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Two of the four things #687 lists, the two that are pure logic and verifiable headless. The GPU-residency and fresh-intermediate-allocation parts need a DX12/Vulkan/Metal device to measure, so they are left for that.

1. Adjustment-layer footprint re-keyed every frame (#687.3)
The footprint (the adjustment layer's source through its masks — where its effects show) is cached so the GPU uploads it once, but its key came from the same key_any as a processed layer, so the whole effects group, paint spans, the comp-camera read and the time-fold any time-dependent effect forces all entered it. Noise or Grain on a finishing adjustment changed that key every frame: the footprint re-rendered and a full-frame RGBA-f32 buffer (127 MB at 4K) re-uploaded each frame, even though the footprint's pixels never move.

key_any now takes an explicit EffectScope — All (processed layer), First(n) (a layer's input, unchanged) and a new Footprint that hashes none of the stack. Masks still re-key (their structure and evaluated values stay in, shutter stays keyed while masks exist); shape/text wiggle time, the effect-dependency walk and the comp-scene read behave exactly as before for the existing scopes. All and First(n) are byte-for-byte today's keys, so the existing hit/miss suites pass unchanged.

A render test drives a mask path across its keyframes with Noise enabled and asserts: identical keys at frames 1.5 and 3.5 (well past the animation), a different key where the mask actually moved, an effect-parameter edit that does not re-key, and that the cached buffer still equals the mask it should show. It fails on the old single-scope code.

2. Silent upload-cache eviction (#687.4)
Static layers over the fixed 1536 MB upload budget evicted live textures with no log line and every later frame paid a re-upload. Evictions of still-held buffers are now counted and the first is reported (gpu <name>: the <N> MB upload budget cannot hold this project's layers…), and GpuContext::set_upload_budget lets an embedder on a small-memory device size it instead of the hard-coded default.

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  • New Features

    • Added an optional GPU upload memory budget setting. Valid positive values limit retained live textures; invalid or unset values keep the default behavior.
    • Added a one-time warning when textures exceed the configured budget and need to be uploaded again.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved adjustment-layer caching so effect changes and frame noise do not invalidate footprint results unnecessarily.
    • Ensured animated mask changes correctly refresh cached footprint pixels and remain consistent with uncached rendering.

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Thank you for this, @vbasky!

This conflicts with #688 (GPU resident effect stacks), which just landed in crates/gpu/src/context.rs and crates/render/src/cache.rs. Could you rebase it? Also, the last assertion in adjustment_footprint_key_ignores_the_effect_stack compares key(&p, 0.0) with itself; it should compare against a key captured before the edit. And set_upload_budget has no caller yet.

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…tack (storytold#687).

The footprint — the adjustment layer's own source through its masks — was keyed by the
same routine as a processed layer, so the whole effects group, per-paint spans, the
comp-camera read and the time fold any time-dependent effect forces all entered its key.
Noise or Grain on a finishing adjustment therefore changed the key on every frame: the
footprint re-rendered, and the GPU compositor re-uploaded a full-frame buffer (127 MB at
4K RGBA f32) each time even though none of those bytes move.

key_any now takes an explicit effect scope: All for the processed layer, First(n) for a
layer input, and a new Footprint that hashes none of it — masks still re-key through their
structure and their evaluated values, shutter stays keyed while masks exist, and the
dependencies walk and shape/text wiggle time fold behave as before. A render test moves a
mask past its keyframes with Noise enabled and asserts the key is stable across frames,
changes with the mask, ignores effect-parameter edits, and that the cached buffer matches
the mask it should show.
…get (storytold#687).

Static layers over the fixed 1536 MB upload budget evicted live layer textures with no
log line, and every later frame paid a full re-upload. Evictions of still-referenced
buffers are now counted and the first is reported by name with the budget in effect, and
GpuContext::set_upload_budget lets an embedder (or a small-memory device) choose a fitting
figure instead of the default.
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Rebased onto current main (after #688). Combined the footprint EffectScope work with main's time_dependent / key_any path, and the upload-starvation count with the atomic budget. The footprint test now compares against a key taken before the edit. Ready to land.

… a caller.

The last assertion compared key(&p, 0.0) with itself after the edit, so
it could not see a re-key; it now compares against the key captured
before the effect parameter changed. The upload budget is sized from
EFFECTCRAFT_GPU_UPLOAD_BUDGET_MB at context construction, so an
embedder on a small-memory device can lower it without recompiling.
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Both review points addressed in 8221065:

  1. adjustment_footprint_key_ignores_the_effect_stack no longer compares key(&p, 0.0) with itself: the key is captured before the Noise amount edit and compared after, so a re-key from the effect stack fails the test again.
  2. set_upload_budget now has a production caller: GpuContext::new reads EFFECTCRAFT_GPU_UPLOAD_BUDGET_MB (positive integers only, same env channel the app already uses for optional model paths) and sizes the budget through the setter, so an embedder on a small-memory device can lower it without recompiling. The parse is unit-tested.

Rebase for #688 was already in the branch (CI shows it merges cleanly). Targeted checks: cargo test -p effectcraft-render --lib adjustment_footprint (1 passed), cargo test -p effectcraft-gpu --lib upload_budget (2 passed), fmt clean. Note: this machine's GPU driver fails 6 pre-existing fx-parity tests (tests_fx_key::channel_effects etc.) identically at the branch tip before my change, so those are local to the llvmpipe here, not CI signal.

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Thank you for this contribution! We reviewed it for today's community batch, and it needs a few changes before it can land:

Old (Oct 11). Main already keys the footprint with Some(0)/no time-dependent effects and already warns once when the upload cache is full (upload_full_warned). So much of this is superseded and it now rewrites existing code. It adds a new undocumented env var, a policy choice.

Suggested next step: Rebase on main, keep only the remaining delta (shutter/paint/comp-scene/dependency keys skipped for footprints) with its test, and drop or coordinate the env var with #1706/#1550.

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Keep both gpu context test modules: the upload-budget parser from this PR and main's adapter-name matching tests.
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Merged current main. The only conflict was crates/gpu/src/context.rs at the test modules: kept this PR's upload-budget env parser tests and main's adapter-name matching tests.

upload_budget_env_parses_only_positive_integers and the seven adapter_name_tests pass locally.

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The GPU context now reads an optional upload-budget environment variable and tracks live-layer evictions. Render cache keys now use explicit effect scopes, including a footprint scope that excludes effect-derived inputs.

Changes: GPU Upload Budget

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure upload budget and track evictions
crates/gpu/src/context.rs
A positive integer value from EFFECTCRAFT_GPU_UPLOAD_BUDGET_MB sets the budget; invalid or unset values retain the default. Live-layer evictions are tracked, and the first such eviction logs a warning. Tests cover accepted and rejected values.

Render Cache Keys

Layer / File(s) Summary
Apply effect scopes to cache keys
crates/render/src/cache.rs, crates/render/src/cache/dependencies.rs, crates/render/src/tests.rs
Cache keys now select all effects, a prefix of effects, or no effects for adjustment-layer footprints. Footprint keys retain mask inputs while excluding effect-derived inputs. Tests check animated masks, effect changes, and cached render results.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: echelon, matejkozlovsky

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 078c1

Fix the upload-budget overflow and restore cache reuse for the input to a first time-dependent effect before merging. Reuse a cache in the footprint test so it protects against stale buffers after a mask moves.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 078c1

The changes remain focused on rendering and resource use. No newly reachable privileged operation was identified. Very large budget settings can effectively disable eviction, while deployment controls and device-dependent behavior remain unvalidated.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The configuration can affect each context constructed in a process inheriting the setting, while upload maps and budget values remain separately owned by each context. GPU-memory pressure may therefore extend beyond one render, but tenant isolation and host-level containment are not established by the inspected code.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The constructor reads the budget from the process environment and stores it before returning the context. Project source, mask and effect values participate in rendering and cache identity through a separate path; these inspected paths do not expose a project-value-to-environment assignment.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The upload budget is a retained-cache policy, not a hard limit on total or transient GPU allocation. Upload occurs before eviction, and concurrent misses can upload outside the cache lock. That ordering predates this PR and should not be interpreted as a newly introduced resource-isolation guarantee.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider rejecting megabyte-to-byte overflow rather than silently saturating, and document that the setting is trusted process configuration rather than a tenant resource limit. This would reduce configuration mistakes; it is not evidence of an exploitable boundary bypass.
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crates/render/src/tests.rs: 1

925-933: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse one cache when testing footprint buffers.

adjustment_footprint looks up and inserts buffers through self.cache. Because foot creates a new cache for every call, the test never exercises reuse across the mask movement. Share the cache, assert a hit, and compare the reused buffer with an uncached render.

Suggested test adjustment
-    let foot = |p: &Project, t: f64| {
+    let foot = |p: &Project, t: f64, cache: Option<&crate::LayerCache>| {
         let c = p.comp(cid).unwrap();
         let mut r = crate::Renderer::new(p, &crate::NoFootage, crate::RenderOpts::default());
-        let cache = crate::LayerCache::default();
-        r.cache = Some(&cache);
+        r.cache = cache;
         let layer = c.layers[0].clone();
         let b = r.adjustment_footprint(&crate::EvalCtx::new(p, cid, c, Tick::from_seconds_f64(t)), &layer).unwrap();
         b.img.get(50, 50)
     };
+    let cache = crate::LayerCache::default();

Use Some(&cache) for the movement sequence and None for the fresh render. Assert that cache.stats().hits > 0 and that the cached result after the mask moves equals the fresh result.

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Review comment at @crates/render/src/tests.rs around lines 925 - 933:
Update the footprint test closure around adjustment_footprint to accept an
optional LayerCache instead of creating one per call. Reuse a shared cache for
the mask-movement sequence, use no cache for the fresh render, then assert
cache.stats().hits is positive and the cached result after movement equals the
uncached result.

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Review comments at @crates/gpu/src/context.rs:
- Line 743: Update the upload-budget initialization around
parse_upload_budget_mb to use checked multiplication when converting megabytes
to bytes, and ignore values whose conversion overflows instead of applying
usize::MAX. Add or update tests covering the conversion boundary and preserving
valid budget handling.

Review comments at @crates/render/src/cache.rs:
- Line 649: Update the time-dependence condition around time_dependent so
EffectScope::First(0) is treated like EffectScope::Footprint for effect-driven
layer_time hashing, keeping later effects out of the zero-effect input key while
preserving shape and text time dependence.

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Review comments at @crates/render/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 925-933: Update the footprint test closure around
adjustment_footprint to accept an optional LayerCache instead of creating one
per call. Reuse a shared cache for the mask-movement sequence, use no cache for
the fresh render, then assert cache.stats().hits is positive and the cached
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// An embedder sizes the upload cache through the environment (the same channel the
// face landmarkers use); unset keeps the default.
if let Some(mb) = std::env::var("EFFECTCRAFT_GPU_UPLOAD_BUDGET_MB").ok().and_then(|v| parse_upload_budget_mb(&v)) {
ctx.set_upload_budget(mb.saturating_mul(1 << 20));

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject budgets that overflow during byte conversion.

If the environment value fits in usize but its value in bytes does not, saturating_mul sets the budget to usize::MAX. This effectively removes the upload-cache limit. Reject that value instead of applying it, and test the conversion boundary.

Proposed fix
--- "a/crates/gpu/src/context.rs"
+++ "b/crates/gpu/src/context.rs"
@@ -739,9 +739,13 @@
         };
         // An embedder sizes the upload cache through the environment (the same channel the
         // face landmarkers use); unset keeps the default.
-        if let Some(mb) = std::env::var("EFFECTCRAFT_GPU_UPLOAD_BUDGET_MB").ok().and_then(|v| parse_upload_budget_mb(&v)) {
-            ctx.set_upload_budget(mb.saturating_mul(1 << 20));
+        if let Some(bytes) = std::env::var("EFFECTCRAFT_GPU_UPLOAD_BUDGET_MB")
+            .ok()
+            .and_then(|v| parse_upload_budget_mb(&v))
+            .and_then(|mb| mb.checked_mul(1 << 20))
+        {
+            ctx.set_upload_budget(bytes);
         }
         Ok(ctx)
     }
 
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Review comment at @crates/gpu/src/context.rs at line 743:
Update the upload-budget initialization around parse_upload_budget_mb to use
checked multiplication when converting megabytes to bytes, and ignore values
whose conversion overflows instead of applying usize::MAX. Add or update tests
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}
}
if time_dependent(layer, effects != Some(0)) {
if time_dependent(layer, effects != EffectScope::Footprint) {

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep later effects out of the zero-effect input key.

When input_key requests EffectScope::First(0), a time-dependent effect later in the stack now makes this condition hash layer_time. That input contains source and masks, not the effect, so unchanged inputs receive new keys across frames. This defeats cache reuse for the input to a first Time effect. Treat First(0) like Footprint for effect-driven time dependence, while retaining shape and text time dependence. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @crates/render/src/cache.rs at line 649:
Update the time-dependence condition around time_dependent so
EffectScope::First(0) is treated like EffectScope::Footprint for effect-driven
layer_time hashing, keeping later effects out of the zero-effect input key while
preserving shape and text time dependence.

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