This commit makes use of the batched AddWitness
method of the WitnessCache, in order to avoid
performing one write for each accepted preimage.
Additionally, this fixes an existing hole in the
consistency guarantees since the batched writes
are now guaranteed to take place before accepting
the next CommitSig. Previously, these writes were
processed in an unsynchronized go routine that
could be delayed arbitrarily long before being
executed.
With this change, the async_payments_benchmarks
actually shows a slight improvement in
performance, presumably because we no longer do
an individual write per preimage, even though
the execution is now explicitly in the critical
path. There is likely also a marginal performance
improvement from the reduction in goroutine
overhead.
In this commit, we modify the WitnessCache's
AddPreimage method to accept a variadic number
of preimages. This enables callers to batch
preimage writes in performance critical areas
of the codebase, e.g. the htlcswitch.
Additionally, we lift the computation of the
witnesses' keys outside of the db transaction.
This saves us from having to do hashing inside
and blocking other callers, and limits extraneous
blocking at the call site.
ScoreSettable is an interface that let caller set external scores for
the heuristic. The ExternalScoreAttachment and WeightedCombAttachment
heuristics implement this interface.
This commit adds a method SetNodesScores to the WeightedCombAttachment
heuristic.
Since the heuristic keeps a list of sub-heuristics, it will attempt to
recursively apply the scores to the sub heuristics.
This commit adds a new autopilot heuristic that is scoring based. It is
a simple heuristic that will keep a list of pubkeys and scores, and will
try opening channels with the nodes with the largest score first.
In this commit, we update all the `btcsuite` dependencies, along with
neutrino to their latest version. The main change in this version is a
bug fix in the way that we generated the filters that neutrino uses. As
a result, any users running btcd with neutrino today will need to
**regenerate their filter chain** using `--dropcfindex`. Any existing
neutrino clients out there will also need _re sync_ all together as the
"correct" filter header chain.
This latest versino of neutrino contains some fixes that make lnd a bit
snappier when running on mobile devices. We'll now wait until we have our
first peer before we try to sync the chain. We'll also no longer try to fail
to query filter checkpoints if we don't actually have any to fetch.
