Min. Cost Flow does not take into account fees when computing a flow
with liquidity constraints.
This is a work-around solution that reduces the amount on every route to
respect the liquidity bound. The deficity in the delivered amount is
solved by running MCF once again.
Changes:
1. the function `flow_complete` allocates amounts to send over the set of routes
computed by the MCF algorithm, but it does not allocate more than liquidity
bound of the route. For this reason `minflow` returns a set of routes that
satisfy the liquidity bounds but it is not guaranteed that the total payment
reaches the destination therefore there could a deficit in the delivery:
`deficit = amount_to_deliver - delivering`.
2. in the function `add_payflows` after `minflow` returns a set of routes we
call `flows_fit_amount` that tries to a allocate the `deficit` in the routes
that the MCF have computed.
3. if the resulting flows pass all payment constraints then we update
`amount_to_deliver = amount_to_deliver - delivering`, and the loop
repeats as long as `amount_to_deliver` is not zero.
In other words, the excess amount, beyond the liquidity bound,
in the routes is removed and then we try to allocate it
into known routes, otherwise we do a whole MCF again just for the
remaining amount.
Fixes issue #6599
The main function here is payment_reconsider:
* Each payment has a list of pay_flow.
* This is populated in try_paying(), calling add_payflows & sendpay_new_flows.
* When we get a notification, we resolve a pay_flow using one of the pay_flow_failedxxx
or pay_flow_succeeded functions.
* They call payment_reconsider() which cleans up finished flows decides what to do:
often calling try_paying again.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
- adopt "const <type> *"convention
- remove use_shadow option for some pyln tests
- show prob. information of flows into paynotes
- show prob. of success of entire payment flow in paynotes
- minflow: We were not releasing the memory of flow arrays when replacing
them with a new canditate.
- use memleak_scan_obj in memleak_check
- replace u64 with size_t
Signed-off-by: Lagrang3 <eduardo.quintana@pm.me>
