This commit introduces the channel notifier which is a central source
of active, inactive, and closed channel events.
This notifier was originally intended to be used by the `SubscribeChannels`
streaming RPC call, but can be used by any subsystem that needs to be
notified on a channel becoming active, inactive or closed.
It may also be extended in the future to support other types of notifications.
The btclog package has been changed to defining its own logging
interface (rather than seelog's) and provides a default implementation
for callers to use.
There are two primary advantages to the new logger implementation.
First, all log messages are created before the call returns. Compared
to seelog, this prevents data races when mutable variables are logged.
Second, the new logger does not implement any kind of artifical rate
limiting (what seelog refers to as "adaptive logging"). Log messages
are outputted as soon as possible and the application will appear to
perform much better when watching standard output.
Because log rotation is not a feature of the btclog logging
implementation, it is handled by the main package by importing a file
rotation package that provides an io.Reader interface for creating
output to a rotating file output. The rotator has been configured
with the same defaults that btcd previously used in the seelog config
(10MB file limits with maximum of 3 rolls) but now compresses newly
created roll files. Due to the high compressibility of log text, the
compressed files typically reduce to around 15-30% of the original
10MB file.
In current commit big shift have been made in direction of unit testable
payments scenarios. Previosly two additional structures have been added
which had been spreaded in the lnd package before, and now we apply
them in the lnd itself:
1. ChannelLink - is an interface which represents the subsystem for
managing the incoming htlc requests, applying the changes to the
channel, and also propagating/forwarding it to htlc switch.
2. Switch - is a central messaging bus for all incoming/outgoing htlc's.
The goal of the switch is forward the incoming/outgoing htlc messages
from one channel to another, and also propagate the settle/fail htlc
messages back to original requester.
With this abtractions the folowing schema becomes nearly complete:
abstraction
^
|
| - - - - - - - - - - - - Lightning - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
| (Switch) (Switch) (Switch)
| Alice <-- channel link --> Bob <-- channel link --> Carol
|
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - TCP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
|
| (Peer) (Peer) (Peer)
| Alice <----- tcp conn --> Bob <---- tcp conn -----> Carol
In this commit the routing package was divided on two separete one,
this was done because 'routing' package start take too much responsibily
on themself, so with following commit:
Routing pacakge:
Enitites:
* channeldb.ChannelEdge
* channeldb.ChannelPolicy
* channeldb.NodeLightning
Responsibilities:
* send topology notification
* find payment paths
* send payment
* apply topology changes to the graph
* prune graph
* validate that funding point exist and corresponds to given one
* to be the source of topology data
Discovery package:
Entities:
* lnwire.AnnounceSignature
* lnwire.ChannelAnnouncement
* lnwire.NodeAnnouncement
* lnwire.ChannelUpdateAnnouncement
Responsibilities:
* validate announcement signatures
* sync topology with newly connected peers
* handle the premature annoucement
* redirect topology changes to the router susbsystem
* broadcast announcement to the rest of the network
* exchange channel announcement proofs
Before that moment all that was in the 'routing' which is quite big for
one subsystem.
split
This commit fully integrates the ChannelRouter of the new routing
package into the main lnd daemon.
A number of changes have been made to properly support the new
authenticated gossiping scheme.
Two new messages have been added to the server which allow outside
services to: send a message to all peers possible excluding one, and
send a series of messages to a single peer. These two new capabilities
are used by the ChannelRouter to gossip new accepted announcements and
also to synchronize graph state with a new peer on initial connect.
The switch no longer needs a pointer to the routing state machine as it
no longer needs to report when channels closed since the channel
closures will be detected by the ChannelRouter during graph pruning
when a new block comes in.
Finally, the funding manager now crafts the proper authenticated
announcement to send to the ChannelRouter once a new channel has bene
fully confirmed. As a place holder we have fake signatures everywhere
since we don’t properly store the funding keys and haven’t yet adapted
the Signer interface (or create a new one) that abstracts out the
process of signing a generic interface.
This commit revamps the way in bound and outbound connections are
handled within lnd. Instead of manually managing listening goroutines
and also outbound connections, all the duty is now assigned to the
connmgr, a new btcsuite package.
The connmgr now handles accepting inbound (brontide) connections and
communicates with the server to hand off new connections via a
callback. Additionally, any outbound connection attempt is now made
persistent by default, with the assumption that (for right now),
connections are only to be made to peers we wish to make connections
to. Finally, on start-up we now attempt to connection to all/any of our
direct channel counter parties in order to promote the availability of
our channels to the daemon itself and any RPC users.
This commit introduces a new sub-system into the daemon whose job it is
to vigilantly watch for any potential channel breaches throughout the
up-time of the daemon. The logic which was moved from the utxoNursery
in a prior commit now resides within the breachArbiter.
Upon start-up the breachArbiter will query the database for all active
channels, launching a goroutine for each channel in order to be able to
take action if a channel breach is detected. The breachArbiter is also
responsible for notifying the htlcSwitch about channel breaches in
order to black-list the breached linked during any multi-hop forwarding
decisions.
This commit introduces the utxoNursery. The duty of the utxoNursery is
to watch over CSV-locked immature outputs until they’ve fully matured.
An output is mature once both its sequence lock indicated by the CSV op
code within its output has become active. Once an output is mature the
nursery sweeps the outputs in batches into the source wallet.
The utxoNursery executes its duties once a commitment transaction has
been broadcast on-chain.
This commit modifies the daemon’s initialization within the `lndMain`
method to create an instance of the current default ChainNotifier
outside of the LightningWallet.
At this point, since there are no other implementations of the
ChainNotifier, the current concrete implementation BtcdNotifier is used
by default. In the future, once other ChainNotifier implementations are
in place, config parsing should be fed into a factory function which
creates the proper ChainNotifier implementation.
Finally, several imports have been updated to reflect the change in
package name.
Each active channel now gains its a dedicated htlcManager goroutine
which currently accepts to two golang channels, and a lightning
channel. The “downstream” channel will be used for dispatched multi-hop
payments sent from the htlcSwitch, while the “upstream” channel will be
used once the readHandler de-multiplexes hltc add/timeout/settle
messages.
Each time a new channel is fully created after N confirmations, the
peer’s channelManager registers the new link with the htlcSwitch. Once
the channel is closed either cooperatively or non-cooperatively, then
the link is unregistered.
