feat: default the max message size to 480 - #766
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RFC 5424 section 6.1 requires every transport receiver to accept 480 octets, recommends 2048 and permits more. 480 is therefore the only length a sender can emit with certainty of acceptance, and the better default for an embedded target: it takes roughly 1.5 KB off each of the three stack allocations on the logging path, and shrinks every store record and the caller-supplied circular buffer ring with it. The block-size default stays at 8192. Block size is a rotation granularity rather than a footprint - BlockSequence keeps it as a number and writes through to the device - so the constraints that chose it are the filesystem sector floor and erase alignment, neither of which moves with the message size. Its comment said only that it cleared one worst-case record, which is what made it look derived from 2048. Both comments dropped the numbers they quoted from elsewhere, and the block-size comment no longer names the filesystems a platform supplies.
The BDD suite drives message sizes and store block arithmetic off the compiled tunable, and udp_mtu.feature needs a message longer than the path can carry - which the new default is below by construction. Both host targets therefore build against the tunable override rather than the defaults, leaving every scenario expressed as it was. The override lane already builds the whole library at a non-default size to prove SOLIDSYSLOG_USER_TUNABLES_FILE reaches the compiler, so the Linux target costs one more binary there rather than a new lane; Windows takes a second configure for the same reason. The override value moves from 512 to 2048, which is still a raised value now the default is 480, so the lane proves what it always did. The fixture header is renamed for what it now is: the size is no longer the small one.
Both cross targets dropped their message-size override, so the pair now accepts the size the library ships with rather than one chosen for them. They keep the mutex-pool override, which is a property of the target rather than of the platform: each creates two mutexes where the library provides for one. The scenario counts are unchanged. Only one runtime tag gate reads a tunable, and its threshold sits above both the old override and the new default, so it admits and skips exactly what it did before. Documentation that quoted the number rather than naming the tunable is corrected with it. The two UDP platform pages described an over-large datagram as reaching ordinary records, which was true only because the old default sat above the payload those stacks carry; at the default no record can reach it, and the hazard belongs to a raised tunable. The RFC 5425 row separately claimed our default was the length section 4.3.1 requires a receiver to process - that conflated a receiver requirement with a sender-side choice, and the section's own figures now sit in the requirement column where they belong.
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WalkthroughThe library default maximum message size changes from 2048 to 480 bytes. Host BDD targets use 2048-byte tunable overrides in Linux and Windows CI. FreeRTOS targets retain the default message size, and documentation reflects the updated behaviour. ChangesMessage size and BDD validation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR changes the default maximum message size to 480 and updates related test and documentation configuration. A few bounded issues remain around host test typing, Windows path portability, and BDD documentation clarity, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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CMakePresets->>CIWorkflow: Configure tunable-override build
CIWorkflow->>CIWorkflow: Build SolidSyslogBddTarget
CIWorkflow->>BddRunner: Publish and download override binary
BddRunner->>BddRunner: Run BDD scenarios
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In `@Bdd/features/environment.py`:
- Around line 128-129: Update the Windows executable path entry in the
target-path mapping to construct the path with os.path.join using its existing
components, preserving the current default path while making it portable for
CreateProcess.
In `@Bdd/README.md`:
- Line 28: Update the `@requires_message_size_1500` entry in Bdd/README.md (28-28)
to retain only the tag meaning and link to docs/bdd.md for runner-specific
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use the Linux tunable-override-debug and Windows msvc-tunable-override binary
paths established by environment.py; add the corresponding override configure
step where required, and mark any remaining contradictory Markdown statements
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In `@Core/Interface/SolidSyslogTunablesDefaults.h`:
- Around line 104-107: Restrict the compile-time guarantee in the documentation
for SOLIDSYSLOG_FILE_DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE to adapters that actually validate it,
or add equivalent FF_MAX_SS validation to SolidSyslogPlusFatFile.c before
retaining the guarantee. Keep the default behavior unchanged and align the
statement with the supported adapter checks.
In `@docs/bdd.md`:
- Line 140: Update the `@requires_message_size_1500` documentation to state that
only the oversize UDP scenario is gated by `@freertoswip`, matching the tag
placement in Bdd/features/udp_mtu.feature; do not describe the entire feature as
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In `@Tests/Fixtures/TunableOverrides.h`:
- Line 18: Update the SOLIDSYSLOG_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE fixture definition to use the
unsigned literal 2048U, matching the tunable’s type and existing
numeric-constant convention.
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The local-run instructions still named the presets the BDD targets were built by before this branch moved them, so following the documentation built a binary Behave would not run. CI was unaffected throughout, since it passes EXAMPLE_BINARY explicitly - which is why every lane stayed green over a broken recipe. The paths are not restated in the fix. Bdd/README.md names the preset that builds each target and leaves the path to environment.py, which is the only place that decides it; the tag recap there keeps the tag's meaning and leaves the runner mechanism to the authoritative entry, as the section header already promises. The CI lane table and the workflow comment point at that entry rather than re-explaining it. Two corrections to this branch's own prose. The block-size comment claimed a filesystem sector floor is rejected at compile time, which only holds for the one adapter that checks it. The tag table said the path-MTU feature carries @freertoswip, where the tag is on its oversize scenario alone.
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Purpose
SOLIDSYSLOG_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZEdefaults to 480, the length RFC 5424 §6.1 requires everytransport receiver to accept and so the only length a sender can emit with certainty of
acceptance. 2048 was the §6.1 SHOULD value, which is a statement about receivers rather
than senders.
Nothing has been released, so this is the default 0.1.0 ships with rather than a change
of behaviour for anyone. release-please folds the
feat:commit into the generated 0.1.0entry; there is no migration note to write.
Closes #750
Change Description
The default, and what is sized off it. Everything derives the value by macro, so the
change is one
#define.SOLIDSYSLOG_FILE_DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZEstays at 8192: block sizeis a rotation granularity, not a footprint —
SolidSyslogBlockSequencekeeps it as anumber and writes through to the device — so the constraints that chose it are the
filesystem sector floor and erase alignment, neither of which moves with the message
size. Its comment justified it only by the one-worst-case-record floor, which is what
made it look derived from 2048; that is corrected rather than the number.
BDD. The suite drives message sizes and store block arithmetic off the compiled
tunable, and
udp_mtu.featureneeds a message longer than the path can carry — which thenew default is below by construction. Both host targets therefore build against the
tunable override rather than the defaults, leaving every scenario expressed as it was.
The override lane already builds the whole library at a non-default size, so the Linux
target costs one more binary there rather than a new lane; Windows takes a second
configure. The override value moves 512 → 2048, still a raised value now the default is
480, so the lane proves what it always did.
The two FreeRTOS cross targets dropped their message-size override instead, so those four
lanes now accept the size the library ships with. They keep the mutex-pool override, which
is a property of the target rather than the platform.
Comments that quoted the number. A doc comment stating a value because it is the
default is a trap whatever the default is, so these were rewritten rather than renumbered:
the tunable's own comment, both FreeRTOS tunables headers, the FreeRTOS README, the two
tag-gate tables, and the derived
MIN_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE = 2055in the step definitions.Two were wrong rather than merely fragile. The
plustcpandlwiprawpages described anover-large datagram as reaching ordinary records — true only because the old default sat
above the payload those stacks carry. At the default no record can reach it, and the
hazard belongs to a raised tunable. Separately, the RFC 5425 §4.3.1 row claimed our
default was the length that section requires a receiver to process; that conflated a
receiver requirement with a sender-side choice. §4.3.1 requires 2048 and recommends 8192
(verified against the RFC), and those figures now sit in the requirement column.
Test Evidence
No test needed changing. Every tunable-derived expectation re-derived itself.
debugunit tests +BddTargetTeststunable-override-debugunit testscheck_headers_c89.pycheck_spdx_headers.pydocs/generated/Scenario counts are unchanged on every lane. Only one runtime tag gate reads a tunable
(
_TUNABLE_TAG_GATESinBdd/features/environment.py), and its threshold of 1500 sitsabove both the old FreeRTOS override and the new default, so it admits and skips exactly
what it did before.
Not run locally, left to CI:
tidy,sanitize,coverage,cppcheck, IWYU, Windows andthe integration lanes.
Areas Affected
Core/Interface/SolidSyslogTunablesDefaults.his the only production change, and it isthe default plus two doc comments. The rest is BDD wiring, CI, presets and documentation.
Derived projects: the example repositories carry footprint figures measured at the old
default, and
README.mdanddocs/hardening-path.mdquote them. All are left alone hereand tracked as #767, which regenerates the example stacks, re-measures every cost claim,
and runs last before the release so the published figures ship correct.
That is not only a figures refresh. Stages 7, 13 and 14 of
docs/hardening-path.mdare asizing narrative written against a 2048-byte default — hit truncation at a 256-byte cap,
double it to 512 — and both arguments need re-deriving before anything is measured.
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