0bd2ec5 Improve formatting of developer notes (Evan Klitzke)
Pull request description:
The developer notes file has gotten pretty large and unwieldly. This reorganizes some content, most notably by adding a TOC to the page. Compare how the page looks in [my branch](https://github.com/eklitzke/bitcoin/blob/developer-notes/doc/developer-notes.md) vs [master](https://github.com/eklitzke/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/developer-notes.md).
I know there's long-term interest in moving a lot of this content to the bitcoin-core/docs repo on GitHub, but this makes things better now.
The TOC format here is a semi-standard extension to Markdown files that you may have seen on GitHub pages in other projects. The `<!-- markdown-toc -->` comments used by these tools to know where the TOC starts/ends. The following tools all understand this format:
* [Sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/)
* [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/)
* [markdown-toc.el](https://github.com/ardumont/markdown-toc) (what I used)
* various plugins for [vim](https://github.com/mzlogin/vim-markdown-toc) and other editors
I used this TOC extension at a previous job, and my observation is that it's fine if people just edit the TOC manually. It's just text and it's not a huge deal if it gets a little out of sync. It can also be regenerated at any time by anyone with any of these tools.
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b466f6b [Tests] Use blockmaxweight where tests previously had blockmaxsize (Conor Scott)
Pull request description:
Fix for #12768: `-blockmaxsize` has been removed, but some tests were using this feature, so update with `-blockmaxweight`
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ccedbaf Increase LevelDB max_open_files unless on 32-bit Unix. (Evan Klitzke)
Pull request description:
Currently we set `max_open_files = 64` on all architectures due to concerns about file descriptor exhaustion. This is extremely expensive due to how LevelDB is designed.
When a LevelDB file handle is opened, a bloom filter and block index are decoded, and some CRCs are checked. Bloom filters and block indexes in open table handles can be checked purely in memory. This means that when doing a key lookup, if a given table file may contain a given key, all of the lookup operations can happen completely in RAM until the block itself is fetched. In the common case fetching the block is one disk seek, because the block index stores its physical offset. This is the ideal case, and what we want to happen as often as possible.
If a table file handle is not open in the table cache, then in addition to the regular system calls to open the file, the block index and bloom filter need to be decoded before they can be checked. This is expensive and is something we want to avoid.
The current setting of 64 file handles means that on a synced node, only about 4% of key lookups can be satisifed by table file handles that are actually open and in memory.
The original concerns about file descriptor exhaustion are unwarranted on most systems because:
* On 64-bit POSIX hosts LevelDB will open up to 1000 file descriptors using `mmap()`, and it does not retain an open file descriptor for such files.
* On Windows non-socket files do not interfere with the main network `select()` loop, so the same fd exhaustion issues do not apply there.
This change keeps the default `max_open_files` value (which is 1000) on all systems except 32-bit POSIX hosts (which do not use `mmap()`). Open file handles use about 20 KB of memory (for the block index), so the extra file handles do not cause much memory overhead. At most 1000 will be open, and a fully synced node right now has about 1500 such files.
Profile of `loadblk` thread before changes: https://monad.io/maxopenfiles-master.svg
Profile of `loadblk` thread after changes: https://monad.io/maxopenfiles-increase.svg
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This change significantly increases IBD performance by increasing the
amount of the UTXO index that can remain in memory. To ensure this
doesn't cause problems in the future, a static_assert on the LevelDB
version has been added, which must be updated by anyone upgrading
LevelDB.
rpc_net.py would intermittently fail on Travis, probably
due to assuming that two consecutive RPC calls were atomic.
Fix this by only testing that amounts are bounded above and
below rather than equal.
This reverts commit 7deba93bdc.
This is neither a "test" change, nor should the trusted-git-root
have been updated - there is a process for expired PGP keys.
1874058 Make base58 python contrib code work with python3 (Evan Klitzke)
bc6fdf2 Change all python files to use Python3 (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
Following discussion here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11843#issuecomment-351033742
It's easier for maintainers if all python tools/scripts support only a single version of Python. There are only a few scripts that aren't explicitly python3 at this point, so this PR changes those remaining scripts to explicitly require python3.
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adc2586 doc: Refer to witness reserved value as spec. in the BIP (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
BIP141 refers to the coinbase's input's witness that consists of a single 32-byte array as "witness reserved value".
This updates the code to follow the BIP
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d71bedb qa: Fix function names in feature_blocksdir (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
This fixes the test failure on master:
```
AttributeError: 'BlocksdirTest' object has no attribute 'assert_start_raises_init_error'
```
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This commit adds tracking for negated arguments. This change will be used in a
future commit that allows disabling the debug.log file using -nodebuglogfile.
a192636 -blocksdir: keep blockindex leveldb database in datadir (Jonas Schnelli)
f38e4fd QA: Add -blocksdir test (Jonas Schnelli)
386a6b6 Allow to optional specify the directory for the blocks storage (Jonas Schnelli)
Pull request description:
Since the actual block files taking up more and more space, it may be desirable to have them stored in a different location then the data directory (use case: SSD for chainstate, etc., HD for blocks).
This PR adds a `-blocksdir` option that allows one to keep the blockfiles and the blockindex external from the data directory (instead of creating symlinks).
I fist had an option to keep the blockindex within the datadir, but seems to make no sense since accessing the index will (always) lead to access (r/w) the block files.
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4d74c78 Add username and ip logging for RPC method requests (Gabriel Davidian)
Pull request description:
Adds username and IP logging (if enabled via -logips command) to RPC method request logging.
This closes#12223
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This commit creates a global g_wallet_init_interface, which is created
in bitcoind and bitcoin-qt. g_wallet_init_interface is used to init
and destroy the wallet.
This removes the dependency from init.cpp on the wallet library.
f381299 Move CKeyStore::cs_KeyStore to CBasicKeyStore (João Barbosa)
25eb9f5 Inline CKeyStore::AddKey(const CKey &) in CBasicKeyStore (João Barbosa)
Pull request description:
Made these simplifications while reviewing #12714. This aims to make `CKeyStore` a *pure* interface:
- no variable members - the mutex is moved to `CBasicKeyStore` which is where it is used;
- no method implementations - `AddKey(const CKey &)` is moved to `CBasicKeyStore` which is where it is needed.
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d40f06a Introduce interface for signing providers (Pieter Wuille)
Pull request description:
`CKeyStore` is a rich interface that provides many features, including knowledge of scripts and pubkeys for solving, private keys for signing, in addition to watch-only keys and scripts, and distinguishing lack of keys from them just being encrypted.
The signing logic in script/sign does not actually need most of these features. Here we introduce a simpler interface (`SigningProvider`) which *only* provides keys and scripts. This is actually sufficient for signing.
In addtion, we swap the dependency between keystore and script/sign (keystore now depends on script/script with `CKeyStore` deriving from `SigningProvider`, rather than `CKeyStore` being the interface that signing relies on).
This is a very early step towards the design in https://gist.github.com/sipa/125cfa1615946d0c3f3eec2ad7f250a2, separating the concern between deciding what outputs are ours and signing.
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4ae7d15 init: Fix help message for checkblockindex (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Minor fixup for my commit fa6ab96799.
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1f45e21 scripted-diff: Convert 11 enums into scoped enums (C++11) (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
Rationale (from Bjarne Stroustrup's ["C++11 FAQ"](http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html#enum)):
>
> The enum classes ("new enums", "strong enums") address three problems with traditional C++ enumerations:
>
> * conventional enums implicitly convert to int, causing errors when someone does not want an enumeration to act as an integer.
> * conventional enums export their enumerators to the surrounding scope, causing name clashes.
> * the underlying type of an enum cannot be specified, causing confusion, compatibility problems, and makes forward declaration impossible.
>
> The new enums are "enum class" because they combine aspects of traditional enumerations (names values) with aspects of classes (scoped members and absence of conversions).
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fc7c32fc6 do not truncate .dat extension for wallets in gui (Gregory Sanders)
Pull request description:
Truncating the extension results in wallet name ambiguity and the inability to use the wallet in GUI debug rpc console.
Resolves#12794
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342fb80 qt: Avoid resetting on resetguisettigs=0 (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Shouldn't be affecting anyone, but might still be worth to fix at some point.
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While reading another PR I saw a mention of #6358. The use case for
SCHED_BATCH is to hint to the kernel that the thread is running a
non-interactive workload that consumes a lot of CPU time. This is
helpful on desktop machines where the loadblk thread can interfere with
interactive applications. More details can be found in the sched(7) man
page.
