This allows us to better prioritize channel messages over gossip broadcasts and
lays groundwork for rate limiting onion messages more simply, since they won't
be competing with gossip broadcasts for space in the main message queue.
Instead of backfilling gossip by buffering (up to) ten messages at
a time, only buffer one message at a time, as the peers' outbound
socket buffer drains. This moves the outbound backfill messages out
of `PeerHandler` and into the operating system buffer, where it
arguably belongs.
Not buffering causes us to walk the gossip B-Trees somewhat more
often, but avoids allocating vecs for the responses. While its
probably (without having benchmarked it) a net performance loss, it
simplifies buffer tracking and leaves us with more room to play
with the buffer sizing constants as we add onion message forwarding
which is an important win.
Note that because we change how often we check if we're out of
messages to send before pinging, we slightly change how many
messages are exchanged at once, impacting the
`test_do_attempt_write_data` constants.
This consolidates our various checks on peer buffer space into the
`Peer` impl itself, making the thresholds at which we stop taking
various actions on a peer more readable as a whole.
This commit was primarily authored by `Valentine Wallace
<vwallace@protonmail.com>` with some amendments by `Matt Corallo
<git@bluematt.me>`.
In 4703d4e725 we changed
PeerManager::socket_disconnected to no longer require that sockets
which the PeerManager decided to disconnect not be disconnected.
However, we forgot to remove the scary warnings on the
`new_{inbound,outbound}_connection` functions which warned of the
old behavior.
We do so here.
In the next commit we add lockorder testing based on the line each
mutex was created on rather than the particular mutex instance.
This causes some additional test failure because of lockorder
inversions for the same mutex across different tests, which is
fixed here.
P2PGossipSync logs before delegating to NetworkGraph in its
EventHandler. In order to share this handling with RapidGossipSync,
NetworkGraph needs to take a logger so that it can implement
EventHandler instead.
NetGraphMsgHandler implements RoutingMessageHandler to handle gossip
messages defined in BOLT 7 and maintains a view of the network by
updating NetworkGraph. Rename it to P2PGossipSync, which better
describes its purpose, and to contrast with RapidGossipSync.
Instead of including a `Secp256k1` context per
`PeerChannelEncryptor`, which is relatively expensive memory-wise
and nontrivial CPU-wise to construct, we should keep one for all
peers and simply reuse it.
This is relatively trivial so we do so in this commit.
Since its trivial to do so, we also take this opportunity to
randomize the new PeerManager context.
Because we handle messages (which can take some time, persisting
things to disk or validating cryptographic signatures) with the
top-level read lock, but require the top-level write lock to
connect new peers or handle disconnection, we are particularly
sensitive to writer starvation issues.
Rust's libstd RwLock does not provide any fairness guarantees,
using whatever the OS provides as-is. On Linux, pthreads defaults
to starving writers, which Rust's RwLock exposes to us (without
any configurability).
Here we work around that issue by blocking readers if there are
pending writers, optimizing for readable code over
perfectly-optimized blocking.
Only one instance of PeerManager::process_events can run at a time,
and each run always finishes all available work before returning.
Thus, having several threads blocked on the process_events lock
doesn't accomplish anything but blocking more threads.
Here we limit the number of blocked calls on process_events to two
- one processing events and one blocked at the top which will
process all available events after the first completes.
Because the peers write lock "blocks the world", and happens after
each read event, always taking the write lock has pretty severe
impacts on parallelism. Instead, here, we only take the global
write lock if we have to disconnect a peer.
Users are required to only ever call `read_event` serially
per-peer, thus we actually don't need any locks while we're
processing messages - we can only be processing messages in one
thread per-peer.
That said, we do need to ensure that another thread doesn't
disconnect the peer we're processing messages for, as that could
result in a peer_disconencted call while we're processing a
message for the same peer - somewhat nonsensical.
This significantly improves parallelism especially during gossip
processing as it avoids waiting on the entire set of individual
peer locks to forward a gossip message while several other threads
are validating gossip messages with their individual peer locks
held.
This adds the required locking to process messages from different
peers simultaneously in `PeerManager`. Note that channel messages
are still processed under a global lock in `ChannelManager`, and
most work is still processed under a global lock in gossip message
handling, but parallelizing message deserialization and message
decryption is somewhat helpful.
In general, we should never be automatically force-closing our
users' channels unless there is some immediate risk of funds loss
(ie because of some HTLC(s) which are timing out soon). In any
other case, we should trust the user to be able to figure out what
is going on and close their channels manually instead of trying to
be overly clever and automate closures if we think the channel is
useless.
In this case, even if a peer has some required feature that does
not allow us to communicate with them, there is a strong
possibility that some LDK upgrade may allow us to in the future. In
the mean time, there is no reason to go on-chain unless the user
needs funds immediately. In such a case, the user should already
have logic to force-close channels with peers which are not
available for any reason.
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.
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.
Quite some time ago, `UnknownRequiredFeature` was only used when a
gossip message has a missing required feature. These days, its also
used for any required TLV which we do not understand in any
message. However, the handling of it was never updated in
`PeerManager`, leaving it printing a warning about gossip and
ignoring the message entirely.
Instead, we send a warning message and disconnect.
Closes#1236, as caught by @jkczyz.
Even if our gossip hasn't changed, we should be willing to
re-broadcast it to our peers. All our peers may have been
disconnected the last time we broadcasted it.
When a `ChannelUpdate` message is generated for broadcast as a part
of a `BroadcastChannelAnnouncement` event, it may be newer than our
previous `ChannelUpdate` and need to be broadcast. However, if the
`ChannelAnnouncement` had already been seen we wouldn't
re-broadcast either message as the `handle_channel_announcement`
call would fail, short-circuiting the condition to broadcast both.
Instead, we split the broadcast of each message as well as the
conditional so that we always attempt to handle each message and
update our local graph state, then broadcast the message if its
update was processed successfully.
NetworkGraph is owned by NetGraphMsgHandler, but DefaultRouter requires
a reference to it. Introduce shared ownership to NetGraphMsgHandler so
that both can use the same NetworkGraph.
