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Chris Kleeschulte 2017-06-30 08:48:06 -04:00
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@ -142,74 +142,101 @@ BlockService.prototype._blockAlreadyProcessed = function(block) {
};
/*
The block service maintains a set of chain tips. This set includes all the block chains that have
been created, including orphaned chains.
Because blocks can be delievered to us out of order, these out of order blocks enter this collection
as new chains. We won't yet have the block's parent block.
This creates a unique problem. Until we get a complete chain (including the out of order blocks), we
won't know for sure if a reorg has taken place in the unknown ancestor of the out of order blocks.
So, we have to defer broadcaating blocks until we have a complete chain with unsent blocks.
*/
BlockService.prototype._mergeBlockIntoChainTips = function(block) {
var prevHash = utils.reverseBufferToString(block.header.prevHash);
var chain = this._chainTips.get(prevHash);
// No matter what, our own parent can no longer be the tip of any chain
this._chainTips.del(prevHash);
// This is the normal case where blocks are received in order.
// We could still be missing blocks from our main chain if there is not a complete
// chain between our tip and this latest block.
if (chain) {
chain.unshift(prevHash);
chain.set(block.hash, chain);
return;
}
var longestChain = this._findLongestChainForHash(prevHash);
var hasChildren = this._setChainOnTip(block.hash, chain, longestChain);
// This is where we have an out of order block arriving,
// but it may fill in gaps in a chain (making that chain the active one).
// We should check for chains that have our hash listed as the last entry.
// This means our children listed us as their parent before now, but now that
// we have arrived, we know our parent's hadh and this may be an tip in another chain.
// So, we put the chains together (think of playing solitaire).
// If unificatiion is done, then this chain becomes the active one.
var chainTips = this._attemptChainUnification(block);
if (!hasChildren) {
this._chainTips.set(block.hash, chain || longestChain);
// if we get more than one chainTip in chainTips, then we have the case where the main chain forked
// whilst we were building orphan chains and waiting for blocks to arrive to fill in the gaps.
// This situation should be a rare event, but can happen. This function won't determine which is the most
// valid chain, but leave it up to others.
// This is the out of order condition. We can't know which chain we belong to.
// Our hash was not referenced in any chain, therefore our parent wasn't either.
// Only choice to make our hash the tip of its own chain into our parent arrives.
if (chainTips.length < 1) {
this._chainTips.set(block.hash, [prevHash]);
}
};
BlockService.prototype._setChainOnTip = function(hash, chain, longestPrevChain) {
var keys = this._chainTips.keys();
var hasChildren = false;
for(var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) {
var key = keys[i];
var searchChain = this._chainTips.get(key);
var chainIndex = searchChain.indexOf(hash);
if (chainIndex > -1) {
hasChildren = true;
this._chainTips.set(key, searchChain.concat(chain || longestPrevChain));
}
}
return hasChildren;
};
BlockService.prototype._findLongestChainForHash = function(hash) {
var longestChain = [];
var keys = this._chainTips.keys();
for(var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) {
var key = keys[i];
var searchChain = this._chainTips.get(key);
assert(searchChain.length > 0, 'chain tips collection appears to be invalid');
var chainIndex = searchChain.indexOf(hash);
if (chainIndex > -1) {
var chain = searchChain.slice(chainIndex);
if (chain.length > longestChain.length) {
longestChain = chain;
BlockService.prototype._findChainTipsWithHash = function(hash, pos) {
// we could have more than one chain that contains this hash as the entry in position (pos)
// (although this would be extremely rare). We should return all the chain tips that apply.
var chainTips = [];
this._chainTips.forEach(function(v, k) {
if (pos === 'last') {
if (v[v.length - 1] === hash) {
return chainTips.push(k);
}
}
if (v.indexOf(hash) > -1) {
chainTips.push(k);
}
});
return chainTips;
};
/*
The purpose of this function is to look for the opportunity for chains to unify because
new information has arrived (a new block).
If we have the condition where this block's parent is the tip of a chain -and- our own
block hash is the last block (oldest) in a chain, then unification is possible.
It is possible to find more than one chain where our block hash is the last entry.
In this case, each of those chains forked in blocks that came after us.
*/
BlockService.prototype._attemptChainUnification = function(block) {
var prevHash = utils.reverseBufferToString(block.header.prevHash);
var possibleNewChainTips = this._findChainTipWithHash(block.hash, 'last');
var orphanChain = this._chainTips[prevHash];
if (orphanChain && possibleNewChainTips.length > 0) {
for(var i = 0; i < possibleNewChainTips.length; i++) {
var newChain = this._chainTips[possibleNewChainTips[i]];
this.chainTips[possibleNewChainTips[i]] = newChain.concat(orphanChain);
}
}
longestChain = longestChain.length <= 1 ? [hash] : longestChain;
return longestChain;
return possibleNewChainTips;
};
BlockService.prototype._onBlock = function(block) {
@ -239,19 +266,44 @@ BlockService.prototype._onBlock = function(block) {
this.emit('reorg', block);
break;
default:
var activeChainTip = this._selectActiveChain(block);
// at this point, we know we have a complete chain containing our tip and this new block
var activeChainTip = this._selectActiveChain();
this._sendAllUnsentBlocksFromAcitveChain(activeChainTip);
break;
}
};
BlockService.prototype._selectActiveChain = function(hash) {
// the active chain is the one that the passed in block hash has as its tip.
// there can only be one without there being a ambiguous situation.
// If more than one chain does have the latest incoming block, then we have a reorg
// situation on our hands and the active chain will be decided elsewhere
/*
Since blocks can arrive out of order from our trusted peer, we can't rely on the latest block
being the tip of the main/active chain. We should, instead, take the chain with the most work completed (the heaviest).
We need not concern ourselves whether or not the block is valid, we trust our peer to do this validation.
*/
BlockService.prototype._selectActiveChain = function() {
var chainTip;
var mostChainWork = 0;
this._chainTips.forEach(function(v, k) {
var work = this._computeChainWork(k);
if (work > mostChainWork) {
mostChainWork = work;
chainTip = k;
}
});
return chainTip;
};
BlockService.prototype._computeChainWork = function(chainTip) {
//for super old forks that have cycled out of our cache, just return zero work
var blockHeader = this._blockHeaderQueue.get(chainTip);
if (!blockHeader) {
return 0;
}
blockHeader.chainwork;
};
BlockService.prototype._getAllUnsentBlocksFromActiveChain = function(block) {