Pr1.5 tmm nexthop (#10745)

* TrafficManagement: flat unified cache + persistent next-hop overflow store

Reworks the TrafficManagementModule cache layer (policing behaviour unchanged
from upstream) and adds a routing-hint overflow store:

- Flatten the ring: replace the cuckoo-hashed unified cache and the bucketed
  PSRAM NodeInfo index with plain flat arrays + linear scan (same idiom as
  WarmNodeStore). At LoRa packet rates an O(n) scan of the cache is negligible,
  and it removes a large amount of hashing/displacement complexity. The cache
  entry is 11 B; timestamps use a uniform +1 presence-offset so a 0 byte always
  means "empty" across every sub-store. Adds rebaseEpoch() so cached state
  survives the ~19 h relative-timestamp horizon instead of being flushed.

- Next-hop overflow cache: setNextHop/getNextHopHint store a confirmed last-byte
  relay for a destination, written only from NextHopRouter's ACK-confirmed
  decision (and mirrored from TraceRoute). NextHopRouter::getNextHop falls back
  to this cache when the hot NodeDB has no hint, so DMs/relays to long-tail
  nodes keep routing after the node ages out of NodeInfoLite.

- Persistence: preloadNextHopsFromNodeDB warm-starts the cache from persisted
  NodeInfoLite hints on first maintenance pass; next_hop entries are kept alive
  across the maintenance sweep (no TTL) and never clobbered by a stale preload.

All packet-policing logic (rate limit, position dedup, unknown-packet drop,
NodeInfo direct response, hop exhaustion) is the existing upstream behaviour,
untouched. HAS_TRAFFIC_MANAGEMENT defaults on so the module is compiled in. (see note).

Tests: upstream policing suite now actually runs (adds the MeshTypes.h include
that gates HAS_TRAFFIC_MANAGEMENT) plus 4 next-hop tests. Role-aware throttles,
politeness, precision clamp, port-interval and mesh-radius gating — and the
rate-limit >255 saturation fix — are deferred to the advanced-TMM branch.

Note: default dedup movement grid moves to ~91m, which also means 1.5km required to end up with the same signature position - coarser and therefore further than before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* TrafficManagement: fix cppcheck constVariablePointer warning

`node` in preloadNextHopsFromNodeDB() is never written through — mark
it const to satisfy cppcheck's constVariablePointer check in CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add multi-hop NextHop recovery tests and unit tests for routing reliability

- Introduced a new test suite for multi-hop NextHop directed-message delivery and relay recovery in `test_nexthop_multihop_recovery.py`. This includes tests for end-to-end delivery and recovery after relay drop.
- Implemented unit tests in `test_main.cpp` for NextHop routing reliability mitigations, covering:
  - M1: Ambiguity-aware last-byte resolution.
  - M2: NextHopRouter's strict-neighbor gate and hop limit checks.
  - M3: Route-health freshness and failure decay.
- Enhanced mock classes to facilitate controlled testing of node behaviors and routing logic.

* grafting fixed

* Address Copilot review for PR #10735 (NextHop improvements)

- docs/nexthop-routing-reliability.md: update status from "no code
  changes yet" to reflect that mitigations and tests are implemented

RAM pressure and MIGRATION_VERBOSE concerns addressed upstream in
PR2.5 (per-platform TRAFFIC_MANAGEMENT_CACHE_SIZE) and PR2 (verbose
default=0) respectively; (0,0) sentinel fixed in PR2.5.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* CI: fix cppcheck constVariablePointer and test include path

- NextHopRouter.cpp: qualify two RouteHealth *h locals as const — only
  read for stale-route checks, never mutated through the pointer
- Router.cpp: qualify meshtastic_NodeInfoLite *node as const in
  shouldDecrementHopLimit — only read for favorite/role predicate
- test_position_module/test_main.cpp: change bare PositionModule.h to
  modules/PositionModule.h — build_flags sets -Isrc, not -Isrc/modules,
  so the bare form fails to resolve in the native PlatformIO test env

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* WarmStore: cache device role + protected category in last_heard low bits

Steal the low 6 bits of WarmNodeEntry.last_heard to carry an evicted node's
device role (4 bits) and a protected category (2 bits) for the hop-trim path,
at zero record-size cost (entry stays 40 B; no RAM/flash growth). The high bits
remain a real unix-seconds timestamp, quantised to 64 s — ample for warm LRU
ordering of long-tail nodes.

- absorb() packs role/protectedCat; place()/ring replay store the raw word so
  metadata round-trips through flash. LRU compares masked time (warmTimeOf).
- take() rehydration masks the metadata bits and restores the cached role so a
  re-admitted node isn't stuck at CLIENT until its next NodeInfo.
- NodeDB classifies the category (favorite/ignored/verified -> Flag;
  tracker/sensor/tak_tracker -> Role) at each eviction site.
- WarmNodeStore::lookupMeta() exposes role/category to consumers.
- Bump WARM_RING_MAGIC (WRNG->WRN2): old rings read as erased and rebuild;
  warm data is a non-critical evictee cache, so discard-on-upgrade is safe.

Tests: test_warm_store 11/11 (new meta round-trip + quantisation-aware ordering);
NodeDB compiles (test_nodedb_blocked 4/4).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* WarmStore: migrate v1 rings/files by discarding last_heard, not the data

Previously the WRNG->WRN2 magic bump treated old rings as erased, discarding all
warm entries — including the PKI public keys that let evicted nodes keep
decrypting DMs. Instead, read v1 (WRNG / WRM1) records and keep each node's
identity + public key, discarding only last_heard (its low bits would otherwise
be misread as the new role/protected metadata). Records re-rank and re-learn
their role on next contact.

- Ring backend (nRF52840): ringReadHeader accepts both magics and reports v1 via
  an out-param; replay zeroes last_heard for v1 records. If the active head page
  is v1, force a rotation so new v2 records never land in a v1-headered page
  (which would discard their freshly-set role on the next load). Legacy pages
  convert to v2 as the ring rotates.
- File backend (warm.dat): bump WARM_STORE_MAGIC WRM1->WRM2; accept WRM1, verify
  CRC against the stored bytes, then discard last_heard and mark dirty so the
  next save rewrites as v2.

Tests: test_warm_store 12/12 (adds test_ws_v1_migration_discardsLastHeard:
key survives, role/protected reset).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* WarmStore: guard role bit-width + test eviction carries role/protected

- static_assert that the device role enum still fits the 4-bit warm metadata
  field (WARM_ROLE_MASK); fails the build loudly if a new role is added past 15
  rather than silently truncating role on eviction. (Max role today = 12.)
- Add test_migration_carriesRoleAndProtectedIntoWarm: a demoted TRACKER lands in
  the warm tier with its key, role=TRACKER and protected category=Role; a demoted
  CLIENT carries role=CLIENT/None. Exercises the NodeDB eviction path +
  warmProtectedCategory classification (the warm-store unit tests only cover
  absorb() directly).

Tests: test_nodedb_blocked 5/5.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix copilot comments

* fix(test): restore #if HAS_TRAFFIC_MANAGEMENT guard in TMM test

The rebase onto PR1.5 lost the top-level HAS_TRAFFIC_MANAGEMENT guard
that PR1.5 introduced, leaving the #else/#endif tail orphaned and
causing compile errors on non-TMM builds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Ben Meadors <benmmeadors@gmail.com>
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@@ -98,21 +98,38 @@ void NextHopRouter::sniffReceived(const meshtastic_MeshPacket *p, const meshtast
// destination
if (p->from != 0) {
meshtastic_NodeInfoLite *origTx = nodeDB->getMeshNode(p->from);
if (origTx) {
// Either relayer of ACK was also a relayer of the packet, or we were the *only* relayer and the ACK came
// directly from the destination
// Single lookup for both relayer checks on the same (request_id, to) pair
bool wasAlreadyRelayer = false;
bool weWereSoleRelayer = false;
bool weWereRelayer = false;
checkRelayers(p->relay_node, ourRelayID, p->decoded.request_id, p->to, &wasAlreadyRelayer, &weWereRelayer,
&weWereSoleRelayer);
if ((weWereRelayer && wasAlreadyRelayer) || (getHopsAway(*p) == 0 && weWereSoleRelayer)) {
if (origTx->next_hop != p->relay_node) { // Not already set
// Either relayer of ACK was also a relayer of the packet, or we were the *only* relayer and the ACK came
// directly from the destination. checkRelayers is read-only on PacketHistory and O(1), so we run it even
// when origTx is absent — that lets us still capture the confirmed hop into the TMM overflow cache below.
// Single lookup for both relayer checks on the same (request_id, to) pair
bool wasAlreadyRelayer = false;
bool weWereSoleRelayer = false;
bool weWereRelayer = false;
checkRelayers(p->relay_node, ourRelayID, p->decoded.request_id, p->to, &wasAlreadyRelayer, &weWereRelayer,
&weWereSoleRelayer);
if ((weWereRelayer && wasAlreadyRelayer) || (getHopsAway(*p) == 0 && weWereSoleRelayer)) {
// M1/M2: only learn a next hop whose last byte maps to a single plausible relay. On a dense
// mesh the byte may be ambiguous; storing it would aim future DMs at the wrong node. This gate
// now protects BOTH the hot-store route (NodeInfoLite.next_hop) AND the TMM overflow cache —
// the overflow cache deliberately holds many more next-hop bytes (long-tail nodes), so it is
// even more collision-prone and must never store an ambiguous byte either. Ambiguous/unknown
// -> store nothing and keep flooding (safe).
if (nodeDB->resolveUniqueLastByte(p->relay_node, /*requireDirectNeighbor=*/false)) {
if (origTx && origTx->next_hop != p->relay_node) { // Not already set
LOG_INFO("Update next hop of 0x%x to 0x%x based on ACK/reply (was relayer %d we were sole %d)", p->from,
p->relay_node, wasAlreadyRelayer, weWereSoleRelayer);
origTx->next_hop = p->relay_node;
}
noteRouteLearned(p->from, p->relay_node, millis()); // M3: anchor freshness (hot or overflow route)
#if HAS_TRAFFIC_MANAGEMENT
// Mirror the confirmed (and now unique-resolved) hop into the TMM overflow cache so it
// survives even when the source isn't (or is no longer) in the hot NodeDB.
if (trafficManagementModule)
trafficManagementModule->setNextHop(p->from, p->relay_node);
#endif
} else {
LOG_DEBUG("Not learning next hop for 0x%x: relay byte 0x%x ambiguous/unknown; keep flooding", p->from,
p->relay_node);
}
}
}
@@ -144,6 +161,11 @@ bool NextHopRouter::perhapsRebroadcast(const meshtastic_MeshPacket *p)
if (!isToUs(p) && !isFromUs(p) && (p->hop_limit > 0 || exhaustHops)) {
if (p->id != 0) {
if (isRebroadcaster()) {
// NOTE: this is a self-identity match (is the addressed next_hop OUR last byte?), so it
// cannot be hardened with resolveLastByte() — a remote node that legitimately shares our
// last byte will also match here and rebroadcast. That residual collision needs a wider
// on-wire field to fix. M1/M2 instead shrink the blast radius by reducing how often an
// ambiguous next_hop byte is ever learned (sniffReceived) or originated (getNextHop).
if (p->next_hop == NO_NEXT_HOP_PREFERENCE || p->next_hop == nodeDB->getLastByteOfNodeNum(getNodeNum())) {
meshtastic_MeshPacket *tosend = packetPool.allocCopy(*p); // keep a copy because we will be sending it
LOG_INFO("Rebroadcast received message coming from %x", p->relay_node);
@@ -194,15 +216,63 @@ std::optional<uint8_t> NextHopRouter::getNextHop(NodeNum to, uint8_t relay_node)
if (isBroadcast(to))
return std::nullopt;
// Hot store first: a direct array hit on the live NodeDB entry.
meshtastic_NodeInfoLite *node = nodeDB->getMeshNode(to);
if (node && node->next_hop) {
// M3: proactively decay a stale or repeatedly-failing route back to flooding, so a dead hop
// isn't trusted on the next DM's first (and on dense meshes, slowest) attempt. We only act on
// a health record that still matches the stored byte; a next_hop set by another path (e.g.
// TraceRouteModule) with no matching record is left authoritative.
const RouteHealth *h = findRouteHealth(to);
if (h && h->lastNextHop == node->next_hop && isRouteStale(*h, millis())) {
LOG_INFO("Next hop 0x%x for 0x%x is stale (age/fails); flood and clear", node->next_hop, to);
node->next_hop = NO_NEXT_HOP_PREFERENCE; // clear persisted route
clearRouteHealth(to); // clear RAM health
return std::nullopt;
}
// We are careful not to return the relay node as the next hop
if (node->next_hop != relay_node) {
// LOG_DEBUG("Next hop for 0x%x is 0x%x", to, node->next_hop);
return node->next_hop;
// M1/M2: only emit a stored next_hop if its last byte still maps to a UNIQUE, currently
// reachable direct neighbor. On a dense mesh the last byte collides, so an ambiguous byte
// would unicast a hint toward the wrong physical node; if the neighbor has gone away we'd
// unicast into a void. In both cases flood instead (managed flooding still delivers).
ResolvedNode r = nodeDB->resolveLastByte(node->next_hop, /*requireDirectNeighbor=*/true);
if (r.status == LastByteResolution::Unique)
return node->next_hop;
LOG_WARN("Next hop 0x%x for 0x%x %s; set no pref", node->next_hop, to,
r.status == LastByteResolution::Ambiguous ? "ambiguous among neighbors" : "not a known neighbor");
} else
LOG_WARN("Next hop for 0x%x is 0x%x, same as relayer; set no pref", to, node->next_hop);
}
#if HAS_TRAFFIC_MANAGEMENT
// Fallback: TMM overflow cache holds confirmed hops for nodes that have aged out of the hot store.
// It is the same byte source/confidence as NodeInfoLite.next_hop, so it gets the same M1/M2/M3
// protection: decay a stale/failing route, then only emit a byte that still resolves to a unique
// reachable neighbor. Without this the overflow cache (which holds MORE bytes for MORE nodes) would
// reintroduce exactly the silent-misroute that M1/M2 closes on the hot path.
if (trafficManagementModule) {
uint8_t hint = trafficManagementModule->getNextHopHint(to);
if (hint && hint != relay_node) {
const RouteHealth *h = findRouteHealth(to);
if (h && h->lastNextHop == hint && isRouteStale(*h, millis())) {
LOG_INFO("TMM next hop 0x%x for 0x%x is stale (age/fails); flood and clear", hint, to);
trafficManagementModule->clearNextHop(to); // clear overflow route (setNextHop won't store 0)
clearRouteHealth(to); // clear RAM health
return std::nullopt;
}
ResolvedNode r = nodeDB->resolveLastByte(hint, /*requireDirectNeighbor=*/true);
if (r.status == LastByteResolution::Unique) {
LOG_DEBUG("Next hop for 0x%x is 0x%x (TMM cache)", to, hint);
return hint;
}
LOG_WARN("TMM next hop 0x%x for 0x%x %s; set no pref", hint, to,
r.status == LastByteResolution::Ambiguous ? "ambiguous among neighbors" : "not a known neighbor");
}
}
#endif
return std::nullopt;
}
@@ -311,7 +381,10 @@ int32_t NextHopRouter::doRetransmissions()
if (!isBroadcast(p.packet->to)) {
if (p.numRetransmissions == 1) {
// Last retransmission, reset next_hop (fallback to FloodingRouter)
// Last retransmission: this directed delivery went un-ACKed. Record the failure
// (M3 — accumulates across DMs to age out a flapping/dead route) and reset
// next_hop so the final try falls back to FloodingRouter.
noteRouteFailure(p.packet->to);
p.packet->next_hop = NO_NEXT_HOP_PREFERENCE;
// Also reset it in the nodeDB
meshtastic_NodeInfoLite *sentTo = nodeDB->getMeshNode(p.packet->to);
@@ -319,9 +392,32 @@ int32_t NextHopRouter::doRetransmissions()
LOG_INFO("Resetting next hop for packet with dest 0x%x\n", p.packet->to);
sentTo->next_hop = NO_NEXT_HOP_PREFERENCE;
}
#if HAS_TRAFFIC_MANAGEMENT
if (trafficManagementModule) {
trafficManagementModule->clearNextHop(p.packet->to);
}
#endif
FloodingRouter::send(packetPool.allocCopy(*p.packet));
} else {
#if NEXTHOP_EARLY_FLOOD_ON_UNVERIFIED
// M4 (gated): if the route isn't proven healthy, don't spend a second directed
// attempt — start flooding one retry sooner to cut recovery latency. A verified
// route (fresh, zero recent failures) keeps the unchanged directed-retry path so
// the sparse-mesh happy path is untouched.
RouteHealth *h = findRouteHealth(p.packet->to);
bool verified = h && h->consecutiveFailures == 0 && !isRouteStale(*h, now);
if (!verified) {
p.packet->next_hop = NO_NEXT_HOP_PREFERENCE;
meshtastic_NodeInfoLite *sentTo = nodeDB->getMeshNode(p.packet->to);
if (sentTo)
sentTo->next_hop = NO_NEXT_HOP_PREFERENCE;
FloodingRouter::send(packetPool.allocCopy(*p.packet));
} else {
NextHopRouter::send(packetPool.allocCopy(*p.packet));
}
#else
NextHopRouter::send(packetPool.allocCopy(*p.packet));
#endif
}
} else {
// Note: we call the superclass version because we don't want to have our version of send() add a new
@@ -355,3 +451,96 @@ void NextHopRouter::setNextTx(PendingPacket *pending)
printPacket("", pending->packet);
setReceivedMessage(); // Run ASAP, so we can figure out our correct sleep time
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// M3: RAM route-health table. Bounded array with reuse-oldest eviction (same discipline as
// PacketHistory). All age comparisons use unsigned subtraction so they survive the 49.7-day millis()
// rollover. dest == 0 marks an empty slot; learnedAtMsec is normalized to 1 on write so an occupied
// slot is never read as infinitely old.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
RouteHealth *NextHopRouter::findRouteHealth(NodeNum dest)
{
if (dest == 0)
return nullptr;
for (auto &h : routeHealth)
if (h.dest == dest)
return &h;
return nullptr;
}
RouteHealth *NextHopRouter::getOrAllocRouteHealth(NodeNum dest, uint32_t now)
{
if (dest == 0)
return nullptr;
RouteHealth *oldest = &routeHealth[0];
RouteHealth *freeSlot = nullptr;
for (auto &h : routeHealth) {
if (h.dest == dest)
return &h; // existing record
if (h.dest == 0) {
if (!freeSlot)
freeSlot = &h; // remember the first free slot; prefer it over evicting
continue;
}
// Track the oldest occupied slot in case the table is full (rollover-safe).
if ((uint32_t)(now - h.learnedAtMsec) > (uint32_t)(now - oldest->learnedAtMsec))
oldest = &h;
}
// Claim the free slot if there is one, else reuse the oldest. Reset before use and stamp the dest
// so the record is findable.
RouteHealth *slot = freeSlot ? freeSlot : oldest;
*slot = RouteHealth{};
slot->dest = dest;
return slot;
}
void NextHopRouter::noteRouteLearned(NodeNum dest, uint8_t nextHop, uint32_t now)
{
if (dest == 0 || nextHop == NO_NEXT_HOP_PREFERENCE)
return;
RouteHealth *h = getOrAllocRouteHealth(dest, now);
if (!h)
return;
// A genuinely new next hop earns a clean slate; re-learning the SAME hop keeps the accumulated
// failure count so an asymmetric reverse path that keeps re-teaching a dead forward hop still ages
// out instead of resetting the counter every time.
if (h->lastNextHop != nextHop) {
h->lastNextHop = nextHop;
h->consecutiveFailures = 0;
}
h->learnedAtMsec = now ? now : 1;
}
void NextHopRouter::noteRouteSuccess(NodeNum dest, uint32_t now)
{
RouteHealth *h = findRouteHealth(dest);
if (!h)
return; // only routes we actually learned have health to refresh
h->consecutiveFailures = 0;
h->learnedAtMsec = now ? now : 1;
}
void NextHopRouter::noteRouteFailure(NodeNum dest)
{
RouteHealth *h = findRouteHealth(dest);
if (!h)
return; // nothing to penalize (we were flooding, or never learned a route here)
if (h->consecutiveFailures < 255)
h->consecutiveFailures++;
}
bool NextHopRouter::isRouteStale(const RouteHealth &h, uint32_t now) const
{
if (h.consecutiveFailures >= ROUTE_FAILURE_THRESHOLD)
return true;
return (uint32_t)(now - h.learnedAtMsec) >= ROUTE_TTL_MSEC;
}
void NextHopRouter::clearRouteHealth(NodeNum dest)
{
RouteHealth *h = findRouteHealth(dest);
if (h)
*h = RouteHealth{};
}