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UI: draw a flat map's settled frame off the UI thread (#1750) - #1775
Third of the three changes in #1750: the settled frame of a flat map is drawn off the UI thread. Independent of #1769 and #1774 (based on main).
Root cause
crates/ui-egui/src/mapview.rs shows the last frame shifted and scaled during a pan or zoom, but once the motion stops (0.18 s) it draws the exact frame synchronously with render::render, so the window freezes for the whole render. Scroll-wheel zooming stops and starts, so it hits that freeze again and again. Globe, tilted and tiled flat maps already compose their exact frame on a worker (tilt_settle); a plain flat map didn't.
Fix
A flat, north-up map without tile layers whose frame on screen differs from the one wanted only by its camera (same revision, size and sources) now settles through tilt_settle, like the tiled flat map: the last frame, shifted and scaled, stays on screen with no preview, and the new frame is swapped in when it lands. A mouse pan or wheel zoom changes only the camera. A change to the map itself (any command, including camera commands, since every command bumps the session revision; an edit; a layer shown) is still drawn at once, as before, so it shows without waiting.
Cancellable: render::cancel holds a per-thread stop flag the worker installs. The renderer reads it between layers and every 2048 features of a layer (render_frame), and a stopped pass comes back as None from render_any. TiltSettle::cancel sets it; a stopped frame comes back with cancelled set, isn't taken for one that couldn't be drawn (so its key can be drawn again), and frees the worker. When the map moves again while a frame is drawn, the map view stops it, so the worker is free for the frame of where the map comes to rest.
The browser has one thread: tilt_settle draws the frame inline there, as before, and the new path is compiled out of the decision (cfg!(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))).
How the map view and the session share the map while a render runs: the worker draws a clone of the Map (its features and caches are shared, so the clone costs pointers), and the caches the worker filled are adopted when it lands (adopt_caches), as for the tiled flat map.
Measured
The real map view (egui_kittest harness, release build) with the World Atlas sample plus the 1:10m countries (548k vertices) as a layer, 1480×900, panning 120 px five times and timing every UI frame until the exact frame is shown:
Longest UI frame
Exact frame shown after
Before (drawn on the UI thread)
30 to 51 ms
30 to 51 ms
This PR (drawn on the worker)
0.6 to 2.3 ms
37 to 52 ms
The exact frame arrives about as soon, and the window no longer stops for it. With a heavier layer the freeze before grows with the data; the UI frame here doesn't.
Tests
mapview::tests::a_flat_maps_settled_frame_is_drawn_off_the_ui_thread: in the real map view, a pan come to rest starts the worker and keeps the last frame on screen (no preview); moving again stops the job; once the map rests the exact frame for where it is arrives. It fails on main ("the pan's frame is drawn on the worker").
On supported desktop maps, the exact view is rendered in the background after a pan or zoom while the previous frame remains visible.
Globe, tilted, and tiled map views also render exact frames after navigation.
Improvements
Outdated render work now stops when no longer needed, helping the map settle on the current view without treating cancelled work as a rendering failure.
After a pan or zoom the map view showed the last frame shifted and
scaled, then, once the motion stopped, drew the exact frame on the UI
thread: the window froze for the whole render (30-50 ms with the 1:10m
countries, far longer for a detailed layer), and scroll zooming, which
stops and starts, hit that again and again.
A flat, north-up map whose frame differs from the one on screen only
by its camera now goes through the worker the globe, tilted and tiled
maps use (tilt_settle). The last frame stays on screen meanwhile (no
preview), and the new one is swapped in when it lands. A change to the
map itself (a command, an edit, a layer shown) is still drawn at once,
and the browser, with one thread, draws it inline as before.
A frame that goes out of date while it is drawn is stopped: the worker
installs a flag (render::cancel) the renderer reads between layers and
every 2048 features of a layer, and a stopped frame comes back as
cancelled, not as one that couldn't be drawn, so its key is drawn
again. Moving the map again stops the job, freeing the worker for the
frame of where the map comes to rest.
Part of #1750.
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Walkthrough
The render crate adds cooperative frame cancellation. Native settled rendering can cancel worker draws and retry cancelled frames. Eligible flat, north-up maps without tile layers retain the previous frame while an exact frame is drawn asynchronously.
The renderer exposes a thread-local cancellation flag. It checks between layers and every 2048 features, then returns None if cancellation is requested after a render pass.
Worker cancellation and retry crates/ui-egui/src/tilt_settle.rs
Native settled-frame jobs pass a shared stop flag to rendering. Cancelled results are distinguished from failures, and their keys can be started again. WebAssembly continues to draw synchronously.
Eligible native flat maps draw exact frames on a worker while retaining the previous frame. Active work is cancelled when settling ends, and preview rendering is suppressed during flat settling.
sequenceDiagram
participant Mapview
participant TiltSettle
participant Worker
participant Render
Mapview->>TiltSettle: start settled draw
TiltSettle->>Worker: start draw with stop flag
Worker->>Render: install cancellation flag and render
Mapview->>TiltSettle: cancel active draw
TiltSettle->>Worker: set stop flag
Worker->>TiltSettle: return cancelled result
[Feature]: Draw a heavy layer on several CPU cores #1067: This issue identifies off-thread rendering as a related prerequisite; this change moves settled-frame rendering to a worker but does not add multi-core layer rendering.
opengeos/RustGIS#1504: This PR adds archive revision checks for settled-frame results, which interact with the changed cancellation and result-adoption path.
opengeos/RustGIS#1461: This PR adds revision and authority checks to deferred and settled rendering, including the result data changed here.
Suggested reviewers:deniial00
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review c2f7e
Flat maps with streamed sources can end up with stale source rows after a settle, and a failed settle frame can stay stale. Fix the pending-read ownership issue before merging; the other two issues are minor.
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A rabbit watches frames take flight The old one stays within its sight A worker draws, then stops on cue A fresh attempt comes hopping through The map rests crisp beneath the moon
The PR moves a flat map's settled frame onto the worker thread and adds a cooperative stop flag, so a frame that goes stale stops early. The design is sound and the UI-thread path is correctly gated off for wasm. The main gap is that the stop check doesn't reach streamed layers, which is the case the change most needs to cover.
Bugs
Streamed layers ignore Cancel (medium, ~85%): draw_chunk runs once per chunk and row is chunk-local, so the every-2048-rows check never fires at row 0. A stopped frame on a file-backed layer still reads the whole source and draws the first 2048 features of each chunk. The worker stays busy, and start_with refuses new frames while busy. Inline comment on crates/render/src/lib.rs:4180.
Performance
Stopped frames still place labels (low-medium, ~80%): the layer-loop check breaks out, but tile labels and place_labels_with_previews still run to completion. Suggested fix: if cancel::requested() { return None; } before the placement call (around line 4897, outside this diff). Inline comment on crates/render/src/lib.rs:3785.
Quality
requested() uses FLAG.with (low, ~60%): it can panic during thread-local teardown, while Drop uses try_with. Inline comment with a suggestion on crates/render/src/cancel.rs:36.
Tests don't prove early exit: a_stopped_frame_is_no_frame and a_stopped_frame_comes_back_cancelled_and_can_be_drawn_again both pass with the flag already set, so they only exercise the render_any gate. Nothing checks that the in-loop checks stop work early, and nothing covers a streamed layer or label placement. A test that stops mid-layer, or counts features drawn, would catch the gaps above.
Helper threads don't see the flag: each_chunk in crates/render/src/raster.rs:722 spawns scoped threads, and the thread-local flag is invisible there. No check runs there today, but the module doc says "on its thread", so this limit should be stated.
Nits, for the release quality pass: the doc comment on TiltSettle::cancel (tilt_settle.rs:104-105) says "every few thousand features", which overstates the check. The header comment at tilt_settle.rs:4 is one overlong line.
AGENTS.md
The "Never hold the window" rule asks that long loops look at Cancel between items. The streamed chunk loop doesn't, which is the first finding above.
Otherwise compliant: no unwrap/expect in non-test code, no unsafe, the wasm path is compiled out of the new decision, and no new strings or dependencies.
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Major · Keep pending reads on the owning map · mapview.rs:1031-1037
crates/ui-egui/src/mapview.rs:1031-1037 Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Keep pending reads on the owning map
If a streamed read finishes after the flat-settle clone is made, the worker can consume its result. The owner then waits on an empty pending slot and cannot read a new window until the source resets. Selection can therefore use stale rows.
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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/mapview.rs around lines 1031 - 1037:
Update the map snapshot passed to tilt_settle.start_backend so the settle worker cannot consume pending streamed-read results owned by app.session.map(). Preserve pending reads on the owning map, allowing it to request a new window after a result is consumed and selection to use current rows.
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Review comments at @crates/render/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 3784-3787: Update render_frame to return None when cancellation is
requested immediately after the layer loop, before tile processing and
post-processing. Add an early cancellation check at the start of draw_chunk so
cancelled streamed chunks skip their remaining work; preserve each function’s
existing return contract.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/mapview.rs:
- Line 1048: Update the preview condition in the map-view rendering path so
flat-settle frames suppress the preview only while TiltSettle is busy, rather
than whenever flat_settle is true. Preserve the preview_attempt guard so a
preview is attempted at most once per key, and retain the existing keep_frame
busy-worker safeguard.
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Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/mapview.rs:
- Around line 1031-1037: Update the map snapshot passed to
tilt_settle.start_backend so the settle worker cannot consume pending
streamed-read results owned by app.session.map(). Preserve pending reads on the
owning map, allowing it to request a new window after a result is consumed and
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A stopped frame now reads no further chunk of a streamed layer (the
stop isn't taken for a source error), draws no more of a layer, and
returns before its tiles, labels and effects. The flag check can't
panic in thread teardown. The map view falls back to a preview when
the worker couldn't draw a flat frame, not only while it is busy.
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cancelled can be set on a frame that was fully drawn (Quality, low, ~40% confident). The flag is read after render_backend returns, so a stop that lands after the renderer's last look still gives rendered = Some(..) with cancelled = true. The consumers only test cancelled when rendered is None, so nothing breaks today, but the field's doc ("stopped part-way: no frame") and its name don't match the value in that race.
Tying the flag to the missing picture makes the field mean what it says:
Suggested change
let cancelled = stop.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
let cancelled = rendered.is_none() && stop.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
Bugs: No confirmed bugs. I read the stop path end to end: render_any, render_frame's layer loop, the streamed-chunk closure and draw_chunk, and the TiltSettle take/cancel/adopt flow in mapview.rs. The stop flag is per-job and per-thread, and a stopped frame never sets failed. The five earlier threads are all resolved and addressed in dd9790a, so I did not re-raise them.
Limitation: I could not compile or run the tests (no shell here), so compile and test status is unverified. Two lines in mapview.rs (around 957) are close to the 140-column rustfmt limit, and I could not check them.
Security: None found.
Performance:
A stopped frame still holds the worker until it reaches its next check, and start_with refuses new jobs while busy. The doc comment admits a long step runs to its end. A first-time projection of a heavy layer can therefore delay the exact frame of the resting map by seconds after a stop. Low severity, about 35% confidence. The benchmark in the PR body mostly hits warm caches, so it may not show this.
Quality:
tilt_settle.rs:69: cancelled is read from the flag after render, so a fully drawn frame can carry cancelled = true. Posted as an inline comment with a one-line suggestion. Low, about 40%.
cancel.rs:31: install uses FLAG.with, while requested and Drop use try_with. install is unlikely to run during thread teardown, but the inconsistency sits against the never-crash rule. Low, about 25%.
mapview.rs test a_flat_maps_settled_frame_is_drawn_off_the_ui_thread: it waits for busy() to clear after "moving again", but never checks that the job was actually stopped. It would pass if the stale frame simply finished. About 50%.
Nit: the tilt_settle.rs module doc has an overlong line and an awkward wrap near TiltSettle::cancel. These are quality-pass items under AGENTS.md.
AGENTS.md: No violations in the changed code. There are no unwrap, expect, panic or unsafe calls in non-test code. The wasm path is gated, and the browser never gets the worker path. Frames go through the existing tilt_settle background path, and the cancel points are documented. The new tests cover both the stop and the no-stop case.
Prior concerns left alone: 5 (all resolved and addressed in dd9790a).
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Third of the three changes in #1750: the settled frame of a flat map is drawn off the UI thread. Independent of #1769 and #1774 (based on
main).Root cause
crates/ui-egui/src/mapview.rsshows the last frame shifted and scaled during a pan or zoom, but once the motion stops (0.18 s) it draws the exact frame synchronously withrender::render, so the window freezes for the whole render. Scroll-wheel zooming stops and starts, so it hits that freeze again and again. Globe, tilted and tiled flat maps already compose their exact frame on a worker (tilt_settle); a plain flat map didn't.Fix
tilt_settle, like the tiled flat map: the last frame, shifted and scaled, stays on screen with no preview, and the new frame is swapped in when it lands. A mouse pan or wheel zoom changes only the camera. A change to the map itself (any command, including camera commands, since every command bumps the session revision; an edit; a layer shown) is still drawn at once, as before, so it shows without waiting.render::cancelholds a per-thread stop flag the worker installs. The renderer reads it between layers and every 2048 features of a layer (render_frame), and a stopped pass comes back asNonefromrender_any.TiltSettle::cancelsets it; a stopped frame comes back withcancelledset, isn't taken for one that couldn't be drawn (so its key can be drawn again), and frees the worker. When the map moves again while a frame is drawn, the map view stops it, so the worker is free for the frame of where the map comes to rest.tilt_settledraws the frame inline there, as before, and the new path is compiled out of the decision (cfg!(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))).Map(its features and caches are shared, so the clone costs pointers), and the caches the worker filled are adopted when it lands (adopt_caches), as for the tiled flat map.Measured
The real map view (egui_kittest harness, release build) with the World Atlas sample plus the 1:10m countries (548k vertices) as a layer, 1480×900, panning 120 px five times and timing every UI frame until the exact frame is shown:
The exact frame arrives about as soon, and the window no longer stops for it. With a heavier layer the freeze before grows with the data; the UI frame here doesn't.
Tests
mapview::tests::a_flat_maps_settled_frame_is_drawn_off_the_ui_thread: in the real map view, a pan come to rest starts the worker and keeps the last frame on screen (no preview); moving again stops the job; once the map rests the exact frame for where it is arrives. It fails onmain("the pan's frame is drawn on the worker").tilt_settle::tests::a_stopped_frame_comes_back_cancelled_and_can_be_drawn_again.cancel::tests: the flag stops frames on its own thread only while installed; a render with it set isNone, without it a frame.rustgis-ui-eguisuite passes (821 tests), including the tiled-map and settle tests.No visible change, so no screenshots: the frame drawn is the same, only the thread it's drawn on differs.
Part of #1750.
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