When we have many channels to the same first-hop, many of which do
not have sufficient balance to make the requested payment, but when
some do, instead of simply using the available channel balance we
may switch to MPP, potentially with many, many paths.
Instead, we should seek to use the smallest channel which can
easily handle the requested payment, which we do here by sorting
the first_hops in our router before beginning the graph search.
Note that the "real" fix for this should be to instead decide which
channel to use at HTLC-send time, as most other nodes do during
relay, but this provides a minimal fix without needing to do the
rather-large work of refactoring our HTLC send+relay pipelines.
Issues with overly-aggressive MPP on many channels were reported by
Cash App.
Type aliases are now more robustly being exported in the C bindings
generator, which requires ensuring we don't include some type
aliases which make no sense in bindings.
On connection, if our peer supports gossip queries, and we never
send a `gossip_timestamp_filter`, our peer is supposed to never
send us gossip outside of explicit queries. Thus, we'll end up
always having stale gossip information after the first few
connections we make to peers.
The solution is to send a dummy `gossip_timestamp_filter`
immediately after connecting to peers.
Its somewhat strange to have a trait method which is named after
the intended action, rather than the action that occurred, leaving
it up to the implementor what action they want to take.
If the scoring in the routing benchmark causes us to take a
different path from the original scan, we may end up deciding that
the only path to a node has a too-high total CLTV delta, causing us
to panic in the benchmarking phase.
Here we simply check for that possibility and remove paths that
fail post-scoring.
Previously, if we were offline when a funding transaction was
locked in, and then we came back online, calling
`best_block_updated` once followed by `transactions_confirmed`,
we'd not generate a funding_locked until the next
`best_block_updated`.
We address this by re-calling `best_block_updated` in
`transactions_confirmed`, similar to how `ChannelMonitor` works.
As a part of adding SCID aliases to channels, we now have to accept
otherwise-redundant funding_locked messages which serve only to
update the SCID alias. Previously, we'd failt he channel as such
an update used to be bogus.
This creates an SCID alias for all of our outbound channels, which
we send to our counterparties as a part of the `funding_locked`
message and then recognize in any HTLC forwarding instructions.
Note that we generate an SCID alias for all channels, including
already open ones, even though we currently have no way of
communicating to our peers the SCID alias for already-open
channels.
New `funding_locked` messages can include SCID aliases which our
counterparty will recognize as "ours" for the purposes of relaying
transactions to us. This avoids telling the world about our
on-chain transactions every time we want to receive a payment, and
will allow for receiving payments before the funding transaction
appears on-chain.
Here we store the new SCID aliases and use them in invoices instead
of he "standard" SCIDs.
`handle_monitor_err!()` has a number of different forms depending
on which messages and actions were outstanding when the monitor
updating first failed. Instead of matching by argument count, its
much more readable to put an explicit string in the arguments to
make it easy to scan for the called form.
This makes tests slightly more realistic by delivering
`channel_update`s to `ChannelManager`s, ensuring we have
forwarding data stored locally for all channels, including public
ones.
In 2d3a210897, we increased the
default ping timer in `lightning-background-processor` to ten
seconds from five. However, we didn't change the timer count at
which we disconnect peers if they're not responding, which we
likely should have done. We do so here, as well as update the
documentation for `PeerManager::timer_tick_occurred` to suggest
always ticking the timer every ten seconds instead of five.
Its very confusing to have multiple fields that do the same thing,
one of which isn't even used for its stated purpose anymore after
the previous few commits.
There are currently two issues with
`bolt2_open_channel_sending_node_checks_part1` which counteract
each other and hide that the test isn't testing what it should be.
First of all, the final `create_channel` call actually fails
because we try to open a channel with ourselves, instead of
panicing as the test is supposed to check for.
However, when we fix the create_channel call to panic, when we
drop `nodes[1]` after `create_channel` panics, we fail the
no-pending-messages test as it as an expeted `accept_channel` in
its outbound buffer. This causes a double-panic.
Previously, these two offset each other - instead of panicing in
`create_channel` we'd panic in the Node drop checks.
This fixes both by fetching the `accept_channel` before we go into
the panic'ing `create_channel` call (who's arguments were
corrected).
