change, so its render-grid frames may arrive out of order without triggering the queue’s route-change resynchronization.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified ordering failure is scoped to render-grid delivery on an admitted phone connection and can affect a terminal display during lane churn; the reviewed evidence does not establish access to another connection or greater privilege.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The receiver rejects unsupported lane types and excess surface lanes, caps framed-event size, and forwards only complete frames. These controls do not supply ordering between two streams for the same surface.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — A reported surface-stream failure retires its queue generation and requests resynchronization without closing the connection. Writer eviction, unlike a reported failure, finishes a stream without notifying that queue recovery path.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make stream eviction and queue generation changes one coordinated transition, or notify the queue whenever a writer evicts a surface so the next frame rebases its revision chain.

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❌ Failed checks (6 errors, 1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ❌ Error The production diff adds timing-based synchronization in Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxSurfaceEventLanes.swift. send waits on `withIrxDeadlineResult(configuration.st… Replace the new deadline waits with an approved cancellation-aware timer abstraction or an explicit stream-open/write completion and cancellation signal. Do not use a sleep-backed timeout directly for production synchronization. Move the ne…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ❌ Error Sources/Mobile/MobileHostConnectionEventQueue.swift:340-344 makes each dequeue(lane:) scan queuedEvents with firstIndex(where:), then shift the array with remove(at:). `MobileHostConnection.… Keep lane-specific FIFO state instead of rescanning queuedEvents for every dequeue. For example, maintain a per-lane queue or lane-to-index/deque structure with O(1) amortized dequeue, and retain a separate global order/index only for one…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ❌ Error The diff adds unowned fire-and-forget tasks with meaningful connection and stream lifecycles. In Sources/Mobile/MobileHostIrxRuntime.swift, the new `Task { await eventWriter.noteInteractiveSurface(.… Use structured async propagation for interactive-surface priority updates. The existing async observer should await an async writer operation, or the connection should own and cancel a stored task set during connection shutdown. Make surfac…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ❌ Error MobileHostIrxRuntime.runLaneLoop is private nonisolated static ... async but has no @concurrent. Its caller is a Task created from the @MainActor runtime, and the loop performs continuous ne… Add @concurrent to runLaneLoop (or move the loop to an equivalent explicitly concurrent helper). Keep the callback @Sendable and actor-hop only for eventWriter.noteInteractiveSurface; do not perform the lane acceptance and dispatch …
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ❌ Error The diff materially expands core lane-management logic in the app target. Sources/Mobile/MobileHostConnectionEventQueue.swift adds 248 lines and introduces per-lane drains, LRU assignment, stream ge… Create a focused SwiftPM target named CmuxMobileEventLanes and move the lane-domain core into it. The first public type should be MobileHostConnectionEventQueue, with MobileHostEventLane as its value API. Move per-lane drain tracking,…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ❌ Error The diff introduces two owners for surface-lane assignment state. MobileHostConnectionEventQueue now tracks surfaceLaneLastUse, surfaceLaneGenerations, lane limits, failure counts, and pinning. … Make one surface-lane coordinator the single source of truth for lane assignment, generation, LRU eviction, failure counts, and pinning. Have queue admission consume an immutable route token from that coordinator, and have the writer report…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 23.13% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 147 functions across 23 files. (1 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (18 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: assigning each terminal's render-grid output to its own QUIC stream.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is detailed and aligned with the template. It explains the problem, implementation, compatibility, tests, build results, and known verification gaps. It omits the Demo Video section an…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS. The diff only adds per-surface render-grid lanes to the existing mobile IROH/QUIC connection. MobileHostIrxEventWriter opens lanes through the existing IrxConnection, and the phone hub accep…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS. The production changes use actors for the new mutable transport state: IrxServerEventLaneHub, IrxSurfaceEventLanes, and MobileHostIrxEventWriter. The shared `MobileHostConnectionEventQueue…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request does not change browser socket automation. The authoritative diff changes 24 mobile and iOS event-lane files, while Sources/TerminalController.swift and `Packages/macOS/CmuxCo…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed The pull request adds transport, queue, and event-lane logic. The changed production Swift additions do not add or move RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load(), agent stores, transcripts, trajectories, w…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes event-lane transport, queue routing, subscription negotiation, and stream lifecycle. The production diff does not replace an authoritative persistence, history, undo, or…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative PR diff contains only Swift files and Xcode project metadata. It introduces no TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, or non-Swift build/runtime script changes covered by `runtime-no-h…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The PR changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, or workflow file. The cmux.xcodeproj change only adds MobileHostSurfaceEventLaneTests.swift; it does not change SwiftPM package reference…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The changed production Swift code adds no print, debugPrint, dump, or NSLog. New diagnostics use the existing IrxJournal, which writes through Logger and performs redaction. The only new a…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS. The diff does not add or change a cmux user-facing error, alert, command message, or recovery copy. The new surface_event_lanes value is successful subscription metadata, not an error body. Su…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds no Swift UI, menu, alert, tooltip, or user-facing error text. The only natural-language production addition is an OSLog operational message in MobileHostService, not user-facing.…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The pull request does not introduce a SwiftUI state or layout violation. The only SwiftUI view file changed, ios/cmux/cmuxApp.swift, adds a runtime configuration argument inside the existing App s…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes event transport, mobile runtime, and event-lane tests. The authoritative diff adds or changes no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, or WindowGroup code. The ch…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The 24 changed paths are intentional Swift source, test source, or Xcode project metadata. The new files contain product implementation and in-memory tests. The project diff registers a test source in…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed The production Swift diff adds lane transport and configuration APIs used by real host and phone paths, not test/debug accessors. Added-line searches found no #if DEBUG, @testable, debug…, `…For…
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Docstring coverage is 23.13% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 147 functions across 23 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime

Explanation

The production diff adds timing-based synchronization in Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxSurfaceEventLanes.swift. send waits on withIrxDeadlineResult(configuration.stallDeadline), and openedLane waits on withIrxDeadlineResult(configuration.openDeadline). That helper uses ContinuousClock().sleep, so the new surface-lane write and stream-open paths depend on timer sleeps. The diff also materially expands MobileHostConnectionEventQueue's existing NSLock protection to new lane, generation, LRU, and drain state with several new lock critical sections. The added Task.sleep polling in the changed files is test-only and is allowed, but it does not offset the production findings.

Resolution

Replace the new deadline waits with an approved cancellation-aware timer abstraction or an explicit stream-open/write completion and cancellation signal. Do not use a sleep-backed timeout directly for production synchronization. Move the new queue lane state into an actor or another explicit signal-owned synchronization model; if the synchronous queue API must remain, document and isolate a concrete low-level reason that an actor cannot own this state instead of expanding the unchecked NSLock-protected model.

Full details: Cmux Algorithmic Complexity

Explanation

Sources/Mobile/MobileHostConnectionEventQueue.swift:340-344 makes each dequeue(lane:) scan queuedEvents with firstIndex(where:), then shift the array with remove(at:). MobileHostConnection.drainQueuedEvents calls this once per event. With q queued events, a lane drain can therefore take O(q²) time, and independent lane drains repeat scans of the same shared queue. The PR introduces this lookup to support per-lane socket drains. The queue default is bounded at 256, but the initializer accepts arbitrary limits, and this is a production socket path with no benchmark or measurement in the PR.

Resolution

Keep lane-specific FIFO state instead of rescanning queuedEvents for every dequeue. For example, maintain a per-lane queue or lane-to-index/deque structure with O(1) amortized dequeue, and retain a separate global order/index only for one-pass shedding. Add a benchmark for the configured queue bound and for multiple active surface lanes.

Full details: Cmux Swift Concurrency

Explanation

The diff adds unowned fire-and-forget tasks with meaningful connection and stream lifecycles. In Sources/Mobile/MobileHostIrxRuntime.swift, the new Task { await eventWriter.noteInteractiveSurface(...) } is explicitly marked “Fire-and-forget”; it is created for each input callback, is not stored or cancelled, and can outlive the lane loop and connection shutdown. Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxSurfaceEventLanes.swift adds the same pattern for lane finish() and reset() operations, while closeAll() returns before those cleanup tasks complete. The new hub shutdown calls in MobileIrxRuntimeComposition+Lifecycle.swift and MobileIrxRuntimeComposition+Streams.swift also launch unowned hub.stop() tasks. These are cmux-owned internal paths, not required OS or third-party callback boundaries. The diff does not add Dispatch queues or Combine, but it materially expands the prohibited fire-and-forget pattern.

Resolution

Use structured async propagation for interactive-surface priority updates. The existing async observer should await an async writer operation, or the connection should own and cancel a stored task set during connection shutdown. Make surface-lane cleanup lifecycle-aware: store cleanup task handles in IrxSurfaceEventLanes, remove completed handles, and cancel or await them from closeAll() and writer shutdown; keep reset tasks tied to the owning connection rather than dropping their handles. Await hub shutdown during runtime detachment where safe, or store the shutdown tasks in the runtime and cancel/await them when the runtime is replaced. Store and cancel any per-lane drain task handles when the connection closes instead of launching unowned drain tasks.

Full details: Cmux Swift `@Concurrent`

Explanation

MobileHostIrxRuntime.runLaneLoop is private nonisolated static ... async but has no @concurrent. Its caller is a Task created from the @MainActor runtime, and the loop performs continuous network lane acceptance and dispatch. This PR changes the call site and expands the loop with the interactive-surface callback, so the unchanged-legacy exception does not apply. Under Swift 6 nonisolated async behavior, the loop can remain on the caller actor and add UI responsiveness risk.

Resolution

Add @concurrent to runLaneLoop (or move the loop to an equivalent explicitly concurrent helper). Keep the callback @Sendable and actor-hop only for eventWriter.noteInteractiveSurface; do not perform the lane acceptance and dispatch loop on @MainActor.

Full details: Cmux Swift Package Boundaries

Explanation

The diff materially expands core lane-management logic in the app target. Sources/Mobile/MobileHostConnectionEventQueue.swift adds 248 lines and introduces per-lane drains, LRU assignment, stream generations, failure pinning, route continuity, and resynchronization state. Xcode includes this file in the Mobile application source group and build phase. The logic uses Foundation and CMUXMobileCore, not AppKit, SwiftUI, Ghostty state, or app lifecycle APIs. cmuxTests/MobileHostSurfaceEventLaneTests.swift directly tests the queue, including LRU, generation, fallback, and independent-drain behavior. The PR correctly places the QUIC transport and phone hub in Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport, but it leaves the independently testable host workstream logic in Sources/Mobile.

Resolution

Create a focused SwiftPM target named CmuxMobileEventLanes and move the lane-domain core into it. The first public type should be MobileHostConnectionEventQueue, with MobileHostEventLane as its value API. Move per-lane drain tracking, LRU assignment, generation and failure handling, route continuity, poisoning, and bounded shedding into the package. Pass app-only topic and resync behavior through small policies or closures. Keep MobileHostService, MobileHostIrxEventWriter, and runtime wiring in Sources/Mobile as app composition. Move the direct queue tests into the package test target and retain only integration tests in cmuxTests.

Full details: Cmux Architecture Rethink

Explanation

The diff introduces two owners for surface-lane assignment state. MobileHostConnectionEventQueue now tracks surfaceLaneLastUse, surfaceLaneGenerations, lane limits, failure counts, and pinning. IrxSurfaceEventLanes independently tracks open lanes, generations, LRU timestamps, and evictions. The actor can evict a lane without advancing the queue generation, so later frames can use a new QUIC stream with the same generation. This leaves a render-grid chain split across streams and makes stale-frame and resync state inconsistent. The change also adds a separate interactive-surface observer path, but the duplicated lane state is the highest-impact architectural defect.

Resolution

Make one surface-lane coordinator the single source of truth for lane assignment, generation, LRU eviction, failure counts, and pinning. Have queue admission consume an immutable route token from that coordinator, and have the writer report eviction or retirement through the same owner so every stream replacement advances the generation and triggers the required rebase. Remove the duplicate lane-state fields and transitions from MobileHostConnectionEventQueue and IrxSurfaceEventLanes. Route both ordered RPC input and terminal-lane input through one coordinator action for focus updates instead of the new fire-and-forget observer side channel.

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surface-lane wire vocabulary becomes an instantiable struct (like
IrxProtocol), and the stop and reset codes become static members of the hub
and lane owner actors. No behavior change.

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Inline comments:
In
`@Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxServerEventLaneHub.swift`:
- Around line 83-90: Move lane-reader cleanup from `stop()` into
`finish(error:)` so all hub termination paths stop open readers, including when
the accept loop ends with an error or the connection closes. Snapshot and remove
`readers` in `finish(error:)`, then stop each reader; keep `stop()` delegating
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`@Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxSurfaceEventLanes.swift`:
- Around line 158-167: Update IrxSurfaceEventLanes so a generation whose lane
was closed cannot be reopened: track the highest closed generation per surface
when evictLeastRecentlyUsedLaneIfFull, finishAll, close, or retire closes a
lane, and have openedLane reject requests for that generation or an older one
with LaneError.superseded when no lane is active. This lets the caller retire
the route and request a full-frame resync.

In `@Sources/Mobile/MobileHostIrxRuntime.swift`:
- Around line 953-958: Route the onInteractiveSurface callback through
MobileHostConnection’s noteInteractiveSurface path instead of creating an
unstructured Task to call eventWriter directly. Keep focus updates ordered,
deduplicated, and recorded by the connection so syncSurfaceEventLanes uses the
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Comment on lines +83 to +90
public func stop() async {
finish(error: nil)
let stopping = Array(readers.values)
readers.removeAll()
for reader in stopping {
await reader.stop(errorCode: 0)
}
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

stop() does not stop readers that are blocked in readRaw().

finish(error:) cancels the reader tasks. Cancelling a Swift task does not interrupt an await reader.readRaw() call on a native QUIC stream unless that call handles cancellation. stop() then calls reader.stop(errorCode: 0), which closes those streams. finish(error:) does not call stop on any reader. So when the connection closes without error (line 108 calls finish(error: IrxConnectionError.closed(nil))), or when the accept loop throws, every open lane reader stays in readers and is never stopped. The same leak happens for a reader task that ends after finish: laneEnded removes the reader, but only if self is still alive.

Move the reader-stop step into finish(error:) so that every path that ends the hub releases every lane.

Proposed fix
     public func stop() async {
         finish(error: nil)
-        let stopping = Array(readers.values)
-        readers.removeAll()
-        for reader in stopping {
-            await reader.stop(errorCode: 0)
-        }
     }
    private func finish(error: (any Error)?) {
        guard !isFinished else { return }
        isFinished = true
        // ...existing cancellation...
        let stopping = Array(readers.values)
        readers.removeAll()
        Task { for reader in stopping { await reader.stop(errorCode: 0) } }
        // ...finish subscriber...
    }
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public func stop() async {
finish(error: nil)
let stopping = Array(readers.values)
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around lines 83 - 90, Move lane-reader cleanup from `stop()` into
`finish(error:)` so all hub termination paths stop open readers, including when
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Comment on lines +158 to +167
private func openedLane(surfaceID: String, generation: UInt64) async throws -> Lane {
if let lane = lanes[surfaceID] {
if lane.generation == generation { return lane }
// A newer generation means frames on the old stream may be lost;
// never mix the chain across the two streams.
lanes.removeValue(forKey: surfaceID)
let writer = lane.writer
Task { await writer.finish() }
}
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not reopen a surface stream under the same generation after the writer closes it on its own.

The queue in Sources/Mobile/MobileHostConnectionEventQueue.swift relies on one rule. A delta may only follow a frame that used the same (surface, generation) route. The queue checks this through lastRenderGridRouteBySurfaceID. This writer can close a lane without telling the queue:

  • evictLeastRecentlyUsedLaneIfFull() (Line 216-224) closes the lane that was least recently written. lastUse is set before writer.write (Line 99). A surface whose write is stuck waiting for flow control (up to stallDeadline, 15 s) therefore looks old. It can be evicted while its frame is still in flight. The queue picks a different victim: laneLocked only reassigns idle lanes. So the two LRU owners can disagree.
  • setEnabled(false) → finishAll() also closes lanes, but the queue generations stay the same. After lanes are enabled again, the old generation value is reused.

In both cases the next send(_:surfaceID:generation:) finds lanes[surfaceID] == nil. It then opens a new stream under the same generation. The queue had already admitted the next delta for route .surface(generation: g). That delta now goes on a new QUIC stream, while its base frame may still be on the old stream that is shutting down. IrxServerEventLaneHub reads the lanes independently, so the phone can apply the delta before its base.

Root cause: the writer and the queue each own lane lifetime and eviction. Only the queue changes generations. The writer should refuse to continue a generation it has already closed. Then the existing retireSurfaceLane → full-frame resync path can re-base the surface.

Proposed fix: record closed generations and refuse to reuse them
     private func openedLane(surfaceID: String, generation: UInt64) async throws -> Lane {
         if let lane = lanes[surfaceID] {
             if lane.generation == generation { return lane }
             // A newer generation means frames on the old stream may be lost;
             // never mix the chain across the two streams.
             lanes.removeValue(forKey: surfaceID)
             let writer = lane.writer
             Task { await writer.finish() }
+        } else if let closed = closedGenerations[surfaceID], generation <= closed {
+            // This generation's stream was closed under the caller (eviction,
+            // disable). Its chain cannot continue on a fresh stream; make the
+            // caller retire and re-base with a full frame.
+            throw LaneError.superseded
         }

Set closedGenerations[surfaceID] = lane.generation in evictLeastRecentlyUsedLaneIfFull, finishAll, close, and retire. Add case superseded to LaneError. A better eviction policy also never evicts a lane with a write in flight. Keep in mind that retireSurfaceLane counts this throw as a failure, so frequent evictions can pin a surface to the shared lane. You could tell eviction apart from real failures in the queue.

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private func openedLane(surfaceID: String, generation: UInt64) async throws -> Lane {
if let lane = lanes[surfaceID] {
if lane.generation == generation { return lane }
// A newer generation means frames on the old stream may be lost;
// never mix the chain across the two streams.
lanes.removeValue(forKey: surfaceID)
let writer = lane.writer
Task { await writer.finish() }
}
evictLeastRecentlyUsedLaneIfFull()
private func openedLane(surfaceID: String, generation: UInt64) async throws -> Lane {
if let lane = lanes[surfaceID] {
if lane.generation == generation { return lane }
// A newer generation means frames on the old stream may be lost;
// never mix the chain across the two streams.
lanes.removeValue(forKey: surfaceID)
let writer = lane.writer
Task { await writer.finish() }
} else if let closed = closedGenerations[surfaceID], generation <= closed {
// This generation's stream was closed under the caller (eviction,
// disable). Its chain cannot continue on a fresh stream; make the
// caller retire and re-base with a full frame.
throw LaneError.superseded
}
evictLeastRecentlyUsedLaneIfFull()
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In
`@Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxSurfaceEventLanes.swift`
around lines 158 - 167, Update IrxSurfaceEventLanes so a generation whose lane
was closed cannot be reopened: track the highest closed generation per surface
when evictLeastRecentlyUsedLaneIfFull, finishAll, close, or retire closes a
lane, and have openedLane reject requests for that generation or an older one
with LaneError.superseded when no lane is active. This lets the caller retire
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Comment on lines +953 to +958
journal: journal,
onInteractiveSurface: { surfaceID in
// Fire-and-forget: input delivery never waits on the
// output side. Keystrokes arrive at human rate.
Task { await eventWriter.noteInteractiveSurface(surfaceID.uuidString) }
})

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use one owner for the interactive-surface decision.

This change sets the focused surface from two separate places:

  • MobileHostConnection.noteInteractiveSurface in Sources/Mobile/MobileHostService.swift (Line 2467-2472). It skips repeats with lastInteractiveSurfaceKey, is gated on surfaceEventLanesActive, and is used again by syncSurfaceEventLanes when lanes turn on.
  • This closure. It runs on every decoded input frame from receiveInput and on input-lane open. Each run starts a new unstructured Task. It skips no repeats and does not update lastInteractiveSurfaceKey.

Unstructured Tasks have no ordering guarantee. If the user types on surface A and then quickly on surface B, the call for A can reach IrxSurfaceEventLanes.noteFocused after the call for B, and A keeps the high priority. Also, MobileHostConnection does not see focus changes from this path. After lanes are enabled again, syncSurfaceEventLanes restores a stale lastInteractiveSurfaceKey.

Send this signal through MobileHostConnection (for example, one method that the lane server calls). The connection actor then orders updates, skips repeats, and keeps the only record. At minimum, skip repeats here and keep the updates ordered, for example with one AsyncStream consumer instead of one Task per frame.

As per coding guidelines: "The same behavior wired separately through multiple surfaces instead of one shared action path."

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In `@Sources/Mobile/MobileHostIrxRuntime.swift` around lines 953 - 958, Route the
onInteractiveSurface callback through MobileHostConnection’s
noteInteractiveSurface path instead of creating an unstructured Task to call
eventWriter directly. Keep focus updates ordered, deduplicated, and recorded by
the connection so syncSurfaceEventLanes uses the current surface.

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Merge receipt for ad1bcd1606, merged 2026-09-26 02:45:03 UTC

  • Not verified at merge: ios-simulator (ipad) (in progress), ios-simulator (iphone) (failure)
  • Verified: app-host unit tests, ci-status, macOS compile admission, Web complexity, web-validation, auth-refresh-tests, backend, CI fast guards, client, detect-ios-changes, diagnostic-presentation, Fast static checks, and 13 more
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  • Full suite: runs on main after merge.

rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 26, 2026
f39a1e5 Localize the Cancel button in close-confirmation dialogs (manaflow-ai#14780)
1508a9b opencode plugin: send surface_id on feed events (manaflow-ai#14781)
766c2c2 deps: bump iroh-ffi to 1.2.0-cmux.1.ios17 (iroh 1.2.0 + noq 1.3.0) (manaflow-ai#14714)
79a6ff6 Keep active pane border aligned when split zoom changes pane bounds (manaflow-ai#14646)
a3a8726 mobile: give each terminal's render-grid output its own QUIC stream (manaflow-ai#14699)
b7c3d23 fix: echo requested PID from delivery target resolution (manaflow-ai#11166)
11bcc80 ci: fill idle and briefly busy owned minis before Blacksmith (manaflow-ai#14774)

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austinywang added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 26, 2026
Resolve conflicts with #14699's per-surface event lanes:

- MobileHostConnectionEventQueue keeps main's lane assignment, generations
  and route-crossing poison, stored in the branch's O(1) keyed queue with
  per-lane arrival orders. Mac grid snapshots still replace in place on the
  shared lane and close the connection on overflow.
- MobileHostConnection owns one drain task handle per lane and cancels them
  all in close(), so a drain parked in a lane write ends with the connection.
- Add a package test that each lane keeps arrival order through grid
  replacement churn.

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