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Seven fixes from a review of the reliable UDP circuit (llcircuit.cpp, message.cpp, llzerocode.h), one commit each (the duplicate check and the purge have a second each), each with a test that fails without its fix.

  • Averaged ping. pingTimerStop averaged before it lowered the count of pings in flight, so the ping being answered still counted as over 4 s in flight and pinned the average at 1600 ms plus a fifth of the round trip: reliable packets were resent after 8 s plus the round trip whatever the link did. From the starting 1000 ms, a 200 ms answer now leaves 840 ms and a 4.2 s resend timeout, where it left 1640 ms and 8.2 s; twenty leave about 209 ms and 1.05 s. A slower answer still raises the average at once.
  • PacketAck timer. When the waiting acks went out on the end of a packet sent to the host, the collect timer stayed set, so the next ack went in a PacketAck of its own at the very next frame rather than after AckCollectTime. The timer now starts with the first ack into an empty list.
  • Ack budget. Acks appended to a packet were fitted to MTUBYTES without the byte that counts them, so a packet 4n bytes short of 1200 went out at 1201. They now leave room for it.
  • Zerocode capacity. LLZeroCode::decode refused a final run of zeros that ends exactly at the buffer's capacity, so a packet that decoded to exactly 8192 bytes and ended in zeros was dropped. The comments describing the scheme are corrected: 00 00 N is 256 + N zeros, 00 N is N, and a lone zero is 00 01.
  • disableCircuit. It removed a circuit only when its host had a circuit code mapped, which never happens on the viewer, so CloseCircuit, DisableSimulator and a region's retirement left the circuit up, pinging and acking, until the 100 s watchdog. It now removes the circuit either way; the commit message says what each caller now does. The agent's region reaches the same disconnect as after the watchdog, now at once, and a neighbour comes back through EnableSimulator.
  • Duplicate check. Only packets marked resent were looked up in the record of reliable packets already handled, so a reliable packet the network delivered twice ran its handler twice. Every reliable packet is now looked up. A resend matches any number the record holds, an unmarked packet only one handled or seen again within the last 5 s, so a sender that starts its numbering over on a circuit kept up cannot have its fresh packets dropped as matches of old numbers.
  • Duplicate record purge. Each StartPingCheck dropped every handled number below the sender's oldest unacked at once, so a copy still on its way when the sender had the ack and pinged (a resend that crossed the ack, or a copy the network delayed) was handled a second time. A number the ping passes now stays until 5 s after its packet's last copy, the same window within which an unmarked copy counts as a duplicate. The window runs from the last copy seen, not the first handling, so a resend that crosses the ack after acks were lost for a while is still caught.

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  • llcircuit_test, a new binary that builds llcircuit.cpp alone with the rest of llmessage stubbed (beside the other three stub-built llmessage tests), covers the averaged ping, the ack timer, and the 5 s window of the duplicate record, both where it matches unmarked copies and where a ping drops numbers. It reaches a circuit's acks and record through ll_test::CircuitProbe, which llcircuit.h befriends.
  • message_test runs the ack budget and the duplicate check through a real LLMessageSystem built from a template the test writes, and disableCircuit on the fixture's system.
  • llzerocode_test adds runs that end exactly at the capacity and a full 8192-byte packet.
  • ctest -L llmessage: 29/29 on Windows (RelWithDebInfo). Not yet run on macOS or Linux, or in world.

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  • Resend timeouts on a quiet link drop from 8-10 s to between 1 and 5 s.
  • A region's retirement now closes the circuit: what that simulator still sends, including its own DisableSimulator, is dropped, and the region comes back only through a new EnableSimulator.

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pingTimerStop called setPingDelay before it lowered mPingsInTransit.
setPingDelay starts from getPingDelayAveraged(), which takes
getPingInTransitTime() as a floor, and that still counted the ping being
answered as in flight: a heartbeat less a second plus its round trip, over
4 s at the 5 s heartbeat, clamped to 2000 ms. So every answer put the
average at 2000 ms before moving it a fifth of the way to the round trip,
leaving it at 1600 ms plus a fifth of the round trip whatever the link
did, and a reliable packet was resent after 8 s plus the round trip where
five times the averaged ping was meant.

It now counts the pings still in flight, those sent after the one
answered, before it averages. From the starting 1000 ms, a 200 ms answer
now leaves the average at 840 ms and the resend timeout at 4.2 s, where
it left 1640 ms and 8.2 s, and twenty of them leave about 209 ms and
1.05 s. The rest of setPingDelay's rule is as it was: a slower answer
raises the average to its round trip at once (1500 ms, where it gave
1900 ms), a faster one moves it a fifth of the way, and it stays within
100-2000 ms. The semi-reliable timeout follows the same average. While a
ping is out the average still reads 2000 ms, since getPingInTransitTime
counts one in flight as at least 4 s, so a packet sent then still waits
10 s, and the lost-packet timeout, worked just after a ping is sent, stays
at its 5 s cap.

llcircuit_test builds llcircuit.cpp alone, with the rest of llmessage
stubbed, so the circuit runs on the test's own clock.

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collectRAck started the collect timer only while mAckCreationTime was 0,
and only sendAcks put it back to 0, when it sent the acks in a PacketAck.
When the acks went instead on the end of a packet sent to the host,
sendMessage took them off the list and left the timer as it was, and
sendAcks then dropped the circuit with nothing to send, the timer still
set. The next ack to come in was timed from the first of the ones
already carried, so it went in a PacketAck of its own at the very next
processAcks rather than after AckCollectTime (0.1 s), where a packet
sent to the host in the meantime could have carried it.

collectRAck now starts the timer whenever an ack comes in to an empty
list, however the last ones went, so sendAcks no longer puts it back.

llcircuit_test checks that an ack coming in after a packet carried the
last ones waits the collect time before it goes in a PacketAck, and
that acks gather for the collect time and go in one. It reaches the
circuit's acks through ll_test::CircuitProbe, which llcircuit.h
befriends, and its stubbed message system now records the acks it is
sent.

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…their count

sendMessage worked out how many acks fit on the end of a packet as
(MTUBYTES - length) / 4, the room for their IDs alone, and then wrote the
byte that counts them after them. A packet that fell 4n bytes short of
MTUBYTES (1200), with n or more acks waiting, took n of them and went
out at 1201 bytes.

It now leaves room for the count byte. A 1196-byte packet carries no ack,
where it carried one and went out at 1201 bytes; a 1195-byte one carries
one at 1200 bytes, as before; a 1100-byte one carries 24 at 1197 bytes,
where it carried 25 at 1201.

message_test sends through a message system built from a template of
one message the test writes, with acks put on the circuit through
ll_test::CircuitProbe, which llcircuit.h befriends.

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decode checked a run against the capacity as where it stood plus the
run's count, after it had already written the run's first zero, though
the run writes only the count less one more. So a run that would end
exactly at the capacity was refused as an overflow, while plain bytes
could fill the buffer: a packet that decoded to exactly 8192 bytes, the
message system's receive buffer, and ended in zeros was dropped.

It now checks the count less one, so such a run fits and a run a byte
longer is still refused.

The comments that describe the scheme are corrected. llzerocode.h gave
0x00 0x00 N as 255 + N zeros and N as up to 254; it is 256 + N, each
further 0x00 before the count adding 256, and encode() writes counts up
to 255. message.h gave 0x00 N as N + 1 zeros and a lone zero byte as
0x00 0x00 0x00; it is N zeros, and a lone zero is 0x00 0x01. A test's
comment that gave each extra marker as 255 zeros now says 256.

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… has a code

disableCircuit removed a circuit only when its host had a circuit code
mapped, which only the UseCircuitCode handler fills, on the side that
receives UseCircuitCode. The viewer opens every circuit to a simulator
without a code, so on the viewer it removed nothing and logged that it
could not find one: the circuit stayed up, pinging, acking and answering
pings, until the watchdog dropped it once the simulator had answered no
ping for 100 s.

It now removes the circuit in either case, and where a code is mapped
clears it as before. What each caller now does:

- CloseCircuit (close_circuit) removes the sender's circuit. The receive
  path already finds the circuit again after the handler, since any
  message may remove it. When the sender is the agent's region,
  LLViewerRegion::updateNetStats finds no circuit, the region is no
  longer alive, and LLAppViewer disconnects with AgentLostConnection, as
  it does after the watchdog drops the circuit, now at once rather than
  100 s later. A neighbour's region is left not alive, and a later
  EnableSimulator opens a new circuit and LLWorld::addRegion makes the
  region again.
- DisableSimulator (process_disable_simulator) removes the region and
  now its circuit. A later EnableSimulator for that host opens a new
  circuit and region, as it did after the watchdog. For the agent's own
  region removeRegion has already disconnected (YouHaveBeenDisconnected);
  the lost circuit then asks forceDisconnect again, which does nothing a
  second time.
- A region's retirement (ALRegionRetirement::finish) now closes the
  circuit as its comment says it does: what that simulator still sends
  is dropped as off-circuit, including its own DisableSimulator, and the
  region comes back only through a new EnableSimulator.
- The message log's Close Circuit removed the circuit already, through
  removeCircuitData where no code was mapped; it does the same.
- LLXferManager's kill of an untrusted circuit with too many file
  requests now removes it on the viewer too.
- UseCircuitCode, where a code is mapped, is unchanged. Where a host
  came back with a new code on the same address, the handler had just
  erased the address's mapping, so the old circuit stayed and was taken
  on again; it is now removed and opened afresh.

message_test checks that a circuit opened without a code is removed and
can be opened again, and that one with a code is removed with its
mapping.

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… or not

checkMessages looked a packet up in its circuit's record of reliable
packets already handled only when the packet was marked resent. A
reliable packet the network delivered twice came the second time
unmarked, so its handler ran again, and the sequence check on arrival
counted it in again and logged it as out of order.

Every reliable packet is now looked up: a duplicate is dropped and acked
again, as a resent one was, and the arrival check skips it too. An
unreliable packet is not looked up: only reliable packets' numbers are
recorded, so a match could only be a stale entry.

A fresh packet does not match an entry. A sender numbers each packet it
sends on a circuit one past the last, and the record holds only numbers
already handled, so a fresh packet is numbered above all of them. At
each StartPingCheck the record drops every number below the oldest
packet the sender is still waiting to have acked, and after 60 s any
number above the highest seen, which only the 24-bit numbering wrapping
leaves, so no entry is left when the numbering comes round to it again.
The exception is a sender that starts its numbering over on a circuit
the receiver still holds, which leaves the entries near the old highest
number until the new numbers reach them. Now that disableCircuit
removes the circuit, on the viewer that takes a simulator opening a new
circuit within the watchdog's 100 s after dropping its end of the old
one with no CloseCircuit or DisableSimulator reaching the viewer.

message_test sends a reliable packet twice, unmarked, from a socket of
its own to a message system built from a template the test writes, both
before either is read and after the first is handled, and checks it is
handled once each time; a copy marked resent is still dropped.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved acknowledgment timing and collection, helping ensure acknowledgments are sent once and within packet-size limits.
    • Reliable duplicate packets are now discarded consistently, with acknowledgments sent for discarded duplicates.
    • Circuit cleanup now removes host data even when circuit information is unavailable.
    • Corrected zero-run decoding capacity checks and clarified how zero-coded runs are represented.
    • Updated ping-delay calculations to use the current in-transit ping count.

The changes update circuit timing and acknowledgment collection, reliable-packet duplicate handling, outgoing acknowledgment capacity, circuit removal, and zero-code decoding. New tests cover these behaviors, and the standalone circuit test is added to the build list.

Changes: Circuit timing and acknowledgments

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Circuit timing, acknowledgment collection, and tests
indra/llmessage/llcircuit.cpp, indra/llmessage/tests/llcircuit_test.cpp, indra/llmessage/CMakeLists.txt
The circuit code updates acknowledgment timestamps and ping-delay calculation order. The new standalone tests cover ping averages, resend timeouts, and acknowledgment collection and sending.

Message packet processing and circuit removal

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Packet handling, circuit removal, and validation
indra/llmessage/message.cpp, indra/llmessage/message.h, indra/llmessage/llcircuit.h, indra/llmessage/tests/message_test.cpp, doc/TESTING.md
Reliable duplicate packets are acknowledged and discarded. Outgoing acknowledgment capacity accounts for the count byte, and disableCircuit removes circuit data regardless of whether a circuit code exists. Tests cover these cases.

Zero-code decoding

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Zero-code format and decode capacity
indra/llmessage/llzerocode.h, indra/llmessage/message.h, indra/llmessage/tests/llzerocode_test.cpp
The format comments describe short and extended zero runs. The decoder checks capacity for the remaining zero bytes, and tests cover exact-fit, insufficient-capacity, and maximum-sized packets.

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  • AlchemyViewer/Alchemy#616: Exposes LLZeroCode packet encoding and decoding through aloracle, which uses the decoder updated here.
  • AlchemyViewer/Alchemy#601: Calls disableCircuit during region removal; this change updates that method’s circuit-removal behavior.

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Assert that each duplicate copy queues an ACK.

The new duplicate test checks only the handler count and mPacketsIn. The duplicate branch calls collectRAck before it discards the packet, and mPacketsIn increments on the discard path either way. Removing the collectRAck call leaves both checked values unchanged, so the test still passes.

Add a check on the sender circuit's pending ACK count. Read the count before a duplicate copy is sent, then check that it rises by one once read_until returns. Use a before/after delta because earlier copies also queue ACKs. Read the count before processAcks drains the queue. Use the existing ll_test::CircuitProbe helper in this test file to read it.

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In the duplicate test around send and read_until, use ll_test::CircuitProbe to
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…handled moments ago

The duplicate check now looks up every reliable packet, but the record of
numbers already handled outlives a sender that starts its numbering over
on a circuit the receiver keeps up: the old numbers near the last
highest one stay until the new numbering reaches them, and the fresh
packets that carry them would be dropped and acked, their messages lost.
Before that change only resent packets could meet them.

isDuplicateResend is now isDuplicate, which takes whether the packet was
marked resent. A resend still matches any number the record holds. An
unmarked packet matches only a number handled within the last 5 s: a
copy the network makes comes within moments of the first, while a
sender's numbering takes far longer to come round to an old number, so
an older match is a fresh packet.

llcircuit_test checks that an unmarked packet matches a number handled
4 s before and not 10 s before, and that a resend matches both.

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…ill come

Each StartPingCheck carries the oldest packet its sender still waits to
have acked, and clearDuplicateList dropped every handled number below
it at once. The sender pings once it has the ack, but a copy of the
packet can still be on its way: a resend sent before the ack reached
the sender, or a copy the network made and delayed. Arriving after the
ping, it found its number gone and was handled a second time.

clearDuplicateList now drops a number below the oldest unacked only
once it was handled LL_DUPLICATE_COPY_WINDOW (5 s) or longer ago, the
same window within which isDuplicate still matches an unmarked copy.
A number the ping passes sooner stays until a later ping. The warning
in updateWatchDogTimers now says when suppression can still fail: a
copy that comes after the ping and more than 5 s after its packet was
handled.

llcircuit_test checks that a number a ping passes 1 s after it was
handled is still a duplicate, marked resent or not, and that a ping 6 s
after lets it go while keeping the number it does not pass. The probe's
handled counts the packet in as checkMessages does, so the circuit
knows the highest number it has had.

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A number the ping passes was kept for 5 s from when its packet was first
handled. While acks for a packet are lost its sender goes on resending
it, and each resend is caught as a duplicate and acked again; once an
ack gets through the sender pings, and a resend it sent before that ack
came can still arrive after the ping. With the packet handled more than
5 s before, the ping had already dropped its number, and the resend was
handled a second time: handled at 0, resent at 4 s, pinged past at
6.5 s, resent again at 7 s.

isDuplicate is now checkDuplicate, which keeps a duplicate's number as
seen now, so LL_DUPLICATE_COPY_WINDOW runs from the latest copy. A
resend that crossed the ack was sent before the ack reached its sender,
so it comes within about a round trip and the ack collect time of the
copy that ack answered. An unmarked copy likewise matches within 5 s of
the latest copy rather than the first. Both callers, checkMessages and
the arrival check in bufferInboundPacket, call it unchanged otherwise.

llcircuit_test plays the case above: the resend at 7 s is a duplicate,
and a ping at 12 s, 5 s after it, drops the number.

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Region retirement removes a far region some fifteen seconds after a
teleport, rather than keeping it until its simulator sends
DisableSimulator about a minute after it, and closed the region's circuit
on the viewer alone. Before the circuit fixes in AlchemyViewer#617 that close did
nothing; with them it does, and the simulator, not told, resent every
reliable packet that went unacked and pinged until it timed the circuit
out: some 35 seconds of packets dropped as off-circuit, each logged, in a
session on a live grid.

The circuit is now left for the simulator to close with DisableSimulator,
as it would be without retirement, so that whatever it is still doing for
the agent there ends on its own terms: until then the viewer acks what it
sends and answers its pings. Its messages for the region that is gone are
dropped as before. The object updates and layer data among them now warn
once for each region or simulator rather than once each, and a
DisableSimulator for a region already retired closes the circuit without
warning that the region is missing.

AlchemyRetireDepartedRegionsCloseCircuit, off by default, closes the
circuit at once instead, through LLMessageSystem::closeCircuit, which
sends the simulator CloseCircuit, once and unreliably, then disables the
circuit. closeCircuit is tested. Retirement's choice between the two
needs a world and is not, and how a simulator takes a viewer's
CloseCircuit on a circuit the agent has left is not yet seen in world.

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