This minimizes the need to convert back and forth from and to sat
values, and it also removes a new instance of sats in the public
interface (`channel_hints`).
Suggested-By: Rusty Russell <@rustyrussell>
We need to know the overall channel capacity, i.e., the amount_msat
that the channel was funded with, in order to relax the channel_hint
to refill over time.
The "path_score" callback was supposed to evaluate the *entire path*,
but that was counter-intuitive and opened the door to a cost function
bug which caused this path cost to be less than the closer path.
In particular, the capacity bias code didn't understand this at all.
1. Rename the function to `channel_score` and remove the "distance"
parameter (always "1" since you're supposed to be evaluating a
single hop).
2. Rename "cost" to the more specific "fee": "score" is our
actual cost function result (we avoid the word "cost" as it
may get confused with satoshi amounts).
3. For capacity biassing, we do want to know the amount, but
explicitly hand that as a separate parameter "total".
4. Fix a minor bug where total handed to scoring function previously
included channel fee (this is wrong: fee is paid before sending into
channel).
5. Remove the now-unused total_delay member from the dijkstra
struct.
Here are the results of our test now (routing 4194303 msat, which
didn't crash the old code, so we could compare). In both cases
we could find routes to 615 nodes:
Linear success probability (when found): min-max(mean +/- stddev)
Before: 0.484764-0.999750(0.9781+/-0.049)
After: 0.487040-0.999543(0.952548+/-0.075)
Hops:
Before: 1-5(2.13821+/-0.66)
After: 1-5(2.98374+/-0.77)
Fees:
Before: 0-50041(2173.75+/-5.3e+03)
After: 0-50848(922.457+/-2.7e+03)
Delay (blocks):
Before: 0-294(83.1642+/-68)
After: 0-196(65.8081+/-60)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fixes: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/7092
Changelog-Fixed: Plugins: `pay` would occasionally crash on routing.
Changelog-Fixed: Plugins: `pay` route algorithm fixed and refined to balance fees and capacity far better.
Don't shoehorn it into onion_nonfinal_hop() and onion_final_hop(), but
provide an explicit routine "blinded_onion_hops" and an onion helper
"onion_blinded_hop()" for it to call.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
As per proposal in https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/962
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Changelog-Removed: protocol: support for legacy onion format removed, since everyone supports the new one.
We were always ordering heap by distance, not score (which are different
if we are routing by cheapest, not shortest!).
This simplifies our callbacks, too.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
