Refactored a lot of the chain catchup/reorg.

ethchain/block_chain.go

@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ func (bc *BlockChain) FindCanonicalChain(blocks []*Block, commonBlockHash []byte
 			log.Println("[CHAIN] We have found the common parent block, breaking")
 			break
 		}
-		log.Println("Checking incoming blocks:")
 		chainDifficulty.Add(chainDifficulty, bc.CalculateBlockTD(block))
 	}
 
@@ -182,6 +181,7 @@ func (bc *BlockChain) ResetTillBlockHash(hash []byte) error {
 	// XXX Why are we resetting? This is the block chain, it has nothing to do with states
 	//bc.Ethereum.StateManager().PrepareDefault(returnTo)
 
+	// Manually reset the last sync block
 	err := ethutil.Config.Db.Delete(lastBlock.Hash())
 	if err != nil {
 		return err

ethereum.go

@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ func (s *Ethereum) ConnectToPeer(addr string) error {
 
 			if phost == chost {
 				alreadyConnected = true
-				ethutil.Config.Log.Debugf("[SERV] Peer %s already added.\n", chost)
+				//ethutil.Config.Log.Debugf("[SERV] Peer %s already added.\n", chost)
 				return
 			}
 		})
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ func (s *Ethereum) ConnectToPeer(addr string) error {
 
 		s.peers.PushBack(peer)
 
-		ethutil.Config.Log.Infof("[SERV] Adding peer %d / %d\n", s.peers.Len(), s.MaxPeers)
+		ethutil.Config.Log.Infof("[SERV] Adding peer (%s) %d / %d\n", addr, s.peers.Len(), s.MaxPeers)
 	}
 
 	return nil

peer.go

@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ type Peer struct {
 
 	// Indicated whether the node is catching up or not
 	catchingUp      bool
+	diverted        bool
 	blocksRequested int
 
 	Version string
@@ -190,7 +191,6 @@ func (p *Peer) QueueMessage(msg *ethwire.Msg) {
 	if atomic.LoadInt32(&p.connected) != 1 {
 		return
 	}
-
 	p.outputQueue <- msg
 }
 
@@ -268,7 +268,6 @@ func (p *Peer) HandleInbound() {
 	for atomic.LoadInt32(&p.disconnect) == 0 {
 		// HMM?
 		time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
-
 		// Wait for a message from the peer
 		msgs, err := ethwire.ReadMessages(p.conn)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -300,32 +299,36 @@ func (p *Peer) HandleInbound() {
 				var err error
 
 				// Make sure we are actually receiving anything
-				if msg.Data.Len()-1 > 1 && p.catchingUp {
+				if msg.Data.Len()-1 > 1 && p.diverted {
 					// We requested blocks and now we need to make sure we have a common ancestor somewhere in these blocks so we can find
 					// common ground to start syncing from
 					lastBlock = ethchain.NewBlockFromRlpValue(msg.Data.Get(msg.Data.Len() - 1))
-					if !p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().HasBlock(lastBlock.Hash()) {
+					ethutil.Config.Log.Infof("[PEER] Last block: %x. Checking if we have it locally.\n", lastBlock.Hash())
-						// If we can't find a common ancenstor we need to request more blocks.
-						// FIXME: At one point this won't scale anymore since we are not asking for an offset
-						// we just keep increasing the amount of blocks.
-						//fmt.Println("[PEER] No common ancestor found, requesting more blocks.")
-						p.blocksRequested = p.blocksRequested * 2
-						p.catchingUp = false
-						p.SyncWithBlocks()
-					}
-
 					for i := msg.Data.Len() - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
 						block = ethchain.NewBlockFromRlpValue(msg.Data.Get(i))
 						// Do we have this block on our chain? If so we can continue
 						if !p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().HasBlock(block.Hash()) {
 							// We don't have this block, but we do have a block with the same prevHash, diversion time!
 							if p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().HasBlockWithPrevHash(block.PrevHash) {
-								if p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().FindCanonicalChainFromMsg(msg, block.PrevHash) {
+								p.diverted = false
-									return
+								if !p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().FindCanonicalChainFromMsg(msg, block.PrevHash) {
+									p.SyncWithPeerToLastKnown()
 								}
+								break
 							}
 						}
 					}
+					if !p.ethereum.StateManager().BlockChain().HasBlock(lastBlock.Hash()) {
+						// If we can't find a common ancenstor we need to request more blocks.
+						// FIXME: At one point this won't scale anymore since we are not asking for an offset
+						// we just keep increasing the amount of blocks.
+						p.blocksRequested = p.blocksRequested * 2
+
+						ethutil.Config.Log.Infof("[PEER] No common ancestor found, requesting %d more blocks.\n", p.blocksRequested)
+						p.catchingUp = false
+						p.FindCommonParentBlock()
+						break
+					}
 				}
 
 				for i := msg.Data.Len() - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
@@ -346,23 +349,28 @@ func (p *Peer) HandleInbound() {
 					}
 				}
 
+				if msg.Data.Len() == 0 {
+					// Set catching up to false if
+					// the peer has nothing left to give
+					p.catchingUp = false
+				}
+
 				if err != nil {
 					// If the parent is unknown try to catch up with this peer
 					if ethchain.IsParentErr(err) {
-						ethutil.Config.Log.Infoln("Attempting to catch up")
+						ethutil.Config.Log.Infoln("Attempting to catch up since we don't know the parent")
 						p.catchingUp = false
 						p.CatchupWithPeer(p.ethereum.BlockChain().CurrentBlock.Hash())
 					} else if ethchain.IsValidationErr(err) {
-						fmt.Println(err)
+						fmt.Println("Err:", err)
 						p.catchingUp = false
 					}
 				} else {
-					// XXX Do we want to catch up if there were errors?
 					// If we're catching up, try to catch up further.
 					if p.catchingUp && msg.Data.Len() > 1 {
-						if ethutil.Config.Debug && lastBlock != nil {
+						if lastBlock != nil {
 							blockInfo := lastBlock.BlockInfo()
-							ethutil.Config.Log.Infof("Synced to block height #%d %x %x\n", blockInfo.Number, lastBlock.Hash(), blockInfo.Hash)
+							ethutil.Config.Log.Debugf("Synced to block height #%d %x %x\n", blockInfo.Number, lastBlock.Hash(), blockInfo.Hash)
 						}
 
 						p.catchingUp = false
@@ -372,11 +380,6 @@ func (p *Peer) HandleInbound() {
 					}
 				}
 
-				if msg.Data.Len() == 0 {
-					// Set catching up to false if
-					// the peer has nothing left to give
-					p.catchingUp = false
-				}
 			case ethwire.MsgTxTy:
 				// If the message was a transaction queue the transaction
 				// in the TxPool where it will undergo validation and
@@ -444,7 +447,7 @@ func (p *Peer) HandleInbound() {
 					}
 
 				} else {
-					ethutil.Config.Log.Debugf("[PEER] Could not find a similar block")
+					//ethutil.Config.Log.Debugf("[PEER] Could not find a similar block")
 					// If no blocks are found we send back a reply with msg not in chain
 					// and the last hash from get chain
 					lastHash := msg.Data.Get(l - 1)
@@ -452,8 +455,14 @@ func (p *Peer) HandleInbound() {
 					p.QueueMessage(ethwire.NewMessage(ethwire.MsgNotInChainTy, []interface{}{lastHash.Raw()}))
 				}
 			case ethwire.MsgNotInChainTy:
-				ethutil.Config.Log.Debugf("Not in chain %x\n", msg.Data)
+				ethutil.Config.Log.Debugf("Not in chain: %x\n", msg.Data.Get(0).Bytes())
-				// TODO
+				if p.diverted == true {
+					// If were already looking for a common parent and we get here again we need to go deeper
+					p.blocksRequested = p.blocksRequested * 2
+				}
+				p.diverted = true
+				p.catchingUp = false
+				p.FindCommonParentBlock()
 			case ethwire.MsgGetTxsTy:
 				// Get the current transactions of the pool
 				txs := p.ethereum.TxPool().CurrentTransactions()
@@ -471,7 +480,6 @@ func (p *Peer) HandleInbound() {
 			}
 		}
 	}
-
 	p.Stop()
 }
 
@@ -581,14 +589,18 @@ func (p *Peer) handleHandshake(msg *ethwire.Msg) {
 
 	}
 
-	// Catch up with the connected peer
-	p.SyncWithBlocks()
-
 	// Set the peer's caps
 	p.caps = Caps(c.Get(3).Byte())
 	// Get a reference to the peers version
 	p.Version = c.Get(2).Str()
 
+	// Catch up with the connected peer
+	if !p.ethereum.IsUpToDate() {
+		ethutil.Config.Log.Debugln("Already syncing up with a peer; sleeping")
+		time.Sleep(10 * time.Second)
+	}
+	p.SyncWithPeerToLastKnown()
+
 	ethutil.Config.Log.Debugln("[PEER]", p)
 }
 
@@ -609,38 +621,47 @@ func (p *Peer) String() string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("[%s] (%s) %v %s [%s]", strConnectType, strBoundType, p.conn.RemoteAddr(), p.Version, p.caps)
 
 }
-func (p *Peer) SyncWithBlocks() {
+func (p *Peer) SyncWithPeerToLastKnown() {
-	if !p.catchingUp {
+	p.catchingUp = false
-		p.catchingUp = true
+	p.CatchupWithPeer(p.ethereum.BlockChain().CurrentBlock.Hash())
-		// FIXME: THIS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED
-		if p.blocksRequested == 0 {
-			p.blocksRequested = 10
-		}
-		blocks := p.ethereum.BlockChain().GetChain(p.ethereum.BlockChain().CurrentBlock.Hash(), p.blocksRequested)
-
-		var hashes []interface{}
-		for _, block := range blocks {
-			hashes = append(hashes, block.Hash())
-		}
-
-		msgInfo := append(hashes, uint64(50))
-
-		msg := ethwire.NewMessage(ethwire.MsgGetChainTy, msgInfo)
-		p.QueueMessage(msg)
-	}
 }
 
+func (p *Peer) FindCommonParentBlock() {
+	if p.catchingUp {
+		return
+	}
+
+	p.catchingUp = true
+	if p.blocksRequested == 0 {
+		p.blocksRequested = 20
+	}
+	blocks := p.ethereum.BlockChain().GetChain(p.ethereum.BlockChain().CurrentBlock.Hash(), p.blocksRequested)
+
+	var hashes []interface{}
+	for _, block := range blocks {
+		hashes = append(hashes, block.Hash())
+	}
+
+	msgInfo := append(hashes, uint64(len(hashes)))
+
+	ethutil.Config.Log.Infof("Asking for block from %x (%d total) from %s\n", p.ethereum.BlockChain().CurrentBlock.Hash(), len(hashes), p.conn.RemoteAddr().String())
+
+	msg := ethwire.NewMessage(ethwire.MsgGetChainTy, msgInfo)
+	p.QueueMessage(msg)
+}
 func (p *Peer) CatchupWithPeer(blockHash []byte) {
 	if !p.catchingUp {
+		// Make sure nobody else is catching up when you want to do this
 		p.catchingUp = true
 		msg := ethwire.NewMessage(ethwire.MsgGetChainTy, []interface{}{blockHash, uint64(50)})
 		p.QueueMessage(msg)
 
-		ethutil.Config.Log.Debugf("Requesting blockchain %x...\n", p.ethereum.BlockChain().CurrentBlock.Hash()[:4])
+		ethutil.Config.Log.Debugf("Requesting blockchain %x... from peer %s\n", p.ethereum.BlockChain().CurrentBlock.Hash()[:4], p.conn.RemoteAddr())
 
-		msg = ethwire.NewMessage(ethwire.MsgGetTxsTy, []interface{}{})
+		/*
-		p.QueueMessage(msg)
+			msg = ethwire.NewMessage(ethwire.MsgGetTxsTy, []interface{}{})
-		ethutil.Config.Log.Debugln("Requested transactions")
+			p.QueueMessage(msg)
+		*/
 	}
 }