Each node in the block index records some flags about its validation
state. This is just stored in memory for now, but can save effort if
attempting to reconnect a block that failed validation or was
disconnected.
This renames CheckConnectBlock to CheckConnectBlockTemplate and
modifies it to be easily consumable by the getblocktemplate RPC
handler. Performs full block validation now instead of partial
validation.
The modifies the encoding of witness stacks in JSON responses to use a
slice of strings instead of a single space-separated string for
compatibility with Core.
This refactors the code that locates blocks (inventory discovery) out of
server and into blockchain where it can make use of the new much more
efficient chain view and more easily be tested. As an aside, it really
belongs in blockchain anyways since it's purely dealing with the block
index and best chain.
Since the majority of the network has moved to header-based semantics,
this also provides an additional optimization to allow headers to be
located directly versus needing to first discover the hashes and then
fetch the headers.
The new functions are named LocateBlocks and LocateHeaders. The former
returns a slice of located hashes and the latter returns a slice of
located headers.
Finally, it also updates the RPC server getheaders call and related
plumbing to use the new LocateHeaders function.
A comprehensive suite of tests is provided to ensure both functions
behave correctly for both correct and incorrect block locators.
The purpose is to remove the dependency of blockmanager on serverPeer,
which is defined in the main package. Instead, we split out some of
the fields from serverPeer into a separate struct called peerSyncState
in blockmanager.go. While they are in the same package now, this
change makes it easier to move blockManager into its own package along
with peerSyncState. The blockManager tracks a map of Peer pointers to
the peer state and keeps it updated as peers connect and disconnect.
This refactors the RPC server to accept and take ownership of already
configured listeners and refactors the logic to setup those listeners to
the server. This mirrors the logic used by the connection manager and
is desirable since it is another step closer to being able to split the
RPC server code out into a separate package and will make it much easier
to internally test since it allows creating mock listeners.
This modifies all of the RPC code to use the chain parameters that are
associated with the RPC server instead of the global activeNetParams and
thus moves one step closer to being able to split the RPC server out
into a separate package.
This decouples the RPC server from the internal btcd server to move
closer to being able to split it out into a separate package.
In order to accomplish this, it introduces an rpcserverConfig type and
several new interfaces, named rpcserverPeer, rpcserverConnManager, and
rpcserverBlockManager, which are necessary to break the direct
dependencies on the main server and block manager instances.
It also adds concrete implementations of the new interfaces and uses
them to configure the RPC server.
Ultimately, the RPC server should ideally be decoupled even more such
that all of the types in the configuration struct use interfaces instead
of the concrete types. Doing this would make the RPC server much easier
to internally test since it would allow creating lightweight stubs for
the various pieces.
Instead of having the block manager notify the RPC server about
accepted, connected, and disconnected blocks, the RPC server will
directly listen for notifications from the blockchain.
This makes the code for getheaders more consistent with the rest of the
code in terms of making use of existing error functions and using the
same RPC error codes as other handlers.
While here, it also performs the fetching of headers directly instead of
using a function from server which makes it more tightly coupled.
This replaces the ErrDoubleSpend and ErrMissingTx error codes with a
single error code named ErrMissingTxOut and updates the relevant errors
and expected test results accordingly.
Once upon a time, the code relied on a transaction index, so it was able
to definitively differentiate between a transaction output that
legitimately did not exist and one that had already been spent.
However, since the code now uses a pruned utxoset, it is no longer
possible to reliably differentiate since once all outputs of a
transaction are spent, it is removed from the utxoset completely.
Consequently, a missing transaction could be either because the
transaction never existed or because it is fully spent.
This commit adds set of BIP0009 (Version Bits) deployment parameters
for all networks detailing the activation parameters for the segwit
soft-fork.
Additionally, the BIP0009 integration test has been updated to test for
the proper transitioning of version bits state for the segwit soft
fork. Finally, the `getblockchaininfo` test has also been updated to
properly display the state of segwit.
This commit implements the new “weight” metric introduced as part of
the segwit soft-fork. Post-fork activation, rather than limiting the
size of blocks and transactions based purely on serialized size, a new
metric “weight” will instead be used as a way to more accurately
reflect the costs of a tx/block on the system. With blocks constrained
by weight, the maximum block-size increases to ~4MB.
Version 0.15.0 of Bitcoin Core will include a new RPC command that will
allow us to obtain the amount of time (in seconds) that the server has
been running.
The btclog package has been changed to defining its own logging
interface (rather than seelog's) and provides a default implementation
for callers to use.
There are two primary advantages to the new logger implementation.
First, all log messages are created before the call returns. Compared
to seelog, this prevents data races when mutable variables are logged.
Second, the new logger does not implement any kind of artifical rate
limiting (what seelog refers to as "adaptive logging"). Log messages
are outputted as soon as possible and the application will appear to
perform much better when watching standard output.
Because log rotation is not a feature of the btclog logging
implementation, it is handled by the main package by importing a file
rotation package that provides an io.Reader interface for creating
output to a rotating file output. The rotator has been configured
with the same defaults that btcd previously used in the seelog config
(10MB file limits with maximum of 3 rolls) but now compresses newly
created roll files. Due to the high compressibility of log text, the
compressed files typically reduce to around 15-30% of the original
10MB file.
This modifies the blockNode and BestState structs in the blockchain
package to store hashes directly instead of pointers to them and updates
callers to deal with the API change in the exported BestState struct.
In general, the preferred approach for hashes moving forward is to store
hash values in complex data structures, particularly those that will be
used for cache entries, and accept pointers to hashes in arguments to
functions.
Some of the reasoning behind making this change is:
- It is generally preferred to avoid storing pointers to data in cache
objects since doing so can easily lead to storing interior pointers
into other structs that then can't be GC'd
- Keeping the hash values directly in the block node provides better
cache locality
This modifies the block node structure to include a couple of extra
fields needed to be able to reconstruct the block header from a node,
and exposes a new function from chain to fetch the block headers which
takes advantage of the new functionality to reconstruct the headers from
memory when possible. Finally, it updates both the p2p and RPC servers
to make use of the new function.
This is useful since many of the block header fields need to be kept in
order to form the block index anyways and storing the extra fields means
the database does not have to be consulted when headers are requested if
the associated node is still in memory.
The following timings show representative performance gains as measured
from one system:
new: Time to fetch 100000 headers: 59ms
old: Time to fetch 100000 headers: 4783ms
A DNS lookup was being attempted on onion addresses causing
connections to fail. This has been fixed by introducing type
onionAddr (which implements a net.Addr interface) and passing
it to btcdDial.
Also, the following onion related fixes have been made:
* getaddednodeinfo - updated to handle onion addrs.
* TorLookupIP - fixed err being shadowed.
* newServer - rename tcpAddr to netAddr
* addrStringToNetAddr - skip if host is already an IP addr.
* addrStringToNetAddr - err if tor is disabled
* getaddednodeinfo - check if host is already an IP addr.
This allows a caller-provided tag to be associated with orphan
transactions. This is useful since the caller can use the tag for
purposes such as keeping track of which peers orphans were first seen
from.
Also, since a parameter is required now anyways, it associates the peer
ID with processed transactions from remote peers.
This moves the error check for an attempt to call the generate RPC when
on a network that there is virtually no chance of mining a block with
the CPU into the RPC server where it more naturally belongs. The caller
of the CPU should be the one to determine if it wants to allow mining or
not. While here, use a more accurate RPC error code of ErrDifficulty
instead of ErrInternal.
This change is a step towards being able to separate the CPU mining code
into its own subpackage.
This modifies the NewMsgTx function to accept the transaction version as
a parameter and updates all callers.
The reason for this change is so the transaction version can be bumped
in wire without breaking existing tests and to provide the caller with
the flexibility to create the specific transaction version they desire.
This does the minimum work necessary to refactor the block template
generation code into the mining package. The idea is that separating
this code into the mining package will greatly improve its testability,
allow independent benchmarking and profiling, and open up some
interesting opportunities for future development related to mining.
There are some areas related to policy and other configuration that
could be further refactored, however it is better to do that in future
commits in order to keep the changeset as small as possible during this
refactor.
Overview of the major changes:
- Move mining.go -> mining/mining.go
- Move mining_test.go -> mining/mining_test.go
- Add logger to mining package
- Update the MINR subsystem to use the new mining package logger
- Export CoinbaseFlags from the mining package
- BlkTmplGenerator is now mining.BlkTmplGenerator
- Update all references to the mining code to use the package
