§17 named four patrons and omitted the only kind already implemented. §9's
admission table has always included VM, and §6 says Hera becomes the first
entry; neither reconciles with a four-patron taxonomy.
This is a finding rather than a proposal. vm_physics_fleet_heat_sum() already
sums execution_heat_q48 across live VMs against Q48_ONE -- that is a Stadium's
K over VM patrons, and §19.1's definition was derived from it.
Two consequences:
- The outer level is unbounded. The VM physics registry is a kmalloc-backed
linked list, self-described as "unbounded, not a fixed array", so heat is
renormalised to 1.0 however many VMs exist. By §2's own test, fleet K is
currently bookkeeping -- VM-CONSERVED? cannot fail. This also explains why
the Artemis campaign's K-invariance arm found nothing: the quantity cannot
vary. Bounding the population is what would make it measurable.
- Nesting is half-built. Outer Stadium holds VM patrons; each VM's inner
Stadium holds words, blocks, ACLs and messages. That is §12 Q6's nested
option with the outer level already present. LEANING nested.
Proposes VM mass = the capacity share Hera allocated, making §7 concrete and
giving Hera a lifecycle signal that distinguishes starved from small. Marked
proposal: VMPhysics has no share field today.
Resolves §20.5 #3: Hera is pinned, and any attempt to evict her is a kernel
panic asserted at the eviction site, not filtered out of the candidate set.
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Supplies the concrete definition §4 was missing. §4's claim that ranking is
read rather than decided is empty until the thing being read is a number.
Three quantities, not one:
Heat conserved share moved by traffic, sum = 1.0 always (already built)
Mass cells a patron occupies -- its footprint (new)
Density heat / mass -- heat per cell (new, derived)
K is left untouched. vm_physics_conserved() already defines it as a normalised
heat share summing to Q48_ONE, not an occupancy ratio; defining it as
mass/capacity would have contradicted implemented, tested code.
Ranking, admission-when-full, and migration hysteresis all read off density
with no policy and no damping constant.
Two corrections to §4:
- The self-limiting claim keeps its conclusion but loses its mechanism. A hot
entry is easier to reach, not harder; the real governor is conservation,
since heat is zero-sum and capped at 1.0.
- "Density generates heat" reverses the causality. Traffic confers heat;
density is heat per cell, derived downstream.
Open: mass depends on payload threshold and header size (§12 Q1, Q2), which are
now prerequisites rather than sizing details; and vm_physics_touch scales heat
transfer by wall-clock time, which §18.5 forbids and which must be restated on
tick count before L0 can use it.
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Captures the 2026-08-03 design session: collapsing the four independent
heat/TTL/pin implementations (blocks, messages, console cells, ACLs) into
one bounded Stadium of fixed-size entries, driven by an engine below every VM.
Sections 1-15 are the original design argument. Sections 16-18 add:
- 16 Substrate findings. No IRQ return path exists on aarch64 or riscv64;
riscv64's time base is a hardcoded 1 GHz guess; the dictionary already
carries six of the seven entry wires; the engine must stay deterministic.
- 17 Patrons. TTL, heat decay and pin are three distinct mechanisms on one
tick, not a type field. Reap means leaves the floor, not destroyed. The
framebuffer is a utility, not a patron. Dynamic in capacity, static in
structure.
- 18 The engine (L0). L0 and L8 bookend the gated loops L1-L7, both ungated.
Jacquard stays 7-bit/128 states, accounting for L0 by its absence.
Dispatch enumerates behaviours, never patron kinds.
Determinism traced end to end and confirmed intact: TIME-TRUST is measured
and never fed back, inference inputs are wholly execution-derived, decay is
tick-based, and the parity hash covers only word name and execution_heat.
One pre-existing exception recorded — vm_physics_touch scales fleet heat by
wall-clock elapsed time, outside the parity path.
Draft. Sections marked DECIDED / LEANING / OPEN throughout.
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