Previously we used the a priori probability also for our own untried
channels. This led to local channels that had seen a success already
being prioritized over untried local channels. In some cases, depending
on the configured payment attempt cost, this could lead to the payment
taking a two hop route while a direct payment was also possible.
An InvalidOnionPayload implies that the onion was successfully received
by the reporting node, but that they were unable to extract the
contents. Since we assume our own behavior is correct, this mostly
likely poins to an error in the reporter's implementation or that we
sent an unknown required type. Therefore we only penalize that single
hop, and consider the failure terminal if the receiver reported it.
Probabilities are no longer returned for querymc calls. To still provide
some insight into the mission control internals, this commit adds a new
rpc that calculates a success probability estimate for a specific node
pair and amount.
This prepares for decoupling the result interpretation of a single
payment attempt from the information stored in mission control memory
on the history of a node pair. A planned follow-up where we store both
the last success and last failure requires this decoupling.
In this commit we change path finding to no longer consider all channels
between a pair of nodes individually. We assume that nodes forward
non-strict and when we attempt a connection between two nodes, we don't
want to try multiple channels because their policies may not be identical.
Having distinct policies for channel to the same peer is against the
recommendation in the spec, but it happens in the wild. Especially since
we recently changed the default cltv delta value.
What this commit introduces is a unified policy. This can be looked upon
as the greatest common denominator of all policies and should maximize
the probability of getting the payment forwarded.
distance map now holds the edge the current path is coming from,
removing the need for next map.
Both distance map and distanceHeap now hold pointers instead of the full
struct to reduce allocations and copies.
Both these changes reduced path finding time by ~5% and memory usage by
~2mb.
Pre-sizing these structures avoids a lot of map resizing, which causes
copies and rehashing of entries. We mostly know that the map won't
exceed that size, and it doesn't affect memory usage in any significant
way.
Calling `ForEachNode` hits the DB, and allocates and parses every node
in the graph. Walking the channels also loads nodes from the DB, so this
meant that each node was read/parsed/allocated several times per run.
This reduces runtime by ~10ms and memory usage by ~4mb.
This commit changes mission control to partially base the estimated
probability for untried connections on historical results obtained in
previous payment attempts. This incentivizes routing nodes to keep all
of their channels in good shape.
Probability estimates are amount dependent. Previously we assumed an
amount, but that starts to make less sense when we make probability more
dependent on amounts in the future.
This commit modifies the interpretation of node-level failures.
Previously only the failing node was marked. With this commit, also the
incoming and outgoing connections involved in the route are marked as
failed.
The change prepares for the removal of node-level failures in mission
control probability estimation.
This commit changes the in-memory structure of the mission control
state. It prepares for calculation of a node probability. For this we
need to be able to efficiently look up the last results for all channels
of a node.
With the introduction of the max CLTV limit parameter, nodes are able to
reject HTLCs that exceed it. This should also be applied to path
finding, otherwise HTLCs crafted by the same node that exceed it never
left the switch. This wasn't a big deal since the previous max CLTV
limit was ~5000 blocks. Once it was lowered to 1008, the issue became
more apparent. Therefore, all of our path finding attempts now have a
restriction of said limit in in order to properly carry out HTLCs to the
network.
In the process of moving to use the new package, we no longer need to
fetch the outpoint directly, and instead only need to pass the funding
transaction into the new verification logic.
In this commit, we update the router and link to support users
updating the max HTLC policy for their channels. By updating these internal
systems before updating the RPC server and lncli, we protect users from
being shown an option that doesn't actually work.
The policy update logic that resided part in the gossiper and
part in the rpc server is extracted into its own object.
This prepares for additional validation logic to be added for policy
updates that would otherwise make the gossiper heavier.
It is also a small first step towards separation of our own channel data
from the rest of the graph.
Extends the invalid payment details failure with the new accept height
field. This allows sender to distinguish between a genuine invalid
details situation and a delay caused by intermediate nodes.
Currently the underlying array backing the hop's TLVRecords is modified
when combining custom records with the primitive forwarding info. This
commit uses a fresh slice to prevent modifications from mutating the
hop itself.
This commit modifies paymentLifecycle so that it not only feeds
failures into mission control, but successes as well.
This allows for more accurate probability estimates. Previously,
the success probability for a successful pair and a pair with
no history was equal. There was no force that pushed towards
previously successful routes.
In this commit, we extend the path finding to be able to recognize when
a node needs the new TLV format, or the legacy format based on the
feature bits they expose. We also extend the `LightningPayment` struct
to allow the caller to specify an arbitrary set of TLV records which can
be used for a number of use-cases including various variants of
spontaneous payments.
In this commit, we extend the Hop struct to carry an arbitrary set of
TLV values, and add a new field that allows us to distinguish between
the modern and legacy TLV payload.
We add a new `PackPayload` method that will be used to encode the
combined required routing TLV fields along any set of TLV fields that
were specified as part of path finding.
Finally, the `ToSphinxPath` has been extended to be able to recognize if
a hop needs the modern, or legacy payload.
This commit overhauls the interpretation of failed payments. It changes
the interpretation rules so that we always apply the strongest possible
set of penalties, without making assumptions that would hurt good nodes.
Main changes are:
- Apply different rule sets for intermediate and final nodes. Both types
of nodes have different sets of failures that we expect. Penalize nodes
that send unexpected failure messages.
- Distinguish between direct payments and multi-hop payments. For direct
payments, we can infer more about the performance of our peer because we
trust ourselves.
- In many cases it is impossible for the sender to determine which of
the two nodes in a pair is responsible for the failure. In this
situation, we now penalize bidirectionally. This does not hurt the good
node of the pair, because only its connection to a bad node is
penalized.
- Previously we always penalized the outgoing connection of the
reporting node. This is incorrect for policy related failures. For
policy related failures, it could also be that the reporting node
received a wrongly crafted htlc from its predecessor. By penalizing the
incoming channel, we surely hit the responsible node.
- FailExpiryTooSoon is a failure that could have been caused by any node
up to the reporting node by delaying forwarding of the htlc. We don't
know which node is responsible, therefore we now penalize all node pairs
in the route.
When an undecryptable failure comes back for a payment attempt, we
previously only penalized our own outgoing connection. However,
any node could have caused this failure. It is therefore better to
penalize all node connections along the route. Then at least we know for
sure that we will hit the responsible node.
This commit updates existing tests to not rely on mission control for
pruning of local channels. Information about local channels should
already be up to date before path finding starts. If not, the problem
should be fixed where bandwidth hints are set up.
This commit moves the payment outcome interpretation logic into a
separate file. Also, mission control isn't updated directly anymore, but
results are stored in an interpretedResult struct. This allows the
mission control state to be locked for a minimum amount of time and
makes it easier to unit test the result interpretation.
This commit converts several functions from returning a bool and a
failure reason to a nillable failure reason as return parameter. This
will take away confusion about the interpretation of the two separate
values.
Previously mission control tracked failures on a per node, per channel basis.
This commit changes this to tracking on the level of directed node pairs. The goal
of moving to this coarser-grained level is to reduce the number of required
payment attempts without compromising payment reliability.
Align naming better with the lightning spec. Not the full name of the
failure (FailIncorrectOrUnknownPaymentDetails) is used, because this
would cause too many long lines in the code.
This commit adds the BlockPadding value (currently 3) to sendpayment
calls so that if some blocks are mined while the htlc is in-flight, the
exit hop won't reject it.
The current approach iterates all channels in the graph in order to
filter those in need. This approach is time consuming, several seconds
on my mobile device for ~40,000 channels, while during this time the
db is locked in a transaction.
The proposed change is to use an existing functionality that utilize the
fact that channel update are saved indexed by date. This method enables
us to go over only a small subset of the channels, only those that
were updated before the "channel expiry" time and further filter
them for our need.
The same graph that took several seconds to prune was pruned, after
the change, in several milliseconds.
In addition for testing purposes I added Initiator field to the
testChannel structure to reflect the channeldEdgePolicy direction.
If nodes return a channel policy related failure, they may get a second
chance. Our graph may not be up to date. Previously this logic was
contained in the payment session.
This commit moves that into global mission control and thereby removes
the last mission control state that was kept on the payment level.
Because mission control is not aware of the relation between payment
attempts and payments, the second chance logic is no longer based
tracking second chances given per payment.
Instead a time based approach is used. If a node reports a policy
failure that prevents forwarding to its peer, it will get a second
chance. But it will get it only if the previous second chance was
long enough ago.
Also those second chances are no longer dependent on whether an
associated channel update is valid. It will get the second chance
regardless, to prevent creating a dependency between mission control and
the graph. This would interfer with (future) replay of history, because
the graph may not be the same anymore at that point.
This commit adds the pubkeyIndices map to the distanceHeap to avoid
duplicate entries on the heap. This happened in the earlier iteration
of the findPath algorithm and would cause the driving loop to
evaluate already evaluated entries when there was no need.
This commit modifies the nodeWithDist struct to use a route.Vertex
instead of a *channeldb.LightningNode. This change, coupled with
the new ForEachNodeChannel function, allows the findPath Djikstra's
algorithm to cut down on database lookups since we no longer need
to call the FetchOtherNode function.
This commit moves the call to PruneGraph outside of the loop
that collates all of the spentOutputs. With this change, if
a node has been offline for a long period of time, resyncing
with the chain no longer takes up as much memory (1MB vs 200MB
in some cases) or time. Previously, PruneGraph was called
for every block and allocated a very large map further down
in the pruneGraphNodes function. Now, pruneGraphNodes is only
called once.
Since nilling the pubkey curve will lead to a nil-pointer exception if
the key is later used for signature verification, we make sure to make a
copy before nilling and spewing.
This commit moves the default timeout out of router and thereby fixes a
bug that caused SendToRoute to not return the actual error, but a
timeout result instead. SendToRoute only tries a single route, so a
timeout should never happen.
This commit exposes the three main parameters that influence mission
control and path finding to the user as command line or config file
flags. It allows for fine-tuning for optimal results.
This commit adds an assertion to the SendToRoute test that the payment
value stored to the DB during SendToRoute execution is the correct one.
This assertion would fail before the previous commit that fixed a
missing value initialization.
Previously we would mistakenly use the payment value from the dummy
LightningPayment struct, which would obviously be 0 always. Now we
instead calculate the value from the given route.
Previously every payment had its own local mission control state which
was in effect only for that payment. In this commit most of the local
state is removed and payments all tap into the global mission control
probability estimator.
Furthermore the decay time of pruned edges and nodes is extended, so
that observations about the network can better benefit future payment
processes.
Last, the probability function is transformed from a binary output to a
gradual curve, allowing for a better trade off between candidate routes.
This PR replaces the previously used edge and node ignore lists in path
finding by a probability based system. It modifies path finding so that
it not only compares routes on fee and time lock, but also takes route
success probability into account.
Allowing routes to be compared based on success probability is achieved
by introducing a 'virtual' cost of a payment attempt and using that to
translate probability into another cost factor.
TestRouterPaymentStateMachine tests that the router interacts as
expected with the ControlTower during a payment lifecycle, such that it
payment attempts are not sent twice to the switch, and results are
handled after a restart.
This commit makes the router use the ControlTower to drive the payment
life cycle state machine, to keep track of active payments across
restarts. This lets the router resume payments on startup, such that
their final results can be handled and stored when ready.
This encapsulates all state needed to resume a payment from any point of
the payment flow, and that must be shared between the different stages
of the execution. This is done to prepare for breaking the send loop
into smaller parts, and being able to resume the payment from any point
from persistent state.
