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Problem

The native QUIC stack moved to noq, and unexpected live latency prompted a rollback. Backend selection also adds feature combinations and branches that moq-tokio no longer needs.

Approach

Make Quinn unconditional in moq-tokio, remove the noq adapter and backend-selection guards, and update workspace consumers, docs, and feature checks. Retain optional Iroh, mDNS, qlog, jemalloc, certificate watching, stream transports, and crypto providers. Preserve current TLS, connection racing, worker, and shutdown behavior.

The rollback exposed lost raw QUIC application close codes in web-transport-quinn. Fix that at the source in web-transport#409, with a regression test that fails without the fix. Temporarily pin its commit and matching transport trait to preserve behavior and trait identity.

Impact

  • Remove moq-tokio's noq, quinn, _transport, and _certs Cargo features, public noq module, and Error::Noq. Quinn's error module and variant are unconditional. Downstream backend-forwarding features are also removed. Target dev for these published API changes.
  • Native QUIC uses Quinn and BBRv1. Optional Iroh and the experimental io_uring runtime continue to use noq and BBRv3.
  • No MoQ wire, CLI flag, C ABI, or language binding changes.

Validation

Workspace tests on current dev: 5,417 passed, 11 skipped. Provider-only backend tests cover Quinn without selection flags, and CI smoke-tests the raw QUIC and WebTransport latency benchmark at three payload sizes. Full just test interop --all passed across Rust, Python, Go, JavaScript, native Node/Bun, C, and GStreamer. The three qlog regressions passed, including multiple endpoint trace names. just check passed, including formatting, docs, optional media checks, and io_uring checks.

Alternatives

Keeping noq as a selectable backend retains complexity the user explicitly asked to remove. Removing all other optional capabilities was declined in the latest scope selection.

Follow-ups

Replace the temporary Git pin with a published web-transport-quinn release after #409 lands. Its focused Quinn tests and clippy pass; its repository-wide check currently fails on an unrelated, unchanged WASM harness lint. The rollback does not establish the cause of the observed live latency.

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The pull request adds Quinn as a QUIC backend and selects it by default. Shared client, server, TLS, listener, worker, and error paths now support Quinn or noq. It adds Quinn transport implementation and tests, updates package features and commands, adds latency benchmarks, and expands validation scripts. Documentation describes backend selection, congestion control, qlog behavior, and feature requirements.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ac3e0

Quinn becomes the default QUIC backend. The --quic-congestion-control help text still says the default uses BBRv3, but default builds now use BBRv1. This misleads operators but does not affect runtime behavior. The change is mergeable after a small documentation fix.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ac3e0

The inspected integration preserves TLS verification, configured client authentication, destination pinning, and redirect controls. No introduced security bypass was established. Some backend-specific cancellation and concurrent shutdown guarantees, and the effective production deployment configuration, remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The change affects native consumers compiled with Quinn, including externally reachable listeners and their workers, rather than one local implementation call. Network peers reach transport handshakes and protocol negotiation at configured ports; actual fleet, tenant, and environment exposure cannot be determined from the supplied deployment context.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Quinn and noq preserve the configured destination and TLS hostname inputs. Shared tests assert request path/query preservation and refusal of redirects for fixed targets, while allowing redirects for unpinned targets. No backend-specific destination-authority bypass was established.
  • observed — The shared TLS builder retains explicit insecure, fingerprint, and root-based verification policies and disables client resumption for reloadable roots. HTTP fingerprint bootstrap uses the existing guard in both backends; this is a pre-existing trust behavior, not an introduced control weakening.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Quinn waits for endpoint idle before releasing its server socket, whereas noq waits for all connections to enter draining. Explicit socket retention preserves worker-group ownership. Regression coverage counters premature-release concerns, but does not establish every dependency-level cancellation or concurrent-close guarantee.
🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 74.85% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 163 functions across 22 files. (16 skippe… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Title check ⚠️ Warning The title identifies Quinn as the focus, but it incorrectly states that Quinn is the only QUIC backend. The changes retain the noq backend and select Quinn when both backends are enabled. Update the title to state that Quinn is restored or made the native default, for example: "fix(quic): restore Quinn as the native default".
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Description check ✅ Passed The description is related to the changes because it discusses Quinn, noq, backend selection, TLS, testing, and the affected features. However, several statements conflict with the changeset, which re…
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🟡 Minor · Fix the --quic-congestion-control help text. It still claims the default is BBRv3. · quic.rs:171

rs/moq-tokio/src/quic.rs:171
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the --quic-congestion-control help text. It still claims the default is BBRv3.

Line 171 is the doc comment that usage renders into --quic-congestion-control help and the generated docs. It says the delay default "uses BBRv3". This PR makes Quinn the default native backend. congestion_factory in rs/moq-tokio/src/quinn.rs maps CongestionControl::Delay to quinn::congestion::BbrConfig, which is BBRv1. The updated enum doc at Line 58 already says this. As a result, operators who read --help on a default build see the wrong algorithm.

📝 Proposed fix
-	/// Congestion control family. Defaults to `delay`, which uses BBRv3.
+	/// Congestion control family. Defaults to `delay`: BBRv1 on Quinn, BBRv3 on noq.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-tokio/src/quic.rs at line 171:
Update the congestion-control help doc comment rendered by usage so it describes
the delay default accurately: BBRv1 on Quinn and BBRv3 on noq. Keep the
documented default value unchanged.

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- Line 171: Update the congestion-control help doc comment rendered by usage so
it describes the delay default accurately: BBRv1 on Quinn and BBRv3 on noq. Keep
the documented default value unchanged.

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  • doc/setup/upgrade.md
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  • rs/moq-relay/src/relay.rs
  • rs/moq-relay/tests/drills.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/Cargo.toml
  • rs/moq-tokio/README.md
  • rs/moq-tokio/benches/latency.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/client.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/connect.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/error.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/lib.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/listen.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/log.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/quic.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/quinn.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/resolve.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/server.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/tls.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/transport.rs
  • rs/moq-tokio/src/websocket.rs
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  • rs/moq-transcode/Cargo.toml
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Reviewed head: ac3e00e

One P2 finding: the Quinn socket adapter retains already-ready connection wakers and linearly scans them on subsequent sends.

Direction: a reversible backend rollback is reasonable for isolating the latency issue. Compile-time selection stays simple; the near-copy of the noq backend increases maintenance cost, so shared behavioral coverage matters. The single-connection loopback benchmark cannot establish production latency or fan-out scaling. I also independently confirm CodeRabbit's existing BBR help-text finding.

Verification: reviewed all 39 changed files and relevant surrounding/pinned dependency code. Shell syntax and all 10 changed Cargo manifests parse successfully. No Rust tests or benchmarks run here: Cargo/Nix/just are unavailable. CI remains in progress.

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Comment thread rs/moq-tokio/src/quinn.rs
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self.blocked.push(cx.waker());
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[P2] Keep already-ready senders out of the shared waiter list

Pinned Quinn 0.11.12 calls poll_writable for every transmit, including successful sends. This unconditionally inserts the connection waker, but Tokio returns cached readiness without registering the fan-out waker. On an already-writable, unsaturated socket, nothing clears these entries on Ready or poller drop. Connection churn therefore retains completed-task wakers, and each later send locks and linearly scans that accumulated list in Blocked::push. The old noq path only registers after WouldBlock. Use per-poller writable() futures as Quinn's Tokio adapter does, or track only pending waiters with ready/drop cleanup; add a many-connection/churn regression.

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kixelated force-pushed the codex/restore-quinn branch from ac3e00e to 13fb38f Compare October 1, 2026 04:26
@kixelated kixelated changed the title fix(quic): restore Quinn as the native default refactor(tokio)!: make Quinn the only QUIC backend Oct 1, 2026
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Reviewed head: 13fb38f

Re-reviewed the 47-file diff against dev (985037f), accounting for the rebase. No additional confirmed findings in the revised feature wiring or pinned close-code fix.

The existing P2 waker-retention finding remains unchanged at rs/moq-tokio/src/quinn.rs:650-652: already-ready sends still accumulate task wakers, and later sends scan the shared list. Use per-poller readiness futures or pending-only registration with ready/drop cleanup, plus a connection-churn regression. CodeRabbit's existing BBR help-text finding also remains at quic.rs:171.

Direction: making Quinn unconditional removes the duplicate backend and feature-selection complexity; dev is appropriate for the public feature/module removals. Fixing raw close-code decoding in web-transport is the right layer. The single-connection benchmark still does not establish production latency or fan-out scaling.

Verification: reviewed the current PR diff, changes from the previously reviewed Quinn adapter, and the pinned web-transport#409 patch. All 12 changed Cargo manifests, Cargo.lock, and shell syntax checks pass. Rust tests/benchmarks were not run here because Cargo/Nix/just are unavailable. CI is still running.

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MERGE — reviewed 13fb38f84c8f092570327a766552fcd5a7ba9ab7 (base dev).

Quinn becomes the only native QUIC backend in moq-tokio: noq / _transport / _certs / quinn Cargo features and Error::Noq / pub mod noq go away; Error::Quinn and pub mod quinn are unconditional; workspace consumers and sh/rs/tokio-features.sh drop backend selection; Delay CC is Quinn BBRv1 (Iroh/io_uring stay on noq/BBRv3). CI (Check / Test / WASM / macOS / Windows / Android / Swift / OBS) green.

Findings

  1. Low — git pin must not ship to crates.io. Root [patch.crates-io] pins web-transport-quinn and web-transport-trait to moq-dev/web-transport@c979d8c for raw QUIC close codes (moq-dev/web-transport#409, still open). close_code.rs and the rollback’s close-code behavior depend on that pin; a registry-only resolve of web-transport-quinn 0.13 would regress. Do not publish from this tree until Minor changes. #409 is released and the patch is removed (already listed as a follow-up — treat as a hard gate before the next crates.io cut).

  2. Note — intentional CC / API surface. Delay congestion is BBRv1 on Quinn (quinn.rs congestion_factory), not BBRv3. Public breaks (Error::Noq→Quinn, removed features, always-on Quinn + crypto-provider compile_error!) are scoped to dev and covered in doc/setup/upgrade.md. Workspace moq-tokio now forces aws-lc-rs when default-features = false.

  3. Cosmetic — stale “noq” wording in rs/moq-relay/src/relay.rs (~ready-path comment still says “certificate identity noq will not load”). Harmless; tidy when convenient.

Otherwise

  • Accept/dial paths look consistent: ws/wss stay WebSocket-only; https/moqt/moql use Quinn (raced with WebSocket when that feature is on); RequestKind::Quic rename is crate-private.
  • Feature matrix + provider-only backend tests + latency bench smoke (--test) are wired; qlog uses File::create_new + unbuffered writes (good for crash dumps).
  • No MoQ wire / CLI flag / C ABI changes claimed; matches the diff.

Recommendation: MERGE
Reviewed head: 13fb38f

This is an automated review, not the maintainer's decision
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was made just in case noq was the root problem

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