When CN is not up to date with the network is synchonizes blocks first and
only then starts consensus process. But while synchronizing it receives
consensus payloads and tries to process them even though messages reader
routine is not started yet. This leads to lots of goroutines waiting to send
their messages:
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: goroutine 1639919 [chan send, 4 minutes]:
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/consensus.(*service).OnPayload(0xc0000ecb40, 0xc005bd7680)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/consensus/consensus.go:329 +0x31b
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*Server).handleConsensusCmd(...)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/server.go:687
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*Server).handleMessage(0xc0000ba160, 0x1053260, 0xc00507d170, 0xc005bdd560, 0x0, 0x0)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/server.go:806 +0xd58
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*TCPPeer).handleConn(0xc00507d170)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/tcp_peer.go:160 +0x294
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: created by github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*TCPTransport).Dial
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/tcp_transport.go:38 +0x1ad
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: goroutine 1639181 [chan send, 10 minutes]:
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/consensus.(*service).OnPayload(0xc0000ecb40, 0xc013bb6600)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/consensus/consensus.go:329 +0x31b
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*Server).handleConsensusCmd(...)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/server.go:687
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*Server).handleMessage(0xc0000ba160, 0x1053260, 0xc01361ee10, 0xc01342c780, 0x0, 0x0)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/server.go:806 +0xd58
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*TCPPeer).handleConn(0xc01361ee10)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/tcp_peer.go:160 +0x294
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: created by github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*TCPTransport).Dial
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/tcp_transport.go:38 +0x1ad
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: goroutine 39454 [chan send, 32 minutes]:
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/consensus.(*service).OnPayload(0xc0000ecb40, 0xc014fea680)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/consensus/consensus.go:329 +0x31b
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*Server).handleConsensusCmd(...)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/server.go:687
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*Server).handleMessage(0xc0000ba160, 0x1053260, 0xc0140b2ea0, 0xc014fe0ed0, 0x0, 0x0)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/server.go:806 +0xd58
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*TCPPeer).handleConn(0xc0140b2ea0)
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/tcp_peer.go:160 +0x294
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: created by github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network.(*TCPTransport).Dial
Jun 25 23:55:53 nodoka neo-go[32733]: #011/go/src/github.com/nspcc-dev/neo-go/pkg/network/tcp_transport.go:38 +0x1ad
Luckily it doesn't break synchronization completely as eventually connection
timers fire, the node breaks all connections, create new ones and these new
ones request blocks successfully until another consensus payload stalls them
too. In the end the node reaches synchronization, message processing loop
starts and releases all of these waiting goroutines, but it's better for us to
avoid this happening at all.
This also makes double-starting a no-op which is a nice property.
Pick up the following changes:
* recovery message sending fix
* tx re-requests on sendRecoveryRequest
* proposed block checks fix
* timeout calculation fix for InitializeConsensus
* removal of TxPerBlock which is irrelevant for neo-go (policying is done by
the node, not dbft library)
Get new blocks directly from the Blockchain. It may lead to some duplications
(as we'll also receive our own blocks), but at the same time it's more
correct, because technically we can also get blocks via other means besides
network server like RPC (submitblock call). And it simplifies network server
at the same time.
Implement mempool and consensus block creation policies, almost the same as
SimplePolicy plugin for C# node provides with two caveats:
* HighPriorityTxType is not configured and hardcoded to ClaimType
* BlockedAccounts are not supported
Other than that it allows us to run successfuly as testnet CN, previously our
proposals were rejected because we were proposing blocks with oversized
transactions (that are rejected by PoolTx() now).
Mainnet and testnet configuration files are updated accordingly, but privnet
is left as is with no limits.
Configuration is currently attached to the Blockchain and so is the code that
does policying, it may be moved somewhere in the future, but it works for
now.
We can only add one block of the given height and we have two competing
goroutines to do that --- consensus and block queue. Whomever adds the block
first shouldn't trigger an error in another one.
Fix block relaying for blocks added via the block queue also, previously one
consensus-generated blocks were broadcasted.
The chain may already be more current than our dBFT state (like when the node
has commited something at view 0, but all the other nodes changed view and
accepted something at view 1), so in this case we should reinit dBFT on new
height.
While decoding payload, local implementations of Recovery*
messages were used, but when creating RecoveryMessage inside dBFT
library default NewRecoveryMessage was invoked. This lead to parsing
errors.
When system and network pressure is high it can be beneficial
to use transactions which and were already proposed.
The assumption is that they will be in other node's memory pool
with more probability.
There is no point in encoding the output of this function in a WIF format,
most of the users actually want the real key and those who need a WIF can
easily get if from the key (and it's simpler than getting the key from the
WIF).
It also fixes a severe bug in NEP2Decrypt, base58 decoding errors were not
processed correctly.
It reduces heap pressure a little for these elements as we don't have to
allocate/free them individually. And they're directly tied to transactions or
block, not being shared or anything like that, so it makes little sense for
them to be pointer-based. It only makes building transactions a little easier,
but that's obviously a minor usecase.
This allows easier reuse of opcodes and in some cases allows to eliminate
dependencies on the whole vm package, like in compiler that only needs opcodes
and doesn't care about VM for any other purpose.
And yes, they're opcodes because an instruction is a whole thing with
operands, that's what context.Next() returns.
