* Do parallel extract signatures in the parallel block importer.
* remove the extraction from FullSyncBlockHandler
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
There's an issue with the world state downloader where the download process could stall. The sequence goes like:
1. Inside requestDataFromPeer thread A takes out the sendingRequests lock
2. Thread A checks shouldRequestNodeData which returns true
3. Thread A sends a request for data
4. Thread A checks shouldRequestNodeData which returns false so it exits the while loop
5. Thread B receives the response to the (only) outstanding request
6. Thread B enters shouldRequestNodeData but fails to get the sendingRequests lock so exits the method
7. Thread A releases the sendingRequests lock and exits the methods
There are now no threads checking if they should send new requests and no outstanding requests to trigger a check in the future so the download is stuck and will never make anymore progress.
The fix is to switch the order of taking out the sendingRequests lock and checking shouldRequestNodeData so we release the sendingRequests lock before we go back round the loop to check shouldRequestNodeData.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
* move to an offer() instead of a put() on the downloader so that when
the task is stopped the put will see that it is done and not wait
forever.
* remove peer based focus of the task. Let subtasks pick their peers.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
There is a failure mode of IBFT whereby a validator fails to import
a block, and also fails to receive the NewBlock message from its
peers. This means said validator is unable to participate in
subsequent rounds, and may cause the network to halt.
To overcome this issue, if an IBFT validator receives messages from
a future height, it will update the "BestEstimatedHeight" of the
corresponding EthPeer object, such that the Synchroniser will
(eventually) download the requisite blocks - thus allowing the
IBFT network to continue to operate.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
--> adapt `BlockBroadcaster` to use `send` method on `EthPeer`
--> adapt `EthProtocolMamnager` to utilize `BlockBroadcaster` to disseminate newly mined block
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
* o
* add test
* clean up
* scaffolding
* update
* update
* comments
* add test
* update
* update ii
* format
* update ii
* fix
* verifyBroadcastBlockInvocation
* test
* update
* update to difficulty calculation
* remove BlockBroadcasterTest from this pr
* update
* update
* update II
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
* Make the use of an existing fast sync state more explicit - passing it into the FastSyncDownloader.start method.
* Simplify FastSyncState constructors.
* Move PivotHeaderStorage to be FastSyncStateStorage and fully encapsulate loading and storing of FastSyncState instances.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Request 384 nodes per request instead of 200 since that's how many geth will allow returning.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
* Skip requesting data we already have but continue to walk the tree to ensure we have all child nodes.
* Don't delete fast sync state on stop. Allow resuming world state downloads.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Allow fast sync to resume if chain head is not genesis but a fast sync is still in progress.
If present, use the stored pivot block header when restarting.
Extract the fast sync logic out of DefaultSynchronizer into it's own class.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Modify EthScheduler to use shutdownNow immediately instead of trying shutdown first.
EthScheduler executes a lot of tasks which wait for responses from the network and may have a significant number of tasks queued. Using shutdown would wait for all network responses and all queued tasks to complete before exiting which almost always reaches the 2 minute timeout allowed before switching to shutdownNow. All tasks have to cope with being unexpectedly terminated (as would happen with a kill -9) so there's no reason to have this extra delay.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Return world states as an optional to allow code to handle world states not be available cleanly.
A world state is considered available if it's root node is available.
Delay storing the root hash when fast syncing a world state until the download completes so it isn't considered available and skip downloading world states that are already available.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
* register sub tasks in ParalellImportChainSegmentTask
* rememger and shutdown eth services in EthScheduler
Fixes#768
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Exceptions that serve more as flow control than error reporting should not log stack traces.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
ParallelImportChainSegmentTask, an explicitly parallel re-implementation
of PipelinedImportChainSegmentTask. Data is passed between stages
via BlockingQueues.
Pipeline stages are implemented in AbstractPipelinePeerTask and the
parent task assembles and initiates the pipeline execution.
Other changes to support this:
* Move ethTaskTimer to abstract root
* Don't use deterministic scheduler for downloader tests, this depends on explicit parallelism
* Change download segment size = 200
* Increase timeout in recoversFromSyncTargetDisconnect, the chain downloader
may stall for 10 seconds looking for an alternative target.
* Use a blocking queue instead of fixed wait period for the test peers
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
* Introduce GetReceiptsForHeadersTask to retry requests for receipts until they have all been received.
* Avoid requesting empty receipts from the network. (#802)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Two changes:
* Stream chains now take up less vertical lines, only breaking on
stream operations.
* Long annotations that span multiple lines no longer have a dangling
parentesis and indent 4 spaces.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Add the services thread pool and a computation thread pool to the
EthScheduler.
* Services are long running, sequential, and infrequently start tasks
such as Full Sync and Fast Sync.
* Computations are short and high CPU intensity tasks such as ECDSA
signature extractions and POW validation. The intent is that each
runnable represents one such extraction and the extractions from a
block are saturated across available processing power. These
computations should have zero dependencies outside their object and
thread.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton@consensys.net>
Adrian Sutton
Danno Ferrin
Trent Mohay
S. Matthew English
mbaxter