This change is part of the effort to add utxocache support to btcd.
utxo cache is now used by the BlockChain struct. By default it's used
and the minimum cache is set to 250MiB. The change made helps speed up
block/tx validation as the cache allows for much faster lookup of utxos.
The initial block download in particular is improved as the db i/o
bottleneck is remedied by the cache.
The implemented utxocache implements connectTransactions just like
utxoviewpoint and can be used as a drop in replacement for
connectTransactions.
One thing to note is that unlike the utxoViewpoint, the utxocache
immediately deletes the spent entry from the cache. This means that the
utxocache is unfit for functions like checkConnectBlock where you expect
the entry to still exist but be marked as spent.
disconnectTransactions is purposely not implemented as using the cache
during reorganizations may leave the utxo state inconsistent if there is
an unexpected shutdown. The utxoViewpoint will still have to be used
for reorganizations.
This change is part of the effort to add utxocache support to btcd.
fetchInputUtxos had mainly 2 functions:
1: Figure out which outpoints to fetch
2: Call fetchUtxosMain to fetch those outpoints
Functionality for (1) is refactored out to fetchInputsToFetch. This is
done to allow fetchInputUtxos to use the cache to fetch the outpoints
as well in a later commit.
This change is part of the effort to add utxocache support to btcd.
Require the caller to pass in the utxoBucket as the caller may be
fetching many utxos in one loop. Having the caller pass it in removes
the need for dbFetchUtxoEntry to grab the bucket on every single fetch.
This change is part of the effort to add utxocache support to btcd.
connectBlock may have an empty utxoviewpoint as the block verification
process may be using the utxo cache directly. In that case, a nil utxo
viewpoint will be passed in. Just return early on a nil utxoviewpoint.
This change is part of the effort to add utxocache support to btcd.
dbPutUtxoView handled putting and deleting new/spent utxos from the
database. These two functinalities are refactored to their own
functions: dbDeleteUtxoEntry and dbPutUtxoEntry.
Refactoring these out allows the cache to call these two functions
directly instead of having to create a view and saving that view to
disk.
This change is part of the effort to add utxocache support to btcd.
The utxoStateConsistency indicates what the last block that the utxo
cache got flush at. This is useful for recovery purposes as if the node
is unexpectdly shut down, we know which block to start rebuilding the
utxo state from.
This change is part of the effort to add utxocache support to btcd.
Getting the memory usage of an entry is very useful for the utxo cache
as we need to know how much memory all the cached entries are using to
guarantee a cache usage limit for the end user.
This change is part of the effort to add utxocache support to btcd.
The fresh flag indicates that the entry is fresh and that the parent
view (the database) hasn't yet seen the entry. This is very useful as
a performance optimization for the utxo cache as if a fresh entry is
spent, we can simply remove it from the cache and don't bother trying to
delete it from the database.
This change is part of the effort to add utxocache support to btcd.
mapslice allows the caller to allocate a fixed amount of memory for the
utxo cache maps without the mapslice going over that fixed amount of
memory. This is useful as we can have variable sizes (1GB, 1.1GB, 2.3GB,
etc) while guaranteeing a memory limit.
