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fix(art): restore artwork ordering before #770 - #773

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Artwork was reported to appear late or in the wrong order after #770 reached rolling. Restore the artwork implementation from before that PR while preserving its unrelated APPS optional-argument fix (f83e6f9).

This reverses the two artwork commits, 7527919 and 7273b22: selected covers regain front-of-queue promotion, Coverflow holds new background requests until the selected cover has loaded or is known absent, and BG cancellation returns to its previous single-slot scope. Remove the test and two-line CI step that specifically required the reverted priority-tier behavior.

The previous FIFO priority tier could leave a newly selected cover behind older priority requests; the immediate high-priority background requests could also precede carousel neighbor reads. These source-level ordering changes are consistent with the report, but the precise hardware cause has not been isolated.

Validation:

  • The two artwork source files and flavours.yml are byte-for-byte identical in Git to pre-PR commit 374c99f; the feature test is absent as it was at that baseline.
  • appsupport.c and test_app_launch_args.py are unchanged from the merged base and retain f83e6f9.
  • test_app_launch_args.py and test_io_queue_trims.py pass locally.
  • clang-format 12.0.1 checks for both restored source files and git diff --check pass.
  • Independent scope/dependency review found no actionable issues.
  • GitHub CI: all five host-test jobs, both formatting checks, and all six PS2 build flavours passed. Build run: https://github.com/NathanNeurotic/Open-PS2-Loader/actions/runs/36338980417
  • Downloaded OFFICIALPINNED and OFFICIALROLLING artifacts and checked their BUILD-MANIFEST.txt files. Both name PR merge commit 7871326; its Git tree is identical to rollback head 68405e2.

Console A/B validation remains pending. Confirm cover, disc, and background arrival while browsing with the same build flavour, theme, storage device, and artwork set used for the report.

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  • Improvements
    • Selected covers are prioritized ahead of background artwork, helping the selected cover load first.
    • In Coverflow, per-game background requests wait until the selected cover has settled. Any already-cached background remains visible while waiting.
    • List mode continues to request backgrounds immediately.
    • Priority artwork requests move to the front of the queue; ordinary requests remain in order.
  • Bug Fixes
    • When a background cache is updated, pending requests for other games are aborted to prevent outdated backgrounds from continuing to load.

Revert 7527919 and 7273b22 after reports of late or out-of-order artwork in rolling. Restore front-of-queue cover promotion, coverflow background admission, and single-slot BG cancellation. Remove the feature-specific test and CI step while preserving the separate app-launch argument fix from f83e6f9.

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Art requests now use queue position to represent priority. Background cancellation has a narrower condition, and Coverflow delays per-game background requests until the selected cover settles.

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Priority queue ordering
.github/scripts/test_art_priority_queue.py, .github/workflows/flavours.yml, src/texcache.c
Priority requests are inserted at the queue head, and eligible queued requests are promoted to the head. The host test script and its workflow step are removed.
Background request and draw behavior
src/texcache.c, src/themes.c
Background cancellation applies only to a single-entry cache with suffix BG, and only when the key differs. Coverflow prioritizes the selected cover and delays background requests while it is pending. A cached background can still be drawn during the wait.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 68405

Browsing can still delay the selected game’s cover or background artwork. Correct both ordering paths before merging.

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  • observed — src (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in src/texcache.c: Removed the per-request priority field from load_image_request_t; queue position now represents priority.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/texcache.c: Removed the priority-field initialization from tail enqueueing.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/texcache.c: Added artPushFront, which inserts a request at the FIFO head, updates links and the tail when needed, records the queue generation, and increments the queued count.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/texcache.c: artPromote now moves an eligible queued request directly to the head using its back-links. It skips the current request, requests from a detached queue generation, and requests already at the head; this replaces priority-flag checks and the scan that inserted requests after the priority tier.

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Review comments at @src/texcache.c:
- Line 1481: Update the BG cancellation condition in the cache lookup so it
applies to mismatched pending BG entries regardless of cache->count; preserve
the suffix check and ensure obsolete BG requests can be aborted in theme-created
multi-slot caches.
- Line 1627: Update the enqueue decision around artPushFront() so only the
selected cover is inserted at the front; enqueue other priority images, such as
disc art and neighbor covers, in FIFO order. Preserve front-of-queue promotion
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Comment thread src/texcache.c
// an SIO2 request is being made while a direction is held (which falls back to tail to protect #340).
if (isPriority && !(req->sio2 && gArtNavActive))
artPushPriority(req);
artPushFront(req);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Do not front-insert every priority image.

During Coverflow drawing, the Background path queues the selected cover first. Later non-background images also use isPriority = 1. The art worker does not preempt the GUI thread, so these requests can accumulate before artPop() runs. artPushFront() then places the later disc-art or neighbor request at the head, and artPop() processes it before the selected cover.

artPromote() does not prevent a subsequent front insertion from overtaking the selected cover. Keep front insertion for the selected cover, and enqueue other priority images in FIFO order. A global FIFO change alone would weaken front-of-queue promotion for a newly selected cover.

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Review comment at @src/texcache.c at line 1627:
Update the enqueue decision around artPushFront() so only the selected cover is
inserted at the front; enqueue other priority images, such as disc art and
neighbor covers, in FIFO order. Preserve front-of-queue promotion for a newly
selected cover rather than changing all requests to FIFO.

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CodeRabbit on #773: initMutableImage floors every per-game art cache at 2
slots, so the restored `cache->count == 1` guard made the latest-selection-
wins abort dead code, and an abandoned background kept decoding in front of
the next cover. The loop now lives in cacheAbortOtherBackgrounds and scans
every slot -- the one change from #770 worth keeping.

Adds test_art_queue_order.py to bdm-host-tests. Compiled from src/texcache.c,
it pins the order #772 depends on: the selected cover is read first while
scrolling, promote moves a queued cover to the front, and the SIO2 defer
holds. It also checks latest-background-wins on a real 2-slot cache, the
Coverflow background gate, and that the background stays a non-priority
request. It fails on the post-#770 rebuild/main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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NathanNeurotic merged commit ec9d1f5 into rebuild/main Sep 27, 2026
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Brings the Korium test line level with rebuild/main @ 53299d9: #756 #759 #761 #762 #764 #765 #766 #767 #769 #770 #771 #773 #775 #776 #777 #778 #779 #780 #781 #782 #783 #784 #786 #789 #790 #792. No conflicts. The tree now differs from rebuild/main ONLY by Korium's own delta, verified line-for-line identical to the delta before this sync (18 files: Korium theme cfgs, gfx/audio, textures/themes/opl.c defaults incl. Background Art off, CREDITS, THEME_ENGINE.md). 21/21 host tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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[ISSUE] Background and disc icon asset fetching throttles front cover loading speed ( regular assets )

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