fix(mux): advance the SI debounce test on the paused clock

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Problem

debounce_opens_without_a_media_clock is start_paused, but it slept 1.2s of real time and was SIGTERM'd in a combined run. The SI cut debounce reads moq_mux::Clock, which sampled std::time::Instant, so the paused Tokio clock never reached it.

Approach

Under this crate's tests, Clock samples tokio::time::Instant. Production still samples std::time::Instant, and Clock::at / Clock::capture still take that type. The debounce test advances the paused clock by the one-second window instead of sleeping.

Impact

• Public API: none. Clock::at and Clock::capture still take std::time::Instant.
• Wire: none.

Alternatives

• Inject a test-only offset into Clock. That would move only this test, and leave the clock blind to tokio::time::advance for every other paused test in this crate.
• Sample Tokio's clock in production too. Paused tests in other crates (moq-video, moq-audio) pin a std::time::Instant and then read Clock::now. Switching the published clock would move those fixtures. Not worth it for this flake.

Follow-ups

• None for this flake. The rest of quest/m1/test-flakes-2 is still open.

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[kixelated]

Quest quest/m1/test-flakes-2/mux-debounce-clock is done.

just check passed. The debounce test advances one second on the paused clock and no longer sleeps. Public API and wire format are unchanged. Left as a draft.

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Walkthrough

The clock now uses standard monotonic instants in production and Tokio monotonic instants in test builds. A new paused-time test checks that Clock::now() advances by three seconds. The debounce test advances Tokio’s paused clock by one second instead of sleeping in real time. The related test-flake note and required-item link were removed.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1a159

Paused-time tests can get incorrect PTS values when supplying standard instants to these clock APIs. Align those inputs before merging; production clock behavior is unaffected.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the change: advancing the SI debounce test with the paused clock.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the real-time sleep problem and the change to use Tokio’s paused clock in the test.
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Preserve the paused offset when converting instants

In a #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)] after virtual time has advanced, tokio::time::Instant::now() includes the runtime's offset, but from_std preserves the raw host instant. Consequently, Clock::at(std::time::Instant::now(), wall) immediately reads as though the elapsed virtual time had already passed, and capture(std::time::Instant::now()) maps a current capture behind Clock::now() or rejects it once the advance exceeds LEAD. Apply the current virtual offset during conversion, or isolate the virtual source to the SI debounce clock so the public clock's at/capture contract remains valid in the paused tests required here.

AGENTS.md reference: rs/AGENTS.md:L51-L54

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Automated review of head 1a159163

The fix is correct. Under this crate's unit tests, Clock samples tokio::time::Instant, so si::Capture::flush (si.rs:470) reads paused time, and the test now advances instead of sleeping 1.2 s of real time. Production stays on std::time::Instant, and Clock::at and Clock::capture keep their signatures. Outside a runtime, or in an unpaused one, tokio::time::Instant::now() falls back to std time, so the plain #[test] cases in clock.rs and binary.rs behave as before. The quest file and its README line are removed cleanly, and nothing else links to them.

Non-blocking

1. The advance sits exactly on the debounce boundary (export_test.rs:5041). The hold check is now.saturating_sub(last) < DEBOUNCE (si.rs:477), and the test advances by exactly DEBOUNCE. So it passes only because elapsed is exactly 1,000,000 µs and < is strict. If someone changes it to <=, the test flips, even though the behavior it's meant to cover (a host-clock window opens with no PTS movement) hasn't changed. I'd advance to 999 ms, assert the revision is still held, then advance 1 ms more and assert it cuts. That pins the window's length instead of riding the edge.
2. In paused tests, test-mode Clock and std::time::Instant now disagree. Two latent traps for future paused tests in this crate, worth a line in the Mono doc:
   • clock.capture(std::time::Instant::now()) in a start_paused test returns InvalidCapture. Real time moves past the frozen Tokio clock, so at > mono_now() (clock.rs:151). The same goes for Clock::at(std::time::Instant::now(), ..): now() then reads 0 until paused time catches up, because Tokio's elapsed saturates.
   • Any auto-advancing tokio::time::timeout/sleep in a paused test now moves Clock::now() and so the SI debounce. Many TS tests drain with timeout(1s, …). I found none today that expect a revision to stay held across a drain, so nothing breaks now. But a held-revision assertion placed after a drain would silently release.
3. CI is still pending (Check, Test, Windows, macOS, Android, Quest), so Test hasn't yet confirmed the crate's other paused tests under the new clock.

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- Line 50: Update the test-only mono_from conversion used by Clock::at and
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🏁 Script executed:

rg -n -A2 '^name = "tokio"$' Cargo.lock

Repository: moq-dev/moq

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git diff --unified=50 75387292dcb44eefa126eba279809d4d1eb21789 1a159163c8b1c00b2286c09af326811d807c7846 -- rs/moq-mux/src/clock.rs
printf '\n--- current clock.rs ---\n'
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printf '\n--- lockfile Tokio ---\n'
rg -n -A3 '^name = "tokio"$' Cargo.lock

Repository: moq-dev/moq

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🌐 Web query:

Tokio 1.53.1 official docs tokio::time::Instant from_std pause advance virtual time semantics

💡 Result:

For **Tokio 1.53.1**, the docs establish:

- `tokio::time::Instant::from_std(std_instant)` wraps the supplied `std::time::Instant`; it does **not** read or adjust it to Tokio’s virtual clock. Tokio `Instant` wraps a standard instant, while `Instant::now()` uses Tokio’s clock-aware implementation. ([docs.rs](https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/%20tokio/time/struct.Instant.html?utm_source=openai))
- `time::pause()` freezes subsequent **Tokio** `Instant::now()` calls at the saved time; `std::time::Instant` continues normally. Pausing requires a current-thread runtime and the `test-util` feature. ([docs.rs](https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/time/fn.pause.html?utm_source=openai))
- `time::advance(d)` jumps the saved Tokio time forward by `d`. Timers whose deadlines are passed become eligible together; the call does not wait for them all to complete. It requires time to be paused and may panic if the duration overflows. ([docs.rs](https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/time/fn.advance.html?utm_source=openai))
- While paused, Tokio may also **auto-advance** to the next timer when the runtime has no work to do. ([docs.rs](https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/time/fn.pause.html?utm_source=openai))

**Implication:** converting a standard instant with `from_std` does not itself make it track virtual time. The docs establish the conversion and clock behavior separately; they do not specify that an arbitrary converted instant is rebased when `pause` or `advance` is called. For virtual-time deadlines, derive them from `tokio::time::Instant::now()` and use Tokio timer APIs.

Citations:

- 1: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/%20tokio/time/struct.Instant.html?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/time/fn.pause.html?utm_source=openai
- 3: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/time/fn.advance.html?utm_source=openai
- 4: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/time/fn.pause.html?utm_source=openai

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🌐 Web query:

site:docs.rs/tokio/1.53.1/tokio/time/struct.Instant.html "from_std" "paused" std::time::Instant

💡 Result:

Tokio 1.53.1 documents `Instant::from_std(std::time::Instant)` as converting a standard-library instant into a Tokio instant. The type wraps `std::time::Instant` and aligns with Tokio’s clock, which can be paused or advanced for testing. ([docs.rs](https://docs.rs/tokio/1.53.1/tokio/time/struct.Instant.html))

**Inference:** converting an instant with `from_std` does not itself make the standard clock pause; paused-time behavior applies to Tokio’s clock operations. The docs page doesn’t explicitly state how a converted instant behaves while time is paused.

Citations:

- 1: https://docs.rs/tokio/1.53.1/tokio/time/struct.Instant.html

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Use Tokio instants for paused-time inputs.

Under #[cfg(test)], mono_from wraps its std::time::Instant input unchanged. If a paused test passes std::time::Instant::now() after advancing Tokio time, Clock::at can start with a nonzero PTS, and Clock::capture can return a stale PTS. Pass tokio::time::Instant::now().into_std() to both methods and cover both paths in a paused test.

🐛 Suggested fix

+	#[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]
+	async fn paused_time_aligns_at_and_capture() {
+		tokio::time::advance(Duration::from_secs(3)).await;
+		let epoch = tokio::time::Instant::now();
+		let clock = Clock::at(epoch.into_std(), moq_epoch()).unwrap();
+		assert_eq!(clock.now().as_micros(), 0);
+
+		tokio::time::advance(Duration::from_secs(3)).await;
+		let capture = clock
+			.capture(tokio::time::Instant::now().into_std())
+			.unwrap();
+		assert_eq!(capture.as_micros(), 3_000_000);
+	}

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Reviewed commit: 1a159163c8b1c00b2286c09af326811d807c7846

Direction is sound for the debounce regression: test-mode Clock::now and the one-second advance now share Tokio time, and the production clock remains unchanged. The existing clock-domain finding at rs/moq-mux/src/clock.rs:43-50 remains relevant: from_std does not translate a fresh host instant into advanced virtual time. Resolve and test the intended at/capture input contract after a paused advance; the new paused_time_advances_now case only covers now. No additional independent finding or duplicate inline comment.

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On the mono_from / from_std finding (Codex, CodeRabbit, and the automated review of 1a159163c): declining.

Clock::at and Clock::capture measure the duration between host instants. tokio::time::Instant::from_std keeps that duration. Shifting by the live pause offset would not. After advance, a host instant saved earlier and std::time::Instant::now() are almost the same host time, but they would have to mean two virtual times. One std::time::Instant would then capture as two readings, so a pinned epoch would no longer stay put.

That is the whole at / capture contract, and the non-paused clock tests pin it. The SI debounce does not use them. It reads Clock::now, which samples Tokio under this crate's tests, and paused_time_advances_now covers that. Production still uses std::time::Instant for now, at, and capture.

Isolating the virtual clock to the debounce alone was the other option. The confirmed choice is the opposite: this crate's tests sample Tokio on Clock, so every paused test here moves the same clock the debounce reads. Other crates are unchanged because cfg(test) does not apply to them.

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Merge summary:

debounce_opens_without_a_media_clock advances one second on the paused clock instead of sleeping. Under this crate's tests, moq_mux::Clock samples tokio::time::Instant; production still samples std::time::Instant, and Clock::at / Clock::capture still take that type. Public API and wire format are unchanged.

Confirmed decision: keep the published clock on std::time::Instant. The paused Tokio sample is test-only, so the SI debounce moves on advance. Rebased onto current main after #4855; the quest README drops only this quest's bullet.

Review note: not applying a live pause offset in from_std. That would make one host instant mean two readings across advance. Details in the earlier comment.

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[kixelated]

Not merging. Auto-merge is off.

origin/main moved and this branch conflicts. #4653 (fc1dbff1c) already did this quest: it deleted quest/m1/test-flakes-2/mux-debounce-clock.md, dropped the README bullet, and debounce_opens_without_a_media_clock now advances 1200ms on the paused clock.

That landed a different clock than the one confirmed for this PR. Clock stores web_async::time::Instant, which is tokio::time::Instant on native, including outside cfg(test). Clock::at and Clock::capture still take std::time::Instant and convert with from_std. Re-applying this PR's test-only Tokio sample would fight that type.

I did not resolve the rebase or push. Recommendation: close this PR as superseded by #4653. No follow-up unless you want the paused from_std offset called out on the new clock; that is the same footgun the reviews noted here, and #4653 inherited it.

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[kixelated]

Closing this as superseded by #4653, which merged to main on 2026-10-06. That PR deleted quest/m1/test-flakes-2/mux-debounce-clock.md and debounce_opens_without_a_media_clock now advances 1200ms with tokio::time::advance on the paused clock. Rebasing this branch would redo work that is already on main.

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