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authorArthur Hanson Rasmusson <arthur@vgpu.io>2026-10-25 20:33:54 -0400
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docs/04-real-render-walls: SESSION 126 update - the fence fold landed (sema_gr_ahead sweeps the pre-built GPFIFO continuation beyond GP_PUT and applies the submit pushes' INC-5 RELEASE groups forward-only through the pending ledger; VKFRAME seq/DONE with no host assist) and the compute-dispatch shape decoded: a direct C5C0 method stream (SET_OBJECT + 0x7b4/0x2a4/0x270 windows + 0x3800/0x39C8 code runs + a subchannel-0 data-port stream), NO inline-QMD write, so the existing launch capture/physical forward never fires - the translator that builds the vendor launch from the C5C0 section is the execution gate
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@@ -185,3 +185,37 @@ gdb leaves the VM stopped (recover with a detach-only connect);
`stepi` loops over the stub freeze the guest's userspace for minutes -
prefer breakpoints; every probe run with the caps-fill breakpoint changes
the driver's path, so keep the fill in each experiment.
+
+## 8. UPDATE 2026-10-25 #3 (SESSION 126): the fence fold landed - the service authors the Vulkan fence releases from the driver's own push bytes; the compute-dispatch shape decoded (direct C5C0 method stream, no inline QMD)
+
+**The fence wall is closed.** The client's per-frame fence wait polls a
+16 KB BO word that a submit-push INC-5 semaphore group targets
+(`[2005c017][0x45ba090][0][payload 1][0][0x02100001]`). The group sits in a
+GPFIFO entry beyond the driver's kick boundary (GP_PUT=11 while the ring
+already carries the entries it pre-built for the next submits, idx12..46),
+so the GP_PUT-bounded pump walk never decoded it and a host-side assist had
+to write the word. The service now sweeps that pre-built continuation
+itself: `sema_gr_ahead` (default 64) walks entries beyond GP_PUT through the
+ring's validated translation, accepts only pushes that pass the strict
+method-stream gate, extracts the addr-0x5c RELEASE groups and applies them
+forward-only through the standard pending ledger. Live evidence: the sweep
+finds the groups and the ledger applies the fence word once per frame;
+`VKFRAME seq=1..3/DONE` completes with no assist. The frames are still
+black - the shader work itself is unexecuted.
+
+**The compute-dispatch shape (why nothing executes).** The workload is a
+single compute dispatch (640x480 storage image). Its push is a DIRECT
+method-stream programming of the Turing compute class: `SET_OBJECT 0xC5C0`
+on subchannel 1, then the context windows (`0x7b4` local-memory window B,
+`0x2a4` shared-memory window B, `0x270`), an immediate-config block, and
+the code/const data runs (`0x3800`/`0x39C8` pairs plus a subchannel-0 data
+port stream of `0x11c`/`0x114` runs in a separate 17 KB push). There is NO
+inline-QMD write (no `0x318/0x31c/0x320..0x41c` run), so the launch capture
+that feeds the physical-engine forward path never fires - and the CE-shaped
+ops path is not even consulted for GR-class channels by construction. Real
+pixels therefore require a translator that recognizes the C5C0 section,
+builds the vendor launch the physical channel expects (the same prelude/QMD
+shape the CUDA path already executes) from the section's fields and data
+runs, and forwards it with the existing operand/relocation machinery. The
+method vocabulary overlaps the physical prelude's existing knowledge
+(`0x7b0/0x7b4`, `0x2a4`), so the landmarks for that translator are known.