A problem was identified whereby the vote in a child block was applied to the parent, this was resolved by
duplicating the parent VoteTally before modifying it, and injecting to the child block.
Some refactoring was also conducted to make VoteTally logic simpler.
Reverts #339
Görli's testnet regularly has proposers miss their turn and their
genesis block actually had a bad validator specified (that was voted out
as soon as they could) So many blocks do not have the proper "proposer"
as their block generator. As a consequence the
CliqueDifficultyValidationRule fails regularly, in fact it fails at
block 3, so this should be easy to re-create locally.
Clique Proposer Selection would choose an incorrect peer
when a signer was removed from the pool, as the algorithm worked
purely on the block count.
The algorithm has now been updated to ensure the next proposer is
incrementally the next signer in the ordered list, based on the
parent's proposer
The ProposerSelection logic has been reworked such that it now accepts
a BlockInterface, through which IBFT parameters can be accessed
directly from the block header, without requiring literal hashing etc.
This has required the VoteBlockInterface to be renamed to
BlockInterface.
Clique was using integer arithmetic to calculate how much "wiggle"
delay should be added when the proposer is "out of turn".
This would mean when an odd number of validators was in use, the
max delay would be 250ms less than the expected value.
IBFT requires various aspects of the mining infrastructure in order
to create a proposed block.
This includes specifically the BlockCreator and MiningCoordinating,
the mining executor is not required at this stage, nor is the miner.
Removing dependency upon using map.entry to define a vote that has
been proposed via JSON RPC.
This is part of the general clean up of the voting infrastructure
used for IBFT, Clique and legacy IBFT.
The consensus-mechanism specific block values have been separated
from the VoteTallyUpdater such that there is a single updater rather
than one per consensus mechanism.
This has necessitated the creation of a custom serialiser/
deserialiser for each mechanism instead.
This change will ultimatley bleed through to the proposed votes and
their insertion to mined blocks.
* Introduce ProtocolScheduleBuilder and use it for Clique, MainNet, IBFT and dev.
* Remove default milestone blocks and simplify MainnetProtocolSchedule. All milestone blocks must now be defined in the genesis file (previously ethash chains would get Mainnet milestone blocks by default).
* Make GenesisConfigFile responsible for handling all the content in the genesis config file and rename GenesisConfig to GenesisState as it is now just responsible for creating the initial state at genesis.
* In CliqueProtocolController, pass the network ID to EthProtocolManager instead of the chain ID and use downloader parallelism setting instead of network ID for the number of threads.
* Introduce classes to wrap JSON config instead of accessing it directly in multiple places.
* Fix discrepancy in how CliqueProtocolSchedule and CliquePantheonController loaded the block period configuration.
The MiningCoordinator has been split into common, and ethhash
specific funcationality.
This adversely affects the JSON RPC, in that all mining related
RPCs are now generic based on the type of miner being used.
This commit adds the clique specific implementation of the Miner
executor.
It is responsible for starting a clique mining operation when
requested. It also supplies the functionality to blend vanity data
with validator data etc. in the extra data field.
Responsible for mining a block if the local node address
is a validator, and has not recently mined a block.
This has necessitated a slight rework of helper functions,
and shuffling of tests.
Chris Mckay
tmohay
Danno Ferrin
Jason Frame
Adrian Sutton
Roberto Saltini
S. Matthew English
mark-terry
PegaSys Admin