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Phase P2 of the texture streaming plan: free what is certainly unused, and make the existing pressure path take unseen textures first. One commit per item.

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  • S1: the face walk counts a face as seen only when it was drawn and is in view.
    • Before, every face counted as on screen: the off-screen bias branches never ran, and every face took the 8x camera boost.
    • A face is now seen when its drawable was drawn this frame or the last, and its own box is in the main frustum. An active drawable's box is moved into agent space for that test.
    • A face whose spatial group no camera has drawn asks for nothing.
    • At bias 1 the only change is that unseen faces lose the camera boost. Under pressure, unseen textures now go down first.
  • R24: resetTextureStats clears the sliced walk's carried maxima. They used to put pre-teleport sizes back.
  • K1-K3: dead objects are destroyed a frame's budget at a time, queued per object (ALObjectRoster).
    • This restores the time-sliced cleanup reverted in 425874a, without the two bookkeeping bugs behind those crashes. The UUID set and counter disagreed when one id died twice. The recovery pass erased by count from the tail.
    • Each object records its index and leaves by swap-and-pop, so there is no per-frame scan.
    • Destruction is capped at 0.5 ms a frame, with a floor of one object or a 256th of the queue, whichever is larger.
    • killObjects(region) still drains that region's dead objects synchronously.
  • M1: regions a teleport left behind are retired once the arrival has settled (ALRegionRetirement, AlchemyRetireDepartedRegions on by default).
    • Settled means at least 5 s after arrival, then once the fetch and create queues are calm, or at 15 s regardless.
    • Kept: the agent's region, connected neighbours, and anything within draw distance plus one region width.
    • Each other region is marked retiring, so its simulator creates no new objects. Its root objects are killed in batches of 0.5 ms a frame. Then its object cache is saved, it is removed, and its circuit is closed, as DisableSimulator does.
    • The log line RegionRetirement records the frames and seconds taken, and the ms spent in saveObjectCache and in the removal.
  • M4: a removed region's textures and pooled geometry go at once.
    • Objects dying with their region mark the textures they show. The lazy flush takes those as soon as nothing references them, instead of waiting 30 s.
    • The VBO pool is trimmed for a few seconds after a region removal and after a settled arrival. Only stores kept for at least a second that the GPU is done with are freed, 0.5 ms a frame.
  • M5: probes wholly beyond draw distance are irrelevant. Dynamic allocation counts relevant probes, in steps of 16 with hysteresis, since each change of the count reallocates the cube array.
  • R23: the emergency purge holds texture keys and visits them at 1 ms a frame. It no longer resets lazy-flush timers.
  • R7: an LLImageGL tells the LLGLTexture it was made for whenever its alpha-mask answer changes. Faces stranded in the blend pool by a deferred analysis get their groups rebuilt into a mask pass.
  • R22: the media texture's size window resets again, so interest in media you've turned away from decays.

R9 (uploads published while the window is hidden) was already fixed by b74e636.

Tests

  • Catch2 suites in newview_tests: [ALObjectRoster], [ALRegionRetirement] and [ALProbeReach].
  • New llrender GL cases: "llvertexbuffer_gl: a pool trim frees kept stores once they are a second old" and "LLImageGL: the texture it was made for hears each change of its mask answer".
  • Each new test was run against a mutant that restores the defect, and failed. The roster mutants include the 2021 UUID-set and erase-by-count designs.
  • Windows RelWithDebInfo:
    • newview_tests, llrender_tests, llrender_gl_fresh_tests and llrender_gl_shared_tests pass, 126/126, on the rebased tip.
    • The viewer was built and linked before the rebase onto d32db91. After it, the changed viewer files were recompiled but not linked, because the viewer was running from that build tree. The rebase had no file overlap with develop.

In-world checks owed

  1. Island-to-island teleports: within about 5-15 s of a settled arrival the log shows Retiring … then Retired …, with no hitch and VRAM falling. Teleport straight back during a retirement and check the region loads whole.
  2. A crowd leaving: no hitch; the Tracy plot "ObjectList: dead objects queued" drains within a few frames.
  3. Pressure in a dense region (lower RenderMaxVRAMBudget): unseen textures drop first and visible ones stay sharp. Alpha-masked foliage renders as a mask after its first load.
  4. Minimise and restore: no burst of uploads on restore.
  5. Media turned away from: its plugin drops priority.

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calcPixelArea returned true for every face but media out of the frustum and rigged faces without extents, and the
walk stored that as mInFrustum. Every face counted as on screen: the off-screen bias branches never ran, every face
took the 8x camera boost, and under pressure visible and unseen textures shrank alike.

A face is now seen when its drawable was drawn this frame or the last (isRecentlyVisible) and its own box is in the
main camera's frustum, as calcPixelArea last measured it (mBoxInFrustum, which the media test now reads too). An
active drawable's face extents are in the drawable's frame, so its box is transformed into agent space for the test.
A face whose spatial group no camera has drawn (LLViewerOctreeGroup::getAnyVisible) asks for nothing; geometry is no
sign of having been drawn, since a group is built as soon as an object joins it.

At bias 1 this only takes the camera boost off unseen faces, so textures first met off screen ask for less; maxima
already held stay. Under pressure the off-screen bias and reset finally run, so unseen textures go down first,
through today's scaleDown.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A texture with more faces than one visit walks carries the largest face stat of the current and the last rotation
(mFaceWalkMax, mFaceWalkRotationMax) and adds them on every visit. resetTextureStats, the teleport arrival reset,
left them, so the next visit put the pre-teleport sizes back for good.

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

Every frame with a death scanned all of mObjects and destroyed every dead object at once, so the destructors of a
crowd or a region leaving ran in one frame. The time-sliced clean Alchemy had in 2021 (dba7beb, 82412db) was
reverted after crashes (425874a) with two causes, both in its bookkeeping:
- a set of dead UUIDs and a counter agreed only while a UUID died at most once per window; one killed, created
  again and killed again inside the longer timed window went uncounted, so killObjects(region)'s immediate clean
  stopped short and left that dead object, whose mRegionp then dangled, in mObjects;
- its recovery pass erased by count from the tail, which could drop live objects that drawables, the octree and the
  selection still pointed at.

ALObjectRoster holds the list and its queue of leaving objects together. Each object records its position in the
list (mObjectListIndex), so it leaves by a swap with the last and a pop, with no scan. A death queues the object
itself, an LLPointer, once, under a per-object flag (mPendingRemoval): an id that dies twice is two objects queued
once each, and the queue's length is the count. The dead stay in the list until the queue reaches them; the roster
gives out only const iterators, so nothing can write through one and leave the recorded positions behind.
dirtyAllObjectInventory and clearDebugText, the two loops that did not skip the dead, now do (a dead object's
floating text would come back until it was destroyed), and NUM_OBJECTS counts the live only.

cleanDeadObjects destroys from the queue for 0.5 ms a frame, with a floor of one object and of a 256th of the queue,
so a queue growing faster than the budget still shrinks; the full synchronous drain it had for killObjects has no
caller and goes. killObjects(region) still destroys that region's dead objects at once, since its partitions and the
region go next. IGNORE_DEAD, never defined, read the UUID set and goes with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After a teleport the old region stayed until its simulator sent DisableSimulator about a minute later, or until the
100 s circuit timeout, with its objects, drawables and VBOs, avatars and their bakes, terrain and probes.

ALRegionRetirement watches for a teleport's arrival. Once it has settled -- 5 s after it at the earliest, then once
the texture fetcher holds 32 requests or fewer and the create queue 8 or fewer, or 15 s after it whatever the queues
-- every region is retired that is neither the agent's, nor a neighbour connected to it, nor within draw distance
plus one region width of the agent, measured to the nearest point of its square in the ground plane. One region at a
time:
- it is marked retiring: object updates from its simulator are dropped and it skips its idle update, so nothing new
  is created in it from messages or from its object cache;
- its root objects are killed 0.5 ms a frame (at least one): a root's death takes its children and its control
  avatar in the same call, so no frame sees a live linkset with dead parts or an animesh with a dead control avatar;
  the dead leave the object list as cleanDeadObjects reaches them;
- once the dead queue has emptied, or 5 s after the last kill, its object cache is saved and it is removed through
  LLWorld::removeRegion, whose killObjects destroys what is left of it, and its circuit is closed: the path
  DisableSimulator takes, so what its simulator still sends is dropped by the message system. The log records the
  objects, frames and seconds it took, and the milliseconds saveObjectCache and the removal took, to measure them
  in world.
A teleport that starts meanwhile removes the region being retired at once, and addRegion recreates a retiring region
rather than reuse it, since the objects it lost will not be sent again.

The handlers that look a region up by its sender or handle (object updates, cached object updates, KillObject, layer
data, parcel overlay and properties, coarse locations, region handshake, GLTF overrides) all handle finding none,
for a message read before the circuit closes.

AlchemyRetireDepartedRegions, on by default, turns it off; turned off, the region being retired is finished and no
other is started.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…etry in the buffer pool

A texture only the removed region referenced waited out the 30 s lazy flush. The objects that die with their region
-- in killObjects(region), and the roots ALRegionRetirement kills, with their children -- mark the textures they show
(LLViewerObjectList::noteReleasedTextures: diffuse, normal and specular maps, and the GLTF material's four), and the
lazy flush takes a texture marked within the last minute as soon as it is unreferenced. A texture any other object
still shows stays referenced, and one let go for any other reason waits as before.

The freed geometry went into the VBO pool's reserve, which stays allocated and counted as used until clean() runs,
once every 1024 pool operations. LLVertexBuffer::trimPoolSoon, from removeRegion and once a teleport's arrival has
settled (not at the arrival, whose own geometry takes those stores back meanwhile), opens a 6 s window in which
updatePoolTrim, once a frame in idle after the dead drawables are cleaned, frees the kept stores the GPU is done with
and that have been kept at least a second, 0.5 ms a frame, so a store that LODs and rebuilds take straight back is
still reused.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tion counts the relevant

The region a teleport left kept its probes registered until it was deleted: its 64-probe terrain grid, a probe per
16 m volume node and its placed probes, which are relevant at level 1 and above. They held cube slots while fewer
than 256 probes existed, and with RenderReflectionProbeDynamicAllocation on the count was mProbes.size(), relevant or
not.

A probe affects only the pixels inside its influence volume, so one whose sphere lies wholly beyond draw distance
affects nothing drawn (ALProbeReach::inReach). The manager works that out for every probe once a frame, before
anything that frame asks whether one is relevant (LLReflectionMap::mInReach), and isRelevant answers false for it,
placed or automatic. Every probe of a far region, and of a departed one, which ALRegionRetirement's rule puts
beyond draw distance plus a region width, falls under it. Regions culled by the frustum are not: the agent's own
region's terrain leaves the frustum looking up or from a skybox, and a probe turned away from would need its twelve
passes again on the way back.

Dynamic allocation sizes the cube array from the probes relevant last frame, the default probe among them, instead
of every probe registered. Since each change of the count reallocates the array and regenerates every probe, the
count moves in steps of 16, up at once and down only once it is more than a step lower, so a probe crossing the
edge of draw distance does not flap it. The count's formula moved to ALProbeReach::dynamicProbeCount unchanged
otherwise. Allocation stays off by default.

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

On the frame memory first ran low with system memory short or VRAM 200% over target, updateClass ran
updateImageDecodePriority on every texture in the list at once: a hitch the size of the list. And it passed
flush_images false, which sent every unreferenced texture down the "still referenced" branch, restarting its lazy
flush timer: every unreferenced texture waited another 30 s to go, at the moment memory was shortest.

The purge now takes the list's keys and visits them 1 ms a frame (at least 64 textures), skipping any that left the
list meanwhile. Keys, not references: a reference held for the purge's length would count an unreferenced texture as
referenced in every other visit meanwhile, and restart its wait the same way; each texture is held for its own
visit only, as the update loop's copy holds what it visits. Without flush_images an unreferenced texture is neither
deleted nor has its timer restarted; with it, nothing changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…e rebuilt into a mask pass

Since Linden #6055 (ac91515) a texture of 64 px or more is analysed for an alpha mask on a worker, and until the
result comes back clearAlphaAnalysis says it is no mask. A face built in that window -- and a first load always
builds in it -- went into the blend pool, and stayed there when the analysis then said mask: alpha-masked foliage
and the like sorted and blended as alpha for as long as nothing else rebuilt its group.

An LLImageGL now knows the LLGLTexture it was made for (setOwner, by generateGLTexture and the raw-image
constructor; cleared by the owner as it goes, since a deferred analysis may outlive it) and tells it on the main
thread whenever getIsAlphaMask's answer changes (LLGLTexture::onAlphaMaskChanged): the deferred result, a published
threaded upload's, a synchronous one, and the clear before a deferral. LLViewerFetchedTexture, once the answer is
mask, dirties and queues the group of every diffuse face still in an alpha pool that can render as a mask, at once
rather than at its next visit. A face already in a mask pass, or one that cannot be one, is left alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LLViewerMediaTexture::getMaxVirtualSize opened a new window each time its reset counter ran out by calling
addTextureStats(0.f), which reset the maximum while addTextureStats still restarted it when the counter was 0. Since
that branch was removed it only ever raises the maximum, so the call did nothing and the counter, never re-armed,
stayed at 0: a media texture's size was the largest any face had ever asked for, and its plugin kept the interest,
and the priority, of the closest look it ever had, off screen or not.

The window now resets the maximum and re-arms the counter itself, so the size is what the faces seen in the current
window ask for, and media turned away from loses interest.

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

    • Regions left behind after teleport are now retired automatically once the scene settles, while nearby and connected regions are retained.
    • Reflection probes outside draw distance are excluded from relevance and dynamic probe allocation.
  • Improvements

    • Vertex-buffer memory cleanup and emergency texture purging are spread across multiple frames.
    • Texture decode prioritization better reflects visibility, and alpha-mask changes refresh affected geometry.
    • Object cleanup is spread across frames, and object-cost requests are handled in smaller batches.
    • Media visibility checks better account for the full bounds of objects.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Compressed object updates with missing or oversized data are rejected before decoding.

The change adds deferred region retirement after teleport, queue-based object cleanup, and vertex-buffer pool trimming. It also adds draw-distance filtering for reflection probes, alpha-mask change notifications, and updates texture visibility and emergency-purge scheduling.

Changes: Region retirement and object cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queue-based object storage
indra/newview/alobjectroster.h, indra/newview/llviewerobject.h, indra/newview/llviewerobjectlist.*, indra/newview/tests/alobjectroster_test.cpp, indra/newview/CMakeLists.txt
LLViewerObjectList now stores objects in ALObjectRoster and drains queued removals incrementally. The tests cover roster indices, queue behavior, and draining.
Arrival checks and region selection
indra/newview/alregionretirement.*, indra/newview/llworld.*, indra/newview/llviewerregion.h, indra/newview/app_settings/settings_alchemy.xml, indra/newview/tests/alregionretirement_test.cpp, indra/newview/CMakeLists.txt
ALRegionRetirement waits for arrival settling, selects regions outside the retention area, and updates region retirement state. A setting enables or disables this behavior.
Staged object and texture cleanup
indra/newview/alregionretirement.cpp, indra/newview/llviewerobjectlist.*, indra/newview/llviewertexture.*, indra/newview/llviewertexturelist.cpp
Retirement kills region objects in batches and records released textures. The texture list can delete an image sooner when it was recently released with its region.
Deferred vertex-buffer pool trimming
indra/llrender/llvertexbuffer.*, indra/llrender/tests/llvertexbuffer_gl_test.cpp, indra/newview/llappviewer.cpp, indra/newview/llworld.cpp
The pool trims eligible stores within a time budget. Viewer idle updates the trim, and region removal can request an early trim.

Reflection probe reach

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reach checks and dynamic allocation
indra/newview/alprobereach.h, indra/newview/llreflectionmap.*, indra/newview/llreflectionmapmanager.*, indra/newview/tests/alprobereach_test.cpp
The manager marks probes outside draw distance as not in reach and uses the relevant-probe count for dynamic allocation. Tests cover reach boundaries, count stepping, and allocation levels.

Texture state and scheduling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Alpha-mask change notifications
indra/llrender/llgltexture.*, indra/llrender/llimagegl.*, indra/llrender/tests/llimagegl_test.cpp, indra/newview/llviewertexture.*
LLImageGL notifies its owner when the alpha-mask result changes. LLViewerFetchedTexture rebuilds affected geometry.
Face bounds and decode priority
indra/newview/llface.*, indra/newview/llviewertexturelist.cpp
Eligible faces use transformed bounds for the frustum check. Decode-priority updates also check spatial-group and drawable visibility.
Incremental texture purge and statistics
indra/newview/llviewertexture.cpp
Emergency purge work is processed across frames. Texture-stat and media virtual-size reset behavior is updated.

Priority: Normal

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

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant LLWorld
  participant ALRegionRetirement
  participant LLViewerObjectList
  LLWorld->>ALRegionRetirement: update retirement state
  ALRegionRetirement->>LLViewerObjectList: collect region objects
  ALRegionRetirement->>LLViewerObjectList: kill eligible objects incrementally
  ALRegionRetirement->>LLWorld: remove region after object cleanup
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  • AlchemyViewer/Alchemy#595: Both PRs change reflection-probe relevance and scheduling. This PR adds draw-distance reach and uses the relevant-probe count for dynamic allocation.

Suggested reviewers: akleshchev, claude

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review d66e1

Resolve retirement cancellation before merging: moving the camera or agent during cleanup can leave a retained region missing objects. Briefly reused textures can also be evicted earlier than the normal timeout.

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Minor · Bound the skipped-entry scan in killSome(). · alregionretirement.cpp:198-218

indra/newview/alregionretirement.cpp:198-218
🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the skipped-entry scan in killSome().

When no root has died yet, the loop at line 199 keeps popping entries after KILL_BUDGET_SECONDS expires. A long run of non-root entries at the end of mObjects can then run in one frame, and the cost grows with the run length.

Suggested direction

Apply the time limit to every popped entry, or cap skipped entries per frame. Keep the progress guarantee in mind: each pop removes an entry, so later frames still advance.

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Review comment at @indra/newview/alregionretirement.cpp around lines 198 - 218:
Update the loop in killSome() so the time budget also bounds scanning entries
that are skipped rather than killed. Preserve progress across frames by
continuing to remove entries as they are examined, while retaining the
minimum-kill behavior where applicable.
Minor · Release a probe's cube slot only after it stays out of reach, or… · llreflectionmap.cpp:376-379

indra/newview/llreflectionmap.cpp:376-379
🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | 💤 Low value

Release a probe's cube slot only after it stays out of reach, or keep its completed state.

The new !mInReach check in LLReflectionMap::isRelevant (llreflectionmap.cpp:376-379) makes a probe irrelevant on each draw-distance exit. The per-frame reach flag has no hysteresis. Each crossing therefore releases the probe's cube slot and clears its completion. On re-entry, the probe regenerates over its twelve passes, and reflections in its volume fall back to other probes until it completes. Add hysteresis to the reach flag, or exempt a completed probe from draw-distance release, so that boundary crossings do not discard completed probes.

The hypothesis describes the trigger as a probe whose volume covers visible pixels while out of reach. The header says that case cannot occur (alprobereach.h:34-35). The regeneration consequence on re-entry does not depend on that clause, so the finding is narrowed to boundary oscillation.

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Review comment at @indra/newview/llreflectionmap.cpp around lines 376 - 379:
Update LLReflectionMap::isRelevant so transient draw-distance boundary crossings
do not release a probe’s cube slot or clear its completed state. Add hysteresis
to mInReach or exempt completed probes from the out-of-reach release path.
Minor · Rebuild mask-pool faces when the texture stops being an alpha… · llviewertexture.cpp:2253-2255

indra/newview/llviewertexture.cpp:2253-2255
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Rebuild mask-pool faces when the texture stops being an alpha mask.

onAlphaMaskChanged() returns at once when getIsAlphaMask() is false. Faces that were built in POOL_ALPHA_MASK therefore keep that pool after a same-component mask-to-blend change. LLFace::dirtyTexture() runs only when the component count changes, so no rebuild happens for this transition. These faces can keep drawing through the alpha-mask pass after the texture is no longer a mask.

The existing loop does not cover this case. It skips faces outside the alpha pool, and canRenderAsMask() requires a true mask answer. The handler needs a separate path for POOL_ALPHA_MASK faces when the answer is false. That path should dirty and rebuild their spatial groups, as the blend-to-mask path already does, so that pool selection runs again.

Note: this behaviour predates this PR (already present at merge base d32db91985b7); the change keeps it reachable.

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Review comment at @indra/newview/llviewertexture.cpp around lines 2253 - 2255:
Update onAlphaMaskChanged() so a false getIsAlphaMask() result does not return
before handling faces in POOL_ALPHA_MASK. Add a separate path that dirties those
faces and rebuilds their spatial groups, allowing pool selection to run again;
preserve the existing blend-to-mask handling.
Nitpick comments: 1
indra/llrender/tests/llimagegl_test.cpp: 1

1995-1998: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff

Cover the deferred alpha-mask notification in the mask test.

The new test uses a 32×32 image. analyzeAlpha takes the synchronous branch when w < 64 && h < 64, so the test never reaches the deferred completion. The deferred completion calls setIsMask, which notifies the owner. A change that drops or alters that notification can leave this test passing.

A case with an image of at least 64×64 can reach the deferred path. Other cases in this file create a LL::WorkQueue mainloop("mainloop") and call runPending() until the completion arrives. LLImageGL takes its main queue with getInstance("mainloop"), so that queue must exist before the texture is created. The new case can follow the same pattern, then assert mChanges after the completion runs.

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Review comment at @indra/llrender/tests/llimagegl_test.cpp around lines 1995 -
1998:
Extend the mask test around createGLTexture to cover deferred alpha analysis:
use an image at least 64×64 and create the “mainloop” work queue before creating
the texture, then run pending work until completion and assert owner->mChanges
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Review comments at @indra/newview/alprobereach.h:
- Line 85: Update dynamicProbeCount so allocation values above 1 follow the
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Review comments at @indra/newview/alregionretirement.cpp:
- Around line 59-65: Update kept() to retain a region when it is within reach of
either the agent or the camera. Reuse the region origin, width, and draw
distance for both checks, and call ALRegionRetirement::keeps with the camera
position for the additional check while preserving the existing agent and
neighbor logic.
- Around line 184-194: Update the retention check in killSome() to call
kept(mRegionp) before each kill step instead of checking only whether mRegionp
is the agent’s current region. When kept() is true, preserve the existing
retirement-cancellation behavior so the region stops losing objects and is not
removed.

Review comments at @indra/newview/llreflectionmapmanager.cpp:
- Around line 389-393: In the reach loop, synchronize each probe with its viewer
object before reading mOrigin or mRadius to compute distance and reach. Update
the loop containing ALProbeReach::inReach and preserve the existing relevance
and reach logic.

Review comments at @indra/newview/llviewertexturelist.cpp:
- Around line 1113-1115: In updateImageDecodePriority, clear the region-release
mark in the branch where the texture is referenced again, alongside resetting
its last-referenced timer. Add a narrowly scoped method to LLViewerTexture for
clearing mReleasedWithRegion, then call it from that referenced branch so
subsequent unreferenced periods use the normal lazy-flush timeout.

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Minor comments:
Review comments at @indra/newview/alregionretirement.cpp:
- Around line 198-218: Update the loop in killSome() so the time budget also
bounds scanning entries that are skipped rather than killed. Preserve progress
across frames by continuing to remove entries as they are examined, while
retaining the minimum-kill behavior where applicable.

Review comments at @indra/newview/llreflectionmap.cpp:
- Around line 376-379: Update LLReflectionMap::isRelevant so transient
draw-distance boundary crossings do not release a probe’s cube slot or clear its
completed state. Add hysteresis to mInReach or exempt completed probes from the
out-of-reach release path.

Review comments at @indra/newview/llviewertexture.cpp:
- Around line 2253-2255: Update onAlphaMaskChanged() so a false getIsAlphaMask()
result does not return before handling faces in POOL_ALPHA_MASK. Add a separate
path that dirties those faces and rebuilds their spatial groups, allowing pool
selection to run again; preserve the existing blend-to-mask handling.

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Review comments at @indra/llrender/tests/llimagegl_test.cpp:
- Around line 1995-1998: Extend the mask test around createGLTexture to cover
deferred alpha analysis: use an image at least 64×64 and create the “mainloop”
work queue before creating the texture, then run pending work until completion
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RyeMutt and others added 4 commits October 29, 2026 09:40
ALRegionRetirement measured a region's reach from the agent alone. The camera can stand a draw distance away from the
agent and see as far again, so a region in its view could be retired. A region is now kept when it is near the agent
or near the camera.

The keep rule was applied only when a region was chosen and when its turn came. If the agent or the camera came near
it, or draw distance grew, during the seconds its objects were being killed, the kills went on and the region was
removed. killSome now asks the rule before each frame's kills (it answered only for the agent entering it before),
and stops the retirement, keeping what is left, once the region is kept.

A frame's kills had a floor of one kill: over a run of entries it passes over (children, control avatars, the dead),
the floor kept the loop going past its budget until a root came up. The floor is now one entry looked at, and the
budget bounds the rest, killed or passed over.

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

A texture marked as let go with a region kept the mark a minute, so one still shown by an object elsewhere, released
for some other reason within that minute, went at once instead of after the lazy flush's wait. A referenced visit now
forgets a mark at least 10 s old. Not sooner: the dead objects that set the mark hold the texture until they are
destroyed, which ALRegionRetirement waits up to 5 s for, and a referenced visit in that time is theirs.

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

A probe in reach stays in it until 16 m past draw distance (ALProbeReach::REACH_MARGIN), and one out of it comes back
within draw distance. Without it, a probe at the edge lost its cube slot and its completed state each time it
crossed, and needed its twelve passes again.

The reach pass read a placed probe's origin and radius before syncToViewerObject moved them to its object's, so a probe
on a moving or growing object was judged, and sorted, by last frame's bounds. The sync now happens in the reach pass,
once a frame, instead of in the eclipse pass after it.

dynamicProbeCount's comment said an allocation above 1 rounds to the nearest 16; the count is in units of allocation,
rounded, times 16, which is that only at 16. The comment now says what it does, and tests pin allocations 2 and 32.

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…clear is no answer

An auto-masked face keeps its alpha pool type; the mask or blend pass is chosen as its group is built
(canRenderAsMask), so the pool cannot tell which pass a face took. onAlphaMaskChanged acted only on a change to mask,
so faces built into a mask pass stayed there after the texture stopped being one.

LLImageGL now tells its owner only when an analysis answers differently from the last answer (mAnsweredMask): the
deferred result, a published threaded upload's, a synchronous one, or the texture no longer needing a mask. The no-mask
it counts as while a deferred analysis is out is provisional and tells nobody; told, every upload of a mask texture
of 64 px or more would rebuild its faces' groups into blend and then back. On an answer, LLViewerFetchedTexture
rebuilds the groups of its diffuse faces in an alpha pool: those that can render as a mask when the answer is mask,
all of them when it is not.

A test now takes the deferred path: the answer arrives through the worker and main queues, the provisional no-mask
tells nothing, and only a changed answer does.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Rebuild faces when a completed mask answer differs from the provisional state.

Reanalysis of a texture that already answers as a mask can leave faces in the blend pool. clearAlphaAnalysis() sets mIsMask to false without notifying the owner. When the completed analysis answers true, setIsMask() compares against mAnsweredMask, which is still true, so it does not notify the owner. A group rebuild that runs during the provisional window reads canRenderAsMask() as false and places the face in the blend pool. The face stays there until another rebuild runs. Notify the owner when the completed answer differs from the provisional value that getIsAlphaMask() reported during the window.

The exact timing of a group rebuild inside the deferred analysis window was not observed at runtime. The path is feasible because the analysis runs as an asynchronous job, and rebuilds run on the main thread.

Note: this behaviour predates this PR (already present at merge base d32db91985b7); the change keeps it reachable.

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Review comment at @indra/newview/llviewertexture.cpp at line 2257:
Update the completed alpha-analysis path around getIsAlphaMask() so it notifies
the owner when the final mask answer differs from the provisional value reported
during analysis, even if setIsMask() sees no change from mAnsweredMask. Preserve
the existing behavior when the answers match.
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indra/llrender/tests/llimagegl_test.cpp: 1

2038-2039: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Poor tradeoff

Add a test that exercises the real fetched-texture alpha-mask override.

The deferred alpha-mask test constructs MaskWatcher as its owner. Its onAlphaMaskChanged() override only increments mChanges, so the test never calls LLViewerFetchedTexture::onAlphaMaskChanged(). That override now marks face groups for rebuild on alpha-pool faces. No test in the repository references it or its regrouping behavior. A broken override would pass the suite.

The current behavior appears to work. This is a coverage gap, not a production defect or an incorrect assertion.

Add a test that builds an alpha-pool face on a fetched texture, changes the deferred mask answer, and asserts that the face's group is marked for rebuild. Before you choose the test directory, confirm that the newview test binary links the real LLViewerFetchedTexture implementation. indra/newview/tests/llviewertexture_stub.cpp exists and may replace it. Treat this as a follow-up to this PR and not a merge blocker.

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Review comment at @indra/llrender/tests/llimagegl_test.cpp around lines 2038 -
2039:
Add a test that exercises LLViewerFetchedTexture::onAlphaMaskChanged() rather
than MaskWatcher’s counter-only override: create an alpha-pool face using a
fetched texture, change the deferred mask answer, and assert the face’s group is
marked for rebuild. Ensure the test binary links the real LLViewerFetchedTexture
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @indra/newview/alregionretirement.cpp:
- Around line 195-197: Update the cancellation path in
ALRegionRetirement::killSome so that cancelling after any objects have been
killed restores those objects before clearing retirement state; do not leave the
region active with missing objects, since the simulator will not resend them.
Preserve cancellation when the region becomes needed and avoid completing
retirement while it is in use.

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Minor comments:
Review comments at @indra/newview/llviewertexture.cpp:
- Line 2257: Update the completed alpha-analysis path around getIsAlphaMask() so
it notifies the owner when the final mask answer differs from the provisional
value reported during analysis, even if setIsMask() sees no change from
mAnsweredMask. Preserve the existing behavior when the answers match.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @indra/llrender/tests/llimagegl_test.cpp:
- Around line 2038-2039: Add a test that exercises
LLViewerFetchedTexture::onAlphaMaskChanged() rather than MaskWatcher’s
counter-only override: create an alpha-pool face using a fetched texture, change
the deferred mask answer, and assert the face’s group is marked for rebuild.
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RyeMutt and others added 2 commits October 29, 2026 10:10
A region that came near the view again while being retired was kept with what was left of it: the objects already
killed stayed gone, since the simulator does not send an object again unasked.

ALRegionRetirement now records the local id of every object it kills, a root and its descendants, and on calling the
retirement off adds each as a full cache miss (addCacheMissFull), which the world's requestCacheMisses asks the
simulator for with RequestMultipleObjects, as a derendered object is brought back. A cached object also comes back from
the region's own cache as its idle update resumes: a cached object's drawable hands its cache entry back to the region
as it dies. An object asked for again arrives as a new object under its id; the dead one still queued under the same
id leaves as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…es built by it

With the provisional no-mask of a deferred analysis silent, a mask texture analysed again answered mask as before and
told nobody, so a face whose group was built while the analysis was out, by the provisional no-mask, stayed in the
blend pass.

getIsAlphaMask now notes when it answers the provisional no-mask of a texture whose last answer was mask
(mProvisionalRead, atomic, since it is read off the main thread too), and an answer of mask after that is a change
for the owner. A window nobody read stays silent, so a mask texture's uploads rebuild its faces only when a face was
built in one.

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