stadium: wire STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK in as a flat threshold, not a scheduler
Closes FABRIC-2.md's last open §12 Q5 question. fleet_heartbeat_tick_count is fed by every live VM's own vm_tick(), not one VM's, so it was reaching HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY (shared/borrowed from the per-VM inference gate) several times faster than intended with more than one VM live - backwards from FABRIC.md §22.4's required ~1000:1 separation. What's actually gated turned out to be low-stakes: vm_physics_tick() (capsule_vm_physics.c:397) is a passive statistics refit - re-sorts a window of past heat-transfer samples and recomputes a median rate estimate. It doesn't move heat or arbitrate capacity. Firing too often just meant a noisier statistic recomputed more frequently than planned, not incorrect behavior. Considered and explicitly rejected: scaling the threshold by live VM count at the check site. That's the first brick of a scheduler - reading fleet state to adjust a rate dynamically - which this project has deliberately avoided building. Implemented instead: STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK (existing Kconfig symbol, defined but never read by any code path) now gates vm_physics_heartbeat_tick()'s call directly, replacing the borrowed HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY. Default bumped 1000 -> 4000, a flat constant picked once for Tripod's known 4-VM topology, same kind of placeholder as every other frequency knob in Kconfig.kernel - not computed from anything at runtime. Renamed fleet_last_inference_tick -> fleet_last_capacity_tick to match. Still one clock, one counter (fleet_heartbeat_tick_count) - just a bigger flat divisor on it. Three-arch QEMU acceptance: all clean to ok>, identical Stadium conservation invariant on all three (resident_sum=43691 reservoir=21845 sum=65536). logs/20260815-093425/amd64, logs/20260815-093521/aarch64, logs/20260815-093641/riscv64. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -64,17 +64,25 @@ config STADIUM_CONTAINS_DEPTH_MAX
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config STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK
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int "Capacity arbitration cadence, in virtual ticks (STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK)"
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default 1000
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int "Fleet transfer-slope re-estimation cadence, in virtual ticks (STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK)"
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default 4000
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help
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How often Hera re-evaluates capacity transfers between VMs
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(FABRIC.md item 1.4), expressed in virtual ticks -- never
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wall-clock. Default matches the existing precedent at
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capsule_vm_physics.c's vm_physics_heartbeat_tick()
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(HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY, also 1000), comfortably past
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the "order of magnitude apart from the heat tick" minimum
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(FABRIC.md §22.4). No consumer yet -- capacity arbitration
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itself is not yet on the punch list.
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How often vm_physics_heartbeat_tick() re-fits the fleet's
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transfer-slope estimate (vm_physics_tick() -- a passive median
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recompute over recent touch samples, not a capacity/transfer
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decision itself), expressed in virtual ticks -- never wall-clock.
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Wired in 2026-08-15 (FABRIC-2.md F.2/§12 Q5): this counter is fed
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by EVERY live VM's own vm_tick(), not one VM's, so it previously
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shared HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY (1000) and fired roughly
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(live VM count) times faster than a single VM's own heat-inference
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gate -- backwards from the "order of magnitude apart" minimum
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(FABRIC.md §22.4). Default of 4000 is a flat, untuned placeholder
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picked to roughly restore that separation at Tripod's known
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4-VM topology (Hera + two Hermes + Artemis) -- not computed from
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live VM count at runtime, deliberately: a fixed constant, same
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as every other frequency knob here, not adaptive logic. Real
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tuning is DoE work (item 5.1), same treatment as the other
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placeholder constants in this file.
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config STADIUM_MEMORY_PERCENT
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int "Percent of free physical memory the Stadium claims at boot (STADIUM_MEMORY_PERCENT)"
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