Compact Gap Peer Conflict
A fork-join whose hub carries non-consecutive offset slots safely abandons gap-compaction when a visible same-layer peer carries the intervening line, rather than cascading the reorder.
Mermaid source
%%metro title: Compaction Gap Peer Conflict%%metro style: dark%%metro line: alpha | Alpha | #e63946%%metro line: beta | Beta | #2db572%%metro line: gamma | Gamma | #0570b0
graph LR subgraph src [Source] s1[Input] s1 -->|alpha,beta,gamma| s2 s2[Prepare] end
subgraph proc [Process] %%metro entry: left | alpha, beta, gamma %%metro exit: right | alpha, beta, gamma p1[Fork] p2[Alpha Gamma] p3[Beta Node] p4[Merge] p1 -->|alpha,gamma| p2 p1 -->|beta| p3 p2 -->|alpha,gamma| p4 p3 -->|beta| p4 end
subgraph sink [Sink] t1[End] end
s2 -->|alpha,beta,gamma| p1 p4 -->|alpha,beta,gamma| t1CLI command
nf-metro render examples/topologies/compact_gap_peer_conflict.mmd -o compact_gap_peer_conflict.svg