- Straight-forward call interface: `void rx_slow_hash(const char *seedhash, const void *data, size_t length, char *result_hash)`
- Consensus chain seed hash is now updated by calling `rx_set_main_seedhash` whenever a block is added/removed or a reorg happens
- `rx_slow_hash` will compute correct hash no matter if `rx_set_main_seedhash` was called or not (the only difference is performance)
- New environment variable `MONERO_RANDOMX_FULL_MEM` to force use the full dataset for PoW verification (faster block verification)
- When dataset is used for PoW verification, dataset updates don't stall other threads (verification is done in light mode then)
- When mining is running, PoW checks now also use dataset for faster verification
Adds the following:
- "get_miner_data" to RPC API
- "json-miner-data" to ZeroMQ subscriber contexts
Both provide the necessary data to create a custom block template. They are used by p2pool.
Data provided:
- major fork version
- current height
- previous block id
- RandomX seed hash
- network difficulty
- median block weight
- coins mined by the network so far
- mineable mempool transactions
The cache is discarded when a block is popped, but then gets
rebuilt when the difficulty for next block is requested.
While this is all properly locked, it does not take into account
the delay caused by a database transaction being only committed
(and thus its effects made visible to other threads) later on,
which means another thread could request difficulty between
the pop and the commit, which would end up using stale database
view to build the cache, but that cache would not be invalidated
again when the transaction gets committed, which would cause the
cache to not match the new database data.
To fix this, we now keep track of when the cache is invalidated
so we can invalidate it again upon database transaction commit
to ensure it gets calculated again with fresh data next time it
is nedeed.
On startup, it checks against the difficulty checkpoints, and if any mismatch is found, recalculates all the blocks with wrong difficulties. Additionally, once a week it recalculates difficulties of blocks after the last difficulty checkpoint.
If the peer (whether pruned or not itself) supports sending pruned blocks
to syncing nodes, the pruned version will be sent along with the hash
of the pruned data and the block weight. The original tx hashes can be
reconstructed from the pruned txes and theur prunable data hash. Those
hashes and the block weights are hashes and checked against the set of
precompiled hashes, ensuring the data we received is the original data.
It is currently not possible to use this system when not using the set
of precompiled hashes, since block weights can not otherwise be checked
for validity.
This is off by default for now, and is enabled by --sync-pruned-blocks
0605406 daemon: sort alt chains by height (moneromooo-monero)
4228ee0 daemon: add optional arguments to alt_chain_info (moneromooo-monero)
880ebfd daemon: add more chain specific info in alt_chain_info (moneromooo-monero)
ae6885f6 blockchain: incremental long term block weight cache (moneromooo-monero)
9b687c78 blockchain: simple cache for the long term block weights (moneromooo-monero)
