In this commit, we introduce a new method to the channel router's config
struct: QueryBandwidth. This method allows the channel router to query
for the up-to-date available bandwidth of a particular link. In the case
that this link emanates from/to us, then we can query the switch to see
if the link is active (if not bandwidth is zero), and return the current
best estimate for the available bandwidth of the link. If the link,
isn't one of ours, then we can thread through the total maximal
capacity of the link.
In order to implement this, the missionControl struct will now query the
switch upon creation to obtain a fresh bandwidth snapshot. We take care
to do this in a distinct db transaction in order to now introduced a
circular waiting condition between the mutexes in bolt, and the channel
state machine.
The aim of this change is to reduce the number of unnecessary failures
during HTLC payment routing as we'll now skip any links that are
inactive, or just don't have enough bandwidth for the payment. Nodes
that have several hundred channels (all of which in various states of
activity and available bandwidth) should see a nice gain from this w.r.t
payment latency.
In this commit, we address a timeout issue on our Travis builds within
the update channel policy integration test. Before asserting the policy
for the channel between Alice and Bob, we need to make sure we receive
the updates responsible for modifying this policy first. At times, the
update wasn't received in time before checking the policy, which led to
us checking the old policy. We fix this by explicitly making sure we
wait for the updates first.
This commit attempts to fix a flake we have seen, where a routing hints
for an inactive channel was unexpectedly added to the invoice. This
happened because of a race between shutting down the endpoint of this
channel (Eve) and creating the invoice. This commit fixes this by moving
the call to AddInvoice with corresponding route hint check inside a
WaitPredicate.
This commit adds a test where we trigger a situation which would
previously make the link think it was never in sync, and potentially
create a lot of empty state updates. This would happen if we were
waiting for a revocation, while still receiving updates from the remote.
Since in this case we could not ACK the updates because of the exhausted
revocation window, our local commitchain would extend, while the remote
chain would stall. When we finally got the revocation the local
commitment height would be far larger than the remote, and FullySynced
would return false from that point on.
This commit adds a new test that makes sure we don't try to send
commitments for states where there are now new updates. Before the
recent change to FullySynced we would do this in this test scenario, as
the local an remote commitment heights would differ.
The test makes the local commitment chain extend by 1 vs the remote,
which would earlier trigger another state update, and checks taht no
such state update is made.
This commit removes a faulty check we did to determine if the channel
commitments were fully synced. We assumed that if out local commitment
chain had a height higher than the remote, then we would have state
updates present in our chain but not in theirs, and owed a commitment.
However, there were cases where this wasn't true, and we would send a
new commitment even though we had no new updates to sign. This is a
protocol violation.
Now we don't longer check the heights to determine if we are fully
synced. A consequence of this is that we also need to check if we have
any pending fee updates that are nopt yet signed, as those are
considered non-empty updates.
This commit alters the neutrino chainview such that it
caches the filter entries corresponding to watched
outpoints at the moment they are added to the filter.
Previously, we would rederive each filter entry when
reconstructing the relevant filter entries, which
would lead to unnecessary work on the gc. Now, each is
created at most once, and reused across subsequent
reconstructions.
This commit makes the call to forwardBatch after locking
in Adds synchronous. This ensures that circuits for any Add
packets are added to the switch in the same order that they
are prescribed in the channel state. Though it is very unlikely
this case would arise, it may happen under more greater loads.
In addition, this also makes some trivial optimizations wrt. to
not spawning unnecessary goroutines if no settle/fail packets
are locked in.
This commit adds a simple scheduling mechanism for
resolving potential deadlocks when dropping a stale
connection (via pubkey inspection).
Ideally, we'd like to wait to activate a new peer until
the previous one has exited entirely. However, the current
logic attempts to disconnect (and wait) until the peer
has been cleaned up fully, which can result in
deadlocks with other portions of the codebase, since
other blocking methods may also need acquire the mutex
before the peer can exit.
When existing connections are replaced, they now
schedule a callback that is executed inside the
peerTerminationWatcher. Since the peer now waits for
the clean exit of the prior peer, this callback is
now executed with a clean slate, adds the peer to
the server's maps, and initiates peer's Start() method.
This skips creating errChans when sending messages to
peer during broadcast. This should be a minor memory
optimization, as well as not requiring channel sends
on those which will never be read.
This commit attempts to resolve some potential deadlock
scenarios during a peer disconnect.
Currently, writeMessage returns a nil error when disconnecting.
This should have minimal impact on the writeHanlder, as the
subsequent loop selects on the quit chan, and will cause it to
exit. However, if this happens when sending the init message,
the Start() method will attempt to proceed even though the peer
has been disconnected.
In addition, this commit changes the behavior of synchronous
write errors, by using a non-blocking select. Though unlikely,
this prevents any cases where multiple errors are returned, and
the errors are not being pulled from the other side of the errChan.
This removes any naked sends on the errChan from stalling the peer's
shutdown.
Adds a new error ErrVBarrierShuttingDown that is returned
from WaitForDependants if the validation barrier's quit
chan is closed. This allows any blocked goroutines to
distinguish whether the dependent task has been completed,
or if validation should be aborted entirely.
This commit improves the shutdown of the router's
pending validation tasks, by ensuring the pending
tasks exit early if the validation barrier
receives a shutdown request.
Currently, any goroutines blocked by WaitForDependants
will continue execution after a shutdown is signaled.
This may lead to unnexpected behavior as the relation
between updates is no longer upheld. It also has the
side effect of slowing down shutdown, since we
continue to process the remaining updates.
To remedy this, WaitForDependants now returns an error
that signals if a shutdown was requested. The blocked
goroutines can exit early upon seeing this error,
without also signaling completion of their task to
the dependent tasks, which should will now properly
wait to read the validation barrier's quit signal.
In this commit, we ensure that any time we send a TempChannelFailure
that's destined for a multi-hop source sender, then we'll always package
the latest channel update along with it.
This commit make us return an error in case a restored HTLC from a
pending remote commit has an index that is different from our local
update log index. It is appended with the assumption that these indexes
are the same, and if they are not we cannot really continue.
This commit adds a call to panic in case the HTLC we are looking for is
not found in the update log. It _should_ always be there, but we have
seen crashes resulting from it not being found. Since it will crash with
a nil pointer dereference below, we instead call panic giving us a bit
more information to work with.
